Sept. 17,1997
25 Years Ago
$2,200 raised in 16th Terry Fox Run: For Leah Beardsley, finishing the Terry Fox Run course once wasn’t enough this year. The Bristol 16-year-old first completed the course Sunday astride her hackney pony, Mr. T’s High Hopes. She then quickly changed into her jogging gear and ran the course in a time of 62 minutes.
Organizers of the Shawville Terry Fox Run were impressed with Beardsley’s spirit and with the number of young people who participated in this year’s run.
Locals play Corel Centre: For many kids in hockey, to play in the National Hockey League is their dream. So to even play an inter-squad game on the home ice of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators, for a few Pontiacers, it was pretty close.
A handful of Pontiac hockey players and ex-Pontiacers helped churn up the ice at the Corel Centre in Ottawa this past weekend. It was all part of the Outaouais Elise camp night, a wrap up to that summer’s hockey program with lots of on and off ice work, plus extra courses that went into late August.
Quyon’s Nick Armitage enjoyed his time out on the ice. He hit the net three times in his Atom Division game as his white team came from behind to defeat the blue team 5-3.
The Midget game featured five hockey players from this area, four of the five who once played in Shawville as the Pontiacs: Ryan Smith, Grant Soucie, Trevor Walls, goalie Jean-Sebastien L’Heureux and Martin Dubé who received a $500 scholarship in a centre ice presentation.
Sept. 27, 1972
50 Years Ago
What’s going on at the station?: Some people from the CBC were in Shawville Monday afternoon making a program which will be shown on Channel 4. The name of the show is “Four for the Road” and the Tuesday and Thursday editions concern themselves with the rural scene. So they came to Shawville to interview some students about the OFY project and while they were here they chatted with the Mayor and the editor of THE EQUITY.
Maydon Dods was instrumental is the early organization for their visit but was unable to be on hand for the actual program, however Jane Bretzlaff and Charles Dickson managed to answer all questions. Main focus of interest was the continuing aspect of their history project which ended in a flourish with the reorganization for the Pontiac Historical Society.
Today we have learned that the old railway station has become the property of this society which means that at long last Shawville will have a museum. Helping out financially at the crucial moment was the Shawville Rotary Club.
Roy Peck’s girls win everything: The Danford Lake Outcasts Ball Team has brought home the trophys for ending the series in first place and also from winning the finals in two games straight vs. Kazabazua. Also last Saturday and Sunday they competed in the first Ladies Fastball Tournament held in the Gatineau.
Out of 90 girls at the tournament, Lois Peck, playing first base, was chosen by the umpires as the most valuable player in the whole two days tournament.
Oct. 2, 1947
75 Years Ago
Local news: The Pontiac County health Unit will hold monthly clinics at Shawville High School through the school year. These clinics are for immunization against smallpox, diphtheria and whooping cough and for advice in the care and feeding of babies.
On Sunday, Mr. William McDowell finished his pastorate on Bristol United pastoral charge and left on Monday to take up his theological course at Queen’s. His successor will be Mr. G.R. McBeath who has been serving at Kinmount, Ont.
A meeting of the Shawville district bowlers will be held at the Shawville Bowling Alley on Friday evening.
Wolves are numerous in Bristol in the district south of Maryland Station, a number of farmers have lost sheep and calves.
A rousing welcome was accorded Prime Minister Mackenzie King by his home town of Waterloo, Ont. Hundreds swarmed to the platform for the opportunity of shaking Mr. King’s hand.
Canada had a record crop of new babies in 1946. That’s what the Bureau of Statistics reported in releasing preliminary figures showing that live births soared to 325,805 from 288,730 in 1945, raising the birth rate 26.5 per thousand population from 23.9 the previous year, the highest level from the early 1920’s.
The increase in births was general throughout the Dominion with the highest increase in Ontario where births rose from 78,974 to 93,809. Quebec rose from 104,283 to 110,809 live births.
Sept. 14,1922
100 Years Ago
Local news: Mr. Archie Spence, employed with Mr. T. Tuck for a considerable time past, last week purchased the barber shop and business of Lorne Nicholson in the garage building.
Mr. Robert Grant of Bristol, who had one of his eyes seriously injured a few weeks ago when a truck tire blew out and he was struck by a piece of rubber, has returned from the hospital with the assurance of the specialist who attended him that the sight of the injured optic will be fully restored through time.
See R.A. Wainman’s exhibit of pianos and phonographs in the Main Hall at the fair.
The third annual fair of Quyon Ag. Society on Wednesday and Thursday last, came off very successfully, weather conditions being all that could be desired to bring out a good attendance and such there was on Thursday when the racing and other attractions were staged. The exhibit of horses, particularly of the general use and heavy classes, was very creditable but other live stock entries were not very numerous. Among the attractions of the afternoon, the trotting events were chief and evoked considerable interest, as such usually do. Some boat racing was pulled off on the Ottawa River towards evening, when the attendance had begun to scatter homeward.
Premier Taschereau, addressing some five hundred guests at a banquet at the exhibition grounds last night, given as the crowning event of Agricultural day, affirmed that at the next session of the Quebec Legislature, legislation will be passed by which the government will assume full charge of the maintenance of the provincial highways. This intelligence contains little to enthuse over in Pontiac, whose just proportion of the construction of a provincial highway seems to have been relegated to futurity.
Sept. 30,1897
125 Years Ago
Local News: We learn from the Quyon Times that Mr. H.S. Dowd is having a large grain shed erected at Quyon Station.
Joe Lahie, an Alllumette Island boy, has the distinction of being the greatest long distance bicycle rider in the United States this year. He has ridden ten thousand miles.
Following a peal or two of thunder on Sunday afternoon, the weather, which had been unusually fine for some days, took a decided change for the colder, with high winds from the northwest. A slight shower of sleet fell about 10 o’clock on Sunday night.
Mr. Thos. Grant, Quyon’s popular barber, has adorned his shop with a handsome chair.
The appointment of Mr. N. McCuaig to the position of superintendent of fish and game protection for this section of the province is confirmed. The territory over which he will have supervision, extends over that portion of the provincial domain lying west of the Gatineau River.
The heaviest drive which has come down the Gatineau in twenty-five years is now on the way. It consists of 680,000 saw-logs, 160,000 railway ties, 8,000 cords of pulp wood and 4 rafts of square timber.
Owing to the pleasant weather we have had lately in Waltham, our farmers are through with their harvest.
Threshing is in full swing in Thorne. The farmers report the yield of grain to be exceedingly good.
Quite a number of young men have, for some time past, been repairing the slide at Waltham. The work is now almost completed and our jolly crew will soon be taking their departure.
Quite a number of the young men form Bristol Mines have gone off to the woods for winter.
