Ebbtide at Kingsport, Schooner FBC in shipyard

Found this picture in the Nova Scotia Archieves , I love old photo of the old boat but I especially like this one with the lighthouse in the background . Kingsport is located along the Minas Basin in Nova Scotia

Post Offices and Postmasters---Library and Archives Canada

Name of Office:

Baxter's Harbour

Federal Electoral District:

Digby - Annapolis - Kings (Nova Scotia)

Dates:

Establishment Re-openings	Closings
1873-10-01	1955-05-18

Postmaster Information:

Name of Postmaster	Military Status	Date of Birth	Date of Appointment	Date of Vacancy	Cause of Vacancy
John Baxter	-	-	1873-10-01	1902-01-10	Death
Frank Cogswell	-	-	1902-08-01	1903-03-28	Resignation
George Ells	-	-	1903-09-01	1906-04-20	Resignation
John M. Cogswell	-	-	1909-10-01	1912	Dismissal, political partisanship
Mrs. Effie W. Miller	-	-	1912-04-01	1914-03-28	Resignation
Fred Ells	-	1869-05	1914-04-27	1946-04-18	Resignation
Richard Herbert Irving	-	*	1946-08-14	Acting	-
Richard Herbert Irving	-	*	1946-10-18	1947-10-20	Resignation
Ernest Kenneth Schofield	-	*	1947-11-07	Acting	-
George Curtis Brewster	-	*	1948-01-15	1955-05-18	Dwelling Additional Information: Dwelling Mail route - Baxter's Harbour and Canning Way office - 1873-10-01

Caroline Beach Hike

These are a few pictures I took on my hike at Caroline Beach along the Bay of Fundy shore .

February 2nd 1898 Baxter's Harbour News

February 2nd 1898: "Baxter Harbor:

We are having our share of the heavy snow storms and bad roads.

Mr. Morton Bennett, who has been con
fined to the house for some time with a cut foot, is able to get out again.

Mr. Francis Lyons has been suffering from an attack of rheumatism.

Mr. Watson Brewster has moved his family to Cape Blomidon for the winter.

Mr. A Ells is spending the winter with relatives at Sheffield Mills

Mr. J.A. Baxter of Sheffield Mills, is here with a number of men getting out a frame for a large barn

Ice was seen in the bay, on Jan 24th, for the first time this winter."


I found the Baxter's Harbour news of Feb. 02 1898 while searching the internet I thought it was very interesting especially the last entry about the ice in the Bay .So far this winter the Bay has been ice free. I found this on rootsweb.com

On the Rocks: Shipwrecks of Nova Scotia - Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia

"Named after her owners, Fred Green and Boyd Gibson, this was the last working coastal schooner built in Nova Scotia. She was destroyed by Hurricane Edna. Her shattered hull was carefully studied by historians as an example of wooden shipbuilding in Nova Scotia.
Photo credit: Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, MP10.196.7, M76.27.7"

Caroline Beach

This photo tells of a Schooner that landed on Caroline Beach just down shore from Baxter's Harbour. The stone tells the story of the schooner it's crew and cargo. The year was 1831

Some More History on The Harbour

BAXTER’S HARBOUR

This rural area is located on the south side of the Minas Channel in central Nova Scotia. It was names for Dr. William Baxter or his son, John B. Baxter, who were early settlers in the early 19th century. Possibly the harbour was frequented by fisherman in 1780 or earlier. Dr. Baxter bought land on the north mountain from David Eaton about 1803.
Jonathan Margeson was a schoolmaster here in 1834. A school-house was built in 1869. A new school was built in 1906 but it burned down and was replaced with a new building in 1939. A way office was established October 1, 1873 with John Baxter as postmaster.
Fishing and limited farming are the main occupations.
Population in 1956 was 112.

A brief history of the Harbour

This rural area is located on the south side of the Bay of Fundy, on the North Mountain of Nova Scotia. It was named for Dr. William Baxter, or his son John B. Baxter who settled here in the early 19th century. This harbour may have been frequented by fishermen in 1780 or earlier. Dr. Baxter bought his land from David Eaton, around 1802. It was part of Cornwallis township which was granted in 1761. This part of the North Mountain was known as Baxter's Harbour Mountain.

Dr. Baxter built his house around 1802, and set up the Baxter Mill on the brook below his house. Johnathon Margeson was a schoolmaster in the Harbour in 1834. A schoolhouse was built in 1869, and a new one in 1906, but it burned down and was replaced with yet another new building in 1939. A way office was established in 1873 with John Baxter as the postmaster. A wharf was built in the Harbour, but a lot of shipping actually occurred from Black Hole, a little ways down the road. It had a much better harbour and steep cliffs surrounding it. Apparently they used to throw logs over the cliffs into the water and then load them from there into great sailing ships. There was never a wharf at Black Hole, goods were simply thrown over the cliff into the water.

The area has been logged over at least twice, it is in the process of being logged over a third time now. Families here engaged in logging, farming and even shipbuilding and shipping, all at once. They would load potatoes and logs onto a sailing ship and then sail down to the Caribbean to sell in the fall, certainly a dangerous trip given the kind of weather you get on the Atlantic Coast in the autumn. But in those days there was no railroad in Nova Scotia, everything was shipped via sailing ship from the many coastal ports.

The North Mountain was economically important because of all its ports, even farmers in the rich Valley below had to bring their produce up the Mountain to have it shipped out to the world. The railroad put an end to that, and the railroad was built as part of the deal that brought Nova Scotia into Confederation. Nova Scotia never saw economic good times again, becoming part of Canada was not the best thing that ever happened here.

A number of families in the Harbour have links with New Brunswick. Baxters and McCulleys are also found in the Kennebecasis Valley of NB. They sailed there from the Harbour, going up the Saint John river and then the Kennebecasis as far as the tide would allow them, and then settled there.

In 1956 the population of Baxter's Harbour was 112 souls. Today it is ???

If you can add to this or correct it please let us know!