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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 CLOSED for month of December Zellers - Club Z#: 840345301 |
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Tragedy strikes the US - 9/11 Condolences to our American Neighbours.
The members of the SSGS offer our deepest condolences to those affected by the recent tragic events in New York and Washington DC. Our thoughts and prayers are with you. The world, as we know it, will never be the same again.
Bones
It has been said that the membership of any organization is made up of four sets of bones:
1. There are the wishbones, who spend all their time wishing someone would do the work.
2. Then there are the jawbones, who do all the talking about the work and very little else.
3. Another group is the knocklebones, who knock everything that anybody else tries to do.
4. But the most valuable are the backbones, who get under the load and actually do the work.(The SSGS could use more backbones - please volunteer)
In a Reminiscent Mood ...Bridgewater Bulletin, Dec. 16, 1970
continued from September 17thAs a followup of the speech of Robert Dawson of 1909.
In the year 1892, I started school in this school of five rooms and a class room where Miss Hattie Card taught chemistry. Personally I had it easy to go to school. I could go by way of Queen Street, or directly from home by jumping two fences.
I can only say that the shape of the building was somewhat like an airplane, the original one story rooms would represent the wings.
The front entrance was from Pleasant Street. The entrance hall was large, had a dressing room on each side for the girls. There was a fine stairway leading to the upper hall. This was about 8 to 10 feet wide. On each side and under same, there were fixtures for the boys to hang their coats and hats. The upper hall was equipped to serve for the two upper rooms, including the daily supply of wood for each room. The belfry was over this hall and ropes to ring same were handled from this hall.
This front entrance and hall would represent the front of the airplane and the primary room pointing back toward Queen Street would be the rear end of the plane. There was no entrance from other rooms to primary room except through the so-called classroom. The second story had Grade 7 and 8 over the primary room, the upper hall over the class room and the high school over the front entrance hall.
...to be continued in the January newsletter
Public Archives of Nova Scotia CAP Site Opening While three years ago the Public Archives of Nova Scotia had no presence on the internet, today it has the second busiest archival web site in Canada, second only to the National Archives of Canada. It receives 5 million hits a year and 70% of those come from family researchers locally and across the world.
On August 30, 2001, the Public Archives of Nova Scotia formally opened its new walk in Community Access Program (CAP) site in the lobby of the Public Archives and, with that, became unique in Canada. While there are 244 CAP websites across Nova Scotia and many more across Canada, this is the only one located in a Public Archive. The initiation of this CAP site reflects the Board's thinking that the archives must change with the times and, to stay relevant, they must reach out to the wider community. The CAP site provides guides and links to sources for genealogical, historical and tourist information.
There are at least 100 links to genealogy sites, many historical sites, such as the teacher-focussed Historica, and within the tourism area, the new Explore Nova Scotia.
The physical site has three computers, a scanner and a printer, as well as a full range of productivity software including Microsoft Office XP, Family Tree Maker 8.0 and the Adobe Web Creation Suite. Visitors can set up or access their email accounts which will be convenient for the many family researchers who visit from abroad.
Public hours are:
Monday-Friday: 8:30 - 4:00
Saturday: 9:00 - 5:00The Board of the Public Archives, politicians, genealogical association members, users and staff all appear excited and proud of this newest development! Visit the new site at:
http://gov.ns.ca/nsarm/cap....Joan Parks Hubley
Faithful Light Keeper Retires ...Bridgewater Bulletin, Dec. 16, 1970
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Palmer, 57 Years in Charge of Fort Point Light Move to Bridgewater.
After being the faithful keeper of Fort Point Light for over fifty-seven years, Mr. Howard Palmer has resigned and he and his good wife have removed to Bridgewater where they intend to spend the rest of their lives with their nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Smith. On July 11, 1876, Fort Point Lighthouse was first started, with Mr. Abner Wile of Bridgewater as foreman, and Mr. Whitman, also of Bridgewater, one of the carpenters. On Jan 1, 1877, it was ready for occupancy and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Palmer (father of Howard) was its first lightkeeper. He had this position for little more than a year when he died, and on May 6, 1878, his son, Howard (who was then 19 years of age), succeeded him, which position he has served fathfully and well ever since, until now, feeling the infirmities of age, he is forced to retire.
Four years after receiving his appointment, Mr. Palmer was married to Miss Dorcas Richard, also of LaHave, and as a bride came to live at the Light, and she, as well as her husband, have always kept the Lighthouse the model it should be. In the years that Mr. and Mrs. Palmer have been at the light, they have witnessed many changes in the modes of shipping that has passed by their home.
First there were the big barques, full-rigged ships; brigs and brigantines, and smaller schooners of all kinds, that loaded cargo at Bridgewater for South America, the West Indies or across to the Old Country. Next, an occasional steamer put in her appearance along with the three-masters.
Then came the time when, for several springs, there were fifty or sixty fishing vessels leaving LaHave and Riverport bound to the "Banks". These were busy times and again came the seasons when the pulpwood was being shipped by steamer from Bridgewater to Portland, Maine.
As these steamers had to get in and out on schedule, it meant Mr. Palmer had to be on the job both day and night. In foggy weather, the hand fog-horn had to be ready by day to answer the steamer's blow, and by night, the light had to be bright to guide the steamers in through the "Points", which at this particular spot is very narrow. Then came the depression which dealt a severe blow to the shipping and vessels were very few that passed by them. Now shipping is a bit brighter, but it is someone else's hand that will light the light or answer the fog-horn.
