William Cabot probably lived most of his life at or near Dalhousie, Restigouche, County, New Brunswick. He married Adelina Mercier in Restigouche County on 6 October 1909. They had at least 3 children: Joseph Gullaume Benôit (b. 1910), Marie Lea Germaine (b. 1911), and Joseph Francis Charles (b. 1918). Warrant Officer Class I Joseph F. C. Cabot served overseas with the Royal Canadian Air Force, R.C.A.F. Squadron, during World War II. He died on 11 October 1943. His funeral mass was said in Dumfries Cathedral by Father O'Sullivan, and he was buried in St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Dumfries, with his comrades. The date of William Cabot's death is unknown.

Jack, s/o Lloyd & Helen Johnston, was born in Nashwaaksis 24 Jan 1924 and worked in the family general store. He joined the RCAF in 1943 and after his training moved over to 619 Squadron, RAF as Flight Lieutenant piloting Lancasters on bombing missions over Germany in 1944-45. The 619 Squadron flew out of Strubby, Lincolnshire, U.K. and while on these missions Jack earned the Distinquished Flying Cross. After the war he returned to Fredericton with his soon-to-be wife, Ann, who he met in Scotland. He graduated with a Forestry Engineering degree from UNB in 1948 and worked in the forestry industry, first in Bridgewater NS, and in 1965 the family returned to Fredericton where Jack worked for the Canadian Forestry Service until he retired in 1987. Jack died on 13 Oct 2004.

John Hill, born in Amherst NS on 7 June 1916, s/o John & Gertrude (Lyons) Hill. He served in the RCAF in WW II and afterward worked in sales. He was involved with the Boy Scouts of Canada and he died in Fredericton on 15 Feb 2000.
He was a life member of Alexandria Lodge #33 F & AM and a member of the Scottish Rite and the Fredericton Shrine Club. John died in Fredericton on 15 February 2000. He had two children. John and Leona are buried in the St. John The Evangelist Anglican Cemetery in York County.

Jonathan Odell was born in Newark, New Jersey, September 25, 1737. He studied medicine and was a graduate of Nassau Hall (now Princeton University). He served as a surgeon in the British Army until 1764 when he went to England to study theology. In 1766, he was ordained as a
deacon, and went to Vermont in 1767 as a missionary for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. He served as minister of St. Mary's Church in Burlington, Vermont. In 1772, he married Ann de Cou and in 1774 was made a member of the New Jersey medical society.

At the outbreak of the American Revolution, Odell remained loyal to Britain, and was proscribed by the rebels. In 1776 when British troops were defeated in Burlington by the rebels, Odell retreated with them and eventually went to New York. He served as a Chaplain to a Loyalist
Regiment of the King's American Dragoons. When the Peace Treaty was signed in 1783, he went to England with his family and served as private secretary to Sir Guy Carleton.

Odell was well known for his satirical, anti-revolutionary poetry, and it has been said that "no pen was dipped in more bitter gall than the Odell's". He took an active part in the Loyalist cause as a "doctor, clergyman, poet, soldier, and spy". As a reward for his loyalty, he was appointed Provincial Secretary, Registrar, and Clerk of the Council of New Brunswick. He came to the province with Governor Thomas Carleton (brother of Sir Guy) and from the beginning was a member of the Council.

Odell died in 1818, and left one son, William Franklin Odell, who also served as Provincial Secretary for the province.

Major-General H. N. Ganong was born on 18 April 1890 in St. Stephen, N.B., the son of Edward Morrison Ganong and Margaret Lunn Ganong. His family had the Ganong Brothers chocolate making business which he joined and in 1909 he also joined the Militia. He served in WW I,
enlisting in the 104th CEF Battalion and later joined the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles.

After the war he returned to St. Stephen, married Mildred Viola Thomas and had three children, Russell Edward, Constance Margaret and
William Atherton. He remained with the militia and with the outbreak of WW II was a Lt. Colonel and commanding officer of the Carleton & York Regiment that he led overseas. In March 1941 he took command of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade and in late 1942 was promoted to Major General. Early in 1943 he came back to Canada to organize and command the 8th Canadian Infantry Division, headquartered in Prince George, BC. Later in 1943 he was placed in command of the 6th Canadian Infantry Division, headquartered on Vancouver Island where he was in charge of the preparation for the invasion of Japan. In December 1944 the invasion of Japan was cancelled and he was reassigned to command the Allied troops in Newfoundland where he remained until he retired in1945. Out of army, he served as honorary aide-de-camp to three Governor General’s, Athlone, Massey & Vanier. From 1955 to1962 he was the civil defence coordinator for the training of civil defence
forces in NB. He was an avid curler, serving as president of the St Stephen Curling Club, the Royal Caladonia Club, and the NB Curling Association. He played on the St Stephen Club rink that won the provincial title. In 1930. Hardy and his wife died in an auto accident returning to St Stephen from Saint John on 24 Feb 1963.

