Three generations of the Bunker family of Rusagonis, New Brunswick including, Henry Bunker (1826-1885), Sherman S. Bunker (30 July 1853-2 Jan 1896)
and Zellan S. Bunker (1893-1965).

Ken Langmaid was an agrologist, was born at Montreal, Q.C., on September 2, 1915, the only son of William and Clara Langmaid. Ken and his mother would spend every summer at the home of Randolph and Sarah Langmaid, who were William's parents. The family moved to St Andrews, N.B. from Montreal in 1924. Kenneth graduated from Charlotte County Grammar School in 1933, and the University of New Brunswick where he received his B.Sc. in 1938 and M.Sc. in 1950. From 1938-1975 he held various government and university positions within the Canadian Department of Agriculture. He served as director and then president of the New Brunswick Institute of Agrology. He served as a member of the Environmental Advisory Council of New Brunswick and has been a soil consultant to the Department of National Defense, Department of Natural Resources, the R.C.M.P. (Criminal Investigation) and N.B. Power. After his retirement in 1975, he was employed as a consulting Pedologist by J.D. Irving, the federal and provincial governments and other private engineering firms. He was founder and first president of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick. A member of the Environment Committee of the Agricultural Institute of Canada etc.

His wife, Dorothy Langmaid, nee McCurdy, was born in St Andrews in 1917, she was the youngest daughter of John and Jennie (Gibson) McCurdy. Her family moved to California in 1924 and returned to St Andrews in 1929. She graduated from Charlotte County Grammer School in 1935. She and Ken were married in Fredericton, N.B. on October 7, 1939. Five years after their marriage, she contracted tuberculosis of the spine and was ill for 15 years, and never fully recovered. She would spend the winter with Ken in Fredericton and return home to St Andrews for the summer while Ken was busy with field studies. Dorothy had a great interest in animal welfare and had joined the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals when she was in Grade 2. Animals were to play a big role in their lives especially when Ken retired and they moved back to St Andrews permanently. They would never turn away a stray animal, so their house at times was rather full.

They were philanthropists and established two scholarships at UNB: "The Dorothy and Kenneth Langmaid Forest Soils and Tree Growth Scholarship", for post-graduate study at UNB in forestry worth about $10-12,000 a year; and "The Dorothy and Kenneth Langmaid Scholarship Fund", awarded to a student who has graduated from a Charlotte County School and has completed the first year of the BSc programme at UNB with preference given to students who have a major in chemistry or geology.

They also established "The Dorothy and Kenneth Langmaid Animal Welfare Fund" to help the work of the SPCA in Charlotte County, Fredericton and Saint John.

After Ken retired he became a volunteer with many organisations and the town honoured him by naming a piece of land near Indian Point as Langmaid Park.

Mrs. George F. Smith and her three daughters of Saint John were among the early guests at the Algonquin Hotel beginning in July 1892. Her husband, George Frederick Smith had died in 1894 at age 55. His grandfather was Dr. Nathan Smith, a surgeon who sided with the King’s cause at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War and served in the 1st Battalion of De Lancey’s Brigade. After the War ended in 1781, Dr. Smith joined others from the disbanded Loyalist unit on half-pay and in 1783 settled in what is now the city of Saint John. He practiced as a physician and apothecary at Lower Cove. His only son was Thomas M. Smith, who became a partner in the firm of Johnson & Walker, ship chandlers and ship owners. When he died his own son, George F. Smith, took over the business and expanded it. He became a prominent ship owner in Saint John, he was the first to own and operate iron and steel clad steam vessels. He was an alderman of the City of Saint John, an active member of the famous Neptune Rowing Club, the Saint John Athletic Club, and the Bonaventure Salmon Club on the Bonaventure River.

George Smith married Wilhelmina Gordon of Pictou, Nova Scotia in October 1879. Her grandparents had come from Kildonan in Sutherland, Scotland to Pictou in 1816 during the Highland Clearances. George Smith made regular trips to the Port of Pictou where he became an acquaintance of the Gordon family. Eventually George and Minnie began to date and in 1879 they were married. The couple moved back to Saint John where they began a life together. They had three daughters, Constance, Amy and Madeline. After her husband’s death Wilhemina raised the girls by herself, she was greatly assisted by her husband’s fortune that she inherited on his death close to $100,000. As her children grew older she devoted herself to charitable causes.

Wilhemina became involved in the St John Anglican Church and took on leadership roles in the Ladies Society of Church Workers and the Ladies Association of Church of England Institute. She was a founding and lifelong member of the Victorian Order of Nurses in Saint John and in the early 1920s she was involved in establishing a nurses’ training school in New Brunswick. In 1903 she became involved in the Women’s Auxiliary to the Missionary Society of the Church of England, she held the positions of vice-president and president for 22 years. She was also appointed to represent the Maritime Provinces at the Canadian Dominion Board.

At the end of the First World War the Canadian government called for a conference in Ottawa of leading women’s groups from across the country to engage women in the political processes.
Process to convey how women could participate in war work. Wilhemina was one of seventy five women invited to attend. Actions from this conference were legislated including universal registration of births, protection of milk supplies, and pensions for mothers.

