Associates of the Provincial Archives / Associés des Archives provinciales
23 Dineen Dr. Fredericton, NB, Canada

We’ve Missed You! The Provincial Archives of New Brunswick is now open for in-person visits by appointment only. Appointments are available Monday to Friday, 9:00 am-12:30 pm and 1:00-4:30 pm. Beginning in October, the archives will also be open by appointment from 9:00 am-5:00 pm on the first and third Saturdays of the month. To book an appointment and for more details, please call Heather Lyons at 506-453-2122 or email [email protected]. Hours - OPEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY... Monday to Friday : 9:00 AM-12:30 PM & 1:00-4:30 PM Beginning in October: Also open 9:00 AM-5:00 PM on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month Staff continue to be available for consultation by email: [email protected] and by phone: 506-453-2122

Thank you to our friends at the / Merci à nos amis à la Bibliothèque publique Mgr-W.-J.-Conway Public Library (Edmundston)

Bull Moose Hill is located 1.29km west of Joliffs Brook in Kings County. As may be expected, the community was named after an incident in which a bull moose broke its neck in Alex Northrup’s pasture. In 1866 the community was a farming settlement with about 33 families. By 1889 the community had a population of 80 with one post office.

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Did you know that more than 12 million letters were delivered to soldiers every week during the course of the #FirstWorldWar? Letters provided a way for family and friends to communicate with their loved ones serving overseas. Letter censorship began in August of 1914 and was used to ensure that loved ones would not receive distressing news, to keep a soldiers’ spirit up and to prevent any valuable information, such as troop movements, from being intercepted. Private Joseph Clark writes home detailing an attack made against German forces, most has been censored, MC2972 #newbrunswick #lestweforget2020 #archives #RemembranceDay

In addition to providing musical entertainment throughout the war years, military bands played alongside troops as they marched into battle. Did you know the Friends of St. Mary’s was the first New Brunswick band to travel to France as a unit during the First World War? P132-5 ca. 1914 #RemembranceDay #lestweforget2020 #militaryband #newbrunswick

November 7th is World Digital Preservation Day! Above is a photograph of Joseph Campbell Risteen, late nineteenth-century businessman and owner of J.C. Risteen & Company, a sash and door factory in Fredericton. The Provincial Archives digitized this photo, along with other records of Risteen’s personal and professional life, in 2018. (Reference #: MC4240/MS3/25)

Nurses witnessed a soldier’s most unbearable pain. Surrounded by suffering and death they were tasked with the duty of keeping soldiers alive in the world’s most inhospitable climate: war. At least nine nurses from Saint John went with the first group of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in the First World War to serve at the No. 1 General Hospital. Pictured here are a nurse and doctor with a patient in an operating room at no. 2 Canadian Stationary Hospital, Le Touquet, France, ca. 1915. P249-18 #nurses #RemembranceDay #lestweforget2020 #newbrunswick