TTTTHEHEHEHE PPARARARARTICIPTICIPTICIPTICIPAPERAPERAPERAPER AAANNN INVERNESS C CCOUNTYOUNTYOUNTY PERIODICAL Vol 24, No. 5 Nov/Dec 2003 The Participaper Page 1 FROM THE PARTICIPAPER HE IRECTOR S ESK T D ’ D Editor Marie Aucoin BE WINTER-ACTIVE!! P.O. Box 43, Chéticamp, NS, BOE 1HO RECREATION FOR EVERY- Phone: (902) 224-1759 ONE email: [email protected] The Inverness County Recreation/ (for subscription requests see below) Tourism Department will be assisting The Participaper is published five times a year by the Inverness County Department of communities in offering “Winter Active” activities - Recreation and Tourism: John Cotton, giving County residents a chance to participate in Director. Contributions of information and articles, photos and artwork are welcome. indoor and outdoor recreational events. The main We also welcome your letters and comments. idea is to encourage individuals and entire families This publication is a service for the residents of Inverness County. Others may subscribe to participate, to be physically active and most of all at the following rates (postage included): have fun!! $8.00/yr in Canada or $9.00 a year in the Under the “Winter Active Program” the Inverness U.S. Send subscription request with payment to the attention of: County Recreation/Tourism Department is offering Marie Cameron assistance to communities who work together to Recreation and Tourism Department P.O. Box 179, Municipal Building, coordinate these events. For more information on Port Hood, NS, BOE 2WO how to get involved give the Recreation office a Email: [email protected] call. Call Donna or Anna Lee at 787-3507 or 3508. Phone: 787-2274 Copyright © 2003 WINTER/SPRING BROCHURE All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of the Publisher. The 2004 Winter/Spring events brochure will be Printed by: The Pictou Advocate distributed early in the new year to mailboxes Vol. 24, No.5 throughout the County and includes suppers, dances, card games, bingo, ceilidhs, arena contacts, outdoor events, and high school hockey schedules. TABLE OF CONTENTS Everyone is encouraged to get up, get out and support these activities sponsored by our local Director’s Desk ............................................................Page 2 organizations. Ancestors Unlimited ....................................................Page 3 Port Hood Bisects .........................................................Page 6 If your non-profit organization would like to Youth of Inverness County - Carly Bunyan of Troy ....Page 8 know more about how we can help promote your Fall At the Inverness County Centre For the Arts .......Page 9 events and activities throughout the year, please Xmas Traditions and stories ......................................Page 12 Courses and Workshops in the County .......................Page 15 give our office a call at 787-3506, 3507 or 3508. Inverness Garden Club .............................................Page 17 A Xmas Craft to do with your Children ....................Page 20 SPRING RECREATION & CONTINUING Care of your Poinsettia ..............................................Page 23 The Inverness County Tartan .....................................Page 24 EDUCATION PROGRAMS 2004 New Lookoff for Ceilidh Trail .................................Page 28 Community and school programmers are preparing Eastern Counties Regional Library Schedule ............Page 29 Festivals and Events Schedule ....................................Page 30 and organizing courses and instructors for the Municipal Information ...............................................Page 31 upcoming spring session. New instructors are always welcome as are new ideas for courses and The Participaper is in its twenty-fourth year of workshops. Registration week is February 16 - 20, publication and is distributed free of charge, as a service to residents of the 2004. 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 (Novem- DEADLINE FOR THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE ber/December) issue is printed with a red cover, in PARTICIPAPER IS JANUARY 9 TH, 2004 celebration of that season. The Participaper Page 2 ANCESTORS UNLIMITED HELPING TO FIND YOUR INVERNESS COUNTY ROOTS By Dr. Jim St. Clair SOURCES FOR RESEARCH In 1865, the two divisions were merged and Presbyterian Witness and Evangelical the paper came to be a standard eight-page Advocate publication. For many researchers, the period before the With very careful attention to accuracy, the Province started to keep records of births, McCormacks of Middleton, Nova Scotia, marriages and deaths is a blank one, with few have extracted information from over 100,000 sources that are helpful. In addition, after entries found in the period between 1848 and 1877 the Province of Nova Scotia ceased to 1908, and have arranged these entries in an keep vital records of births and deaths - only alphabetical format with more than three marriages - until