In Memory of Dora Stamp

From the January, 2009 edition of the RTHS newsletter.

Stamp Dora Stamp, Manotick’s unofficial historian, passed away on Sunday, December 28, 2008.

Dora had earned the title “Manotick’s unofficial historian” even before the Manotick Centennial in 1959 when she put together many articles for “The Manotick Story”, the centennial souvenir booklet put out by a special Manotick Centennial Committee. She was a native of Manotick and a long time member of the RTHS. She lived with her parents in the blue house just north of Dr. Leach’s house on the corner of Main and Currier.

Dora commuted to Ottawa each day throughout her working life, but still was able to participate in village activities and to record Manotick history in publications such as the Centennial booklet, and in articles in the South Carleton Gazette, later in the Nepean Clarion, and then the Manotick Messenger, a signal service to the village.

Dora knew Manotick and life in Manotick from childhood. She saw the Village through many quite different phases in her lifetime. She was a keen observer of happenings in the village and had a special knack for putting things in perspective. Because of Dora, present and future generations can get a good feel for and understand the history and development of the village over the past century and a half.