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| September , 2004 | |
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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 September Hours:Monday to Friday 1:00 to 5:00 PM Zellers - Club Z#: 840345301 |
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President's Message GREAT NEWS!!
The South Shore Genealogical Society has received a major financial donation from the 2003 Grand Family Reunion!
Your executive met with Chris Young in August and he, on behalf of the 2003 Grand Family Reunion Committee, presented the Society with a major donation of $5,000!!!! Your executive's reaction was "WOW!"
The following constraints were placed on the donation:
- "It is our wish that this money be used specifically for purchasing additional resources to be used by members and visitors who come to the SSGS to conduct family research. Resouces could include (but are not restricted to) books, maps and microfilms."
- "This money could also be used to purchase technological aids to produce new resources. What we have in mind is a digital camera to take pictures, for example, of headstones."
- "In essence, the money must be used for items that SSGS members and visitors can put their hands on. (This was to exclude salaries and general operating expenses.)"
We would now like to hear from you, our valued members, ideas of what you feel we should be spending the wonderful gift on. We have some ideas but we really would like to hear from you. What do you feel we could do to help you in your research, keeping in mind the restrictions that have been outlined above. We will keep you updated on the ideas and actions taken.
-Thank You To The 2003 Grand Family Reunion Committee-
We (our Society and visitors) want to express our gratitude to our summer student "Candice". She has been a dynamo in the office, not only with our visitors, but getting up :caught up" in the paper work. THANKS, Candice.
Sheila Chambers, President
New Electric Lights
- Riverport and East Side of LaHave To Enjoy Electric LightsLunenburg, Nov. 18 - Work was commenced today on the pole line that will supply the Eastern side of the LaHave River with electric lights and power. It is expected that the work will be completed in about two months in so far as the light is concerned. Before power can be supplied in a sufficient quantity it will be necessary to further develop the project, and it is the intention to have this development started in the early spring, when in addition to power energy, an all day lighting service will be supplied to Riverport nd Mahone.
The new pole line started today, taps the main trunk line at Steverman's Corner about nine miles from Riverport. It will pass thru First South, Middle South, Rose Bay, Riverport, East LaHave, and Middle LaHave, supplying with light some 5,000 people in this very prosperous territory.
The source of this hydro-electric energy is the long chain of lakes, extending from New Germany to the head of Mahone Bay. The development is being carried on the Nova Scotia Power Commission under the direction of K.H. Smith, federal engineer. Under the legislation introduced last session by J.J. Kinley, MPP, a commission was set up to control the disposition of the power. Captain J.E. Backman is chairman and St. Clair Ritcey Secretary. Power is to be supplied by the provincial commission at a central point from whence it is to be distributed through a system already created by the local body. The wiring at the places mentioned is already installed and at this date over 5,000 lights are waiting for current. - Herald.
Taken from the Bridgewater Bulletin November 23rd, 1920.
Who We Were
In Praise Of Your Local Heritage SocietyExcerpts by T.M. Punch
Anyone who reads up on our history quickly learns that a major export of the region ever since the mid-1700's has been people. Many of Cornwallis's first Haligonians fled the hard winters and privations of the struggling town as did a fair portion of the 'Foreign Protestants' brought to replace those deserters. The Acadians didn't want to go. They were sent. Some found their way back. Most never returned to their homeland. When the American Revolution began, some of the New England Planters who had moved here after 1759 were in sympathy with their compatriots across the Bay of Fundy. Following a failed rebellion at Chignecto, exiles (including two Nova Scotia MLAs) fled to Maine. Nor was that the end of the matter. Between one-quarter and one-third of the American Loyalists who reached the region during and after the Revolution wound up back in the United States. Others moved to 'the Canadas', todays Quebec and Ontario. Many black Loyalists went off to found a colony at Sierra Leone on Africa's west coast. Of the floods of Highland Scots and Irish who entered the area from 1773 to 1851, a substantial share did not linger long. Many of the children and grandchildren of those Celts went "down the road" for employment. Some were drawn by the American Civil War. By the early twentieth century, everyone had relatives in "the Boston states".
When I did a survey for the Nova Scotia government several years ago, I came up with an approximate figure of between three and four million North Americans living outside Atlantic Canada who had roots in Nova Scotia. It is probable that the number would reach close to 10,000,000 if all four Atlantic Canadian provinces were considered. Attract one percent of them each summer and you have 100,000 heritage-related visitors, bringing with them a substantial infusion into the economy.
Special events draw additional numbers. The 250th birthday of Lunenburg in 2003 is a case in point, and an even larger crowd will attend the Congrès mondial acadien in 2004. Reunions of extended families are becoming more common, with many attendees. To come to the point, heritage-related tourism (much of it genealogical) accounts for a substantial share of visitors to the region each season.
The Census Man Again The Rev. Dr. Morison, pastor of St. David's Church, tells a rather amusing incident of the census taker's plan for deciding his nationality. On calling upon the reverend gentleman for his census, the enumerator asked him the usual question as to nationality, and the prompt reply was "I am a Canadian". This fairly staggered the official. He had evidently never heard of such a nationality, but, nothing daunted, he inquired what nationality Dr. Morison's father was. The answer was "Scotch". "Then you're Scotch," triumphantly announced the enumerator. "But my mother was English and she surely counts as much as my father in settling so momentous as question." But the census taker was not to be moved. And so Dr. Morison is officially, at least, a Scotchman. - St. John Telegraph
Taken from the Bridgewater Bulletin 14 May 1901
Acquisitions at SSGS -Ein Gutes Zuhause (Our Good Home): A Genealogical History of the First Permanent Settlers on the Tancooks by Glenn William Stevens, by author
-Victory Cemetery, Annapolis Co. Inscriptions, compiled by Barbara Spindler & Janet Heisler, by compilers
-Wilson Family Files, compiled by the SSGS
-Births, Deaths & Marriages from Newfoundland Newspapers 1810-1890 CD by Maritime History Archives, purchased
-History of Dartmouth/Distract Families in Halifax Harbour Vol 3 1851-1873 by Douglas William Trider, purchased
-History of Dartmouth/Distract Families in Halifax Harbour Vol 4 1874-1900 by Douglas William Trider, purchased
-The History of Pine Grove, donated
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