History of the Melville Church presented by Cari Grierson on August 26, 2012
HISTORY OF KINCARDINE’S MELVILLE CHURCH by Cari Grierson (Audio Version)
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Kincardine Memorial Service 26 Aug, 2012
History of Kincardine’s Melville Church
Memorial Service 26 August 2012 at the church
by Cari Grierson
It is an honour for me to be asked to do a short history of the Colony for this the Memorial Service. I am not a descendant but my husband Roy, who is, and I have chosen this wonderful community to be our permanent home and therein lies our interest.
There are so many facets of this compelling colony history to explore. But this year I have chosen to talk about the “Kirk” The settlers who came from Scotland to this place were of high moral standing with high hopes and had great plans. In order to be accepted for this emigration they had to be of good character and fitness. They vowed to protect their unity of religion and education according to the word of God. They made arrangements with the Scottish church before and after their departure from Scotland. Continue reading
Collecting Cream
Barclay farm in Upper Kintore
What’s better than a big ice-cream cone on a hot summer day? Here’s a bit about where it came from in the 1930’s.
“Jack Cooper was one of the men who collected cream from Victoria County farms in the thirties. It was done in the evenings and taken to Plaster Rock (by Mr. Cooper) early in the mornings for the eight o’clock train that would drop the cream at Amherst, N. S.
‘We collected in the evenings,’ said Mr. Cooper, ‘because there was no refrigeration in those days, that could be used. We did the Scotch Colony right after supper, then to South Tilley. We picked up cream from James Barclay, the Haffords, the DeMerchants, the Ogilvys, to mention a few. We also went out on the Birch Ridge road. At that time we were living in the old McNair homestead in upper Arthurette.’
‘The Brookfield Dairies received the cream at Amherst. They made delicious ice cream. Green’s, Plaster Rock, sold it for many years. A number of years later, when we had a 1939 Ford truck, we collected cream for the Carleton Co-operative, Florenceville. We were always paid by pound of butterfat, possibly forty to fifty cents.'”
Story source: The Tobiquer, Number 7, 1986, page 15. Copy available at the Southern Victoria Historical Museum, Perth-Andover, New Brunswick.
A Walking Wedding Trip
Upper Kintore
Here is a short Colony story found on a visit to the Southern Victoria Historical Museum.
“It was not unusual for many young couples in early days, and even not long ago, to be married without much money in hand. They would probably live with one or the other set of parents for a while.
Such was the situation for a newly married couple of Upper Kintore, not many years after most of the settlers had arrived in the new colony. But they did not forgo a wedding trip. They started out early one morning for a walking trip as far as Lower Kintore, thence by the road known today as the Beech Glen Road, to Perth and from there home. They had stopped at the Laws, on [Lawson] hill to partake of the lunch that they had brought, and, no doubt had an occasional rest. They made it—in one day!
They were Euphemia Bissett and Archibald Winter. Coming from Scotland, probably the Aberdeen area, they were the first couple to be married in the new colony.
It is possible that after leaving Perth they went by the Old Colony Road, a cleared trail through the woods starting where the Cochrane (Hud’s) brook crossed the highway and ending near the Upper Kintore cemetery—about four miles from the Tobique River by the Kintore Road.
The William Bissetts, parents of Euphemia, had arrived with their family when most of the settlers came in 1874. During the next six years, several young men including Archibald Winter came out from Scotland, also a few others.”
Story source: The Tobiquer, Volume 9, 1988, page 30. Copy available at the Southern Victoria Historical Musuem, Perth-Andover, New Brunswick.
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An old fiddle comes home
A story from the Scotch Colony of New Brunswick
submitted by Cari Grierson, July 2012
Many years ago, in the early 1900’s in the part of the Colony called Kincardine today, a man called Angus Adam played the fiddle. His daughter, Carrie Irene, chorded for him as she had the gift of being able to play the piano by ear. Carrie married James (Jim) Alexander Grierson, a young officer in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and moved away from her home to live in many small towns in the Province, wherever her husband was stationed. There were three children born to this couple, Roy Allison, Gerald Alan and Carolyn Marie. And as time would have it, the children grew up and had families of their own. Carrie and Jim passed away and the items of their household travelled in many directions Continue reading
1872 Prospectus of New Kincardineshire Colony of New Brunswick by William Brown…
…with reports of directors regarding situation, soil, climate, &c, &c., and a statement of conditions concerning free houses, free grants of land, and assisted passages, an online book at Archive.org website (26 pages). The author, Captain William Brown, worked for the Anchor Steamship Line which transported the Scotch colonists to New Brunswick in 1873. Captain Brown was instrumental in the founding New Kincardineshire, now known as the Scotch Colony. This document is a very interesting if overly-rosy snapshot of life in the Perth-Andover area just before the founding of the colony. I would describe it as a sales brochure.
https://ia800908.us.archive.org/26/items/cihm_00969/cihm_00969.pdf
View/download a local copy of the pdf document here.
