Christmas Dinner at my sister's, Dianne. 2014

Some more photos of Christmas Day, 2014.

 Ready to go to my sister for Christmas dinner.

 New coat, new boots, set to go.

 At my sister's, she loves to decorate, she has lots of help from her husband!

 Only some of the Christmas trees she has around the house.

 They even decorate the rod for the curtains in living room.

 This is her Betty Boop corner!

 Lovely decorated chandeliers in dining area

 Their collection of Santas.....over the window in kitchen.

 Berries around candle on chandeliers.

 My brother, Paul, with grandaughter, Corina.

 We had a bass player....of sorts....

A bit blurry, but family picture, missing our sister, Jeanette who lives in Edmonton, AB.

All in all, a very good Christmas Day!

Christmas Day, 2014 in Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada

We here in Miramichi are usually used to snow storms around Christmas Day, but we got rain and foggy weather, with the sun coming out just before sunset.  We are so blessed here in Miramichi.  Thought I would share some pictures with you.

 Pleasant Street on foggy Christmas morning in Miramichi West, 2014

 Sunset on Dollard Street, Nelson, NB 2014

Beaubear Island on the beautiful Miramichi River, Miramichi, 2014

Hoping all of you had a blessed Christmas Day or whatever it is you celebrate on or around December 25th.

Two for the price of one

I found this picture of two little cowboys and their red wagons---the McLean brothers back in the 40's or 50's.  It is as close as I can get to the theme of this week's SepiaSaturday.  I got the picture from Our Miramichi Heritage Photos site.  The reason I know those wagons were red, my brother had one just like it. Why don't you saunter on down to www.sepiasaturday.blogspot.com for more darling pictures.

Bridge over Miramichi River, Sepia Saturday, April 5, 2014

I don't envy people with dangerous jobs.  I don't even know how they can do the things they do.  But, without them, a lot of wonderful buildings, bridges, etc. would not be done.  Here are some pictures of men who helped build the Centennial Bridge in Douglastown/Miramichi in 1966-1967. It took a special breed of men, some even lost their lives in this construction.

The final results, The Centennial Bridge.  Hats off to the courageous men who build it!!

 

  

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Sepia Saturday for March 29, 2014

When the topic of floods was introduced, it got me thinking of the great flood around the Miramichi area in the year of 1970, month of February and earlier years.  Here are just a few of the pictures that were taken.  I took this pictures from the Facebook site "OUR MIRAMICHI HERITAGE PHOTOS" https://www.google.ca/?gfe_rd=ctrl&ei=-L40U4qnEsmD8QeA24HIAQ&gws_rd=cr#q=facebook%2Four+miramichi+heritage+photos.

This was Castle Street, Newcastle.  The street is now called Newcastle Blvd. and the town is now called Miramichi.  Right behind these buildings on the left was the Miramichi River, and it sure did over flow on this particular day!!

 A tow truck trying to haul a car out of a garage.

 This was Vic Chenier's Cadillac---don't imagine it was any good after this flood!!

I threw in a fire for good measure, I just liked the old gas tank.  The family of Irvings owns pretty well everything in New Brunswick.  The three original brothers got the nicknames of Oily, Greasy, and Gassy.

Here a 1/2 ton did not fare well in the 1970 flood at the Irving wharf in Newcastle/Miramichi.

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Interesting people of the Atlantic provinces

I started to do some research about people who lived in my hometown, Miramichi, NB, Canada and came across some pretty interesting people.  Among the notables is Francis Peabody, originally from Massachusetts.

Last year, I was on a World Photo Walk with a crew from the city and I took some pictures of the statute Chatham/Miramichi had made of Francis Peabody sitting on a park bench in Waterford Park.

Here is a brief history of Francis Peabody who later became known as the Father of Chatham.

