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 November, 2014. On October 4th, Sarah Dawson was awarded the Blackburn Hamlet Community Volunteer of the Year plaque. Since 2008 Sarah has been heavily involved with the Blackburn Funfair and in 2013 started a Fun Run on the Sunday of Funfair
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
The City of Ottawa is proposing to build a road that would like Innes Road, west of the Anderson intersection to Walkley Road and Hunt Club road. This plan includes the installation of Multi-Use pathways. It should be noted that this plan is conditional on
The original BCA Logo was sewn in fabric and was initially used by the Blackburn Hornets! Alan B. Beddoe wrote concerning the meaning of the elements in the logo design as follows: The black wavy diagonal stripe edged with white is a symbol for a
