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Grand Harbour Credit Union

  • Corporate body
  • 1937-1957

The Grand Harbour Credit Union was located in Grand Harbour, Grand Manan, New Brunswick. The building is still in use at its original location at Route 776, Grand Manan. The Credit Union started in 1937 and closed in 1957. Helen Ingalls worked there for many years.

Victoria Park

  • Corporate body
  • 1910-

The land for the Victoria Park at Grand Harbour, Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick was purchased in 1910. The land was purchased from Thomas J. Foster and his wife Elodie by the residents of School District #4, Grand Harbour for the use of the residents. Through the years the Grand Harbour Recreational Club and then the Grand Harbour Sports Council raised funds and improvements were made to the property. It has been used as a baseball field since the creation of the park. In 2002 the Park contained a swimming pool, swings, teeters, child's merry-go-round, and slide as well as the ball diamond with dug outs and bleachers. When the school district was abolished, the village of Grand Manan took over the management of the park.

Eben Gaskill Ice House

  • Corporate body
  • 1925-1952

The Gaskill Family have a long history of industry on Grand Manan Island. The Eben Gaskill that kept this Day Book used the pages to record many things, including: figures, notes of deaths or happenings, weather conditions, and a record of the Ice Harvesting the family did from 1925 to 1952. From an interview with Bowlen Gaskill, Eben Gaskill's descendant, it has been learned that The original house was located on the road to Whale Cove Pond in back of the Anglican Church (of Ascension) in North Head. Because the Gaskill's owned property in the area and needed access to get ice off the beach, they have a right of way down that road forever. It is believed this first house was destroyed in a storm. The company had no official name and it was owned solely by Eben Gaskill and was believed to be started by Eben Gaskill Sr. (1828-1913). Bowlen began helping out in the second Ice House when he was 8 or 10 years old. Bowlen Gaskill also shared memories of life with his father Charlie Gaskill and his Grandfather Eben. The second ice house was located behind and to the right of what is now Larry McHatten's house at Civic Number 86 on Route 776 in North Head. This was the old Gaskill homestead.
Most of the ice was cut in Whale Cove Pond and some in Ohio Pond. It was cut with saws and pulled from the pond with large tongs attached to a pole which was attached to a tripod with a swivel. There was a pulley on the end of the pole. In the early years, the ice was transported to the ice house by horses owned by Ernie Griffin and Coney and Jimmy Thomas. In late years, it was moved by truck (Alan Bradbury). Ross Worthen and Thom Naves were also employees.
They hauled ice from Whale Cove Pond up the road to the cemetery, through the cemetery, and came out behind Eben's barn (which was behind his house now No. 94) and over to the ice house (now house No. 84). There was a bit of a hill behind the ice house and they sluiced the ice down the hill into it. They piled the ice in tiers and put a layer of sawdust between and around each tier. The ice would keep all summer. They sold a lot of ice to Shorecrest Lodge and the Marathon Inn or anyone who had an ice box. Some people would only buy a little piece for $0.15.

Macdonald Consolidated School

  • Corporate body
  • 1904-present

The New Brunswick government passed legislation in 1903 permitting the consolidation of rural schools. The Macdonald Consolidated School (MCS) in Kingston was both the province's first consolidated school and its first public high school in a rural community.
The opening of MCS on August 29th, 1904 marked the beginning of a major transformation in public education for New Brunswick's rural youth. Although it would be over sixty years before one room schools ceased to operate, MCS was the beginning of their end.
The school's state-of-the-art building and its operational costs for the first three years, were financed by Sir William C. Macdonald, a wealthy Montreal based tobacco merchant. The school introduced an enhanced curriculum designed to meet the unique needs of rural youth. All students were taught courses in gardening and nature. Older students were assigned their own garden plot to develop and manage, while younger students shared plots. Domestic science and manual training were also part of the curriculum. The school introduced a new student conveyance system to transport students from outlying districts to school. These innovations, along with the introduction of highly qualified teachers, led to the doubling of student attendance. Of the four MCS schools opened in Canada by the Macdonald Rural School Fund, Kingston's MCS is the only one that retains its public school vocation to this day.

McLaughlin, A. W.

  • Person
  • fl. 1940s-1950s

Surveyor, A. W. McLaughlin was working in Fredericton, York County, New Brunswick, in the 1940s and 1950s and probably before and after those dates. He was a charter member of the New Brunswick Land Surveyors (member no. 165), receiving his designation as a surveyor in 1947.

