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d'Entremont, Isabelle Marie
d'Entremont, Isabelle Marie · Person · 1929-2006

Fille d’Oscar William d'Entremont et d’Anne Àrtenise d'Entremont. Elle fut née le 5 mai 1920 à Pubnico Ouest le Bas. Le 29 Octobre 1956, elle s’est mariée à Austin William d’Entremont.
Ils avaient trois enfants : Aubrey, Chesley et Victoria.

Isabelle avait une passion pour l’art, la culture et l’histoire. Elle était fière de son héritage Acadien.
Elle était un peintre accompli.
Isabelle était un membre de Les Dames de Sainte Anne ; La Société Historique de Pubnico Ouest et la Société d'art de Yarmouth.
Elle a écrit dans le livre « Récollection du Passé à Pubnico ».
Elle est morte le 12 septembre 2009 à l’hôpital de Yarmouth.

Dennis, Agnes
microfilm reel 10,219 · Person · 1859-1947

Agnes Miller was born 11 April 1859 at Truro, N.S., the daughter of Alexander and Sarah (Archibald) Miller. She attended Truro's Model and Normal Schools and taught at the Model School for two years prior to her marriage in 1878 to William Dennis, later owner and publisher of the Halifax Herald and senator. The couple had four sons and six daughters. Dennis began her public work in 1903, serving as president of the Halifax Victorian Order of Nurses for forty-three years. She was also a charter member and president of the Halifax Local Council of Women, 1905-1920, and executive member of its national council. Through the LCW, she assisted in organizing the Nova Scotia Provincial Red Cross Society and served as president, 1914-1920. Other organizations in which she actively participated include the Women's Auxiliary, YMCA 1910-1921, Halifax Relief Committee, Canadian Council of Immigration of Women, and Nova Scotia Provincial Girl Guides. She was also president of Halifax Herald Limited. Dennis received several national and international awards for her achievements including the Belgian Order of Queen Elizabeth (1919), Commander of the British Empire (CBE, 1934), King's Silver Jubilee Medal (1935) and honourary degrees from Acadia (MA, 1920) and Dalhousie (LLD, 1940). She died at Halifax on 21 April 1947.

MacMillan, A.S.
microfilm reel 10,893 · Person · 1870-1955

Alexander Stirling MacMillan, contractor, builder, lumberman, and politician, was born 31 October 1870 at Upper South River, Antigonish Co., N.S., the son of Allan and Euphemia Ann (Gunn) MacMillian. He was president of Fundy Construction Co. and held varous public offices including MLA for Digby Co., 1928-1933; Hants Co., 1933-1945; House of Assembly opposition leader, 1931-1933; member of Legislative Council, 1928; and minister of highways and public works, 1925-1933. MacMillan served as premier of Nova Scotia from 10 July 1940 to 8 September 1945. He was also provincial secretary 1940-1945, chairman of the Highways Board and the Nova Scotia Power Commission, and active in several civic organizations including the North British Society. He died 7 August 1955 at Halifax.

Corporate body

The Acadian Factory was a general wood working business located at Sainte-Anne-du-Ruisseau, Nova Scotia. It specialized in the fabrication of sashes, doors and windows, but also did minor carpentry work. The factory was established by Sylvain Pothier, who also worked as a shoemaker in the area. Locally, the factory was known as "La shop à Sylvain à Michel."

Person

Le Père Henri Semery arriva à la paroisse de Pubnico-Ouest le 23 septembre (1909) au soir, avec sa mère (Constance E. Guirard), sa soeur (Mme. Zélie Clément) et son neveu. Natif de France, il était le fils de Henri Semery. Il se fit Spiritain de la Congrégation du Saint-Esprit. Il semble qu'il fit ses etudes théologiques à la maison des Spiritains de Beauvais, department d'Oise, près de Paris. Il vint a Canada et fait deux ou trois ans de ministère ailleurs dans l'archidiocèse d'Halifax. Il partit de Pubnico-Ouest vers la fin de 1920 et s'en alla dans le Maine, quand il devint curé de la paroisse Notre-Dame de la Paix, à Berwick. C'est là qu'il est décédé en 1945.

