Nov. 13,1996 25 Years Ago
Pontiac remembers war and peace: The cenotaphs of Pontiac were shrouded in a fresh blanket of snow as hundreds turned out for Remembrance Day Monday. Services were held in Shawville, Bristol and Portage du Fort. An observance had been held Saturday in Waltham and Quyon’s was a week earlier. As in past years, the ceremony in Portage drew the largest number of service personnel. Seventy-five members of E. Battalion of the Second Royal Canadian Horse Artillery marched in formation through . . .
the streets, led by the Renfrew Highland Pipes and Drums. “Blessed are the peacemakers,” said Rev. Carolyn Langford, surrounded by men and women whose job it is to make that passage of scripture a reality. A prayer was also said by Father Tom Fitzpatrick. $14M upgrade cuts smell: A $14 million upgrade to reduce sulphur compounds and sulphate particles going into the air is nearly complete at Stone Container. The end result will mean a reduced smell coming from the pulp mill and fewer snow-like sulphate particles falling on the surrounding area. “We’re trying to be more environmentally friendly,” says Bill Jette, Stone Container’s project manager. New government regulations which are expected to go into effect by the end of the year forced Stone to begin upgrading last May. The job is one of the largest improvements since the mill opened in 1967.
Nov. 24,1971 50 Years Ago Trophies for moose and deer hunters: On Saturday there was a hunter’s party for the winners of the widest rack for moose and deer. This was held at Albert’s Hotel in Calumet Island. The winners who received trophies sponsored by Albert’s Hotel were: Moose: first prize: widest rack: Clifford Olmstead, Bryson; second prize: second widest rack - Romeo Pilon, Campbell’s Bay; third prize: nicest rack: Roméo Pilon, Campbell’s Bay. Deer: first prize: widest rack: Alex Mucha, Shawville; second prize: widest rack: Fred Stewart, Calumet Island; third prize: heaviest buck: Cpl. Jean-Marie Ryan, St. John, Quebec. Petunia contest winners: The Petunia Contest winners were announced last week and as usual, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Yach of Everpleasant View Farm, Ladysmith, won the first prize for Pontiac. In second place this year was John Langford of Shawville. Larry Horne of Bryson and Clarence Richardson of Shawville won third and fourth prizes respectively. Winners further down the road were Mrs. Albertine Duffy, Mrs. Ira Merrifield and Mrs. Robert Bronson of Luskville.
Nov. 21,1946 75 Years Ago Local news: Pontiac Ayrshires from Bonnieshade Farm, owned and operated by S. Wyman MacKechnie and sons at Wyman, made a very fine showing at the Royal Winter Fair Toronto. Quebec provincial game wardens and police, swooping down once again on traffic, Ottawa and Hull-bound from the Laurentians, last Sunday night seized 15 rifles from motorists when they searched an estimated 100 automobiles on Quebec Highway No. 8 a half mile west of Aylmer. All owners of the seized rifles will be charged with being in possession of firearms in Quebec without a hunting license, Game Warden Augene Audette of Hull, told the Ottawa Journal last Sunday night. An announcement by General Motors Corp. in Detroit of a $100 increase in the retail price of its automobiles has no direct bearing on the price of Canadian-made cars, the prices board said recently. Canadians will have to pay extra on imported General Motors cars but the cost of made-in-Canada automobiles remains at the present level. Mr. Eric Blackstock, student minister recently appointed to the Clarendon United Church pastoral charge, preached very acceptably at Radford, Wesley and Yarm on Sunday. Mr. Blackstock is a veteran of the war, having spent four years in the combatant forces overseas. The Dominion Experimental Farms Service celebrated its diamond jubilee this year. Great changes have taken place in Canadian agriculture in these sixty years. The amount of land used for farming has increased four-fold. Land sown to grains such as wheat, oats and barley has increased from 15 million to 57 million acres. This tremendous growth in agriculture was given many a push forward by the research work of the Dominion Experimental Farms. Ad: Roof coatings: plastic cement; fibrous roof coating; liquid gum. The Hodgins Lumber Co.
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Nov. 19,1896 125 Years Ago Local News: We notice from our exchanges that the curfew bell is being adopted in many of the towns and villages throughout Canada. If Shawville would also take up the idea, it might be the means of preventing many an otherwise promising lad from getting into mischief at an unseasonable hour and their parents saved much worry and trouble. The latest novelty in the church entertainments is the “Apple Social.” Each person attending the social is presented at the door with a ticket in the shape of an apple with a letter and number on it. Each group of members is supposed to go together and by putting their letters together guess the name of the apple they represent. When the name of the apple is known, each group composes one or more verses of poetry which are to be judged and read. It may now be regarded as a certainty says the Ottawa Citizen that before very long the Pontiac Pacific Junction Railway will be extended from Aylmer to Hull. Mr. W.J. Stark shipped a large number of sheep and lambs from here on Friday morning. A number of cases of diphtheria are reported from several districts in the province. The monthly returns of deaths for October show the disease to have been more prevalent than it has hitherto been during the summer months. We have heard several of the German settlers in Leslie and Cawood complain that stock buyers never visit that locality of late years. This seems singular in view of the fact that some very good cattle are raised in the district named, it being an extra good pasturage section. Mr. A.G. Murphy, one of the directors of the Clarendon Cheese and Butter Company, informs us that he has received from the Quebec Government a grant towards their factory of one hundred dollars. The grant was received through the influence of Mr. W.J. Poupore to whom the company feel very grateful for the manner in which he has exerted himself in their behalf. Mr. Hermas Dore, of Masson says that a large meteor fell into the Ottawa River at that place on the first inst. His son saw the meteor fall. It made a tremendous splash and caused the water to sizzle and foam. Hereafter it will be advisable for all parties (especially businessmen) to provide themselves with envelopes containing their printed names and instructions to the postmaster on the upper left hand corner of the envelope, as under the new post office regulations undelivered letters will not in future be returned to the writer unless so ordered by the printed instructions on the corner. The great display of “shooting stars” which occurs about the middle of the month of November every thirty-three years, was watched for with much interest by astronomers, between sunset on Friday evening and sunrise on Saturday morning last. During the night between Nov. 12 and 13, 1833, the number of shooting stars seen was so great that they could not be accurately counted.
