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Meeting Notice
The Annual Meeting of the SSGS will be held Monday, January 15, 2001 in the Society Room of the Fisheries
Museum of the Atlantic at 7:30 pm.
Nominating Committee Report
Committee members - Paul Jodrey, Ivan Wamboldt, Murray Jodrie. The following is the proposed Nominating Committee Report:
President: Paul Jodrey
Past President: Sheila Chambers
Vice President: Murray Jodrie
Secretary: Betty Rhodenizer
Treasurer: Paul Conrad
Newsletter:
Membership: Ed Kinsman
Publicity: Pauline Wessell
Program & Education: Joan Parks
Office Administrator: Barbara Spindler
Computer Information Manager: Sueann Mersey
I would like to wish for each of you a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year. This is the season when we reflect on what has happened in the past and what we would like to see in the future for ourselves and for those people and organizations with which we are involved. With this in the back of our minds, we also know that it is time for the South Shore Genealogical Society's Annual General Meeting. We have set this year's AGM for January and hope the weather is kinder to us this year than last!
AGM's are often ignored by most members in a majority of societies as people are afraid they will be pressured into an office they do not want to do or feel they are not capable of doing. This feeling can be appreciated.
However, this is your Society's AGM and its future depends on your exercising your right as a member. Nominating Committee Chairperson, Paul Joudrey, and his assistants have presented a proposed slate of officers. For this, we them for their efforts. Let us not forget that nominations can also be made from the floor for any position. Please be an active member in your Society.
......Sheila Chambers, President
Information Update:
A proposal to index vital statistics from Lunenburg County newspapers has been formulated. We estimate this project to take about two years to complete.
Step 1: Permission from the various agencies to use their information has been completed.
Step 2: Provincial funding has been applied for and the results should be known by the end of January.
Step 3: The paperwork for Federal funding has been prepared and will be applied for as soon as the provincial government replies to our proposal.
The Rising Village, Petite Riviere by Malcolm Parks.
The Wests of Halifax & Lunenburg by Terry Punch
The Southern Bible, Settlers of Lun. & Queens Co. by Scott Teal 1992
Legacy of a German Past by Scott Teal 1993
Coin of the Realm, The Mason Family Saga 1422-1992 by B.M. Mason
N.S. Historical Review Vol 12 #2 1992
Hillcrest Cemetery Registers compiled by Nancy Haughn
Churches of Lunenburg, Baptisms etc (3 discs)
School Registers Lunenburg Co. (116 boxes)
Wagner Family Tree by Frank Wagner (Ged Com 1 disc)
Ancestors/Descendants Tanner Family by Stan Card
Nova Scotia Place Names by Thomas J. Brown 1992
Pictures & Family Tree Zinck Family
Recollections & Records of Stonehurst
1770 Census for Lun. Co.
Dukeshire-Dukeshire Genealogy by Robert & William Durkshire
Wamboldt Family by Ivan Wamboldt (3 books)
Shey, Johnson, Fralic, Whynot & Connected Families by Ivan Wamboldt
Zwicker-Sarty, Kraus Family Tree by Ivan Wamboldt
Cemeteries of Kings Co. (1 disc)
The Desc. of Henry Trimper, The Tremper Families of North Arm & New Germany by Wayne Trimper
Ancestors & Descendants of James Webber of Chester
Peoples of the Maritimes - Germans by Dr. Gertrude Haseem
...April 27, 1909 - Bulletin (price 2 cents a copy)
An Interesting Compilation of Names and Ages of the Old Men in No. 5 Polling District. As a variant in the discussion of public health that has been so much in evidence recently, I beg to submit the following list of men seventy years of age and upwards living in No. 5 Polling District in this county. All of them are hale and hearty and most of them still actively engaged in their callings. One of them, ninety-three years young, is running his farm vigourously and successfully.
The Fancys mentioned in the list are brothers and the Crouses are cousins to each other. The reminisences of the early days of Bridgewater and New Germany and the country between which some of these veterans relate are exceedingly interesting and many of them valuable enough to be preserved.
To view this lengthy list, please click here. This will open a new window, so when you're finished, just close it and you'll be right back here to read the rest of the Newsletter!
