“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 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.” Minutes of the 2018 AGM
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” President’s report 2018/19 GVHS Board of Directors Marc Cockburn (President) Louise Schwartz (Vice President and Publications) Shirley Brown (Treasurer and Newsletter editor) Suzanne Gibeault (Secretary and Program) Erik Rask (Website) Linda Bardell (Archives and Image Bank) John Udvarhelyi (Cemeteries and Archives) Frances Curry (Archives and Library) Margaret Phillips (Program and Cantley 1889 ) Past President (Vacant)
“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.” Outreach “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.” Wakefield River Walk/Promenade Riveraine Anita Barber Rutledge (1926-2018)
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” 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.” GVHS Website Statistics GVHS Downloads (pdf files) 2018 Countries – top 20 - page visits GVHS Page Views 2018 Total Total Total About Canada 157,440 Home Page 41,738 AGM Reports 1,987 United States 78,394 About the GVHS 9,554 Constitution 184 Russian Federation 14,357 News and Events 9,513 Digital Resources China 11,474 Research Centre 22,754 Gatineau Park Chronicles 3,421 Ukraine 8,045 Pat Evans 5,460 Ottawa Ski Club Newsletter 94,580 France 4,629 Wright Papers 1,980 Selwyn Court Case 1,649 Germany 3,766 Text Bank 4,508 Lowdown - McLaughlin Articles 1,946 Poland 1,989 Maps 4,574 GVHS Presentations 1,965 Great Britain 1,789 Oral History 428 News and Events - India 1,754 Image Bank 85,613 Newsletter Archive 27,198 Uzbekistan 1,314 GVHS Publications 25,943 Publications South Korea 997 Up the Gatieau! 19,033 UTG Indexes 4,240 Japan 904 Digital Resources 62,325 Research Centre Israel 886 Gatineau Park 6,587 Library – Who's Which? 1,804 South Africa 747 Gatineau River 6,989 Oral History 697 Brazil 706 Lowdown Articles 43,453 Pat Evans Corner 8,461 Philippines 669 Historic Sites 3,232 Wright Papers 26,921 Portugal 499 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
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” Pat Evans Archives In 2019 we plan to put a big priority on making the Society's archives more discoverable. The archives holdings of the GVHS are, at the moment, largely hidden from view and are, therefore, hardly used. - The archives is about 50 feet of material, consists of over 200 donations, or accessions, one of which is the massive Pat Evans fonds which has its own finding aid created by Pat himself. - The donations have been briefly described in which accession records and again in a database compiled a couple of years ago. However, these descriptions provide next to no detail about the contents of the donated files. - We propose a project where we will go through the collection, file by file, and compile detailed descriptions which will then be accessible to our users via a searchable database and eventually on our website - We need a policy for de- accessioning material in the collection and transfer them to other repositories. - We need to attribute the source of the materials, scanned or otherwise, to the fonds in which they were found. - Given that the Pat Evans fonds already has a finding aid, we will try to work from it to 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
Financial Statement 2018
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” 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.” Adjournment of AGM.
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” Coming events Monday, March 18, 2019 at 7:30 pm - Wakefield Library The Trail Beckons: 100 years of Cross Country Skiing in the Gatineau with author Malcolm Hunter -- Monday April 15, 2019 7:30 pm - NCC Visitor's Centre Finding Traces of the Early Settlers in Pre-Gatineau Park with Bill McGee -- Monday, May 29, 2019, 6:00pm - Camp Fortune Annual Dinner & Awards Evening -- Sunday, April 28 at 2:00 pm – Cantley Pits A Tour of Cantley's Famous Sculpted Rocks with Geologist Dr. David Sharpe (In collaboration with Cantley 1889)
“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.” Recent photo acquisitions
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) Clarke Rd area school, ca1925 – Back row l to r: Edna, Herbie, Stanley, stoking grain or oats. ca1920 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 The original Stevenson farm house on Clarke Rd. ca1920 Lawrence and Russell McClinton with team of horses.
Donated by Shirley Grant Brown – 35 images Collection of Kirk's Ferry photos taken prior to the construction of the Hydro Dam at Chelsea built on the Gatineau River in 1927. 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.
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
Donated by Pam Jamison (100+ images) Mahon family from Farrellton , and Farm Point Morrison’s. 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
Donated by Pam Jamison (100+ images) The Morrison house at View of Farm Point showing Levi Reid's farm on the far side corner of St. Clement of the river. 1930 and River Rd at Farm Point. ca1940
Donated by Pam Jamison (100+ images) 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 Chesley Mahon at military barracks in Woodstock presenting arms in front of his barrack, ca1943 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
William "Bill" Mahon at his barn in Farrellton. 1925 Hockey on the Gatineau River at Farm point, just at the end of St. Clement Street, 1920. The Mahon homestead in Farrellton before the house was moved when Highway 11 was built. Lloyd Morrison and Erma Mahon, later married. 1939
Donated by Claire McLaughlin (18 images) Bristow family (cottage at Tenaga) and Kirwan family (cottage at Meech Lake). The Kirwan brothers, Gerald and Phillip, skiing at Meech Lake 1920 Beatrice Bristow 1878-1941 at tennis courts in Tenaga 1917. The Bristows built the first tennis court in Tenega
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