WI Bonnechere Valley

Renfrew South District
Bonnechere Valley Women’s Institute
Index

page Photo Book
1 The Mary Stewart Called poem
2 1983 ‘Theme Dolls’
2 Norma MacKenzie’s cottage, Calabogie
3 Pinnacle Park
4 Quilt display 1983
5 Special Day 1983 Vera Bedore, Burnstown United Church
6 Members 1962
7 Pinnacle Park 1983
8-10 Display 2000
11 Members 1988, Jean Elliott’s farm
12 Ray and Jean Elliott’s 50th wedding anniversary
13 Mary Lester bio
14 Inside Mt. St. Patrick Church
15 Jean McIntyre’s wedding dress
16 Margaret Jean Woods (nee McIntyre) bio
17 Long standing members – Elsie Barr, Winnie Smith & Effie McNevin
18 Huchabone bio
19 Mae James (nee McInerney) bio
20 Jean Elliott (nee Stewart) bio
21 Christena Lorraine Cardiff (nee Burton) bio
22 Bonnechere Valley celebrates 75th
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page VOLUME No. 1 1914 – 1975
Index
1-2 Foreword. The Tweedsmuirs. Adelaine Hoodless
3 Ottawa Valley Picture
taken from top of Pinnacle looking toward Renfrew D.B. Stewart farm (now Ray Elliott farm), William Mason Farm c1930
4 B.V. Institute Women’s Institute organization 1963
5-7 Institute Officers 1914 – 1933
8 District Officers 1931 – 1975
9-13 Institute Membership 1931 – 1974
14 Life Members
15 Deceased Members
16-19 Institute Review 1930 – 1974
Pictures
20 Members picture taken at Mrs. D. Lynch 1915
Members picture taken at Mrs. David Stewart c1915
Mrs. George Cardiff with bio
Ida Mason & Nellie Mason with bios
Mr. & Mrs. John Payne, Mr. & Mrs. D.B. Stewart c1940, Mrs. John Payne
Mrs. Frank Plaunt, D.B. Stewart & grand-daughter
Members taken at Addie Cardiff’s 1946 with names
Convention 1947 with names
Members 1954 with names
Members 1947 with names
Rug winners 1955 Mrs. Archie Gould, Florence Cardiff, Mrs. Mac MacKenzie
Members 1955. Mr. & Mrs. J.C. Hopkins anniversary 1973
Members 1955 with names
Members to Kempville College 1955, Centennial Year 1958, Mrs. Ed Blair,
Mrs. Harry Stevenson visits 1962 with Mrs. Percy Wilson
Mrs. Walter Galbraith birthday, meeting at Cotie’s cottage, Rev. McRae meets Mrs.
Fred Cotie at TSA 1959, Summary Day 1960 with Mrs. Lindsay Troke, Mrs. Lloyd Butler
Members 1962 with names
Presentation of Life Memberships 1953, 1957, 1962
Members 1963
Members 1966
36 Graduates of Victoria Hospital 1954 and photo
Project 1953, Quilting Party 1940
Project Cotton Accessories 1944, Project 143 pounds of meat 1961
Merrymakers Orchestra 1950
Federated Convention 1961
41 Mrs. Ross Mason biography
42a Mrs. Percy Wilson Mrs. Mack MacKenzie biographies
42b Mrs. Addie Cardiff biography
43 Mrs. John Henerson biography
44 Mrs. Walter Galbraith biography
45-52 Anniversaries
Federated 50th 1947
BVWI 40th 1954
BVWI 50th 1964
BVWI 60th 1974
Valley Farms
53 "The Mason Farm" William Ross Mason, William John Mason, Ross Mason, Bill Mason
55 "Riverside Farm" D.C. McLaren, Billie Smith, Herman Manka, Emmerson Briscoe
56 1 of 2 photos
57 3 of 6 photos
58 Riverside Farm history continued
59 "Shelby Farm" Alex McLachlin, William Henry Cotie, Lloyd McBride, Milton McBride
60 Part 2
61 "The Roy Cardiff Farm" Arthur Humphries,Florence,Stanley and Arnold Cardiff
61 family photo
