Thanks to Garth Farquhar for sharing this programme with Robert LaFrance on Facebook:

“Courtesy of Garth Farquhar, this is a copy of the actual program handed out in 1949 when Upper Kintore celebrated the 75th year of the arrival of its first colonists in 1874. The first settlers of Upper and Lower Stonehaven (Bon Accord and Kincardine) and Lower Kintore arrived the year before. This month all the Scottish descendants and others are going to celebrate the 140th anniversary of the Scotch Colony itself. Look to the Facebook page of the Scotch Colony for details of the event that takes place in about three weeks. Tours of historic buildings, a barbecue, some Scottish Games demonstrations, and lots more.”

Agnes (Allen) Ledingham, wife of John Ledingham, died at their home called “Ledingsdale” (lot 5) in Kintore, Victoria County  in January 1881.

Margaret and David Burns celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1883 at their home “New Eden Cottage” (lot 6) in “New Kincardine Colony.”

Maggie Mavor, daughter of Catherine (Thompson) and Francis Mavor, married Fred Robertson in 1889 at her parent’s home called “Loggie” (lot 6) in Lower Kintore.

In 1876, Ellen (Mitchell) Finnie, age 46, died at “Carron,” (lot 1) in Kintore, New Kincardine. She was the wife of James FINNIE.

In 1892 at “Bon Accord House” in Kincardine (lot 58), Agnes Adam married John Stevenson at her parent’s home.

Jane (Nevin) and Thomas Watt named their Kintore home “Lily Glenn,” (lot 2). (See Duncan MacPhail’s book New Kincardineshire: An Intimate History of the Early Years of a Scottish Settlement in New Brunswick, p. 108)

In 1884 William Bissett, age 77, died at his home, “Bandeau” on lot 128 Upper Kintore.

William Cocker, age 62, widower, and Agnes Petrie, age 52, spinster, were married in 1892 at “Fintray” in Kintore. (Mary Ann Will Cocker, daughter of William and his first wife Mary Anne MacDonald, gave her birth place as Fintray, Aberdeenshire, Scotland on her marriage certificate in 1891.)

Isabella (Bissett) and William McKenzie named their residence “Belmont” (lot 21) in Lower Kincardine. Their daughter Euphemia married Robert Cameron at her parent’s home in 1890.

Farquhar’s Mail Cabinet

“James Farquhar was Upper Kintore’s first and only Postmaster, serving from 1883 until his death at the age of 92 in 1922. This is the cabinet he used to sort the mail in.” Thank you to Garth Farquhar.

From the archives, here is a transcription of an article by Floyd S. Chalmers published in The Financial Post on June 19, 1925:

“The first time I saw Archie Fraser and his brother, Donnie, they were bunching shingles in a little mill yard up-province. Their father owned the mill but the boys worked from dawn to dark and they learned the business from the sawdust up.”

Archibald Fraser

So spoke a Fredericton, N.B. man to me the other day. I had asked him about his fellow neighbor, Archibald Fraser; asked him how a man could acquire millions; could build up a business so large that to go into Montreal to borrow five million dollars on it, wasn’t particularly startling; could become the richest man in his province and yet never lose his good Scotch common sense, his freedom from sham or show; his big-hearted seven-days-a-wee Christianity.

“You see, it was this way,” went on the Fredericton man. “Archie Fraser’s dad came out with a party of Scotch immigrants. He hadn’t much money but he had a determination to work and a bundle of pride. When the immigrants landed in Fredericton the town put them up at the court house. But old Donald Fraser was too Continue reading →