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HISTQRY or .THE VAILEY run or new: INTEREST ,(firpm.THE’OTTAWA'GITIZEN, July 25, 1970) The Upper Ottawa Valley, ‘ - I by Clyde C. Kennedy; published by Renfrew County Council, Pembroke, Ontario; pp 242, and credits and bibliography; $3.95 By Ronald Grantham ~,Clyde C. Kennedy, it was noted on this page on July 4, has written an extraordinarily interesting history of the Upper Ottawa Valley, broadly crnceived to include geological and archeological informatidn and casting new light on many facets of its subject. "People who live and travel in the Valley will enjoy dipping into this wealth of information about their environment." , As a boy in Trail, B.C., Clyde Kennedy heard from his father the story of David Thompson's journey down the Columbia, and with his father hunted for arrowheads in the countryside. His interest in Canadian history continued to develop. While living in Deep River, he steeped himself in the lore of the Valley. He has lived in Ottawa since 1965. He has worked with National Museum field parties in th: region, and has carried out contracts to dig sites, with volâ€" unteer groups of aroheblogists and anthrdpologists. A stop press note at the end of his book reports that the National Museum of Man gives 5,240 years as the radioâ€" carbonâ€"determined dating on a human bone from.the Allumette Island site. . Mr Kennedy opens his book with an account of the geology of the region. The last major advance'of the ice shett, two miles thick in places, occurred only 10,600 years ago; later the Champlain Sea-flowed into the dcprCSFCd land. Soviet scientists have just announced that the region is still rising (hardly news here, where occasional quakes give a reminder). ' In an introduction to the Kennedy book, Harry J. Walker - who began his career as a cub reporter in Renfrew, and last fall climaxcd his regional writings by producing, with his wife, OliVe, the popular Carleton Saga â€" says that Clyde Kennedy has provided details about the culture of the native Indians never bifoie available. These are summed up in a cultural sequence c ar . ‘