Dr. Milly Casey-Campbell: from Black Cape to Beyond

Contract 400119680 ESTABLISHED • MAY 1975 VOLUME 44 / NO 43 / OCTOBER 31, 2018 $1.50 (Tax included) Dr. Milly Casey-Campbell: From Black Cape to beyond Diane Skinner termine limitations due to in- jury or pregnancy and recom- Dr. Milly Casey-Campbell, mended duties and restrictions LCdr in the Canadian Armed to the Chain of Command (su- Forces (CAF) was deployed pervisors). Dr. Casey-Camp- far from her Gaspé home from bell was involved in the G-7 August until just last week. Summit support in June 2018 She was serving in Romania as CFB Bagotville was the re- and her commanding officer ceiving base for the participat- thought that readers of The ing nations’ leaders. In early Gaspé Spec ought to know 2018, she was in New Orleans about this remarkable woman. for approximately six weeks Capt. Mathieu Dufour, a Pub- and has also travelled for work Dr. Milly Casey-Campbell lic Affairs Officer, who hails to Mali, France, Belgium and with the Madeline doll that from St. Alexis-du-Matapédia Italy since the beginning of always travels with her, tells Spec that “Dr. Milly is an the year. engaging and very friendly Dr. Milly, as she prefers to photographed in Brasov, Romania. medical leader. She cares for be called rather than by her all and brings sunshine wher- military title, has a young ever she goes.” family with four children in Dr. Casey-Campbell grew the span of four years. Her up in Black Cape, attended husband is also in the military. high school in Carleton and How does she manage such a subsequently attended Cham- busy career and her personal plain College, and Concordia life? She tells me that she and received her Masters of must be very “forward-plan- Science in Administration. ing.” Last January (2018) she Her parents, Cranston Camp- bought all the Christmas out- bell and Kathleen Casey- fits for next Christmas for her Campbell still live in Black children, school supplies were Cape. She became a reservist all purchased in June and she and states that veterans from still participates in meal plan- the Gaspé influenced her ning online from wherever she choice to join the CAF. When is and keeps a connection with first contacted, she questioned home. She adds that she has Dr. Milly with why I would want to interview had great nannies and an ex- medical technician her. “I’m not that interesting cellent school system that her Cpl. Morin but if my story helps anyone Cont'd on page 16 find their way, then yes, I agree.” She joined the military full-time in 2006 and fin- ished her medical training in French at the Université de Montreal and her residency at Université de Sherbrooke. In 2011 Dr. Casey-Camp- bell began working at CFB Trenton, a base requiring the flight surgeon qualification, focussing on the stressors of flight and aero spatial medicine. This area of medicine involves appropriate transfer of patients and specialized screening and assessment of individuals, including pilots Dr. Milly (fourth from the right) and her military and other crew members. In 2015, she was posted to CFB colleagues in front of a CF-18 stationed in Romania. Bagotville as Wing Surgeon. As part of that posting she conducted assessments to de- Cascapedia-St-Jules United Church decommissioned and sold Cynthia Dow CASCAPEDIA-ST-JULES: - “It’s like the heart of our village is gone,” said Kathleen Paquet. “We’ve lost the bank, most of the stores, the train sta- tion, and now the church.” She was talking about the decom- missioning of the United Church of Grand Cascapedia, an event that took place this past May. The church has since been sold to a local resident who intends to convert it into a house. The church was built as a Presbyterian place of worship in 1899, sixty years after St. Andrew’s in New Richmond and about 26 years before the Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregationalist Churches The United Church got together to form the United of Grand Cascapedia Church of Canada. The first Moderator of the United Photo: C. Dow Church, George Campbell building. Her great-grandpar- ices at the English school in events and meals, and the group of elders to stop holding Pidgeon, was born and raised ents, Albert Robertson and Caplan for the Protestant fam- basement, after it was enlarged summer services there as well. on a farm on the St-Jules side Sarah Woodman donated the ilies living there. by Charlie Campbell in 1957, On May 20 of this year, the of the Grand Cascapedia. His land for it, and her great-uncle The church was built by was used for Sunday School, Reverend Kent Gibbons from brother John Hugh Pidgeon Charles Robertson