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Opening of Résidence du Petit Bois

The CHC team is proud to announce that we are planning to welcome the new residents of the Résidence du Petit Bois as of February 1, 2025!

On behalf of the CHC, I would like to thank Claude Gervais (former President and Co-founder of the CHC), Paul Landry (Vice President), Daniel Fournier (Treasurer) and Julie Gervais (Secretary) who stepped down as CHC board members during our AGM on November 14th. Your hard work and dedication over the years have resulted in this tremendous accomplishment for the community. Thank you!

Happy Holidays to all of you!

We look forward to seeing you at the official opening in the spring of 2025!

Céline Brault

Président of the Chelsea Housing Corporation

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From left to right : Suzanne Cayer (Resident représentative), Mélanie Allison (Treasurer), Caz Ducros (Secretary and résidents representative), Rita Jain (Ward 5 municipal counsellor), Céline Brault (President), Alanna Keenan (Vice president), Doreen Meunier (Resident Representative, Michel Beaulne (Municipality representative) et Alexandre Sawyer (Manager FIHAB)

Reaction at the initial visit from residents

Thank you to everyone who has believed in this beautiful project from the start! To the thinkers and builders who contributed to CHC’s success. Dedicated teams for more than a decade, volunteers who didn’t calculate their time for this success.

I’m grateful to be part of the first gang, and rest assured that I’ll do everything I can to take good care of it.

Denise B.

Future resident of the Résidence du Petit Bois

Dear “Résidence du Petit Bois” neighbours,

I am writing to give you my first impressions after entering our new residence today. I am one of several artists who are offering to donate some of their work to hang on the walls of our new building. (I have been an artist for many years and I’ve had several shows, mostly photography, but I did start painting after I retired.)

We all met today with Celine Brault, and a manager from the construction company, to have a tour of the building and to see the walls in particular.

My first impressions were that the building is spectacular. You already know that the outside brick and yellow gables are beautiful. Inside it’s very open and welcoming, especially in the public areas and the corridors. The lounge area is enormous with cathedral ceilings, and the dining room area is as well, with even more windows and a view, albeit a tiny one, of the Gatineau River. The community kitchen is spacious as well. I like the dividing feature between the two communal rooms; if we have several activities simultaneously there is a very pretty white moveable dividing wall that can be closed.

The hallways are wide, and define a group of four apartments by zigzagging to the next group of four apartments and so on, until the end where a door with a picture window looks toward the community trail.

I was able to enter a one-bedroom apartment and a two-bedroom apartment to take pictures for you. The flooring is very nice and it was indeed already very warm in the apartments, around 23°. There’s a thermostat in each room and a very fancy smoke alarm. The colour palette everywhere is neutral. White is predominant to lend welcome brightness , as most of us have windows only on one side of the apartment. The cupboard space is fantastic and I like a lot of the details, for example a medicine cabinet inset into the bathroom wall and a cubby hole for a microwave or toaster.

The hall lighting is really pretty, in the common areas big globes hang from the ceiling, in our apartments the lighting is generous, and each main room has a light with a fan.

I hope this little report has given you an idea how lucky we are to be able to occupy this space. It won’t be long now.

Your neighbour, Brenda Lee Wilson

Future resident of the Résidence du Petit Bois

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The Chelsea Housing Corporation’s new affordable seniors’ residence, la Résidence du Petit-Bois, will be opening in February 2025. This beautiful, new 12-unit seniors’ residence is located next to the Farm Point Community Centre and only minutes from Gatineau River and the Voie-Verte Community Trail. All 12 units in the residence have been filled.
To be on a waiting list, applications forms can be downloaded online from this link:
http://www.chchelsea.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/CHC-Housing-request-form-E-2024.pdf.
Paper copies of the application are also available at the Municipality of Chelsea Town Hall. Completed applications can be dropped off at the front desk at the Town Hall.