FRANCIS PEABODY CHAPTER I

Francis Peabody is best known as “the founder of Chatham.” He was born in Boxford, Massachusetts, in 1760. Thirty years later he had a trading business centered in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1799, he visited the Miramichi on one of his trading journeys. He liked the area so well that he moved here in the next year.
At that time, the Miramichi had no important villages or towns. The only way to travel was by water. Newcastle had started to grow on the north side of the river. But Chatham was just wooded land. There were no schools, bridges, or churches.
In 1801, Peabody bought a large piece of land near the edge of the Miramichi. In later years, this was to become downtown Chatham. Peabody built a small home on the waterfront. On his land was a large tree. He used to tie his trading boat to this tree and trade from the boat.
Before long he became the most important businessman in a quickly growing town. In 1838, he built a large new home. It was built near the present-day N. B. Telephone Building in downtown Chatham. Peabody used part of his home as a store. This building is no longer standing.
Peabody named his new village “Chatham” He did this in honor of William Pitt, the Earl of Chatham. Pitt was an important person in the English government at the time.
In the 1820’s and 1830’s, Peabody’s business continued to grow. He built a shipyard at England’s Hollow in the east end of Chatham. He also had a sawmill built upriver near Blackville, New Brunswick.
When he died in 1841, Peabody was the best known businessman on the river. He was a fair and just person. This made him very well-liked. Peabody had shown the kind of leadership that caused other businessmen to follow in his footsteps to Chatham. Chatham quickly grew into New Brunswick’s largest town. Francis Peabody was truly one of the Miramichi’s great people.

 

 

Here is a link for more info on Francis Peabody:

http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/peabody_francis_7E.html

 

 

I also came across a picture I took of a statute of a clown that was in a graveyard in Pictou, Nova Scotia.  David Gunning from Pictou wrote a song about this clown called Twitter's Song.  This man was a clown in carnivals and toured the world.  He was a beloved man and the people of Pictou erected this two foot clown statute on his grave.

 

 Keep in mind, he was given this nickname of Twitter long before the world of twitter we have now.

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Duty Watch, SepiaSaturday, March 1, 2014

As I saw a telescope in the prompt for this week, I came across this photo of a soldier with an odd telescope at shorpy.com.  I don't believe I have ever seen anything like it.  Does anyone have any idea if there were many of those telescopes around or did it just pertain to Germany.  This photo was found in Germany in 1972.

www.shorpy.com/node/16741

Then I went looking among my pictures to see if I had any cliffs as the men in the prompt are on a cliff.  I took this picture of a cliff in the north eastern tip of Prince Edward Island, just 3-4 hour drive from home.  My eldest son, David, and I were having a day trip.  Now, I see a man's face in this cliff, the grass on top as the tuft of hair, the long forehead and heavy set eyebrow, down to his nose and mouth.  Maybe, it is just my imagination.....

Here is another picture I took at the same time.  Prince Edward Island is home to the famed "Anne of Green Cables".  As you can see, they have red soil over there.

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Sepia Saturday, February 22, 2014

I saved the best for last!
 

I came across these pictures from "Our Miramichi Heritage Photos" Facebook site.  Some have suits, some have hats, one even has a fur coat!  Oh, those Miramichi men, they're the tough ones!!

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The Day the Circus left town

I came across this story on the Facebook site, Our Miramichi Heritage Photos.  It is a gathering of many people, the outcome was not so grand....the circus left town on a train bound for a derailment between Newcastle to Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

1930 Circus Train Wreck

Our Miramichi Heritage Photos

It was July of 1930, and the 5-ring Al G. Barnes Circus was touring eastern Canada. They had finished their Newcastle performance and had loaded the gear back onto the circus train. That was early in the morning of Sunday, July 20th, and their next performance was to be in Charlottetown. After Charlottetown, they were to stop in Moncton and then continue with stops in Nova Scotia.

It was 4:25 AM before the train pulled out. There was a locomotive and tender followed by ten cars for the animals. These were followed by eleven flat cars and gondolas and eight passenger cars. Finally there was the caboose. Newspaper reports indicated that there were over 700 people on the train. This seems unlikely, but the number was certainly large.

The departure from Newcastle had been delayed, and the circus employees tried to get some sleep. It had been a warm day and the passenger cars were sweltering, so several of the crew decided to sleep on the flat cars and gondolas.

