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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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SSGS OFFICERS
President: Sheila Chambers Vice President: Clara Redden Past President: Ralph Getson Secretary: (vacant) Treasurer: Mary Saul Newsletter: Heather Stoddard Membership: Ed Kinsman Publicity: Pauline Wessell Program & Education: Joan Parks-Hubley Office Administration: Barbara Spindler Computer Information Manager: Sueann Bailey
Town of Lunenburg
250th Anniversary Weekend Events
June 7-8, 2003Saturday, June 7, 2003:
11:00am - Landing Re-enactment
(Contact: Bob Bongard. 634-4815)11:30am- Procession to bandstand and Community Centre Grounds
12:30pm - Community Picnic and Pig Roast - Historical regiment Encampment
7:30pm - Elastic Millennium Choir at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church
(Contact: Robin Scott, 634-4006)Sunday, June 8, 2003:
8:00am - Lunenburg World Heritage 5K Road Race
(Contact: Bill Roblee 634-8043)
4:00pm - Ecumenical service adjacent to St. John's Anglican Church
The Lovely LaHave In Lunenburg County a river there flows
Of which you'll permit me to rave:
Between grassy banks where the cabbage plant grows
Runs ever the Lovely LaHave.From rustic New Germany's rural renown
It rolls from its hinterland source.
Between the abutments of Bridgewater town
It makes its meandering course.Past dairy and ferry-wharf, foundry and fort,
Past fishery, boatyard and mill,
Past peaceable scenes of the pastoral sort
It runs (as the best rivers will)The people who live on its beautiful banks
(The Conrads and Crouses and Youngs)
Are rather inclined to give Providence thanks
At the top of their Lunenburg lungsWhenever they look at that part of the earth
That God in munificence gave
Those few of sufficiently fortunate birth
To grow up beside the LaHave.And those of us who in some less lovely place
Have had the ill-fortune to dwell
May thank the good Conrads of eminent grace,
The Youngs and the Crouses as well,Not to mention each Taylor, each Hebb and each Pentz
Each Oxner, each Hirtle and Nauss,
All prominent people of practical sense
And seldom unfriendly or cross,For welcoming warmly the wandering kind
Who seek the relief that they crave
Upon the old byways that gracefully wind
Alongside the lovely LaHave.The story is told of a Conrad who went
To stand at the Gateway of Pearl
His four score and ten having slowly been spent
Where soft LaHave eddies uncurl;He spoke to old Peter, the gatekeeper saint;
His words of assessment were grave
"If you'd plant a few cabbage and touch up your paint,
This place could be like the LaHave!"Jim Bennet in Jim Bennet Rhymes Again, 1989
A Great Industry:
Rev. Dr. Morton Writes to the Halifax Herald About It.Hastings, Crossburn and the Camps.
Where is Hastings and where is Crossburn? Not many can tell - they are not found in the geographies. Some two years ago, or perhaps a little more, some capitalists from Pittsburg came down to Nova Scotia and purchased the extensive timber areas owned by the late E. D. Davison and Sons, of Bridgewater.
These areas are situate in the counties of Lunenburg, Annapolis and Kings. They are drained by the LaHave River and its headwater. No sooner were the negotiations completed then the new company, known as Davison Lumber Company, limited, commenced vigorous operations. The land on the opposite side of the lake from Springfield station, Annapolis County, was cleared and a huge mill erected. This mill is perhaps the finest in Canada. It has an output capacity of 220,000 feet actually cutting at the present time 170,000 feet per day. The place was named Hastings after the president of the company. In addition to the blacksmith and machine shop attached to the mill, there is a large boarding house for the employees, also a number of cottages; some completed and occupied, others in course of erection, in all thirty-one. In the beginning of the operations, the company entered upon railway construction and now have upwards of thirty miles of road over which trains run daily.
The road starts at a point a little to the southward of Springfield Station on the Halifax and South-Western known as Hastings Junction and is completed and in working order up to Camp Three, a distance of about twenty miles. Over this road are brought at the present time some four train loads of logs daily from the lumber regions.
THE HEAD CENTRE OF THE LUMBERING OPERATIONS has grown into the proportions of a town and is known as Crossburn, so designated after J. W. Cross, the resident manager. This place is about ten miles distant from Hastings, and is a centre of many and varying industries. Here are to be found large warehouses, residences for he manager and heads of departments, also for many of the employees. Shacks for the unmarried men and men without families, machine shop, round house, blacksmith's shop and saddlery. There are extensive stables (the company has now about 160 horses on the roads), and other buildings serving various purposes. The latest erection is a building for religious services and school purposes. This is a very neat structure and reflects great credit upon all who have had to do with its erection and furnishing. J. W. Cross, the efficient manage, is a thoroughly competent man for his work, of great enterprise and executive ability, and is not only respected, but BELOVED BY THE HUNDREDS OF MEN under his authority. Lying along the line of railway and radiating at different points from Crossburn, are some ten camps, to which four others are presently to be added. The number of men at these camps varies considerably especially during the summer months, for they are coming and going continually. Last winter the number of men in the employ of the Davison Lumber Company was about 800. At present there are not quite so many but as the season advances the number is likely to be greatly increased. They come from all parts of the Dominion; from the old country and the United States. The men are altogether a fine and orderly lot. A strict and wholesome discipline is maintained and intoxicants are rigidly excluded. The writer of this article has had a sojourn of three months in the camps, has come into close touch with the men, and has yet to see the first indication of drunkenness. At Hastings, owing to its contiguity to surrounding settlements, some difficulty has been experienced in excluding illicit vendors.
