Gatineau Valley Historical Society Annual General Meeting February - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley. Gatineau Valley Historical Society Annual General Meeting February 18, 2019 - Chelsea Library 7:30pm - Annual General Meeting AGENDA Call to Order
7:30pm - Annual General Meeting AGENDA Call to Order Minutes of the 2018 AGM President’s Report Financial Report Publications Report Nomination Report / Elections Adjourn AGM 8:00pm ‐ Presentation. Archives Open House
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.”
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.”
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.”
2018 Program “To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.”
“Assisting the wider community to make know the history and heritage of the Gatineau valley” “To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.”
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.”
Anita Barber Rutledge (1926-2018)
Chelsea CommunityWinter Trail “To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.”
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.”
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.”
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.”
GVHS Page Views 2018
Total Home Page 41,738 About the GVHS 9,554 News and Events 9,513 Research Centre 22,754 Pat Evans 5,460 Wright Papers 1,980 Text Bank 4,508 Maps 4,574 Oral History 428 Image Bank 85,613 GVHS Publications 25,943 Up the Gatieau! 19,033 Digital Resources 62,325 Gatineau Park 6,587 Gatineau River 6,989 Lowdown Articles 43,453 Historic Sites 3,232 Special Exhibits 27,092 Lost Villages 1,689 Meech Creek Valley 5,884 Chelsea Comm Trail 796 Then and Now 3,651 Historical Legacy 13,831
Countries – top 20 - page visits
Total Canada 157,440 United States 78,394 Russian Federation 14,357 China 11,474 Ukraine 8,045 France 4,629 Germany 3,766 Poland 1,989 Great Britain 1,789 India 1,754 Uzbekistan 1,314 South Korea 997 Japan 904 Israel 886 South Africa 747 Brazil 706 Philippines 669 Portugal 499
GVHS Downloads (pdf files) 2018
Total About AGM Reports 1,987 Constitution 184 Digital Resources Gatineau Park Chronicles 3,421 Ottawa Ski Club Newsletter 94,580 Selwyn Court Case 1,649 Lowdown - McLaughlin Articles 1,946 GVHS Presentations 1,965 News and Events - Newsletter Archive 27,198 Publications UTG Indexes 4,240 Research Centre Library – Who's Which? 1,804 Oral History 697 Pat Evans Corner 8,461 Wright Papers 26,921
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.”
In 2019 we plan to put a big priority on making the Society's archives more
from view and are, therefore, hardly used.
accessions, one of which is the massive Pat Evans fonds which has its own finding aid created by Pat himself.
database compiled a couple of years ago. However, these descriptions provide next to no detail about the contents of the donated files.
compile detailed descriptions which will then be accessible to our users via a searchable database and eventually on our website
in which they were found.
create a more accessible one, so that all the other collections will be described in the same way.
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” Chelsea Pioneer Cemetery and Cenotaph
Publications “To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.”
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.”
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.”
The Trail Beckons: 100 years of Cross Country Skiing in the Gatineau
with author Malcolm Hunter
with Bill McGee
Annual Dinner & Awards Evening
A Tour of Cantley's Famous Sculpted Rocks
with Geologist Dr. David Sharpe
(In collaboration with Cantley 1889) Coming events “To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.”
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” Archives Open House
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.”
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” Then and Now - Images from Chelsea and Wakefield's past
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.”
Donated by Lynn Lacroix. (approx 50 images)
Gordon McClinton with Laird and Linton McGarry with a milk truck and horse at 40 Burnside Rd. in Wakefield. Gordon was the son of Sarah (nee Maxwell) and Peter McClinton. ca 1945
Donated by Lynn Lacroix. (approx 50 images)
Veneta Stevenson (1914-1989) stoking grain or oats. ca1920 The original Stevenson farm house on Clarke Rd. ca1920
Lawrence and Russell McClinton with team of horses. Clarke Rd area school, ca1925 – Back row l to r: Edna, Herbie, Stanley, Johnnie and Clarence Stevenson and their sister. Front row – Edna McGarry, Helen Stevenson, Alice McGarry, Eileen McKittrick, Ella Stevenson, Kathleen McGarry. Miss Stuart (teacher) on end
Donated by Shirley Grant Brown – 35 images
Old Grant cottage at Kirk's Ferry. It was originally on the old Station Road which is now called Hellard Rd. Gordon A. Grant in white shirt is standing on the cottage veranda. The railway cut is in the foreground.
Collection of Kirk's Ferry photos taken prior to the construction of the Hydro Dam at Chelsea built on the Gatineau River in 1927.
Donated by Shirley Grant Brown – 35 images
Reid's farm house and barns at Kirk's Ferry prior to the construction of the Hydro Dam at Chelsea built on the Gatineau River . ca1926
Kirk's Ferry from east side of the river. Fleming Farm in foreground.
Logs on the falls at Eaton's Chute on the Gatineau River – From east side of river.
Back row l to r: Lynne Watson, Rene Nielson, Marg Grant, Shirley Grant with dog Trixie, Irene Brown, Lucy Journeaux, Andrea Journeaux. Front row l t r: Bent Nielson, Don ?, Phil Journeaux, Peter Journeaux, Bill Forrest
The Morrison family. l to r. Hewer, Edgar, Elma, Ebeart, Elizabeth (nee Hewer) holding Lloyd and Roy in front of his father Alexander Morrison. c 1915
The Morrison house at corner of St. Clement and River Rd at Farm
View of Farm Point showing Levi Reid's farm on the far side
Lloyd Morrison (1921-2008) standing beside cart pulled by cow or ox. Lloyd's father, Alexander (1874-1948) is in the cart or wagon. 1939 Chesley Mahon at military barracks in Woodstock presenting arms in front of his barrack, ca1943
Rachel Mahon, Verna Mahon, Chesley and Erma Mahon, on the front lawn of their home in Farrelton. Note old Hwy 11 (currently Hwy 105) in background. 1939
Hockey on the Gatineau River at Farm point, just at the end of St. Clement Street, 1920. William "Bill" Mahon at his barn in Farrellton. 1925 The Mahon homestead in Farrellton before the house was moved when Highway 11 was built. Lloyd Morrison and Erma Mahon, later married. 1939
Bristow family (cottage at Tenaga) and Kirwan family (cottage at Meech Lake).
Beatrice Bristow 1878-1941 at tennis courts in Tenaga 1917. The Bristows built the first tennis court in Tenega
The Kirwan brothers, Gerald and Phillip, skiing at Meech Lake 1920
Swimmers at the Gilmour Island in Chelsea before the island disappeared with the flooding of the river. 1917
Donated by Claire McLaughlin (18 images)
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” Stories from Mill Road from the 50’s & 60’s