Local History

Outaouais Photo Quiz: Name That Village!

--November 22, 2016.

1) This famous turn-of-the-century yacht club occupied a stretch of Ottawa River waterfront in what town?
a) Hull
b) Aylmer
c) Shawville
d) Quyon

--November 22, 2016.

1) b
2) d
3) b
4) d
5) c
6) a
7) b
8) a
9) c
10) b

--November 22, 2016.

1) This early postcard shows the start of the canal in what Lower Laurentians village?
a) Carillon
b) Grenville
c) St. Andrew's East
d) Rideau

The old Fort Rose School in New Glasgow, Quebec, was "a one room building with grades 1 to 7 all being taught at the same time.

Ancienne carte postale photographique, 1930. Collection privée. / Early photographic postcard, 1930. Private collection.

Ancienne carte postale photographique, vers 1905. / Early photographic postcard, c.1905

Carte postale, peinte à la main, vers 1908. Notez le tramway! / Hand-tinted postcard, c. 1908. Note the streetcar!

"Here is the General Store in Val-David, exact date unknown, but depicted as of the end of the 1940s...