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)
- Plaster
Rock, newspaper article, 1901
- Historical Notes, Fraser's, from 1967
- 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
