June 23, 1993
25 Years Ago
Fulford new Lions president: It was 30 years ago that Doug Fulford last served as president of the Shawville Lions Club and on Saturday night, his fellow Lions returned him to office.
A lot of water has flowed under the bridge at Mill Dam Park in those three decades. Come to think of it, there wasn’t even a park there when Fulford last served.
Mayor Albert Armstrong mentioned the park in his speech to the Lions Saturday night. Improvements to the grounds became a personal project of outgoing president Gerry Walker.
An outstanding accomplishment was Charter Lion Dale Thomson’s success in securing funding for a new bus for the senior citizens’ Day Centre.
Bear curtails museum tour: The year-end trip for Grade 5 classes at Shawville’s McDowell School last Friday brought a little extra excitement.
Following a wet tour through Bonnechere Caves, students, teachers and parent helpers boarded buses to Pembroke for a tour of the many buildings comprising the Champlain Trail Museum.
Upon arrival, the group was quickly ushered into the main building and told by the curators that, due to circumstances beyond their control, the museum could not let the group tour the other buildings or grounds.
“Why not?” the students chorused.
“Because we had a bear on he mini-putt! Right now the bear is only two or three blocks away, so you had better stay inside.”
Toward the end of their visit, the Shawville group learned that the trespassing bear had been destroyed.
June 27, 1968
50 Years Ago
Lefebvre wins Pontiac: adds to strong Trudeau mandate: The advance polls told the story. Last week 184 people voted in seven advance polls across Pontiac. 120 of these voted Liberal, 54 voted Conservative, eight voted NDP and two voted for Social Credit.
Tom Lefebvre won six of the seven, all but Shawville.
Lefebvre won the election for the Liberals by a wide margin to retain his seat in Parliament in a stiff battle against the Hon. Paul Martineau who held the post for three terms before Tom’s entry into the political scene in Pontiac.
Volunteer work marred by thoughtless short-cutters: Recently many of the residents around Willow St., Frontenac and thereabouts have spent many hours levelling, discing, harrowing, picking stones and seeding the still uncompleted but “promising to be beautiful” Centennial Park. A nice low fence to discontinue traffic from Willow St. going over the hill and through the seeded area and another near the highway have been built.
However, someone who certainly did not participate in any of this, has driven up the freshly seeded park leaving of course, his very clear tire marks.
It would be very much appreciated if those, who for considerable time have been using this short-cut from Willow to the Highway would please discontinue doing so, by bicycle, car, mule, pony or any other method of transportation.
It would be most appropriate to thank Norval Wilson for lending many pieces of machinery to do this work as well as donating many evenings of free labour. Also helping Norval were Jim Stevens and Joe Laframboise. John Langford as well as the men and their wives of the area have planted flowers in the big bed and all are keeping up their genuine interest for the completion of the park.
June 24, 1943
75 Years Ago
Local news: Mr. ‘Murph’ Chamberlaiin of the Boston Bruin Hockey Club who is spending the off season at Kingston, visited his relatives in town for the weekend.
Dr. C.F.C. Powles will be at his cottage at Green Lake for the month of July. Urgent calls will be attended to by phoning 14-12.
Dr. and Mrs. D.J. Campbell have received a cable form their son LAC Douglas Campbell who has arrived safely in England. Douglass enlisted in the R.C.A.F. shortly after his graduation from Macdonald College where he received his B.S. degree.
Crews of a U.S. Army field are attacking the Japs on Attu Island. Piles of empty shell cases tell the story of headaches for the Nips.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of Commons last week that the Allied war effort is in its offensive phase. In a review of his conferences in Washington and North Africa, Churchill stated that an invasion on a large scale is imminent, that U-boats are now being destroyed faster than they are being built and that the aim of the Allies is “complete destruction of our foes by bombing from the air in addition to all other means.”
The Prime Minister asserted that the “mellow light of victory” already had begun to play on the Allies and blasted any hopes that either Italy or Germany might have of negotiating a peace.
June 27, 1918
100 Years Ago
Local news: Monday July 1 being a legal holiday, there will be no sessions of the local councils of Clarendon and Shawville held on that date.
Our American friends are keeping very quiet as to how far operations have succeeded in ridding contiguous coast waters of the German U-boat menace which demonstrated its destructive powers in that region a few weeks ago. It was announced at the time that adequate measures were being taken to fully meet the situation.
Sunday next has been set aside by the Dominion government as a day of prayer and intercession on behalf of the Allies and a nation-wide response is anticipated.
Sir George Foster, the acting Prime Minister has telegraphed the premiers of each of the Canadian provinces urging them to lend all assistance possible to bring the people of Canada, regardless of creed, together in prayer.
While the Austrians have been making little progress in their terrific efforts to smash the Italian front in order to gain the fertile plains that lie beyond, a more formidable foe is gnawing at the vitals of the nation behind the lines. Hunger, gaunt and pitiless is becoming an active ally in contributing to the disintegration of the once powerful empire of the Hapsburgs.
June 29, 1893
125 Years Ago
Local news: Mr. Seymour Greenshields has taken hold of the Ross Point ferry, between Bristol and Arnprior and commenced making regular trips this week.
A cheese factory in Onslow, owned by a Mr. Thompson, was burnt on Friday evening last.
The P.P.J. and Ottawa Valley Railway companies have decided to span the Ottawa River at Nepean Point with a steel cantilever railway and passenger bridge.
A very severe storm passed over North Onslow on Sunday afternoon last, rain fell in torrents and the thunder and lightning were terrific. Fences were struck by lightning.
Mr. Richard Young had two valuable colts killed by lightning, one was a year old and the other a two year old.
Mr. John T. Wait of Arnprior has purchased from Mr. Thomas Craig of Ridgetown, the steamer “Janet Craig”. She is now undergoing thorough repairs, both hull and machinery and will be ready for service in about ten days. In future, she will be called the “Columbia”.
It is proposed to open a line of road from Kilroy’s Bay to Quyon which will shorten the distance between Arnprior and Quyon about 5 miles. She will have a landing at Norway Bay, Bristol Wharf, and will call at Braeside and Sand Point.
The new Baptist church in the Stark settlement of Clarendon was opened on Sunday with appropriate services.
Rev.s J.R. Couts of Osmond, W. Holbein of White Lake and R. Scott of Carleton Place took part in the services.
Mr. Wm. Shaw left here on Monday morning, preparatory to sailing for the ould sod on Dominion Day via steamer “Vancouver” in company with a Mr. Shaw of Cumberland.
