By Rev. Bill Randall April 1995 How The Manzers Came To Harvey By Helen Craig In 1868 Harriet Hay was born at the home of her grand Annie and Aaron Hay lived in Williamsburg. Harriet married parents, James and Isabelle Cowe in Harvey. Her parents, Willoughby Avens Manzer in 1884 and they had 9 children. … Read more
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By Rev. Bill Randall September 1994 Among the scrapbook clippings I found recently is one that speaks of the St. Croix River and I will share it with you but at a certain point I will interrupt the item to give you my recollection of this story as told to me by the late Harry … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall October 1994 One of the factors of growing old is that you tend to have less confidence in your capacity to pass on advice to younger generations. I’ll explain what I mean. Roger is the age of my son and I have admired his talent as a softball player for many … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall November 1994 Researching genealogical history is fascinating. One never knows when a phone call, a letter, or a chance visitor might suddenly throw light on a subject which has been a puzzle. One such puzzle has been baffling me for more than thirty years, how did a Roman Catholic family, by … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall May 1994 Some nice people who read From The Scrapbook remind me that I go so far back into history that the names are not always of interest. Lets try something new. I came to Harvey forty years ago as a minister to the United Church, but that invitation was preceded … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall March 1994 This Month I’d like to draw your attention to some of the history of the early settlers out at “The River.” Of course I mean the St. John River and generally the pioneers of Prince William. Many of those early settlers were Loyalists and it is sad to find … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall June 1994 (Prepared by Jocelean Hall) The following “Journal” gives a daily account of the voyage of Harvey’s First Settlers on board the Brig. “Cornelius of Sunderland” which left Berwick upon Tweed in May 1837, and landed in Saint John, New Brunswick, on July 12, 1837. It is believed to have … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall June 1994 Prepared by Lloyd Embleton Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to France in 1927, a feat that had been attempted for years without success. A few years later, during the Depression, called the dirty thirties, an airplane equipped with skis came to Harvey from Saint … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall July 1994 I made a count of the cottages on the east side of Harvey Lake beginning at Taylor Field and I was surprised to count seventy-seven. Some of these are used as year round homes now but still the number surprised me. In the early days of Harvey history only … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall January 1994 (Later the St. James United Church of Canada and presently The United Baptist Church) Let’s go back to September 1886 and in our imaginations try to share with the mothers and ladies of the Village some of their concerns. They felt they and their families were isolated from the … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall February 1994 Written this month by Jocelean Swan Hall. In 1937, at the time of Harvey’s centennial celebration, the Daily Gleaner copied a few news items which had been printed in their newspaper during the year 1887, when Harvey was fifty years old. One of the items was: “The school at … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall December 1994 December 18th was a very exciting day for the Tweedside School. The teacher, Fannie Rodgers, wrote the following remarks upon the school register of 1901. “The pupils were examined in arithmetic, reading, spelling, writing, geography, grammar, history and health reader. Several recitations were given by the pupils. There were … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall August 1994 Have you ever wondered how you would cope with the reality that you might not have long to live? While visiting Mrs. Fleetwood Hannington (Glenna) recently she told me a remarkable story which I would like to share with you. Last summer, 1993, Brockway had a Vail family reunion … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall Harvey Lionews April 1994 (Prepared by Helen Craig and Jocelean Hall) The first settlers of Harvey Settlement sailed from Berwick-upon-Tweed on 28 May 1837 on board the brig. “Cornelius of Sunderland”, landing in Saint John on 12 July 1837, and travelled up the St. John River to Fredericton on the steamer … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall September 1993 My Smokey is a beautiful solid black cat born March 4, 1993. She has gorgeous yellow eyes and is for us the personification of what a beautiful native cat should be. Of course, I really wanted to know her genealogy! O.K.? She came to us from the Henry’s in … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall October 1993 I thought this month I would share with you some of the challenges involved in trying to piece together bits of the early History of the Harvey area and district. When I first came to Harvey in 1954 I had access to the memories of second and third generations … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall November 1993 Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews Have you ever looked up at a Devil Tree? There was one in Brockway – I say “was” because I can’t find it in 1993. However, it is remembered by some of the senior citizens of Brockway as Dan Dowling’s Devil Tree. I have … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall May 1931 Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews Property fires have always been a major concern in any small community, and in earlier times there was very little mechanical firefighting equipment, so, when the Davis store was threatened in the early morning of 1931, the Village of Harvey reacted heroically. The Davis … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall March 1993 In 1928 a hunter from McAdam hunting near the shore of the southwest end of the Magaguadavic Lake, in a dense pine forest found a skeleton of a man. Obviously the body had been there for some time, so he hurried back to McAdam to notify the police. The … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall June 1993 I was greatly impressed upon my first visit to Katie Carmichael. She was the last survivor of the Carmichael name and the grand daughter of one of the original settlers. Her gentle, humble manner was reflected in the simple, unadorned surroundings of her household – the homemade furniture, the … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall July 1993Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews One of the satisfactions of preparing these items for the Lionews is the enjoyment of the cooperation I get from others. You might remember in an early winter item I told you that Allen Hood had promised to take me on a tour of Magaguadavic … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall January 1993 Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews Writer’s Note: The Harvey Lions Club has been the principal financial supporter of the Harvey Historical Association. It is my hope that they and their readers will enjoy some of the interesting bits of information gathered from the stories I am constantly trying to … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall February 1993 Cecil MacLean has some interesting stories about his earlier days. He tells me that he was born in Happy Corners on June 17, 1899. I had never heard of Happy Corners. Cecil took me out to Lake George and showed me where the old road used to be. It … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall April 1993 Having access as I do to the photocopies we have made of many family scrapbooks I get an appreciation of what the lives of the early settlers must have been like. Here is an early newspaper account of Harvey. Excerpt from newspaper account of Settlement of Harvey undated – “For … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall February 13, 1992 Jessie Moffitt remembers when there was a large public hall at Farm Point on Magaguadavic Lake. In the summertime it was the focal point for the local entertainment which included summer cottagers who came by train from Saint John, McAdam or other areas to spend the summer. Saturday … Read more
By Rev. Bill Randall February 8, 1991 On December 23, 1990, the St. Andrews United Church had a significant part of their program related to the Craig family. Rev. Ruth Stuart baptized Lauren Craig, the daughter of Dan and Mars. Watching the gentle ceremony were Aunts Wendy and Shelley, Uncle Andy and his wife Beth, … Read more