Updated Feb 18, 2002

Featured in memory of John Argo

Some photos, for now.
How they squared Timber.		   Des photos au début.
Comment faire du bois carré.

COMING soon!

To honour the memory of John Argo
1914-2002
A Life Well Lived

John Argo Shows How
Squared Timbers Were Made

  
First, a
series of 
notches,
all equally 
deep, are
chopped 
with an
axe about
  
a foot apart. They show how much wood
to remove on that side. Here, outrigger
stakes are nailed on to stabilize the log.		  
 
Click picture to see. One by one, sections between notches
are broken away with a heavy axe, and then a broadaxe keeps
the edge level. Finally the surface is smoothed with an adze.
Click the final image to see the thin shaving taken by the adze.
With one side done, the log has to be rotated 90 degrees.
  

A canthook is needed to lever 
the log into position, with pieces 
of wood to wedge it in place.
That done, the notches every 
foot or so apart begin the steps
again until it is another smooth 
surface, finished.
. Repeat two more times to have all four sides squared.
  

 Accurate   
corners of
buildings
must have
dovetails to
 fit exactly.
  
Shaped with a swedesaw, it takes careful work all the way!

. . . . .. . . . .. . . . .. . . Click each picture to enlarge them.
Geological history of
the Mattawa area,
and the Brent Crater		   L'histoire géologique des
environs de Mattawa
et le cratère à Brent
Grandma Murphy's
100th Birthday		   La centenaire de
Mme Joanna Murphy
GREY OWL,
the Bernard Connection		   Le lien Bernard:
GREY OWL

And new for your covenience, ON CD, included are:

Waterway Camera,
New Liskeard to Ottawa		   Waterway Camera
de New Liskeard à Hull
Otto Holden Hydro Dam
to Holden Lake		   Du Barrage Otto Holden
au Lac la Cave
. . . . .


As a reminder:
In Section 4 we have seen school kids who told us
historical facts that they learned from their grandparents.
In French we want a different set by kids at Ste Anne's
perhaps the high school, des contes de la francophonie
préparé en français...avec des photos!

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Handy pages		 ..... .

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Des pages utiles

 
  Go to 4
Family Histories		  

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La francophonie

 
  Go to 5
Learning Our Heritage		  

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Le patrimoine

 

. . .
When the public school took part in the Canada-wide CHIJ project
the result was like a time-capsule of the school year 1997-98.
The year 2000 was an important year historically. What was going on in
Mattawa at the time? Take a look at Recent History and see if
we can follow through with as wide a range of "things" in it !
.....As for items to be included in any section of this website,.....
.....local contributions not only welcome but requested!....
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Time Capsules and Changes
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Year 2002 items being collected now. Photos, pictures of
the historic Millennium Year in Mattawa are still needed too.

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