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January 3, 1911 РAnselme Chiasson was born in Ch̩ticamp (d. 2004). He later became a Roman Catholic priest (Ordre des Capucins) in 1938, and a renowned educator and author who made important contributions to the documentation of Acadian history, culture, genealogy and folklore.
From 1942 to 2002, he collaborated with Daniel Boudreau on the writing of the multi-volume series of Acadian songs Chanson d’Acadie, which became (in five editions) the foundation of Acadian folklore.
During his writing and research activities, Fr. Chiasson also founded the Acadian publishing house Les Éditions des Aboiteaux and played a key role in the creation of the Université de Moncton, where he participated in the creation of the Center d’études acadiennes, which he directed from 1974 to 1976.
He was subsequently the recipient of numerous awards, including the Ordre des francophones d’Amérique in 1979, Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Mérite français in 1999, Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Pléiade in 2002, and made an Officer of the Order. of Canada in 2003.
January 4, 1941 – The Garrison Military Police were reinstated in Halifax to combat and enforce better behavior among what many considered lax behavior on the part of many volunteer recruits in Halifax – recruits who had not volunteered for the service overseas and who also could not follow military routine and follow disciplinary requirements, or perhaps violated liquor regulations.
As William Naftel notes in his book Halifax at War, “Each branch of the military had its own disciplinary infrastructure. The Navy had 10 cells in a former shipyard barracks, the Army inherited the former British military prison on Melville Island (now the Armdale Yacht Club) and a detention barracks on the McNabs Island. For 0.85 cents a day, the city of Halifax was (also) prepared to host any service indiscriminately in the granite cells of the city jail on the north end (Rockhead).
(Reference: Naftel, William. Halifax at War. (Halifax: Formac Publishing, 2008), p.67.)
January 5, 1884 – Canada’s first icebreaker ferry, Northern Light (launched in 1876), left Pictou at 2 p.m. on that date with twenty passengers and cargo for Georgetown Prince Edward Island – arriving there at 6 p.m. , passengers boarded the Northern Light Express train for their journey to Charlottetown. At the time, the Port of Pictou was the main point of entry to Nova Scotia from PEI. Pictou had also been reached earlier by train to Halifax in 1867.
Often during the winter a ship could not dock in Pictou harbor due to the thick ice. An illustration of the Northern Light moored at the edge of the ice near Pictou Harbor appeared in Harper’s Weekly in 1885. At that time, passengers, freight, coal and mail were sledged to the ship – sometimes up to five miles from shore.
In addition to the ferry to Pictou, Prince Edward Island also maintained courier and passenger ice ship service from Cape Traverse to Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick from 1829 to 1867, the federal government s’ loading until 1917 when he set up a ferry operation.
Ice ships were five meters long and two meters wide, often with a small sail, and fitted with runners on either side of the hull to allow them to be dragged over ice and snow. To say the least, the job was physically demanding and not for the faint of heart – either the crew or the passengers!
(Thanks to HT Holman for general information on Saltstrait – viewed online at: https://sailstrait.wordpress.com/2020/01/22/a-very-bad-poem-on-very-thick- ice / and https: //sailstrait.wordpress.com/tag/iceboat/.)
January 6, 1837 – The first weekly issue of Christian Messenger was published in Halifax. Posted by John Ferguson and JW Nutting for the Maritime Baptist community, the document was printed on the Novascotian Press.
Its content included records of local church affairs, missionary and temperance activities, as well as death and marriage notices. For the more commercial, it also included information on shipping and market prices on various agricultural products. Literary works have also been included, such as poetry and religious commentary, notably by Reverend John M. Cramp (1796-1881), a Baptist religious scholar based at Acadia University.
By 1875, the circulation of Christian Messenger had reached 2,000 copies when its operations were transferred to Saint John, New Brunswick. When it closed in 1884, it was recognized as one of the oldest religious weekly newspapers in Canada. It was also the predecessor of the weekly Maritime Baptist which began to appear in 1905, until 1964. Then, in 1965, the current Atlantic Baptist magazine came into being. It is now published by the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches, with its printing and editorial medium based at Gaspereau Press in Kentville, Nova Scotia.
January 7, 193 – During many winters during the 1930s and later in the Maritimes and the State of Maine, many men worked in various logging camps. Some camps were quite large, where teams of men felled sections of forest and transported their longshores and sleds to a nearby sawmill or road or wharf where lumber was shipped to various destinations.
With such hard physical labor, one of the most important jobs in a logging camp was not the men who worked 12 hours a day chopping down trees and burning 6,000 calories a day, but rather the crew. of cooks who gave them hearty meals and made sure no one left the dining hall hungry!
January 8, 1946 – In 1919, the Robert Simpson Company had opened its Simpson’s mail order center in Halifax serving Atlantic Canada. In the post-war era (1946-1965), residents of Halifax would see the Simpsons expand into a new and large shopping complex located on the edge of the city limits of the West End in the era in Armdale (near the current Mumford Road transit terminal). Simpson would rival the Eaton store on Barrington Street, employing over 600 people in various retail departments and over 2,000 in their mail order operations.
The Simpson’s complex offered the full shopping experience, including a large restaurant on the top floor with a view of the Northwest Arm. It was also one of the first retail buildings in Atlantic Canada to feature escalators that could easily transport buyers from floor to floor. City trams could take customers to the front door of the building, and for car owners there were plenty of free parking lots as well.
Later, Simpson became a subsidiary of Sears Roebuck. In 1978 it was acquired by the Hudson’s Bay Company and its location on Mumford Road was taken over by Sears Canada. Later, Sears will move into Eaton’s vacant space in the Halifax Mall. However, by 2018, Sear would also be shutting down permanently. As Sarah Paynter observed, the closure of Simpson’s, and later Sears Canada, would end “the 99-year reign of department stores in the West End of Halifax.”
(Reference: Paynter, Sarah, Simpson’s Halifax. Historic Online. Available online: https://historicnovascotia.ca/items/show/86.)
January 9, 1904 – Plans to build a new provincial sanatorium in Nova Scotia were underway for the coming year. Located in Kentville, he was responsible for treating patients with the infectious lung disease known as tuberculosis (TB) – at the time, it was also called “The White Plague” – one of the leading causes of death in North America throughout the 19th century.
Opened in 1905, for more than thirty-three years, the sanatorium will treat more than 5,000 patients of all ages. In the very first days of treatment, more than 50 percent of TB patients would die within five years – even if they had received treatment. Although infection rates have now declined dramatically thanks to better treatments and conditions, there remain bacterial strains that continue to be resistant to drugs and, therefore, TB epidemics are being watched closely and remain a concern for the community. medical.
In 2003, a small album was donated to the Kings County Museum in Kentville. It contained handwritten letters that belonged to Rhoda Messanger, 14, who had been admitted to the provincial sanatorium in 1941. young patient. Rhoda’s mother was informed of her daughter’s death on March 8, 1944.
(Reference: Stokesbury, Bria. “Love Rhoda,†Kings County Museum Archives. Historic Nova Scotia. Accessed online: https://historicnovascotia.ca/items/show/45.)
(Leo J. Deveau is a freelance librarian, researcher, lecturer, and author of 400 Years in 365 Days – A Day by Day Calendar of Nova Scotia History. His most recent book is Fideliter The Regimental History of The Princess Louise Fusiliers. He can be reached at [email protected]).
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