Family

André LeBlanc was born in Middle East Pubnico, Nova Scotia on June 12, 1823. On May 1st, 1855, André married Marie Anne Pothier, who was born in Ste. Anne du Ruisseau in 1832. They had 12 children. Their third son Louis Léander, who was born on June 23, 1861, married Rose Magdeleine Amirault on January 16, 1899. Louis Léander, who was also known as Sny, and his family lived with his parents and the house was intended to be passed on to him. Louis Léander and Rose had five children. On Rose's death in 1967, the property was passed on to her son, Louis J. (Louis Sny) LeBlanc. None of the five children ever married. André LeBlanc's son Rudolph, also has records in this fonds along with Evelyn Esther LeBlanc, daughter of Rose and Louis Leander.

Amirault, Françes Marie
Person · 1919-2015

Françes Marie Belliveau was born on November 25, 1919 in Middle East Pubnico. She was the daughter of Louis-Francois Belliveau and Clémentine (Amirault). On November 4, 1944 Françes married Paul Francois Amirault in Middle East Pubnico. They had four children: Paul, Blanche, Evelyn and Simone. Françes` husband Paul died on January 12, 1973.

Person

Adelbert Laurie d'Eon was born in Middle West Pubnico, Nova Scotia on May 6, 1912. He was the son of Jacques “Alfred” and Anne “Francoise” d'Eon. On November 4, 1947 he married Rose Marie d'Entremont. Adelbert died in 2003 on the 2nd day of March and his wife died in 2007, on the 23rd day of February. Adelbert had a few businesses from the nineteen twenties to the nineteen nineties. His first job was running a press at a local canning factory. Then he drove passengers and managed to get a franchise to operate a passenger bus service from Pubnico to Yarmouth. Adelbert built his bus shop “Middle West Pubnico Bus Builders”, a local manufacturer of buses. This company would take truck chassis and convert them to buses. Over the years the bus shop was enlarged twice and the doors had to be made higher and wider as the buses and trucks kept getting bigger. During the war years the business flourished. At its peak they employed 21 people and they operated taxies and passenger buses at the same time; Adelbert d'Eon drove a bus to Yarmouth for 35 years. West Pubnico Bus Builders meant quality so they would get orders for milk trucks, bread trucks, vans, fire trucks, and shopmobiles. In the mid 1940's, he went into the restaurant business opening up the Red Cap Diner with his cousin. Later adding cabins and converting an old house into a motel that they named La Baronnie Motel.

Corporate body · 1857-1891

The office of Commissioner of Public Records, responsible for "examining, preserving and arranging ancient records and documents illustrative of the history and progress of society in this Province" was created by Lieutenant-Governor Sir Gaspard Le Marchant on 29 May 1857. The office lapsed on the death of its first and only incumbent, Thomas Beamish Akins, in 1891. In May 1899 Premier G.H. Murray, in his capacity as Provincial Secretary, responsible for preserving "the archives, registers and records of the Government and Province...," appointed the curator of the Provincial Museum, Harry Piers, deputy keeper of the public records, in indirect succession to Akins. The post of deputy keeper endured until February 1931, when it was superseded by that of archivist of Nova Scotia (Provincial Archivist).

Hall, William, 1829-1904
Person · 1829-1904

Born 25 April 1829 at Horton Bluff, N.S., William Nelson Hall served as able seaman on HMS Rodney during the Crimean War and HMS Shannon during the Indian Mutiny. He received the Victoria Cross, two Crimean War medals, and the Indian Mutiny Medal. In 1876 he returned to Canada and lived in Avonport, N.S. until his death on 25 August 1904. In 1945, Hall's grave was moved from Lockhartville to Hantsport, where a memorial cairn was erected on 9 November 1947.