it started again in 1908. thousand pages of items taken from the origi- The Presbyterian Witness and Evangelical nal publication. Advocate, a publication of the Presbyterian The gathering of this data is of great value to Church of Nova Scotia which lists accounts of genealogical researchers as well as local marriages and deaths, as well as some births, is historians. a relatively unknown source for researchers In their introduction, the McCormacks state, seeking information from 1848 to 1908. “if these extractions and those that may follow Correspondents for that publication often it facilitate the work of the researcher, then sent in items concerning people in their com- the task of the compilation will have been munities who were of faiths other than Presby- worth the time taken to do it.” - Indeed the terian. Very often however, no identification assistance to researchers is very great. of the denomination of the people noted in the The McCormacks have retained the spellings entry is included, unless the person had been as found in the original printed version of the an elder of a particular church or was an newspaper. For example, ordered separately ordained individual. are the Macs and the Mcs. There are two sets Through the years, this publication also of four volumes each - one set of four for the included many items concerning events in period 1848 to 1887; and the second set for small and large communities. The inclusion of the period 1848 to 1908. this information helps expand our understand- ing of life in the sixty years covered by the Copies of the eight volumes are available at publication. the Beaton Institute, the Public Archives, the Highland Village and through the library First printed in Halifax on Saturday, January system. A reprinting of the first edition of the 8, 1848, the Presbyterian Witness and Evan- eight volumes was undertaken by the Pictou gelical Advocate continued to be printed for a County Roots Society. To order copies the total of seventy years. Through time, the address is: Pictou County Roots Society, weekly newspaper was divided into two RR1, Westville, N.S. BOK 2AO. sections - one religious and the other secular. Continues next page...Ancestors The Participaper Page 3 ANCESTORS... Continued from previous page 3. McDonald, Donald, died Sunday, the son of This work of the McCormacks is monumen- Finlay, of South-West Mabou, as a result of a tal and of great usefulness to researchers in driving accident. (Sat. 25 Jan. 1887 issue). Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince 4. McDonald, Donald died Friday the 9th, at Edward Island. ( It is particularly helpful that Lagan(sic) Ridge, Township of Mabou, in 60th correspondents of the paper sent notification year. Native of Badanoch(sic), Scotland, of marriages, which took place in Boston, in emigrated some 30 years ago. Left wife and 7 which Maritimers were participants). children. (Sat. 24 Jan 1852 issue). 5. Mclntosh, John dark, died 22 Below is a small sampling Nov. at Pleasant Bay, age 2 of the more than 100,000 years, 2 mos, 10 days, youngest entries. These are quoted son of Donald R. and Ann from the work of the McIntosh. (Sat. 7 Jan. 1882 McCormacks, not from the issue). original entries in the 6. Mclean, Neil died 29 Dec. newspaper - accounts at Brove Cove Banks, age 78 which tended to be quite years, born in Isle of Olive(?) wordy and often very North of Scotland, emigrated in flowery; but nevertheless, Road going up North Mountain (from the “Golden Oldies” series of Cape Breton 1810. (Sat. 22 Jan 1859 issue). worth reading. The news- Postcards). paper is on microfilm at the 7. McLean, Neil died, 2 June at th Public archives in Halifax. Rat Portage, Manitoba in 20 year. He was of Upper South West Margaree. (10 July 1880 1. Adams, James, married 2 February to issue). Catherine J. Livingston, both of Mabou, C.B., 8. Mclean, Mary Ann, 16th of Feb. married by Rev. W. Sinclair at Mabou. (13 March Peter Campbell, both of Lake Ainslie, C. B. by 1868 issue). Rev. Donald McKenzie at Lake Ainslie. (8 2. Adams, Minnie M. married 17th inst., Mar 1864 issue). daughter of Wm Adams of Southampton, N.S. 9. Wesson, J. Arthur of Fall River (Massachu- to Murdoch MacKinnon of Whycocomagh, setts) married Jennie MacAskill of Brook C.B. by Rev. A.W. Macleod and Dr. Mac- Village, C. B. 30 Nov. by Rev. A. D. Mac- Kinnon brother of groom at Southampton. (26 Kinnon, B. D., at Jamaica Plain (Mass.). (23 July 1879 issue). Dec. 1899 issue). 10. Ross, Eva, married 16 February, Robert J. Frizzle, both of Margaree, by Rev. D. Mc- Dougall at Baddeck. (27 Feb. 1897, issue). l1. Ross, Christy Jane, married 19 Aug. Al ? Morrison of Lime Hill, by Rev. D. McDougall at South Mountain, C. B. (23 Aug. 1890 issue). 12. McDonald - no first name given - a young man was killed when struck by lightning while A view of the Margaree River from E. Margaree driving on the road near Glencoe, Cape Breton. circa 1940.