Nature Miramichi:

I am sending this meeting notice out a little earlier than usual. Attached below is a link to 7 local interesting publications from the turn of the Last century!

1.One concern for Tuesday April 2 is that we do not have anyone identified who can provide snacks for this gathering. If you are able to do this, please let me know.

2.Another note of interest is an announcement today from the New Brunswick Museum:

New Brunswick Museum design unveiled, $108M in funding secured (msn.com)

3.About our meeting Tuesday:

Our speaker for our monthly meeting on Tuesday April 2nd is Shaun O’Reilly. (26 Sutton Rd. Nelson) Shaun is a lifelong resident of Miramichi and is a Anglophone School District North teacher. He has been president of the Miramichi History Museum for 23 years. The Miramichi History Museum amalgamated with the Natural History Association of Miramichi a number of years ago and maintains the latter’s museum collection as part of it’s overall collection.

His presentation:

“My presentation will be focused on the history of the Miramichi Natural History Association and the Miramichi History Museum. I’ll also be talking about the current state, and operations, of our museum.”

4.Some Background:

Here is a link to turn of the last century’s publications of the Natural History Association of Miramichi. The association was created in 1897. There are 7 issues of the publications which were issued every two years from 1899 to 1913 with the exception of 1907 for which it seems there was not a publication. No doubt the association was severely affected by World War One hence it seems no further publication after 1913 may have been produced. The documents make fascinating reading and include articles which can be considered personal accounts of local social history.

Matthieu Carroll shared this link with us two years ago so this might be “old” news to some.

I didn’t look as closely to this at the time as I might have.

Proceedings of the Natural History Association of Miramichi : Natural History Association of Miramichi : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

There is a lot of content in these 7 publications: An article about Winter Birds in 1899 in Volume 1 By J. McGregor Baxter, M.D. makes for interesting reading, for instance.

Peter