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Family and Local History Day
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Here isyour chance tomeet, andquestion
V ANKLEEK
H ILL
a Canadian history celebrity. Professional
archivistandauthorGlennWright,president
of the British Isles Family History Society of
Family andLocalHistoryDay returns to
Greater Ottawa, has provided research for
Vankleek Hill Saturday, October 1.
Ancestors in theAttic , andwas featured in the
Want to know more about preserving
Don Cherry episode of Who do you think you
family memories? Wondering what to do
are?
He has written about the RCMP,
with Aunt Clara’s encyclopedias? What
shipwrecks, immigration, Anglo-Celtic
about research into your grandfather’s
familyroots,andcontributedtotheCanadian
military history? Still trying to understand
Encyclopedia as well as the Oxford
gingerbread? How about a few words in
Dictionary amongst many titles.
Gaelic – the lost language? What is the back
story of the 167-year-old Vankleek Hill
Agricultural Fair? All that and more is
Quilt show
coming your way.
Shareyourfamilyhistory–photos,stories,
artefacts, collections. Free display space is
The International Plowing Match
available for familyand local historybuffs at
Committee is hosting a Quilt Show and
the Vankleek Hill Community Centre and
Tea August 13 and 14 at Vankleek Hill
the St. John Anglican Church Hall. Call the
Collegiate Institute where quilts entered
Vankleek Hill Museum now to book your
in the IPM’s quilting competition will be
space: 613-678-2323, or info@vankleek.ca .
featured.
Five Guest Speakers
Prior to the show, 60 quilts showcasing
Five guest speakers will bring their
traditionalandcontemporarytechniqueswill
expertise:HaroldMacMillanintroducesyou
be judged. The publicwill be able to view the
to our local Gaelic language historywith his
works Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and
popular and entertaining lessons.
Sunday from11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The quiltswill
Want to know more about book
again be on display during the IPM that will
collecting? Canadiana book expert David
beheldSeptember20-24inChute-à-Blondeau.
Anderson will help us to understand the
Quilt committee chairperson Louise Myner
do’s and don’ts, as well as what to do with
has received entries fromacross Ontario and
those sets of encyclopedia that Aunt Clara
fromQuébec. Sheaddsthatsheisverypleased
left behind.
with the local response and interest received
Dorothy Smith, president of the
from local quilting guilds and individuals
Cumberland Historical Society, will report
who have supported this competition, either
on her revealing research into the early
by entering a quilt or by sponsoring a prize.
history of the Vankleek Hill Agricultural
Asaspecial featureunique tothe IPM2011
Society. Justwhowas running thebigshow?
Quilt Show, fivequilts havebeen received for
Architect Denis Séguin, and president of
aSpecialQuiltsofValourLapQuiltCategory.
the Vankleek Hill & District Historical
ThiscategoryisdedicatedtothememoryCpl.
Photo Michelle Landriault
Society, will explain the importance of the
Patrick Lormand, from Chute-à-Blondeau,
Harold MacMillan and David Anderson, who will speak at the October 1 Family and
town’s unique Victorian built-heritage as a
whowas killed inAfghanistan in September,
Local History Day.
tourist attraction.
2009.
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