Cantley's 1889 Articles in The Echo of Cantley

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Cantley 1889’s volunteers have written more than 150 monthly articles of local historical interest for publication in The Echo of Cantley, a non-profit bilingual organization that produces Cantley's only community newspaper.

Cantley 1889's articles are reprinted here with permission from The Echo of Cantley:

List of articles

Christmas Season 1950s - a farm diary of Decembers in Cantley
The Echo of Cantley, December 2024

We Remember Them
The Echo of Cantley, November 2024

The Pomeroy Heritage Farm
The Echo of Cantley, October 2024

Back to School Memories - 1949 to 1959
The Echo of Cantley, September 2024

Cantley’s Daytona — the Story of the Cantley Speedway
The Echo of Cantley, August 2024

Cantley’s Tugboat – Our Logo, Our Inspiration and Le Champagne
The Echo of Cantley, July 2024

The Time Capsule of Cantley’s 1989 Identity
The Echo of Cantley, June 2024

Cantley’s Home Children: An Introduction
The Echo of Cantley, May 2024

Lorne Mountain, a Natural Wonder
The Echo of Cantley, April 2024

Alice Power McGlashan
The Echo of Cantley, March 2024

Cantley’s Pioneer Settlers
The Echo of Cantley, February 2024

Season of Giving – the gift of time
The Echo of Cantley, December 2023

Remembrance Day 2023
The Echo of Cantley, November 2023

Tenàgàdino Zibi, Gatineau River — Fascinating facts
The Echo of Cantley, October 2023

Cantley School Days
The Echo of Cantley, September 2023

Allo Camping and the Marvelous Marsolaises
The Echo of Cantley, August 2023

Discovering “High Falls” and High Times in Cantley
The Echo of Cantley, July 2023

The Orange Hall, Cantley
The Echo of Cantley, June 2023

Milking Money for Medical Bill
The Echo of Cantley, May 2023

Cantley’s Natural Cultural Heritage - Mont Cascades-Lorne Mountain
The Echo of Cantley, April 2023

Cantley’s Women Pioneers – 1847
The Echo of Cantley, March 2023

The Ice Storm of ’98 ~ 25th anniversary
The Echo of Cantley, February 2023

Snapshots of Our Past ~ Cantley Winters
The Echo of Cantley, December 2022

Lest We Forget: Sergeant Air Gunner Cletus Holmes
The Echo of Cantley, November 2022

Cantley’s Trees – Our heritage, health, hope for the future
The Echo of Cantley, October 2022

University of Wilson’s Corners
The Echo of Cantley, September 2022

A Bit of the Wild West in Cantley – George’s Western Valley Ranch
The Echo of Cantley, August 2022

Discover Cantley’s History – Three sites, nine descriptive plaques
The Echo of Cantley, July 2022

A Wilson Girl’s Cantley Memories
The Echo of Cantley, June 2022

The Farmlands of Alonzo Wright and Les Pères du Saint Esprit
The Echo of Cantley, May 2022

Ginns Ecological Gift – its history, Cantley’s heritage
The Echo of Cantley, April 2022

Le Projet Neufbourg – Creating a New Life
The Echo of Cantley, March 2022

Bridge, Licences, Fires, New Town Hall - Cantley 1890-1893
The Echo of Cantley, February 2022

‘Tis the season...for reflecting on our past...
The Echo of Cantley, December 2021

The Nile Expedition: Canada’s First Overseas War
The Echo of Cantley, November 2021

The Phillips Property Ghost(s?)
The Echo of Cantley, October 2021

Memories of the Cantley Protestant School
The Echo of Cantley, September 2021

Unravelling a Local Mystery
The Echo of Cantley, August 2021

Cora and Mervyn Hogan: Leaving a Legacy
The Echo of Cantley, July 2021

Cantley’s Heritage – Why So Important
The Echo of Cantley, June 2021

The Blackburn Pioneer Cemetery (1842 - 1920) Heritage Site
The Echo of Cantley, May 2021

Gone but not Forgotten: Jan Turko
The Echo of Cantley, April 2021

Cantley’s Municipal History: 1889
The Echo of Cantley, March 2021

Reminiscence: Heinz Pilz (1947 - 2020), Cantley Councillor 1989 to 1992
The Echo of Cantley, February 2021

Hunt for History in Cantley 1889’s Virtual Museum!
The Echo of Cantley, December 2020

Lest We Forget: Cantley Veterans
The Echo of Cantley, November 2020

What’s in a name? - the story behind Parc du Traversier
The Echo of Cantley, October 2020

Historic Horseshoe Bay
The Echo of Cantley, September 2020

Selma deLotbinière Huxley Barkham (1927 - 2020)
The Echo of Cantley, August 2020

A tragic day for Cantley's heritage
The Echo of Cantley, July 2020

Quarry wall hints at new glacial theory
The Echo of Cantley, June 2020

The Wedding Fee That Got Away!
The Echo of Cantley, May 2020

The Blackburn Cemetery: A Memorial to Cantley’s Founding Settlers
The Echo of Cantley, April 2020

