Unveiling of the Oldest Know Watercraft in Atlantic Canada

The New Brunswick Museum and the Assembly of First Nation Chiefs of New Brunswick

Invite you to the unveiling of the oldest known watercraft in Atlantic Canada

Friday, May 18, 2012

9:00 -10:00 a.m.

New Brunswick Museum Exhibition Center

Market Square, Saint John

Celebrate International Museums Day, May 18, with free admission ALL DAY at the NBM!

643-2349 or 1-888-268-9595

www.nbm-mnb.ca

The War of 1812: Friends and Foes Lecture

Objects of War: A Material History, 1776 - 1814

by Gary Hughes, Curator of History, New Brunswick Museum

Sunday, May 27, 7:00 pm
Charlotte County Courthouse

This is the first of four speakers in a series of presentations organised by the Ross Memorial Museum and Library and the Charlotte County Archives.

Sponsored by the Department of Culture, Tourism, and Healthy Living

Historic House to be Restored in Sackville

Source: The Times Transcript

By Alan Cochrane

The Tantramar Heritage Trust is receiving close to $200,000 from the federal government to move and reconstruct a historic house from the 1850s - a house that has already been moved and restored once for use as a visitor information centre.

'We're very pleased with the grant as it gets an important building out of jeopardy,' said Geoff Martin, a professor at Mount Allison University who serves as president of the Tantramar Heritage Trust...

Canada's History Stamp Stories - Winners Announced

Canada’s History has just posted the Top 25 Winners of the 2012 Stamp Stories Contest.

Congratualtions to our New Brunswick students:

Alexandra B.
A morning in the bay
St. Stephen, New Brunswick

Robert Dallison Speaks on New Brunswick’s Role in the War of 1812

A Neighbourly War: New Brunswick and the War of 1812
By Robert Dallison

On Wednesday, 25 April, Robert Dallison will speak to his upcoming publication, A Neighbourly War: New Brunswick and the War of 1812.

7:00 pm at Connell House – 128 Connell Street, Woodstock, NB Refreshments will be served. All are welcome to attend.

Just in time for the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, a little-known chapter in the struggle between British North America and the United States.

Source: York-Sunbury Historical Society Blog

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Featuring: The New Brunswick Irish Portal

The epic tale of the Irish arrival and settlement in the Province of New Brunswick has, until very recently, been an unknown and an untold story—their history, in all its complexity, pain and triumph, has been largely a hidden one. Just as the Irish writer and nationalist, Daniel Corkery, once spoke and wrote of a hidden Ireland, so Canadians can read and talk of a hidden New Brunswick. And what was largely hidden for almost a century belonged in custom, memory, religion, ceremony, and ethnicity, to Ireland. There are many reasons for the existence of this forgotten record of one of the provinces founding peoples and we shall explore some of these as this journey into the Irish past of New Brunswick unfolds through this portal.

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Holocaust Speaker urges Students to Stand up for Others - Speech was to Mark Annual Day of Remembrance, Yom Hashoah

By CBC News

A second generation Holocaust survivor urged Saint John high school students to stand up for others when it counts.

Ronnie Weston visited two high schools Wednesday to mark Yom Hashoah — an annual day of remembrance for the Holocaust, the mass murder of Jews carried out by Nazis during the Second World War.

Weston shared the gripping story of her parents' escape from Adolf Hitler's Gestapo in Vienna. She described the acts of kindness and compassion that spared her mother and father from the death camps, and the kinds of horrors that she said youth today barely comprehend.

"Imagine you just sitting in your house and all of a sudden, police come and arrest you for no reason. I don't think they believe it," Weston said.

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