Part III -A
March is the month of Saint Patrick and as everyone knows the 17th is St. Patrick’s Day. The people of Dalhousie always kept this day and through all the issues of the Bridgewater Bulletin you will see reference made to this fact as the community always had some kind of party or celebration on that day.
This is not surprising as many of the early settlers came from the Emerald Isle. The first settlers were disbanded soldiers who came here after the Battle of Waterloo. Among them were found the names of Lonergan, Burke, McGonigal, McGowan, Donnellan, Long, Lenihan, Forrestall, McCormick, Franey, Scanllan, Gaul, Tobin, Butler and perhaps a few more.
As time has marched on many of these names have disappeared from the area but their legacy lives on in their children where ever they may now reside.
1897 March 24th
- Our men seen to have a mania for cutting their feet this spring. A short time ago Mr. Faulkingham injured himself in this way; two others are now on the disabled list. Mr. Will Donnellan cut his foot very badly in the woods about a mile from home, with the assistance of his brother, Frank, who was with him in the woods, he was able to walk home. Charles Carlton tried the same experiment a few days later with the same results. We are pleased to report that they are both recovering as rapidly as can be expected.
Will (William John Donnellan) 1858-1851 and Frank (Francis Sylvestor Donnellan) 1874-1899 were two of the sons of John and Ann (Ogilvie) Donnellan and grandsons of Patrick and Eleanor (Franey) Donnellan. This Patrick was the disbanded soldier who received one of the original land grants in Dalhousie.
Unloading rails at Bridgewater for the Davison Lumber Company tracks in Crossburn 1905.
1905 March 7
- the three-weeks snow bound passengers at Middleton who were coming to Bridgewater, arrived by train from Springfield on Sunday morning at three o’clock, having been conveyed by sleigh from Middleton to Springfield. They are all glad to get home and have long yarns to tell.
- Noble Crouse was fined on Monday $50 and costs for selling intoxicating liquor and $20 and costs for keeping same for sale. Mrs. Allen was fined $50 and costs for selling.
1905 March 12
- The Davison Lumber Company had 15 million feet of lumber to the landing in Bridgewater on March 1st. That means 20 million feet of lumber.
1914 March 17
- Miss. Ethel Gaul spent the week-end at her home in Dalhousie.
- Miss. Hattie Outhouse of East Dalhousie spent Sunday at Mrs. M.C. Grimm’s.
- the Davison Lumber Co. mill in Hastings, resumed duties today having been shut down for the past five months.
- William Kaulback has returned from Martin’s River.
Davison Lumber Company's Mill at Hastings
Pte. Laurie Winfield Saunders
1893 -
Pte. Joseph Lorne Fancy
1897-1917
1914 March 24
Miss. Flossy Oickle of Dalhousie spent the week-end the guest of Miss. Hennigar Allen in Springfield.
1916 March 14
- the boys in khaki who visited their homes recently are: Joseph Fancy, Laurie Muir and Hemroe Ramey of the 112th Battalion, also Laurie Saunders of the 64th.
- the lumber companies in the vicinity are taking advantage of the excellent logging conditions and a large quantity of logs are being delivered every day.
The 112th Battalion in WWI
1917 March 13
- A party from Springfield took advantage of the good sleighing last week and drove to Dalhousie on Friday night where they were entertained at the home of Mr. & Mrs. Saunders. They reported an excellent time.
Rodney Aalders and his wife Effie (Hatchard) of New Ross.
This photo was taken around the same time as this visit to the Saunders.
Chopping a winter's wood.
1927
1918 March 6th
- Mr. Fred Kaulback, of Lakeview, who has been employed in the munition factory at New Glasgow, came home this week.
1922 March 7
- Miss. Vera Gates and Mr. Percy Brown spent a few days last week visiting in Auburn.
- Mrs. John Russell (Maria Walker) in New Ross had on Friday a chopping and hauling party which provided her with a year’s wood. The young people gathered in the evening for a social dance.
1922 March 28
- The junior boys of the Forties spent a delightful afternoon last week at Everett Hiltz’s at a wood cutting party. They were served with a supper and treated to ice cream, after which they went to their different homes.
