George Thomas Taylor

Posted on June 13, 2020May 14, 2020 by MyNB

George Thomas Taylor was born in 1838 in Fredericton. He was the son of William Pentlow (Pentlowe) Taylor, a carpenter, and Frances Anne Morrison. New Brunswick’s pre-eminent 19th-century photograph... Read More

William Francis Ganong

Posted on June 11, 2020June 11, 2020 by MyNB

William Francis Ganong was born at Carleton, now West Saint John in 1864. He was the eldest of seven children. He is the brother of Susie, Arthur, Edwin, and Kit Ganong Whidden. At the age of seven, t... Read More

Robert Foulis

Posted on May 19, 2020May 26, 2020 by MyNB

Robert Foulis was a Canadian inventor, civil engineer and artist noted for his invention of the steam-powered foghorn. Foulis was born May 5, 1796 in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1817 his first wife Eli... Read More

Alden Nowlan

Posted on May 14, 2020May 14, 2020 by MyNB

Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, journalist, novelist, playwright, and—above all—poet, Alden A. Nowlan (25 January 1933 – 27 June 1983) was one of Canada’s leading literary figures. American poet... Read More

Winnifred Blair

Posted on May 7, 2020May 18, 2020 by MyNB

Miss Canada was a beauty pageant for young women in Canada. It was founded in Hamilton in 1945. Winnifred Blair of Saint John, was proclaimed the first Miss Canada on 11 February 1923 at an earlier, u... Read More

Eldon Rathburn

Posted on April 23, 2020April 10, 2020 by MyNB

Eldon Davis Rathburn, CM, (1916 – 2008) a Canadian film composer, pianist, organist, and teacher was born in Queenstown. Known as the “Dean of Canadian film composers,” he composed over 300... Read More

Susan Butler

Posted on April 9, 2020April 19, 2020 by MyNB

Daughter of Cecilia Marie Mills of Tracadie and Charles Michael Butler, Susan Butler was brought up in rural Miramichi on the Chaplin Island Road. “A friend of the family had visited a place called ... Read More