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Press dossier A public journey already covered, now gathered in one place.

Recent interviews, flood archives, and media references around Jason, the book, and public memory.

2025-2026 cycle Public archives Audio formats

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QUB January 7, 2026

“My brother and sister were buried alive”

A powerful interview that places the book within the long aftermath of trauma, survival, and remembrance.

Le Réveil August 23, 2025

When writing becomes a way to free oneself and not forget

The cultural press frames the book as an act of transmission, repair, and consciously carried memory.

95.7 KYK August 6, 2025

A survivor of the 1996 flood wants to share his family’s story

A direct radio interview focused on publicly transmitting the family story and the reason why the book exists.

Rythme 98.3 August 6, 2025

The brother of the two children swept away by the flood speaks out

A radio interview in Les lève-tôt where Jason speaks about the tragedy, his path, and the writing of the book.

Historia July 17, 2021

The Saguenay flood: a human tragedy

The documentary places the story within Quebec’s collective memory and gives it strong public reach through the voices of survivors, families, and witnesses.

Mikaël Lalancette 2021

Il y a 25 ans, le déluge

The book gathers 25 testimonies around the flood and includes a chapter devoted to Jason’s lived experience after Mikaël Lalancette interviewed him.

Public archives

July 26, 1996 Digitized archive

Le Quotidien, July 26, 1996

A Le Quotidien issue preserved by BAnQ, useful as a press reference point from the immediate week following the Saguenay flood.

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July 19, 1997 Digitized archive

“We lost something that cannot be bought back”

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.

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March 28, 1998 Digitized archive

The coroner concludes the worst could have been prevented

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.

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March 28, 1998 Digitized archive

Julie Paquet and Sylvain Garceau take action after the coroner’s report

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.

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July 11, 2016 Article

Feeling of helplessness in the face of two children’s deaths

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.

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July 9, 2016 Article

“It felt like the end of the world”

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.

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July 11, 2021 Article

“It is a duty of remembrance”

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.

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July 14, 2021 Documentary book

Il y a 25 ans, le déluge

Mikaël Lalancette’s book gathers 25 testimonies around the flood and includes a chapter devoted to Jason’s lived experience.

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July 17, 2021 Documentary

Le déluge du Saguenay: une tragédie humaine

The Historia documentary revisits the tragedy through witnesses, relatives of victims, and the still-visible marks left behind.

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July 19, 2021 Article

“I felt great sorrow, and also anger”

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.

June 18, 2022 Article

A public reminder that the tragedy might have been prevented

Jason reacts publicly to another landslide in La Baie and says he hopes another family will never have to live through the same fate.

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Audio and platforms

Official page

Jason Paquet-Garceau - Author

The official Facebook page to follow announcements, excerpts, updates, and author-related publications.

Rythme 98.3 • August 6, 2025

The brother of the two children swept away by the flood speaks out

Radio interview in Les lève-tôt where Jason discusses the tragedy, his path, and the writing of the book.

Haute Pression • October 31, 2025

Saguenay flood: anxiety, loss, and rebuilding

A podcast episode in which Jason speaks about trauma, anxiety, and his long path through the years.

QUB • audio version

Isabelle Maréchal

The audio version of the QUB interview about trauma, survival, and the present-day reach of this testimony.

Beyond Quebec

July 22, 1996 Washington Post • Reuters

Quebec floods kill 10, cause massive damage

The Washington Post carried the Reuters report on the deaths, mass evacuations, destroyed infrastructure, and the national scale of the Saguenay flood.

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July 23, 1996 Los Angeles Times • Wire

Quebec floods kill 10, destroy homes

The Los Angeles Times also carried the story, emphasizing the deaths, homes swept away, evacuations, and the shockwave created far beyond Quebec.

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July 20, 2021 The Weather Network

A little white house is all that remains from one of Canada’s worst floods

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.

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July 17, 2021 Canadian Red Cross

Remembering the Saguenay flood, 25 years later

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.

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Conversation angles

Family memory, grief, mental health, resilience, documentary truth, and the place of testimony in contemporary Quebec literature.

Memory Resilience Mental health Duty of remembrance

Press contact

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