North Cumberland Historical Society
Gulf Shore Settlers Came from Scotland
The Gulf Shore is a small community extending ten miles east of Pugwash and is bordered on the north by the Northumberland Strait. Since 1810, Gulf Shore has been known as a Scottish settlement.
'Prepared in part by Mrs. Murray Smith for the Oxford Journal's 50th Anniversary Edition in 1948. The original article has been edited and information about the Fencibles has been added later. Information collected by Mrs. D. MacIvor has been melded in from her 1963 work.
The Gulf Shore east of Pugwash is one of the beauty spots of Nova Scotia; a rich farming and stock-raising country, fine large clear cultivated farms, splendid modern buildings with all the modern comforts - telephones, electricity, rural mail deliver, a graveled road, etc., is situated along the Northumberland Strait, an arm of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, from which this settlement probably derived its name, although some think the present name may be a corruption of Guelph. The only other name known was the "Fencible Grant", a name used in earlier days for the lower Gulf Shore.
The Gulf Shore is about 10 miles long and being situated along the coast, there have always been extensive fishing operations going on. Herring were caught by the earlier settlers and today lobsters are being caught in large quantities and are shipped alive to the United States and canned and shipped to Europe.
The first lobster factory here was built and operated by Zabud MacKy of Malagash in 1882. This factory was near a point of land named in later years "Cape Cliff", but it was called "Hoany Po" by the early pilots.
The next factory was established in 1885 by Archibald MacInnis of Wallace Ridge north of the present church on land owned by Allan Munro. Modern means of rapid transportation has cut down the number of packing factories. In 1922, there were about 10 different factories. By 1948, there was only one on the Gulf Shore, owned and operated by Gordon MacInnis. Messrs. J. R. Allen, Hudson Trenholm and the Bollong Brothers of Pugwash fish these waters, but did not pack their lobsters here.
I might sketch here the evolution of the fishing industry. The earliest settlers used flats and skiffs, then the sail boat. Later these were abandoned for boats run by one and two cylinder marine engines. Today (i.e. 1948) the fishermen have large boats averaging 35 to 40 feet in length, with high powered car engines. A contrivance, run by a small engine, is used to haul lobster traps into the boat. A boy from 16 to 21 years of age runs the hauler, leaving nothing for the fisherman to do except remove the lobsters and rebait the traps - a far cry from the tedious tasks of one man who had to handle his sailboat and do all the other work by hand.
Today, no majestic sailing boats beat their way up the Strait to Pugwash. Steamers have taken their place.
Farming and lumbering are the other main industries of this community. The first farms contained from 100 to 500 acres. There, too, we see the evolution of equipment from all tasks being done by hand, then the oxen, next the horse and today the horse is fast becoming extinct due to motor power in our cars, tractors, farming implements for every task, and electricity supplementing man power.
Another industry which has vast possibilities along this beautiful clean coastline is the tourist trade. Many motorists come out from Pugwash in the early evening of fine summer days to enjoy the enchanting sunsets on their return, which truly turns the ocean's blue to gold.
Tourist cabins are being built. There are already a few cottages. The Springhill Rotary Club has a camp here, also the Maritime (Seventh Day Adventists) Youth Camps.
The Gulf Shore is making great progress in regards to the things that maketh a nation strong and giveth it endurance, as written to me by Thomas Grant of Dinsmore, Sask., a direct descendant of the earliest Scotch settlers, and I quote him as saying, "I refer to its people. I have no hesitation in saying that the present generations are the best the district has known and the rising generation is the best of the best."
The original settlers of the Gulf Shore were no doubt the Mic-Mac Indians. It is also known there was French Rule in the Maritimes for 109 years (1604-1713). Therefore some of the ground on which the present homes are now situated was known as the French Grant, which the British government gave to disbanded soldiers. Although history does not give any details of an earlier settlement, the Scotch found on their arrival remnants of apple orchards, old wells and the marshes partly dyked, providing them with a source of rich hay land.
