ocr: By IAN DARRAGH Photographs by MAGGIE STEBER EALS OF LAUGHTER filled the room. to the first French settlers in 1838. Between Louis Wauthier, our caller, was slip- dances we had competed in log sawing and ping his own risqué variations into other contests, with much cheering and good- the contredanse we were performing natured rivalry. AsIl looked around at the at the folk evening in Chicoutimi, Quebec. As laughing, sweaty faces, I thought: This could in: square dancing, in the contredanse, which only happen in Quebec. originated in 18th-c century France, you're sup- Largest of Canada's ten prov ...