62 other family pictures 3 of 5
63 "The Galbraith Farm" Walter Galbraith, Murray, Helen & Ida Galbraith
64 other family pictures
65 The Waite Farm Lloyd McBride, Ender Waite, Joseph & John Payne, Donald, Mae, Joan and Billie Waite
66 "Payne-McBride"
67 Ontario Registry Office, Pembroke abstract of Payne-McBride farm – foldout
68 "Alderburn Farm" Archibald Henderson, Catherine & John Henderson, Archie, Robert, Thomas, Daniel, Jennie, Nellie, John, Isabel, Flora and George Henderson
70 1 of 2 photos
71 5 photos
72 "Pinncale Farm" William Rowet, John McDougall, Joshua Murphy, Sam Holmes, J.T. Dunlap, D.B. Stewart, J.T. Moran, Raymond Elliott
72 photo farm buildings 1949
73 Cover pictures on the FAMILY HERALD
74 more history by Evelyn Jack and 3 photos
75 "Crabtree Farm" G. Fred Cotie, Alex Leitch, William Millar, James Wilson, Eileen, Grace, George, William and Joe Cotie
76 Ravenscrag Farm R.B. Leitch, James B. Leitch, Catherine Airth, Robert B. Leitch, Ellen Gillespie, James, Grace, Margaret, Mary and George Leitch
77 Shady Glade Farm James B. Greeshields, John Jamieson, Allan Carswell, Patrick Barry, Archie Gould & Hazel Miller, Evelyn, Arlene, Isabel, Robert, Beatty Gould
Pictures
78 Robert Johnston farm 1966, Victoria Hospital, Galbraith School, P.J. Campbell (McFarlane) home 177 Raglan St. 1938
The Galbraith School
79 by Mrs. Murray Galbraith
80 by others
80 photo –– Miss Annie Jamieson, teacher & students
81 "The Diamond" K & P Railway, CNR crossing
81 photo
82a Pictures around the Bonnechere – postcards from Handford Studios
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Obituaries
83 Mrs. James Reid, Mrs. T.A. Burt, Mrs. Maude (Harry) John, Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Leitch
84 Charlotte Whitton
85 Walter Galbraith, William Cardiff, George Frederick Cotie, D.B. Stewart
86 Adam Laird, George Henderson, Miss Elizabeth A. McDermid, Merton A. Smith, Thomas Henley
87 Harry White Wainman, Robert Scott, Anthony Quattrochi, George Carruth, Kenneth Cotie, Brian Wainman, Mrs. George Cotie, Bert Butson & Eva Bricker, Leslie Elmer Cotie, David McFarlane, Kathy Stewart, James Allen Wilson
88 Marriages
Robert Jamieson & Stella Eileen McGregor
Robert Douglas Mason & Jane Marilyn Briscoe
John Hartley Henderson & Jean Phyllis Wilson
Robert A. Gould & Dorothy Gail MacLaurin
Linda Perkins & Greg Toner
Adam J. Laird & Evelyn Joyce McFarlane
Lloyd McBride & Elsie McFarlane
Stanley Cardiff & Rose Marie Schmidt
Terrance Allan MacKensie & Beverley Jane Donaldson
Joan Waite & Robert George Lightbody
Deaths – Jogn B. Henderson, T.F. Barnet (Tommy) Barnet
89 Local Happenings of Interest 1936 – 1964
90 Items of Local Interest
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92 Bonnechere Valley Institute Review
93 Newspaper clippings
94-95 Poetry
96-97 The Almonte Wreck by George F. Miller
97 Bonnechere Manor 1964 pictures
98 Links with the Past
Stoves 1800s
99 Pioneer Days pictures
100 Pictures
101 Newspaper clippings – old pictures from the Family Herald and Weekly Star in 1968
102 "Elsie a Borden Cow" Compiments of "Borden" Milk Co., Toronto
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