50 Years Ago

Rapides des Joachims grant will employ twenty men: Rapides des Joachims has received good news about their application for an LIP grant. Thirty thousand dollars will be received in that cut-off community at the far corner of Pontiac County to

Campbell’s Bay is first municipality to donate to Pontiac scholarship fund: The Pontiac County Social Planning Council Student Fund was increased this week with a welcome donation of $100.00 from the municipality of Campbell’s Bay. Presenting the cheque to Mr.

Earle Potvin now a member of Royal College of Surgeons: Dr. Earle G. Potvin of Shawville has successfully completed examinations granting him a Fellowship in the specialty of General Surgery. He is now a Member of the Royal College of

Pontiac Holstein Club annual banquet: A record crowd was on hand to help the Pontiac Holstein Club close out a very successful year. President Archie Stanley welcomed everyone in attendance and introduced the many visitors from out of town. He

Pony Club turns over funds to Shawville Home for the Aged: The now inactive Shawville Pony Club wound up its eventful life several years ago with just over a hundred dollars in the bank. Since they had no further use

Hallowe’en in Quyon: The playing of Halloween pranks is one thing but the wanton destruction of property is quite something else. This fact was evident in the Quyon area last Friday night and early Sunday morning. Some 320 rolls of

Why teach in Quebec?: We asked one young man this question and his answer was that he was born here and educated here and he was darned if he was going to be squeezed out of his own home province.

New system of election for Pontiac: Election practices in cities are not the same as for rural municipalities as will be discovered next week in Pontiac’s new city. The people who wish to place their names for nomination must not

Strike victims strike back: A Quebec court has ordered the Canadian Union of Postal Workers to pay $1,000 to Santana Inc. of Sherbrooke, Que., for damages arising out of the 16-day illegal postal strike in April, 1974. The company uses

A bargain at the price: That’s what Shawville gets for its thousand dollars a year paid to the Mayor and its $500 to the Councillors; and it will still be a bargain when these honorariums double next month. A bit