{"id":10563,"date":"2025-03-10T14:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T19:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cdem.com\/?post_type=publications&#038;p=10563"},"modified":"2025-03-10T15:09:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T20:09:24","slug":"the-municipality-of-st-laurent-celebrates-its-history-and-the-michif-francais-heritage-centre","status":"publish","type":"publications","link":"https:\/\/www.cdem.com\/en\/publications\/the-municipality-of-st-laurent-celebrates-its-history-and-the-michif-francais-heritage-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"The municipality of St. Laurent celebrates its history and the Michif-Fran\u00e7ais Heritage Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 8, the municipality of St. Laurent welcomed Dr. Cynthia Chavez Lamar to celebrate her contributions to the community. In 2004, she collaborated with St. Laurent residents to develop a Smithsonian exhibition showcasing the lives of the M\u00e9tis people in the region. This exhibition remained on display for 11 years.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/20250308-Dr-CynthiaChavezLamar-directorMuseum-WashingtonDC-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cdem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20250308-Dr-CynthiaChavezLamar-directorMuseum-WashingtonDC-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.cdem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20250308-Dr-CynthiaChavezLamar-directorMuseum-WashingtonDC-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.cdem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20250308-Dr-CynthiaChavezLamar-directorMuseum-WashingtonDC-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cdem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20250308-Dr-CynthiaChavezLamar-directorMuseum-WashingtonDC-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cdem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20250308-Dr-CynthiaChavezLamar-directorMuseum-WashingtonDC.jpg 1573w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Building on this legacy, St. Laurent has been working on the development of the Michif-Fran\u00e7ais Heritage Centre, a $15 million project that will house the Smithsonian exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>The CDEM is proud to support this initiative by assisting in securing funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10562,"template":"","type-de-publication":[70,68],"class_list":["post-10563","publications","type-publications","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","type-de-publication-community-economic-development","type-de-publication-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cdem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications\/10563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cdem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cdem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publications"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cdem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cdem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"type-de-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cdem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type-de-publication?post=10563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}