Item
St. Croix Courier
Jan 11/1951
Shiretown Items: increasing traffic has made it harder to keep St. Andrews streets in good repair. Repeated layers of "asphalt" (tar) to keep dust down proving insufficient.
St. Croix Courier
Feb 6, 1951
Shiretown Items
Dr. Gordon Higgins, (above) has been awarded a fellowship in New England Deaconness Hospital, Boston. Dr. Higgins is the youngest son of Mrs. Georgia and the later Herbert Higgins, of St. Andrews. He received his degree in medicine last May at Dalhousie University, Halifax, and is at present interning at the Saint John General Hospital. The fellowship is for three years and is worth $1800 in cash. Dr. Higgins will be working under Dr. H. F. Root and his associates, who are recognized as world authorities in the study of diabetes. His appointment begins July 1, 1951.
St. Croix Courier
Feb 22/1951
Shiretown Items: Barbara Ann coming to St. Andrews again. March 26 and 27. Only appearance in Maritimes this year. "The redoubtable, unpredictable and amusing Dick Nutter will be here again."
St. Croix Courier
March 1/1951
Shiretown items
I have been interested in looking over the remains of an issue of the St. Andrews Courant for "God and the People," dated Feb. 3, 1832. It was found by Ted Johnston wrapped around a beam in a shed he was tearing down on the property recently purchased by Hon. C. D. Howe. The paper was in so a ragged and worn condition as to make an intelligent study impossible. By vote of the Legislative Assembly a member was expelled for libel. He was editor of the Advocate and evidently held his seat in opposition to the government. In St. Andrews Thomas Sime had just received an assortment of ladies' boots with cork soles. Another haberdasher had four cases of gentlemen's fashionable WP hats, whatever they might be, and some ladies' prunella shoes. "Prunella" so my dictionary states, is a smooth woolen stuff. They would be grand for the sleigh rides of those far-off days.
St. Croix Courier
March 8/1951
W. L. Williamson, Mayor St. Andrews. urges building of tourist bureau in St. Stephen. "It is the wholesome sea which established at St. Andrews one of Canada's most favored summer resorts, and gave to Grand Manan, Campobello, and Deer Island those attractions which tourists seek in recreational centers."
Noted St. Stephen chief motor gateway of Eastern Canada: 150,000 visitors last year; 42,000 tourist cars, increase of 2,000 over previous year (1949).
St. Croix Courier
March 23, 1951
Samuel Worrell of Saint John has been a recent guest of his brother, Dr. J. F. Worrell.
[he has had a hemorrhage, probably]
St. Croix Courier
March 29/1951
Review of Scott's show in St. Andrews.
St. Croix Courier
April 19/1951
Stuart-McBride store opens in St. Andrews. Occupies former Jack and Jill store, Water Street.
Rural Cemetery Burial
Dr. J. F. Worrell, Dentist
Age 74
Lot 122B
May 5, 1951
St. Croix Courier
May 10/1951
Dr. J. F. Worrell Claimed by Death in St. Andrews. Photo. History of column.
The death of Dr. James Frederick Worrell, dentist and a former mayor of St. Andrews, occurred at this home on Montague Street in the early hours of Thursday, May 3, after a recurrence of an old illness which had confined him to bed for several weeks.
Dr. Worrell for many years past had written one of the most widely read features of The Saint Croix Courier, a column of news and comment brightened by his keen sense of humor, insight into human nature and broad knowledge of many fields of learning. His last column was published March 8.
A native of Charlotte County, he was a son of the late Robert and Martha (McCartney) Worrell and received his education at the Charlotte County Grammar School here and the Provincial Normal School in Fredericton. After graduating he taught in the public schools of the Province for a number of years.
Later he studied dentistry at the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery where he graduated with honors in 1909, and returning home opened practice in St. Andrews which he had carried on for more than 40 years.
Dr. Worrell was formerly a member of the St. Andrews Town Council and served for five and one-half years as mayor, but there were few community interests in which he did not have a hand. He was a member of St. Marks' Lodge, FAM, vice-president of the Men's Club, a member and former officer of Wesley United Church, a leading spirit in the St. Andrews Band, and active in the Knights of Pythias. He was in addition a sports enthusiast who played basketball and other games when a youth and in later years became a keen follower of hockey and baseball. Well versed in nature study, he loved the out-of-doors.
