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The regular meeting will be held on September 20, 1999 in the Society Room of the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic at 7:30 PM.
Due to popular demand, the Guest Speaker will be Ralph Getson, Curator of Education at the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic. His topic will be "Ships and Shipping on the LaHave".

Come help us celebrate the "20th Anniversary" of SSGS at a dinner on Thursday, October 14, 1999 at the Hebbville Fire Hall, Hebbville. A Roast Beef dinner will be served at 6:30 PM. Guest speaker will be Dr. Ken Paulsen, topic "Land and Inheritance, Patterns of Lunenburg Families". Tickets $10.00, must be purchased by September 30, 1999. Please contact the Society Office (902) 634-4794, Ext 26.

Dr. Kenneth Paulsen was born in Winchester, Massachusetts. Dr. Ken Paulsen holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and History, a Master of Arts degree in History, Doctor of Philosophy degree in History, and a certificate in Historical Agencies and Administration. He has also participated in a graduated program concentrating on Canadian-American History.

An urgent plea for Office Sitters daily, up to October 15, 1999. This is to accommodate the tourists while the Fisheries Museum is open. Please contact the office.

George Newbury is one of the SSGS members who is updating and photographing cemeteries in Lunenburg Co., and helps update the SSGS website with photographs. Paul Harmon, Martha Farrar and other volunteers have been busy updating cemeteries as well. Map maker for the website is Chris Young.

To date about 270 cemeteries/burying grounds have been located and transcribed in Lunenburg Co. and most have been photographed

The Historical Restoration Society of Annapolis County's Genealogical Committee celebrated the arrival of 14 Yorkshire Families to Annapolis County, 1774-1776, by: (1) dedicating a monument to them on July 14, 1999 at the Annapolis Causeway, (2) publishing genealogies for each of these families. Paul G. H. Jodrey, Past President, SSGS, compiled a nearly 300 page Halliday Genealogy. The cost is $25.00 plus shipping & handling. It may be obtained from Paul Jodrey, Box 29, Paradise, NS B0S 1R0 (902) 584 3534.

There are nearly 40 South Shore surnames in the book. Some of the longer listings in the index are: Conrad, Durling, Eisner (Eisnor), Hebb, Rafuse, Sarty, and Woodworth.

The other Yorkshire families who settled in Annapolis County at that time were: Bath, Clark, Gilliatt, Hawksworth, Hudson, Jacques, Jefferson, Mills, Milner, Oliver, Robinson, and two Wilson families. For more information contact: Historic Restoration Society of Annapolis County, Box 503, Annapolis Royal, NS B0S 1A0.

Martha Farrar, along with the help of George Newbury and Islanders, has found 130+ unmarked graves, as well as innumerable vandalized stones. These are located in the main three cemeteries as well as 10 other sites around the Island and the list is growing. (Tancook Island is a microcosm, 3 miles long and 1 mile wide).

CM = Christian Messenger

HR = Halifax Reporter

MC = Morning Chronicle

MJ = Morning Journal

Note from Mr. Punch: "The spellings in the newspaper have been kept, even though I strongly believe that Joshua Oxner's wife was Drucilla and not Trusilla. Also that Mrs. Vinacht was likely Weinacht/Whynot. If my memory serves me, the last entry refers to a child of the Traunweiser , who accidentally shot a man named MacDonald at or near the Ovens in 1862/63."

6 Jan 1860, at Lunenburg: Emily Hazen, 8 mos, dau of W. N . ZWICKER. (MJ 16 Jan 1806)
11 Jan 1860, at Halifax: Lewis M., 3 mos, son of Alex ZWICKER (BC 12 Jan 1860)
20 Jan 1860, at Mill Village: Matilda, relict of I. N. YOUNG. (MJ 15 Feb 1860)

27 Jan 1860, at Hubbards Cove, of ulcerated sore throat:

-Amelia, 3 yrs, and Charles, 9 mos, children of Thomas TRUEMAN
-John Robert, 2 yrs 5 mos, son of James HARNISH. (AR 4 Feb 1860)

