For Sale -Home Is Where One Starts From - A view of the people of nineteenth century Westmorland County, New Brunswick (Canada), as perceived through the journalistic literature of the time by Helen L. Bateman

Home Is Where One Starts From - A view of the people of nineteenth century Westmorland County, New Brunswick (Canada), as perceived through the journalistic literature of the time by Helen L. Bateman . Number 532 of 1000 numbered copies.(So I assume only 1000 copies were printed) No date of publication.. The author states in the Preface, " The people of the area and the time began to come to life through what they had read and what they had written. My study gradually became a journey into the past of my own ancestors.

Many letters and references to the lettters and articles in the newspaper of the time and the controversail topics in the newspaper - even led one editor to jail. The day editor - Johm T Hawkes was released June 27, 1888, he sailed down the St John River by steamer to the Dufferin Hotel in Saint John, where he was serenaded by the City Coronet Band..

Thad Stevens was another editor - his wife was charged with the death of her adopted daughter.

Mention is made of finding the body in 1978 of Tim McCarthy. A train brought three hundred curious Monctonians to Shediac to view the corpse.

Book # 7006. Canadian Funds $29.95 Shipping $10.00 within North America - Very good condition - sticker residue front cover price sticker. 112 pages