The land in said French Grant was purchased by hardy Scotchmen who came from the Islands of Lewis, Harris and Skye in Scotland on board the brigs Hector, Ann and Hope, landing in Pictou between 1811 and 1860.
Many of them left Pictou and scattered to different parts of Canada. Some landed in Pugwash by boat, and some walked up, coming down the Gulf Shore, taking up grants of land and clearing it.
Each farm consisted of 100 to 500 acres, much of it forest.
The First Settlers
The first settler was John Matheson. He built a log house, married Sarah MacDonald and died in 1821.
Kenneth MacDonald, son of Malcolm and Margaret Murray, was the first child born on Gulf Shore and the first one born there to be married there.
The Waughs came to NS about 1775 from PEI but did not come to Gulf Shore until after John Matheson. The Waughs came from the lowlands of Scotland and could not speak Gaelic. Other hardy Scotchmen who came from the Highlands were Angus MacLeod, John MacLean, Donald MacLeod, John Reid, Donald Nicholson, Malcolm MacDonald, Angus MacIvor, , Donald Nicholson and Alec Mackay a boat builder. Malcolm MacDonald was also a boat builder. Angus MacLeod built a saw mill. It would hardly be recognized today. The saw was a straight blade like a giant handsaw and it was driven by a crank horizontally. It would cut only on the down strokes.
At this time there were no threshing machines. All the grain was threshed by hand with a flail and the grain was separated from straw by shaking the stray with forks. The grain was then cleaned by putting it through a hand made sieve on a windy day.
Later Angus MacLeod built a stationary threshing machine on John MacLeod's farm. It was a huge affair and was operated by either oxen or horses requiring a large building to house it. It did nothing but thresh the grain from the straw, but it saved a great deal of labour. The separating and cleaning was still done as when the flail was used.
The farmers of the district hauled their grain there to be threshed. The first sieves used in this machine were made by removing the wool from a sheepskin and stretching the raw hide over one end of a deep wooden hoop, then, when the hide was dry, holes were burned into the hide with a hot iron. There were many sieves for each type of grain. After William Waugh began to build his Fanning Mills, the sieves were seldom used.
The Fencible Grant or Smith's Grant
In 1784, called Smith’s Grant, the lower Gulf Shore was planned as a community for personnel of the Royal Fencibles. These men had remained at Fort Cumberland after the Regiment disbanded, as they had been left out of the grant at Passamaquoddy. 6150 acres on the Lower Gulf Shore were granted to Josiah Smith of the late Royal Fencible Americans Regiment, "on behalf of himself and a number of the said Regiment." There were 10 non-commissioned officers, 24 privates, 14 women and 21 children.
The 34 recipients of the grant were Josiah Smith, Martin Crarey, Daniel Gooden, Peter Collins, Michael Burk, John Jona, Enoch Gooden, Thomas Gooden, Jonathan Gooden, Lawrence Larkin, William Colman, Nathaniel Reynolds, Daniel Gooden Jr., Lawrence Hickey, Thomas Brown, Richard Coulbourn, Samuel Williams, John Kenady, John Corbett, John Gordon, Richard Barritt, Joseph Watron, William Knishaw, John Apps, Thomas Biggin, William Lloyd, Thomas Harper, George Hammon, John Wightman, Peter Yaxell, Luke O'Brien, Miles O'Brien, Joshua Weathered, Benjamin Lovely.
These lots were held in severalty.
According to John MacIvor, the soldiers or their heirs soon sold the land held by the Royal Fencibles. The soldiers found it difficult to settle down to farm life. It was a hard proposition to build a home from this forested land. It was mainly bought by Scots who had found their way here from Pictou.
Ship Building at Gulf Shore
The next industry in this community was ship building. The shipyard was on an island below the present church. It was operated by Neil MacKay, but later failed in business. Alec MacKay was a shipbuilder too and built two ships, the "Iris" and "Margaret". This island later disappeared.
