Goulbourn Township Historical Society Annual General Meeting 
Saturday January 16th 2021 at 1:00pm.

Due to pandemic restrictions on public gatherings this year’s meeting will be held as a virtual event available on-line. Members are encouraged to attend this event via internet or phone. In order to plan the event and share access information with you we ask that you confirm your attendance or return your proxy to the secretary by Wednesday, January 13th at: AGM@goulbournhistoricalsociety.org .

We need your support to meet quorum and enact our business ! 

You can participate by:

• joining us virtually on your computer – access instructions will be provided later
• by telephone (telephone fees may apply) – telephone link will be provided
• or alternatively you can complete a proxy to cover any motions or votes. Click on link to download the proxy form > PROXY

Should you have any accessibility requirements, please contact our webmaster, John Bottriell at webmaster@goulbournhistoricalsociety.org  for help.

October 2020 Update

During the current pandemic we must continue to postpone our lecture program until it is considered safe to meet. Meanwhile we have now published our Autumn 2020 newsletter. It is available to all GTHS members.

*** CANCELLED ***

Due to the unprecedented pandemic of the COVID-19 coronavirus, your executive has decided to cancel our March 21 2020 event – A Salute to the Irish – Music and stories with Kevin Dooley and Doug McKenna.

A Salute to the Irish – Music and stories

with Kevin Dooley
Saturday March 21 2020 1:30pm
Royal Canadian Legion – Stittsville

Join us for an entertaining afternoon of Irish music and stories presented by well know performer Kevin Dooley.

Early settlers of Goulbourn Township were chiefly of Protestant Irish descent, some of them veterans of the wars with Napoleon, giving a distinct Irish character to Goulbourn Township.

Music was one of the skills these settlers brought with them. An example was William Alexander, an early pioneer from the County Tyrone. He was a violinist of note, and during the time he ran the hotel on the 3rd line Huntley his violin was much in use. He specialized in old Irish dancing airs, but also played sentimental pieces very sweetly. Every time he played a piece for his guests he called its name. He could play about 150 different tunes.

Come and help us celebrate the Irish heritage of Goulbourn Township with the toe-tapping entertainment of Irish entertainer Kevin Dooley. This is a public programme presented by the Goulbourn Township Historical Society. Admission, parking and refreshments are free!

Working Tools

Saturday February 15th 2020 1:30pm

Ottawa Public Library – Stittsville Branch

Dr. Ken Hartin’s collection of antique tools

Nigel Kilby, far left, a member of the Goulbourn Township Historical Society’s re-enactment committee, shows an historic wooden tool to fellow members, from left to right, Bram Blenk, Angela Kilby, Jennifer Chaplin and Lynn Blenk at the Historical Society’s annual meeting in 1987 (from the Stittsville New Dec 16, 1987)

Discover our display of working tools of the past and how they were used around the home.  These include irons, saws, spades and cutters.  Many of these tools can still be found in outdoor sheds, basements or workshop in working order as they are hard to break, even outlasting modern items.

Do you have an old working tool that you would want to show and possible identify?  Bring it along and together we might figure it out!

This even if free and open to the general public. Drop in during the afternoon and see out exhibit. As always there will be refreshments.

We also encourage you to view our annual photo exhibit in the Library’s “ArtSpace” during the month of February. This year we are also focussing on tools of our ancestors.

AGM – January 18 2020

The Goulbourn Township Historical Society AGM and dinner is scheduled for Saturday January 18th 2020 at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 2 Mulkins Street, Stittsville. Arrive at 12:45pm for registration and a delicious dinner followed by our meeting to begin around 2 pm.

This is a social time to visit with and get to know other members, as well as an important function for our Society.  We need your support to enact our business !  So come and meet your friends in the Historical Society.  There will be a time for you to share any ideas for programs or services you would like to see the Society undertake. There will be a delicious, hot dinner at a cost of $20 per person, followed by the general meeting.

In order to arrange catering, please RSVP by Friday, January 10th to: AGM@goulbournhistoricalsociety.org .Payment can be made at the door when you arrive.

Unable to attend?
Please mail your membership payment (single $15 / family $20) to our address listed below. Should any information regarding your GTHS membership change please notify the membership co-ordinator, Nancy Peppy, at membership@goulbournhistoricalsociety.org.  This will help to ensure that we have the correct and precise details when tax receipts, newsletters, programme information or any other correspondence is sent from the Society.”