The Village de Séraphin is a former Canadian
open-air museum
An open-air museum is a museum that exhibits collections of buildings and artifacts outdoors. It is also frequently known as a museum of buildings or a folk museum.
Definition
Open air is "the unconfined atmosphere ... outside buildings" ...
inspired by the television drama ''
Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut
''Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut'' (''The Beautiful Stories of the Upper Countries'') is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on Radio-Canada from October 8, 1956, to June 1, 1970. One of the longest-running programs in the his ...
'', with more than eighteen houses to visit, located from to , rue Séraphin in
Sainte-Adèle.
History
In 1965, Fernand Montplaisir, a pharmacist from
Sainte-Adèle, bought land where
Claude-Henri Grignon had located the house of , to build the Village de Séraphin. For $50,000, he obtained the rights to use the characters of Claude-Henri Grignon.
The Village de Séraphin was inaugurated in 1967, with initially eight
post-and-plank
The method of building wooden buildings with a traditional Timber framing, timber frame with horizontal plank or log infill has many names, the most common of which are piece sur piece (French. Also used to describe log building), corner post ...
houses bought in the vicinity of Sainte-Adèle and rebuilt in the village. In this first season, more than 100,000 people visited the place.
In 1977, the Village de Séraphin had 17 houses to visit.
Fernand Montplaisir inaugurated in 1983 a new park called Pays des Merveilles, located near the site of the Village de Séraphin.
In the mid-1980s, the château de la riche héritière was built, bringing the number to eighteen houses to visit.
Following the death of her husband Fernand Montplaisir in January 1998, Thérèse Montplaisir tried to sell the village, but without success.
On May 30, 1999, the Village de Séraphin was opened to the public for the last time and sold at auction.
References
Annexes
Bibliography
* Tour guide : {{cite book, last1=Lemay, first1=Nicole, last2=Dubreuil, first2=Mario, author3=Village de Séraphin
ltée, date=1987, title=Le musée Village de Séraphin, Ste-Adèle, url=https://lesbelleshistoiresdespaysdenhaut.blogspot.com/2019/01/1967-le-village-de-seraphin.html, language=fr, location=
Saint-Constant, publisher=PPRP Inc., isbn=978-2980084102, oclc=16871165
External links
Pictures of the Village de Séraphin
Folk museums in Canada
Living museums in Canada
Open-air museums in Canada
History museums in Quebec
Relocated buildings and structures in Canada