The following publications are available from the Tantramar Heritage Trust. Enjoy reading more about our historic region, add to your research collection, or give the gift of history to someone you know. All proceeds are used to fund projects of the Tantramar Heritage Trust.

You can purchase Trust publications directly by visiting one of our Museums: Boultenhouse Heritage Centre , 29 Queens Road, Sackville - open year round or at the Campbell Carriage Factory Museum 19 Church St., Sackville - open mid June to end of August. If you are unable to visit one of our Museums then you can order by mail - see below.

To order, please print out and complete the Publications Order Form, available in PDF format , and mail to Tantramar Heritage Trust, Box 3554, 29B Queens Road, Sackville, New Brunswick, E4L 4G4. Payment by cheque or money order made out to "Tantramar Heritage Trust" will be accepted. All prices in Canadian dollars; American funds currently accepted on par with Canadian. Your book(s) will be sent as soon as payment is received. Thank you for your support.

The Trust's fourth publication in 2012 (the 250th Anniversary year of Sackville Township) is a facinating look at agriculture and land use on the Tantramar comparing the efforts of the Acadians to the New England planters, the Yorkshiremen and Loyalists in the successive waves of re-settlement under British authority. The publication covers the period 1750-1800 and is a revised and updated thesis that Dr. Wynn submitted for his MA from the University of Toronto in 1969. This is a must read for all folks interested in the early years of Sackville Township and is a nice followup to the Trust's July, 2012 release of the book The Struggle for Sackville.

Cost: $18.00

Co-authored by Amy Fox and Paul Bogaard this new book provides an in-depth look at the sequence of events that led up to the founding of Sackville township in 1759 and the subsequent resettlement of the region by families largely from New England in the early 1760s.

Price $25.00

This publication makes available for the first time all 15 papers presented at a two day conference held at Mount Allison University, Sackville, N.B. in August 2000. The conference was part of a week long celebration held in Sackville in honour of the more than 1000 immigrants from Yorkshire, England who settled in Atlantic Canada (most in the Chignecto Region) between 1772 and 1775. The conference brought together noted academics, genealogists, and local historians, and the proceedings include an introductory essay by Dr. Bill Hamilton. This publication, along with Jim Snowdon's Footprints in the Marsh Mud (also available from the Trust) will be of great interest to all who are interested in the early settlement history of eastern Canada. It is especially relevant to an understanding of the immigration and impact of those hardy settlers from Yorkshire who were "seeking a new life" in Nova Scotia.

220 pages. Publication launched May 31, 2012.

Cost: $26.00

A Country Store and More is the story of three generations of a Middle Sackville, New Brunswick, family in Business, Military, Political, Church, Education, and Community Affairs. The author has uniquely intertwined the story of the Black family and its many businesses into the social and economic development of the Town of Sackville and outlying regions. As merchants, farmers, lumbermen, soldiers and industrialists, the Blacks influenced the economic, social and political evolution of their times, not just locally, but regionally and, at times, nationally.

Joseph Laurence (Larry) Black is uniquely qualified to tell this tale. As a member of the family he has had unequalled access to their story, both oral and written. As a distinguished historian and scholar, he possesses the insight and ability to craft from this material a vibrant portrait of a community and a society making the transition from pioneer village to modern times.

252 pages including 48 photos and illustrations and a listing of personal names mentioned in the text, launched Feb. 11, 2012

Price $29.00

At 1465 tons she was the pride of the Dixon Shipyard. A magnificent new ship launched into the waters of the Tantramar River at high tide September 18, 1856 to the hurrahs of a large crowd who were given a half day holiday to witness the event. The ship Sarah Dixon was the largest vessel to be launched from Sackville area shipyards and certainly one of the most majestic. Loaded with a cargo of lumber she sailed to Liverpool, England to be sold and converted to a passenger vessel for the Liverpool to Melbourne, Australia route.

Author Ray Dixon carefully chronicles the life of the Sackville, New Brunswick shipbuilder, Charles Dixon, and the extended Dixon family. It is a tale of determination and success but ultimately of hardship and tragedy.