Moffat, George

  • Person
  • 1810-1878

Businessman and politician, George Moffat, Sr. (1810-1878) was born in Gretna Green, Dumfrieshire, Scotland and emigrated to New Brunswick in 1830. His lumbering business was one of the largest on the North Shore. He was a justice of the peace and resided in Dalhousie, Restigouche County.

Moffat entered politics in 1866, running unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Assembly. He stood for election to the House of Commons in 1868, but also met with defeat. Ultimately, he was elected to the House of Commons on the Conservative ticket in a by-election in 1870. He sat in the House for several years, retiring from public life in 1877. He died in 1878.

Bagley, Vernon

  • Person
  • 1916-1981

Vernon Bagley was born in Seal Cove, Grand Manan, Charlotte County, in 1916, the son of Robert and Leone (Greene) Bagley. Vernon completed grade 9 at Seal Cove School and then worked with his father as a fisherman between Seal Cove and Wood Island. In 1945, Vernon married Florence Wilson of Seal Cove, and they had a son, Colin, who made his home in Grand Harbour with his wife, Mary (Gaskill) Bagley, and their son, Stewart.

In February 1963, Vernon rescued Floyd Jones off of the coast of Grand Manan, near Southern Head, receiving the Carnegie Silver Medal for his actions. Following his retirement from fishing and hunting, Vernon worked for 21 years as a provincial game warden. He retired a second time, in 1981, at age 65.

Gorham, Raymond Paddock

  • Person
  • 1885-1946

Raymond Paddock Gorham was born in the parish of Kingston, Kings County, New Brunswick, in 1885. He attended MacDonald Consolidated School and MacDonald College, graduating from McGill University with a B.S.A. in 1911. He married Marie Tanner, a school teacher, in 1913, and they had four children.

Raymond P. Gorham and his family resided initially in Fredericton, N.B. where he worked as an entomologist with the provincial Department of Horticulture. He also lectured at agricultural schools located in Woodstock and Sussex, and later taught a course in agriculture at the provincial Normal School. In April 1919 he was appointed to the Division of Entomology in the federal government, working for four years in Nova Scotia. He returned to Fredericton and took the position of chief of the Field Crop and Garden Insects Division of the federal government's Entomological Laboratory, a post he held until his death.

Gorham displayed a keen interest in history and archaeology, and was particularly interested in the histories of Fredericton and the parish of Kingston, New Brunswick ecclesiastical history, agricultural history, and the Stone Age. He collected and catalogued a number of Stone Age tools and implements and compiled information on his family history. He researched and wrote extensively on a variety of historical, archaeological, and entomological subjects. Raymond Paddock Gorham died in York County on 28 July 1946.

Williston, Kathleen Willis

  • Person
  • 1896-1969

Kathleen Willis (Kell Willis) (1896-1969) the daughter of Charles and Louise Willis, was born in Sackville, New Brunswick, December 4, 1896. She lived in Sackville until 1921 when she married Beaumont Williston, a Newcastle businessman, and moved to the Miramichi. There she researched the history of the area, much of it with Dr. Louise Manny, with whom she co-founded the Miramichi Historical Association.

Kathleen Williston was also interested in Miramichi artists. In conjunction with the Miramichi Art Club, she helped arrange the art exhibits sent to the Miramichi by the National Gallery and organized the first exhibitions of Richard Howe's paintings. From her own collection, she gave portraits of William Abrams (an early shipbuilder at Nordin) and his wife, painted by a noted Boston artist, Albert Gallatin Hoit, to the New Brunswick Museum. Williston was also interested in antiques and amassed a notable collection. During World War II, she worked with the Red Cross Thrift Shop. Kell Williston died in 1969.

Logan, G. Earle

  • Person
  • 1886-1962

Lawyer and war veteran Gilbert Earle Logan, the son of Alma Willigar and Solomon Edgar Logan, was born 8 August 1886 at Portland, New Brunswick (now part of Saint John). Educated in Saint John public schools, he later graduated from King's College Law School with the degree of B.C.L. and established a law practice in Saint John. On 9 September 1912 he married Emma Z. Irwin, and they had three children, including a son, Rodman.

During the First World War, Earle Logan served with the 38th Ottawa Infantry Battalion and was wounded at Passchendaele. At war's end, he became president of the Saint John Branch of the Great War Veterans' Association and also served as provincial secretary of that organization. He was active in the Canadian Legion, the Masonic Order, the Orange Order and the Saint Andrews Society. In addition to practising law, Logan served as police magistrate for the parish of Lancaster and secretary of the New Brunswick Board of Commissioners of Public Utilities. He died in July 1962.

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