- Abner Brown met with a severe loss a few days ago. He was crossing the Nine Mile Lake when, his horse broke through the ice and before help arrived the horse was drowned.
Ice Cream Freezer
1934 March 6th
- Some are harvesting their year's ice, two feet thick.
Cutting ice on the New Germany Lake.
1936 March 11
- Miss. Doris Keddy of the Forties, has returned home after visiting her sister, Mrs. Guy Fancy and Mr. Fancy.
- Mr. & Mrs. Doran Crouse of Cherryfield were guests of Mr. & Mrs. V.L. Wright and family.
- The two sons of Mr. & Mrs. Steward Veinot met with quite serious accidents recently, one cutting his forefinger with an axe, nearly severing it from his hand. The other injured his ankle badly while coasting.
Mrs. Guy Fancy (Florence Keddy)
1936 March 25
- Aubrey DeWinter, of Factorydale, and Edward Meister of North Kingston, are employed at Gaul & DeWinter’s mill.
- Basil Lonergan and Vernon Barkhouse spent the week-end at the Forties.
Aubrey DeWinter's sawmill in Dalhousie.
In foreground is Lawrence Tupper and Ivan Crossland. Across road from Edgar Legge's place.
Photo from 1955
1936 March 25
- Harold Meister of New Ross was week-end guest of Miss. Lavinia Gaul.
- Miss. Shirley Wright was the recent guest of Miss. Dorothy Lonergan, also Misses Lavinia and Phyllis Gaul of Dalhousie Road.
- Charles Lowe, Fred Oickle, James & Medford Gaul have returned home from New Ross where they were employed during the winter.
- Miss Mabel London, of Hartland, NB, and presently teaching here, has been engaged for the coming year.
- March has been a very peculiar month so far. Two or more heavy rain storms have drawn most of the frost out of the ground.
- Parties from the Valley were here buying oxen. They got five pairs from H.B. Verge, Barss’ Corner, in one drove.
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Harold Ralph Meister
1908 - 1977
Lavinia (Vene) Mary (Gaul) Meister
1912 - 2015
Medford L Gaul
1905 - 1966
Fred James Oickle
1898 -
1936 March 25
- The young people of this place celebrated St. Patrick’s evening with a dance at Ray Hiltz’s Hall. The music was furnished by Mrs. Quintin Kaulback.
A dance at the Ray Hiltz Hall.
1938 March 5
- The heaviest fall of snow so far this winter, by all odds, fell the last day of Feb. About two feet.
- Miss. Beatrice Keddy of North Kingston is at C. E. Wright’s at present assisting with the household duties.
- Wallace Lowe, Willard Brown, Horace Young and Clyde Kaulback are employed with Maurice Taylor in the lumber yards.
- A Pie Social was held in Ray Hiltz’s Hall Feb. 24 and was a financial success.
- Mrs. Clyde Conrad and son Arnold are visiting relatives in Bridgewater.
1938 March 21
- Mrs. Clifton Wright, who is a patient at the D.M. Hospital, is gaining some. We all hope for a speedy recovery.
- A dance was held in Ray Hiltz’s Hall on the 17th.
The home of Clifton & Winnifred (Taylor) Wright.
This was just before she died on May 27, 1938.
1939 March 6
- Mr. John Gates and sister, Dorothy of New Ross, were week-end guests of Mr. & Mrs. V. L. Wright.
- The quarantine that was on the Rhodenizer Bros. camp for diphtheria has been removed, and all sanitary things done to clean up the outfit. Glad to hear there was only one case.
A Diphtheria Quarantine Card
This was put up wherever there was an outbreak of diphtheria. It was against the law to remove it.
1939 March 8
- Miss. Helena Kaulback went to Aylesford on Friday, where she will be employed for an indefinite time.
- Mrs. D. Lonergan and Laurence, Mrs. C. Veinotte and Carroll Gaul, motored to Bridgewater on Monday.
1939 March 11
- Misses L.L. Illsley and Muriel Zwicker, of Lakeview, were guests of Mrs. Curtis Gaul & Miss. Phyllis Gaul on Tuesday.
