Memphré Threatened By Canadians

Quebec’s and Vermont’s shared Lake Memphremagog monsters, Memphré, are being challenged by the removal of conservation lands and expansion of landfills, from the Canadian side. Where is Jacques Boisvert when we need him?

Memphré monster hunter, scuba diver, historian, and ecologist Jacques Boisvert’s sudden death on February 4, 2006, at age 73, was untimely, and it now has become obvious his work lives on in the challenges that face his favorite cryptid. (See Boisvert’s Cryptomundo obituary here.)

According to the September 2006 issue of the Magog, Quebec newspaper The Outlet, the Memphremagog Conservation Association (MCA) has raised grave concern over the Canadian government’s plan to sell off portions of Mount Orford Park (which sets on the shore of Lake Memphremagog) for development purposes. The group also is worried about a plan to expand two landfill sites, both of which empties into Lake Memphremagog. The lake, of course, is the home of Memphré, the aquatic cryptids that the late Boisvert studied, searched for, and wrote about for most of his life.

Jacques Boisvert was remembered at the August 5th meeting of the MCA when the Memphremagog Conservation, Inc. gave one of the lake’s most ardent advocates the Gordon Kohl Environment Award posthumously.

Let us hope, in the name of Memphré and Boisvert, some of these radical Canadian development plans, which would impact the lake on both sides of the border, are reconsidered. After all, what’s next? An attack on Champ’s habitat in Lake Champlain, which is located in Vermont, New York, and Quebec?

Loren Coleman About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct). Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015. Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.

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