The consumption of alcoholic liquor and the use of tobacco was quite common amongst both sexes in the early settler of the 1880s. Therefore it was considered quite the proper thing to carry pails of rum into the shipyards where Neil MacKay built his ships, so that the employees could help themselves whenever they felt inclined. This may explain why Mr. MacKay failed in business and why many of his employees went unpaid.
The first Sheriff of this country was Angus MacLean.
Angus MacLeod also built boats and flats enabling the settlers to fish herring, etc. Each settler salted several barrels for winter use to eat with potatoes, grown among the stumps on burnt land, which was their main food, having potatoes and fish for breakfast, fish and potatoes for dinner and potatoes and fish for supper. It was a hard proposition to make a home and rear a family in the forest, but they were made of sturdy stuff. They chopped down trees to make a little clearing and to get the logs with which to build a log house.
On the land cleared by these settlers, they grubbed in a few potatoes, got a cow from the earlier settlers and built a little skiff, got a net, and caught fish, lobsters and other shellfish, also fowl which at least in the spring and fall were numerous such as wild geese, ducks, brant and other kinds.
Houses
John Matheson erected the first building of logs. The first house built of sawn lumber was erected by Angus MacLeod, and later by his son Malcolm. It was known as the Macky Angus farm as there were so many Malcolm MacLeods at the time. The house is a thing of the past.
Some think the Rory MacKenzie house now used as a storage shed belongs to James and John Ross who own the oldest house on the Gulf Shore. It is believed to be older than the Stonehouse.
The Stone House was built in 1833 by Murdoch Nicholson. He was a seafaring man and owned his own vessel. He and a son, Angus, were lost when their vessel was wrecked during a storm off the coast of Cape Breton. His widow was Katie MacIvor, a daughter of Angus MacIvor who came to Nova Scotia in 1811. The mason who built Stone House was a man named Lorraine. He was a Huguenot from the North of France and built several houses in Northern Nova Scotia. This house was built with four fireplaces - three downstairs and one upstairs.
Many of the old houses were built after the same plan. A front door opened in the centre of one side. From a small entry one went into a kitchen on one side and a parlor on the other while along the back were three bedrooms, two opening off the kitchen and one opening off the parlour. There were three fireplaces, one in the parlor, one in the kitchen and one in the centre bedroom.
Churches and Lodges
The present church was the first organized church with the Rev. John Munro, a Presbyterian minister as the first minister. To obtain financial help to build it, Mr. Munro toured parts of the USA lecturing. He had come to NS in 1848 and died in 1877, having served the congregation for 28 years. He and his wife are buried beside the church. The first church service consisted of James Stuart, Robert Mitchell, Norman MacLeod, Donald MacLeod, William MacDonald, Donald MacIvor, John MacFarlane, Peter MacFarlane, Andrew Redpath, John MacKenzie, Thomas Simpson and Peter MacLean. The church was repainted in 1947.
There was an old church, called the "Auld Kirk Church" in Fox Harbour before this one, and it was used by all the ministers of the Kirk, and bonnie were the battles fought by and between these churches. A new one stands in its place.
The first settlers found that they could not adhere to the Clan System as their land holdings were mixed. But they did their best to perpetuate it. As far as possible each Clan had its own burial grounds. Hence, there were at least seven cemeteries on the Gulf: MacLeods, Nicholsons, MacDonalds, Waughs, MacKenzies and Robertsons as well as the church for others.
An Orange Lodge on David Ross' farm flourished for some time. The hall was on the south side of the road. A Temperance Society called the British Templars organized a lodge and built a hall.
Many years later, a society known as the Independent Order of Good Templars organized a lodge on the Upper Gulf Shore. They held their meetings in the hall, upstairs in the present Upper Gulf schoolhouse.
