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St. Croix Courier
Jan 8/1925
Photo of New Gilbert W. Ganong Memorial School.
Editorial "The Wheeled Dragon." On need to curb burgeoning auto accidents.
St. Croix Courier
Jan 29/1925
Broadcast Charlotte County. Let the World Know Its Beauties, Resources and Advantages. Contributed by R. E. Armstrong.
Dear Charlotte: Thou lovable and lovely reminder of our early association with Britain's royal family! The years that I spent in thy little kingdom were to me a period of such delight and pleasure, as well as of appealing memories, that I would seize upon this New Year opportunity to extend to you and your people of all sections the sincere hope that all parts of your county will enjoy a year of happiness.
The interest that your captivating county awakened in my mind whilst I was a resident is still clinging closely to me, so that I have taken the liberty of urging upon your people to strive with might and main to promote the interests of this richly endowed section of the Province of New Brunswick, and to lose no opportunity to give wide publicity to its attractive areas, to the pleasurable advantages it possesses, to its excellent farms, and fishing regions, to the many natural resources it has been gifted with, to its charming connections by land and shore, to its splendid hotels, its progressive industries and institutions, its broad highway connections with the rest of the Maritimes, and particularly its advantages as a homeland.
In years gone by I have traversed other parts of the world. Only a few months ago I leaped across the Dominion as far as the capital city of British Columbia. I was impressed with the progress that these western sections have made since my last visit of thirty years ago, with the accomplishments they have attained through publicity expenditures, and with the efforts they were putting forth to add to nature's beauties and advantages. Splendid buildings, charming parks and squares, smooth and attractive highways, rich floral areas, fine camping grounds as well as enticing playgrounds, captured the eyes of tourists and motorists so quickly that they lingered for many summer days with them and traversed their highways by the thousands.
While I was impressed with the grandeur and growth of many of these western districts, yet with all truth I can say that if more attention was paid to the keeping of these areas in good order, to the beautification of private buildings, farms and flower gardens, to the planting of trees of an attractive nature along streets and avenues, to the circulation of informing illustrated literature, to the improvement of hotels and boarding houses as well as golfing areas and other forms of playground, they would tend to the promotion of many of our Maritime districts.
Such provincial areas as Charlotte are supplied with an abundance of all kinds of fish not only throughout their coastal regions but also in their inland lakes and streams. Their forests are provided with good timber pulp wood, and they also possess moose and deer and many other specimens of big game. Within Charlotte County, which is the next door neighbor of Saint John, there are splendid qualities of granite, red, black and grey. There are forceful hydro powers connected with Magaguadavic and Bonny Rivers. Their faming lands turn out splendid products, if properly looked after. Brick clay, infusorial earth, peat moss and many other natural products are found within its borders, so that there are many features that are worth advertising to the fullest extent.
St. Andrews, the Shiretown of Charlotte County, has been greatly adorned by nature, as well as by the Canadian pacific Railway Company and by the many summer visitors, who occupy summer retreats therein. It has delightful hotels; it possesses a golfing ground that has no equal within Canada; a marine biological station that is under the patronage of Canada's best educated professors and that is capable of imparting to the world a lot of helpful information respecting the qualities of its fish and how they should best be treated; it is supplied with efficient fishing plants. It has a history that is most enchanting. St. Andrews was one of the first cities in Canada to give thought to the establishment of a winter ocean port for Upper Canada. In its early days it carried on quite an extensive shipping traffic and is still capable of accomplishments along this line. There was a period in its existence when it was closer to the Motherland than any other section of Canada. Within its ancient burial ground there is interred the body of one of His Majesty's sons. Minister's Island, one of its historical regions, has become an area of marvellous beauty, throughout the summer. The scenic beauties are unexcelled. On the whole, it is a land of pure delight and is richly deserving of patronage and expansion.
