The Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire, Lord Sackville Chapter was formed in Sackville, New Brunswick, on 28 August 1918, in response to a national appeal "to come to the aid of the country" following the outbreak of World War I. Initially established with forty-five members, by the end of the year 102 women had registered. As a service club the IODE's early efforts were to provide support for the troops by sending knitted goods, etc., but activities soon branched out into the local community and projects related to health, education and social welfare were undertaken.

The Sackville Senior Citizen's Club was established in 1973 as a member of the New Brunswick Senior Citizens organization. A majority of the members of this club are women.

The Maritime Women's Club of Montreal was active between 1934 and 1937 and may have been in existance both before and after that period.

The Sackville Board of Trade was organized in 1901, and incorporated in 1902. The Board secretary held a very responsible position, which included being secretary of all committees. He also attended national conferences for secretaries sponsored by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.

This women's study club was established in Sackville, New Brunswick, in 1913 for social and self-educational purposes. Members were responsible for the preparation of papers and presentations on diverse topics for the edification of fellow members and regular attendance was expected. Membership was limited in number and by invitation of the organization.

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On 21 August 1969 letters patent were issued under the Companies Act of New Brunswick incorporating Thomas Peter Warney, graduate teaching assistant, Robert Reid Campbell, graduate student and Russell Arthur Hunt, assistant professor of English at St. Thomas University, all of Fredericton, under the name "Rubber Duck Press Inc."

The company's primary function was to publish and distribute The Mysterious East, an alternative monthly magazine intended to provide Atlantic Canadians with critical, in-depth analysis of social, political, cultural and economic issues. Such issues, its editors maintained, were often glossed over or largely ignored by mainstream presses or covered from a single viewpoint.

Initially Campbell, Warney, Hunt and Donald Cameron, a Professor of English at the University of New Brunswick, composed the editorial board. Janice Oliver, an interior designer, and her husband, Jon Oliver, an architect-planner, handled the graphics.

The editors had committed themselves to producing only 12 issues, but published 21: 2 in 1969, 10 in 1970, 7 in 1971 and 2 issues in 1972. Beginning in 1969 with a circulation of 5,000, by 1970 Rubber Duck Press distributed approximately 10,000 copies of the magazine each month, primarily in the Maritimes. Readers and subscribers represented a cross-section of the general public: academics, professionals, office personnel, students, business people, politicians, writers, fishermen, farmers and industrial workers.

The editors did not confine themselves exclusively to magazine publishing. Occasionally they took up special causes, presenting briefs to government bodies on the mass media and poverty as well as organizing petitions which called for reform of New Brunswick's judicial system.

Nevertheless, their main focus was and remained journalism. The editors proposed the creation of the Rubber Duck College of Journalism and Communications and the establishment of Paper Tiger Press, but these plans were never realized. In 1970 Thomas Warney left the magazine and Garry Allen and John Rousseau joined the editorial board. By 1972, for various reasons, Campbell, Cameron and Hunt were no longer closely associated with Rubber Duck Press, and the frequency of publication had declined. After much discussion, in late 1972, the magazine ceased publication.

This collection was assembled by the New Brunswick Museum from a large number of different donors, for the assistance of the researchers in Loyalist studies.

Organized largely through the efforts of colonial administrator Thomas Baillie, the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Land Company held it first meeting at the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand, London, on 2 March 1831. Among those in attendance were 7 members of Parliament, John Bainbridge, John Labouchere, and the Honourable Samuel Cunard. The company desired to negotiate with the Colonial Office with respect to the purchase of land in New Brunswick.

In 1832 Baillie was particularly interested in acquiring 350,000 acres of land in York County, the lands of the portage between the St. John River and the Miramichi, north of a line bounding the parish of Queensbury. In 1833 a sale of 500,000 acres of land was completed, and the company next launched a campaign to bring British emigrants to New Brunswick.

Apparently, by the 1840s, the company had ceased operation. Historian W. S. MacNutt deemed the company "a failure owing to the high price paid for land, the incompetence of the company's officials, and the hostility of members of the legislature".

Source: MacNutt, W. S., New Brunswick A History: 1784-1867, 1963

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New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Land Company

The Fredericton Women's Study Club, a study and practical working group, was formed in 1940. Club members worked in support of a variety of causes including the establishment of a public library in Fredericton and the creation of a regional library for York County. As well, the club worked in support of women's rights, notably, to secure the passage of laws enabling women to vote in municipal elections. The club was active until at least 1947.

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Fredericton Women's Study Club