Local History
The Tradition of Hanging Maybaskets
- an excerpt from Two
Months on the Tobique, An Emigrant's Journal, published in 1851 (the entire
text of the book is available for reading and/or download on Google
Books)
- Historical
Notes, Fraser's, from 1967
- Plaster
Rock, newspaper article, 1901
- Plaster
Rock Parade, history article written about 1955
- A link to Knock on Wood
(toucherdubois), containing information from the "Fraser
Companies Limited Archive collection" located at Centre de
documentation et d'études madawaskayennes (CEDEM) de l'Université de
Moncton, campus d'Edmundston. This site contains a number of historical
photographs of topics such as the log
drive, Fraser sawmills,
and documents
relating to the history of Fraser Co. Ltd./Fraser Papers.
- Early
History of Plaster Rock, by Alice M. (Flanders) Wright
- A link to "My
Father's Shoes", http://www.islandregister.com/rcoffin/rcoffini.html,
by Ross Coffin, including the story of Dr. Joseph Coffin, who spent many
years as a medical practitioner in Plaster Rock
- Merton
Margison's days on Tobique
- The Flanders
and Sadler Families, first printed in The Cataract, in 1967, written
by Annie (Crone) Longmoore.
- History
of Tobique Valley, by John B. McNair, printed in The Cataract, August
7, 1969
- History
of a Tobiquer, by Bert Inman, printed in The Cataract, August 14, 1969
- Memoirs from Ernest
Jenkins (born 1877), printed in the Cataract, July, 1969, page
1 and page
2
- History
of Baptist churches in the area, printed in the Cataract, 1969
- A
Log Cabin Christmas, written by Glenna (Sprague) Curtis (Enterprise
Road)
Riley Brook
- Early
history of Riley Brook, By Mrs. Louise Everett
- Miller
Canoe article from Victoria County Record, 1978
Arthurette and
Birch Ridge
Scotch Colony
New Denmark
- The
Building of the Railroad in Northwestern New Brunswick by Vinal
Christensen (written in 1970)
- The School
at New Denmark, Dispatch, Novermber, 1901
Grand Falls and area
General Interest