National Archives in Fredericton NB

Set out for Fredericton and the National Archives at the University of New Brunswick. Boy what old buildings! They were very helpful about getting microfiches that we needed for researching the Price's. We got the information of Rick's great-grandma's death from the Sackville Chignecto Post April 25, 1895 . She died April 20, 1895 and was only 22 years old! We also got a copy of Gideon and Alma's marriage certificate from 1889.

We set up camp at Hartt Island RV Resort on the St. John River before we went into Fredericton.

We decided to walk around City Hall area and found a Second Cup coffee house to relax for a few minutes.

Serching for Ancestors

Lots of rain so it was a good day to go to the library in Moncton. We got to read through the copy of the Price Book that they have on hand. They have it in a research room that you have to sign for to get into it and also the book is locked up in a case. We managed to find a little more info so that we knew what to be looking for when we hit the cemeteries. Believe it or not it is very interesting looking at and trying to read old grave markers. We did manage to find a few of the Prices that we know I am related to.

We drove out to Havelock (formerly known as Butternut Ridge on any old documents) and then onto New Canaan, yep this the correct spelling.



After looking over at least 6 graveyards in those areas we went down to Petitcodiac to search through a few more cemeteries. It was real strange there that we found an old site up on a hillside in amongst a lot of trees. It was real hard to see from the road and a fair climb to reach them all.

It turned out that most of them were only about 50 - 100 years old. We stopped back at the library in Salisbury and talked a bit more with the librarian Margaret Crosthwaite (who is related to Rick way back).

Bound for Moncton, NB

It's 7:15 AM and we are on the road for Moncton. We decided to travel the Glooscap Trail along the Bay of Fundy from Windsor to Truro. The scenery was very different and at some times the fog would roll in and you would loose site of the bay. We found the small community of Burncoat, it is where the highest tides in the world have been recorded. The road was very rough and had a bit gravel in some construction areas. In this 180 km stretch of road you go through a small "town/community" about every 10 km's but the strange thing is that there are no cafe's, gas stations or grocery stores, just nowhere to sit and chat with people.

We decided that with the fog and the rough roads that we would skip the last 200 km's and take hwy 102 from Truro to Moncton. It was nice to be able to get into camp and get all set up in the early afternoon.

So after picking up a few groceries we treated ourselves to an IceCap at Timmy's after that!

Last evening in Berwick

What a great day we have had, even the weather sort of co-operated and only sprinkled a few times. Time for our walk to Timmies and see Tracey off to work. We did a little more driving around stopped at a few yard sales and talked to more of the local people, didn't spend a dime and discovered a lot more about the region.


Tracey & Andy took us all out for a lovely meal at Kellocks here in Berwick, it is a restaraunt in an old house and the food is great. Gable & his girl friend Emily came up from Lower Sackville, it was a celebration of their graduation.


After dinner we came back to the house and the kids got into playing as a band on the Wii. After an hour or so it was movie time.

Gable's Grad Ceramony & Peggy's Cove

We had to be up early today as the grad ceremonies were at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie University in Halifax at 10:00 AM, about 11/2 hours from Berwick. Great to have a GPS as we just typed in the address of the Cohn Auditorium and it took us right to the front door. NOW to try and find some parking!!! Good thing we got there about 3/4 of an hour early. Not bad though, after circling around we got parking within about 3 blocks. Even though we were early all the main seating was taken so we went up onto the balcony level. The view was great from there but not so good for pictures. What an exciting time for all the Grads. Gable and his girlfriend Emily both looked great in their cap and gown!
Well you just can't come to NS without going out to Peggy's Cove. Even though we have been there several times it is still so awesome to see the waves breaking onto the rocks. This time we stopped also in Indian Cove at a place called "Peggy of the Cove" it is a museum/gift store and what an interesting fellow Ivan Fraser who has started the business in the home he grew up in. He has lived there all his life (64 years).

Irene bought a book from him that he wrote about a girl they called Peggy who was the only survivor of a shipwreck. She couldn't remember her name so the people who adopted her called her Peggy. Rick did some wheeling and dealing and we came away with a signed ltd edition hard cover book, 2 print pictures, a CD and a T-shirt for $40.

Back to Halls Harbour! Fogggy!!!

Well it started out as another great day for a walk around
Berwick, the "Apple Capital". Just down the road from Tracey's a lady was selling bird houses that her family made, we stopped and talked to her for a while and found out a lot more about the town.

It always seems to be wash day, well at least twice a week. Time for another drive out to picturesque Halls Harbour.


As we crest over the hill all there was was fog and the Bay of Fundy disappeared. Irene still manages to find a few interesting rocks on the beaches.





Oh yeah!! had to have their lobster dinner!! Yum Yum.You get to pick out your lobster and then take it next door to where they cook them and then they bring them to your table.

These large claws are from lobsters that they quess were about 150 years old. About 25#'s or so. From there we drove over to Coldbrook to check out the Scotia Gold Apple processing plant.

They had a retail outlet so we picked up some Jonagolds to eat along the way, 10#'s should keep us munching for a few miles.