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Shawville, Quebec
Shawville is a town located in the Pontiac Regional County Municipality in the administrative region of Outaouais in western Quebec, Canada.
History
At the end of the 1860s, a group of citizens from Clarendon Centre, under the leadership of James Shaw (1818-1877), separated the municipality from the township of Clarendon. While they had originally planned on naming the new entity "Daggville," after the name of a pioneer family, they opted instead to name it "Shawville" after James Shaw promised to donate 0.8 ha of land to the new municipality. Shawville was officially established in 1874 and was populated by Irish Protestant immigrants. Shaw, who had settled in the area in 1843, was the first mayor, serving from 1856 to 1877.
The municipality has a Methodist church that was built in Shawville in 1835, while the Catholic Parish of Saint-Alexandre-de-Clarendon opened its doors in 1840. This church would later be renamed as Sainte-M?lanie, and still later as Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur in 1917.[1]
In recent times, Shawville has been the site of several conflicts between local shopkeepers and the Office qu?b?cois de la langue fran?aise over the province's language laws.[4]
Geography
The town is completely enclosed within the municipality of Clarendon. Shawville is situated approximately 75 kilometres (47 mi) west of Gatineau and 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of Fort-Coulonge.
Matches 51 to 62 of 62
Last Name, Given Name(s) | Birth | Person ID | ||
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51 | Wallace, Lillian Margaret | 16 Jan 1912 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I34220 |
52 | Wallace, Mary Jane | 26 Nov 1909 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I34223 |
53 | Wallace, Robina Frances | 16 Jan 1912 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I34224 |
54 | Wallace, Thomas Forest | 19 Jan 1867 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I7384 |
55 | Wallace, Thomas McLean "Lonny" | 1916 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I34225 |
56 | Wallace, William John | 11 Jul 1906 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I34222 |
57 | Whelen, Ann | 12 Jun 1830 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I25376 |
58 | Whelen, Anne | 12 Jul 1841 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I7361 |
59 | Whelen, Elizabeth "Eliza" | 10 Oct 1849 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I17081 |
60 | Whelen, Sarah Agnes | Sep 1874 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I41092 |
61 | Whelen, William Thomas | Abt 1860 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I35108 |
62 | Wilson, Annie PEARL | 10 Sep 1890 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I25277 |
Matches 51 to 75 of 75
Last Name, Given Name(s) | Death | Person ID | ||
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51 | Loten, Ann | 16 Jul 1868 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I25371 |
52 | McCoy, Harold Andrew | 1991 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I5532 |
53 | McDowell, Ann | 17 Feb 1862 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I43027 |
54 | McMinn, Caroline Ann | 18 Jan 1873 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I42996 |
55 | McQuaig, Verda Kesiah | 28 Oct 1997 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I17111 |
56 | Smith, Diana | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I41087 | |
57 | Stephens, Louila Pearl | 15 Oct 1981 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I17099 |
58 | Stewart, Andrew W. | 6 Aug 1942 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I10902 |
59 | Sturgeon, Gladys Loulita | 22 Jul 1989 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I17101 |
60 | Telford, George | 17 Nov 1909 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I41653 |
61 | Wallace, Isabella | 18 Sep 1902 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I34218 |
62 | Wallace, Lillian Margaret | 1996 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I34220 |
63 | Wallace, Mary Jane | 9 Apr 1984 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I34223 |
64 | Wallace, Robina Frances | 1996 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I34224 |
65 | Wallace, Thomas Forest | 19 Jun 1941 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I7384 |
66 | Wallace, William John | 4 Dec 1979 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I34222 |
67 | Whelen, Ann | 5 May 1923 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I25376 |
68 | Whelen, Anne | 25 Apr 1922 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I7361 |
69 | Whelen, Edward | 13 Dec 1903 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I25265 |
70 | Whelen, George | 17 Feb 1860 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I25372 |
71 | Whelen, Mary Jane | 1 Dec 1901 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I25267 |
72 | Whelen, Peter | 15 Jul 1862 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I25370 |
73 | Whitmore, Ina Maude | 3 Feb 1955 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I10903 |
74 | Wilson, Thomas Haslam | 22 Aug 1942 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I25278 |
75 | Woodley, Barbara Helen | 18 Nov 2000 | Shawville, Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada | I7389 |
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