George T. Taylor, the son of Frances Morrison and William P. Taylor, was born 6 September 1838 in Fredericton, New Brunswick. His father, William Pentlowe Taylor (1802-1871), was a carpenter and house joiner who emigrated from London, England to Fredericton, New Brunswick with his father, George Taylor (b. c1796), prior to 1826. William and Frances Taylor had no fewer than five children: William (b. c.1830), John M. (b. c.1832), George T. (b. c.1837), Susan (b. c.1841), and Sophia (b. c.1843).

William Taylor, Sr. built a home for his family at 232 Northumberland Street, where they resided for many years. Sons John M. and George T. worked with their father, for a time, and possibly with their grandfather. John M. Taylor also built and repaired steam engines. William Taylor, Jr. was residing in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in the early 1870s.

In the 1850s and 1860s, George T. Taylor was working as a carpenter while developing his talent in photography. In 1856 he launched his career as a photographer under the tutelage of portrait photographer David Lawrence of Fredericton. He also received art lessons from Mrs. Cooksley, the wife of a captain in the 22nd Cheshire Regiment, but was largely self-taught as a painter. He expanded his knowledge of the art of photography by reading English periodicals which he borrowed from the officers of the Garrison.

Resourceful and creative, George Taylor has been credited with inventing the blueprint in response to the needs of the Crown Lands Department. He also built his own cameras. In addition to his studio work in Fredericton, George Taylor travelled throughout the province creating a photographic record. In 1863 he was commissioned by Arthur Hamilton Gordon, Lieutenant Governor, to document various provincial locations. He befriended many Maliseet people, including Gabe Acquin, who he often worked with when touring the province. Canada's first national news magazine, "Canadian Illustrated News," published its first edition in 1869, which contained examples of Taylor's work.

George T. Taylor married twice, the first time, in 1860, to Sarah George (d. 1866). They had no children. Following Sarah's death, in 1868 he married Mary Avery, and they had no fewer than six children: Frances F. (1869-1942), Nellie M. (1870-1967), Bessie H. (1872-1926), Annie L. (1874- 1946), William P. (1876-1940), and Ted / Charlie (1881-1971). In the 1871 census they were living with his father in the family homestead and throughout the 1870s he advertised the sale of his negatives, indicating possible financial hardships. In the 1901 census his brother John N., sister Susan, and niece Nellie E. Estey, were living with him. Taylor's career spanned formats from daguerreotypes to wet plates to dry plates. About 1906 he made his last major field trip to the head of the Tobique River, and subsequently turned his attention to an earlier interest -- painting. He died in Fredericton on 5 April 1913

The Chestnut Hardware store was in operation for nearly 90 years. Robert Chestnut (1764-1846) and his wife Margaret McPherson came to Fredericton from County Antrim, Ireland in 1834. By 1836 Robert had opened a store there, was agent for the Albion Works, and a director of the Bank of Fredericton. His son Robert (1797-1859) reorganized and incorporated the firm as R. Chestnut and Sons in November 1858, less than a year before he died.

Robert, Jr.'s wife, Margaret Anthony Chestnut, and her sons, Henry and Enoch, were left to oversee the business. R. Chestnut and Sons, located in Phoenix Square on Queen Street in 1884, sold imported hardware, butlery, silver and other goods. In 1909 Henry's son, Harry G. took over and ran the business until it was closed in 1924. Harry Chestnut was also president to the Chestnut Canoe Company in Fredericton

When Premier Louis J. Robichaud's government took office in June 1960, the province of New Brunswick faced deep social and economic inequalities. At their root was the fact that municipalities were responsible for the administration of a wide range of services but, at the same time, were severely limited in sources of revenue. This left many county governments incapable of discharging their duties, especially funding costly social and educational programs to the level found in other parts of New Brunswick.

The Liberal government asked Edward G. Byrne, Q. C. to chair the Royal Commission on Finance and Municipal Taxation, formed to investigate the deteriorating municipal structure and to determine what role the provincial government should assume. In his late 40s with a forceful personality, Edward G. Byrne, a graduate of the Dalhousie Law School, accepted the invitation with the proviso that the commission could recommend solutions to the problems. As a lawyer in Bathurst, he was acutely aware of financial problems in Gloucester County and the resultant quality of services afforded the population.

