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"The Ships of St. Martins" by Esther Clark Wright
An out-of-print and hard-to-find small book packed with information on shipbuilding in the village of St. Martins on the south coast of New Brunswick between 1800 and 1899 when St. Martins was an important port for the building of wooden ships.
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Petitcodiac by Esther Clark Wright. A study of the New Brunswick River and of the people who settled along it. Map of the Petitcodiac and its branches. Published by Tribune Press, Sackville, New Brunswick. Author gives date as November, 1945. 72 pages.
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People and Places - New Brunswick by Esther Clark Wright. Yellow card cover with pictorial scene. 132 pages with wrap around binding. Printed in Windsor, Nova Scotia by Lancelot Press Limited, 1973. A most interesting book and lots of informative information.
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St. John River and its Tributaries by Esther Clark Wright - 1966. Some chapter headings: River By Conquest, The Goodly River, Parrtown and the St. John, The Kennebecasis, The Nerepis and the Long Reach, The Belleisle, The Washademoak, The Jemseg and Grand lake, Maugerville, The Oromocto, Mactaquac, The Tobique and Madawaska. 218 pages.
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Saint John Ships and Their Builders by Esther Clark Wright. An excellent reference to learn of the men, their families and the companies who built ships in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
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Back A Long Way by Esther Clark Wright. Copyright in 1986. Printed by Sentinel Printing, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.Back to New Brunswick Books
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BLOMIDON ROSE by Esther Clark Wright - The Story of the Blomidon countryside, its people, history and way of life in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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ALEXANDER CLARK LOYALIST by Esther Clark Wright
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Esther Clark Wright (1895-1990) was a notable Atlantic
Canadian historian who at the end of her life received the Order of
Canada
for her lifetime contributions to Canadian scholarship. She published
many works in relation to her historic and genealogical research and
was best known for her pioneer and genealogy studies of Nova Scotia
& New Brunswick, Canada.[1]
Esther Clark was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1895. She graduated from Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia with an Honours degree in Economics (1916). She undertook further study at the University of Toronto, Oxford University and Stanford University, and graduated from Radcliffe/Harvard University with a PhD in Economic History in 1931. Esther Isabelle Clark married Conrad Payling Wright on July 31, 1924, on a farm outside of Fredericton, New Brunswick. She lectured on sociology at Acadia University from 1943 to 1947.[2]
Esther began her writing career as a young woman with Public Opinion (1916) and The Challenge to Canadian Womanhood (1918), her first published works. She eventually authored fifteen books and numerous articles on a wide range of subjects including regional histories, family histories and autobiography, though she is best known for her studies of pioneering groups in Maritime Canada. In 1988, Acadiensis published an extensive bibliography of Esther Clark Wright's publications.
Wright held office in many organizations. She served as President of the New Brunswick Association of Consumers, 1950-1952; Vice-President of the National Council of Women of Canada, 1950-1953; and Vice-President of the Canadian Federation of University Women, 1952-1955.
Among the best known of her many written works is The Loyalists of New Brunswick (1955), which has been referred to as the "red Loyalist Bible"[3] due to its extensive information about New Brunswick Loyalists, or people who remained loyal to Britain after the American Revolutionary War and were compelled to leave New England. It includes a description of the harsh conditions the Loyalists faced and its appendix has a list of names including their origins, their service during the war, and where they later settled in New Brunswick.
Planters and Pioneers, Nova Scotia, 1749-1775 (1978, revised 1982) was another important work. Planters and Pioneers is an index of New England and European settlers who came to Nova Scotia (and what later became New Brunswick) ten to fifteen years before the American Revolution.[4] It also includes names of settlers who already lived in the area during the period of 1749-1775. Dr. Wright believed that "pre-Loyalist" immigrants to Nova Scotia had a much more significant contribution to Canadian and American history that had been previously thought or known, and she created the index with the hope of bringing their contribution to light.[5] A limited edition of Planters and Pioneers was reprinted in 2007.[6]
Samphire Greens: The story of the Steeves (1961) and The Steeves Descendents (1965) together provided a monumental (1,000 page) genealogical study of a pioneering New Brunswick family Pennsylvania German descent.[7] In this work, Wright traced thousands of descendents of the founder of the Steeves line, Heinrich Stief down to the 10th generation.[8]
This is an autobiographical story (published in 1957) of the people and land in and around Wolfville, Nova Scotia. In her book she describes the community in the pre-war years while she was still a student there through to the decline of the railway in the mid-1950's. The title comes from a line in Longfellow's Evangeline. When she was 91 years old, Wright published a collection of random reminiscences called Back a Long Way (1986). The book also includes short fictional stories.
She wrote books on the Saint John, Petitcodiac and Miramichi rivers over several years. After completing studies of shipbuilding in Saint John and St. Martins in the mid 1970's, she intended to write a book about the Bay of Fundy. That work was never completed. When she published her last book, Back a Long Way she wrote, "[This book] was fun to put together, and a partial consolation for not being able, because of various contretemps, to complete the book on the Bay of Fundy."[9]
In 1990, her husband, Conrad Wright, accepted the Order of Canada on her behalf from the Governor General of Canada, Ray Hnatyshyn at a ceremony held in the Wolfville Town Hall. Her pioneering work on the New England Planters was recognized in 1987 when Dr. Wright was proclaimed the first Planter Scholar during the New England Planters Maritime Canada conference. She died in July 1990. Following her passing, Acadia University named its Archives in her honour - The Esther Clark Wright Archives.
She held honorary degrees from Acadia University, Dalhousie University and the University of New Brunswick. In 1975 she was awarded a D. Litt. from Acadia University, and in 1981 an LI.D from Dalhousie University.