Category «History»

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. …

Mystery House Portrait

Where was this house located? Who are the four people posing for the portrait? The image was found among old family photographs belonging to William Cumming Langley of Mars Hill, ME (great-grandson of Thomas Cumming of Upper Kintore.)

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 …

Possible Colony home tintype [updated]

This unidentified tintype photograph was found in the old William Duncan and Elizabeth Linton home in Washburn, Maine. If it is a Scotch Colony home, possible families could be Duncan, Cocker, Wilson, or Chapman. The lay of the land appears to be very flat which suggests Bon Accord (was Stonehaven) in Colony. Margaret Rheinlander Chapman was …

Sample Cookbook submission [from Cari]

Hi folks:  I have been asked to send an example of a submission to the cookbook/history book to help give an idea.  Please find attached one I have done for my mother-in-law, Carrie Grierson.  Yours can be very different, funny or heartwarming —– just do it!  Hope this helps. Write me if you have any …

David Duncan’s 18 April, 1873, Voyage Notebook

Transcript of David Duncan 18/4/73 Stonehaven Notebook A Voyage from Glasgow, Scotland to St. John, New Brunnswick, Canada, on board the screw-steam ship Castalia. Images of the diary pages are here. The original was donated to the Salmon Brook Historical Museum (Washburn, Maine) by David’s granddaughter Sandra Everett. Sandra also took the diary photos and …

Old map of Colony lots (Cadastral)

This map belonged to Melvin Barclay when it was photographed in the 1980s(?)- Does anyone know the year the map was made or who drew it? This is a link to a slightly larger version to download.

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 …