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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 Winter Office Hours: Wednesday & Thursday 1:00 to 4:30 PM and Evenings by appointment Zellers - Club Z#: 840345301 |
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SSGS OFFICERS
President: Ralph Getson Past President: Sheila Chambers Secretary: Betty Rhodenizer Treasurer: Mary Saul Newsletter: Heather Stoddard Membership: Ed Kinsman Publicity: Pauline Wessell Program & Education: Joan Parks Office Administration: Barbara Spindler Computer Information Manager: Sueann Mersey
250 Grand Family Reunion NB: the SSGS does not sponsor, but does support, this reunion
July 10-14, 2003
PRE-Pre-REGISTRATION of those who are likely to attend the Reunion is now being accepted!!
PRE-Pre-REGISTRATION has several purposes.
- To get a handle on how many "cousins" might attend the Reunion. It is very difficult for the Planning Committee to strike a budget and set registration fees if we don't know if 500 or 2000 (or more) people will show up. For example, we have to have some idea how many registration packages to prepare.
- To give you an opportunity to find out who all might be attending
- To find out what families are of interest.
- To help you decide who you REALLY want to meet there.
- It gives us a potential mailing list in case we wish/need to contact you directly.WE ARE LOOKING FOR FOUR PIECES OF INFORMATION:
1. NAME, Your,
2. How many might be coming with you in your "Party" (eg partners and children),
3. Your address (postal and e-mail),
4. All the families you are interested in, would like to find out more about, and meet others interested in these families. (Alphabetical order and in UPPER CASE please).The main Reunion site is http://www.seawhy.com/L250.html and the pre-registration page is http://www.seawhy.com/L250prer.html. (For those of you using the old address, it will continue to work.)
Or mail the information to the following address:
Chris Young
60-302 College Ave W,
Guelph, ON N1G 4T6.
First Victim of Dynamite - H&SW Railway The First victim of the Halifax and South-Western Railway has been offered up to the dynamite demon. Foreman McDonald at East River, while extracting a cartridge, which had failed to explode, was hurled forty feet, had both eyes blown out completely, and his face made in the likeness of raw beef. He had also a leg and arm broken, and sustained other serious injuries in his side and abdomen. Drs. Morse and Hebb were in attendance promptly and gave all the relief possible under the circumstances. The unfortunate sufferer lived about four hours after the accident. He was from Shediac, N.B., unmarried, and parents dead. He was buried at Indian Point.
Taken from the Bridgewater Bulletin, May 5, 1903
Two Men Missing from Schooner Lila B Boutilier A radio telephone message received from the schooner Lila B Boutilier, Capt. George Himmelman, on Saturday announced that two of the members of the crew of the schooner had gone astray in the snow storm and had not returned to the vessel. The dories were all out fishing when the snowstorm blew up and the weather became intensely thick. The dory containing the two missing men was seen by one of the other dories beleting its sail in preparation to the return trip to the schooner. Nothing was seen of it afterwards. Several other schooners of the Lunenburg fishing fleet were fishing in the vicinity of the positions where the men went astray. Most of these schooners were equipped with radio-telephones and several of them have already returned to port, and no word has been received from these missing men. In the intense cold which we have been experiencing along the coast the last few days, it is not possible that men would long survive in an open dory. The missing men are both citizens of Blue Rocks; Frank Knickle, son of Abram, who is a married man with one daughter, Miss Pauline Knickle; and John Greek, also married, and the father of three daughters, Muriel, Mrs. Jack Knickle, and the Misses Mabel and Flora Greek, all of Blue Rocks. (Progress Enterprise Wednesday, Jan 29 1941, pg 1)
Fisherman Survives Trying Ordeal - Frank Knickle, one of the fishermen who strayed from his schooner the Lila B Boutilier, Captain George Himmelman, in the blizzard of a week ago Saturday, escaped from a watery grave or the hazard of being frozen to death, when he was picked up on Thursday by the American trawler Breaker, whose home port is Boston, Mass, after being adrift on the open sea in his dory for five days without food or water. That any man could survive the frightful cold and storms of the open Atlantic for such a period of time is indeed a miracle, and during that time Knickle saw his dory mate, John Greek, washed from the dory twice by the high seas. The first time, with the assistance of Knickle, he was brought back into the dory, but the second time he was washed from the dory by a huge wave, he disappeared and was seen no more. The dory in which Knickle had lived for five days without food or water, was picked up by the trawler Breaker, and Knickle was found to be suffering from frost bite as parts of his face and hands were turning black. The trawler radioed for advice as to what treatment should be administered to the suffering fisherman, and the American Coast Guard Cutters Chelan and Argo wired back instructions from their doctors. The following morning, Friday, the frost bitten fisherman was removed from the trawler Breaker to the American Coast Guard Cutter Chelan and proceeded towards land. Meeting the Coast Guard Cutter Argo, the man was transferred from the Chelan, and proceeded to Boston, Mass, where Knickle was placed in hospital.