...June 22, 1920 Bridgewater Bulletin
The Water Front Completely Destroyed by Fire, and a Vast Quantity of Property and Stores Wiped Out
Early on Saturday morning Mrs. Beecham Ritcey, Postmistress of Riverport, discovered the restaurant near her residence in flames and at once gave the alarm, which was at once taken up by Mr. Guest, Manager of the Bank of Montreal, and Mrs. Guest.
Lunenburg and Bridgewater firefighting force responded....
The wind was from the southeast, away from most of the buildings....
The primitive bucket brigade method was the only local....
The flames broke out in the restaurant, in the building owned by J. J. Risser, and serving also as a furniture warehouse and as the Masonic Hall. The owner left the building at 6 o'clock on the evening before, and he was certain no fires were left burning then....
Loss at about $200,000, replacement abt $500,000.
The total insurance carried on the destroyed buildngs was $63,000.
Totally destroyed
- Building owned by J.J. Risser; occupied on the ground floor as a furniture warehouse, on the second floor as a restaurant and on the top floor as the Masonic Hall.
- Barn and warehouse owned by Hector McGregor.
- Larger general store owned and occupied by Ritcey Brothers
- Large warehouse on wharf owned by Ritcey Brothers.
- Furniture store of L.A. Ritcey.
- Barber shop conducted by Gabriel Zinck.
- Warehouse on wharf owned by Samuel Ritcey.
- Building occupied by: top floor Robert Creaser as a sail loft; downstairs as a storeroom and by Mr. McKinley as a cobbler's shop.
- Warehouse owned by B. Ritcey.
- General Store of Samuel Ritcey.
Damaged by Fire and Water
- Dwelling owned and occupied by William Creaser.
- Dwelling owned by B. Ritcey and occupied by Charles Oxner
- Dwelling owned and occupied by B. Ritcey, also including post office.
- Building owned and occupied by the Bank of Montreal, including the dwelling of the manager, A. G. Guest.
- The McGregor dwelling, occupied by Mrs. (Dr.) McGregor and daughter.
- Dwelling owned and occupied by Gabriel Zinck.
- Dwelling owned and occupied by Ritcey Brothers, who suffered so heavily in the loss of business establishments.
Wharves Totally Destroyed
- Boat wharf owned by Samuel Ritcey.
- Large general wharf owned by J.J. Risser. (Mr. Risser is traveller for Wentzell's Ltd.)
- Large general wharf owned by Ritcey Brothers.
- Wharf owned by L.A. Ritcey
....highlights of article submitted by George Newbury
The National Archives has begun a program to digitize its collections to make them available across Canada. Until the development of the internet, archival collections could only be consulted in Ottawa and distant access was limited to microfilm copies in local libraries or archives.
In this consultation, according to their website, the National Archives would like to hear from people across Canada "about the archival collections which we should try to make available on our website in the next decade.
"If you would like to contribute your ideas to our digitization program , click here to participate in the survey."
This is the URL for the National Archives, where they are asking Canadians which of some 19 projects (including the 1871 census) they would like to see digitized. The consultation period ended mid January.
Pier 21 is to many Canadians what Ellis Island is to immigrants of the US - their first glimpse of their new home.
More than 1.5 million transatlantic migrants disembarked at this Halifax waterfront landmark between 1928 and 1971.
If your ancestor was one of those who arrived in Halifax, or any other official Canadian immigration port, between 1925-1935, the library and resource centre at Pier 21 is an excellent source. Arrival stories can be fleshed out from the data banks containing immigration records.
The mircrofilmed records contain responses to 28 questions that a prospective immigrant had to answer before being allowed into Canada.
Pier 21 was a major departure point for many Canadian soldiers of the Second World War and the arrival point for 48, 000 war brides and their 22,000 children in 1947.
Ship records, photographs, newspaper clippings, personal recollections and books form part of the Pier 21 collection.
A book by Nimbus, "Pier 21, The Gateway that Changed Canada" is available at local book stores.
The address of the Library is:
Research Librarian,
Pier 21, 1033 Terminal Road,
Halifax NS B3H 4P6
Telephone (902) 425-7770
Membership Renewal - Second Reminder - Please complete the enclosed form and indicate your email address and research lines even though you may have previously indicated them. Single $15.00, Family $20.00
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Scots origins - more than 25 million names. British Origins - Society Genealogist in London.
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