Posts Tagged ‘heritage’
Her Name Was Roseen
Pauline Underhill (nĆ©e Coughlan) grew up in Gray Rapids, one of a dozen children. She attended the old Mountain School for six years in the late 1950’s. “Her Name Was Roseen” was written about her special childhood friend, Roseen Underhill.Ā Read it below. Her Name Was Roseen Written by Pauline Underhill It was September 1956…
Read MoreGeorge Routledge’s Fly Shop a Local Legend Among Fishermen
George Routledgeās fly shop in Renous is legendary among local fishermen. More than just a shop, George always knows what the fishing is like in the area, thanks to his many friends, and fellow shop owners. When George left the army after 25 years, he moved over to the Miramichi and opened his fly shop.…
Read MoreHildebrand Descendant Seeks Blackville Schoolhouse Photos
John Hildebrand is looking for photos of an early Blackville schoolhouse that his great, great uncle Otto taught in. He explains below: I am inquiring concerning an early Blackville schoolhouse.Ā My great, great uncle, Otto Hildebrand, taught in Blackville from 1884 until 1891.Ā In fact, his wife, Amelia, who was also a teacher, taught with…
Read MoreVickers Descendant Seeks Family History
Bruce Vickers, a descendant of the Vickers family of Blackville, is seeking information about his ancestors. He explains below. I am trying to trace the facts and story of ANNA MARGARET PORTER, born 04 08 1894, daugther of Jack Porter and Joan Brophey from Blackville, NB. She had a son with Mr. Albert Mann (from…
Read MoreMemories of Mama: A Tribute to My Grandmother
āWhere should we start?ā she asks while rocking in her rocking chair, sipping her tea, with both her dogs curled around her feet. āAt the beginning, I supposeā, I reply. And so it begins. It was the spring of 1922; May 27th to be exact. At a little house near āThe Forksā, where the Cains…
Read MoreMcCormack Descendant Seeks Family History
Fenton McCormack, a descendant of the McCormick family of Blackville, is looking for information about his ancestors.Ā He explains below: “My father, Fenton D. McCormick (spelled at the time) was born in 1912 to Fenton S. and Mary McCormick (nee McLaughlin) in Blackville. He had a sister by the name of Elizabeth that disappeared in…
Read MoreThe Memories Endure
The story began sixty-four years ago with three-year-old Pat Fournier sharing his earliest memories of the quaint little village he called home. For the past thirty seven weeks, we followed Pat’s story as he progressed from a five-year-old boy wearing a cartoon mask from the back of a corn flakes box, to an eighteen-year-old graduate…
Read MoreBlackville Remembers
Nearly two hundred people attended the Remembrance Day ceremony held at Blackville School this morning. The crowd erupted in applause as soldiers from the Canadian Forces School of Military Engineering at CFB Gagetown in Oromocto entered the school gymnasium. The ceremony began with Royal Canadian Legion Branch #49 President Boyd Underhill welcoming the crowd, followed…
Read MoreMemories of War Video Series Now Available on DVD
In late January, I was approached by the Blackville Womenās Institute and asked to participate in their Heritage Day celebrations.Ā Heritage Week is celebrated in communities throughout New Brunswick each year. This years theme was New Brunswick Remembers: 1914-2014, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War and the…
Read MoreGraduating Class of 1965
It’s June 30, 1965 and it’s Pat Fournier’s last day of school. With prom and graduation over, eighteen-year-old Pat is left to reflect on his past and contemplate his future in “Graduating Class of 1965”, the thirty-sixth installment of his memoir, “Memories of a Boy Growing Up in Blackville”. GRADUATING CLASS OF 1965 Written by…
Read MoreWhat’s My Size?!
While preparing for his upcoming senior prom, eighteen-year-old Pat Fournier has an uncomfortable run-in with the town pharmacist, Cecil Dunne, in this story set in June of 1965. “What’s My Size?!” is the thirty-fifth installment of Pat’s memoir, “Memories of a Boy Growing Up in Blackville”. The following story may contain mature subject matter. Reader…
Read MoreAnother Boy in a Casket
On a late November night in 1964, the Fournier family is awakened with news of a tragic accident: their cousin Pat McLaughlin had been killed in a fatal car crash less than a mile from home. Another Boy in a Casket is the thirty-fourth installment of Pat Fournier’s memoir, “Memories of a Boy Growing Up…
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