The train was passing through Canaan Station about fourteen miles northwest of Moncton when it derailed at 6:55 AM. It was indicated in early newspaper reports that the train had hit a broken rail at 30 m.p.h., but later they said that there had been a broken arch-bar on one of the cars. Railway cars no longer have arch bars, which was a steel frame holding the four-wheel assemblies together at each end of the car. It was the eighteenth car, one of the flats or gondolas, which first left the track. Three passenger cars at the rear end of the train and the animal cars at the head end also derailed, but many of the others were sent off the track. Some of these remained upright, but a good number of others were totally destroyed.

A relief train was sent out from Moncton and many citizens also attended the scene. The injured were taken to the hospital and the dead were removed from the wreckage. Four or five people had died and another seventeen or eighteen were injured. Those who had been sleeping on the open cars had been in special jeopardy.

The list of dead was reported differently in the newspapers. One reported the dead to be Los Angeles prop men Albert Johnson and Frank Finnegan, a waiter named James McFarland believed to be from Toronto, James A. Stephenson of Fredericton, and an unidentified hobo; five in total. Another mentioned Johnson, Finnegan and McFarland (believed to be from Montreal) as circus employees, plus a James Arthur Stephens possibly of Fredericton; four only. Stephens or Stephenson may therefore have been the hobo, and it seems that the count of four dead is correct.

The families of Albert Johnston and James McFarland could not be located, and they were buried in the Elmwood Cemetery in Moncton on July 24, 1930, Rev. S.J. MacArthur officiating. There was a large funeral procession from the Tuttle Brothers Funeral Chapel with the mayor and other dignitaries in attendance.

The damaged circus equipment was taken to the Fair Grounds in Moncton for sorting and repairs, where possible. The Charlottetown show was cancelled, but a show was put on in Moncton and the circus then proceeded to Nova Scotia. ·

The following are three pictures depicting the aftermath of the accident:

  

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SepiaSaturday, February 8, 2014

I found a few portraits on the walls in some of these pictures I found in "Our Miramichi Heritage Photos" of the Old Manse Library.  It is the boyhood home of Max Aitken who became Lord Beaverbrook.  He was raised here in Newcastle, New Brunswick, Canada. His father was a Presbyterian minister, thus, the name Old Manse.  This grand home was turned into a library.

We are now called the city of Miramichi after the salmon rich river, Miramichi River. I remember going to this library quite a lot when I was a little girl.  We lived in a little bungalow, so I thought it was just grand to be able to go up and down stairs.  It is here that I got my love of books.  I can also remember the distinct smell of furniture polish.  Funny how pictures can take you right back.....

 

Well, that was my walk down memory lane, you can take a walk down many memory lanes by going to  www.sepiasaturday.blogspot.com                   Have a great week fellow sepians!!  Rosie.

I had an interesting day today.

Well, I had an interesting day. I called a lady who sells Avon to place an order. The lady answers, I was using my cell phone, did not get her first line, however, I got her second line which was "How can I help you?" I told her I wanted to place an order. She started to laugh. I was wondering WHAT was so funny??? She said, "Are you SURE you want to place an order here? I said, "yes, I do". In between bouts of laughter, she asked, "Do you realize you called MAHER'S FUNERAL HOME? Then, the both of us had a great laugh, I told her I wanted to order a jacket, a nice one that they could probably lay me down in, but NOT today! I could still hear her laughing when I hung up.

SepiaSaturday, January 25, 2014

I saw snow in the prompt for today and it reminded me of the day I went to visit my daughter, Christina in Belledune, north New Brunswick.  It was December 18, 2010, very chilly, however, we decided to go for a walk on the beach across from her home.  It was bright and sunny, but, very COLD.

 Not your typical day at the beach, but it was invigorating!!!

 The water would freeze as soon as it would hit some logs in the water!

 We were all bundled up against the elements that day.

 In this picture, there is no sign of ice, so one would wonder when I am bundled up so much with hat, winter coat, etc.....

Of course, whether it is hot or cold, one must play in the sand!

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