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"The Flight of the Loyalists, St. Andrews: A Sanctuary for Castine Tories"

  • CA CCA MC 466
  • Item
  • 1978

A pamphlet printed by the St. Andrews Civic Trust Inc. which contains a brief history of how Empire Loyalists from America settled St. Andrews. Has a particular focus on the architectural styles of their homes, and contains images of historic buildings in St. Andrews which reflect these styles.

St. Andrews Civic Trust

Ann (Haley) Berman

  • CA CCA MC 867
  • Item
  • [194-?]

This series contains the papers of Ann (Haley) Berman including a scrapbook compiled by Ann with a detailed map of New Brunswick on the cover. Newspaper and magazine clippings collected in the scrapbook concern significant New Brunswick places and landmarks, people, and events from the 1940s. Some notable cut-outs include articles on Dochet, or St. Croix, Island, fires in St. George including a two-storey wooden frame 1800's house, customs officers at Upper Mills, lighthouse and fog stations in the Bay of Fundy and their keepers, the Home and School Association on Campobello, fishing in Blacks Harbour and other areas of the Bay of Fundy, and mysterious moose carcass near St. George. The scrapbook also contains clippings on the city of Saint John’s history, some of New Brunswick’s earliest settlers, famous families and individuals such as Lord Beaverbrook or Charles Saint Etienne de La Tour, New Brunswick hospitals and the Red Cross, hunting and fishing, and global events like post World War II talks between Britain, the U. S. and Russia.

Autograph Album of "Chrissie"

  • CA CCA MC 913
  • Item
  • 1879

A pocket book labelled “Autographs”, which contains signatures from St. Andrews residents addressed to “Chrissie”.

Recollection of the St. Andrews Brewery Well and Foundry

  • CA CCA MC119
  • Item
  • 1978 - ?

Describes wells and fire tanks near the Thompson home on Queen Street used before water was piped from Chamcook Lake. A second article describes the old foundry on Water Street.

Thompson, Bessie

Walter M. Buck - Book of Poems

  • CA CCA MC15
  • Item
  • 1852-?

Item is a 78 page book of poetry featuring the works of Walter Mansfield Buck. Buck was born in Dublin, Ireland, in December of 1826. A civil engineer, Buck came to Canada in 1852 where he was appointed Chief Engineer of the New Brunswick & Canadian Railway. From that time on he held important positions on every railroad in New Brunswick, and at the time of his death in 1881 he was Provincial Engineer of New Brunswick. Buck lived in St. Andrews and a was a member of the All Saints Anglican Church. Buck revised the plans to convert the All Saints Church from a stone structure to a wooden one.

Buck, Walter M

Reverend John Fryer Petition

  • CA CCA MC16
  • Item
  • 1841

Consists of two petitions, one from John Fryer and One from James Curtain regarding the operation of ferries between Chitty's Cove and Joe's Point in St. Andrews and the American side (1841).

Log Book of Princess Royal

  • CA CCA MC20
  • Item
  • 10 March 1842 - 11 May 1843

Log Book of the Brig Princess Royal, built by William Allison Broderick at Parrsboro, N.S. in 1840. It was registered at the port of Halifax in January, 1941, James Ratchford and George Humphray, owners. Registerd at St. Andrews, July 1841 to Frederick A. Babcock, Thomas Turner, Robert Walton and Harris Hatch, John Rodgers, Harris Anderson Hatch, Daniel Smith Morrison (Gentlemen) , Richard Milton Andrews (Barrister at Law), John Stephen Jarvis, (sail maker), Henry ONeill and James Healy (Butchers), George McCullouch (Merchant), John Irwin (Pedler), James Clarke (Pilot), Samuel Getty and Charles Williams (grocers). Samuel McCurdy (School Master), James Burgess (Carpenter). Registry changed to Cork, 1847. It covers voyages to the West Indies and Liverpool.(March 10 1842 - May 11 1843.)

Account of trial for murder, Thomas Hutchings

  • CA CCA MC208
  • Item
  • 1942 - ?

This personal account lists all those concerned in the trial and conviction of Hutchings for the murder of Bernice Connors near Black's Harbour, 7 June 1942. Both Hutchings and the trial were held in St. Andrews.George Goodeill wrote the account of the trial and the events leading up to it. Goodiell supposedly, disputes some of the information given in the book "Six for the Hangman". The item is also accompanied by newspaper clippings from September-December,1942.

Goodeill, George

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