Oral Scheer (L) with Hank ‘Rivers’ Lariv- iere, and Barry Brown (R) of award- winning group Family Brown, pictured at Oral Scheer’s 1985 induction into the Ottawa Valley Country Music Hall Of Fame.


Rodeo Records label, and his fiddle compositions also bore allegiance to the Ottawa Valley’s history with titles like The Timber Raft Jig, Avonmore Breakdown, Clayton Poirier Two-Step, The Bonnechere Point Strathspey, The Road to Fort Coulonge, and The Ren- frew County Centennial Breakdown. It wasn’t long before the ‘big


city’ took notice of “The Melodiers”. In 1951, Frank Ryan (1902 - 1965), owner of Ottawa radio station CFRA, (the “FR” in the station’s call letters provided a quick identity as to who owned the radio station), called upon Mac Beattie to broadcast a Friday night radio show from the nation’s capital. The music of Mac Beattie & His Ottawa Valley Melodiers became so popular they were soon being heard regularly on CHOV (Pembroke), CFRA (Ottawa), as well as on shows aired over CKOY (Ottawa) and CJET (Smiths Falls)...and then came national exposure with a live show aired on the 40-station CBC Dominion Network. Television was in its infancy in the


mid-1950’s, and one of the first acts to gain exposure was Mac Beattie & The


continued on page 28 www.bounder.ca


Spit & Shine DON’T SUFFICE!


WHEN


LEAVES ANY SURFACE DIAMOND BRIGHT! IT’S MAGIC FOR CHROME,


BRASS, SILVERWARE, STAINLESS STEEL, FORMICA, GLASS COPPER, CERAMIC TILE, ANY HARD SURFACE.


LEAVES ANY SURFACE HARD AND CRYSTAL CLEAR. NO EMULSIONS OR OILY BASE REMAINS. GIVES SURFACE PROTECTION AGAINST CHEMICALS OR SALT, MAKES SURFACE SMOOTH TO RESIST FINGERPRINTS OR CLINGING PARTICLES.


729 Industrielle St #3a Rockland


613.673.1007 banditsuperstore.com


BANDIT Superstore BOUNDER MAGAZINE 23


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56  |  Page 57  |  Page 58  |  Page 59  |  Page 60  |  Page 61  |  Page 62  |  Page 63  |  Page 64  |  Page 65  |  Page 66  |  Page 67  |  Page 68  |  Page 69  |  Page 70  |  Page 71  |  Page 72