The ship made voyages out to Australia in 1857 and 1858 carrying emigrants and gold seekers to the colony downunder. Transcriptions of two journals provide the reader with a first hand account of enduring a long sea voyage of 90 to 100 days.

Passenger lists are included for both the 1857 and 1858 voyages. The book will be of great interest to descendants of the Dixon family and also to descendants of those men and women who colonized the Australian territory in the mid 1800s.

21 photos, maps and illustrations - 94 pages. Published in May, 2011

Cost: $22.00

Head of the Bay: A History of the Maringouin (Rockport) Peninsula , by Jeffrey Ward.

Tales of heroism, hardship, sacrifice and success animate the pages of The Head of the Bay , by Jeff Ward. The bay in question is the Bay of Fundy and, in particular, its upper end, where the Maringouin Peninsula divides its tidal waters into Shepody Bay and Cumberland Basin.

Now virtually forgotten, the communities of the peninsula once played an important role in the industrial and commercial history of Atlantic Canada. In the nineteenth century, fortunes were won and lost in the shipyards and quarries of the district and place names such as Upper and Lower Rockport, Slacks Cove, Pink Rock, Hard Ledge, and Johnson's Mills were known and respected far and wide. Ward succeeds unerringly in linking local stories to the wider sweep of current events, showing how even small places and modest lives can influence the shaping of the world.
Fully indexed, 71 photos, maps and graphs - 240 pages. Published in 2009.

Cost: $35.00 .

Cost: $15.00

Shipbuilding in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, 1784-1910: , Compiled by Charles A. Armour, with additions by Allan D. Smith. This book is mainly a compilation of registry information on the 580 vessels built in Westmorland County during the period 1784 to 1910, and includes chapters on "Shipbuilding in New Brunswick," "New Brunswick Shipping Registers and Other Registration Sources," "The Pre-eminent Shipbuilders of Westmorland County" (Boultenhouse, Chapman, Hickman, Ogden, Palmer, Purdy and Salter), "Portraits of Westmorland Built Vessels," "Chronological Listings by Port, of Vessel Registration Data." The 45 illustrations include 25 images of ship portraits, in colour - a special highlight of the book.

Cost: $28.00

Roberts Country: Sir Charles G.D. Roberts and the Tantramar , by Charles H.H. Scobie. Sir Charles G.D. Roberts (1860-1943), "the Father of Canadian Literature," spent the first fourteen years of his life in Westcock, in the Tantramar area of south-eastern New Brunswick. This book shows how his boyhood in the Tantramar profoundly influenced much of Roberts' later work: his historical writings, his animal stories, his novels and above all his poetry. With the help of over thirty illustrations and three maps the book also provides the visitor with a guide to "Roberts Country."

Cost: $19.95 .

The Life and Times of Josiah Wood , by Dean Jobb. This superbly researched publication was originally completed in 1980 as an honors dissertation in Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University. It was published by the Trust in April 2007. The book chronicles the life of Sackville's most famous native son. Wood spent 35 years in public life as MP, Senator and Lt. Gov. of NB. He operated one of the largest shipping and wholesaling firms in Sackville, he built the Cape Railway and served as Sackville's first mayor. 120 pages.

Cost: $20.00 .

For further information see the author's web site at www.deanjobb.ca , and also the author's Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia site at http://www.writers.ns.ca/Writers/djobb.html .

Cost $25.00 .

Author/Researcher Paul Surette's 204-page atlas is a momentous work of geography, which is also deeply rooted in genealogy. The book presents a detailed chronology of events leading to the settling of villages and maps the locales of families who founded these new settlements along the edge of the Tantramar Marsh at the head of the Bay of Fundy. The atlas can actually be used as a road map to visiting these historic locations and will be a great interest to all readers interested in Tantramar's early settlement history, particularly during the period 1660-1755.

Cost $35.00. Available in English or French - please specify.

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