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Extract from the Aug 20, 2002 issue of the VANGUARD of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia:
The VANGUARD newspaper, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, e-mail is - vanguard@klis.com - or - newsroom@fundygroup.ns.ca - or Tel: 902-742-7111 or FAX 902-742-2311. ** The VANGUARD went on-line early in 2002 - http://www.yarmouthvanguard.com - with limited access to some articles.
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by INGRID DEON - Vanguard Staff Writer
George Cann will be launching his 380-page book about his seafaring relatives Aug. 29 at the Yarmouth County Museum. The book includes stories on 39 Captain Canns, many shipbuilders, ordinary seamen, career navy men and marine engineers. The book is titled "Ships and Their Men: The Cann Boats" and follows the seafaring Cann family from 1788 to the 1970s.
The book begins with the original Canns, brothers John and Hugh, who came from New England to Nova Scotia in 1788. "They were two brothers who primarily were the ones to start the Canns in the southern part of Nova Scotia," Cann explained ... "I have a chapter devoted to boats that were sailed by Captain Canns, but ... there were 40 of them ... so you have to do a lot more digging to identify which of these Captain Canns is that particular one."
The other chapter is devoted to "Hugh Cann & Son" a company started by George Cann's great-grandfather and his oldest son. The company operated coastal tugs and freight and passenger steamers around the Maritimes between 1879 and 1929. It served the Bay of Fundy, the South Shore, and the Strait of Canso.
George Cann ... will be inYarmouth Aug.29 for his book launch at the Yarmouth County Museum at 3 p.m. He will be signing and selling his books for $50 (in Canadian funds) to the general public and $45 to museum members. The hardcover books that he published himself include more than 60 illustrations.
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Yarmouth County NS (settled 1759 while part of Lunenburg County; Township created while part of Queens County; created as separate county in 1836 from Shelburne County) - http://www.rootsweb.com/~nsyarmou/index.htm - is an interesting mix of early French Acadian history (from Champlain in 1605 onward) and New England Planters (from late 1750's) and later United Empire Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution (1776 to 1783). Also home base for the greatest number of sailing ships in the world in the mid-1800's. Many large elaborate homes in Queen Anne Revival and Gothic Revival styles from mid-1800's. Home of best museum and archives in NS outside Halifax Capital Region. Nearest location by ferry (seasonal May-Oct) to USA.
Yarmouth County Museum and Archives at Website - http://www.ycn.ca/museum/yarcomus.htm - and E-Mail in 2001 - ycmuseum@ns.sympatico.ca - 22 Collins Street, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B5A 3C8 - Tel: (902) 742-5539 Fax: (902) 749-1120 - they completed a major physical expansion in 2001, and will be ready to assist historians and genealogists much more effectively than ever before. Outside of the Provincial Archives of NS in Halifax, this museum has arguably the best collection of archival records in Nova Scotia.
** Effective May 2002, the Yarmouth Museum was designated by the Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS) as one of the few Mormon Family Research Centres (FRC) in the world which is not directly operated by the Church. This means that researchers can pre-arrange to order specified microfilmed records for study at the Museum. There is a small fee for use of these for up to one month at a time.
NOTE: anyone wishing to carry out any family research should pre-arrange the date and time of their visit with Archivist Stewart MacLean at the telephone, fax, or e-mail address shown above. The archives are NOT usually available at all on SUNDAY or EVENINGS, and winter hours are more limited than in the summer months (May - end September). The Yarmouth County Historical Society holds regular meetings on the first Friday of each month at 7:30 (come at 6:30 and chat with members before the meeting starts).
The Argyle Municipality Historical & Genealogical Society (AMHGS) has its website at - http://www.tusket.com - Direct any genealogical E-Mail enquiries to - atcha_tusket@hotmail.com - they can do family research starting at CAN$25ºº. Peter Crowell who was from Kemptville, Yarmouth Co, NS, is the archivist and curator of the Argyle Municipality Historical & Genealogical Society P.O. Box 101, Tusket, Yarmouth Co, NS, CANADA B0W 3M0. Tel: 902-648-2493, FAX: 902-648-0211.
Individual membership $20ºº/year, Family rate $25ºº/year entitles you to 4 newsletters per year. NOTE: American subscribers - please pay above in US$ amounts, to cover postage and shipping.
Digby County NS - http://www.rootsweb.com/~canwgw/ns/digby/ - has mixture of early French and English settlements. District of Clare is Acadian French and "longest main street in the world" (40 miles/65 km), Université Sainte-Anne holds many archival records of French settlement back to early 1600's. New England Planters (1756 & 1760's) and United Empire Loyalists (1776-1784) brought in English-speaking settlers. Digby County was created out of Annapolis County in 1837. "A Geography and History of Digby County Nova Scotia" by Isaiah Wilson (1900) is a standard reference text for family names in this area.
The Isaac Wilson Library - digby@ns.library.ns.ca - in Digby (902-245-2163) has the index of the Digby Courier for important events with surnames indexed. Look-ups are free. The Digby Courier newspaper is at e-mail - digby.courier@tartannet.ns.ca - and tel: 902-245-4715 or FAX 902-245-6136. The Isaac Wilson Memorial Library has the Digby Courier on microfilm from 1877-1979, with missing issues and years. In 2001, the years indexed by surname were 1877-1895, which can be also be bought in book form from there as well, and 1920-1929 which has been redone in an alphabetical surname index and came out in book form in Jan/Feb 2002, and will be sold there, or on line. They also have the Digby County deeds on microfilm as well as Digby Co. Probate Records, along with many printed genealogies and records.
The Admiral Digby Museum - admuseum@ns.sympatico.ca - (902-245-6322) contains "family binders" on the various Digby County families as well as individual genealogies on these families. In addition they have cemetery records, books, census, marriages, births and deaths available on microfilm. A very large index in alphabetical order covers 200 binder entries spanning 1877 to 1978. If there was a d/m/ or birth ever mentioned in the Digby Courier, it could be in those easy to locate binders. Each binder is done in alphabetical first names as well, to make a search easier, and often as well contains printed genealogies or certain family lines as submitted by family members. Many contain obituaries, marriage write-ups, birth announcements and pictures as submitted and found by research members. However they DO NOT contain all B/M/D as found in the Digby Courier, though they are being added to constantly by researchers.
Yarmouth Online - http://www.yarmouthonline.ca - is a NEW site in 2001 about Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. They are asking genealogists or historians to volunteer to write a regular feature column and to submit photos if available. To volunteer your services, contact - karen.hipson@ns.sympatico.ca - with your NAME, PHONE or E-MAIL #, and any ideas you may have.
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