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September 10, 2026

Shawville

Meet THE EQUITY’s new reporter

As my byline states, my name is Conor Tomalty, and I am the newest addition to THE EQUITY’s masthead. I was born and raised in

Thrift art sale

The walls of Shawville’s Café 349 are hosting an unusual kind of exhibit over the next month, intended to give pieces of art a second

New beef tent to showcase local breeds

A new addition to this year’s fair will be a tent dedicated to informing the public about beef cattle.  Pontiac Agricultural Society director Mavis Hanna

Sheep show showing signs of growth

For Curtis Driscoll, the goal is more than simply putting on a sheep show at the Shawville Fair.  The Calumet Island resident hopes to eventually

Meet THE EQUITY’s new reporter

As my byline states, my name is Conor Tomalty, and I am the newest addition to THE EQUITY’s masthead. I was born and raised in Montreal, where I grew up rooting for the city’s sports teams. It is there that

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Thrift art sale

The walls of Shawville’s Café 349 are hosting an unusual kind of exhibit over the next month, intended to give pieces of art a second life after they’ve fallen out of favour at their current homes.  Organizer Cheryl Ann Beillard

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Shawville Fair highlights from over the years

A look back at nearly a century of Shawville Fair coverage, from THE EQUITY’s first year of publication in 1883 through 1977, when our extensive photo archives begin. 1883 The annual exhibition of Agricultural Society No. 1 was held in

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New beef tent to showcase local breeds

A new addition to this year’s fair will be a tent dedicated to informing the public about beef cattle.  Pontiac Agricultural Society director Mavis Hanna explained that this is the first year that she could recall they put something like

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Sheep show showing signs of growth

For Curtis Driscoll, the goal is more than simply putting on a sheep show at the Shawville Fair.  The Calumet Island resident hopes to eventually turn the annual competition into a qualifier for the Royal Agricultural Fair in Toronto, one

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Learning by doing, healing by caring

Though Bria Pieschke grew up in farm country, she didn’t grow up in a farming family. It wasn’t until her best friend’s family named a newborn calf after her that the Calumet Island native, then 10 years old, decided she

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