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This article first appeared in the "Echoes from the Past" column of the The Low Down to Hull and Back News. Reprinted with permission. Search complete list of Low Down Articles.

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It's Time to Pursue Trivia

Here are some local trivia you may like to pursue. The answer are below:

1. What and where was Gospel Hill?
2. Which Prime Minister had a cottage of the west shore of the Gatineau River?
3. Why did a militia unit go to Low in the late 1800s?
4. What other name was used for Meech Creek Valley?
5. What was Hellard Road used for?
6. Wakefield was named after another Wakefield - where?
7. There is a creek in Hull, what's its name?
8. There are memorials to the brothers Wright, Thomas and Philemon. Where are they?
9. There was a turnpike road to Aylmer. What was its initial name?
10. Where did the first West Hull (now Chelsea) Municipality meeting take place?

Trivia Pursued! (Answers)

1. On RR 105, in Chelsea between the new Plaza and the Pioneer Cemetery. Here was the Anglican Church and a mixture of rectories, manses etc.
2. P.M. Lester B. (Mike) Pearson.
3. To aid the tax collector to do his job despite the resistance of the angry Irish. Sometimes called The Battle of Brennan's Hill.
4. Baldwin Valley.
5. Approach road to the ferry of Kirk. (Kirk's Ferry)
6. Yorkshire, England. Hull and Masham are both Yorkshire names. Chelsea is also an English name. But the Quebec Chelsea was named after Chelsea, Vermont.
7. Brewery Creek.
8. Thomas's is in the burial ground at Old Chelsea (but there's no proof he's buried there). Philemon's is in St. James Cemetery, Hull.
9. Brittannia Road or Turnpike.
10. The O'Neil Hotel (or stopping place in the newer Chelsea). (The second was at Ed Dean's Hotel, in Old Chelsea.