Her Majesties Colonies in North America 1850-1906

Her Majesties Colonies in North America 1850-1906

Saturday, 19 July 2025

WD Lawrence House museum Maitland Nova Scotia

 

Teapot fron Japan 
Japanese decorative screen
The view of where the shipyard was
Master bedroom 
The Lawrence fleet
A child room 


Drafting office
Kitchen stores
Well appointed bath
Kitchen 
Front steps

WD Lawrence was a prominent shipyard owner, businessman, and politician. 
He built the largest sailing vessel up to that time in 1874. Maitland was a prosperous seaport and shipyard.  All at a time when Nova Scotia was becoming part of Canada but was also trying to find out if they could carry on without being a part of a Dominion.
Sadly, within 30 years, technology put sailing ships out of the main shipping methods. By 1914, the vast amount of shipping was by steam and coal fired ships. 
This museum had been closed but luckily this summer it reopened. 


Sunday, 24 November 2024

Courthouse Hill, Hants county Nova Scotia

 

Courthouse Hill is named after the Courthouse built in 1866 for East Hants. Now it must have been interesting to have gone out here in the mid 19th century as there would not have been paved roads. No doubt the judge and lawyers must have come from other areas. What's amazing is that they put the Courthouse on a hill which on a clear day you could see and still do 5 counties.

As I was saying to my coworker who I brought out.  The time to travel out would have been interesting by horse and buggy. They must have been landed up Maitland or one of the ports up on the Noel shore then brought up.

And imagine the type of cases they would have had
 Land disputes, theft, public drunkeness, domestic abuse, assaults, and at a time when there was no radio or public TV. I can imagine the public gallery full of friends, relatives of accused mixed in with homemakers sitting down listening to what would be the latest gossip while knitting, court day must have been the biggest entertainment spectacle besides church
The church building burnt in the 1950s and the park was established via the efforts of my departed friend Dr. Ross MacInnis. 
Oh what stores and cases must have been heard there.

Friday, 2 August 2024

Serving Queen and Empire: New Brunswick Military units

104th New Brunswick 


New Brunswick Militia 
Yukon Field Force
RCR in South Africa 
Royal Canadian Dragoons 



For King and Empire.