Propped up in a hospital bed at Boston, his face still unshaven, Frank Knickle of Blue Rocks, Lunenburg County, N S, told newsmen on Saturday how he was tossed about the North Atlantic in an open dory for five days and how he saw his dory mate washed into the sea. Suffering from frostbite, Knickle was brought to Boston by the United States Coast Guard Cutter Argo, Saturday. He was found Thursday by the Boston trawler Breaker after he became separated from the schooner Lila B Boutilier off Nova Scotia.
"I had the stars for my blanket and the good Lord was my helmsman," he said in hospital. "I prayed that I'd be picked up." "All the while something seemed to tell me, 'Don't give up Frank, don't give up, you'll live to see your wife and little girl again." Knickle has a wife and a sixteen-year-old daughter Pauline.
Here's his story of his experiences: "We were about 40 miles from Halifax, our home port, when a sudden storm came up in mid afternoon. John Greek, my dory mate, and myself realized that we had become separated from the schooner."
"There was no emergency supply of food and water in our fishing dory and the rest of our equipment was quickly washed overboard by the big waves. The only thing left to use was a bucket and an oar." "John was washed overboard the first night, going over the port side. I reached out and hauled him back into the boat, but his clothes froze quickly to his body. However another huge wave hit the dory with such force that Greek disappeared overboard, and I had to wrap my legs about a boat seat and grip the sides of the dory with my numbed hands to keep from joining him. I never saw Greek again." The snowstorm lasted all that night. Ten hours later another snowstorm blew up and lasted through the next night. Knickle kept a bucket full of snow, which he used for drinking water while he feathered an oar from the stern to steer in the general direction of land. "I realized I was up against it," Knickle said, "and if I wanted to stave of [sic] death, I'd have to be active." He slapped himself continually and tried to exercise his legs to keep himself from freezing. "I went without sleep for five days". On the fifth day he sighted the Breaker. The men of the Breaker hoisted him on board and gave him a mug of steaming coffee. He was on the verge of losing consciousness and his nose was bleeding. The Coast Guard Cutter Chelan was brought alongside the trawler by means of a radio message but the doctor on board could not be transferred until the next day because of the heavy combers. Later Knickle was transferred to the Argo. "It feels pretty good to be in this comfortable bed with doctors and nurses taking care of me.... I must get a telegram off to my wife and daughter." (Progress Enterprise, Feb 5 1941, pg 4)
Frank Knickle Returns From Boston - Frank Knickle, one of the fishermen who strayed away from his schooner several weeks ago and drifted on the ocean in his open dory for a period of five days before he was picked up by the American trawler Breaker, and who was landed in Boston and placed in a hospital there, returned home on Friday. Knickle was released from hospital where he had been treated for being badly frost-bitten with his fingers and toes frozen. He came to Halifax and returned from there to Lunenburg on the schooner Arthur J Lynn, Captain Foster Corkum. Knickle's experience was one of those trying ones which are liable to face the fisherman almost any day while he is attending his trawls on the fishing banks off the coast of Nova Scotia. Missing his schooner in a blinding snow-storm, he and his dory mate were left to their own resources to endeavor to reach some craft who would rescue them from their sorry plight. During the first day, Greek was washed overboard and drowned, and five days later, when all hope of ever hearing them again had ceased, Knickle was picked up in the dory and brought to land, where he was able to return to his family, who had little expectation of ever seeing him again. (Progress Enterprise, Feb 12 1941, pg 1)
LUNENBURG 1753-1953
I'd like to talk to those who lived
Two hundred years ago
If they could come from Heaven
For just a day or so.Because it was these pioneers,
'Way back in '53
Whose struggles, hardships, hope and fears
Made Lunenburg strong and free.I'd like to take them through the streets
Of Lunenburg to-day
And show them churches, great and tall,
With steeples in array.Then we would go to Blockhouse Hill,
Once barren old and grey,
Where the old Cannon is standing
Since two hundred years to-day.And when our journey was complete
I'm sure to me they'd say
You Folk have Heaven here on earth,
In Lunenburg to-day.Mrs. Gladys Nowe,
Lunenburg, N. S.
Progress Enterprise, June 3, 1953
Acquisitions at SSGS - The Smith Who Jumped Ship, Descendants of Jacob Smith, by Hugh Corkum from the estate of Elizabeth Corkum
- The Story of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church by James Flett, by Hugh Corkum from the estate of Elizabeth Corkum
- DeMone-Demone Family, by Peggy Carr
- Pharmacology in Nursing, by Sandy Oesterich
- Expressions of Love, by Sandy Oesterich
- Scrapbooks of Clara Barkhouse, by Rosemary Rafuse
- History of St. John's in the Wilderness, by Rosemary Rafuse
- Thy Dwellings Fair, by Martha Farrar
- Peterborough Co., ON Census 1871(internet), by Mary Saul
- The Archivist (mag), by Barbara Spindler
- Royal Gazette, by Murray Jodrey
- Blockhouse School Records, by Paul and Murray Jodrey
- And Now We Remember - History of Barss Corner, B.K. Langille, by Rosemary Rafuse
- Through Wood's Dales, Parkdale-Maplewood Museum, by Rosemary Rafuse
- History of Falkland Ridge, by Rosemary Rafuse
Quotable Quote
Not to know what happened before we were born is to remain perpetually a child. For what is the worth of a human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?-Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C
Web Sites
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