Preface to the Online Scrapbook

Local history has always been fascinating for me. Coming to Harvey in 1954 offered the challenge of archiving the history of a community which was settled in 1837 by people who had migrated from the same part of eastern Borders between England and Scotland.

Attempts to form a local history club never succeeded until 1989 when we unofficially formed the "Harvey Historical Association".

My focus was to find families who had made, and kept up-to-date, scrapbooks. We borrowed them, photocopies them and preserved them in a filing system. From these and other sources (personal visitation) I began writing articles of an historical nature for a local newspaper published by Fred Baxter. Later the Harvey Lion Newsletter asked me to write similar articles for them. The local public response to these articles was very positive and inspired publication of 12 more Harvey-area family genealogies.

This outcome pleases me greatly for I have always been a firm supporter of the following concept "what we shall some day become will grow inexorably out of what today we are, and what we are now, in its turn, comes out of what our early ancestors were; out of what they did and thought and dreamed and hoped for" (spoken at the Roanoke Island Historical Commission 1958 -- author unknown).

I hope that you enjoy these articles reprinted here as much as I enjoyed researching and writing them.

Rev. Dr. William "Bill" Randall,
Fredericton, New Brunswick,
August, 2005

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An Interview with Harry Cleghorn, Tweedside, 1973 FROM THE AUDIO SCRAPBOOK by Rev. Dr. William Randall Excerpts from taped audio interview, 1973.

An Interview with Hazen Patterson, Tweedside, 1989 FROM THE AUDIO SCRAPBOOK by Rev. Dr. William Randall Excerpts from taped audio interview, 1989.

Dr. Jamieson (1920-1986) – A Man Who Cares FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, January, 1993

A Painful Happy Corners School Incident, Cecil MacLean, Early 1900's FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, February, 1993

Descendants of Nicholas Lister (1796-1869 & Margaret Heughan (1801-1846) FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, April, 1993

A Fire at the Davis Store, Harvey, 1931 FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, May, 1993

Descendants of John Carmichael (1799-1879) & Margaret Hume (1805-1870) FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, June, 1993

A Magaguadavic Lake Excursion With Allen Hood, July 1993 FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, July, 1993

You Can Lead a Horse to Water..., Moulton Libbey, Brockway, 1904 FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, August, 1993

The Treasure of Indian Lookout, Lower Southhampton, 1934 FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, September, 1993

The Settlement of Cork, 1842 FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, October, 1993

Dan Dowling's Devil Tree, Brockway, 1860's FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, November, 1993

Cork Settlement School, 1905 FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, December, 1993

A New School and Church: Harvey Station, September, 1886 FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, January, 1994

Bob Hannington on his Beloved Brockway, 1974 FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, August, 1994

How the Manzer's Came to Harvey, 1911 FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Guest Contributor - Helen C. Craig Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, April, 1995

A Fishing Expedition to Kedron Lake, 1939 FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, April, 1996

The Disruption and Presbyterians in Harvey, 1840's FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, December, 1996

Don't Take the Preacher for Granted, 1869 FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, May, 1997

Don Messer Dies at 63 - March 26, 1973 FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, January, 1998

The Saxby Gale of 1869 FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, August, 1998

Inez Davis and the King of Siam, late 1920's FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, December, 1998

The Glendinning Family of Harvey, 1862 FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, January, 1999

An Upstanding Citizen and Businessman: John Taylor of Tweedside, 1852 FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, February, 1999

Harvey High School Winter Carnival, 1981 FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, March, 1999

Playing the Organ: Country Style FROM THE SCRAPBOOK by Dr. William Randall Reprinted from The Harvey Lionews, April, 1999