Published in The BANAR November 2014 by Evelyn Budd. The area in which we now live was once called Green’s Creek after pioneer Robert Green, who chose to build his home and a sawmill near the creek that ran off the Ottawa River. The community
Published in The BANAR February 2014 by Lynn Sewell. Many of you in Blackburn are very familiar with the red and white Cancer Chase signs that start popping up in Blackburn in early September but perhaps you don’t know how this all started. Here is
Published in The BANAR September 2013 by Wilbrod LeClerc The Blackburn Hamlet that we know today was first sold by the Crown to lumbermen around 1790. When the lumber disappeared, the land was sold to the first settlers in the early 1800’s. Most of these
Published in The BANAR November 2012 by François Trépanier At the end of August, a piece of Blackburn Hamlet history, Wally’s “Fine Italian Cuisine”, closed its kitchen for good. The Elias brothers, Bob, Wally, Nehme and Sam, originally opened the Revoly restaurant in 1979 with
Published in The BANAR September 2011 by Stan Kowala On May 22, 2011 we lost a long-time volunteer/mentor in the Blackburn Hamlet community. Eldon Kemp was born and raised in Blackburn and passed away in his 90th year. He leaves behind a legacy of community
Published in The BANAR April 2007 by Evelyn Budd In the early 1800’s, a timber limit for the area extending several miles along the Ottawa River and as far south as the Mer Bleue was bought from the government by Mr. Erskine. When the timber