In 1989 , to mark the 75th anniversary of Amos, the Historical Society , in collaboration with the Festival Committee 's 75th anniversary and Echo Amos , had a history quiz following the formula of '' budding geniuses '' of CBC.In the weeks preceding the Quiz , we presented in the paper the Echo a series of ten texts on the early period of 1950 to Amos They included the events in both the political and economic social or athletic . The published data are a summary of facts in the book '' Abitibi old , yesterday and today'' Peter Trudelle and local newspapers '' Abitibi '' and ''La Gazette du Nord .'' more... See more text