No citizen could have been more enthusiastically loyal to the community and all its activities; he loved St. Andrews, was proud of it, and was tireless in his efforts to promote what he considered its best interests. Dr. Worrell is survived by his wife, formerly Miss Charlotte Hartt, a daughter of the late T. A. Hartt of St. Andrews, a member of parliament for Charlotte County in past years, and Mrs. Hartt; a son, Donald Worrell; a brother, Dr. S. A. Worrell, retired superintendent of schools of Saint John ; and a granddaughter, Mary [this is Mary Furlong, 830 Wildflower Court, Oshawa, ON L1G 7Z4, mary.furlong@interlink.net] [see p68 in CCARchives pictures for Charlotte Worrrell's side of the family, including Thomas A. Hartt] An only sister, Mrs. R. D. Rigby, died in 1942. (desc of funeral service)
News Notes of St. Andrews
A Farewell Tribute to Dr. J. F. Worrell
[each section below is from a separate contributor]
In the early hours before the dawn of Thursday, May 3, while most of the world was sleeping, there passed from the life of this community one whose place can never be filled.
Dr. J. F. Worrell, more affectionately known as "Doc," and the author of Shiretown Items, went quietly and peacefully to his eternal reward. Sincere sorrow was felt by the people of St. Andrews at his passing and keen regret over his loss will be expressed by the unnumerable friends in far flung places of the land, when the sad news reaches them in the columns of this week's Courier.
Shiretown Items was the column through which the genial Doctor made a host of friends far and near, and the news items contained in his column were extremely interesting, not only to the many who summer here, but especially to all former residents who will always claim St. Andrews their home.
His desire to help others became evident in early life when Dr. Worrell entered teaching for a time. Apart from devoting much of his time to his family and his chosen profession, dentistry, Dr. Worrell followed up many ambitions to the fullest extent.
Endowed with a rugged physique, he excelled in many forms of athletics. Probably his greatest achievement along these lines was his basketball prowess when he was a star of the famous St. Andrews Shamrock teams in the early nineteen hundreds. These teams were acclaimed superior to all clubs in Eastern Canada and the New England States at that time.
Baseball, golf, track and gymnastics found him at his best. His love for baseball never diminished even to the last. He became an extremely ardent hockey fan in the later years of his life when that sport developed in St. Andrews. It can be truthfully said he was the staunchest supporter of the movement which built the two arenas here and installed artificial ice. To the Senators down through the years he endeared himself as their most loyal friend.
A great lover of the outdoors, he was a recognized authority on bird life and wild flowers as well as delving more than lightly into astrology. [sic]
Dr. Worrell was exceptionally well read on many subjects and possessed a keen intellect and a mind given to serious thoughts. Often he could be found enjoying the engrossing game of chess, at which he was a past master.
Taking an active part in civic affairs, he filled the office of alderman and mayor for a number of years, during which time he lent untiring energy and thoughts to many efforts which would benefit his fellow citizens and prove a betterment to his beloved St. Andrews. Music, too, was in his soul. He was fond of the classics as well as the old songs and ballads that never grow old. An accomplished violinist and pianist, he was also a baritone player of the first order in the St. Andrews Band, of which he was a lifetime member.
The St. Andrews Band of today owes its existence to Dr. Worrell. In the late years of the First World War the Band was composed of men who were nearing the time of retirement. Sensing this situation, he undertook the training of a number of young boys, then in their teens, to become future bandsmen. Many long and tiresome hours were spent in the process by the ever patient and understanding Doctor, but his efforts were finally rewarded. In three or four years these young boys succeeded the older men, who gradually dropped out. Some of those boys have moved away, others have passed on to the next world. Those who remain now form the nucleus of the present band.
As a parting tribute to the memory of the late Dr. Worell, beloved teacher and friend, may we the boys of the band, express to his sorrowing family our feeling of sincere gratitude for his teaching and guidance and for the realization that life has been more complete and more deeply appreciated by us all for having known him so well. May he rest in peace.
Carrying On
Realizing that the splendid efforts of the late Dr. Worrell in writing a weekly column gave untold pleasure to its many readers at home and abroad, we will endeavor, for the time being, in our own way to continue under a new heading the good work, which as many of you may not realize, was first started by Dr. Worrel's son Donald. Illness forced Don to give up this work and his father then took up the task and continued on down through the years. It is only fitting that our first offering should be a last farewell to the late Dr. Worrell and it is with this thought in mind that we have contributed this simple tribute which heads this column. Our work will not, by any means reach the high degree of excellence attained by our predecessor, nor will there be any scholarly dissertations such as he was quite capable of giving. Rather, we shall try to report and comment on only such events and incidents that may prove of some interest and pleasant reading to those with enduring memories.