was the local sawmill owner Peter CGIT, Guides and Scouts ac- Dalhousie – New Mills came served as Chairman of the caretaker for some 60 years. Nadeau, a Roman Catholic tivities. It was also during to represent the Miramichi Building Committee. He would light the fire on Sat- who had come from Dalhousie those renovations in 1957 that Presbytery at the decommis- “The Cascapedia church urdays, and even though it after having been excommuni- the bell tower was added, with sioning service. was built because it would would die down and have to be cated there for building a Ma- a school bell from the old The final service was well have been quite a hike for the relit before the Sunday service, sonic Lodge. He was also Model School in New Rich- attended, with the sharing of people upriver to get to the it served to warm the church excommunicated for building mond West that was donated memories and sentiments of church in New Richmond,” enough to make it comfortable the Presbyterian church, but by Bert Dimock. the building from former Kathleen explained. It is likely in the cold winter months. apparently was accepted back A school stood beside the clergy such as Bev Brazier, that before good roads existed, The first Presbyterian into the Catholic Church after church from the early 1920s to Barbara Willard and Darla the people of Cascapedia used church in the New Richmond having built St. Patrick’s in St- just before the Second World Sloan. It was a sad day for canoes and other boats to get area was actually built in the Jules a few years later, at cost. War, but when the basement Kathleen and her sister Alice to services during the summer 1830s in Black Cape, but it Local residents poured a lot was put in and the church Jane. “Our family kept a key months. burned down. St. Andrew’s of time and energy into the moved onto it, the school was for the church in our house Leslie Coull was told by was built in 1839, followed by church. Bessie Harrison was also moved and now serves as from the day it was built until elders that members of the another in Black Cape in 1895 the longest-serving member of a home. just two months ago when it congregation from Cascapedia and then in Cascapedia. All the United Church Women in Kathleen believes it was was decided it would be sold,” would rest at Montgomery’s were served by the Minister Cascapedia, and Norval Coull, about ten years ago that the de- Kathleen told SPEC. “I’m sad Brook on their way to service located in New Richmond. “It Leslie’s father, the longest- cision was made to hold serv- about its closure, but I have ac- (not far from what is now was easier for one man to serving elder. Austin MacKay, ices in the church only during cepted it. This is not unique to called Route de la Plage in make the trek to these who sold pianos and organs, the summer months, from May us, many churches have been New Richmond), and wash churches than for entire con- donated the first organ and to October. Some members of closed over the past few their feet to put on their Sun- gregations to get to St. An- served as the first organist for the congregration had begun to decades.” day best before arriving at drew’s,” explained Kathleen. some years. find access to the bathroom in Indeed, St Andrew’s in Saint Andrew’s. She said that when there was a Throughout its life as a the basement difficult. Closing New Richmond is the last Kathleen’s family has a fifth Sunday in the month, the community centre, the church the church during the winter United Church on the Coast to special connection to the Minister would provide serv- hosted all kinds of community months resulted in a musty have a resident minister; cur- smell. The services of a pro- rently Rev. Ray Kraglund does fessional cleaner were called the honours and also provides upon. Then three years ago, a services in New Carlisle from decision was made by the local time to time. VILLAGE Real Estate Agency Suzanne Landry CERTIFIED REAL ESTATE BROKER AEO 418-752-0792 [email protected] www.suzannelandry.ca Austin MacKay, first organist for the Grand Cascapedia United Church, Friendly bilingual service with his faithful steed and buggy. Photo courtesy Leslie Coull from Matapedia to Port Daniel 19 years experience Page 2, October 31, 2018 - Spec JUNEX AT GALT: Police No lease, but plans for additional wells report Geneviève Gélinas dolomitization.” Dolomitiza- tion is a natural process in Fisheries and Oceans Canada recently released a list of fishers GASPÉ: – Junex wants to drill which limestone transforms fined on October 28 for offences under the Fisheries Act.

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