Schools
The first school was built on the Upper Gulf south of the road on John MacLean's land. Presumably fear of fire was too great for the occupants and a new school was born in the 1880's on the north side of the road with a small hall upstairs. The Lower Gulf school was built in 1898 to replace and old school which stood on the same lot but nearer the road. The old school was then taken by Kenneth MacLean dow to his shore and used as a cookhouse when he ran a lobster factory. The first teacher in the Lower Gulf school was Hector MacKenzie. Hugh MacKenzie also taught on the Gulf Shore. He was from Pictou and later studied law and practised in Truro.
MacDonald Stone Quarry
Sometime in the 1880's the Dominion Government decided to build a ship railway that would transport ships overland from the Northumberland Strait to the Bay of Fundy and vice versa, in order to shorten the voyage between St. John, NB and English ports. An English firm of Engineers got the contract to construct the Ship Railway. As concrete and cement were unknown at that date, the company required a vast amount of stone for the job. They heard in some way about an outcrop of stone on the William MacDonald farm and decided to open a quarry on it. In 1886 or 1887, the company wanted to buy a piece of land from Mr. MacDonald at a big price, or pay him a certain amount for a specified amount of stone. Mr. MacDonald decided to sell the stone rather than the land and all went well for a couple of years, until the Banking House that was funding the company went bankrupt. You may still see the remnants of the big cut stones lying there yet on the beach. Gordon MacDonald had this quarry blasted once to let in the sea and for a number of lobster seasons used it as a haven for his fishing boats.
Blacksmith Shops and Coopers
There were only a few blacksmith shops on the Gulf Shore in the early days. Colin MacLean, John Nicholson and William Waugh had forges, but James Grant was the only skilled tradesman to engage in blacksmithing. This shop was on the south side of the road. The others had forges.
The steady diet of fish led to a need for barrels to put them in. There were three coopers at this time: Malcolm MacDonald, Donald Nicholson and Alexander MacKay.
Tragedies
A tragic accident occurred between the MacLellan house and the Stone House. The year is unknown, but here is the poem that was written to commemorate it:
'Twas April on the eighteenth day,
Do but attend to what I say,
A gun was heard, a solemn sound
Like thunder it rolled and shook the ground
The neighbours crowded to the spot,
From whence they heard the mournful shot,
And found in death's cold fetters bound,
The victim bleeding on the ground.
Close by his stood the man and gun
Who had this cruel mischief done,
With death-like eyes fixed on the ground
He tells the truth to all around.
I just took up this cruel gun,
To snap her off, in careless fun.
When this poor boy, with spirits large,
Came up the hill and met the charge.
I thought there was no load within,
Until I saw him drop his chin,
Ah! dreadful horror, strange to tell,
He turned to me and down he fell.
I'm sorry that I did the deed,
And from my pang I would be freed;
Now this is what I'd have you do,
Take that same gun and shoot me too.
Take warning, all you careless youths
Who with a gun yourselves amuse,
Take warning by MacLellan's son,
Mind how you trifle with a gun.
Drownings were unfortunately all too common. Some of them were the following: Murdoch Nicholson who owned the Stone House and his son Angus Nicholson were lost when their vessel was wrecked during a storm off the coast of Cape Breton. Norman MacIvor, a pilot, drowned when a vessel he was taking around Nova Scotia was lost in a storm. John Angus MacIvor was drowned in the West Indies.
Donald Nicholson was lost in a severe storm when coming from Pugwash. He came down the back road, but when coming in through the fields, became lost and perished in the storm.
