Tobique Valley Genealogy and Local History
Group
On
this page you will find links to photographs, stories, anecodotes,
and artiicles of interest about local communities, events
and people.
Do you have an article or story that illustrates our community's past?
Submissions for this
page are welcomed!
Send
it on.
tvglhg@hotmail.com
The
Tradition of Hanging Maybaskets
Plaster Rock and area
- an excerpt from Two
Months on the Tobique, An Emigrant's Journal, published in 1851 (the entire
text of the book is available for reading and/or download on Google
Books)
- Historical
Notes, Fraser's, from 1967
- Plaster
Rock, newspaper article, 1901
- Plaster
Rock Parade, history article written about 1955
- A link to Knock on Wood (toucherdubois), containing information from
the "Fraser Companies Limited Archive collection" located
at Centre de documentation et d'études madawaskayennes (CEDEM) de l'Université
de Moncton, campus d'Edmundston. This site
contains a number of historical photographs of topics such as the log
drive, Fraser sawmills,
and documents
relating to the history of Fraser Co. Ltd./Fraser Papers.
- Early
History of Plaster Rock, by Alice M. (Flanders) Wright
- A link to "My Father's Shoes", http://www.islandregister.com/rcoffin/rcoffini.html,
by Ross Coffin, including the story of Dr. Joseph Coffin, who spent many
years as a medical practitioner in Plaster Rock
- Merton Margison's days on Tobique
- The Flanders
and Sadler Families, first printed in The Cataract, in 1967, written
by Annie (Crone) Longmoore.
Riley Brook
Arthurette
and Birch Ridge
Scotch Colony
New Denmark
Grand Falls and area
