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Grand Manan Farmers Market

  • Collectivité
  • 1984-

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.

Telephone Services on Grand Manan

  • Collectivité

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.

Sixth Canadian Mounted Rifles

  • Collectivité
  • 1914-1919

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..

Brodie, William

  • Personne
  • 1864-

William Brodie was born in Fredericton about 1864, his parents were Scottish. In 1891 he was living in St Andrews living at Lucy Sprague’s boarding house and was a teacher and the principal of Charlotte County Grammar School. In 1899 he resigns from the Charlotte County Grammar School which was very unpopular with the parents of the students. He never married

Hof, Alice Mayo

  • CA GMA MG6
  • Personne
  • 1873 - 1962

Alice Mayo Hoff is the widow of Brigadier General Samuel Hof, Former Master General of the Ordnance United States Army. They were married on May 1, 1900 and they had one daughter together. She passed away in 1962, at the age of 89

Huntsman Mawson, Elinor

  • Personne
  • 1910-2006

Elinor Huntsman Mawson was born 2 February 1910, her mother was Florence Marie Stirling (known as Mary) and her father was Archibald Gowanlock Huntsman. She grew up in Toronto, her father was a Professor in the Zoology Dept. of the University of Toronto, and during the summer months they relocated to St Andrews, because her father was the director of the biological research station. Elinor graduated from Havergal College and the University of Toronto where she received a first class BA honours degree in 1931. During her undergraduate studies she had classes with Dr Charles Best, and he supervised her for her post-graduate studies. She earned an MA in bio-chemistry in 1932. And during her research for her PhD, Dr Best recommended that she should go to England, to tour laboratories and to meet other scientists. She spent the next three years crossing the Atlantic several times, for this purpose. She met her future husband Colin Mawson at Manchester University. She earned her PhD in physiology in 1935. She returned to England on the 3 June 1935 with her mother and met up with her father who was travelling in Europe at the time and she married Colin Mawson on 6 June 1935. After their marriage she worked at the Royal Cancer Hospital Research Institute, London. They moved to Reading when Colin was appointed the Biochemist at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. During the war, Elinor did research on mother’s milk at the National Institute for Research on Dairying, at Reading University. She was a founding member of the Nutrition Society of Great Britain.
In 1949 Colin and Elinor and their daughter Beatrice returned to Canada, to Deep River, where they lived until 1974. Elinor did not work at the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratory, because the AECL did not employ women professionals in the 1950s and early 60s. So Elinor plunged herself into a host of community activities. She was editor of the North Renfrew Times, a member of the Deep River library board, of the Deep River school board, and of the Deep River community association. In 1973 they moved to St Andrews for the summers and to Ottawa for the winters. Elinor joined the Charlotte County Historical Society and in 1977 became its archivist, a position she held for 15 years. In 1994, Colin and Elinor moved to a nursing home in Thornhill, Ontario to be closer to their daughter Beatrice. However, Beatrice died in March 1977 and Elinor died in 2006. Colin Mawson today lives in a nursing home in Toronto, and his nephew Colin Kenning Marchant looks after his well being.

Allaby, Eric

  • Personne
  • 1943 -

Eric Allaby was born August 7, 1943, on Grand Manan Island, he graduated from Grand Manan High School and Acadia University (B.Sc., 1964). He became a teacher and worked as a diver. A Ford Foundation fellowship enabled him to research maritime history in North America and England. He was an underwater archaeologist with the National Museums of Canada (1973- 1976) and a founding member of the North American Society for Oceanic History. He has written several books and articles on marine history, including Shipbuilding in the Maritime Provinces, The August Gale, two Grand Manan Historians on shipwrecks around Grand Manan Island, and Grand Manan. He is a marine artist and has exhibited his work around the province. First elected October 13, 1987, as the Liberal MLA for Charlotte-Fundy, he was on numerous committees. Re-elected September 23, 1991, and again in September 11, 1995, for the new riding of Fundy Isles. He chaired the government caucus (1997-1999). He was re-elected June 7, 1999, and served on several committees, and as Opposition House Leader. He was re-elected for a fifth term June 9, 2003. His riding of Fundy Isles was merged with the riding of fellow Liberal Rick Doucet to form Charlotte - The Isles in the 2006 redistribution of boundaries. As a result, Allaby chose not to seek re-election in the 2006 election. In 2007, he was named to the board of directors for the New Brunswick Provincial Capital Commission. Eric Allaby and his wife Berneta reside in Grand Manan, N.B. They have a son and a daughter.
Eric was the curator at the Grand Manan Museum and many of his sketches describing underwater archaeology around the Grand Manan Archipelago are on permanent display. This map shows Eric's love for sharing his knowledge with others and he has published many maps describing Grand Manan and her history.
Source: Biographies of Members, Legislative Assembly, New Brunswick, 55th Legislature, 2004.
Source: Wikipedia

Dawes, Marilyn

  • Personne
  • 1950 - 1962

Marilyn Dawes

McLeod, Harvey

  • Personne
  • 1916

Harvey McLeod is an offspring of a long-time military family.
Grandfathers - WW 1, Parents - WW 2, and his father was in the Regular Army to 1965 (8th Canadian Hussars)
Harvey served in Regular Army 1962 - 70. He has a long time interest in Military History with some university training in history.
Harvey has a large personal collection of military books - no real specialty along with a small personal collection of "militaria"
At this time Harvey is retired and a volunteer at 8th Hussars Museum, Sussex, NB .

Dubeck, Joseph

  • Personne
  • 1943

Joseph Dubeck was a Corporal with the 8th Hussars . He joined the Hussars in 1943 from Preston Ontario.

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