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

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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.”

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.”

150 Years of History in the Hills

Notable Women of the Gatineau Valley

“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance

in the Gatineau Valley.”

Alice (Cross) Wilson

Ada Almira (Brown) Reid

Jessie (Hyde) Waterston

Norma Walmsley O.C.

Chelsea Community Winter Trail

Cross country Skiers

Cross-country skiers from Ottawa,

disembarking at Chelsea Station, circa

1920.

Protestant School

Chelsea Protestant School,

in operation until 1955, now

an apartment building.

Hand car

A handcar, used by crews to

ride the rails for inspections,

1900.

“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance

in the Gatineau Valley.”

Untamed Gatineau River

The untamed Gatineau River

before its damming in 1926-

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.”

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.”

“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance

in the Gatineau Valley.”

2017 Financial report December 31. 2017 December 31. 2016

AssetsRBC 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 AssetsCanada Savings Bond 10,000.00$

Total Assets 104,323.00$ 97,785.00$

Revenue & Expenses

RevenueAuction 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$

ExpensesAdministration 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

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.

Coming events

“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance

in the Gatineau Valley.”

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.

The documents were catalogued by Pat Evans in 1994-1996.

“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance

in the Gatineau Valley.”

“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance

in the Gatineau Valley.”

The website

List showing the distribution of Associates for one quarter part

of the Township of Hull. Includes range and lot numbers.

Ca.1801

Letter dated Quebec City, 7 Oct, 1823, from Philemon

Wright to Thomas Brigham in Grand River Hull in which

he requests Thomas Brigham to look after some business

deals. Signed, Philemon Wright.

The Images

“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance

in the Gatineau Valley.”

“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance

in the Gatineau Valley.”

Plan of Part of the LOWER VILLAGE of

HULL, executed on linen, survey by

W.A.Austin June & July 1862, Ottawa March

1863.

RUGGLES WRIGHT Senior’s petition to the Governor-General , His Excellency the Rt. Hon. James Earl of Elgin and Kincardine Governor General of British North America, etc., etc., etc. This piece consists of 98 pages, 92 of them in printed, and the hand-written response of Secretary Thomas A. Begly.

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.”

“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.

Donated by Eva Foran Mayer

At Paugan Dam – early clearing gang for the building of the Paugan Dam at their camp. Omer

1900-1982, Albert 1898-1988, Georges 1910-1974, Zephirin 1907-1998 and Cleophas Mayer –

The first four are the sons of Mathilda (nee Lafleur) and Pierre Mayer. Cleophas Mayer is their

cousin. C 1925

The original church in Wolf Lake or Lac des Loups built in 1892 to 1938.

The current Wolf Lake or Lac des Loups Church built in 1939

Building of the new church in Wolf Lake, day of the Blessing. 1939

On the steps of Mark Foran’s store in Wolf Lake c 1930

Donated by Ann McConnell

Photo of the fatal train accident just north of Alcove that took the life of William “Bill” McFall in April

1911. It happened due to a washout under the train tracks. McFall was badly scalded and died a few

days later. Wm McFall was the engineer with a very distinguished career.

Herbert McConnell standing on the cow catcher of the train at the Maniwaki station. The rest

of the people are unidentified. Herbert McConnell was a fireman on the train and was later let

go when they found out he was colour blind. C 1919

Wreck or accident at Aylwin at Larches road 1908

Naaman McConnell, Tom McConnell (Section Bills father), Nelson McConnell, Jimmy

Morrison working on tracks in Aylwin area… exact location unknown.

Orangemen waiting on the train at Aylwin Station. This station opened about 1902. c 1930

“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance

in the Gatineau Valley.”

Super 8 films donated by Norma Geggie

1973 Flood

1961 Hospital Garden Party

“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance

in the Gatineau Valley.”

Audio Visual

“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance

in the Gatineau Valley.”

Duncan Marshall doing his "Then and

Now" presentation to a GVHS meeting in

1998. Talking about flying over the

Gatineau Hills. (1:05)

“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance

in the Gatineau Valley.”

Sheila Thompson speaking at her Ottawa home in December 2017, about her fight in the 1960's to protect Gatineau park from the NCC development plan. (42 secs.)

“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance

in the Gatineau Valley.”

The Hopkins paddle-wheeler. An outing on one of the most memorable sights on the Gatineau River. The river boat was built

by Alan Hopkins, captained by his son, Chris Hopkins.

“To promote matters of historical or heritage significance

in the Gatineau Valley.”

Steam Train puffing its way up the hill from Hull, on its way to Wakefield