Category «Colony History»

1932, Archibald Fraser Fatally Stricken on Holiday Trip

From the archives, here is a transcription from the newspaper The Montreal Gazette, published on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 1932: “(By the Canadian Press.) Edmundston, N.B., October 10.––Victim of a sudden heart attack, Archibald Fraser, Edmundston, president of Fraser Companies, Limited, and a director of the Royal Bank of Canada and other financial organizations, dropped dead …

Bissett Cemetery

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbtvglhg/bissett_cemetery.htm Bissett Cemetery of Upper Kintore is a private cemetery, transcribed by Frances MacKellar in 2001. Thank you to Tobique Valley Genealogy and Local History Group for sharing the information online.

Upper Kintore Cemetery

A transcription of the Upper Kintore Cemetery was completed by Ruth Todd and Patty Corey in September 2006 and updated September 2011. The alphabetical list is available on the web, thanks to their hard work, and also includes a short history of the Upper Kintore Church and directions on how to get there. Here is …

Melville Cemetery

Extensive work has been done to make the records of the Melville Cemetery available online. Many thanks to Blair Morton and his mother, Kathleen (Ellis) Morton! Here is the link. Another transcription of this cemetery, updated September 2011 by the Tobique Valley Genealogy and Local History Group, also includes information about the monument for world …

1873 news of the Kincardineshire Colony

From the archives, a transcription of the article from St. John Daily News, Aug. 28, 1873 follows. (Images are for illustrative purposes and were not published in the newspaper originally.) The Kincardineshire Colony New Kincardineshire, August, 23, 1873 “Several rather serious accidents have recently occurred in this settlement, two to workmen from their axes; two, …

Fraser History PowerPoint video

The Fraser family immigrated to the Bonaccord area in 1873. Fraser.mov Click here to view (13 MB) We converted the original powerpoint to video. It may take a while to start. There is no sound and you will need to pause the video to read the text.

Emigration in Family Groups

From the archives as it was published in The Brisbane Courier (Qld: 1864-1933), Wednesday, September 24, 1873, a transcription of the article (no illustrations or photos in the original publication) follows: “The St. John (N. B.) Daily Telegraph contains a full and interesting account of the voyage of the steamer Castalia, and the arrival at …

Inducement for Emigrants

From the archives, “News of the day” in the New Zealand newspaper the Colonist, Volume XVI, Issue 1653, 22 July 1873, Page 3 included this notice: By this mail we (Bruce Herald) have a letter from an old colonist from Laurencekirk, in which he says: –– “Great inducement is at present held out here, by …

50th Anniversary Panorama

This is a link to a very big version of the picture (4.7 MB). It may take a very long time to down load. This was copied from an original print that Garth Farquhar has. I’m trying to think of ways to identify and index individuals. Any suggestions? This is a link to another photo …

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 …

Collecting Cream

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 …

A Walking Wedding Trip

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. …