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This article first appeared in the May 30, 2012 issue of the The Low Down to Hull and Back News.
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Award-winning GVHS revels under glow of golden anniversary
By Lucy Scholey
It's a gem of a volunteer society and now it's turned golden.
The Gatineau Valley Historical Society (GVHS) celebrated 50 years of volunteer archiving, advocacy work and preserving the Gatineau Hills' precious past at their annual dinner and awards night May 28.
The GVHS has a history of winning awards and this year proved no different.
President Marc Cockburn announced that the group recently won the 2012 Richard Evans Community History Award for promoting community history.
Michael Cooper, co-president of the Fairbairn House Solidarity Co-operative, won the Marion Phelps Award for his work with the Fairbairn Heritage Centre
A slew of past presidents and present volunteers were recognized for making the GVHS live, and thrive, on its 50th anniversary.
As GVHS founder and fi rst president Moiya Wright remarked: "When something is meant to happen, and people are enthusiastic, you can do anything."
Up the Gatineau!
Following the annual dinner and awards, this year's issue of Up the Gatineau! has hit the stands.
With Louise Schwartz at the helm as the new editor, vol. 38 features a lead story about former Prime Minister Lester B. (Mike) Pearson's cottage life in Burnett. Landon Pearson, who married Pearson's son, Geoffrey, describes how Mike "released his tensions by cutting the grass with a scythe like a golf club and whacking at the bushes."
There is also a new "poetry corner," featuring an 1890-era poem by Archibald Lampman called "Heat" about Chelsea's Mile Hill on a hot day. Chelsea writer Catherine Joyce penned the forward.
As Schwartz said, this issue includes a mix of stories, including two by local residents, two by cottagers, two that involved a lot of research and two personal stories.
Up the Gatineau! is available at various grocery stores, depanneurs and boutiques in the Gatineau Hills.
For information about the vendor locations, or about the GVHS, visit www.gvhs.ca.