May 25, 1994
25 Years Ago
Young Entrepreneurs joins CDE: If Pontiac is ever to get ahead, it will be by developing the talents of its young people, says Campbell’s Bay Mayor Denis Larivière.
As president of the local Corporation de developpement économique (CDE), Mayor Larivière was explaining why his board was being combined with last of Pontiac Young Entrepreneurs.
The fusion of the two agencies was announced at the Forest Inn in Bryson on May 19.
Young Entrepreneurs was created in 1985 to help assist people between the ages of 18 and 35 to start up businesses in the Pontiac.
Local piano students excel at the 1994 Renfrew Music Festival: Students of Shawville piano teacher Cheryl Campbell made an outstanding showing at the 1994 Renfrew Music Festival.
The competitive festival which is affiliated with the Toronto Conservatory of Music, took place at Kirk Hall the last two weeks of April.
Phillip Holmes won the Renfrew Rotary Scholarship for being chosen the Most Promising Student in Grades 3 and 4.
One of his first-place prizes was for a piano duet. His partner, Erica Vezeau won two more first prizes to go with her duet win with Phillip.
May 28, 1969
50 Years Ago
Two Pontiac High girls win Bishops Scholarships: Principal Dave Mackenzie of Pontiac High School has announced this week that grade eleven students Carol Elliott and Helen Hayes have been awarded large entrance scholarships to Bishops University 1n Lennoxville, Que.
Carol, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Elliott of Starks Corners has won the Women’s Alumni Association Scholarship to the amount of $4,000 and plans to enroll in a course towards a Bachelor of Arts Degree.
Helen, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Art Hayes of Shawville will receive the Nancy Dawes Scholarship of $1,600 and will follow a Science program.
What women want in cars: Woman have been asked by an automobile manufacturer for suggestions to improve cars in the future. They did not ask for more chrome or exterior changes but did request swivel seats for more dignified entry and exit, push button air fresheners to get rid of yucky cigar smells, automatic rear window wipers and self-locking doors.
Now that the manufacturers know what women want, it should be interesting to see how long they take to do something about it.
May 25, 1944
75 Years Ago
Local news: Wool will be shipped on behalf of the Canadian Cooperative Wool Growers at Shawville Station on Tuesday.
The thirty-second annual Convention of Women’s Institutes of Pontiac County was held in the Sunday School rooms of Shawville United Church with members of the Shawville branch under the presidency of Mrs. T. Shore as hostess.
Evidence of good work done was shown in the branch and convener reports from Fort Coulonge, Beechgrove, Clarendon, Elmside, Onslow Corners, Shawville, Stark’s Corners and Wyman. Contributions were made to the Red Cross, the Navy League, Queen’s Canadian Fund, Self Denial Fund, Seeds for Britain and Australia, British Children’s War Services, National Emergency Fund as well as regular assistance with all war work.
The Farm and Home Beautification endeavour will be continued this year as well as the Tea Room and the special exhibits at Shawville Fair.
A telegram sent to 94,000 railway workers has been sent from the office of the Canadian National Telegraphs in Vaughan, Chairman and president of the Canadian National Railways and was addressed to all employees of the National System in Canada, asking their complete cooperation in putting victory first so that the Sixth Victory Loan will be successful.
This message was carried through a special set-up by which the company’s teleprinters were linked by relay from coast to coast to receive the president’s telegram dispatched from Montreal.
By the latest estimates, the Germans are supposed to have sixty-nine divisions, 760,000 men, stationed or in reserve in Western Europe. Some of these are air force.
Fifty-two divisions 372,000 men are believed to be in France and the low countries under Field Marshall General Karlvon Rundstedt. Within this command is a separate field army of nine to twelve divisions to be moved wherever is needed, probably under Field Marshall General Erwin Rommel. In Norway, there are perhaps twelve divisions and in Denmark five. Against this, the Allied have in Britain forces numbered in the millions, representing British, Canadian, American and other allied armies and with countless weapons of all kinds.
May 22, 1919
100 Years Ago
Local news: Mr. John Moodie who recently purchased the Murphy House at Otter Lake has opened up a general store on the premises and intends handling all kinds of farm produce.
Sir Robert Borden and other Canadian representatives who have been attending the Peace Conference are on the way home.
In regard to placing their signatures to the Peace Treaty, the German delegation are verily “between the devil and the deep sea.” Whilst one current of opinion in Germany strongly runs counter to accepting the treaty, the other is pursuing the opposite course as according to the statement of one prominent member, if the delegates return to Berlin without signing “they will be hacked to pieces”. Is Canada going to support her own air force? This is the question which concerns Col. Ray Collishaw in some respects, Canada’s leading flyer and whose record rivals that of Col. Bishop in the matter of Huns downed and surpasses it in length of service and battles fought.
May 31, 1894
125 Years Ago
Local News: Her Majesty’s birthday was celebrated very quietly in this village. In fact, the observance of this time-honoured holiday partook more of the nature of an exodus than anything else.
The Methodist Sabbath school children, with teachers and friends of that organization went to Norway Bay where they joined in picknicking with some of the Bristol Sunday School children. A number of the young folk on pleasure bent, drove over to Arnprior to witness the mammoth celebration held there. Other citizens captivated by the prospect of a “weighty catch” betook themselves to some of our inland lakes and streams where speckled beauties abound.
Some of the farmers in the neighbourhood of the 8th line railway crossing had provisions stolen from their milk houses on successive nights last week. The theft was charged to several men who had been working on the railroad above Coulonge. These men were in Shawville on Saturday and learning that they were suspected, made a hasty skip for other parts.
It is said that there are over 300 men at present engaged re-ballasting the unused part of the P.P.J.R. above Coulonge.
compiled by Bonnie Chevrier
