Those with roots in the Ottawa Valley have a new resource, the Almonte Gazette now searchable online from 1861-1989.
The availability is thanks to cooperation between the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum which organized the digitization/indexing and the Almonte Public Library which had previously imaged the town’s newspaper.
Like many local papers the Almonte Gazette is a rich source for social information as well as births, deaths and marriages within the area.
I advise reading the search instructions. My experience is that the search times out if too wide a range of years is included or only some of the results are returned.
http://mvtm.ca/mvtm/?page_id=2759
Thanks to Prof Bruce Elliott for the tip
Wikipedia informs that the item was already 60 years old going back to the 1820s.
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Many thanks to you, and Bruce, for this lead. Have found my great grandfather pleading guilty to operating an illicit still and sentenced to a month in gaol and a fine of $100 - November 1889. Gives credence to the family references.
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