St. Stephen—the chief motor gateway of Eastern Canada—is another district of Charlotte that is well worth visiting, since it has made good progress along industrial, agricultural, commercial and educational lines. It possesses some of the finest industries in Canada and is producing a fine type of goods. Its citizens for the most part are of a progressive nature. It has provided the Province with premiers as well as with lieutenant-Governors, of a broad, and well-informed type. A memorial schoolhouse of a splendid character has recently been erected in memory of the late Lieutenant Governor Ganong. I would like to express my appreciation of this excellent form of memorial. Connected with this city are forms of pleasure which should prove sources of attraction to the thousands of tourists who enter its portals. The river area adjacent to St. Stephen is not only interesting but also charming. The historic Doucet's Island Sometimes known as St. Croix Island, where the French Acadians spent their first days, stands quite close to this active city which is bordered by the international river of St. Croix. St. Stephen has a well-equipped exhibition and horse racing area. The region round about it possesses many good farms, also fishing lakes, camps and other pleasurable grounds that might prove most attractive and pleasing to visiting motorists if they were impressed with the delights that are at their disposal. It seems to me that it would be most helpful to St. Stephen if it was provided with attractive illustrate signs on its adjacent international bridges. The town should also be provided with a publicity bureau which would pass out informing literature of an attractive nature respecting not only Charlotte County but all the Maritimes.
Milltown, the near neighbor of St. Stephen, is not only the possessor of a well patronized international bridge but it also possesses some good industries, such as an extensive cotton mill. It has many excellent stores and fine residences, and adjacent to it there are several bewitching regions. It enjoys many summer visitors.
St. George is another of Charlotte's fine, communities, which throughout the past as well as at present, has many progressive citizens. It has fine natural areas all around it. Its industries embrace graphite, lumber and pulp mills, the bulk of which are supplied with power from the Magaguadavic Falls. Nearby this busy and attractive little town there are coastal areas that are capable of accomplishing great results and that are worth visiting, such as Letite, Black's Harbor, Pennfield, New River and others. Lake Utopia—a water area well provided with many fish—is one of its great beauty spots, which is being furnished with a nearby park that should be well patronized. On both sides of St. George there are interesting little rivers, such as Digdeguash, Bocabec and Lepreaux. St. George is provided with a good hotel and many civic institutions.
Fronting on the mainland of Charlotte County are the wonderful islands of Grand Manan, Campobello and Deer Island, which are not only well peopled, but are well equipped with fishing facilities and with natural beauties. The chief districts on Grand Manan are North Head (or Flagg's Cove), Woodward's Cove, Castalia, Grand Harbor, Seal Cove and Dark Harbor. Whitehead Island is one of its near neighbors. There is no healthier place in the world than this glorious island region of Grand Manan, which enjoys many visitors throughout the summer and which has good hotel and boarding accommodations. As a fishing area it has a splendid record.
Campobello Island, which is close to the Maine coat, has two particularly bright villages. Welshpool and Wilson's beach, both of which are well supplied with fishing facilities and are well patronized by summer visitors.
Deer Island has a fine class of citizens, as well as good fishing opportunities and valuable minerals. For many years it was closely connected with the sardine industry.
If the revival of the Bay of Fundy fishing industry is fixed upon, as I sincerely hope it will be, these islands should prove its most important and potent development factors.
There are many other richly adorned regions within Charlotte County that possess good farms and orchards, game areas and other advantages and attractions: so that Charlotte certainly constitutes one of the most valuable and interesting steppingstones for tourists entering the maritime provinces. In conclusion, let me again advise that every effort should be made to improve and protect its areas, to develop its natural resources, to impress its attractiveness upon the outside public, and to see that it gets the most efficient and informing publicity. The county and city councils, cooperating with the provincial bodies, could do most effective work along these lines. These accomplishments would not only tend to the enrichment of its people, the expansion of its community sand natural facilities, but would also add to the pleasures of tourists. While the winter season is functioning quite forcibly at the present time, spring and summer are not far distant, so that it would seem to be a favourable hour to enter upon the promotion of the attractive region of the Maritimes. The advancement of Charlotte County will undoubtedly lead to the advancement of other Maritime areas.
St. Croix Courier
April 9/1925
Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Mitchell are being congratulated on the birth of a son April 5th. May 28—Christened Gerald Mowatt.
St. Croix Courier
May 28/1925
Kennedy's to open June 1. W. F. Kennedy proprietor.
St. Croix Courier
June 4/1925
Tourists Welcome.
We bespeak a warm welcome of the automobile tourist traffic which the present motoring season will bring. . . . There are many ways by which automobile travellers especially may be made to feel so welcome that they will want to come back again. . . . Of course, one of the most important factors in attracting tourist trade is the quality of garage service available. Most motorists on a tour all at some garage or other, either for repairs or supplies of gas or oil or both. When a motorist finds combined with a high quality of individual service a scale of prices which are reasonable, he carried away with him impressions which are assets to the community concerned.
