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historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-50ec6_first-military-test-flights_Petawawa-Ontario.html
The first military demonstration of aircraft flight in Canada was given at Petawawa Camp in August 1909, by J.A.D. McCurdy and F.W. Baldwin, with the assistance of the Royal Canadian Engineers. On the morning of 2 August, they made three successfu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-cee87_the-pembroke-and-mattawan-road_Pembroke-Ontario.html
Constructed primarily as a supply route to the lumber camps in the Upper Ottawa Valley, this Colonization Road was begun in 1853 and opened the following year as a winter road from Pembroke to the mouth of the Mattawa River. The relocating of a po…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-e5cca_the-founder-of-pembroke_Pembroke-Ontario.html
Peter White, born in Edinburgh, was a merchant seaman when he was pressed into the Royal Navy in 1813 and sent to Canada. Following service on the Great Lakes under Commodore Sir James Yeo, he left the Navy and entered the lumber trade in the Otta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-86713_jeanne-lajoie_Pembroke-Ontario.html
Jeanne Lajoie, a dedicated teacher and advocate for the establishment of French schools in Ontario, was born in Lefaivre, near Hawkesbury, in 1899. In 1923, Lajoie helped a group of Francophone parents to establish the first independent French sch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-79490_steamboating-on-the-upper-ottawa_Laurentian-Hills-Ontario.html
The first steamboat on the Upper Ottawa River was the 25 horse-power "Lady Colborne" built in 1833 for service between Aylmer and Chats Falls. Gradually other sections of the river where opened to steam navigation and in 1854 the "Pontiac" was lau…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-6d9be_nuclear-power-demonstration-reactor_Laurentian-Hills-Ontario.html
On June 4, 1962 the Nuclear Power Demonstration (NPD) Reactor 3 km east of Rolphton supplied the Ontario power grid with the first nuclear-generated electricity in Canada. A joint project of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Ontario Hydro and Canad…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-0f429_rapids-of-the-upper-ottawa_Deux-Rivieres-Ontario.html
For over two centuries the Ottawa River was part of the main canoe route to the West. Some of the river's most spectacular and dangerous rapids were located immediately downriver from here: the Rapide de la Veillée, the Trou and the Rapide …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-41cd3_champlains-journey-of-1613_Cobden-Ontario.html
The Father of New France, Samuel de Champlain, made the first of two voyages into what is now Ontario in 1613. He travelled up the Ottawa River seeking the northern sea (Hudson Bay) which one of his five companions, Nicolas de Vignau, claimed to h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-c260e_champlains-astrolabe_Cobden-Ontario.html
Nearby was found in 1867 by Edward George Lee an Astrolabe bearing the date 1603. This instrument, used for determining latitude, is believed to have been lost by Champlain about 7th June, 1613, on his exploratory expedition up the Ottawa River.