TTHEHE PPARARTICIPTICIPAPERAPER AN INVERNESS COUNTY PERIODICAL Vol 24, No. 4 Aug/Sep/Oct 2003 The Participaper Page 1 FROM THE P ARTICIPAPER HE IRECTOR S ESK T D ’ D Editor Marie Aucoin RECREATION & CONTINUING P.O. Box 43, Chéticamp, NS, BOE 1HO EDUCATION PROGRAMS: Phone: (902) 224-1759 REGISTRATION WEEK IS SEPTEMBER 15 - email: [email protected] 19. As usual, this fall issue of The (for subscription requests see below) Participaper has a terrific line-up of The Participaper is published five times a program opportunities being offered through our year by the Inverness County Department of Recreation and Tourism: John Cotton, community and school programmers. If anyone Director. Contributions of information and has ideas for future programs and/or workshops, articles, photos and artwork are welcome. We also welcome your letters and comments. please be sure to discuss these with your local This publication is a service for the residents programmer or contact the Inverness County of Inverness County. Others may subscribe at the following rates (postage included): Recreation/Tourism Department at 787-3508 or $8.00/yr in Canada or $9.00 a year in the Email: [email protected]. U.S. Send subscription request with payment to the attention of: Marie Cameron CELTIC COLOURS INTERNATIONAL MUSIC Recreation and Tourism Department FESTIVAL OCTOBER 10 - 18TH: P.O. Box 179, Municipal Building, Port Hood, NS, BOE 2WO Celtic Colours tickets are going quickly. This year Email: [email protected] there are ten concerts scheduled for Inverness Phone: 787-2274 County venues - see listings on page 28 and 30 of Copyright © 2003 this issue. If you plan to attend any of the Celtic All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be used Colours concerts or ceilidhs call now! For more or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of the Publisher. information you can visit www.celtic-colours.com. Printed by: The Pictou Advocate To book tickets call 1-888-355-7744 or (902) 564- Vol. 24, No.4 6668. ATTENTION MINOR SPORTS LEAGUES: TABLE OF CONTENTS A Level 2 NCCP Coaching Clinic is being offered September 19, 20 & 21 and October 3, 4, & 5 in Director’s Desk ............................................................Page 2 Port Hawkesbury. For more information on these Ancestors Unlimited ....................................................Page 3 clinics and future clinics in the Cape Breton region, A Cemetery Story .........................................................Page 6 Requests for Correspondents ..........................................Page 7 or any region in Nova Scotia, contact the Inverness Literacy Courses Contact Information ..........................Page 8 County Recreation Department. Page 21 of this Fall Courses Schedule....................................................Page 9 issue contains more information on the Level 2 New Arts & Culture Centre Opens...........................Page 16 courses. Hiking the Fishing Cove Trail ..................................Page 24 Be Bear Aware ..........................................................Page 26 Inv. Co. Trails Contact Names & Numbers .............Page 26 TOURISM SATISFACTION SURVEY: Trip Itinerary Form ...................................................Page 27 The Inverness County Recreation/Tourism Strathspey Place Schedule - October ...........................Page 28 Department under the auspices of the Municipality, Eastern Counties Regional Library Schedule ............Page 29 Festivals and Events Schedule ....................................Page 30 and in partnership with Human Resources Canada, Municipal Information ...............................................Page 31 is conducting a tourist satisfaction survey. This survey has been delivered to tourists at visitor information centres, as well as museums and The Participaper is in its twenty-fourth year of publication and is distributed free of charge, as a service to residents of the The Director’s Desk continues on page 31 Municipality of Inverness County. Non-commercial advertising is accepted for publication at no charge. The Participaper cover pages are printed in the municipal colours of blue and yellow. However the Xmas (November/December) DEADLINE FOR THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE and Valentine (January/February) issues are printed with red TH PARTICIPAPER IS OCTOBER 24 , 2003 covers, in celebration of those seasons. The Participaper Page 2 ANCESTORS UNLIMITED HELPING TO FIND YOUR INVERNESS COUNTY ROOTS By Dr. Jim St. Clair PUBLICATIONS People interested in early genealogical charts of Through the New England Historic Genealogical some of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman rulers of Society data base: New EnglandAncestors.org, a England, and of families of the Holy Roman number of items