Marriages in Gulf Shore or by Citizens of Gulf Shore 1866 - 1913
15-11-1866 Wallace Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev John Munro
MCDONALD Angus C 27 B schoolteacher Wallace Cum Co Earltown Col Co Robert & Jane Murray
MCLEOD Flora Ann 22 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Malcolm & Mary
05-03-1868 Wallace Cum Co Kirk Rev James Anderson
NICOLSON John 40 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Murdock & Catherine McIver
MILLER Sarah 27 S Pugwash Cum Co Pugwash Cum Co Robert & Mary
05-03-1868 Gulf Shore Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev John Munro
ROSS Roderick 36 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Donald & Catherine McLeod
NICOLSON Ellen 29 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Murdock & Mary Scott
04-03-1869 Wallace Bay Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev John Munro
MCLEOD John 28 B farmer California USA Gulf Shore Cum Co Norman & Mary
BETTS Catherine M 26 S Head of Wallace Bay Cum Co David & Jennet
30-12-1869 Gulf Shore Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev John Munro
MCLEAN Peter 31 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co John & Janet
MATHESON Margaret Bella 26 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Malcolm & Bella
26-01-1871 Pugwash Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev John Munro
EMBREE Leander 23 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co Oxford Cum Co Jacob R & Melinda
DEMINGS Rachel 24 S Pugwash Cum Co Joseph & Margaret
02-03-1871 Wallace Cum Co Kirk Rev James Anderson
CARTER Chipman 21 B harness maker Folly Lake Col Co Wallace Cum Co Lawson &
MCKENZIE Mary 21 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Kenneth & Eliza
06-07-1871 Wallace Cum Co Kirk Rev James Anderson
NICOLSON Murdoch 28 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Murdoch & Mary
COLTER Melinda 20 S Wallace Cum Co Donald & Elmira
12-09-1871 Wallace Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev John Munro
MCLEOD Alexander 31 B carriage maker San Rafael Calif USA Gulf Shore Cum Co Malcolm & Christy
NICHOLSON Annie 21 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Donald & Jessie
20-02-1872 Gulf Shore Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev John Munro
NICOLSON Murdoch 36 B miner Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Murdoch & Catherine McIver
MATHESON Christy 29 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Malcolm & Isabella Reid
25-07-1872 Wallace Cum Co Kirk Rev James Anderson
CAMPBELL William 21 B farmer Fox Harbour Cum Co Fox Harbour Cum Co Dougald &
MCLEOD Christy Ann 24 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Malcolm &
13-11-1873 Pugwash Cum Co Pb Rev John McRae Sutherland
JAMIESON Sniffin 24 B farmer North Wallace Cum Co North Wallace Cum Co Daniel & Catherine
MOODY Mary 25 S Gulf Shore Cum Co __ William & Bella
16-07-1874 Wallace Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev John Munro
BLACKIE Robert 26 B blacksmith Wallace Cum Co New Annan Col Co Charles & Susan
MCLEOD Charlotte 27 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Norman & Eunice
28-09-1874 River Philip Cum Co Methodist Rev William Alcorn
SCOTT Andrew 30 W farmer Clifton Col Co Gulf Shore Cum Co James & Margaret
DUNPHY Eleanor 29 S Clifton Col Co Roderick & Nancy
26-07-1875 Pugwash Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev John Munro
GOLLAN William S 27 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Alexander & Elizabeth Wilson
MCLEOD Mary E 23 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Norman & Eunice Gratto
03-02-1876 Wallace Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev John Munro
WAUGH William 46 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co William W & Helen
MCLEOD Catherine 41 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Donald & Sarah
31-07-1878 Pugwash Cum Co Pb Rev John McRae Sutherland
MATHESON John 38 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Alexander & Ann
