Pontiac Archives, 358 Main Street, Shawville, Quebec, will host their 2017 Open House July 4, 5 & 6, 2017, from 9 am – 4:00 pm. Bienvenu/Everyone Welcome. Their will be an amazing collection of local information, current and historical including records.
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at 1:30 pm, hosted by the Pontiac Archives, Main Street, Shawville, Quebec, a presentation will be given by Gloria F Tubman, on researching your British Home Child.
Records indicate that 180 Home Children came to the Pontiac County.
Closed for the Holiday Season
The Pontiac Archives will close on Thursday, December 14, 2016, at 4 pm and re-open on January 10, 2017, at 9 am.
The Lost Splendour of Chats Falls, (in English sounds like “Shaw Falls”) an illustrated history of the Chats Falls, from the ice age to modern times, written by Terence M. Currie, MN.A. Hist. University of Ottawa, 2005, is available at the Pontiac Archives. Please come to 358 Main St, Shawville, Qc, if you would like to read this book.
A new book, Volume VI, Whiskey and Wickedness. The Turbulent Square Timber era. Renfrew On, Pontiac, and Gatineau. Quebec, writen by Larry D. Cotton from Perth, Ontario, is available at the Pontiac Archives, Shawville, Quebec, for the public to come in and read.
September 2016 the Pontiac Archives received the updated version of the genealogy by Ottawa Valley Genealogist Walter William Brown, Smiths Falls, Ontario. This collection shows mostly Pontiac County families and some from Lanark plus the family tree branches.
There are 273,907 individuals listed and 97,314 marriages, and many clippings, census, headstone photos, just to name a few.
This collection is only available for the public to use for researching at the Pontiac Archives, in Shawville.
The Pontiac Archives has received a copy in August 2016 for the public to use for research of Wesley United Cemetery, Charteris, Quebec, associated with the Methodist/United Church charges of Clarendon, Yarm and Shawville.
This project undertaken to determine who was buried in the Wesley United Cemetery in Charteris, Quebec began in 2013. Burials in this cemetery are from the 1880s until the present time. It was prepared by Gloria F. Tubman.
160th anniversary Shawville Fair, 2016 Labour Day Weekend, Sept 1-5. Sara Knox, President of the Pontiac Agricultural Society for the past 4 years, with a board of directors have spent countless hours of planning and organizing all year long to provide a wonderful fair.
The Pontiac Archives has documentation on the many events ready for the researchers.
The Pontiac Archives is open to the public at no charge. The only charge is for photocopies, and scans if you do the research yourself. Volunteers are available to provide you with the material on file.
If you choose to email the Archives and ask for volunteers to do some hours of research on your behalf, the charge is first 1/2 hour of preliminary research is free of charge. Then it is $20.00 per hour, plus costs of shipping.
Open House began today. Hours – Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 9 am – 4 pm. Genealogist Walter Brown will be here for the week to help visitors with their family genealogy.
New addition on file is a 1909 Stationary Engineer’s and Fireman’s Certificate, by the inspector of Boilers, James Ray, # 2568.
New brochure is completed listing a sample of the on-site family trees, Key Elements of Cultural Diversity, Heritage Collections and important contact information.
May 11, 2016, Anita Barber Rutledge, from Wakefield, Quebec, donated a copy of the Barber Scrapbook, compiled by Mary Barber Watson Montague, to the Pontiac Archives.
This has information of the descendants of John Barber (1827-1880) and Elizabeth Begley and their eight children.
It is a copy of a scrapbook which was compiled by Mary Jane Wilson Barber who died on November 20, 1930 in her 65th year. Some materials which were saved by her daughter-in-law, Louise Campbell Barber, as well as her children have also been added.
Family identified pictures of Barber and Wilson persons and a photo album are also available for researchers to view.