Tuesday, July 7 to Friday, July 10th, 9 am to 4 pm, the Pontiac Archives at 358 Main St, Shawville, Qc, will be open for visitors to drop in and view our numerous collections or do your research on genealogy or other topics.
The Pontiac Archives purchased “Echoes of the Forest - Canada’s Lumbering Story” by Alan Soucie. Alan Soucie was born in Fort Coulonge. Lots of stories about the lumbering in the Ottawa Valley.
Chris Seifried, who is Polish, donated the book “Polish Canadians”, illustrated by William Kurelek, including paintings of local places illustrating the lives of the Polish immigrants.
At one time, there was a family living in Pontiac County called “Montreal“ . The Pontiac Archives has a request for information on that family and have been unable to find anything after looking in early books, genealogy records, etc.
If anyone has information, please contact The Pontiac Archives by Email at archives@pontiacarchives.org or telephone 819-647-7013.
News Update
March 28, 2009 Pontiac Archives staff gave a presentation to 15 students from Maison des Jeunes about the working of the Archives. They received a tour of the Archives and were divided into groups and had a hands-on activity doing research in genealogy, operating microfiche machines with old church records and viewing old school year books. Robert Wills, President of the Pontiac Historical Society was available to speak to the students about the local Museum and the new roof project.
Waltham Municipality is celebrating its 150th anniversary. On July 4th and 5th there will be special celebrations, and tours at Waltham. The history of the Municipality is being compiled into a book. Pontiac Archives is actively participating in this project with posters, maps and providing archived materials to the Waltham Municipality 150th committee.
The Shawville United Church is celebrating its 175th anniversary with special events, dinners, trips, musicals, quilt shows, plays, teas, booklet with photos of the members and groups and many other interesting items. Members of the 175th committee are finding valuable information stored at the Pontiac Archives.
Twenty-four rolls of microfilm with old church records and old census have been sent to Toronto to be converted to pdf searchable files. This is very expensive and the Pontiac Archives is fundraising to cover this added expense. All donations are greatly appreciated. A charitable donation receipt will be issued.
The Pontiac Archives is preparing to archive all the information provided on the first Pontiac Eco Trade Fair, (Save with the Sun/Win with the Wind) which is taking place at Ladysmith, Quebec, on May 23. More information is available on this event at 819-647-5685 - Venetia Crawford.
Forty feet of new shelving needs to be installed to hold approximately 60 binders full of Pontiac Generalogy records that will be donated.
Hello everyone. On January 26, 2009, I clicked the wrong button and deleted the entire Pontiac Archives website by mistake. Terribly sorry about that. (This should teach me to be more patient with other people’s computer problems.)
We’re now back online, and I’m working to restore as much of the old site as I can, or to replace it with something newer.
In the meantime, the old version of this website is available through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.