A party of Ladies of Dufferin met at the home of Mrs. Wellington Thompson on November 5, 1918. There were nine ladies present and they organized a club to be named as the “Good Hope Club” with the hope to build a hall in the future. Mrs. Thompson was elected as president and Mrs. Moody was the secretary-treasurer. It was agreed that each member would pay ten cents each at the monthly meetings, and if not present would send the money or pay at the next meeting. The hostess would provide a lunch and music and games.

The second meeting was at the home of Mrs. Clifford Homes, thirteen ladies where present. By the third meeting they had invited men to be members increasing the attendance to twenty four. On May 2, 1918 the meeting was held in the school house. They raised money with ice cream sales, suppers at Oak Bay and dances at the Golf Club owned by Alan Halstead. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brown donated the land and the Good Hope Club was incorporated on Oct 2 1922. The Hall was built on the Ledge Road, Dufferin, and John R. McBride was in charge of the construction and a number of members assisted.

The Good Hope Club Hall burnt down on November 3, 1950. A Special Meeting was held on November 13, 1950 at the home of the then president of the club Mrs. Liscomb Cook. It was decided that monthly meetings would be held at various member’s homes, throughout the winter. On January 8, 1951 a separate hall building committee was formed to rebuild on the same land. On May 15, 1951 a meeting was held in the school house and Carl Wormell was authorized to take charge of getting a bulldozer to clear the lot and dig a concrete basement. Ivan Jackson arrived with the bulldozer on May 22, 1951 and on May 25, 1951 Prescott Smith of Oak Bay began supervising the construction of the new building. George Develin supplied the cement mixers and most of the workers where volunteers.

The new hall opened on August 29, 1951 and a bean supper was served to one hundred people for a fee of seventy five cents for adults and thirty cents for children. A second supper was served on September 26, 1951. By the 1970s the club was disbanded as most of its original members had died and there was a lack of interest.

The Town of St. Stephen Fire Department was established in 1873 as the Wellington Hose Company and remained under this name until the middle of the 1950’s.

The Fire Department has an automatic aid agreement with the Calais Fire Department of Calais, Maine USA.

St. Stephen Fire Department operates a dispatch centre for 15 other fire departments in the Charlotte County Area. The St Stephen Fire Department has a unique feature that two volunteers and one full time firefighter are in the fire station each night. It operates with Three Fire Engines. One Rescue unit, Five Full time Fire Fighters and twenty four Volunteers.

This newspaper was found while sorting files for Business Improvement Association, St. Andrews.

The Gundry-Pymore Limited of North Head Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick was abusiness for mending the nets of fishermen. The secretary who kept the book was Marie Thomas, who kept the books for many companies on Grand Manan. The Gundry-Pymore company had many divisions of which this branch was one.

The business of Joseph Gundry was established in 1665. There were many firms producing net products that partnered with the Grundy firm through the years. Finally in 1963, the remaning independent firm Joseph Gundry and Co. Ltd., united with Bridport Industries Ltd. to form Bridport-Gundry Ltd.

The Honourable House of Assembly, for the Province of New Brunswick, appointed six men to procure information reprecting the Herring Fishery at Grand Manan and to ascertain the effect produced on it by the Acts of 1831 & 1834. Those men were: John Allen (Secretary), Laughlan Donaldson, Thomas Barlow, John Ward Junior, James Brown, and Thomas Wyer. They produced findings of the Commission in 1836.

A. Leroy Ingalls parents or grand-parents built the building and had a store that was known as the Grand Harbour Store. The store was run by Willie and Roy Ingalls who operated the store front only. It was a large building with a store front and living accommodations behind and above the store. It was ideally located along the main road and at the corner of the road leading to the Public Landing Wharf in Grand Harbour. The customers could arrive by land or water. The building still exists at its original location - 1163 Route 776 on Grand Manan Island, NB. The store part of that building has been used by a dentist, two druggists - Dr. Weldon and Dr. Dunlop from Doaktown, and a barber. In recent years, Allison Daggett has maintained a store selling nautical or marine equipment. He also operated the first TV cable company payment office on Grand Manan - Fundy Cable. Just recently, Allison has sold his business to Mark Morse who is operating out of the store front. The Daggett family continue to own and live in the building.

The Independent Order of Foresters started in the 14th Century in England eventually becoming established in Canada in 1875. Historically, Foresters have been active in helping communities in need. Foresters assisted in transforming the insurance industry by extending insurance benefits to the average working family. Women were admitted as full members. They provide orphan benefits to the children of deceased Foresters' members - benefits that are still available today as part of Foresters membership.

"A Court of the Independent Order of Foresters, called Eastern Light, No. 153, was organized here [Grand Manan] a short time since. Membership at present, 21. W. E. Tatton, Chief Ranger; John Dixon, Secretary; Capt. John Ingersoll, Financial Sec. G. B. Noyes, M.D. Court Physician. The Court will, in the future, hold its meetings every third Friday evening of the month, at Grand Harbour..." - Eastport Sentinel Newspaper June 25, 1980 (Grand Manan Archives Source).

The Grand Manan Farmer's Market Association was started as a Bicentennial Project in 1984 by Pam Cronk and her sister-in-law, Marilyn Cronk. They contacted local gardeners and artists, made their own local Bi-Laws and former the Grand Manan Farmer's Market Association. Reg Flagg was President; Marilyn Cronk was Vice President; Pam Cronk was Secretary; and Joyce Flagg was Treasurer.

The "Farmer's Market" is located on the parking lot between the Business Centre (130 Route 776) and the Satellite Courthouse building owned by the Village of Grand Manan ( 126 Route 776).