3 Feb 1860, at LaHave, Lydia, 85, relict of George COLLINS, of Livrpool. (MJ 13 Feb 1860)
13 Feb 1860, at Chester: Bartholomew Miles, eldest son of Bartholomew & Mary BURKE, (MJ 22 Feb 1860)
17 Feb 1860, George Frederick, 2 yrs., 4 mos, son of Josuah and Trusilla Oxner. (MJ 27 Feb 1860)
27 Feb 1860, at Liverpool: Isabella, relict of Capt. James SADDON, Liverpool, and youngest dau of the late Samuel SELLON, of H.M.Dockyard, Halifax. (MJ 4 Mar 1860)
9 Mar 1860, at Mahone Bay: Matilda, wife of Michael ERNST, who survived her along with 4 children. (MJ 16 Mar 1860)
28 Mar 1860, at Halifax: Cecilia, 2nd dau of the late John C. RUDOLPH of Lunenburg. (MJ 30 Mar 1860)
1 May 1860, at Mill Village: William SWARDS,76, a native of County Westmeath, Ireland (MJ 23 May 1860)
15 May 1860, at Liverpool: William, 68, son of the late Hon. Jonathan STERNS, former Solicitor-General of NS (MJ 25 May 1860)
Deaths at Chester, from diphtheria, of four daus of Michael & Eliza PUBLICOVER:
26 Jun 1860, Sarah Serena, 12 yrs. 8 mos.
15 Jul 1860, Eliza Jane, 16 yrs. 5 mos.
22 Jul 1860, Fanny Justina, 3 yrs. 2 m
23 Jul 1869, Ann Caroline, 18 yrs. 8 mos (AR 4 Aug 1860)
31 Aug 1860, at Mahone Bay: John A. Bauer, leaving a large family. (HR 1 Sep 1860)
13 Sep 1860, at Lunenburg: Charlotte, widow of John C. RUDOLPH, and eldest dau of late Judah WELLS. (MJ 19 Sep 1860)
8 Nov 1860, at Lunenburg: Mrs. Maria VINACHT, 36, eldest dau of James GILFOY of Lunenburg. (MJ 21 Nov 1860)
1 Dec 1860, drowned from on board the schooner Sea Lark at Marie Joseph: John, 53, 2nd son of Lot CHURCH,Chester. He left a widow and 4 children (MJ 14 Dec 1860)
14 Dec 1860, at Lunenburg: William Tait, 8 mos, son of Robert & Louisa LINDSAY (MJ 31 Dec 1860)
24 Dec 1860, at Halifax: William Floren, 3 yrs. 10 mos., 3rd. Son of F{erdinand} TRAUNWEIZER [later at the Ovens] (MJ 28 Dec 1860)

Ralph Getson was guest speaker at the Riverport Board of Trade.

.....He showed a slide of the fishing schooner Granite returning home from the Banks with a load of salt cod and flying the flag. The fish were boated ashore and loaded on an ox cart. Another image showed the vessel after a 1921 collision with the liner Kamouraska at the entrance to Sydney Harbour.

"Miraculously, no one was hurt, " he said. But most of the crew were below and would have been killed if the liner had hit the vessel one foot further aft. Many LaHave-built schooners, such as Havana, built in 1903 by William Naugler, in Dayspring, weren't built for fishing. That schooner shipped lumber to the Boston market while others carried lumber, coal, produce and salt fish.

There were many fast schooners on the river including the Canadia commanded by Capt. Joe Conrad the King of the LaHave fishermen. Known as the "pride of the LaHave," she was a contender in the International Fishermen's Races.

"If she had won, we may never have heard the name Bluenose," said Mr. Getson. The knock-about Mona Marie was also a race contender. The Pentz-built schooner, owned and commanded by Capt. Lemuel Ritcey of Riverport, competed in 1920 and 1921.

Launched in Parrsboro in 1918, the four-masted vessel Governor Parr has been described as the most handsome schooner built in Atlantic Canada. She was owned by Archie Davison of Bridgewater and commanded by Capt. Angus Richard of LaHave. In 1923, loaded with 1,400,000 board feet of lumber, and en route to Buenos Ayres, the crew encountered a gale and lost two masts. The captain and a seaman were swept overboard, but the remaining crew members as well as the ship's dog and cat, were rescued. The vessel, however, became a phantom ship, drifting back and forth on the ocean for a year.

"With all that lumber so tightly packed, she just refused to sink," said Mr. Getson.

The LaHave saw a lot of foreign shipping. Many ships came to Bridgewater to load lumber cut by the Davison Lumber Company bound for destinations such as South America and the Canary Islands. One slide showed 11 vessels at the wharf which Mr. Getson described as a "forest of spars."

"Between 1900 and 1921, 1, 200 large ships made passage up and down the LaHave River," he said.

