Apr. 2,1997
25 Years Ago
WQSB cuts $825,000 in educational programs: Despite the fact it got a high rating from local parents, the animateur program will be chopped by the Western Quebec School Board.
In an effort to save $1.3 million from its budget, the board will cut $358,000 from the program which teaches anglophone students French.
The severe cut to the animateur program is part of the $2.1 million the board was looking to cut from the $13 million discretionary . . .
portion of its $44 million budget.
Second title for Novice Pontiacs: The Shawville Novice Pontiacs claim the second straight title after defeating Petawawa 6-2, the Patriots’ second loss of the year.
Under the leadership of coach Bob Findlay, Tim Powell and Trevor Fraser, the team players: Kyle Fraser, Jordan Kearns, Justin Carson, Eric Lanoix, Malcolm Fraser, Travis Corriveau, Darcy Findlay, Chris MacKechnie, Jeff Drisner, Shane Powell and Dennis McCleary.
Apr. 5, 1972
50 Years Ago
Jail closed but court to expand: The jail at Campbell’s Bay court house is temporarily closed and nobody knows when it will reopen or whether it ever will.
Taking prisoners to Hull and back is causing a lot of extra work for police officers and also creates added inconvenience and expense for the families of people in jail who must now go to Hull.
There has been rumour that the entire court house at Campbell’s Bay will be closed down but this seems less likely now since the announcement by the Justice Department of a new court service to commence there.
Big river clean-up for below Ottawa: A project has been designed to preserve 30 miles of shoreline and eight islands on the Ottawa River from Hull and Ottawa to Plaisance and Wendover. The regional fish and game association and Pollution Probe are sponsoring the campaign which they have named “My River”.
The sponsors are worried about what the government is planning in terms of its river-front development. They are talking of apartment buildings, commercial complexes and phony parks when what we need is preservation of the natural beauty that cannot be replaced.
Apr. 17, 1947
75 Years Ago
Local news: The Quebec Highway Department announced that highways and municipal roads in the Gatineau, Hull and Pontiac will be closed to heavy traffic at midnight tonight owing to the thawing season. The maximum loads allowed will be 8,000 pounds including the weight of the truck.
H.C. Rowat was elected president of the provisional Rotary Club of Shawville that was organized Wednesday evening by a group of about 20 meeting in the curling clubroom. Other officers elected were Neil A. Drummond, vice-president John A. Tolhurst, secretary; Moreland Hodgins, treasurer.
Accommodation is wanted within two miles of Shawville for workers on new hospital.
The members of the Clarendon School Board and the principal of the high school visited the new Buckingham High School on Saturday.
Beginning April 1, anyone can make as much ice cream, sherbet and process cheese as he wishes, the Dominion Department of Agriculture has announced.
Weak Link: One of the great trouble-making factors in a democracy is the readiness of the average individual to exercise his right to believe anything that he has never heard before. Montreal Financial Times.
Mar. 30,1922
100 Years Ago
Local news: The oldest woman in this section of the country and probably in the Ottawa Valley passed away on Saturday morning last, when Mrs. Lynn, mother of Mr. John Lynn of Clarendon front, entered into rest at the exceedingly ripe old age of 104 years.
Shawville hockey team performed the second act in undoing the fine record established during the winter, by going to Aylmer on Monday and submitting to a trimming at the hands of the puck-chasers of that burg, by a score of 7 to 4.
Mr. Archibald Yuill passed away on March 14. He was among the pioneers to build up Bristol Corners and was successful in running a general store now occupied by Kronick Bros, and also a carriage shop. Some of the first wagons of Bristol were built in his shop.
The fishers went forth to fish at the March full moon. It was said to be a good tie, too, according to old seasoned authorities on fish lore, but nary a nibble was the discouraging report handed out at the end of the homestretch.
The total area of forest land in the province of Quebec is 450,337,761 square miles, according to the Provincial lands and Forests Dept. This does not include the Ungava territory annexed in 1912 which practically doubles the surface.
A dispatch from New Hampshire states that sixty families of mill operatives have left for the province of Quebec since the start of the strike in the cotton mills. A total of 302 French-Canadian families returned from the States to Quebec last year.
Apr. 1,1897
125 Years Ago
Local News: We notice by a number of our exchanges that a shock of earthquake was experienced throughout Canada about six o’clock on Tuesday evening of last week. The noise lasted about 15 seconds. The usual business rush in Shawville about that hour of the day, doubtless accounted for no notice having been taken of the phenomenon here.
Mr. J. McGuire has been making improvements in the interior of his butcher shop.
Snow to the depth of about ten inches fell on Wednesday and Thursday last.
The grist mill is now running full time with a good head of water.
We understand it is the intention of the Department of Lands, Forests and Fisheries on the 28th of April to offer for sale the “water power” formed by that portion of the Ottawa River, opposite the township of Onslow at the rapids and falls called Des Chats, together with the islands therein within the limits of this province at a distance of four miles from Quyon station, upset price $35,000. Also the water power formed by the Ottawa River situated in front of lots 14, 15 and 16, first range of the township of Litchfield at the Grand Calumet Falls with the adjacent islands at a distance of three and a half miles from Clarke’s station; upset price $6,900.
Mr. Alex Wilson is making preparations for his pulp wood drive on the Quyon River. Mr. James Neill will have charge. The drive will commence at Thorne Centre, where the bulk of the wood is piled.
As Rev. Mr. Flanagan and wife of Thorne were approaching the Arnprior wharf on Monday of last week, they drove into a hole in the ice and on getting out, were soon in another. They had to extricate themselves unaided and but for having a Berlin cutter would perhaps have been drowned. The openings were caused by ice-cutters who had been far too sparing in the use of the warning brush.
An incident considerably out of the line of the common place occurred in this village on Thursday night last, it being the discovery of an infant in a trunk which was left at the station by a young woman who said she would call for it on the following evening.After gurgling sounds were heard, the trunk was forced open and there sure enough, lay the form of an infant apparently two or three weeks old. Dr. Klock was summoned andpronounced the child to be suffering from bronchitis.After a short search the mother of the child was located. She claimed she thought the child was already dead. She was placed under arrest by Mr. W.W. Ireland, whom she accompanied to the station where she got possession of the infant and was then conveyed to the Pontiac House where lodging had been procured.
In the morning about eight o’clock, the suffering of the child came to a peaceful end. Mayor Hobbs then telephoned the particulars to Coroner Hurdman and the latter decided to come to Shawville and hold an inquest. For this purpose a jury was summoned to meet at the Pontiac House.
On Saturday last, three prisoners appeared before Magistrate Rimer at the Court House, Bryson on the charge of assaulting Bailiff Elliott while the latter was discharging his duty.
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