MCIVER Charlotte Isabel 37 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Neil & Margaret
23-10-1878 Gulf Shore Cum Co Pb Rev William S Darragh
STEWART Robert A 28 B farmer Roslin Cum Co Roslin Cum Co Charles & Helena
GRANT Maggie Jane 22 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Pugwash Cum Co James & Celia
21-11-1878 Wallace Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev Samuel Boyd
TREEN Harry Lockhart 24 B carpenter Oxford Cum Co Moncton NB Henry & Sarah
MCLEAN Jennie Ann 23 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Colin & Ann
08-05-1879 Pugwash Cum Co CE Rev Robert F Brine
SONDAHL Henry 49 B cordwainer Wallace Cum Co Oslo Norway &
CAMPBELL Jessie 44 W Gulf Shore Cum Co Fox Harbour Cum Co Margaret (illegitimate)
30-10-1879 Wallace Cum Co Pb Rev James Murray
NICHOLSON James 37 B farmer California USA Gulf Shore Cum Co Murdoch & Mary
TAIT Mary J 26 S Wallace Cum Co Wallace Cum Co James & Catherine
12-02-1880 Gulf Shore Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev Samuel Boyd
DOTTON Charles W 22 B farmer Wallace Bay Cum Co North Wallace Cum Co John & M J
MCLEAN Maggie 30 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co John & Janet
22-09-1880 Wallace Harbour Cum Co Methodist Rev Samuel Boyd
MATHESON Malcolm N 22 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Malcolm & Isabella
MCLEOD Mary E 20 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Malcolm & Ann
24-06-1880 Pugwash Cum Co CE Rev Robert F Brine
MARSHALL Francis L 28 B yeoman Manchester Guy Co Manchester Guy Co John J & Esther M
MCLEOD Mabel 22 S Pugwash Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Malcolm & Ann
15-04-1880 Gulf Shore Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev Samuel Boyd
ROSS Alexander 60 B farming Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Donald & Catherine
THOMSON Alice 30 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Head Wallace Bay Cum Co Edward & Ann
11-05-1880 Wallace Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev Samuel Boyd
MCLENNAN Malcolm 24 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co Wallace Cum Co Hector & Annie
BLAIR Adelia 20 S Wallace Cum Co Wallace Cum Co George & Lavinia
26-08-1880 Wallace Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev Samuel Boyd
MCLEOD Malcolm 25 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Donald & Sarah
PORTEOUS Amelia 19 S Wallace Bay Cum Co Wallace Cum Co Alexander & Charlotte
25-10-1881 Wallace Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev Samuel Boyd
MCLEOD John K 40 W tailor Oxford Cum Co Pictou Pic Co John & Margaret
MCLEOD Henrietta 37 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Donald & Sarah
15-11-1881 Wallace Harbour Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev Samuel Boyd
MCLEOD Charles 42 B farmer North Shore Cum Co North Shore Cum Co Alexander & Catherine
MCKENZIE Catherine 38 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Kenneth & Eliza
25-02-1882 Wallace Harbour Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev Samuel Boyd
OLSON Martin L 24 B farmer Fox Harbour Cum Co Norway Olson & Maria
ROBERTSON Maggie 31 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co John & Christie
25-07-1882 Wallace Harbour Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev Samuel Boyd
MCINTOSH John T 33 B farmer Stake Road Cum Co Stake Road Cum Co Donald & Effie
ROBERTSON Ellen 29 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co John & Christie
10-01-1884 Avonville Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev Samuel Boyd
MCIVER Murdoch N 30 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Neil & Margaret
GRAHAM Mary J 24 S Avonville Cum Co Avonville Cum Co Daniel & Eleanor
04-04-1884 Amherst Cum Co Pb Rev Daniel McGregor
MCKAY George 25 B laborer Pugwash Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Neil & Marion
WAUGH Fanny 24 S Pugwash Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co John & Eliza
14-08-1884 Wallace River Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev Samuel Boyd
