Pontiac ( French : municipalité régionale de comté de Pontiac ) is a regional county municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec , Canada . Campbell's Bay is the county seat. It should not be confused with the municipality of Pontiac , which is located in the neighbouring Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais Regional County Municipality . For the electoral district see Pontiac (federal electoral district) .
8-494: Shawville is a town located in the Pontiac Regional County Municipality in the administrative region of Outaouais in western Quebec , Canada. 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
16-605: 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 Sainte-Mélanie and still later as Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur in 1917. In recent times, Shawville has been the site of several conflicts between local shopkeepers and the Office québécois de la langue française over the province's language laws. The town
24-530: A province that is majority French-speaking and Roman Catholic . The town is characterized by its red-brick buildings. Unlike most municipalities in Quebec, it has no Catholic church . Shawville is home to an elementary school , a high school , a regional hospital, and the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada (SRPC) national head office. Its businesses are mostly small and family-run. The Shawville Fair, held
32-408: Is an enclave 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 . Shawville is a majority anglophone (with over 85 percent of its residents listing English as their first language in the 2021 Canadian census ) and Protestant (75%) community. This is unusual in Quebec,
40-666: The Buffalo Sabres ), NHL legend Frank "The Shawville Express" Finnigan and race horse owner and lawyer Clay Horner. Former NHL referee Blaine Angus also comes from the area. Ray Harris, a prominent singer-songwriter in the Ottawa area, was raised in Shawville and later wrote the song Shawville Girl . Robert Taylor Telford , who founded the Alberta city Leduc in 1891, was born in Shawville in 1860. Pontiac Regional County Municipality There are 18 subdivisions within
48-709: The first time in its history in 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic . Shawville is represented in the Eastern Ontario Junior B Hockey League by the Shawville Pontiacs . List of former mayors: Famous people from Shawville include the former general manager of the Ottawa Senators , Bryan Murray , Terry Murray (current assistant coach of the Buffalo Sabres and former coach of the L.A. Kings ), Tim Murray (former general manager of
56-542: The first weekend in September, is the town's major event. It has run every year since 1856 and includes typical county fair features such as livestock shows, auctions, truck pulls, demolition derbies, art/craft/hobby shows, diverse food stands and a midway . In recent years, it has drawn headline entertainers such as Terri Clark , Stompin' Tom Connors , Paul Brandt , April Wine , Dean Brody and Corb Lund , with total attendance reaching around 50,000. It did not run for
64-422: The name of a pioneer family, they opted instead to name it "Shawville" after James Shaw promised to donate 0.8 ha (2.0 acres) of land to the new municipality. Shawville was officially established in 1874 and was populated by Irish Protestant immigrants. John Dale Jr, who was mayor of Clarendon at the time, resigned to become the first mayor of the newly formed township of Shawville in 1874. The municipality has
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