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Nashwaak Bicentennial Association (York County, N.B.) Community life
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Nashwaak Bicentennial Association

  • CA PANB MC315
  • Fonds
  • 1840-1884 and 1981-1983, 2003-2007, predominant 20th c.

This fonds consists of the administrative records of the Nashwaak Bicentennial Association and the research materials (primarily photocopied) collected in connection with the publication of "And the River Rolled On." Administrative records include correspondence, minutes of meeting, press releases, newspaper clippings, newsletters, and other material relating specifically to the work of the Bicentennial Association in connection with the production of its book, the organization of the Homecoming Week, and the creation of a brochure.

Research materials include notes, photocopies or transcriptions of documents, and other records used in writing the text of "And the River Rolled On." There are copies of agreements, deeds, wills, land grants, diaries, school returns, songs, poems (including one each by Martin Butler and Theodore Goodridge Roberts), and sketches of houses, as well as scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, maps, photographs, sporting guides, a listing of English immigrant children, and copies of addresses, talks, articles, or essays on early Nashwaak history, Nashwaak residents, their communities, institutions, industries, railways, and local events.

Research notes relate to a variety of historical topics, notably, land granting, the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment (Black Watch), the construction and functioning of local schools, the establishment of churches, family genealogies, growing-up, historical buildings, business and manufacturing establishments, community leaders and pioneers, and the Nashwaak River system.

There are also a series of tape-recorded interviews with Nashwaak residents and former Nashwaak residents, including, Glenn Pond, Aubrey Hanson, Arthur Evans, Malcolm Evans, George Johnson, Harry Brown, Harry Boyce, Ken Moore, Earl Moore, Gordon Williams, Dean Bell, Clara Bell, James Ross, Warren Dinsmore, Jack Fraser, Gerard McNeil, Maurice Johnston, William Wyton, Greta Sweeney, John MacLean, Angus MacBean, Pearl Woodcock, Ken Dunphy, Harry McNeill, Burpee Saunders, Charles Clayton, Walter Wade, Keith Allen, Mary Allen, Evelyn McKay, Ruby McDonald, Archie McDonald, Rolf Munroe, Kathleen McFarlane, Ralph Fullarton, Allan Cleghorn, Della Woodworth, Jean Spilman, D. Murray Young, Hazel Miles, Ray Forbes, Greta Ebbett, Greta Sweeney, Helen Gallagher, Birdie Shields, and Kaye Estey.

Maps have been moved to the Map Section, and the 114 photographs have been moved to the Photographic Section (P145).

Nashwaak Bicentennial Association (York County, N.B.)