Nov. 30, 1994
25 Years Ago
Farm Finance Day draws keen interest: About 65 people, including many of the county’s leading farmers, attended Saturday’s Farm Finance Day at Bristol Town Hall.
The all-day seminar was co-sponsored by . . .
the Quebec Farmers Association (QFA), the local office of the Quebec Ministry of Agriculture (MAPAQ), and a federally-funded farm management advisory committee called Géagri.
One of the talks that drew great interest was presented by QFA Farm Financial Advisor Jim Boulé on family farm transfers. Consequently, said Mr. Boulé, “More and more farms are becoming incorporated.”
Pontiac players make a mark at university games: It didn’t take long to see why two Shawville hockey grads are right up there in the scoring department of Atlantic Division of CIAU hockey for the Dalhousie Tigers.
Defenceman Kevin Meisner, 24, scored the first goal for the Tigers against the Western Mustangs in the first game of the Ottawa Gee Gees University tournament on Nov 25.
The next goal would come from centre Cory MacIntyre, 24. Meisner would set up one more in the end and if it hadn’t been for MacIntyre’s injury early in the third period, local fans and family who travelled to Ottawa may have seen the duo connect for more.
In the end, the number two ranked Tigers posed a 6-2 win over the Western Ontario Mustangs in the first game that night and advanced to finals.
Dec. 3, 1969
50 Years Ago
Pentecostal Sunday School float judged best in parade: Hundreds of people took part in the Christmas parade in Shawville on Saturday and they were all rewarded by the happy crowds along Main Street who thoroughly enjoyed the event.
Santa Claus had a hard time holding his horse as did all other riders.
The brisk weather and the fact that horses don’t get as much exercise as they’d like in this season combined to make it a challenging day for all who brought horses to the parade.
The best all around entry and winner of the first prize for youth activities was the Pentecostal Sunday School float which contained an enormous globe and children from every nation with the message: “For God so loved the world that He gave His Son.”
Second in that entry was the Pontiac Protestant High School biology class and third was St. Paul’s Junior Auxiliary.
The winner of the Hilton Mine Trophy was the Pontiac Community Hospital for their entry which included scenes from medicine of yesterday, today and tomorrow and featured in the yesterday part was a coal oil lamp which was used just last week when a power failure plunged the hospital into dangerous darkness.
Kilgours honoured at Ottawa: Arthur Kilgour and Kenneth Kilgour on behalf of their Grand Champion female Holstein “Garden Lea Duchess Mandy” received the Roybrook Trophy at the Ottawa Winter Fair from Mr. Marland Murray, president of the Holstein-Friesien Association of Canada.
Dec. 7, 1944
75 Years Ago
Local News: Old man Winter visited this district on Thursday of last week in all his fury. It was the first real snowfall of the season and caught most people unprepared with a lot of outside work yet to be done.
Up to this time, comparatively mild weather prevailed and the ground was not frozen to any extent.
The storm which raged all of Wednesday night and Thursday blocked roads in every direction from the village and it will likely be several days before some of the side roads are opened.
The highway from Davidson to Shawville was opened on Sunday and the highway east of Shawville to Aylmer was opened on Monday.
Shawville streets have been cleared by Mr. W.C. Schwartz with a snowplow attached to the front of his Imperial Oil truck.
FO. W.B.T. (Bill) Smiley, son of Mr. and Mrs. P.E. Smiley of Perth, Ont. is reported missing after air operations overseas.
Sgt. Pilot Edward Hinchy Hodgins, 19-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald C. Hodgins was killed in an airplane accident at Gimli, Man., on Sunday according to word received by his parents last night.
The many friends of Private Ambrose Trudeau assembled in Bristol Town Hall on Wednesday evening of last week.
They were there to pay respects on his return from overseas after three years of active service, some mark of recognition of his services in their behalf.
Col. Arne Dahl who was the commander of the famous Alberta Battalion during the last days of Norway’s stand against the Nazis at Narvik, is now leading a contingent of Norwegian soldiers against the Germans on Norwegian soil.
Col. Dahl was assistant military attache at the Norwegian Embassy in Washington before returning to England to assume his present command.
Dec. 4, 1919
100 Years Ago
Local News: Snowfalls almost sufficient to make sleighing descended during the past week but a rainstorm on Saturday afternoon converted the whole thing into slush and on Sunday morning old Mother Earth was again bare and brown. Another change Monday night gave us two inches of snow.
The Prince of Wales reached Portsmouth, England on Monday morning on the return voyage from his spectacular tour of Canada and the United States.
According to reports from the old country, conditions in Ireland are of a most serious character and daily growing worse and no individual or collection of individuals seems to be capable of suggesting a remedy that comes anywhere near being satisfactory to all concerned.
J.M. Argue has arranged to operate a sawmill in Shawville this winter and will be in a position early in the new year to do custom sawing and buy all kinds of logs for which highest prices will be paid.
The Dominion Seed Branch with laboratories at Ottawa, Winnipeg and Calgary reported over 35,000 seed tests for the year ending June 30.
Official seed testing is the basis of government seed control which in older European countries is rated as a leading government service to agriculture.
The victor’s homecoming: Sir Douglas Haig’s Grenadier guard of honour at Charing Cross when the man of the hour came home, was a particularly fine body of men and from end to end of the lines there was hardly a man without wound stripes.
Not a few of the distinguished people on the platform noticed that three of the guard, standing side by side had 16 wound stripes between them.
Dec. 4, 1894
125 Years Ago
Local News: Smallpox has broken out in Renfrew county.
A high class phonographic concert is to be given in Lang’s Hall, Quyon on Dec. 10.
The Messrs Gillies Bros. of Braeside have commenced operations in the line of improving their saw mill business by making ready for the addition of two more engines to increase their power.
The tests of the new anti-toxin with diphtheria patients in Toronto have been very successful. In New York where the new agent has been used, the mortality in the hospitals from diphtheria has fallen from over 50 to something like 6 per cent.
Alex Lumsden’s mill is running almost night and day to furnish the CPR with bridge timber.
Allan Palmer passed through here on Thursday with a broken leg. He was working 200 miles from Mattawa. A tree fell on him. They drove and carried him alternately to the station the 200 miles and then the train took him 200 more. The jolting on the journey planed the bones and produced intense suffering. The doctors had to amputate the limb but he died Saturday night. Had the shantymen bound the leg so that the bones couldn’t jar, his leg and life would have been spared.
Old King Winter has arrived here in Campbell’s Bay, ushered in by keen frosty winds, snow blowing in billowy columns making dull earth resemble “Fairy land”.
The passenger train is running regular trips to the new station.
The fever about schools is dying away now.
Our merchant here in Caldwell, W.H. Lucas is doing a rushing business at present.
Ad: Bricks for sale at D. Kennedy’s, Clarendon.
Ad: Mr. C.E. Wainman wishes to inform his customers and public generally that he has removed his Tinware Shop to the building adjoining the barber shop where he can be found with a large stock of tinware, stove pipes and stoves of all kinds. Also highest prices paid for hides and pelts.
Ad: Mr. P. Nolan, Quyon, Que. I make any kind of boot or shoe you require. Driving boots a specialty.
Ad: For Christmas and New Year novelties go to Mrs. McKenzie, Main Street, Shawville. Ladies’ dressing cases, workboxes, dolls, toys and fancy articles of every description. Clearing sale now going on in hats.
compiled by Bonnie Chevrier
