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Canada Post Coaching and Community Involvement Prograam (added Jan,26, 2007)
25th Anniversary Celebrations (added Jun, 20, 2006)
25th Anniversary Celebrations, Thank You (moved Feb, 4, 2007)
New Sign (added Aug, 13, 2004)
Paper of Record Partnership (added Dec. 10, 2002)
Pontiac Archives, Open House (added June10, 2002)
The LCGS Holdings (updated Sept 29, 2003 and Jan 10, 2004)
The Lanark County Archives Opens (added Apr 21, 2002)
Millennium Project Near Completion (added Feb 17, 2001)
Millennium Project Update (update July 12, 2001)

A Call for Photographs (updated Feb 13, 2004)
Call for Newsletter Articles

Coaching and Community Involvement Program

The Canada Post Corporation is pleased to present a cheque for $500 on behalf of Gary J Byron to the Lanark County Genealogical Society in support of the Lanark Archives under the Coaching and Community Involvement Program for Employees.

Canada Post is proud to support employee efforts to make a difference in their community.

25th Anniversary Celebrations

Saturday, September 30th

Beckwith Community Hall, Blacks Corners

The 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Founding of the

Lanark County Genealogical Society

Joan Finnigan will be one of our guest speakers. Joan Finnigan was born and raised in Ottawa and has been a free lance writer since 1965. She has done much work for CBC Anthology and the National Film Board earlier, but has turned to books, particularly poetry and oral/social history of the Ottawa Valley. Joan will capture your attention with her stories and tales on those she met and those she has written about, including those from Lanark County.

The afternoon fundraising program will feature a "Hip of Beef Buffet" served at 5:30 p.m.

The website for the event will be up and running June 20th. and tickets will go on sale June 30th

~ only $30/person for an afternoon (with dinner included) of family, fun and education.

Our program includes:

Lanark County Trivia

Challenge…

"The first and the fastest, the biggest and the best,

the worst and the weirdest in Lanark County"

"Lanark County to Discover"

For more information just "click"

on the Events Picture above or here

WARNING! You will be leaving the LCGS website

Thank You

New Sign

Look for our new signs directing you to our Genealogical Library located at the Hertage House Museum in Smiths Falls.

Paper of Record Partnership

The Lanark County Genealogical Society is pleased to announce that We have become a Reference Partner with Paper of Record. In exchange for web space and links to their site, they will give us 10% commission on all gross subscription sales which come from the users that reach the Paper of Record website directly from our website. So in order to support the LCGS, We urge our members to link to Paper of Record from our site everytime you use it.

Pontiac Archives

Is holding an Open House Week July 1 to 6
Monday July 1 --- 3 pm to 7 pm

Tuesday July 2 to Friday July 5 ---- 10 am to 7 pm

Saturday July 6 -- 10 am to 2 pm

The Pontiac Archives holds material for Pontiac County, Quebec.

Their street address is 137 Rue Centre Street, Shawville, Quebec,(effective Nov. 6, 2001)   [For many years the Pontiac Archives were in Campbell's Bay.]

Phone: 819-647-5620.

Their mailing address is P.O. Box 506, Shawville, Quebec J0X 2Y0.

Users will experience some inconvenience until the Archives are fully set-up. Many of the Archives resources are temporarily stored until such time as they are able to move into a larger facility. The resources in storage include old newspapers and other scrapbooks. It is recommended that people phone ahead of time to confirm operating hours and that the records they are seeking are accessible.

The archivist is Mrs. Elsie Sparrow.

THE LCGS HOLDINGS

The Lanark County Genealogical Society holdings now to be called

The LCGS Genealogical Library

will be housed from now on

at the Heritage House Museum 11 Old Sly's Road, Smith Falls

Open daily from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

A $2.00 Seasonal Researcher Pass will be required to access the genealogical section in the basement.

Map of Smith Falls showing the location of the Heritage House Museum

THE LANARK COUNTY ARCHIVES OPENS

     In February 2002, the Lanark County Genealogical Society opened the Lanark County Archives in the former Drummond Township Hall at 1920 Concession 7 Rd., Drummond Township near Drummond Centre.

     What began as a search to house the old Land Registry documents, has become a deposit for all genealogical / historical records pertaining to Lanark County. Volunteers have spent hundreds of hours organising this ever-growing body of archival material.

     It is with hope that this centre will continue to grow and work in conjunction with the community, local Libraries and Museums, historical groups and those with expertise, thus preserving the treasures of our past.

What's in the Archives
The Land Registry Abstract books
and deeds from 1868 - 1955
Ellen Foster's Collection
Viola Reid's Collection
Jean Steele's Microfilm Collection
Newly microfilmed lost years of the
Almonte Gazette, Perth Courier
and the Lanark Era

Archives Hours
from 10 am to 3 pm on the
1st and 3rd Fridays
and the
2nd and 4th Saturdays
(Subject to change)

MILLENNIUM PROJECT NEAR COMPLETION

The Lanark County Genealogical Society is pleased to announce the near completion of their Millennium Project.

Perth Couriers (1970-1984), Almonte Gazettes (1920-1980), and Lanark Eras (1920-1999) will now be preserved on microfilm and will soon be available for public research. Also, some 100 old photographs of Carleton Place were reproduced and mounted for future display at Carleton Place celebrations.

This project was partly funded by a Main Street Ontario Millennium Grant available through the local municipalities. This grant was approved and applied for by the townships of Drummond/North Elmsley, Beckwith, Montague, and Bathurst/Burgess/Sherbrooke on behalf of the Lanark Genealogical Society.

Based on township population (50 cents per head), the eligible amount was $10,115. The balance of the cost of microfilming was covered by the publishers of the two community newspapers, the above named townships and the Lanark County Genealogical Society.

The original copies of the Perth Courier and Ailment Gazette were in storage, but some 80 years of the Lanark Era had been missing for some time. Unexpectedly, they resurfaced and were acquired by the Lanark Village Museum. The LCGS was more than pleased to be able to include the Era in the microfilming project.

Our thanks and appreciation to everyone involved for their support in helping to preserve local community history. Our thanks especially to the township of Drummond/North Elmsley, Paul Snider, clerk-treasurer, for co-ordinating the applications and doing the required paperwork.

The support of the Government of Ontario, through the Ministry of Citizenship, Culture, and Recreation is acknowledged.

--Submitted by Irene Spence, Secretary of the LCGS

MILLENNIUM PROJECT UPDATE

The Lanark County Genealogical Society is pleased to announce that the microfim copies of the Almonte Gazette has been placed in the Almonte Public Library and the Resource Centre of Algonquin College at Perth also at Algonquin are microflim copies the Lanark Era.

The support of the Government of Ontario, through the Ministry of Citizenship, Culture, and Recreation with the Main Street Ontario Millennium Grant is gratefully acknowledged.

A CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS

Updated August 9/99. Submitted by Charles Dobie Webmaster

           The response to the call for photos has been wonderful. Many of them should be in the National Archives! However, the LCGS website is running out of disk space, so for now, unless I've arranged otherwise with individuals, I can't accept any more photos for the website.

           February 2004, Submitted by Gary J Byron Webmaster

       We are now able to handle photographs once more, all are welcomed

I suggest that you visit Charles Dobie's History Site for ideas on what can be done

A CALL FOR NEWSLETTER ARTICLES

           We are asking members to send in family stories for our newsletter. Members at a distance could help out others by sharing some of the emigration stories of your family. Many people from Lanark Co. went on to Bruce, Huron & Grey Counties in the 1850s and then on to Manitoba and the Dakotas. Please email to LCGS newsletter editor Barbara Apro, This address is for newsletter business only.