STRUMBERT Daniel R 31 B farmer Fox Harbour Cum Co River John Pic Co James & Amelia
MCLEOD Maria L 19 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Malcolm & Annie
22-10-1884 Gulf Shore Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev Samuel Boyd
MCLEAN Angus 48 B farming Avondale Hnt Co Avondale Hnt Co Donald & Mary
MCIVER Isabella 39 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Donald & Christie
20-01-1885 Wallace Bay Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev Samuel Boyd
MCLEOD John A 22 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Donald & Mary
SIMPSON Minnie J 30 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Samuel & Margaret
12-08-1885 Gulf Shore Cum Co Methodist Rev Arthur D Morton
ELLIOTT Herbert F 27 B merchant Pugwash Cum Co Pugwash Cum Co James N & Sophia
ROBERTSON Lavinia J 19 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Donald & Christy
15-08-1887 Gulf Shore Cum Co Pb Rev James A McKenzie
ATKINS John W 29 B fisherman Harrigan Cove Hfx Co Harrigan Cove Hfx Co George & Elizabeth
JAMIESON Harriet A 30 S North Wallace Cum Co Malagash Cum Co Daniel & Catherine
15-08-1887 Gulf Shore Cum Co Pb Rev James A McKenzie
ATKINS Reuben 29 B fisherman Harrigan Cove Hfx Co Harrigan Cove Hfx Co Henry & Frances
SWALLOW Minerva 21 S Wentworth Cum Co Wentworth Cum Co Stephen & Jane
20-03-1889 Wallace Cum Co Pb Rev Hector B McKay
ROBINSON Stanley 25 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Donald & Christy
NICHOLSON Maggie 28 S Wallace Cum Co Fox Harbour Cum Co Roderick & Catherine
06-08-1889 North Shore Cum Co Pb Rev Hector B McKay
LANGILLE Frank 40 W mason Port Howe Cum Co Brule Col Co Michael & Susan
ACKLES Jane 50 W Wallace Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co David & Margaret
24-10-1889 Gulf Shore Cum Co Pb Rev James A McKenzie
JAMES William T 35 B farmer West Pugwash Cum Co West Pugwash Cum Co Thomas & Jane
MCIVER Sarah 37 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Norman & Henrietta
26-08-1891 Pugwash Cum Co Pb Rev James A McKenzie
SIMPSON William W 23 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Samuel & Margaret
VINCENT Cassie L 18 S Middleboro Cum Co Middleboro Cum Co Edward & Nancy
09-11-1891 Pugwash Cum Co Pb Rev James A McKenzie
BUCHAN Robert W 26 B laborer Pugwash Cum Co Durham England Joseph & Elizabeth
MCLEOD Marian 36 S Pugwash Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co William & Christy A
30-08-1892 Pugwash Cum Co Pb Rev James A McKenzie
LANGILLE Leonard 23 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co River John Pic Co David & Elizabeth
MCLEOD Mary E 21 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Pugwash Cum Co Murdoch & Mary
01-11-1893 Wallace Cum Co Free Presbyterian Rev Samuel Boyd
DAVID William 29 B farmer Fox Harbour Cum Co Fox Harbour Cum Co Martin & Rosanna
MCLEAN Mary D 25 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Colin & Ann
26-12-1893 Pugwash Cum Co Presbyterian Rev James A McKenzie
MATHESON Daniel 40 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Alexander & Ann
MCMILLAN Sarah 29 S Wentworth Stn Cum Co Wallace Cum Co Hector & Mary
29-01-1895 Oxford Cum Co Baptist Rev P D Nowlan
MCKENZIE William W 31 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Robert & Elizabeth
NICHOLSON Isabella 26 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co John & Sarah
19-09-1895 Salem Cum Co Baptist Rev David A Steele
LANGILLE William 24 B farmer Wallace Cum Co Wallace Cum Co James & Deborah
JAMIESON May Bell 21 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Sniffin & Mary
15-09-1897 Apple River Cum Co Methodist Rev Frederick J Pentelow
ROBERTSON William Murray 35 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Donald & Christina
ELDERKIN Amy Lauretta 24 S Apple River Cum Co Apple River Cum Co James & Paulina
29-09-1897 Wallace Bridge Cum Co Baptist Rev C H Haverstock
JAMIESON Arch 36 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co Malagash Cum Co Daniel & Christina
LANGILLE Elmira 22 S Wallace Cum Co Wallace Cum Co Alfred & Barbie