“Katie” – Katherine Fleming Burke (1886 – 1977)
The Echo of Cantley, March 2020

The Flemings of Fleming Road
The Echo of Cantley, February 2020

Cantley’s Early Years
The Echo of Cantley, December 2019

Lest we Forget: to be Thankful
The Echo of Cantley, November 2019

Visit Cantley 1889’s...Le Musée « POP UP » Museum
The Echo of Cantley, October 2019

1819-2019 — The Remarkable Lives of La Grange de la Gatineau
The Echo of Cantley, September 2019

Happy 130 Birthday Cantley! 1889 – 2019
The Echo of Cantley, August 2019

The Birth of the Echo, Cantley’s community paper
The Echo of Cantley, July 2019

Theresa Lynott Holmes will be 90-years-old in November!
The Echo of Cantley, June 2019

Cantley’s Early Settler and How Name of Boon Almost Ended
The Echo of Cantley, May 2019

Cantley’s Monument of the Ice Age
The Echo of Cantley, April 2019

Ann Elizabeth Blackburn, Cantley farmer
The Echo of Cantley, March 2019

Ice Harvesting
The Echo of Cantley, February 2019

Dean Family Christmas on “The Burr Road”
The Echo of Cantley, December 2018

100 Years Later, We Still Remember Them: Jimmy Smith (1899-1996)
The Echo of Cantley, November 2018

Our past - Our future
The Echo of Cantley, October 2018

Highway 307 – speed limit history
The Echo of Cantley, October 2018

Going to school in a construction site
The Echo of Cantley, September 2018

An Iconic Shoreline - Cantley and the Group of Seven
The Echo of Cantley, August 2018

Strange but true... Struck Her as She Read the Bible
The Echo of Cantley, July 2018

St. Andrew’s Pulpit and Pew – donation in memory of Cantley’s past
The Echo of Cantley, June 2018

St. Elizabeth Parish: 150 years of faith Part Two
The Echo of Cantley, May 2018

St. Elizabeth Parish: 150 years of faith Part One
The Echo of Cantley, April 2018

Notable Women of the Gatineau Valley – now in Cantley!
The Echo of Cantley, March 2018

The Ice Storm of ‘98
The Echo of Cantley, February 2018

It is December in Cantley in the early/mid 1900s...
The Echo of Cantley, December 2017

Honour our Veterans on Remembrance Day
The Echo of Cantley, November 2017

Cantley’s Emergency Services: An Historical Perspective
The Echo of Cantley, October 2017

St. Elizabeth School: Early Days
The Echo of Cantley, September 2017

The Hupé House – the end of an era
The Echo of Cantley, August 2017

“A Summer… A Fair”
The Echo of Cantley, July 2017

Fairbairn House celebrates ten remarkable women of the Gatineau Valley
The Echo of Cantley, June 2017

Celebrate Cantley’s Mining Era
The Echo of Cantley, May 2017

Cantley Settlers Carried Lighted Torches at Night
The Echo of Cantley, April 2017

Cantley’s Heart and Soul
The Echo of Cantley, March 2017

The General Store: cornerstone of a community
The Echo of Cantley, February 2017

The Dacey Mine Ore Cart: A gift to Cantley
The Echo of Cantley, December 2016

“At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them”
The Echo of Cantley, November 2016

An Irish Son Finds the Wright Place via Cantley Part 2
The Echo of Cantley, October 2016

Cantley's River Pride - Fière rivière
The Echo of Cantley, September 2016

An Irish Son Finds the Wright Place via Cantley Part 1
The Echo of Cantley, August 2016

Cantley Picnic: more than 100 years of fun and fellowship
The Echo of Cantley, July 2016

Aboriginal Pathways, Original Settlers: Cantley's First Nations Presence Part 2: 1800 to present
The Echo of Cantley, June 2016

Cantley Cemeteries Tour 2016
The Echo of Cantley, May 2016

River Pride - let's celebrate our Gatineau River
The Echo of Cantley, May 2016

Aboriginal Pathways, Original Settlers: Cantley's First Nations Presence Part 1: 10,000 BCE to 1800 AD
The Echo of Cantley, April 2016

Toponymy Stories behind Cantley's Street Names part 2
The Echo of Cantley, March 2016

Cantley's St. Andrew's United Church ~ built with faith, dedication and love
The Echo of Cantley, February 2016

Christmas Season 1950s - A Farm Diary of Decembers in Cantley
The Echo of Cantley, December 2015

Remembering
The Echo of Cantley, November 2015

The National Wall of Remembrance Project, Kingston, Ontario
The Echo of Cantley, November 2015

Let us Give Thanks ... and Remember Our Cantley Pioneers
The Echo of Cantley, October 2015

