Preserving and promoting awareness in the history and heritage of the Gatineau Valley since 1962
Next Events
2019 Annual General meeting and Open House
Monday February 18, 2019, 7:30 pm
Chelsea Library, 100 Old Chelsea Road, Chelsea QC.
The GVHS 2019 Annual General Meeting and Arvhives open house will be held at the Chelsea Library on Monday February 18, 2019. A presentation highlighting some of our latest acquisitions to our photo archives collection will be presented.
Finding Traces of the Early Settlers in Pre-Gatineau Park
Monday April 15, 2019 7:30 pm
Location to be determined
Join intrepid amateur researcher and local historian, Bill McGee, for an evening of figurative exploration of the early Gatineau Park area. For almost 25 years, Bill has collected maps of the Park and researched its early settlers from the 1800s—mainly Irish families who settled along Ridge Road (now Trail 1) and who farmed most of the high land between Kingsmere Road and Wolf Trail. Some of the still-familiar family names include McCloskey, Ryan, Keogan, Fortune, McKinstry and Dunlop. Bill has given similar talks to Friends of Gatineau Park and the Ottawa Historical Society.
Past Events
The Underwater Archaeology of the Franklin Shipwrecks
held on November 19 at the Larrimac Golf Club where Chelsea resident Thierry Boyer, underwater archaeologist with Parks Canada gave an update on the finding of the second of the Franklin Expedition Ships, the HMS Terror. - more.
2018 Remembrance Day Ceremony
was held on November 11 at the Chelsea Pioneer Cemetery and Cenotaph in Chelsea at the graveside of Private Richard Rowland Thompson, RCR. - more.
Other past events.
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New to the GVHS
The Builders Book
now available for downloading.
Glass Slides
Photos of the Gatineau River before flooding.
Chelsea Community Trail Interpretive Panels
New panels added.
Publications of Local Interest
Walking in the Footsteps of Philemon Wright by Rick Henderson
Low Municipality - Reflections of the Past by Don Kealey
A Collection of Works by Florence Helena McGillivray by Bill Allen
Touring Historic Wakefield by Norma Geggie
The Last of the Wild Rivers: The Past, Present, and Future of the Rivière du Moine Watershed by Wallace Schaber