- St. Clair Lonergan, of Berwick, was a visitor here on Thursday.
- On Thursday evening, March 9th, a number of young folk gave a surprise birthday party to Mrs. James Veinotte. The evening was spent in playing cards, after which refreshments were served. On Friday night the same young people gathered at Roy Hiltz’s the occasion being Mrs. Hiltz’s birthday anniversary. The evening was spent in playing games. At the close of the evening refreshments were served.
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Helena (Kaulback) Gates
1912 - 1988
Verna (Barkhouse) Lonergan
1902 - 1970
Laurence Lonergan
Muriel (Zwicker) Gaul
1923 - 2001
Peter St. Clair (Clair) Lonergan
1902 - 1979
1939 March 18
- A social evening was spent at C.E. Wright’s and Mr. & Mrs. Earl Alders’ on the 11th, consisting of games and contests and a lunch sale which was a financial success.
- An old fashioned snow storm struck us the 13th, about noon, and lasted 24 hours. With the amount of snow and a fearful wind, it piled up drifts something bad, and lots of roads were swept bare. The men were most all day Wednesday shovelling to get the roads open to traffic.
- There are a lot of people having the flue.
Apparently there was a lot more snow than in this picture from 1964.
Black Duck Lake is to the left of this scene.
1940 March 14
- Misses Marguerite Shaw (teacher at Lakeview) and Muriel Zwicker, Lakeview, were recent visitors at the home of Louisa Kaulback.
- E. Eisner, Chester, scaler for A. S. Barkhouse, New Ross, was at work here during the week.
- Douglas MacGowan, who was spending some time at the home of his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Charles MacGowan, East Dalhousie, returned to his work on Wednesday.
- We are sorry to report that Lester, infant son of Mr. & Mrs. Vernon Barkhouse, is ill. Dr. A. J. MacDonald of New Germany is in attendance.
- Miss. Dorothy Lonergan, teacher at Farmington, is spending the weekend at the home of her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Doug Lonergan.
Louisa (Oickle) Kaulback
1873 - 1966
& son
Quintin Kaulback
1907 - 1991
Dorothy (Lonergan) Morton
1920 - 2005
1941 March 12
- Miss. Eleanor Wright had the misfortune to get hurt while coasting. Glad to hear she is getting better.
- Mr. C.E. Wright, with team, is helping Mr. Charlie McGowan getting in his wood.
Hereford Steer
Gurnsey Cow
- The young folks were having a card party at the home of Guy Fancy on the evening of March 7th.
- Stanley Wilson has purchased a nice pair of Hereford steers in Stanburne.
- C.P. Wilson purchased a nice Gurnsey cow from Vincent McDonnell of Falkland Ridge.
- Miss Helena Kaulback spend a few days visiting at the home of Mr. & Mrs. Norwood Gates, New Ross.
- The school children of Dalhousie Road spend an enjoyable afternoon on Thursday, coasting.
The Norwood Gates Farm
Norwood Gates (1874-1958) & Arch Hatt
Photo from the 1960's
- Mrs. Guy Fancy was hostess to a party given at her home on Friday evening. The evening was spent in playing games and music, after which a delightful lunch was served. A good time was had by all.
- The Senior Members of the Red Cross met at the home of Mrs. Ray Hiltz on Friday afternoon and quilted a quilt for the refugees which was made by the Junior Red Cross.
Ray & Ella Hiltz Home
Teachers saw the Junior Red Cross as a socially acceptable way for youth to participate in the war effort. Through voluntary work, young people caught up in an era of war could put to work the skills they were considered too young to offer in either war production or the military.
Young people sewed and knitted Red Cross comforts and hospital supplies that went into the general senior Red Cross pool, but some of the supplies they made and all of the funds they raised were designated for special purposes. These included recreational equipment for Prisoners of War, mobile kitchens for use in bombed areas of Britain, and blankets for bombed civilians. It also included two special child-focused initiatives: relief for starving children in occupied countries, and the support of bomb-injured British orphans under the age of five.