Calais Briefs
One who Loved His Fellowmen
For several days I've been trying to think of the right words to describe my sense of loss in the death of my good friend, Dr. Worrell. His passing was a shock to me in spite of the fact that we realized that he was a sick man and that his malady was one that might prove fatal. We saw little of each other in the flesh, but his column each week brought him near to me and I felt his kindly, vital presence as I read the words wrought by his facile pen. As the clergyman who officiated so simply yet so effectively at his funeral eservices said, "He was a man of parts." He had a gift bestowed on few persons of expressing himself in writing and his passional love of his native town and his country, his friendliness for people and his affection for all Gods' creatures as evinced in his stories of birds and other forms of wild life were revealed in the items he penned from week to week for the Courier. Our friendly wrangles on sports that were a source of amusement and entertainment to many readers are no more now. We probably enjoyed them as much as anybody who read them. I know that this column was soften the first thing I read in the paper each week. Now that the opportunity is past I will always regret not having seen more of him and talked with him more. His was a mellow philosophy of life although I am sure his own lot had been charged with its share of vicissitudes and sorrows. His bereaved widow and other relative have my deepest sympathy. They may find consolation in the knowledge that his Creator will deal generously with man who found so much that was lovable and endearing in his fellow men and the life with which God blessed him.
St. Croix Courier
May 24/1951
Cottage Craft Founder Honored by UNew Brunswick. History of achievements.
News Notes: History of Cockburn's drugstore.
St. Croix Courier
May 31/1951
News Notes: No Sunday Train.
For many years St. Andrews has been probably one of the few, if not the only town off the main railroad line, which has enjoyed the privilege of a Sunday train. This service was inaugurated originally for the convenience of summer residents and guests of the Algonquin Hotel. Due to plane travel and the fact that most people from Montreal would rather have their own cars or taxis meet them at McAdam, the Sunday train seems to have outlived its usefulness. Many of us remember when we had two passenger trains a day. The automobile and the busses came on the scene and two trains became unprofitable. One was taken off the schedule, probably never to return, and now we are to lose the Sunday train. It may too become only a memory unless pressure from the right quarter is brought to bear on the powers that be.
St. Croix Courier
June 7/1951
Famous St. Andrews hotel Improved. Algonquin will welcome over 1,700 delegates to June conventions. (Update on renovations. E. C. Fitt behind changes.)
"Convention City" is a name that could be given to the swank Algonquin Hotel at St. Andrews through June this year, when more than 1,700 convention delegates will have passed through the doors of this famous ocean resort hotel.
A special CPR train from Montreal will bring about 350 delegates to the annual meeting of the Canadian Electrical Association from June 17 to 21. Other conventions at the Algonquin Hotel include Maritime Hospital Association, June 4-9; Dominion brewers Association, June 10-14; New Brunswick Automobile Dealers, June 14-17; Nb Barristers' Society, June 21-23; Toilet Goods Manufacturers Association of Canada, June 27-29; Maritime Retail Lumber Dealers, Sept. 1-2; Nb Medical Society, Sept. 5-8.
Many changes at the hotel are in store for these Canadian businesspeople and the thousands of summer tourists who make the Canadian Pacific's Algonquin the social centre of St. Andrews summer activity.
Biggest change is the $75,000 outlay to give improved water service to the hotel and to St. Andrews. At present, CPR engineers are supervising the laying of more than 8,500 feet of the latest in pipe from Chamcook Lake to the pumping station, replacing the cast iron pipe which has been carrying the water for some years.
Ten bathrooms in pastel colors have been added to hotel rooms with the tiling supplied by a Saint John firm. A completely new refrigeration system for kitchen and room service ahs been installed, replacing the old brine method.
E. C. Fitt, the Algonquin's new manager, who is responsible for most of these changes, takes particular pride in the construction of a new tea house on the beach at the Hotel's Katy's Cove. Here guests and visitors may relax over afternoon tea, and enjoy the activity on the beach through wide picture windows.
The tea house is so constructed that children using the beach may enjoy the comforts of a snack bar without passing through the main foyer of the fashionable tea-house. Mr. Fitt has also had additional tops of sand deposited to improve the beach sea wall.
