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NEWSLETTER RDddick, Editor DECEMBER 1981 Vol . 9 No. 10 Diane Holmes, President Jennifer

On behalf of the Board of Directors Valley and Connecting Factors" ; and I would like to wish all our Thea Bennett from , members a joyful holiday season and for "A Sense of Balance" . a very prosperous and happy 1982 . Congratulations! Jennifer Roddick Editor

OTTAWA FILM COUNCIL PRESENTATION JANUARY MEETING The Ottawa Film Council in We are pleased to announce that co-operation with the Ottawa Public Judy Burns, President of the Library will present a free program Historical Society of Ottawa, will of heritage-oriented documentary be our guest speaker on Tuesday, films on Thursday, January 7, 1982 January 19th, 1982 at 8 :00 p.m . at at 8 :15 p.m. in the Auditorium of the Fraser Schoolhouse, 62 John the Ottawa , 120 Street, New Edinburgh . .

Judy will speak about one of the The films to be shown are as pioneer founders of , William follows : Stewart . The speech will focus on his influence on the history of "There is Still Time" - A film Ottawa. about Quebec City, "one of the most beautiful cities in the world" Residents of Ottawa will recognize according to internationally the Stewart name from "Stewart renowned economist and author Street" and "McLeod-Stewarton Barbara Ward . "Destroy the houses, United Church" for example. destroy the connunity", but, as Ward stresses, change does not Judy married a direct descendant of necessarily spell disaster . There William Stewart and recently is hope for the future through published a paper about the respectful restoration, managed Stewarts . She was a founding growth, and encouragement of member of Heritage Ottawa who community sense . organized our Archives and was on the Board of Directors . The Rideau - Colonel By's Peaceable Waterway - A salute to the 150- year-old . Combining THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE old drawings and actuality footage, contemporary commentary and voices from the past we again examine one The Historical Society of the of Canada greatest engineering Gatinau announced the winners of achievements . their annual essay contest . This Was the Beginning - Part 1 : The winners of $200 awards were Invertebrates - Focusing on Norma D. Geggie from Wakefield, underwater life . P .Q . for "I .B. York - A Man of Many Parts" and Jessie Waterson Fixed in Time : A Victorian Album - from White Lake, Ontario for This film transports us through the "Brookdale Farm Inc ." . Honoraria blending of several thousand were awarded to four other writers : photographs taken by the Lillian Walton from Ottawa, flourishing Notman Photographic Ontario for "The Cars of Gallery back to Halifax 1882-1900 . Yesteryear" ; Gunda Lambton from The people scenes and events in the Wakefield, P.Q. for "Irish Surnames communities from an "era long of the Gatineau" ; A. deL. Panet gone", memories recorded for from Ottawa, Ontario for "Early posterity by the camera . Transportation in the Gatineau

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"FOR HOME AND COUNTRY 1897-1982 near in 1827 and established the "English, February of 1982 marks the 85th Classical and Mathematical anniversary of the founding of the Academy Women's Institute and coincidentally the 125th -Joseph Coombs, overseer of the anniversary of the birth of its Rideau Canal works for Col . By, founder, Adelaide Hunter Hoodless . built the first frame house in Ottawa, at 351 Rideau Street in To celebrate these two occasions 1827, from wood felled on the spot? Federated women's Institutes of Canada is presentingan Exhibition- -the Rideau, _Canal. was completed-in- - tracing the history, work and 1832? achievements of the Women's Institute, the only national rural -in 1847 the Tbwn of Bytown was women's organization in Canada. incorporated? i The exhibition, "For Hone and -on December 18th, 1854, the City of Country-1897-1982", will be on view Ottawa was incorporated? f in the foyer of from February 8th through February Excerpt from the Bytown Gazette, 12th from 9 :00 a .m . to 9 :00 p.m. Thursday Morning, April 20, 1854 :

You are cordially invited to visit Gas Company this exhibition where you will learn about work done in the areas Notice is hereby given, that an of Citizenship, Health, Safety, application will be made to the Agriculture, Women in Development Parliament of Canada, at its next and many more . You will see Session, for an. Act to incorporate a original photographs, documents, Company to be called "The Bytown items from Adelaide Hoodless' Consumers' Gas Company" and for birthplace_declared-a,national __ Authority to.open streets for the historic site and now operated as a purpose of laying Pipes and .to hold museum, a slide show of the museum, such property, and possess such a display of prize-winning crafts privileges as are necessary for the as well as'trophies and awards Manufacture of Gas . presented to the organization and Bytown, March 22, 1854 personal honours conferred on members . From the Journal of James Fitzgibbon, Bytown 1854 : Don't miss it -- the Women's Institute is part of Canada's Recipe for "Rhubarb Wine" history . 4 lbs of sugar to a gallon of Jenny Morgan rhubarb juice ; let stand a week or ten days ; then strain and bottle ; use six months after . DO YOU KNOW YOUR OTTAWA? Merry Christmas, from Did you know that -- Vera Campbell

-Col . , Royal Engineer, laid out-thP_f1rst_stree c_.of__a_new _ village called Bytown in 1826?

-the Village of Bytown was incorporated in 1827?

-James Maloney built the first schoolhouse, out of logs, on