04-10-1897 Fox Harbour Cum Co Presbyterian Rev David Annand Frame
REID John William 35 B farmer New York USA Gulf Shore Cum Co Donald & Margaret
ROSS Georgina 30 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co David & Joanna
20-06-1898 Pugwash Cum Co Presbyterian Rev A D McIntosh
MCINNIS Allen 62 W farmer Fox Harbour Cum Co Glengarry Pic Co Hector & Julia A
MATHESON Margaret 43 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Alexander & Ann
23-09-1898 Pugwash Cum Co Presbyterian Rev A D McIntosh
WHITMAN Isaiah 26 B fishing Gulf Shore Cum Co Beaver Harbour Hfx Co Samuel & Emma
MUNROE Annie 21 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Allan &
28-09-1898 Wallace Bay Cum Co Presbyterian Rev A D McIntosh
FORSHNER Charles 28 B farmer Wallace Bay Cum Co Wallace Bay Cum Co Thomas & Annie
ROSS Margaret B 29 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co David & Johanna
17-01-1899 Wallace Bridge Cum Co Baptist Rev C H Haverstock
FISHER Charles 44 W farmer Wallace Bridge Cum Co Wallace Bridge Cum Co John & Elizabeth
RHINDRESS Mary E 40 W Wallace Bridge Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Malcolm & Anna
09-05-1899 Wallace Cum Co Presbyterian Rev David Annand Frame
JAMIESON Weldon 25 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co North Wallace Cum Co Daniel &
CAMPELL Rosie Ella 20 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Fox Harbour Cum Co James & Charlotte
12-07-1899 Gulf Shore Cum Co Presbyterian Rev A D McIntosh
CUMMING James Alexander 28 W farmer Pugwash Cum Co Pugwash Cum Co James & Helena
MCIVER Margaret Victoria 29 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Norman & Henrietta
18-10-1899 Lower Gulf Shore Cum Co Presbyterian Rev A D McIntosh
ALLAN Gilbert Nelson 34 B lobster packer Pugwash Cum Co Port Elgin NB Gilbert & Anna
HILL Lizzie Marion 19 S Lower Gulf Shore Cum Co Boston Mass USA David & Anna
18-10-1899 Gulf Shore Cum Co Presbyterian Rev A D McIntosh
WOOD Jeremiah C 29 B farmer Linden Cum Co Linden Cum Co Thomas & Jane
REID Jessie Margaret 28 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Peter & Margaret
01-01-1900 Pugwash Cum Co Methodist Rev Richard Williams
NICHOLSON John W 35 B farmer Pugwash River Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co John & Margaret
MCLELLAN Zillah May 20 S Pugwash River Cum Co Five Islands Col Co Ephraim & Ella
05-09-1900 Wallace Cum Co Presbyterian Rev David Annand Frame
LANGILLE Leonard 29 W farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co River John Pic Co David & Elizabeth
WAUGH Minnie E 28 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co William & Helen
13-09-1900 Pugwash Cum Co Presbyterian Rev A D McIntosh
CAMPELL Malcolm 23 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co William & Christie
LANGILLE Cassie J 20 S Wallace Bay Cum Co Wallace Bay Cum Co William & Margaret
05-11-1903 Pugwash Cum Co Presbyterian Rev A D McIntosh
LANGILLE Israel 37 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co River John Pic Co Robert & Caroline
MUNRO Kate B 28 S Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Allen & Sarah
29-06-1904 Oxford Cum Co Presbyterian Rev Christopher Munro
MCLEOD Ira M 23 B blacksmith Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Malcolm & Amelia
MYATT Esther Ann 19 S Oxford Cum Co Staffordshire England Samuel & Leah
24-07-1904 Wallace Bay Cum Co Presbyterian Rev A D McIntosh
MCLEAN Angus M 29 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co Gulf Shore Cum Co Peter & Margaret
BROWN Ethel A 23 S Wallace Bay Cum Co Wallace Bay Cum Co Peter & Annie
16-05-1905 Apple River Cum Co FB Rev Douglas T Porter
MCKENZIE William A 24 B farmer Gulf Shore Cum Co North Wallace Cum Co Daniel & Maggie
TIDD Effie L 18 S Apple River Cum Co Apple River Cum Co Brightman & Mary
26-07-1905 Gulf Shore Cum Co Presbyterian Rev Andrew Gray
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ST CROIX Minnie 22 S Richmond Richmond Charles & Jane
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