Hi Bev:
I wasn’t either until I started reading the old Parrsboro Records in the
Archives looking for obits and wedding announcements.
Dave
On 1/26/10 10:40 AM, "bumbly73@..." <bumbly73@...> wrote:
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>
>
> Hello Dave
>
> I was not aware of all this activity that happened down there I will
> defenitley need to do some more research on this items to add to my
> story. Thank you very much for this info. This story I am working on is
> in addition to my regular my family history.
>
> _____________________________________
> Bev Harrison
> Bumbly73@... <mailto:Bumbly73%40aol.com>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: davidwinter@... <mailto:davidwinter%40ns.sympatico.ca>
> To: nscumber <nscumber@yahoogroups.com <mailto:nscumber%40yahoogroups.com> >
> Sent: Tue, Jan 26, 2010 10:20 am
> Subject: Re: [nscumber] daylight savings time in 1950-1970
>
> Hi Bev:
>
> Have you done any research around the Great Depression and early 30¹s
> when
>
> your grandfather would have been a teenager?
>
> A large section of Port Greville buildings on the main road, both sides
> of
>
> the Shipyard Hill were destroyed by a huge fire. The Dr. Hill house that
>
> once sit on our foundation (on Cochrane Road) was moved across the
> field to
>
> become what became known as Lloyd Ayer¹s home. The Wylie Cochrane home
> that
>
> was built nearby with no basement was then moved to the vacant Dr. Hill
>
> foundation and my father purchased it about 1941. Were there any homes
> in
>
> Ward¹s Brook destroyed in a similar manner?
>
> Then, there¹s the ³Proabition² in the area with several ³prominent² Port
>
> Greville families involved in illegal alcohol (imitating a police
> officer to
>
> confiscate a load of alcohol in Halifax County, then bring it back to
> the
>
> area for sale. Then there¹s the stolen cars from the North Eastern
> United
>
> States whereby even the local minister got coned into buying one. The
>
> R.C.M.P. confiscated it of course and he was out the $. Then there¹s
> the big
>
> robbery whereby Cecil Fletcher (one of the larger stores at the time in
> the
>
> area) was hit over the head, tied up and robbed of a large amount of
> money.
>
> I¹m sure this kind of activity spilled over into Ward¹s Brook and Fox
> River
>
> as well.
>
> Sorry, I don¹t have these stories in detail but if one reads the old
>
> Parrsboro Records from 1930 to 1934 in the Archives, they¹re all in
> there.
>
> As an amateur genealogist, I usually don¹t park this kind of data in a
>
> person¹s file notes.
>
> I remember my father telling me once that his father (a sawmill
> stationery
>
> engineer) was ³hired² to fire the boiler of a tug boat at Port Greville
>
> Harbor one evening in the early 30¹s and in darkness, towed a scow
> loaded
>
> with cars out into the Minas Basin whereby these cars were all pushed
>
> overboard. Reason, they were all ³hot² cars and the R.C.M.P. were
> getting
>
> too close. No evidence no convictions.
>
> I personally remember as a youngster even late into the early 50¹s of
> seeing
>
> several local 2 to 3 ton trucks with a few unfastened floorboards in the
>
> middle of the wooden body whereby there was a hidden cavity below
> between
>
> the truck¹s frame; alcohol, poached deer & moose etc. The owners just
> backed
>
> them into their garages / barns to load / unload with no one the wiser.
> Back
>
> then I never thought anymore about it as I would today.
>
> After my father finished high school, his first winter was working back
> in
>
> the woods in Gesner Kerr¹s lumber mill whereby one stayed in camp all
>
> winter. On a few weekends if things were slack, he and my grandfather
> would
>
> walk 6 to 8 hours out of the woods to their home in Fox River, sleep,
> get a
>
> bath, have Sunday dinner with my grandmother, then walk the 6 to 8 hours
>
> back into the woods for Monday morning¹s shift. The second winter he
> and my
>
> grandfather worked in the woods down around Shulee way for Dr. Cochrane.
>
> They walked home for the weekend to Fox River on the road with a sled;
>
> walking up the hills pulling the sled and coasting down the hills to the
>
> next hill. There were few cars traveling during the winter on the icy
> roads.
>
> After a few winters of that, he switched to carpentry. One has to
> remember
>
> this was during the Depression when jobs were hard to come by and times
> were
>
> tough.
>
> Just some more ideas for your story.
>
> Dave
>
> On 1/26/10 8:42 AM, "bumbly73@... <mailto:bumbly73%40aol.com> "
> <bumbly73@... <mailto:bumbly73%40aol.com> > wrote:
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>> >
>
>> > Hello again everyone
>
>> > I have been doing some more research for my story and came across an
>
>> > article in regards to whether or not to change to daylight savings
> time
>
>> > or not.
>
>> > According to the article from 1950-1970, towns and communities made
>
>> > their own decisions on whether or not to switch to daylight savings or
>
>> > not. I am thinking this could of been confusing for anyone travelling
>
>> > from one town to another especially if the towns were right next to
>
>> > each other. Does anyone remember anything about these days to all
> towns
>
>> > make the switch or not. More specific did the towns of Fox River,Port
>
>> > Gerville and Wards Brook in Cumberland co make the switch or not.
>
>> >
>
>> > _____________________________________
>
>> > Bev Harrison
>
>> > Bumbly73@... <mailto:Bumbly73%40aol.com> <mailto:Bumbly73%40aol.com>
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