St. Croix Courier
June 11/1925
Several Presidents have had a New England Vacation. Grover Cleveland in Gray Gables at Buzzard's Bay; Coolidge at Swampscott; Taft at Beverley; Wilson at Cornish, NH.
St. Croix Courier
July 2/1925
The Algonquin opened June 27. Taits among first to arrive. President Beatty of the CPR was in town on Saturday at the opening of the Algonquin Hotel.
Giant American dirigible Shenandoah with Governors to fly over Quoddy Bay. Leaving Bar Harbour following coastline north to view "the big tidal power project."
St. Croix Courier
Aug 6/1925
Mrs. Devonish entertains Mr. and Mrs. Allerton. Daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Wilson at Clibrig.
St. Croix Courier
July 16/1925
Editorial: The Sunday Suit. On the way out.
Do you remember the Sunday suit. Time was when it held a recognized and immensely important place in every well conducted Canadian family. It was so spoken about, even when worn on some other occasion of special dignity than that afforded by the first day of the week, with its unfailing attendance at church. Saturday night it was taken out and laid ready for reverential wear. Sunday morning it was donned with a sense of observing a ceremony. It carried with it an atmosphere of careful propriety. It served to remind the wearer that this was a day different from other days. There was a conduct befitting it. There were things which might not be done with it. When bedtime came it was brushed and folded and laid away in a drawer for another week.
But the Sunday suit has ceased to be an institution in Canadian life. It has become a tradition. The modern outdoor Sunday has banished it. Whether it be a Sunday spent in the car, driving the family over dusty roads into the realm of trees and fields, or a Sunday spent in hiking, or in golfing, obviously the Sunday suit of our Father's Day is ill-suited to the new conditions. Even though church be included in the programmed the modifying influence of the recreational use of Sunday operates to make us less exacting as to worshipful costume. Manufacturers of clothing note sadly an increasing tendency to make the week-day garb serve all the purpose of Sunday raiment, and even to prolong the life of suits which have outlived their value for business by employing them for the outings of road and garden on the day of rest. But if there has been a lessening demand for the more formally "good clothes" compensation should be found in the greatly increased demand for the sort of garments which fit road and field and links. And compensation, too, of another sort is found in the freer life and the wholesome love of the open which the popularity of these garments signify. In the end the passing of the Sunday suit will not, we think, ruin the manufacturers' of clothing nor militate against the true values of religion.
St. Croix Courier
July 23/1925
Editorial: In the Good New Days. On automobile innovation. Section on touring with ironic slant.
From "The Price of Automobiles:" "Motor cars are now in such general use and have become so closely woven into our social and commercial fabric, that anything bearing authoritatively on their price interests practically everybody."
St. Croix Courier
Aug 6/1925
Government Election Ad.
Every automobilist in New Brunswick knows this to be true: that far and wide throughout the province it is easily possible by reason of the splendid new government highways and by-ways, to make business and pleasure trips with comfort, speed and travelling delight. The farmer with his truck finds marketing facilitated. The outsider is attracted to our country in the tourist season. New Brunswick is now linked up with the great transcontinental roadway systems of the US and Canada. And more than that, everybody knows: That he can now traverse New Brunswick safely, and comfortably and expeditiously. That dreaded hills and curves, gullies and cliff sides, have been eliminated. That business houses are now selling their goods by New Brunswick auto routes. That it is now possible to motor your family on visits, picnics and sightseeing. That New Brunswick can now boast as good highways as the Continent at large. That no better claim for support could be made by a government. That the government's road policy has helped keep people working in dull times. That our children are learning to appreciate their homeland by automobiling. That the marketing farmer and his auto truck is a new element in business. That good roadways improve business conditions uniformly in every direction.
St. Croix Courier
Aug 13/1925
A Great Sweep by the Conservatives. Veniot Government Goes Down and Out and Mrs. Baxter's party Comes to Power. Charlotte County with the new Government. (Hugh John Fleming among the newly elected)
Charlotte's Saintly Touring Areas.
