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South Shore Genealogical Society PO Box 901 68 Bluenose Drive Lunenburg NS B0J 2C0 Phone : 1-902-634-4794 Ext. 26 ssgsoc@hotmail.com www.rootsweb.com/~nslssgs Summer Office Hours: Monday through Friday 1:00 to 5:00 PM Zellers - Club Z#: 840345301 |
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President's Report Your executive has been exploring various ways to keep our Society viable. We must become more relevant in the 21st century while keeping the integrity of our collection and with our mandate and mission statement always in focus. We must keep preparing for the future, but protect our collection from being exploited by others. Many of our founding volunteer members had the foresight to build us an amazing collection that others may use as a reference and at the time help keep the Society viable by allowing others to research the collection at the Society's office. Perhaps many of us in the past were and some of us still are naive as to what could/can happen when the computer era got/gets rolling in full force! We want to choose options from the electronic age, while still keeping our office viable. We also respect those who want to have research material in books, documents, etc. that they can touch, feel, and peruse at leisure. We do not want to lose the friendly interactions that people find in the Office.
Our next general meeting is July 19th at the Society's Office in the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic. We hope to see you there. What's more, we need you to be there. Decisions have to be made for the future of our Society. Please attend so we know you are still interested in your Society and so we can assure a future for our Society.
WELCOME TO OUR ACADIAN FRIENDS
We have gathered some information on the early French settlers who were in our area before the Foreign Protestants arrived. There is also more recent material that our members and friends have donated. Have a wonderful Reunion ! May you find many relatives in the nooks, crannies, and coves of Acadie !
Summer Student The Society would like to welcome back Candice Daniel, our summer student who is back for her third season. In addition to helping those who come into the office, she will be indexing the obituaries we have on the selves, doing cemetery work, updating the inventory, and indexing various records.
Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management( also known as PANS) is pleased to announce a new online digitized print resource. With funding assistance from Industry Canada, the Archives have produced a fully digitized version of Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia. This is the first time that the book has been published online in its entirety. The resource is available on the Archives' C@P Site Web Site http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/cap/places
Terrible Accident This community was inexpressibly shocked this morning at about 9:30 o'clock when Andrew Richardson found the body of Frank Powers, hardware merchant, dead behind one of the counters in his store.
Mr. Powers had evidently been cleaning a high-powered rifle which was loaded and in the process of cleaning exploded, the bullet penetrating the left side, passing through the heart and out through the shoulder.
Mr. Powers little son Jackie, who was in the store when the catastrophe happened ran out crying "daddy is dead," when Andrew Richardson being near hurried in the store and found Mr. Powers lying behind the counter apparently lifeless. He called Dr. David who on examination pronounced the unfortunate man quite dead. Dr. Campbell was called and concurred.
Beside the dead man were several rifles, oil and cleaning rags which bears out the opinion that he was engaged in cleaning the gun when the unfortunate and terrible catastrophe occurred.
Mr. Powers was about 88 years of age and one of our progressive and popular merchants. He served in the town council for several terms, was a fireman and always took a deep interest in the progress and welfare of Bridgewater. He was a native of Lunenburg being the younger son of the late Frank Powers and Mrs. Powers who still lives in Lunenburg.
Taken from the Bridgewater Bulletin, August 19, 1930.
Queries There has been some mail from members who are looking for lists of British soldiers that took their discharge in Canada or USA and had land grants after the war of Independence in places like New York or Nova Scotia. If you have any relevant information in regards to the following the Society would appreciate hearing from you.
Regarding the early settlement of Tancook Island, one of the pioneers was a Johannes Becker (Baker) from Hessen, Germany who married Anna Catherina Barbara Loy(Lowe, Ley, etc.). There is interest in trying to find the parents of Anna Catherina Barbara Loy through marriage records. They could possible have been married in St. Paul's Halifax or St. John's Lunenburg Anglican Churches, with a possible year of marriage being between 1752-1754. Any information that anyone has on this would be greatly appreciated by the Society.
Lutheran Convention The 29th annual convention of the Lutheran Synod of Nova Scotia was opened in St. Matthew's Church, Rose Bay, with more than 20 delegates present. The opening sermon was delivered by the Rev. L.F. Hartzell, Lunenburg, President and interim. Mr. Hartzell's message, based upon Romans 8:66, emphasized the freshness and the vigour of spiritual life in contrast with the disappointments and depressions of a life that is centred in the things of the material world. The thought presented was most timely for the present period of unrest, perplexity and gloom over the earth.
On Saturday greetings were brought from the United Lutheran Church in America by two official representatives of that body. The Rev. William Freas of New York City and George R. Weitzel of Baltimore, Md. In an inspiring manner they told of the various kinds of work that the Church is doing both at home and abroad.
At vespers on Friday, a thoughtful sermon was delivered by the Rev. C.H. Whittaker, Bridgewater, and on Saturday evening Mr. Weitzel Treasurer of the Board of Foreign Missions, brought the latest news from the missions in India, China, Africa, and South America.
In spite of unfavourable weather, divine services on Sunday were attended by large and eager audiences. The speakers for the day were the Rev. R. Rasmussen of Wentzell's Lake in the morning. Dr. Freas of New York in the afternoon, and the Rev. Frisby Smith, Halifax, in the evening. All three services were finely supported by the large choir of the local church and the special musical numbers were of a high order. At the close of the evening service, the President of the Synod read a resolution expressing most hearty appreciation of the gracious and abundant hospitality extended by the pastor and people of St. Matthew's Church to the delegates attending the convention.
Taken from the Bridgewater Bulletin July 7th, 1931.
Weather Signs Hoar Frost is a sign of rain
Cold autumn a short winter.
If rats and mice are restless rain
Trees grow dark before a storm
After a warm autumn a long winter.
It will surely rain if moles cast up hills.
The more snow the healthier the season.
Beared frost is a forerunner of snow.
A clear autumn brings a windy winter.
If it rains before 7 it will cease before 11.
Expect fair weather from one night's ice.
A green Christmas makes a white Easter.
A fog in February indicates frost in May.
If it rains after twelve at noon it will rain next day.
A rainbow in the morning is the shepherd's warning.Taken from the Bridgewater Bulletin September 22, 1931
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