The title of this play from Shakespeare (circa 1623) summarizes well the conclusion of the zoning by-law debates around the huge Recreational Development Project ( WITRI) announced at a municipal meeting in Wentworth on February 24, 2019. Earlier this year,…
The results for 2021 are in. Have a look at the charts! Boyd – Black – Clear – Curran. All four are classified oligotrophic, that is lakes that have ” low nutrient content and are considered geologically young, or little…
The story begins in August 1994 with the erection of a Totem Pole on the Tilden property on the south shore of Clear Lake. It was still there when the Hindle’s acquired the property but rot had already weakened it,…
A few days ago we had some good friends for dinner and I was wondering how I could best entertain them. Then I had an idea! The Great Dunany Quiz was born. So I thought I should share it with…
A few days ago I received the latest Newsletter from Abrinord, the organization responsible for the management of the North River Watershed. I was also asked to respond to a survey by filling a long questionnaire – which I did…
As you know, there was no water sampling program on account of the pandemic. But your group of lake volunteers were still collecting transparency data so that we now have charts of our four lakes with 14 years of data…
Our planet was born 4.55 billion years ago. The Laurentians appeared about 1,2 billion * years ago . Our lakes, about 10,000 years ago. Our association celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. And our lakes are all still very healthy.…
France and I participated in the Forum national sur les lacs on June 7th and 8th, held at Mont-Tremblant. In the following lines, I will share with you the main challenges and initiatives undertaken during this summit to better protect…
The data collected last summer in our lakes show that three of them are clasified as oligotrophic, that is to say in very good condition. They are Black, Clear and Curran. However, the data from Boyd Lake raises some concerns…
This is a really sad story. Mary Boyd lived in Gore in the 1850’s, not far from the lake that bears her surname. She moved to Toronto to be employed as maid for a wealthy family, that of Dr Duncan…
I am writing this article comfortably seated in my home which was built in 1940 by Leonard Gain, the then local contractor. He inhabited it till his death with his wife wife Minnie – née Clifford – who he married…
It is January of the year of Our Lord 1998. Between January 5 and 10, 100mm of freezing rain fell on southern Quebec. In Dunany, it’s a carnage! Brian Gauley, the contractor who looked after our house in our absence,…
What a decade! It started with the great COVID pandemic. Then we saw Trump’s MAGA insurrectionists storm the Capitol. The following year, Putin invaded Ukraine for no reason and sent there his most cruel and murderous mercenaries. As if that…
We have been calling them Algonquins but they now prefer to be known as the Anishinaabe nation. They occupied most of the Ottawa (Adawe in the Algonquin langage) River watershed which was, in effect, their heartland. Historically, their language –…
Our Community is built on three pillars: Church, Country Club and Association. Last Sunday, September 17, both the Golf Club and the Association were there to support St.Paul’s Pray and Play 10th Golf Tournament which generates essential revenue for the…
Last year, during the derecho on May 21st, a cottage at Clear Lake was completely demolished by the fall of a large tree, swept away by violent winds. The two people inside were only slightly injured. Fortunately. But they had…
France and I participated in the Forum national sur les lacs on June 7th and 8th, held at Mont-Tremblant. In the following lines, I will share with you the main challenges and initiatives undertaken during this summit to better protect…
Welcome back to SPANK! The Dunany paddling tradition rides again in 2023, with a back-to-basics four-event schedule, one on each of our lakes: Black, Boyd, Clear, Curran. This picture was taken at the first ever SPANK on July 10, 2010.…
Our planet was born 4.55 billion years ago. The Laurentians appeared about 1,2 billion * years ago . Our lakes, about 10,000 years ago. Our association celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. And our lakes are all still very healthy.…
Most of you have probably heard about artificial intelligence AI. The most talked about product these days is called ChatGPT. It is a large language model that can generate human-like text, trained on a massive dataset of written works from…
Traditional Ukrainian Christmas festivities start on Christmas Eve, which is celebrated on January 6, as reckoned by the Julian calendar. The Christmas celebrations end on January 19, the date of the celebration of the Baptism of Jesus, known in Ukraine…
I have just received the results of the water sampling in our lakes that we, the gang of 7: Bonnie, André, François, Lois and Jim, France and I, collected last summer. The data is that of healthy lakes. The most…
Robert Percy, Grand Master of the St. Paul’s Omnium, otherwise known as Pray and Play, had a particularly challenging year. He had first planned the event for Sunday May 22, but an intense storm called a derecho hit Dunany really…
The annual Exhibition of our Artists which was held in person this year is a perfect illustration of the community spirit that reigns supreme in Dunany. Why? Because the organisation of events such as this one, and the Music Fest…
The day was July 24, 2022. More than 50 Dunany residents were at the Country Club to attend the Annual General Meeting of their association. But that was not all. There were two noteworthy events to follow. The first one…
As the guy in charge of lake management in Dunany I was asked the other day: is there anything that keeps you awake at night? I said yes. Definitely. Its Eurasian Watermilfoil. Why is that? Simply because once a lake…
Dunany, during the last two difficult years, has remained resilient and steadfast in the face of the covid pandemic. The world news challenges us every day to remain mindful of the privilege we have in our Dunany Community. We will…
The results for 2021 are in. Have a look at the charts! Boyd – Black – Clear – Curran. All four are classified oligotrophic, that is lakes that have ” low nutrient content and are considered geologically young, or little…
It was a pretty good year indeed. It was the year Fibre Argenteuil finally arrived in Dunany. It was a year when our Artist held one of their best expositions ever. It was a year when our water samplings showed…
Have a look at these paintings! They are a small sample of the works that our Artists are exhibiting in Lachute beginning November 5, 2021. The Exhibition, entitled “Laurentian Seasons”, is held at at the permanent Route des Arts Gallery.…
You have probably seen trucks from Fibre Argenteuil and Telecon on Dunany roads in recent days. There has been a lot of activity: Deployment of the main fibre cable by subcontractor Telecon on Dunany road and branches. Wednesday, they were…
The title of this play from Shakespeare (circa 1623) summarizes well the conclusion of the zoning by-law debates around the huge Recreational Development Project ( WITRI) announced at a municipal meeting in Wentworth on February 24, 2019. Earlier this year,…
Today, I am the bearer of good news! During a conversation on June 23 with Denis Huberdeau, CEO of Fibre Argenteuil, I learned that all key obstacles to the deployment of a fibre network in Argenteuil have now been lifted…
As you know, there was no water sampling program on account of the pandemic. But your group of lake volunteers were still collecting transparency data so that we now have charts of our four lakes with 14 years of data…
Our artists are never short of ideas. Their latest is a series of miniature paintings that have just been posted on their Facebook page under Dunany Studio Artists. But not all of you are on Facebook and this is why…
Dunany usually comes back to life during the Holidays after a sleepy fall. Many of you would leave your home town to come celebrate with the locals. But not this year. There will be no Christmas Eve service at St-Paul’s.…
The story begins in August 1994 with the erection of a Totem Pole on the Tilden property on the south shore of Clear Lake. It was still there when the Hindle’s acquired the property but rot had already weakened it,…
Not even the pandemic could stop our artists from producing their art work. During the past few months, they have produced many paintings. More than a hundred are part of a permanent exhibition on Facebook under Dunany Studio Artists or…