





Come visit Thursday, Friday, Saturday from 10 am, to 4 pm.
Regular monthly meetings will resume again starting on Tuesday September 19, 2023.
CCGS will be visiting with Bill Snowden.
Bill has kindly offered to host CCGS on a tour of the Pickering Snowden home circa 1832 in Woodpoint, New Brunswick. Pickering`s daughter Cynthia who married James Clarke from Minudie lived in the house in the 1840`s.
Bill spent many hours restoring the house and has also used one room as a museum of Woodpoint
artifacts.
We hope you will join us on this wonderful escape into the past.
Details as follows:
Meet up at 6:45 at Bill`s home at 415 Hwy 935, Woodpoint, NB.
(If you would like to carpool with someone please call your favourite driver and make those
arrangements)
Need further directions please contact me ``thereids@ns.sympatico.ca`` or ask Google.
Meetings are always open to the public, so please come join your local family Genealogical Society, which has been serving Cumberland County for the past 22 years. Research your heritage and find new relatives. Learn about what times your grandparents lived through, where, when, how, education, religion, occupations, etc.
Much more has been added to our collections during the time of COVID shutdown. Please come and do research from our vast expanding collection.
Email: "archives@ccgsns.com" or Call: 902-661-7278
We are looking forward to seeing you once again.
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“Crackie”
The $umner Family Business Dynasty
A publication 1986, by author John Edward Belliveau.
Price: $15.00 + (shipping and handling is extra)
8″ X 5½”, 192 page of print & photos.
ISBN 0-88999-315-7
In this book, he is called “a local tycoon who might have been a Morgan or a Vanderbilt.” Frederick William Sumner was first mayor of the incorporated City of Moncton, and if he was a colorful, pugnacious millionaire his father was an even more striking personality. People called him “Crackie” because William Hunt Tyler Sumner was a Yankee trader who came from Maine and founded a family business dynasty, still controlled by the family after five generations.
This book is about such people as “Crackie” who ran a plaster works, started a general store, built ships and railroad lines and sold everything from telegraph poles to chinaware. While his son “F.W.” became a power in the province, another son was an exotic character who “never did any work but just moseyed around” and wound up on the coast of China. The Sumner family has been in North America since 1636 and produced many notable individuals but none more intriguing than the generations who have matched a city’s every step as it grew from a shipyard to a metropolitan community. It could well be called “The Sumner Saga.”