PaBIA’s eBlast August 20, 2025

Greetings!

With the extremely dry conditions, let’s be vigilant about no firecrackers, fires, with no exceptions of ANY kind as the Fire Rating is now EXTREME. For any changes, please check the ToA website. If you see or are aware of someone violating the fire ban, please contact the By-law Enforcement Department (705) 746-4243 ext. 325.

Photographs and Short Stories
Sharings for 2026 Yearbook

Please send in your high res photos with titles or one page stories of the ’25 summer, to Hilde. The hope is to fill the book with memories as space is available. Perhaps it is a picture or short story to tell about your summer that you feel is worth sharing.

NEW FOR 2026 – Perhaps one of your photos is a place on or view from your island or item in your cottage that represents what resonates with your spirit and uplifts your soul. If so, please take and send us that PaB picture along with a short description (100 words) describing how that particular photo ‘speaks’ to you. Is it a special location or hobby, an old wooden haul, your grandchild’s creation or something else? We’d love to share your heartfelt submissions in the 2026 PABIA/Ojibway Club yearbook.

Please send the picture and up to 100 words describing what brings you back year after year to Hilde Clark.

Reminder to Post Patrolman Off Season Tags on Cottage – Primary Members

For all Primary Members, please be sure to put up your Off Season Tag(s) on the outside of the building(s) you wish to have checked by Bruce Tiffin, our Off Season Patrolman, over the fall, winter, and spring. One tag is provided through your membership and was inside your 2025 Yearbook along with extra tags if you had paid for them.

If you have questions, please contact Elise Findlay, Secretary-Treasurer, directly.

PaBIA Sailing Races (7 & 8)

Time: 2 pm

Venue: Middle Reach

Want to be added to the sailing email list or for further information, please email Jamie Isbester by either clicking on his name or text/phone him by finding the information on page 292 of the 2025 Yearbook.

PaBIA’s On-the-Water Boater Coaching –
Final Class for 2025 on Wednesday, August 27

Randy Johnson will again lead this coaching class – so sign up in the Ojibway Club office for the final Wednesday class. Bring your boat to the back Ojibway Docks. If you have questions, please email him before next Wednesday. It’s never to late to learn/brush up on your boating skills.

Literally on the Bay

Welcome to the Pointe au Baril Library summer e-blasts.

The Library, located in the Community Centre on South Shore Road, is open from 9:30-11:30 am Mondays and Wednesdays, holidays excepted. Recent best sellers have been added to the collection in time for summer reading. We are very much looking forward to the many conversations that a Library generates.

Pointe au Baril Library at the Community Centre, South Shore Road

Summer hours: Monday and Wednesday – 9:30 am – 11:30 am

A young woman and her lover are marooned on an island in this breathtaking saga – an epic story of love, faith and defiance from bestselling author Allegra Goodman.

This precis of the plot appears on the back cover of the book ISOLA. In the actual historical record, this is story of Marguerite de la Rocque de Roberval, a young noblewoman living in 16^th century France. She accompanied, or was forced to accompany, her kinsman Jean-Francois de la Rocque de Roberval who was sailing to New France during the time of the exploratory voyages of Jacques Cartier. When Roberval discovers that Marguerite has a lover on board ship, he punishes them for their betrayal by casting them onto an island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Only Marguerite survives. For two long years, including months of harsh winter deprivation and vicious attacks by bears, Marguerite finds the strength and courage to persevere. Eventually, she is rescued by a passing ship of Portuguese fishe kable story of survival that gives the book its title – ISOLA.

Goodman writes in the author’s note that no one knows exactly why Roberval took Marguerite on his voyage or how she survived alone on her island, or what she thought and felt. I was trying to find words – and then, one day, Marguerite began speaking to me. I never knew my mother. She died in the night that I was born, and so we passed each other in the dark.

Daily Racquet Sports
September 2- October 13, 10 am drop in 

Post Season Granite Cup Tennis Tournament
Saturday, September 20th
9:30 warm up, 10:00 am start

Rain date Sunday, September 21st  

Pre-Register by Thursday, September 18th 

Contact Beth Green to register

With each eBlast, we will provide you a list of names of those members who have provided updated contact information. The details of all the changes since the 2023 yearbook came out in early May are provided in THIS  printable format   for you to print out and insert into your own Yearbook! Changes as of June 23 are below.

For reporting Markers’ problems
contact Tom Cavers by cell (pg. 267 in yearbook) or email

For contacting Secretary-Treasurer and Asst. Sec. Treas.
Nancy Rogers and Elise Findlay: contact.pabia@gmail-com)

This site’s advertising feature was created to provide assistance for special local information & events for existing Yearbook advertisers only.

Emergency 

• PaB Nursing Station
• Canadian Coast Guard 
Search and Rescue
800-267-7270
• PaBIA Emergency info

PaBIA

• AGM Minutes 2024
• Board Meeting Minutes May 2025
• PaBIA Map 2019 correction
• Environment and Nature
• Education