Pontiac Archives

http://www.town.shawville.qc.ca/  This is a new web page for the Municipality of Shawville.  It is well worth the time to read all about this town, available in English and French. Information is available from the weather today, links to Pontiac Archives, Museum, Library, Churches, council minutes, information on by-laws, fire department, garbage and upcoming events to name a few.

Local taxpayers are welcome at the Archives to read this material if they need access to a computer.

http://lamothefamily.com/   This is a web site with great information on many familes.

The Pontiac Archives is the recipent of 87 pages of information on the Lamothe Family. This binder also contains family history of the Derouin, Paquin, Turgeons, Doherty,  Barrand, Marcotte, and many other families of Calumet Island, Qc, also known as L’Ile-du-Grand-Calumet, Qc.   This was produced by Mike Lamothe.

The story takes place commencing at 1850.  The family tree section of the binder goes back to 1811.

There is an interview of Willie Lamothe, son of Francis, grandson of Joachim and Mary, conducted by his son, Ross Lamothe shortly before Willie’s death.

This material is printed out and placed in a binder at the Archives available for researchers to visit and work with.

Season Greetings to all —

The Pontiac Archives will be closed for the holiday season from Friday, December 17, 2010 to Tuesday, January 4, 2011  when it will open from 9 am – 4 pm.

New acquisitions received since January 2010 include:

Photos –   Listed below:

Souvenir Copy of Royal Family 1937; 

MacDonald College Photo 1939-1940; 

J L Hodgins  House and Garage;

Dr Bruce Horner; 

 Buzzy (Keith) Hodgins and Roadster; 

 John Hodgins – Notice to Consumers; 

Shawville Hospital; Pontiac Telephone Co; 

Men’s Hockey.

Keon/Hutcheson listed below:

 Mrs Bean’s Bible given to her grandson Courtney Hutcheson; 

Magazines from Courtney Richardson;

 Mary Clark’s Bible; 

Mary Jane Richards married Courtney Hutcheson; 

Ottawa Civic Nurses’ Yearbook.

Land Sales:   Hannaberry, Smith, Creighton, Rading, Shirley (1862), Lathem.  Sales Receipts from 1886; newspaper clippings.

Bristol Women’s Institute Records, Clarendon WI, Pontiac WI papers.

Robert Wills donation of two DVDs- “Steam Powered Threshing at the Campbell Farm (Eric) and The Pontiac Historical Museum.

Family descendants of Robert Harris – Works of Jack Harris.

Books:

Norway Bay and Beyond by N.B.H.S. – Jim Ritchie; 

History of St Charles Borromeo Parish Otter Lake; 

Scotty the Pike by Bernie Bedore, illustrated by Yukel Hassan – More Tall Tales of Joe Mufferaw; 

Geographical Names of Renfew County Ontario by Alan Rayburn, originally published in 1967, revised 1989.

Crest and pin from Imperial Oil (Esso) Shawville, Qc

Certificates – Teacher 1874 and Tin type photo of Thomas McJanet

Sept 9, 1910 newspaper clippings from The Pontiac Advance.

Open House at the Shawville Archives will be held Tuesday, July 6 to Friday, July 9, 9 am – 4 pm.

Come visit and/or research. 

There are family tree genelogical collections, properties heritage, church records and clippings, local reports and printed books, Pontiac schools, School year books, Shawville Rink Books, Pontiac Community Hospital clippings, hospital auxiliaries,  Pontiac County sports,  The Great Ice Storm, Service Clubs, Women’s Institutes, Mining,  Pontiac County valuation books, maps, Poetry, 249 Library Books.  This is just a few holdings.  

For more information contact us at 819-647-7013 or email at archives@pontiacarchives.org

MAY 4, 2010

Mayors and Councillors of Pontiac Information Session scheduled for May 7, 9:30 – 11:30 am.    Each Mayor will receive a 35-page  booklet listing the Possessions/holdings of the Pontiac Archives.

Saturday, May 8, open to the general public to view the displays.

Ready for visitors to view on Friday and Saturday are the Main Room, Privacy Room, Display of Mayors – past and present  dated 1848 – 2010, Equity Room, Dark Room, Office and Ground hog hole.

The Pontiac Archives invited all the Mayors and their councillors of Pontiac County Municipalities to an “Information Session” on Friday,   May 7, 2010, from 9:30 am – 11:30 am. 

The Pontiac Archives will welcome visitors from all municipalities on Saturday morning, May 8, 2010, from 9:30 am – 11:30 am.  This information session will provide an opportunity for the public to come in and see the volumes of material available for researching.

New donations to the Pontiac Archives library in January – 2010

 Geneviève Drapeau-O’Brien, chairperson of  The Municipality of Allumette Island Tourism Committee donated 4 genealogical books to our Archives this January. Melanie O’Brien, who works at the Shawville Hospital, delivered them to us. They are:

 1. Les descendants des familles de L’Ile –aux Allumettes

         – Family descendants of L L’Isle –aux Allumettes   – 2009

2.  History and Development of a Transportation System on and around

   Allumette and Morrison Islands – 2006

 3. Municipality of L’Isle-aux Allumettes. History of Demers Centre

   and Desjardinsville   2009

 4. Municipalité de L’isle- aux Allumettes

  L’histoire de St. Joseph History  2007

 The Pontiac Archives is grateful for the donation from:

Municipality of Allumette Island Tourism Committee

75 rue Notre Dame, L’Isle-aux- Allumette, QC J0X 1M0

Telephone 819 689 2266

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In November, 2009, Walter Brown brought his collection of 73 binders and dvds to the Pontiac Archives and presented it to the Pontiac Archives as his donation. 

 After some 50 years of collecting records of Pontiac families, Mr Brown has decided to retire.   Lately, Kathy Buffington joined with Mr Brown and reproduced the documents so they are accessible by computers.  She will continue to keep the dvd files updated but the binders will no longer be updated. 

 These binders and DVDs are available to the public for researching at the Pontiac Archives.  Kathy will regularly visit the Archives to add any new material available.

Mr Brown has lived in Smith’s Falls for many years but his ancestors came from Ireland and the United States and settled in Litchfield, Quebec.

Since the early 1980s, Mr Brown has been visiting and donating copies of his collection going back to when the Pontiac Archives was established in Campbell’s Bay.  

Over the years, Mr Brown would bring his collection to the Pontiac Archives in Campbell’s Bay and then to Shawville after the relocation during one week in July when an “open house” would be held.

As technology changed, Mr Brown took advantage of techniques that would make researching genealogy easier and quicker.

After the holidays, the Pontiac Archives will be open, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 9 – 4.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all

The Pontiac Archives will be closed from 4 pm Thursday, December 17, until Tuesday, January 5, 2010 9am – 4 pm.

The Pontiac Archives has received donations of the following books.  They are available for visitors to read and enjoy.  However, they must not be removed from the premises.

Seventy Years of Memories, by Doris Barber Orr

Pastures Green, by Laura May Harris

I Always Wanted To Please My Mother, by Lynette Harris

Their Land of Promise, by Laura May Harris

The census on Microfilm 1842 – 1901 and Church Records on Microfilm  from Quyon & North Onslow; Fort Coulonge; Vinton; Ile du Grand Calumet; East Alfield; Demers Centre; Campbell’s Bay; Otter Lake; Temiscaming Ville Marie; Northern Ontario; Rouyn; Bryson; Litchfield; Noranda; Sheen; Bristol; Maryland; Lac Cayamant; Portage du Fort; St Joseph; Fort William; La Passe; Eganville; Golden Lake; Pembroke, etc are available for researchers to view on a microfilm reader recently acquired as a donation.