THE CHIEF OFFENDER HAS BEEN A WOMAN, which, I suppose, confirms the old saying that, "When a woman is good, she is very, very good, but when she is bad she is horrid." The industry opened by the Davison Lumber Company gives employment to a large number of men, and circulates monthly a very large amount of money, stimulating trade over a wide reach of country and creating an area of general prosperity. The chief representative of the company since the initiation of this enterprise has been M. W. Tuefel resident of Bridgewater. He is now returning to the States, his place is to be taken by Mr. Forsman, who has recently come to Nova Scotia. Not only does this company pay their employees liberally and regularly, but they are devising measures for the intellectual and moral enjoyment and improvement of the men,. The camps are regularly visited by the clergyman who gives his whole time to this work and holds service, not only at Crossburn, but at the outlying camps. Social entertainment is not overlooked. In this connection once and again, OPPORTUNITY HAS BEEN GIVEN TO OUTSIDERS to visit Crossburn; and presently as many as desire will have an opportunity of going quite up into the woods on trains furnished by the company and the Halifax and South-Western. Arrangements are presently in progress looking towards a gigantic picnic to be held on the 29th instant, in the neighbourhood of Camp Nine, at a point known as Chain Lake. As many families are represented by husbands and sons, and many others have a healthy curiosity to see more of an enterprise of which they have heard so much, the day, if favourable, will witness the assemblage of a vast multitude of people. Provision will be made for their entertainment, not only in the way of eatables, but also by the various sports, which are being arranged for. Those who attend will find ample material for wonder and admiration, and will be furnished with staple for interesting conversation for many a day.
A.D. Morton
Taken from the Bridgewater Bulletin, September 25, 1906
Acquisitions at SSGS -The Genealogy of Nathan & Irene Lantz, by Robert W. Hewey (author)
-The Genealogy of William & Minnie Hewey, by Robert W. Hewey (author)
-Arenburg Genealogy, by Patricia Smith
-Tanner Tracks (4 volumes) by Dave Tanner
-A Church and Proud People, by Lillian Perry & Robert Mosley, purchased
-The Bolivar Genealogy, by Vincent Bolivar
-Gold in Queens County, by J. Wm. Sherriff, by Mary Saul
-Andreas Jung & His Young Descendants, by J. Christopher Young & Clyde Westhaver
-22 Pages - Young Families - Germany, by Richard Potter
-Tretheway Updated Pages, by Dana Tretheway
-RNSHS Journal, Vol5, 2002, purchased
-The Grants of Hancock, Maine, by Daryl L. Grant
-Hillcrest Cemetery, disc, by Town of Lunenburg
-Poverty, Poor Houses & Private Philanthropy, by Joan Parks-Hubley
-Descendants of Johann Carl Schafer, by Bonnie Paine(Schaffer)
-Beck Family History Report, by Viola Beck
-Family Tree Maker Pro V. 6 by Peter Wood
Reunions!
Tanner Reunion - Friday, July 11, 2003. Starting at noon with Luncheon at the St. Barnabas Church Hall in Blue Rocks. Includes narrated tours of the Upper and Lower Blue Rocks Cemeteries.
Co-chairmen - Betty Locke and Irene Livingstone-MannWagner Reunion - Descendants of Johann Heinrich Wagner Saturday, July 12, 2003. Capt. Earle Wagner 20 Randolph St., Halifax, NS B3P 2B1 or earle.wagnernews@ns.sympatico.ca
Fralick Reunion - Wednesday, July 9, 2003 at Beach Meadows in Queens County. Starting 11 a.m. and lunch served at 1 p.m. Details at fralickreunion.org or contact contact Rosemary Decker, 3560 Hwy #3,RR 1, Brooklyn, NS B0J 1H0. Deadline for registration is June 15th.
Selig Gathering - Friday, July 11, 2003 at 7:30 PM at the Fish & Brews Restaurant which is part of the Wheelhouse Motel owned and operated by Donna Selig-Allen and Ricky Allen. Supper will be served from about 5-7 PM, and reservations are a good idea. For directions check their website http://www.wheelhouse.ns.ca
FOR SALE!!
The SSGS is pleased to make available STENCILED CANVAS TOTE BAGS. These are the perfect things to carry all your assorted papers and information about as you do your research. The bags are available in either
Short Handle - $15.00 or
Long Handle - $16.00
You may purchase your bag at the Office!
Web Sites
Foreign Protestant Memorial Committee Website http://www.foreignprotestants.org/
Post the 1901 Census site
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