IMG_1354, originally uploaded by c4n007.
When fire broke out at a hay barn at York Point Slip at 2:30 PM on June 02, 1877, the residents of Saint John were under the impression that no conflagration could match the fire department’s state of the art Amoskeag steam powered, horse drawn fire engines.
Unfortunately, recent cost cutting [...]
A freight train is headed East between the old and new cemeteries at Yonge Mills. The vintage look was created using a texture layer in Photoshop.
Read about my first trip to this cemetery here.
Grenier Hill, originally uploaded by Light Collector.
From my brother, Bob Charlton aka Light Collector. The Flickr page (click on photo above) shows what happened to the Charlton House in Shawinigan.
Across the street from my grandfather’s house in Shawinigan Falls, Quebec was Grenier Hill. I can remember as a boy, sitting on the grass at [...]
Photo courtesy of William Nicholson, All rights reserved, used by permission.
Several places called Charlton can be found in England but the surname is so closely associated with Northumberland that the hamlet of Charlton near Bellingham (pronounced Bell-ing-jum) in North Tynedale would seem to be the most likely place of origin for the surname. In the [...]
This entry was recieved by email from Carol Brown Parker:
Hello everyone. I am sending these pictures of The Merritt and Slipp Cemetery as I have seen in so any places on the internet that the cemetery is listed as the Slipp Cemetery.
As you all probably know the Merritts and Slipps inter-married but this cemetery was [...]
In the summer of 1985, I went on a photo expedition to discover some of my ancestral roots. One of the highlights of that journey was discovering the burial grands of my great great grandparents, Robert and Sophia Connell behind the old stone church in Yonge Mills just outside of Brockville, Ontario.
The cemetery is divided [...]
Of all the houses in Britain, this is probably the one that means the most to me.
26 Western Hill Rd is the place where my Grandmother Helen Lottie Good died. It is the house of my Great Grandparents, William Browell Charlton and Mary Green. The place my Grandparents were visiting with my father and his [...]
Leonard Slipp and Elizabeth Ryson were among the first Loyalist settlers to arrive by first ship from New York in the Spring of 1783. The scene was captured by Adam Sherriff Scott in this painting of the Loyalists arriving onshore at the mouth of the Saint John River.