This image shows Roger Lemelin, author of the TV series La Famille Plouffe, which he wrote at his home on Brûlart Street in Sillery. On April 6, 1956, Sillery named Roger-Lemelin Avenue in Bergerville in his honour. This 194-episode series was one of the greatest successes of French-language television in Canada in the 1950s.

1952 - 1980

Québec City, filming grounds for the big and small screens

Québec City has been the setting for some of the world’s greatest films. In 1952, the famous Alfred Hitchcock shot all the outdoor scenes of his film I Confess in Québec City, notably in Limoilou. Then, between 1953 and 1959, author Roger Lemelin portrayed a family from the Saint-Sauveur district in one of Quebec’s first TV series, La Famille Plouffe, on which two movies by Quebec artist Gilles Carle were based. A movie inspired by a Woody Allen play called Don’t Drink the Water also used Old Québec as a backdrop in 1969. Do these films bring back any memories?

Roger Lemelin, writer

Auteur inconnu This image shows Roger Lemelin, author of the TV series La Famille Plouffe, which he wrote at his home on Brûlart Street in Sillery. On April 6, 1956, Sillery named Roger-Lemelin Avenue in Bergerville in his honour. This 194-episode series was one of the greatest successes of French-language television in Canada in the 1950s.

Chronoscope Do you have any memories of Roger Lemelin’s work? (unilingual French for a limited time)

Depicted period: 1980

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