Southern Victoria County, New Brunswick, Canada
Kathleen Farquhar is from Upper Kintore! (the article is from a newsletter of the New Brunswick Scottish Cultural Association) Scottish Portal Project Summer Update By Spencer Thompson The New Brunswick Scottish Portal has hired three students for the summer. The goal of the Portal is to create a comprehensive online database of New Brunswick’s Scottish settlers. Students …
July 18, 1998. Part 1/4 of a VHS video tape. This first part records the church service at the Melville Church in Kincardine. Great music as always! Were you there? Can you spot yourself? Who can you recognize? Who was the behind the camera? Please leave a reply below. Note the playing-time for any specific …
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 …
This information was received via email from Lorraine Stewart in Stonehaven, Scotland: I was on a tour of Aberdeenshire Archives yesterday http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/education_learning/local_history/archives/loc_ArchivesHomePage.asp and they had on display the Kintore School Log Book. I was able to look it up for April 1873 and there was an entry that said 14 children (5 families) were leaving …
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 …
As part of the “Gathering of the Scots Festival” this weekend, two special services will be held at local historic churches. On Sunday, May 26, 2013 at 10 AM in Kincardine in the Scotch Colony, Melville Church will host a Commemorative Church Service. Melville United Church was dedicated in 1878. Services are held here in …
Men worked with horses and carts to build roads in the Scotch Colony. This photo from ca. 1890’s in Kincardine, New Brunswick is from the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick and can also be seen here on the group page of Old Photos of Victoria County, NB. Some road building bits: Burnum Annand and Charles …
“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.
William Spence Cumming (1857 Old Machar, Aberdeen, Scotland-1940 Easton, Maine) immigrated to the Scotch Colony via the Sidonian on May 14, 1874. At age sixteen, he was the oldest of the surviving nine children of Mary (Jack) and Thomas Cumming. Thomas’ first wife, Maria (Jack) died in 1855 in Scotland, soon after her the birth …
Update 10 July 2018: Success. I figured out how to overlay this map on Google Maps satellite photos. http://williamlduncan.com/GoogleMapOverlayAPI%20122217-1%201.html Original post: I understand colonists didn’t get title to the land until they occupied their assigned lot for some time. This map may represent Scotch Colony lot ownership after 1884. I’m using that date because Margaret …
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 …
Can you tell who, what, when or where? If you spot something, leave a reply (note the minutes:seconds). From a 16mm color film. This is from a time before color photographs were widely available. The original film is silent.
Can you tell who, what, when & where? Leave a reply (note the part:minutes:seconds). In four parts.
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 …
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.
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