Catherine (Mandeville) Snow was the last woman to be executed in Newfoundland. A Troubled Marriage Catherine Mandeville was born between 1791 and 1793 in Harbour Grace, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador. She married John William Snow on October 30, 1828. John was born in 1790 in Clarke’s Beach, Newfoundland and Labrador. Together they had seven […]
The tiny little harbour of Lunenburg, in what is now known as Nova Scotia, was chosen by the British to resettle 1,453 “foreign protestants,” travelling from all over Europe, in 1753. Each settler was granted a plot of land by lottery and using a plan developed back in England, the town quickly took shape with […]
History of Glace Bay The name of Glace Bay dates back to the French period or the sixteenth century. It is was named for the annual drift ice (glace) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence that happened every winter. Coal was mined first by the French (in the 1720s) for use at Fortress Louisbourg and […]
Rebuilt as a national historic site in 1961, the Fortress of Louisbourg was originally built by the French in 1713, where it stood above the rocky shores of the Atlantic in the southeast of what is now Cape Breton. Following a design created by the chief engineer of French King Louis XIV, the fortress was […]
History The Mi’kmaq people have inhabited the land in Prince Edward Island for over 10,000 years. The people lived very differently from how they do today. They lived a simple life. At the time the Mi’kmaq only hunted and gathered enough food to provide for their people. No part of the animal they hunted was […]
Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Picton officially opened in 1941 to train students in bombing, navigation, and air gunnery. From 1944 the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) established a maintenance unit that was responsible for aircraft storage and maintenance of the airfield itself. A unit at RCAF Station Trenton absorbed its functions in 1946. When […]
Patrick J. Whelan, (1840-1869) was born in Galway, British Ireland and moved to Canada around 1865. In Ireland and also in Canada he worked as a tailor. At the time of the assassination he was working as a merchant tailor in Ottawa. Thomas D’Arcy McGee (1825-1868) was one of Canada’s Fathers of Confederation. D’Arcy […]
29 August 1819 The Dead Peter Lent Bogart (age 17) Elizabeth (Betsy) Clark Mary Cole Mary Jerusha (age 20) Jane Sophia Detlor (age 12) John (age 20) and Jane German (age 18) Elizabeth (Betsy) McCay (Macoy) Huldah Madden Matilda Roblin (age 18) The Old Hay Bay Church is the oldest surviving Methodist building in […]
December 2nd, 1919. It’s been almost a century since Ambrose Small (1866-1919) disappeared from his theatre. Ambrose Small learned the business from his father Daniel Small (1842-1933) and worked his way up from the bottom to become manager of the Toronto Opera House. By 1892 he held two mortgages on two Toronto theatres. Ambrose […]
Business partners Moss Kent Dickinson (1822-1897) and Joseph Merrill Currier (1820-1884) built and established Watson’s Mill in 1860, 7 years before Queen Victoria gave royal assent for Canada’s union on 1 July 1867. Dickinson and Currier also established and named the village of Manotick after an Ojibwe word meaning “island in the river.” A sawmill […]