BIFHSGO at the Ottawa Regional Historica Fair (April 22nd 2006)

John Reid and Lesley Anderson were judges at the Ottawa Regional Historica Fair held on Saturday, 22 April at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. A variety of amazing projects of students (aged 9-13) from the various school boards in this area were displayed in the Grand Hall. In 2005, the BIFHSGO Board followed up on a suggestion by Caroline Herbert by voting to make an annual award at this Fair for a genealogy project by an area student. This was the first year that the award was presented and Nicola Hadwen-a home-schooled child-was the happy recipient of $100 and a copy of the Ottawa Sharpshooters book. Nicola's very impressive project was about her great-grandfather, Dr Seymour Hadwen, and how he tried to save the reindeer in the Arctic in the early 1920s. Our own Patricia and Caroline were also there with a terrific display on the Middlemore Project.

Nicola Hadwen with John D. Reid and Lesley Anderson. Patricia Roberts-Pichette responds to students' questions about the Middlemore project. The Historica Fair displays in the Grand Hall of the Museum of Civilization.