R. E. Armstrong. "Tourists from the US and elsewhere who motor hitherward in the summer season greatly enjoy themselves, and are delighted with the smooth highways they fly over. . . . St. Andrews . . . is the chief resort of the CP Transcontinental Railway System. It possesses not only good hotels and scenic beauties of great attraction on land and sea, but it also has at its disposal many opportunities for restful and healthful enjoyment, such as bathing, boating, fishing, golf and tennis playing and other pleasures."
St. Croix Courier
Aug 20/1925
They Will Speed In Algonquin Cars. Saturday's Accident near St. Andrews Almost a Fatality. Fred Cowans, 17 year old son of Percy Cowans of McDougall and Cowans of Montreal, overturns his dad's Chrysler and puts a passenger 14-year-old Banning Richardson in critical condition. On way to New River Beach. One of the occupants Miss Williams an Algonquin guest.
St. Croix Courier
Sept 10/1925
Editorial: New Road Map of New Brunswick Roads practically all hard gravel. The result is that even after a wet period, the drainage provided soon dries up the surface. Recognizing new demand for touring as a result, the Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Interior at Ottawa, recognizing this intensity of motoring in the province, has just issued a most useful map, known as the New Brunswick Motor Roads and Recreation Map. . . . Tourist camp sites are marked, as are also town with tourist accommodation." Indicates also entry points for hunting and fishing points, areas of game and fish. Map obtainable from Ottawa.
John B. M. Baxter 1925-31
Premier of New Brunswick
Conservative Sep 14, 1925
St. Croix Courier
Sept 24/1925
The Ports of Saint John and St. Andrews. Some intriguing remarks about history and development of St. Andrews as summer resort. See last half of column. Van Horne "positively stated that his company did not propose to develop an ocean port at St. Andrews but that it was determined to utilize it as a summer resort. He urged the publisher of The Beacon to lend his hand to the scheme which he consented to do and for 25 years he was actively engaged in this form of development and publicity. The Algonquin Hotel was taken over by the CPR and several beautiful homes were established by managers and other officials of the railway including. . ."
Algonquin closed Sept. 15th, but reopened until 19th for annual convention of Sun Life Insurance Co of US. 350 delegates. Hotel filled. Left on two special trains. Enjoyed car rides, boating, fishing, dancing, golfing, and moving pictures.
Lady Shaughnessy and family occupied cottage five for summer.
St. Croix Courier
Oct 15/1925
Gordon Reed son of Hayter Reed.
St. Croix Courier
Oct 20/1925
"Wee Anna and Beautiful St. Andrews"
Excerpt from article in Saturday Night
St. Andrews is one of the most restful villages you can imagine, dowered with the dual beauties of the hills and the sea;—and when the sky is blue above them, Canada cannot show anything fairer. Millionaires from Montreal have marked certain "cottages" for their own, but have had the wisdom to keep the rustic charm of their seaside nook in their gardens and on their broad verandahs. They have remembered Kipling's saying: 'The first use of dollars is to conceal dollars,' and have not allowed luxury to become obvious. Every golfer knows the links at St. Andrews, and the small persons of the village make a handsome summer income out of the task of 'caddying.' It is Anna's ambition (little girl who presents writer with bouquet of sweet peas) to be a caddy when she adds a few more summers to her experience. (Mother promises she will bob Anna's curls)
Deed
Dec 23, 1925
Sir William Van Horne, per Executors, [Royal Trust Company] to Adaline Van Horne [and Richard Van Horne]
"all the lands and premises conveyed by one John FrederickDreyer and wife to the said Sir William Van Horne by Indenture dated the 26th day of October,1911, registered in the Office of the Registrar of Deeds in and for the County of Charlotte in Book No 79 at age 205, by the number 16203 [conveyed 1903 by Annie M. Johnson, widow, to the said Ethel Thebaud and therein described as [that conveyed 1890 by Henry Johnson to his son Hans Johnson who devised the same by his will to his wife Annie M. Johnson, by whom the same were conveyed to the said Ethel Thebaud as hereinbefore mentioned] "constituting the Roadway connecting the said farm with the Saint John Road, as conveyed to the said Henry Johnson by one James Stranaghan in or about the year 1852. Also all that certain other lot conveyed by Canadian Sardine Company, Limited, to the said Sir William C. Van Horne b y Deed date the 13th day of January 1913, registered in the office of the Registrar of Deeds in and for the County of Charlotte in Book No. 76, page 533, by the Number 15097"