The first products available at the Market were as follows: Reg Flagg had apples from his orchard and farm produce; Joyce Flagg sold cooking and jams and pies; Faith Lambert sold donuts; Peter and Marilyn Cronk had strawberries, farm produce and apples; Dennis Ingersoll had eggs and farm produce and Marion Ingersoll had crafts; Robert Moses had farm produce; Pam Cronk had hand knit sweaters. (Pam Cronk would later start "Whale Cove Knitters". She employed local knitters by supplying the yarn and having them knit from their homes, and kept a backyard shop from which to sell the sweaters.) In the first year, all the vendors wore Bicentennial clothing. When the market started there were 20 or so vendors at peak season. In 2006 there was an average of 12, and featured mainly arts and crafts. Market hours were initially 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, from end of June until Thanksgiving. It is not clear when the hours changed to be open from 10 - 12 from end of June until mid September as it is now in 2006.

Normally held outside, the market occasionally moved into the empty North Head School building ( 130 Route776), which was located beside the outdoor venue, during poor weather. Entertainment was often available in the form of performances by local musicians Barb Small, Deverne Green Jr., Merle Savoy, and Harry Green. In 2005, Audrey and James Ingalls and Heidi Lahey entertained on the melodica and 2 violins. The local musicians came and performed as they wanted. Sometimes they were promoting the sale of their new tape.

In 1994, Charlotte County Community Futures became involved with the market by giving it a face lift and providing some direction for the future. They built covered, lighted stalls for the vendors and the Grand Manan Business Center was established in the old North Head School.

The early history of telephone service on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick was recorded in the Grand Manan Historian No.XIII [1969] 'At the Turn of the Century (1877-1905) by L. K. Ingersoll.

Public Notice is hereby given that Letters Patent have been granted April 4, 1893, incorporating Isaac Newton, Grovenor Newton, Leavitt Newton, Frank A. Newton, and Wesley Newton... as The Dark Harbour Telephone Company Limited . . . for providing telephone lines and service in Grand Manan. Capital, $2,000, in 200 shares of $10.00 . . ." Published in the New Brunswick Royal Gazette in 1877 - only sixteen years after Alexander Graham Bell had patented the device.

Isaac Newton and his four sons were the first to develop Dark Harbour [on the Western side of Grand Manan Island]... [with] their main office of the Newton Business at Grand Harbour [on the Eastern side of Grand Manan Island] where they were general merchants; the plan had been to connect the two areas and provide telephone service to customers between the two points.

Busy with more lucrative affairs, the Newtons failed to develop the telephone service to its fullest potential. 'Government phones' also became available at this time, as part of the telegraph system, and were located in strategic places to sound the alarm in emergency, to quickly relay messages of any urgent matter, replacing the telegraph for this purpose. These two introductory uses of the telephone led a group of local businessmen to form a company to provide service for the entire Island community. Grand Manan Telephone Company limited was organized in 1905, receiving its charter from the N.B. Government in February 1906. The authorized capital was only $2,000 but before the year had ended this amount had been raised to $7,000, divided in shares of $25 each. Authority was received for a cable to be laid from North Head to Eastport by way of Campobello Island.

Charter subscribers in the Company that served the area for over a half century [until ownership was taken over by New Brunswick Telephone Company on April 26, 1956] included George E. Dalzell, Alexander Small, Colin Small, J. S. Richardson, Robert Middleton, Charles Watt, and J. F. Macaulay, M.D., of Castalia; C. Edward King, J. Warren Wooster, Warren Benson, Peter P. Russell, Easton Green, and William Russell, of Seal Cove; Frank Ingersoll, Joseph E. Gaskill, W. Norman McLean, S. R. Wall, Thomas Redmond, William E. Tatton, David S. Gaskill, and Omar Thomas, of North Head; I. Leavitt Newton, Newton Brothers, A. LeRoy Ingalls, Irving Ingalls, DuVernet Jack, M.D., Lawton C. Guptill, Benjamin McDonald, Grant L. Dakin, and Manford Lorimer, of Grand Harbour; W. A. Fraser, and W. M. Kent, of Woodwards Cove.

George Dalzell became secretary-manager of the company, and throughout the life of the Corporation its switchboard and main office were located at Castalia.

The first telephone exchange on Grand Manan was set up in Colin Small's house ca. 1907, at Castalia Marsh next door to the Grand Manan Motors Garage. (see photo of house in the P8 photo Collection). Mary 'Meme' Small, Colin's wife, served as operator for 25 years.

From a newspaper article dated April 26, 1956 states that 'N.B. Telephone Firm Transfer is Completed. Purchase of the assets of the Grand Manan Telephone Co. and the taking over next Tuesday of the radio links and telephone facilities of the federal department of transport at Grand Manan and White Head islands has been announced by the New Brunswick Telephone Co. ... A. Nelson Parker of the department of transport has been retained as agant manager for Grand Manan, reporting to J. E. Swanton, area manager, St. Stephen. Clifford Middleton, formerly of the Grand Manan Telephone Co., will assist Mr. Parker in plant work. Mrs. Lorena Travis, who has been with the local telephone company for 37 years, has been appointed traffic agent at Castalia. The island firm celebrated its 50th birthday Feb. 10.

The 6th Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles, CEF, was a mounted infantry unit of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War. It was formed on March 15, 1915 at Amherst, Nova Scotia . It recruited in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. It sailed to England in July, 1915, and after training arrived in France on October 22, 1915. It served in the field as infantry until December, 1915.

On January 1, 1916, the six regiments of Canadian Mounted Rifles were converted to infantry and reorganized into the four battalions of the 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade . The personnel of the 6th Regiment were absorbed into the 4th and 5th Battalions, CMR.

The 6th Regiment was perpetuated by the King's Canadian Hussars, which was converted to an artillery unit in 1939..