From The Scrapbook: Alvia Brockway And His Wife Mary Stewart
By Rev. Bill Randall December 1995 Visiting Ted and Lynn Brockway they showed me an album of pictures and stories Ted’s sister Donna Neilson has prepared so that her children
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By Rev. Bill Randall December 1995 Visiting Ted and Lynn Brockway they showed me an album of pictures and stories Ted’s sister Donna Neilson has prepared so that her children
By Rev. Bill Randall Looking through my Scrapbooks is sort of like looking into Gramma’s attic. Do you remember what fun it was?, all those funny looking bonnets, high top
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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