Category «Colony History»

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 …

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 …