South Shore Genealogical Society
Local History
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Lunenburg By The Sea - 250 Years of Challenge and Change
A Short History and Photograph Record of the 106th Overseas Battalion C.E.F. - original images
The Trial of Peter Mailman for the Murder of his Wife 1873 - original images
Vogler Family Historical Treasures - original images
Handwritten history of Tancook (probably from late 1800s)
Letters Home from the Front - Boer War, WW I
The Memoirs of James Albert Hirtle, Hemford 1866-1958
Letters between Daniel A. Tanner & sons Elvin & Victor, working on Lunenburg schooners, and his family in Stonehurst NS 1913-1922
Daniel J. Rudolf's Diary extracts from 1901 (Mayor of Lunenburg 1899 to 1902)
Letter from Atwood Parks (brother-in-law of James McConnell below), working in Ontario, to his brother in Port Medway NS in 1848
Excerpts from the Diary of James McConnell's (brother-in-law of Atwood Parks above) trip from Ontario, to Petite Riviere in 1870
Court transcripts of the 1791 trials of George Frederick Boutelier and his brother John Boutelier, for the murder of Frederick Eminaud
History of Upper Blandford prepared in 1934 as a school project
History of Blandford 1931 - 1961
Beasts of Burden: The days of the oxen in Blandford
Mary Wentzell's recollections (at age 102) of life in Indian Point in the early 1900s.
A Story of The Labrador Fishery as carried on by men and vessels of Lunenburg, Queens and Shelburne Counties 86 years ago,
by Captain Adam Knickle
Memories of a fisherman's wife
by L.M.M. [Lillian Maud Mosher]
Memories of Hurdis Carleton Conrad of Cherry Hill
Personal Recollections of Life on Tancook Island Years Ago by Mary Dauphinee
Personal recollections from a Scrapbook (Tancook Island) - about Captain Alvin Cross, Mrs. Amos Stevens and a snowstorm in 1923 [not connected!]
Shipping in Bridgewater on the LaHave River 1899-1925 by Harry Mosher
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