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?