The Pontiac MRC recently added a painting by Claudette Spence entitled « Chapeau – Fred’s Hotel (street with ice sled) » to its art collection. Claudette Spence is a resident of Allumettes Island and a well known artist. She has exhibited in Toronto, Ottawa, and Pembroke. Her work is inspired by an impressionistic style which began very [read full story]
The Pontiac Tourism Development Program (PTDP), launched in 2012 by the CLD, will be repeated this year with a special emphasis on tourism lodging projects. Over the last 20 years, major tourism projects were developed throughout the territory. Chutes Coulonge heritage site with its aerial park, Cyclopark PPJ, now part of Route verteTM, and Oiseau [read full story]
Last week, the Pontiac Local Development Centre (CLD) completed the installation of large interpretation panels presenting the local history of ten of the eighteen MRC Pontiac municipalities. Municipalities were selected based on their location relative to the Ottawa River, which is the common thread for this thematic tour entitled ‘Village Tales’. ‘Village Tales’ is the [read full story]
About 72 golfers met at Island Brae Golf Club on September 7th for the 2012 MRC Pontiac and Sûreté du Québec Annual Golf Tournament and a ton of fun for a great cause. Each year, the MRC Pontiac Council of Mayors gets to choose one or more local charities as beneficiary of the tournament’s profits. [read full story]
This past October 18th, a bus full of 54 Elvis fans left Pontiac for the Upper Canada Playhouse in Morrisburg and a sold out presentation of Blue Suede Shoes – Memories of the King. During his explosive concert, two time Canadian champion of the largest Elvis impersonator competition in the world, Roy Leblanc, took a [read full story]