As this Light is situated on one of the historic spots of Nova Scotia, its fame had spread far and wide, and many visitors from United States and Upper Canada have availed themselves of the opportunity each summer to visit this place and see for themselves the walls of the old French chapel, the well, and the site of the old fort which are all that is left of the abode of our early settlers. A cairn was erected by the Historical Society alongside the Lighthouse a few years ago.
Mr. and Mrs. Palmer will be greatly missed in the community they have so long called "Home" for, in addition to their occupation, they have always taken a deep interest in church work and have made many friends who hope they may long be spared to enjoy the sunset of their lives in the comfort they have earned.
...submitted by George Newbury
Santa Claus has Origins in America ...Bridgewater Bulletin, Dec. 16, 1970
Hear them? They're sleigh-bells - and we all know what that means! Santa's here, and with him arrives one of the oldest, happiest and best loved traditions of the Christmas season.
Today, of course, it just wouldn't be Christmas without Santa Claus, but it is interesting to ponder just where the jolly old gent got his start, and it might be surprising to learn that it wasn't really the North Pole.
The name Santa Claus itself is an American derivation of the name St. Nicholas, an early fourth century bishop in Asia Minor, according to the editors of the Encyclopedia International.
Santa was first brought to this country by the early Dutch settlers, who called him Sinerkiaas. These Dutch burghersd portrayed him as a merry old man, sometimes even with a wife they called Molly Grietje.
Santa also looked a little different then, and he wore a wide-brimmed black hat, short Dutch breeches, and smoked a long clay pipe.
Later the British brought their own Father Christmas to America - a happy, rolypoly Falstaffian figure.
Inevitably, Sinterkiaas and Father Christmas became one. Added to this the Norwegian's Kriss Kringle, with his sleigh and reindeer, and the picture is nearly complete.
It was finally the task of American artists and writers to create an image of Santa Claus such as we know today.
Washington Irving, among others, contributed to the concept of Santa as a jolly holiday figure, while Clement Moore, in his famous "Visit of St. Nicholas" ("'Twas the Night Before Christmas"), added to the concept.
However, the notion of Santa Claus which really captured the imagination of young and old alike was drawn by the American cartoonist Thomas Nast in 1863.
Yes, that's Santa all right, with his fur-trimmed suit, shiny black boots and long white beard. Just the way we've always known him - or so it seems.
Websites Pictorial:
http://www.historylands.com/sites/03-old-town-lunenburg/index..html
Query Information on the parents' names and birthdates of John Wamboldt and Hannah Peverill. They were married February 25, 1836 in Sackville, NS (Anglican Church records). John was born about 1815 and lived in Hammonds Plains or Lower Sackville area. They had nine children born in the Sackville area, the eldest being Archibald, married to Sarah Lutz.
I. Wamboldt, 8 Desbrisay Drive,
Bridgewater NS B4V 3H7
email: ivan.wamboldt@ns.sympatico.ca
Stocking Stuffers Items for Sale at the SSGS
1. SSGS book listing the Inventory (Holdings):
$5.00 + P&H
2. Lapel Pins with the SSGS logo:
$5.00 + P&H
3. Cemetery Inscriptions - Paper Editions and Disks
The Foreign Protestant Memorial Committee The Foreign Protestant Memorial Cttee. has begun the following three fund-raising projects, in addition to asking for donations:
1. We are selling tickets on a large painting by marine artist Graham Baker. This painting, which is valued at $2,250.00, has been graciously donated by Mr. Baker. The drawing for this will take place 30 October 2002 in Lunenburg NS.
2. We are having a pewter ornament, produced by Amos Pewter (Mahone Bay). This ornament was designed by Dinna Finck. Although the ornament will not be available for several months, we are selling them now, and will be providing an attractive voucher with a sketch of the ornament. Once we have the actual ornaments, you may trade your voucher in for the real thing. (We are following this procedure because people have said they would like to give them as a gift for this Christmas).
3. Plans are in progress for a dinner-theatre which will take place in Bridgewater in September 2002. The theme will be the founding of Lunenburg. More information will be forthcoming.
To help create awareness of our project, we are also planning a series of short newspaper stories relating our various ancestors and their descendants. These will be about interesting accomplishments or activities relating to these people. There is a possiblity that the accumulated stories may be published later in a book - that is if you can come up with enough to create a book...if you would like to contribute a story. More information in the new year.
Please contact the Foreign Protestant Memorial Committee
c/o Betty Rhodenizer
304 Aberdeen Road
Bridgewater NS B4V 2T2email:
Paul Joudrey pghj@ns.sympatico.ca
Betty Rhodenizer betty.rhodenizer@ns.sympatico.ca
Special Thanks Special thanks to the volunteers for summer 2001 (in alphabetical order): Shelah Allen; Mary Black; Paul Conrad; Jeanette Guest; Janet Heisler; Glen Hovey; Max Lohnes; Roger Mason; Rosemary Rafuse; Mary Saul; Pat Smith; Lana Veinotte; Ivan Wamboldt. Hopefully, we have not missed anyone.
Number of Researchers Using This Office This Summer May - 127; June - 116; July - 178; August - 234; September - 163
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