“My brother and sister were buried alive”
A powerful interview that places the book within the long aftermath of trauma, survival, and remembrance.
A powerful interview that places the book within the long aftermath of trauma, survival, and remembrance.
The cultural press frames the book as an act of transmission, repair, and consciously carried memory.
A direct radio interview focused on publicly transmitting the family story and the reason why the book exists.
A radio interview in Les lève-tôt where Jason speaks about the tragedy, his path, and the writing of the book.
The documentary places the story within Quebec’s collective memory and gives it strong public reach through the voices of survivors, families, and witnesses.
The book gathers 25 testimonies around the flood and includes a chapter devoted to Jason’s lived experience after Mikaël Lalancette interviewed him.
A Le Quotidien issue preserved by BAnQ, useful as a press reference point from the immediate week following the Saguenay flood.
A Le Soleil archive in which Julie Paquet and Sylvain Garceau, then living in Chicoutimi, speak about what the flood took from them and the impossibility of replacing the loss of Mathieu and Andréa.
In the same Le Quotidien issue, coroner Gilles Perron’s report publicly reframes prevention, landslide risk zones, and municipal responsibility in the deaths of Mathieu and Andréa.
A Le Quotidien archive preserved by BAnQ, published just after the coroner’s report. It brings Julie Paquet and Sylvain Garceau back into public view through their damages action against the City of La Baie and their clear claim that Mathieu and Andréa’s deaths could have been prevented.
The Journal de Québec returns to the coroner’s findings and the preventable nature of the fatal landslide that killed Mathieu and Andréa Paquet-Garceau.
A Journal de Québec piece returning to the neighborhood’s memory, the scene of the disaster, and the enduring grief carried by Mathieu and Andréa’s parents, Sylvain Garceau and Julie Paquet.
The Journal de Montréal ties the Historia documentary to that duty of remembrance while highlighting Jason’s testimony as one of the strongest voices in the project.
Mikaël Lalancette’s book gathers 25 testimonies around the flood and includes a chapter devoted to Jason’s lived experience.
The Historia documentary revisits the tragedy through witnesses, relatives of victims, and the still-visible marks left behind.
A major feature in which Jason speaks publicly about loss, guilt, and the lasting marks the tragedy left on his adult life.
An article carried across several QMI outlets, bringing the neighborhood’s memory, the deaths of Mathieu and Andréa, and the enduring wound left around the family back into public view.
Jason reacts publicly to another landslide in La Baie and says he hopes another family will never have to live through the same fate.
The official Facebook page to follow announcements, excerpts, updates, and author-related publications.
Radio interview in Les lève-tôt where Jason discusses the tragedy, his path, and the writing of the book.
A podcast episode in which Jason speaks about trauma, anxiety, and his long path through the years.
The audio version of the QUB interview about trauma, survival, and the present-day reach of this testimony.
The Washington Post carried the Reuters report on the deaths, mass evacuations, destroyed infrastructure, and the national scale of the Saguenay flood.
The Los Angeles Times also carried the story, emphasizing the deaths, homes swept away, evacuations, and the shockwave created far beyond Quebec.
The Weather Network places the Saguenay flood in Canadian weather history and highlights the scale of destruction, evacuations, and the Little White House as a symbol of survival.
The Canadian Red Cross looks back at the human scale of the disaster, the emergency response, and the unusually high number of people assisted during the flood.
Family memory, grief, mental health, resilience, documentary truth, and the place of testimony in contemporary Quebec literature.
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