General Meeting of the Society

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Bill C.

The Old Beaver River and Port Maitland Cemeteries Preservation Society will be having a General Meeting on November 21, 2011 at the Port Maitland Fire Hall at 7 p.m.
The General Meeting is open to all members, and new members may join at the meeting – All interested people are welcome !

One of the items that will be talked about will be the Society’s new website and logo. The executive has looked at two possible logos to use for the Society, and would like to hear from people either by e-mail (send messages to oldstones@billcurry.ca ) or in person at the meeting.
The two logos being considered are stylized versions of a Willow tree, a symbol which is fairly unique, but also widely used in our cemeteries. The images are a representation of those symbols such as are found on Abial Crosby’s stone in the Founder’s Cemetery.

The two images are: (click on either for a larger view)

a.)

b.)

Let us hear from you as to which you prefer…
See you in November!

August events

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Bill C.

Fun With Old Photos, Silent Auction and Potluck Saturday, 20 August 6 to 9 pm: Port Maitland Fire Hall

Admission is free. If you have some old local photos of people or places (Sandford, Richmond, Beaver River, Lake George, Port Maitland area) we can borrow to scan for this event or have an item to donate to the Silent Auction (bids start at $10) get in touch with Wilfred Allan: wilfredallan@me.com 649-2006.

Who are these people? Where and when was this taken?

Come join the fun: your questions about these and many more photos will be answered August 20

Sponsored by The Old Beaver River and Port Maitland Cemeteries Preservation Society web site: www.oldstones.ca

For more information, click the link below….

August Events Poster

Cemetery Tour and Strawberry Social

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Bill C.

Tour of the historic

Founders and Free Will Baptist Cemeteries in Beaver River

Sunday, 24 July 2011 2 to 3:30 pm (arrive early for parking)

rain or shine—starts at the Free Will Baptist Cemetery

The tour will be conducted by Squire John Crawley who will leave his burial plot in the Chebogue Burying Ground where he has been resting since April 1806. He knew some of the folks buried in these cemeteries. There might be some gossip.

immediately followed by a

strawberry social

Port Maitland Fire Hall

Free Admission to both events donations appreciated

Sponsored by the Old Beaver River and Port Maitland Cemeteries Preservation Society www.oldstones.ca

Historical documents of the Society

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Bill C.

We are in the pricess of digitizing some of our archival material about the society as well as the cemeteries themselves. Below are three documents about the Society’s beginnings.

The first is the founding meeting announcement, the second an editorial in the Yarmouth Vanguard Newspaper from August, 1999 and the third is a feature article in the Vanguard published a week earlier, in July of 1999.