Historic Treasures Up the Gatineau!

by Archie Pennie

Thirty articles about scientific "finds," historic people, places and events in the Gatineau Valley.

Archie Pennie has received two awards from the Gatineau Valley Historical Society. In 2002 he received an award of honour that recognized his prolific contribution to Up the Gatineau!, the Society's annual journal. In 2005 he was awarded the Arthur Davison Prize for his article "Old Mills at Aumond and Point Comfort."

Archie's aptitude for finding and writing about "historic treasures" has resulted in this collection of 10 new, never-before-published articles, along with 20 that have appeared over the past 25 years in Up the Gatineau!

Price: $10.00 (+ postage if required)

To order please contact:

GVHS Publications: Harold & Margaret Reid
reidh@travel-net.com
Phone: 819-827-0138

or write to: Gatineau Valley Historical Society
                   P.O. Box 1803, Chelsea QC J9B 1A1

Table of Contents

I Historic People, Places and Events
        Some Thoughts on VE Day Plus Fifty
        The Gatineau Highway
        The Gatineau Lakes Water Supply Project
        Derailment of the "Gatineau Limited"
        Northfield United Church and its Cemetery
        The Kazabazua Bridge and Bender's Grist Mill
        Some Sketches of Kazabazua
        Wild West Days at the "Kaz"
        The Paugan Falls Canoe Works
        Desert River and Maniwaki
        Meet Me at the Fair
        Old Mills at Aumond and Point Comfort

II Point Comfort, Lake Pemichangan and Thirty-one Mile Lake
        Point Comfort Landmarks from the Lumbering Era
        Point Comfort Post Office
        Archaeology at Lake Pemichangan
        A Century of the Gatineau Fish and Game Club
        Hollywood: The Gatineau Connection
        Movers and Shakers Visit Thirty-one Mile Lake
        Relaunched on Thirty-one Mile Lake
        Private Fish and Game Clubs

III Historic Treasures
        Amber Mica in the Gatineau
        Outaouais Phosphorus Production: From Matches to Fireworks and Detergents
        The Gatineau Tank Mystery
        Acetylene Comes to the Upper Gatineau
        Kazabazua and the Atom Bomb
        Why Cover the Bridge?
        When the Axe was King
        Squaring the Log
        Water Power for Gatineau Valley Mills
        Modern Day Resurrectionists