“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” Gatineau Valley Historical Society Annual General Meeting February 19, 2018 - Chelsea Library 7:30pm - Annual General Meeting AGENDA Call to Order Minutes of the 2017 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 2017 AGM
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” President’s report
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” 2017 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.” 150 Years of History in the Hills The story behind the story (November 29, 2017) Gatineau Valley powered by Paugan plant (November 15, 2017) Remembering our fallen heros (November 01, 2017) Knots, badges, and Scout's honour (October 18, 2017) Down on the farm (October 04, 2017) Of threshers, binders, and stooking (September 20, 2017) Up and down the line in the Hills (September 06, 2017) Summertime on the courts and diamonds (August 23, 2017) Life on the Gatineau River (August 09, 2017) 'Summering' at the cottage on the Gatineau (July 26, 2017) A summer social in honour of our health (July 12, 2017) A different history: The story of Kitigan Zibi and Algonquin people of the region (June 28, 2017) Hop on a ferry across the Gatineau (June 14, 2017) The church, the steeple, the people (May 31, 2017) Time to make a house call (May 17, 2017) The horseless carriage comes of age (May 03, 2017) Up and down the line by rail (April 19, 2017) A gift from the First Nations to make spring sweet (April 05, 2017) A milestone birthday party for Wakefield, too (March 22, 2017) A century of winter lovin' Hills folk (March 08, 2017) No gas, no problem, just hop on a horse (February 22, 2017) Innkeepers and hoteliers of the Hills (February 08, 2017) Log drivers of the Gatineau River (January 25, 2017) Loggers and swampers and jobbers in lumber's golden age (January 11, 2017)
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” Notable Women of the Gatineau Valley Norma Walmsley O.C. Ada Almira (Brown) Reid Jessie (Hyde) Waterston Alice (Cross) Wilson
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” Chelsea Community Winter Trail Cross country Skiers Hand car Protestant School Untamed Gatineau River Cross-country skiers from Ottawa, A handcar, used by crews to Chelsea Protestant School, The untamed Gatineau River disembarking at Chelsea Station, circa ride the rails for inspections, in operation until 1955, now before its damming in 1926- 1920. 1900. an apartment building. 1927.
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” 150 Canada gift to the Municipality of Chelsea
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.”
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” Old Chelsea Protestant Burial Ground
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” Chelsea Pioneer Cemetery and Cenotaph
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” 2017 Financial report December 31. 2017 December 31. 2016 Assets RBC $ 265.00 $ 12,815.00 Desjardins $ 18,403.00 $ 34,840.00 Desjardins - savings $ 65,326.00 $ 10,000.00 GICs - RBC $ 20,000.00 $ 30,000.00 Petty Cash $ 330.00 $ 130.00 Long Term Assets Canada Savings Bond $ 10,000.00 Total Assets $ 104,323.00 $ 97,785.00 Revenue & Expenses Revenue Auction $ 7,658.00 $ 7,019.00 Archives $ 131.00 $ 107.00 Donations $ 545.00 $ 2,264.00 Donation - Carol Martin (Pioneer Cemetery) $ 25,000.00 Grant - (Old Chelsea Cemetery) $ 7,000.00 Interest Income $ 2,946.00 $ 311.00 Membership $ 4,240.00 $ 1,705.00 Publication Sales $ 7,678.00 $ 7,637.00 Tax Rebate $ 1,814.00 Total Revenue $ 25,012.00 $ 51,043.00 Expenses Administration $ 1,650.00 $ 1,526.00 Advertising $ 496.00 $ 709.00 Archives $ 386.00 $ 616.00 Auction $ 3,172.00 $ 2,030.00 Donation to Chelsea (picture) $ 365.00 Awards Dinner $ 159.00 $ 574.00 Cemeteries - Pioneer $ 258.00 $ 3,554.00 Old Chelsea $ 10,600.00 Rupert - donation $ 500.00 Insurance $ 1,260.00 Programs $ 704.00 $ 1,396.00 Projects - Railway signs $ 186.00 $ 264.00 La Fab $ 750.00 Lost Villages $ 2,548.00 Publications $ 7,393.00 $ 7,281.00 Remembrance Day $ 1,172.00 $ 329.00 Taxes (2) $ 1,273.00 $ 3,629.00 Total Expenses $ 18,474.00 $ 36,306.00 Difference - revenue & expenditures $ 6,538.00 $ 14,737.00 Notes - (1) GVHS uses cash basis accounting (2) Sales tax is 50% recoverable
“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.”
Adjournment.
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” Coming events Monday, March 19, 2017 at 7:30 pm Main Level of the Chelsea Library "A Promised Land" - by J. William Galbraith, author of John Buchan: Model Governor General Monday, April 16, 2018 at 7:30 Wakefield Library Ken Cuthbertson author of The Halifax Explosion Monday, May 28, 2018 Annual Dinner & Awards Evening Camp Fortune, Chelsea QC June 23, 2018 - Paddle-wheeler fund-raiser Cocktail cruise on the Gatineau River
“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.” David Wright Collection: Business records relating to the Wright family. (ca. 1777-1850) The Wright papers are a collection of over 600 documents held by David Wright, of Chelsea, QC. They are concerned primarily with the business affairs of Philemon Wright (1760-1839) and his son Ruggles Wright (1793- 1863). Digitising began in October 2015 and was completed by December 2016.
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” The documents were catalogued by Pat Evans in 1994-1996.
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” The website
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” The Images List showing the distribution of Associates for one quarter part Letter dated Quebec City, 7 Oct, 1823, from Philemon of the Township of Hull. Includes range and lot numbers. Wright to Thomas Brigham in Grand River Hull in which Ca.1801 he requests Thomas Brigham to look after some business deals. Signed, Philemon Wright .
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” RUGGLES WRIGHT Senior’s petition to the Governor -General , His Excellency the Plan of Part of the LOWER VILLAGE of Rt. Hon. James Earl of Elgin and Kincardine Governor General of British North HULL, executed on linen, survey by America, etc., etc., etc. This piece consists of 98 pages, 92 of them in printed, and W.A.Austin June & July 1862, Ottawa March the hand-written response of Secretary Thomas A. Begly. 1863.
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” Last will and testament of PHILEMON WRIGHT dated 4 February 1836, one of two handwritten copies of 13 pages, each page being signed P. Wright. Seal attached.
“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance in the Gatineau Valley.” New photo acquisitions
Donated by Philip Jago (6 images) THE FIRST TURN on the turntable. CV [short for Credit Valley Railway] 1057 being turned for the first time at Wakefield. the Bytown Railway Society crew providing the turning power. July 14, 1974
The turntable sits at Kingston before it was dismantled, transported and installed in Wakefield Turntable Park where it still is. April 1974
Donated by Richard “Dick” Morrison. Approx. 40 photos Dick with his father Arnold Morrison inside cottage on Lake Mahon. The land was bought from Carl Gibson in 1934. C 1940
Judy and Kaye Morrison (Dick’s sister) with friend on teeter totter overlooking Mahon lake c 1950
Richard “Dick’ Morrison with his sister Judy Morrison in boat on far side of Mahon Lake looking towards the Davidson farm. C 1951
Two shots of the landslide that blocked the Hwy 105 or 11, in the gully just north of Chelsea village. It was thought to be due to the construction of the new highway A-5. Spring 1973.
The flood in Wakefield in 1970. The original Hamilton motors on left – it moved up to Hwy 105 later.
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