Rumrunning was also a lucrative trade which benefited many along the LaHave. One slide showed the Salvatrice in the custody of an American coast guard cutter after it was seized for "bottle fishing." "On this trip the cargo was not salt fish, but 8,000 gallons of alcohol," he said.

The types of vessels which sailed the LaHave also included pleasure craft, ice boats, freighters and ferries. One slide showed Lorenzo Parks of East LaHave rowing a fare, which included a passenger and his horse and wagon, across the river. The dory was also a common sight.

"The dory was more important than the car is to us today," said Mr. Getson.

The first steamer on the river was the tug Gypsy. Before it arrived in 1869, large vessels were towed to the Bridgewater wharves by oxen walking along the river bank.

Capt. Urban Wolff of Mount Pleasant was among the master mariners created by the LaHave. He commanded a number of fishing schooners and packets out of LaHave before he reached age 20, and later became master of large foreign-going vessels including the six-master Wyoming as well as the only seven-master schooner ever built.

He made several record passages in the Wyoming and made a dramatic rescue of two New Jersey shore fishermen in a 70 mile an hour gale.

Christina K. Scoffer. Instant Information on the Internet: A Genealogist's No-Frill Guide to the British Isles. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1001 N. Culvert St., Baltimore, MD 21202, for $13.45 ppd. (US) (ISBN 0-8063-1614-4) Paperback, 134 pp.

This guidebook will assist the Internet genealogist by telling how and where to locate records, contact other researchers, swap data and find indexes that can be searched free of charge.

For each of England, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and the Channel Islands, the guide provides Internet listings for the record agency, the libraries/Internet listings in that country, a selection of sites offering instructions (including Celtic languages), a selection of indexes and documents, and linkage sites.

With over twelve hundred URLS offered here, you would appear to be guaranteed finding at least one source which you have not used yet. This book is a companion of Christina Shaefer's No-Frill Guide to the 50 States & the District of Columbia. Warm up your fingers for plenty of work on the http:// on your keyboard. Who knows, you may cruise to pay dirt.

Hebbville Fire Hall - Roast Beef meal, Guest speaker - Dr. Ken Paulsen. Tickets: $10.00. Bring a friend. Contact: SSGS Office - PO Box 901, LUNENBURG, NS B0J 2C0 (902) 634-4794

All lectures are open to the public. Lectures will be held in the Akins A/V Room, NS Archives & Records, 6061 University Ave. Halifax, NS

- September 28, 1999, 7:30 - 9:30 PM "Introduction to the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints" Family History Centre (Dartmouth, NS) with Glenda Neiforth, Director.

- October 23, 1999 - 1:00 - 5:00 PM "Open House at GANS' New Office" with host, President Karen McKay. Come and view GANS' new office at 5558 Sullivan Street, Halifax. Coffee & refreshments provided.

-November 24, 1999 - 7:30 - 9:30 PM A joint meeting with the Royal NS Historical Soc. "Birth of a Lawyer: James McGregor Stewart and the Halifax Bar on the eve of the Great War" with Barry Cahill.

Tentative Itinerary: Leave from Bridgewater by bus for Halifax International Airport for flight to Deer Lake and overnight in Corner Brook, for a "Meet and Greet" party and dinner with the Newfoundland cousins.

-Tour Gros Morne National Park, visit the Grenfell Institute, tour St. Anthony including the new Grenfell Centre, visit the Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows, explore Port au Choix National Historic Site, spend time in Portland Creek to visit the Wentzell homestead and meet more Newfoundland cousins.

-The last night in Newfoundland will be spent in Corner Brook, visiting again with the Newfoundland cousins and to experience a 'Screech In Party'. Returning to Deer Lake, Halifax and Bridgewater on the 14th.

For more information, contact Betty Rhodenizer, (902) 543-3459 or Barbara Wentzell (902) 543-1106.

Genealogy research could make you richer if you are an heir to an unclaimed balance in the Bank of Canada.
As of November 1998, approximately 770,000 unclaimed balances, worth some $132 million were on the books. The oldest balance dates back to 1900.
The Bank of Canada web page is:
http://www.bank-banque-Canada.ca/english/
(go to Unclaimed Bank Accounts)

SSGS invite tenders for the office photo copier. Sharp SF-7370

- 8.5 X 11 drawer
- continuous copy up to 99 copies.
- reduces and enlarges
- copies up to 11 x 17 from feeder
- 14 copies a minute
- desktop photocopier
- copy system: dry, electrostatic transfer system
- copy paper feed: single cassette, automatic feed, manual bypass.

(Highest tender not necessarily accepted)

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