The St-Lawrence Toastmasters Club in Montreal would like to warmly welcome Odile.

Club president Italo welcomes Odile to St-Lawrence Toastmasters

We like to ask our new members to share some of the reasons why they decided to join Toastmasters. Here is what Odile writes:

After seeing major improvements on a few friends who joined Toastmasters, I decided to start the adventure and work on my communication skills. My goal is to break this fear of speaking in front of people. Saint-Lawrence Toastmasters seems to be the right place to be at this very moment.

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Are you also looking to improve your communication skills in Montreal? Come visit our Toastmasters club.

Here is the programme for the meeting of April 16, 2019.

Are you interested in finding out how Toastmasters can help you become a more effective public speaker and a more effective leader? 

Come visit the St-Lawrence Toastmasters Club in downtown Montreal.

Here is the programme for the meeting of April 9, 2019.

Congratulations to our St-Lawrence Toastmasters member Nadine Champagne Gundry-White, who came in 2nd place at the Toastmasters International Speech Contest (District 61, Division G).

Nadine enjoys competing in such contests, as you might see from this post from a couple of years ago.

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Are you interested in finding out more about Toastmasters? Feel free to visit the St-Lawrence Toastmasters club in Montreal.

Here is the programme for the meeting of March 26, 2019.

Thinking about improving your speaking skills? Toastmasters is the best place to build up your confidence and tools as a speaker.

Come visit us at St. Lawrence Toastmasters in Montreal.

Here is the program for the evening of Tuesday March 19, 2019

Aimeriez-vous améliorer vos aptitudes de leader?

Toastmasters, en plus de vous aider à pratiquer la parole en public, vous offre la chance de pratiquer votre leadership via une multitude de rôles: animateur de la soirée, chronomètre, animateur des improvisations, etc. Et ce, sans compter tous les rôles possibles au sein du comité exécutif du club.

Pour vous faire une idée concrète des possibilités, venez assister à l’une de nos rencontres! 

Visitez le club Saint-Lawrence Toastmasters à Montréal.

Voici le programme pour la soirée du 12 mars 2019

Dans une entrevue à l’émission radio Parasole et gobelets, le journaliste et animateur Jean-Luc Mongrain partage son expérience par rapport à la prise de parole en public.

Mongrain a eu la chance d’être encouragé par un professeur dès son jeune âge. Ce professeur lui a servi de mentor afin de participer à un événement de parole en public qui fut un succès. Tout le monde connaît la suite: Jean-Luc Mongrain est devenu une icône de la télévision québécoise en tant que journaliste et animateur.

Il mentionne également l’une des raisons pour lesquelles la parole en public en terrifie plus d’un:

C’est très compromettant de prendre la parole, c’est se livrer un peu, c’est se laisser au jugement des autres.

– Jean-Luc Mongrain, journaliste

Il partage également ses trucs de base pour prendre la parole — base que vous pouvez pratiquer et peaufiner grâce à Toastmasters:

• Être préparé;
• Apporter quelques notes;
• Être confiant, simple et sympathique dans ses propos et dans sa gestuelle.

Pour écouter l’entrevue complète:
S’affranchir de la peur de parler en public, avec Jean-Luc Mongrain.

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Si vous souhaitez un endroit accueillant et sans risque pour apprendre et pratiquer la parole en public, venez visiter le Club St. Lawrence Toastmasters de Montreal. Vous bénéficierez de l’expérience de nos membres et du programme Toastmasters.

Programme pour la soirée du mardi 5 mars 2019

Bravo à tous nos représentants et aux participants. 

Evaluation Contest

1 – Sabrya Karim
2 – Keith Martin
3 – Christopher Dedeyan
P – Xenia Le Dinh

International Speech Contest

1 – Nadine Champagne
2 – Joseph Sohmer
3 – Christopher Dedeyan

Concours d’évaluations

1 – Daniel Gélinas
2 – Sonia Loiselle
3 – Andrés Tavera

Concours de discours

1 – Benoît Ménard
2 – Yanick Daoust

Les concours de discours ne sont qu’une des nombreuses manières que vous offre Toastmaster pour accroître vos capacités d’orateur et de leader. Pour en savoir plus, visitez nous lors de notre prochaine rencontre.

Programme pour la soirée du mardi 26 février 2019

Dear Toastmasters members and friends,

You are invited to a fun and exciting evening at the Area 62 International Speech and Evaluation Contests.

St. Lawrence Toastmasters Club is organizing this wonderful evening and we hope to see all of you.

Here is the relevant information.

Date:  Tuesday February 19, 2016

Time:  Starts at 7 pm sharp (We should be finished by 10 pm.)

(All contestants and organizers are to present themselves no later than 6:15 pm.)

Location:

St. Lawrence Toastmasters Club
Restaurant L’Ambroisie (conference room)
4030 St-Ambroise, suite 140
(in the west wing of the building)
Montreal, Quebec, H4C 2C7
(Link for detailed directions to the club)

Entrance Fee:  $10

NOTE: The cost is $10. Vegetables & dip will be available before the contest, and the entrance fee also includes one free non-alcoholic drink. We recommend that everyone arrives early, (i.e. by 6:30 PM or earlier).

We look forward to seeing you!

You may also download the Toastmasters Area 62 Contests Agenda.

A big thanks to Bob Palmer for recently informing us that the St-Lawrence Toastmasters Club in Montreal is the 9^th oldest club in the world outside of the United States.

Bob is a fellow Toastmaster and historian from District 12 in California, USA. With 45 years at Toastmasters, one of his side hobbies is to research club histories. Here is what he prepared:

"I weeded out all the early club numbers that had been either retired by Toastmasters International or chartered elsewhere in other years and came up with a list of clubs which are STILL ACTIVE in the places they were chartered."

Bob had recently also sent us some other interesting information about our club history, which we posted when our club celebrated its 70th birthday.

Since we are the oldest club in Eastern Canada, we also like to jokingly say that we are the most experienced club too! 🙂

Interested in visiting the most experienced Toastmasters club in Eastern Canada? Come attend one of our meetings! Here is the agenda for the meeting of February 12, 2019.

Aimeriez-vous vous sentir plus à l’aise lorsque vous devez parler en public? Cherchez-vous comment communiquer plus efficacement? Voulez-vous devenir un leader plus compétent?

Venez voir comment Toastmasters peut vous aider à atteindre chacun de ces objectifs.

Visitez le club Saint-Lawrence Toastmasters à Montréal.

Voici le programme pour la réunion du 5 février 2019.