The Ministère de la Culture has awarded $283,250 to the MRC Roussillon and the municipalities of Candiac, Châteauguay and Sainte-Catherine. This money will be used to support « digital literacy, archaeological heritage and cultural planning ».
Translation Amanda Bennett
Châteauguay will receive $88,250, while Candiac and Sainte-Catherine will each receive $25,000. For its part, the MRC will receive $145,000.
This funding will be used to develop FabLab programming, a digital manufacturing laboratory, in all the municipalities within the MRC. It will also be used for the cultural development of heritage-themed bike stops on the new Route verte bicycle corridor between Saint-Constant and Mercier.
There are also plans to carry out » specialized analyses and restore artefacts in order to deepen our knowledge of the region’s heritage and disseminate this knowledge to the public », according to the Ministère de la Culture.