After staying at the Algonquin Hotel in St Andrews for the summer, in 1914-1925 she began to rent the Anchorage on Parr Street which she shared with two of her daughters and their husbands and her grandchildren. She died in 1925 in the Anchorage in the love and care of her three daughters during her last days.

Her eldest daughter Constance married Guy D. Robinson a well-known grain broker in Saint John, and later in Montreal, his firm being Robinson & Climo. Constance and Guy and their children, F. Barclay, Margaret (Peggy) De Lancey and Helen Gordon shared the Archorage with Wilhemina every summer until 1922 when they rented a house on Water Street which belonged to Mrs. T.J. Coughey, they continued to rent it for 18 years. After the Second World War Guy and Constance Robinson continued to come to St Andrews. Guy continued to come after the death of his wife in 1955 and became a familiar figure at the Algonquin where he stayed until his own death in 1960. Their daughter Margaret married Theodore Roosevelt Meighen, son of Senator Arthur Meighen on 30 June 1937. The Meighens bought the Allan A. Magee property and built The Little House and built a new all-season house on the site. Now their son Michael and his wife Kelly come each summer with their two sons Theodore and Hugh.

F. Barclay Robinson joined his father’s firm in Montreal and married Ruth Seeley. Her parents had built their own summer home on De Monts Road in 1912. Her grandfather was George Bosworth, vice-president of CPR Steamships. Barclay and Ruth had three sons, Gordon, Ian and David. After Barclay’s retirement they moved to Lunenberg, N.S.

Helen Gordon Robinson married John Kennet Starnes in 1941, and they continue to visit St Andrews.

The donor Margaret (McKinney) Fanjoy of Brantford Ontario, was born and raised in Chamcook and later lived in St. Andrews. She was the daughter of William McKinney of Chamcook; James McKinney, a merchant tailor was Mrs. Fanjoy's grandfather. His shop was on water street next door to the China Chest.

Anna Catherine Armstrong was born on February 13, 1854, in Johnson Settlement, St. Patrick Parish, Charlotte County, and died on May 19, 1944. She was the daughter of John Henry Armstrong born in NB in 1817 and Sarah Jane Johnson born 1824 in Johnson Settlement. She married Thomas Clark Gowan on December 27, 1883. Thomas Gowan was born September 1, 1840 and died May 12, 1918. He was the son of Thomas Gowan who was born in County Down, Ireland in 1795 and Margaret Clark who was born in Sutherland, Scotland in 1799.
Anna Catherine Armstrong and Thomas Clark Gowan, had five children the eldest was Frederick Henry who was born August 28, 1878 in Bocabec, then a daughter Caroline Armstrong who was born June 28, 1884 in Elmsville. Then another son was born in November 1886 he was baptized William Thomas. They had two more sons, John Edward born October 15, 1889 and Burtis Clark born 1 October1892.

Anna Catherine Armstrong and Thomas Clark Gowan are buried in Johnson Settlement Cemetery, which is located on the right side of Route 760. The cemetery is the site of a former Methodist church, however, due to poorly defined boundaries the site has been considered part of Digdeguash, Elsmville, and Johnson Settlement.

The house at 331 Brandy Cove Road, St. Andrews was built in 1945 for Blair Gordon and his family. It was designed by H. Ross Wiggs, an architect from Montreal, Quebec. It was originally called the Elbow Bend and remained in the Gordon family until 2003 when it was sold to Mr. & Mrs. Ball.

Upon the sale of the home, Mr. Christopher Gordon who had grown up in the house, built for his mother and father, passed all documents and photographs regarding the family home to the new owners. Extensive work has taken place and the home has changed since new ownership.

Rev. Peter Keay was inducted as the pastor of the Greenock Presbyterian Church in St. Andrews NB in 1868. He had preached in Scotland from 1851 until he received an appointment from the Colonial Committee to preach in New Brunswick in 1854. He was ordained at Fredericton and preached in the Stanley Area, New Brunswick for fourteen years and laboured in St. Andrews for six years. In December of 1873 he was given a leave of absence to recuperate his health. While in McAdam New Brunswick waiting for a train he fell of the station’s platform and was killed instantly by an oncoming train at the age of 45 years. He was held in high esteem throughout New Brunswick and Scotland and his funeral was the largest that the town of St. Andrews had ever seen at that point in history.
The Keay family lived in the house built by Donald Morrison in 1827. Mr Morrison born in 1791, came from Rosshire, Scotland,he had moved to Boston, America, in the early part of the 19th century and then moved to St Andrews, New Brunswick in 1820 to practise his occupation as a House carpenter.
The Keay family remained in the home from 1868 to 1950.

Genealogical chart of descendants of Thomas Grimmer of St. Stephen, NB. The Grimmers were originally a St. Stephen family. The St. Andrews and Chamcook branches are descendants of George Skiffington Grimmer, a grandson of Thomas Grimmer who came as a member of the Port Matoon Association. The papers relate mainly to F. Hazen Grimmer, George S. Grimmer, Frank Howard Grimmer, George Durrell Grimmer, John Davidson Grimmer, J. W. Grimmer, John Grimmer, Thomas Grimmer,