Economy and Tourism

Many homeowners in the Municipality of Mansfield-et-Pontefract have expressed concern about the changes to their property assessment on the website Azimut, available through the MRC Pontiac website. Mansfield Mayor Sandra Armstrong explained that the municipality has reached out to the contractor that the MRC hires to conduct the evaluations in order to facilitate private meeting […]

While the job posting has been on MRC Pontiac’s website since last week, it wasn’t until the council of mayors meeting Wednesday night (December 20) that Economic Development Director Guillaume Boudreau officially announced his resignation, effective December 21. Boudreau spent 13 months on the job after being hired in November 2022. Speaking after the meeting, Boudreau […]

A dépanneur with a big reputation in both the Upper Pontiac and the Pembroke region is celebrating its upcoming 40th anniversary with a cold one. Épicerie Dubeau Grocery sits on Hwy. 148 near the shore of L’Isle-aux-Allumettes, and its blue and white sign is one of the first things that greets drivers coming across the […]

After hiring Guillaume Boudreau in November of last year, MRC Pontiac is once again looking for an economic development director, posting a job offer to their website December 14. This position in particular has been a difficult one for the organization to keep occupied, as Boudreau is the fifth director to leave the department in […]

On Thursday morning (November 14) around 40 people turned out to SADC Pontiac’s office in Fort-Coulonge for the organization’s annual “mingle and jingle” networking breakfast. Funded by Economic Development Canada, the organization offers a broad range of services to businesses in the region, from loans to marketing advice to workshops with subject matter experts. Director […]

Quebec’s provincial forest fire fighting agency SOPFEU is in the midst of its annual recruitment period, following the most destructive summer of wildfires in its recorded history. Melanie Morin, a communications officer in SOPFEU’s western region, said that after a quiet spring, they saw more forest burned this season than the last 20 years combined. Things […]

Volunteers were out in force Thursday morning (December 7) at busy intersections throughout the region for the annual “guignolée” or food drive in support of Bouffe Pontiac. Participants were stationed in L’Isle-aux-Allumettes, Campbell’s Bay and Shawville to collect donations of cash and food items from 6 to 9 a.m. Bouffe Pontiac President Martin Riopel said […]

The Mansfield-et-Pontefract municipal office will be closed temporarily on Friday December 8 and Monday December 11 while they move to a temporary location at the George Bryson Cultural House. Mayor Sandra Armstrong told CHIP 101.9 that municipal services will be available at their new location, at 314 rue Principale, on December 12. “We, the office […]

On Wednesday morning around 50 people turned out to the Little Red Wagon Winery in Clarendon for a consultation on the future of agriculture in the Pontiac region. The event was the first of several public meetings to update the plan de développement de la zone agricole (PDZA), a document that sets the region’s agricultural […]

Picket lines outside schools and health care facilities dotted the Pontiac this morning (November 6), as public sector workers took part in one of Quebec’s largest labour actions in recent history. Members of the Front Commun, a coalition of unions representing more than 400,000 public sector workers across the province, started their strike action as […]