Jean Maude Knickle was born on 16 February 1898 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, the daughter of Alexander and Annetta (Anderson) Knickle. She was educated at public schools in Lunenburg and subsequently attended Mount Allison University where she received her BA in 1918. She taught mathematics at Mount Allison for one year after graduation. She married Roy Martin Whynacht in Lunenburg on 15 June 1932 and subsequently had two sons: Alfred (1935-2002) and Eric (1933-2015). She was one of the owners of the Lunenburg Outfitting Company. She was a Nova Scotia provincial tennis champion and was actively involved with the Canadian Girls in Training (CGIT). She died on 7 April 1992.

Ernest Allan Whitebone (1913-1966) taught in various city schools in Saint John, New Brunswick. He married Helen Margaret McKenzie Wilkins on 30 June 1938 at Saint John. Whitebone represented the parish of Simonds on the Saint John City and County Municipal Council and served on many committees in his capacity as Councillor. He was a member of the Saint John College Development Corporation, a group largely instrumental in the establishment in Saint John of a branch of the University of New Brunswick. He had an interest in Celtic culture and the Breton language.

Walter Woodworth White was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1862, son of Vincent S. (1818-1892) and Charlotte (Douglas) White. He was educated at Saint John High School, University of New Brunswick, McGill University, and the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow.

He was a surgeon in the General public Hospital, 1890-1912; surgeon Lancaster Hospital, 1919-1930; president of the Saint John Medical Society, New Brunswick Medical Association, Canadian Medical Association, Medical Council of Canada; member of the Senate of U.N.B.; chairman of the Boy's Industrial Home; governor of the Wiggins Male Orphanage; director of the Bank of Nova Scotia; member of the Saint John Board of School Trustees; Alderman, Saint John, 1891, 1893 and 1907; warden Saint John City and County, 1901 and 1930; mayor of Saint John, 1902-1906, 1926-1931; president of the board of Commissioners, Saint John General Hospital, 1942-1952.

Walter White was commissioned in 1887 and served until 1908; when he was placed on the reserve of officers. During the First World War he was transferred to active duty to the Canadian Army Medical Corps with the rank of lieutenant colonel serving as a consulting surgeon until the end of the war at which time he was promoted to colonel and placed on the Artillery Reserve. He was serving as Medical Officer in Halifax at the time of the Halifax Explosion of 1917 and was mentioned in dispatches for his work during and after the disaster.

He married Nellie G. Troop in 1893 and had one son and three daughters: Douglas Vincent (b. 1895); Mary Woodworth (b. 1897), who married Donald F. Angus of Montreal; Edith DeSoyres (b. 1898), who married H. Atwood Bridges; Constance St. John (b. 1904), who married H.G. Harvey Smith. Walter White died in 1952 in Saint John.

Sources:
Prominent People of New Brunswick, 1937;
New Brunswick Political Biography

Lloyd “Bud” White was coach of Varsity Men’s Basketball, 1951/1952 and 1952/1953. White is pictured in "Allisonian" 1953 with team (p. 134), and individual photo (p.135).

James White (c. 1737-1738-1814) was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. In 1861, he was employed by William Tailer and Samuel Blodgett, Boston to act as their agent in furnishing supplies to the garrisons at Fort George and Crown Point. He remained with these two merchants until 1764 when he entered into mercantile partnership with Samuel Blodgett, James Simonds, Richard Simonds, Robert Peaslie, and his cousin William Hazen.

The partnership was established to "… pursue… the cod fishery, seine fishery, the fur trade, burning of lime and every other trading business that shall be thought advantageous…". on the Saint John River. Under the terms of the contract White was to receive 1/3 of a 25% share of the profits. James White came to the Saint John River, New Brunswick, in 1764 to manage the company's affairs. In 1767, owing to the death of Richard Simonds, the withdrawal of Robert Peaslie and Samuel Blodgett, and the entry of Leonard Jarvis into the firm, a new partnership agreement, involving James Simonds, William Hazen, Leonard Jarvis and White was signed. James White refused to sign the new contract, protesting later that the one-sixth share allowed him was insufficient considering the extent of his commitment to the firm.

The American Revolution provided William Hazen and James White with an opportunity to expand their commercial activities. They entered into an arrangement with Michael Franklin, of Halifax, to supply masts to the Royal Navy, a move that soon brought them into the conflict with the other mast contractor in the region, William Davidson. They also traded merchandise for furs. This partnership ended with Franklin's death in 1782, although Hazen and White continued to supply masts to the Navy.

After the Revolution the partnership of Simonds, Hazen, and White began to disintegrate. Although they continued to trade there were continual efforts to settle the affairs of the firm. The division of the assets, however, was a long and acrimonious affair and was not finally settled until 1810.

James White also took on a number of official and political duties. In 1777, Michael Franklin appointed him Deputy Superintendent of Indian Affairs. He also served as a Justice of the Peace prior to the establishment of the Province of New Brunswick and was a Deputy Port Collector. Finally James White held a number of minor civic posts in the new Parish of Portland, including overseer of the poor and commissioner of highways.

Thomas Whelpley (1806-1895), the descendant of a Loyalist family and his wife, Frances Maria Belyea (1806-1880) had ten children: Wilmot Jr., Daniel Harvey (1833-1904) , Edward, Elias (1849-1892), William A. (1829- 1889), George, Georgie A, Catherine (married Price), Matilda (married Joseph Richards) and James Albert.