This quilt, created for British war orphans during the Second World War (1939-45), offers a glimpse of the Red Cross work of Canadian children and youth.
1942 March 4
- Helena Kaulback has gone to New Ross, where she will be employed at the home of Mrs. Fred Master.
- There is a salvage drive on now in all parts of the Dominion, and housewives and home-makers, even in scattered districts, can help a great deal by collecting empty toothpaste-tubes, bottle caps, old rags and many other things which could be put to work to help win the war. Rags - we all have rags! Every scrap of rag is a weapon against Hitler: cotton, muslin, calico, poplin, gingham, sateen, denim, flannel, which can no longer be worn as clothing, can be used for wipers in machine shops and airplane factories.
- Colin Lonergan, who has been ill at the home of his brother in Berwick, has gone to Halifax to consult a nerve specialist.
Helena (Kaulback) Gates
1912 - 1988
Colin D. Lonergan
1914 - 1986
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1942 March 18
- (Harding)Lesley Gaul, who has been spending the winter with Mrs. Curtis Gaul, spent a few hours with his mother at Lake George on Monday.
- Murray Veinotte has been called to the army for training and left for Yarmouth on Thursday.
- Miss. Dorothy Lonergan, teaching at Cherryfield, spent the week-end with her parents Mr. & Mrs. Doug Lonergan.
- Pack your newspapers in firm bundles of 50, clean and flat. A neat way to hold tiny scraps of wrapping paper, etc. is to stitch down by sewing machine the sides and base of a large newspaper. Small empty cartons, small scraps of paper can be tossed into this container and when filled given intact to your paper salvage collector. Other articles of value not spoken of before: old gramophone records (broken ones to be kept separately) old bed-steads, pictures, games, furniture, etc.
- Misses Annie & Margaret Matthews called on a number of friends here last week.
- Mr. & Mrs. C. Kaulback were Sunday guests of Mrs. John Brown, New Ross.
- Rev. G.P. Corbin, New Ross, made his first trip here on Sunday, March 8th. He was accompanied by Mrs. Corbin.
Mabel (London) Gaul
1912 - 2007
Alberta C. (Bower) Gaul
1900 - 1997
John Brown
Of New Ross
1942 March 25
- The Red Cross workers had an ice cream sale and sold tickets on a quilt and a dance at Ray Hiltz’s hall on March 17. They reported a very nice evening spent.
- Miss. Alison Wright of Lake Paul was home for the week-end.
- It does’t look much like spring but Mr. John Franey reports seeing a robin on the 20th.
- John, Harris & Cecil Turner, of New Ross, who are employed in this place, went home for the week-end. John returned on the 22nd in all the storm.
- Visitors here for the week-end were Vance Joudrey at W.D. Young’s and Carson and Austin Lutz at V.L. Wright’s all from Lake Paul.
- Miss. Doris Keddy, of the Forties, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Guy Fancy, Mr. Fancy and family.
Alison (Wright) Lutz
1922 - 2017
Francis "Johnnie" Franey
1896 -
John Turner
Of New Ross
1943 March 3
- Pte. Eric Wilson of Sussex, NB, is home on furlough.
- Miss. Phyllis Wright, student at the Commercial School, Bridgewater, was home for the week-end.
- Miss. Vivian Wright, student at the same school, is ill at home. We all wish her a speedy recovery.
Frances & Pearlie Barkhouse Home
On Walker Hill
1943 March 10
- Gnr. Ethan Veinotte is spending a sixteen-day furlough with his family.
- Miss. Elaine Veinot and friend, Mrs. Bonnie Simpson, Berwick, spent Sunday at the home of the former’s parents, Mr. & Mrs. Pearlie Barkhouse, on Sunday.
- The death of Solomon Oickle, occurred at is home in Dalhousie on Saturday morning, Feb. 13th He was in his 80th year. He had been in poor health for a number of years but was only confined to his bed for the last two days. He was the father of Fred, Willis, Eva ( Mrs. Charles Whidden) and Lois
(Mrs. Lloyd Lutz). His wife, Louise Silver, had predeceased him by several years.
Elaine Veinotte
Photo taken 1927