Genealogy and "The French Canadian Disease": OPMD
The Echo of Cantley, September 2015

The Fairbairn House Heritage Centre... a place to discover our shared past
The Echo of Cantley, August 2015

Award of Honour for Cantley's Tugboat Team
The Echo of Cantley, July 2015

"Up the Gatineau!" volume 41 - Cantley edition
The Echo of Cantley, July 2015

St-Elizabeth School's Heritage Event
The Echo of Cantley, July 2015

Toponymy - the Bilingual Concept that Builds Communities! part 1
The Echo of Cantley, June 2015

Five-years-old - Ten Cantley Stories and much to celebrate....
The Echo of Cantley, May 2015

A Pre-History of Nakkertok Nordic Cross Country Ski Club part 2
The Echo of Cantley, April 2015

History of Nakkertok Nordic Cross Country Ski Club part 1
The Echo of Cantley, March 2015

A historical photograph is worth more than a thousand words
The Echo of Cantley, February 2015

Cantley Protestant School in the 1940s
The Echo of Cantley, December 2014

Keeping the home fires burning
The Echo of Cantley, November 2014

The Man of Her Hallowe'en Dreams
The Echo of Cantley, October 2014

Cantley’s Tugboat Celebration... a memorable occasion
The Echo of Cantley, October 2014

Rivermen in Cantley
The Echo of Cantley, September 2014

Gatineau River Log Drive
The Echo of Cantley, August 2014

Alfred M. Edmonds : Artist
The Echo of Cantley, July 2014

They said it could not be done - Cantley 1983-1989
The Echo of Cantley, June 2014

Cantley's 25th Anniversary Part one
The Echo of Cantley, May 2014

A Trip Down the Old Cantley Road
The Echo of Cantley, April 2014

Be Cantleyan...Be Québécois...Be Canadian...Make Maple Syrup!
The Echo of Cantley, March 2014

Cantley's 2nd Annual Family Heritage Day and "A trip Down the Old Cantley Road"
The Echo of Cantley, February 2014

Cantley's Natural Heritage
The Echo of Cantley, December 2013

LEST WE FORGET... Remembrance Day November 11 part 2
The Echo of Cantley, November 2013

World War I: Cantley's Youth Answer the Call part 1
The Echo of Cantley, October 2013

Cantley's Trees... The Legacy Continues
The Echo of Cantley, September 2013

Profile of Cantley's Pioneers: Gwen Thompson
The Echo of Cantley, August 2013

A Glimpse of the Past on Blackburn Farm
The Echo of Cantley, July 2013

Profile of Cantley's Pioneers: The Barton Family
The Echo of Cantley, May 2013

Back to dry Land: Cantley's Tugboat Helps our Heritage
The Echo of Cantley, April 2013

The Milks House : Cantley's historic landmark
The Echo of Cantley, March 2013

Cantley's - Family Heritage Day
The Echo of Cantley, February 2013

The Haycock Mine: Then and Now
The Echo of Cantley, December 2012

"Le Champagne" Tugboat
The Echo of Cantley, December 2012

Remembrance Day - The story of a Cantley Veteran, Corporal Jan Turko: from Poland to Russia to Italy to Cantley
The Echo of Cantley, November 2012

A. M. Edmond's 1873 Sketchbook of the Haycock Iron Mine
The Echo of Cantley, October 2012

Iron Ore of Yore: The Haycock Mine
The Echo of Cantley, September 2012

The Gatineau: our river, our history
The Echo of Cantley, July 2012

Party on the river
The Echo of Cantley, July 2012

Newspaper report of 1940 profiles mother of 10, mistress of a thriving Cantley farm
The Echo of Cantley, May 2012

Cantley 1889's Vernissage of Historic Photos/Annual Meeting was a Big Success!
The Echo of Cantley, April 2012

Lord and Lady Dufferin Make a Winter Visit to Cantley
The Echo of Cantley, March 2012

The 'Facebook' of 1889 comes to Cantley's Town Hall
The Echo of Cantley, February 2012

For King and Country: 1939 - 1945 part 2
The Echo of Cantley, December 2011

For King and Country: 1939 - 1945 part 1
The Echo of Cantley, November 2011

Cantley 1889 – Our past – Our future
The Echo of Cantley, October 2011

The Cantley Picnic: more than 100 years of fun and fellowship
The Echo of Cantley, August 2011

A Visit to Lift the Spirits
The Echo of Cantley, July 2011

A Visit to Lift the Spirits
The Echo of Cantley, June 2011

The General Store: cornerstone of a community
The Echo of Cantley, May 2011

Rest in peace: Cantley's little-known family burial grounds
The Echo of Cantley, April 2011

Cantley 1889
The Echo of Cantley, March 2011

The history of the municipality of Cantley
The Echo of Cantley, February 2011

A new association to safeguard and promote Cantley's history
The Echo of Cantley, December 2010

In Search of Yesteryear Cantley
The Echo of Cantley, June 2010