James Albert Whelpley (1839-1893) married Jemima Jan McLeod (b. 1843), daughter of William McLeod of Central Greenwich, New Brunswick, in 1868. They had a son Frederic William (1872-1911) who married Agnes Winchester on 5 June 1894.

James A. Whelpley was an inventor, primarily of skates, including roller and ice skates (Acme and Long Reach). The Acme skate had a relatively short blade, which allowed the user to be extremely mobile, while the Long Reach speed skate with its 17 inch blade allowed the user to travel long distances in a relatively short period of time. The Long Reach skate was well suited for the long expanses of the St. John and Kennebecasis rivers.

The Whelpley family manufactured skates and other items such as a three-wheeled gig and a butter churn. They began manufacturing as early as 1859 in a factory at Round Hill near Greenwich, a settlement at the Long Reach on the St. John River . in Kings County, New Brunswick. James Albert Whelpley was the driving force behind the business and held patents for skates and other inventions in the U.S., England, France, Germany and Hungary. James Whelpley eventually settled in Keene, New Hampshire where he was involved with the Keene Manufacturing Company, but also remained active in the family business in New Brunswick.

The Round Hill factory closed for a time in the 1870s, reopened and continued production until 1886 when it closed again. By the 1890s, the Whelpleys had reopened it yet again. Although James Whelpley died in 1893, the factory remained in production and, in 1899, the business was reorganized as J.A. Whelpley Co. Ltd. with Frederic Whelpley and Daniel Whelpley listed as skate manufacturers and Frederic as president. In 1904 the Whelpley Skate and Manufacturing Company was registered but by 1909, the Whelpleys had ceased operation and the firm was in severe financial difficulty. The business was auctioned off to A. Ernest Everett for $5.00 plus the cost of the mortgage. In 1926, the business returned to family hands when James' nephew Daniel Robert Whelpley purchased it for $1.00 from Everett. The letters patent incorporating the Whelpley Skate and Manufacturing Company were surrendered in 1955.

Sources: Brian Flood, Saint John A Sporting Tradition 1785-1985; Index to registers of letters patent and supplementary letters patent Issued, 1885-1976 , PANB RG17.

Carriage makers, Daniel and Elisha Wheaton, the sons of Mary Kennedy and David Wheaton (1765-1851), were born about 1825 and 1822 respectively, in the parish of Sackville, Westmorland County, New Brunswick. By the early 1850s, both Elisha and Daniel were working in the carriage-making trade at Upper Sackville, Daniel as a carriage maker and Elisha as a blacksmith. Elisha and his wife, Rebecca Kinnear, had no fewer than 8 children: Lucetty, Calvin, Anne, Herbert, Frank (1855-1927), Sarah, Frederick, and Carrie. These records suggest that Frank Wheaton had joined his father in the business by the 1880s. Other members of the Wheaton family were probably employed by the firm.

In addition to the manufacture and repair of wagons, carriages and carts, Wheaton Brothers made woodwork for carriages, racks, flooring, coffins, and iron work. The business also sold other goods: clapboards, shingles, lumber, cloth, clothing, boots, shoes, oats, hay, maple sugar, and flour. Customers paid their accounts in cash, kind, or labour. The business was still functioning in 1904.

In the last years of its existence, the Whale Cove Weir (built c. 1888) was located off the shore of Wood Island in the Grand Manan Archipeligo, Grand Manan, New Brunswick. A weir is a fish trap that is made of long wooden stakes that have been pounded into the ocean floor near a shore, usually forming the shape of a kidney with a straight line of stakes leading toward the land. Starting in early summer, nets are attached to the stakes, so that the straight line of stakes acts as a barrier to fish swimming up the shore and channels them into the opening of the weir, where they are trapped but are still able to swim until they are ready for harvesting. When they caught enough fish or had a market to sell them in, the fishermen would cast a net inside the wear and pull the catch onto waiting boats or scows.

The catch had several different possible uses. Herring catches were often salted and smoked, while Sardines were sent to the cannery, where workers removed the heads and tails and packed the fish into cans. These products were then sold to markets in the West Indies and around the world. Some fish were also sold to local lobster fishermen for use in traps. Additionally, fish scales, which were collected by special slits in the fishermen’s scows, were sold to manufacturers of “pearl essence”—the silvery white substance sometimes used to give cosmetic products such as lipstick their pearly shine. Since this last product is no longer economical, this usage of fish scales is—at least for Grand Manan’s fisheries—a thing of the past.

The original location of the Whale Cove Weir is unknown, since it was moved from Whale Cove to Hardwood Cove, where it was better sheltered from harsh weather. It was thereafter called Hardwood Cove Weir, though its name never officially changed. The Whale Cove Weir did well in its new location, and it was easier to maintain. The Little Wood Island Weir, which the fishermen called the Holiness Movement Weir, was moved to its former location at Whale Cove, and accordingly adopted the Whale Cove name. It, too, did well in its new location, at least until everyone fell on hard times in the Depression. It is not known when the Whale Cove Weir was dismantled .

David Wetmore, Jr., (b .ca. 1804) operated a lumbering company in Clifton Royal, New Brunswick. He was also a farmer. He was married to Eliza and had 14 children: George Canning, Caroline E., Mary A., Eliza J., Richard W., David P., William Wallace, Edwin M., Agnes L., Howard D., James E., Hannah O., Celia A., and Julian B.