CHANCE HARBOUR
New Brunswick
Canada
Maces Bay Cemetery Corp
100th Anniversary Observance
11 Jul 2009
At the Cemetery, then a reception
At Fundy Senior’s Hall, Maces Bay
100th Anniversary Observance
On April 22, 1909 Delia E Jones was buried in the Raspberry Hill cemetery later to become known as the Maces Bay Cemetery, becoming the first person to be buried in our cemetery. To mark the 100th anniversary of this event, the Directors are planning to hold a memorial service on July 11th, 2009 at the cemetery, followed by a reception at the Fundy Seniors’ Hall. Suggestions being considered include: a brief all faiths memorial service; a guided tour of family plots in the cemetery; an historical poster display at the Hall with refreshments provided by the seniors. Your comments and suggestions would be appreciated in order to ensure that this anniversary is a memorable day for all descendants. Please contact Norma at 506 693 7885 with any ideas you may have.
Gary Corscadden
Chairman
Maces Bay Cemetery Corporation
See full text of the above notice
Chance Harbour is a small fishing village on the New Brunswick coast of the Bay of Fundy less than an hour’s drive from border of the United States with Canada at St Stephens, NB and Calais, Me. It is half an hour by car from Chance Harbour east into the City of Saint John.
The village was initially settled by Daniel and Mabel Belding, United Empire Loyalists from New Haven, Ct, when they and their family moved here in 1805 after spending their first 20 years following the end of the Revolutionary War in Saint John. In mid century, Irish immigrants came to the village by marrying Belding ladies – Robert Thompson, James Tiner, twins George and John Hargrove and Jarvis Mawhinney – although one married a Scot, Alexander Hepburn, and another married Carleton Cottle, another Loyalist descendant whose family patriarch, the formidable preacher Deacon Nathanial Cottle, hailed from Martha’s Vineyard.
Today there are about 250 people living in the village in the area between Jarvis Hill and the Moose Creek Bridge – most being descendants of Daniel and Mabel Belding. Fishing is still the occupation of the villagers although many now work in St John or at the nuclear generating station at Point Lepreau. There are also many members of the family that have emigrated to elsewhere in Canada and the States and other places around the world.
The links will be to other pages that tell the story of the people of the village. More pages will be added as time goes by so check back if the village story interests you.
Pamela Wood Waugh of Orlando is a descendant of Daniel Belding. For the past 25 years, she has balanced children, marriage and a career while undertaking a massive inquiry into her family genealogy of which the Daniel Belding portion is a smallish, yet important part. Her impressive work is the underlying foundation on which this site rests and is definitive in all matters of Daniel Belding and Mabel Bristol genealogy. She is owed a major debt of gratitude for bringing the past of the Belding family, and its connection to the present, back into focus See her Daniel Belding family tree by clicking this link, “Loyalist” If you wish to contact her, you can do so by email.
Links to other pages in this site
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The Crown Grant courtesy Clifford Hargrove |
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Chance Harbour in the News 1784 - 1900 |
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Updated Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Harry MacDonald
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