Series consists of information pertaining to Renfrew County;
Arnprior and District Museum collection F4.3;
Series: Renfrew County -- 1907; 1922-1926; 1961; 1976. -- 7 cm of textual records.;
Series contains such records as the following: “Renfrew County Visitor Attraction Study” prepared by Lee Elken Becksted Paulsen Fair (Architects) for the Ministry of Industry and Tourism and the Ministry of Treasury, Economics and Intergovernmental Affairs for Ontario in 1976; the study was commissioned by the Ontario government in 1975; the goal of the study was to identify a commercially viable visitor attraction based upon the historical and cultural resources of the County, particularly those of the square timber and lumbering era of the Upper Ottawa Valley region. Also included is a pamphlet on the “Champlain Trail” where Champlain is believed to have lost his astrolabe (an instrument used for measuring latitude and longitude) in 1613 near the village of Cobden; the astrolabe turned up on the shores of Green Lake by a farm hand in 1867; also included are “Notes on the History of Renfrew County for the Centennial 1961” compiled by Mrs. Carl Price (historian) and Clyde C. Kennedy (archaeologist) of the Ottawa Valley Historical Society; also “Minutes of the Proceeedings and By-laws of the Municipal Council of the County of Renfrew” 1907, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925 and 1926.;