In 1962, the New Brunswick Legislature appointed individuals to the Royal Commission. In addition to Byrne, public servant Dr. Alexandre Boudreau, of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia; businessman Archie Andrews, of St. Stephen, Charlotte County; county councillor and farmer Ulderic Nadeau, of Baker Brook, Madawaska County; and Saint John dry dock owner Charles N. Wilson, of Saint John, rounded out the commission. A. Milton Moore, John F. Graham, Philip H. White, and James F. Sullivan were hired a technicians.

The Commission's report focussed on taxation, a subject that touched virtually every facet of New Brunswick life. Byrne found that nearly every New Brunswick rural county was impoverished and often could not pay the cost of services, due to a poor tax base. For example, in Gloucester County, the large crown land acreage resulted in low revenue from local taxation. In cities the range of services was uneven, also due to the tax base.

The Commission drafted a blueprint that centralized responsibility for education, health, welfare, and justice in provincial commissions. These would operate at arms-length from politicians and the civil service. It would be financed, not by poll taxes and personal taxes, as the crumbling structure was attempting to do, but by property tax assessment, based on market value, one of the few tax fields left for the Province.

The Byrne Commission's approach was influenced by developments in the European Common Market and government structures in Sweden. The Robichaud government rejected the idea of commissions but adopted major features of the report and implemented them Equal Opportunity Programme, which took effect January 1, 1967. Under this programme, the Province assumed complete responsibility for public school education, health, welfare and justice. The County Council system of government was abolished, poll taxes were eliminated, school districts were re-drawn from over 400 to 34, all municipal property tax concessions to industrial interests were eliminated, and a provincial tax rate with a $1.50 ceiling per $100 assessment on real property was struck.

The fundamental change resulting from the commission was the shift to taxing-raising and tax-sharing. The report also introduced ideas of developing the public service, creating single member constituencies and a Law Amendments Committee, and studying the idea of union of the Atlantic Provinces. The Royal Commission Report on Finance and Municipal Taxation is the seminal document to understanding the development and administration of the government of New Brunswick in the last quarter of the 20th century.

The Institute of Public Administration of Canada met in St. John's Newfoundland in September 1969. Among the topics studied by the Institute was the implementation of the Byrne Commission's recommendations and the establishment of the Equal Opportunity Programme in New Brunswick (1965-1966). Seven senior New Brunswick civil servants and the Saint John city manager presented papers at the conference which are included in this collection.

Asa D. Chase was born in Carleton County, New Brunswick, in 1835. He may have married Mary Ann Sanburn of Woodstock, Carleton County, at Woodstock, on 26 September 1852, but this is unclear.

On 8 August 1862 Asa Chase enlisted in the Union Army to serve a term of three years during the American Civil War. He was discharged a private of Captain Witherell's Company D., 1st Regiment, Maine Veteran Infantry, on 1 June 1865, at Augusta, Maine. His discharge was issued by reason of a surgeon's certificate of disability arising from wounds received, on 12 May 1864, at the Battle of Spotsylvania (Virginia). The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, which lasted for two weeks, was one of the most intense battles of the Civil War.

Chase's service in the Maine Veteran Infantry suggests that he served in other regiments during the Civil War. The 1st Regiment, Maine Veteran Infantry was organized 21 August 1864 at Charleston, Virginia, by consolidating veterans of the 5th, 6th, and 7th Regiments of Maine Volunteer Infantry. The 1st Regiment was attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps, Armies of the Shenandoah and Potomac to June 1865. Chase's discharge was stamped "Dickenson & Webster, Chicago, 29 February 1868," perhaps indicating that Chase may have moved west rather than returning to New Brunswick.

