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Smith, William

  • Person
  • fl. 19th c.

William Smith, controller and registrar of shipping for the port of Saint John, New Brunswick, compiled this list to assist merchants, shipowners and others interested in the shipping of the port.

Smith, William Nathan

  • Person
  • 1829-1866

William Nathan Smith, mariner, (1829-1866), was born in Saint John, New Brunswick one of the eight children of Thomas M. Smith and Rebecca Findlay Smith. William's siblings were: George Frederick (1829-1894) who was also a seafarer; John; Rufus; Julia; Eleanor; Edwin; and James. Both William and George were agents at sea for his father's shipping firm which he established by 1850. William was a crew member aboard the barque "Susan" on a return voyage from Saint John to Liverpool, England from 12 May 1850 to 22 August 1850 and kept a journal during this time. Smith died in Victoria, Australia, in 1866.

Source:
Alan D. McNairn, editor, Life Aboard -The Journals of William N. and George F. Smith

Smiths Creek burying ground (Kings County, N.B.)

  • Corporate body
  • Operational since ca. 1822

The Smiths Creek burying ground is located near Sussex, in the parish of Studholm, Kings County on the road to Knightville. The site was established as a cemetery about 1822, but it appears that it was originally used only by the Gosline family. Most of the gravestones in the cemetery date from the early 1840s.

In 1850 Samuel Gosline of Smiths Creek donated the land for use as a public, nondenominational burying ground. The original trustees of the cemetery were John King, David Hayward, Edward Currie, Hugh J. Gosline, William Mace, William A. Stockton, Peter Parlee, and John A. Gosline. In the 21st century, the site is still sometimes referred to as the Gosline Cemetery.

Smyth family (Descendants of George Stracey Smyth)

  • Family
  • Branch begins in 1767

George Stracey Smyth (1767-1823) was the son of John Smyth, D.D., Rector of St.Giles-in-the-Field, Norwich, England. His mother was Sarah Gee, granddaughter of Sir John Pratt, lord chief justice, whose son became 1st Earl Camden. George entered the militia in 1779. In 1812 he was appointed commander-in-chief of the British forces in New Brunswick with the rank of major-general. He acted as administrator of the province for two periods; 1812-1813 and 1814-1816.

In 1817 he was appointed lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick and held that post until his death. His wife had died in 1817 leaving two children, Amelia Georgianna and George Brunswick, who were still minors at the time of his death. Smyth served as aide-de-camp to Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent (1767-1820) and his brother, John Gee Smyth (1759-1831) was domestic chaplain to the Duke.

Snowball, Jabez Bunting

  • Person
  • 1837-1907

Jabez Bunting Snowball was a lumberman, Member of Parliament, senator, and Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick. He was born in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in 1837, the son of the Rev. John Snowball and Sarah Ann Wells. Snowball married twice; first, in 1858, to Margaret Ann MacDougall, daughter of John MacDougall and Jane Smith. After her death, he married Margaret Ellen Archibald, daughter of Robert Archibald and Ann Hutton In 1873. Jabez Snowball died in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on 24 February 1907.

In 1873 Snowball was one of the original stockholders, and by 1876, the sole owner of, the Chatham Branch Railway Company, which joined Chatham to the Intercolonial Railway. In 1890 he sold the line to the Northern and Western Railway Company, which he owned jointly with Alexander Gibson. The two lines were renamed the Canada Eastern Railway which became in turn part of the Intercolonial Railway in 1905 and the Canadian National Railway in 1923.

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts

  • Corporate body
  • Chartered in 1701

The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, begun by Dr. Thomas Bray of the Church of England to support missionary activity in the New England colonies, was chartered in 1701. After the American Revolution, its activities in America were restricted to British North America. The Society provided funds to build churches and rectories, to pay clergy, to support schools and to purchase books. It provided New Brunswick with its earliest clergymen and church infrastructure.

In 1938 the Reverend F. M. T. Palgrave made this calendar of the Society's correspondence related to New Brunswick. Palgrave was an etymologist and missionary with the Church Missionary Society. He had served in Stikine in Northern British Columbia from 1896-1902.

Somers Newton, Alice Maud

  • Person
  • 1921-2014

Alice Maud Somers Newton (nee Cook) 1921-2014. A native of Grand Manan Island, Alice graduated from New Brunswick Normal School Teachers College winning the Governor Generals medal for excellence. She taught in Grand Manan Schools for 21½ years. Eugene Somers, her first husband, worked alongside Alice raising their family on Grand Manan while teaching and managing the Double "D" Housekeeping Cabins by the Sea at Drake's Dock. Alice and Eugene and Eileen were involved in many community activities and groups including the St. Paul's Anglican Church, the Grand Manan Museum and the Grand Manan Historical Society. Their daughter Marjorie Eileen lived at home. She passed away in Dec. 2001. After Eugene's death Alice married Philip Newton on 9 Oct. 2001. She lived the last 12 years of her life in Ajax, Ontario and Parksville, British Columbia, but Grand Manan was always "HOME". info from Ells Funeral Home website and Ava Sturgeon, Archivist.

Somerville, Graeme F.

  • Person
  • n.d.

Graeme Somerville of Saint John, New Brunswick, attended Mount Allison from 1945/1946 to 1947/1948, graduating in May 1948 with a certificate in Finance and Commerce. He was coach of the university gymnastics team.

Sons of Temperance (Dalhousie, N.B.)

  • Corporate body
  • Organized in Canada ca. 1848; organized in Dalhousie no later than 1851.

The Sons of Temperance lodge was a fraternal and prohibitionist society modeled on the Odd Fellows. It arrived in Canada about 1848. The Sons of Temperance was established "to shield us from the evils of intemperance, afford mutual assistance in case of sickness and elevate our characters as men." Members could not buy, sell or make any alcohol. The organization lobbied for restrictive legislation concerning alcohol and tried to modify the public's behaviour and attitudes towards liquor.

Source: Bylaws and rules of the York Division of the Sons of Temperance, 1853; When Rum was King, 1984

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