of interest to local researchers Empire, and of other ancient and medieval families, may be consulted, e.g. An Hibernian or General may obtain a free sample chart and price list from Description of the Kingdom of Ireland published in 1798. Donald Charles Stone, 2401 Pennsylvania Avenue, It shows Ireland and all its counties and baronies Apt. 9B-28,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 19130. and a number of its cities, towns and villages. Also, the 1740 census for the counties of Antrim, Medieval Welsh Ancestors of Certain Americans is Derry, Donegal and Londonderry - the head of being prepared for publication in several years time. household is listed and both Protestants and The contact person is Carl Boyer III, P.0. Box Roman Catholics are included. 220333, Santa Clara, California, 91322-0333, e-mail: cboyerasosinet.net. He seeks correspon- QUERY: dence with people interested in Welsh roots and William Robbins of Historical Research Inc. of immigrants to North America. Alberta, is searching for information regarding vehicles built by the Waters family of Whyco- History Magazine is a wide-ranging, relatively new comagh. He is doing research on buggies, wagons publication which covers a variety of topics of and sleighs owned by a private collector of horse- general interest to people who are searching for drawn vehicles. data to assist in understanding the background of One such vehicle probably manufactured by the various times and places. For example, a recent Waters family, is a “transfer hearse” which has a issue contained articles on the Huguenots and on second business name lettered on the seat of the the major historical events and issues in the world hearse. The second name is W. J. Stoddard. What between 1700 and 1709. For more information the was the connection between the Whycocomagh address is: HISTORY MAGAZINE, PO Box 1111, manufacturers and Stoddard? Niagara Falls, New York, USA 14304-1111 - the price of six issues is $24.00 (US). Local Researchers trying to locate relatives who settled in Boston, frequently have difficulty with the large number of locations in Boston itself where probate, church and land records are held. A new comprehensive guide is being prepared by Ann S. Lainhart and will be published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 101 Newbury Street, Boston, USA 02116-3007. The publication, which will be ready for distribution Hearse in question later in the year, is titled A Researchers Guide to Boston. Continues next page...Ancestors The Participaper Page 3 ANCESTORS... Continued from previous page their mail there when it opened and Lazaire LeBlanc SOURCES: was the postmaster; it was in 1926 that Simon 1. One of the very useful sources for history about LeBlanc came to be his successor. local communities and people is the correspondence of the District Postal Inspector in Halifax. In this 3. The publication in 1980 by the Genealogical correspondence (found on microfilm reels in Committee of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Record Group 24 at the Nova Scotia Archives) are Society of Loyalists and Land Settlement in Nova Scotia, petitions signed by hundreds of people for new post brings together the essential information to be found offices - including those which were named and in hundreds of land records relating mostly to opened, and quite a number which were not. Loyalists who came to Nova Scotia - some of whom Tracings from a map prepared in1896 shows all went on to Cape Breton. The material is divided existing post offices, their into sections as per the mail routes, and mileage counties. Many Inverness between offices. The names A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of County names are found in of designated post-masters roots, whose flower and fruitage is the the various records, most and post-mistresses are also world. - Ibid. particularly that of included. The originals are to Guysborough County: e.g. be found at the National Thomas Fox who came to Archives of Canada in Ottawa. Port Hastings and is said to be of the Saint Augustine, Florida settlers; Donald McLeod who 2. A gathering of some of the specific information came to Mabou; James Adams, whose wife later found in these records as well as from other sources married McLeod; Thomas Brownly, later of is the publication prepared by Carl Munden in 1987. Northeast Mabou and listed as a disbanded soldier Entitled, Post Offices of Inverness County, Cape Breton, of the Duke of Cumberland’s Regiment; James this work may be found in a number of collections. Proctor whose family eventually settled at Lower Take for example the listing for McKinnons Brook, River Inhabitants. In Halifax County, Ebenezer according to Munden’s information the post office Leadbetter, who later came to Mabou Harbour was opened