Politician, senator, and businessman, Arthur Hill Gillmor, the son of Pamelia or Purmelia Dowell (ca. 1800-1880) and Daniel Gillmor (ca. 1799-1866), was born 12 March 1824, probably at Upper Mills, St. George Parish, Charlotte County, New Brunswick. He had at least 8 siblings, including Mandana (Edwin Russell), Tobias S. (1827-1897), Urania (Francis Hibbard), Philander (d. 1838), Kinsman (b. ca. 1841, Abbie Gillmor), Eldorado (b. ca. 1842, Rosie Gillmor), Rebecca (George Hill), and Eliza G. (1834-1885). A. H. Gillmor received his early education at the St. Andrews Grammar School. In January 1846, he married Hannah Dawes Howe (1825-1908), the daughter of Hannah Dawes (1797-1883) and Simeon Howe (1798-1857), and they had 4 children, namely, Adelia / Adela / Delia Augusta (Dick), Daniel, Henry Edward, and Percy Howe. Following Simeon Howe's death, in 1857, Hannah Dawes Howe lived, at various times, with several of her daughters, including Hannah Gillmor. In the early 1860s, and again, in the late 1870s, Hannah Dawes Howe travelled to the American West (Wisconsin, Oregon, California) to visit her children and their families. She died at St. George on 14 June 1883.

A. H. Gillmor's father, Daniel Gillmor, Sr., established the family's lumbering, sawmilling, trading, and mercantile businesses in the early 19th century, shortly after arriving in the St. George area from Machias, Maine. He built a watermill at Second Falls and registered at least two ships, the "Ben Bolt" and "Eldorado", that carried lumber and deals to Boston, New York, Liverpool, and elsewhere. As the family business grew, the Gillmors operated several sawmills as well as general stores. In the 1840s, A. H. Gillmor became more involved in this father's enterprises. Following Daniel Gillmor, Sr.'s death, in June 1866, the four Gillmor sons, Arthur Hill, Tobias, Kinsman, and Eldorado, ran the family business under the title, A. H. Gillmor, Jr. and Brothers. Later A. H. Gillmor's sons, Daniel and Percy, became involved in the business which suffered financial setbacks in the mid-1860s and the 1880s.

In addition to his business interests, A. H. Gillmor was active in provincial and federal politics. He served the parish of Grand Manan as a member of the Charlotte County Council. He was first elected to the House of Assembly in 1854, sitting as a member for Charlotte County. He was re-elected three times, in 1856, 1857, 1861, and 1865. In 1865 he held the post of provincial secretary in Albert J. Smith's short-lived, anti-Confederate government. He was defeated at the polls, in 1866, on the question of Confederation and returned to St. George where he continued his business activities.

In 1872 A. H. Gillmor, once again, turned his attention to politics, running unsuccessfully for a seat in the Dominion Parliament. Two years later his bid for a federal seat was successful. He was re-elected on the Liberal ticket in 1878, 1882, 1887, and 1891, but suffered defeat at the polls in 1896. Throughout his political career, he was particularly interested in the issues of education, prohibition, manhood suffrage, protection (tariffs), reciprocity, and railway construction. During the Dominion government debate over Louis Riel, he argued for clemency. In 1900, A. H. Gillmor was appointed to the Senate of Canada. The same year he was named Canada's representative at the Paris Exposition. In his religious life, he was a devout Baptist and attended church regularly. Arthur Hill Gillmor died on 13 April 1903, while on a train en route to Ottawa; he was buried in St. George Rural Cemetery.

Hannah Howe Gillmor, A. H. Gillmor's wife, was born at Whiting, Washington County, Maine, on 16 July 1825. She received her formal education at the Washington Academy, in Maine. Her family moved from the Machias area to St. George, N. B., in the 1830s, where her father, a temperance supporter and Universalist, engaged in lumbering, milling, and shipbuilding. She had 8 siblings, namely, Henry Newcombe (b. 1820, Rebecca Hall), James Simeon (b. 1822, Clementine Seelye), Warren (1823-1849), Levi Fulsom (1829-1847), Albion Pratt (1833-ca. 1864), Sarah Maria (1839-1874, Henry Beckwith), Harriet (b. 1830, J. A. Davison), and Lucretia Dawes (b. 1827, H. E. Seelye). Henry and James Howe migrated to California, in the 1840s, during the gold rush, remaining in the West for the rest of their lives. A. Pratt Howe moved from New Brunswick to Wisconsin about 1856. He enlisted in the Union Army, during the American Civil War, and, in May 1864, he either suffered fatal wounds during the Battle of Wilderness or was taken prisoner.

