Fun Times in Local Elections from the Past
Saturday, April 15 2023 1:30 pm – St. John the Baptist Anglican Church – Church Hall, 67 Fowler Street, Richmond
We invite you to join us for stories of local elections past presented by David Mullington. David is a retired journalist with many years of Canadian and overseas experience, most recently 19 years with the Ottawa Citizen.
This free event, presented by the Goulbourn Township Historical Society, is open to everyone. It is being held in the Church Hall of St. John the Baptist Anglican Church, 67 Fowler Street, Richmond, on Saturday April 15, 2023 at 1:30 pm. Parking and refreshments are free. Please tell a neighbour and bring a friend.
We are pleased to host Local Author Michael McBane for our March lecture. Pre-Famine Irish settlement in the Ottawa Valley led directly to thousands of Irish Famine emigrants and refugees coming to Bytown and the Valley in search of family and friends. Because of the dramatic influx of Famine Irish into the Valley, especially in the summer of 1847, a powerful memory of Famine migration lingers in the oral tradition, especially in the rural settlements of Irish Catholics.
Jane Cooper has been researching and writing in one capacity or another for nearly 35 years. Her literary essays have been published in the Queen’s Quarterly, Opera Canada and Alberta History and she published a full-length historical biography, The Canadian Nightingale, in 2017. Her works on local history published with the Osgoode Township Museum have explored local soldiers in the First World War, early hockey rivalries, and a walking tour of turn-of-the-century Metcalfe. She is currently working on a historical fiction about the German POWs who worked on Ottawa area farms during the Second World War.