Hannah Howe Gillmor had a close relationship with her sisters Sarah Maria, Harriet, and Lucretia. Sarah Maria Howe married Henry A. Beckwith on 10 November 1858, and they lived for a number of years in Berlin, Wisconsin. She died in Vallejo, California, on 24 September 1874. Harriet Howe married James Alexander Davidson / Davison, of Charlotte County, on 11 October 1857; Lucretia Howe married Henry E. Seelye, the son of Col. Henry Seelye, of St. George, on 31 August 1843. A Liberal in politics and confidante of A. H. Gillmor, H. E. Seelye supported the Tilley-Mitchell administration and held an appointment with the European and North American Railway. He was also a justice of the peace and a captain of the Rifle Volunteers. In 1862, he, Lucretia, and their children moved west, first to California and, about a year later, to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, where he worked, for a time, in mines at or near Lightning Creek, Caribou. In the 1870s, he was appointed a Dominion customs agent. H. E. Seelye was an advocate of Confederation and responsible government. In 1870, he accompanied the British Columbia delegates to Ottawa as the representative of the journal, "British Colonist". Henry E. Seelye died prematurely, at Joseph's Prairie, Kootney Bay, B.C., on 27 March 1876.

A. H. and Hannah Gillmor's children remained emotionally close to their siblings and parents and lived busy and interesting lives. Adelia / Adela Gillmor was born on 13 September 1848 at St. George. In the mid-1860s she attended Mrs. Hunt's Young Ladies' Seminary at Saint John where she took lessons in drawing, painting, piano, composition, grammar, astronomy, philosophy, arithmetic, and botany. She also received instruction in music from Henry S. Coleman, who directed the cathedral choir. On 30 January 1875, she married Dr. Thomas Dick ([1845?]-1919), of St. George, and they had a daughter, Winnifred May (b. ca. 1895, Simmons). In 1901 Adelia Dick was living with her parents and daughter in St. George. By 1911 she had moved to Ottawa where she resided with her daughter and son-in-law, Thomas Simmons, and their son, Alan. Adelia Gillmor Dick died on 21 June 1928 and was buried in St. George Rural Cemetery.

Daniel Gillmor was born on 1 July 1849 at St. George. Beginning about the early 1860s, he was employed in the family business. He married Catherine (Kate) Sophia Duffy (1850-1927), a Roman Catholic, of Lowell, Massachusetts, on 28 November 1877. About January 1878, he began working as a salesman for the Boston coffee firm of Chase & Sanborn, selling tea and coffee to customers in the Maritimes and New England, but by 1881 had returned to St. George and was employed as a storekeeper. In 1889, he became a partner in the Canadian operation of Chase & Sanborn, making his home in Montreal. He was living in Westmount, in 1901, with his wife and their 4 children, William Dawes (1881-1957), Blanche (b. 1883), Daniel P. (1889-1964), and Horace M. (1892-1929). A daughter, Alice H. (b. ca. 1879), had died in 1890. By 1911 he, Kate, and sons Daniel and Horace had returned to St. George. Between 1907 and 1918, Daniel Gillmor served in the Senate of Canada representing Charlotte County. He died in 1918 and was buried in St. George Rural Cemetery.

Henry Edward Gillmor was born on 16 September 1851 at St. George. He earned his M.D. from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1877. Initially, he established a medical practice in or near St. George, but, after a short time, he moved to St. Martins, St. John County, where he practised medicine for many years. He married Ella Blanche Moran (Nellie), the daughter of James H. Moran, of St. Martins, on 2 September 1885. They had at least 6 children, namely, Robert Linden Hill (b.1886), Kathleen Augusta (b.1888), Walter S. (1889-1890), Clive Moran (b. 1890), Henry Edward (b. 1892), and Horace Hutchins (b. 1895). Dr. Henry E. Gillmor died on 2 May 1926 in Saint John County.

Percy Howe Gillmor was born on 7 September 1862 at St. George. He attended the Collegiate School in Fredericton in the late 1870s and graduated from the University of New Brunswick in 1883. In November 1894, he married Julia Copeland Kelley (b. ca. 1869), of Calais, Maine, in Boston. At some point, they moved to Montreal, where he found employment. In 1901, Percy and Julia Gillmor were boarding with Amelia Sternberg in Saint-Antoine Ward, Montreal. By 1911, Percy Gillmor had returned to St. George and was boarding with G[artley] and Dorcas McGee. For many years, he travelled for commercial houses. Percy Howe Gillmor died at St. George on 17 May 1915, aged 52, and was buried in St. George Rural Cemetery.

Sources: Daniel F. Johnson's Vital Statistics from New Brunswick Newspapers on-line; familysearch.org; RS141 Vital Statistics from Government Records; Census of Canada, 1881, 1901, and 1911; Dictionary of Canadian Biography (Arthur Hill Gillmor); members.shaw.ca; The Beacon (St. Andrews), 20 and 27 May 1915; and MC243.