Back in the hotel, all suites have been repainted in pastel shades as well as many bedrooms. The outside of the 230-room hotel has been re-painted and the gravel driveway leading to it has been repaved. The famous casino, playhouse for its guests, has been renovated and old guests will see a decided improvement. Most important, Tony Didier, the famous chef with a flair for sea-food dishes, is back to head up a crack kitchen staff. Mr. Fitt, a westerner, who has already taken St. Andrews to his heart for its scenery and possibilities, thinks other New Brunswickers should treat themselves to an outing there, even if it's only for Sunday dinner. He's confident they will come back for another helping of Algonquin atmosphere.
St. Croix Courier
June 14/1951
Drawing showing proposed addition to Prince Arthur School. Floor plans various pages.
St. Croix Courier
June 21/1951
Promo for CC Tourism—for St. Andrews. "True it is that the hotels are comparatively small, in some of the towns, with the exception of the famous Algonquin Hotel at St. Andrews, but the honey atmosphere of the Queen, Dover Hill Inn, and the Park at St. Stephen, the Commodore and Seaside Inn at St. Andrews, the Murray House and others at SG, and the Harbourview and others at Black's Harbour, is something different—something discerning guests appreciate."
News Notes: new 10 inch pipeline from Chamcook to CPR pumping station will not be in operation until Sept. 8-inch pipe installed in 1921 inadequate, but bad weather last year delayed new construction. Average use 60 gallons per person per day. At 2,500 persons in summer, total equals 150,000. Reservoir capacity 250,000.
Grade 12 being added to High School curriculum. No graduation this year.
Firemen's banquet held at O'Neill's diningroom. Table decorations lilacs in old leather buckets used by firemen way back. History of dept. related by members.
St. Croix Courier
June 28/1951
News Notes: Kiwanis to distribute tourist booklets on St. Andrews; goal to place one in every car coming into Charlotte County at some point on 1 highway.
St. Croix Courier
July 5/1951
Combined tourist bureau and Motor Vehicle Branch to be built on King St. in St. Andrews this year. Public pressure will probably keep liquor store out of complex. Plebiscite votes against building new school.
St. Croix Courier
July 5/1951
First big rush as far as summer tourists were concerned was experienced last weekend. Vehicle traffic was extremely heavy on St. Stephen/St. Andrews highway, Sat-Mon, and all tourist homes, overnight cabins, and some hotels were filled to overflowing.
St. Croix Courier
July 5/1951
Algonquin Hotel Offers Wide Range of Summer Entertainment. (Photos of Hotel, Katy's Cove, diningroom. Column. 230 rooms, American plan. See continuation page 14. No. 2. Good update on amenities. Sounds like a Fitt ad)
A hotel with its own sand beach on a captive ocean arm, its separate entertainment casino for dancing and sports and its own organization for deep sea and freshwater fishing—is the Algonquin, a charming half-timbered hostelry in the international resort town of St. Andrews. Just over the border of Maine in Canada's seaside province of New Brunswick, it is only overnight from the two big cites of Boston and Montreal. It is located on Passamaquoddy Bay, where Campobello Island attracted the late President Franklin Roosevelt and his family for many years. A property of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, it is one of the company's chain of 14 major hotels and five bungalow camps across the country.
This 230-room house, one of the most pleasant resort hostelries on the continent, is run exclusively on the American plan. Here folks with young children can count on a carefree holiday. Competent, trained personnel will care for them in a specially built playground from 10 to 5 and attractive inside quarters are set aside in case it rains. The children have their own dining room.
Features at the Algonquin are four red clay tennis courts, the usual minor sports on the hotel's lawns and two golf courses—an 18-hole championship layout by Stanley Thompson, widely known Scottish Canadian golf architect and another nine-hole practice course.
Music everywhere might be the byword at the Algonquin, for the hotel caters to the family trade and there are concerts every noon and evening in the colonial-style music room and an orchestra plays for dancing every evening in the casino. The orchestra also plays for several hours a day on the Algonquin's private umbrella-studded beach and swimmers can perform to music while the sunners just let it lull them.
Devoted exclusively to the pleasure of the Algonquin guests is Katy's Cove, an arm of Passamaquoddy Bay, itself a part of the Bay of Fundy. Here a considerable reach of the bay has been dammed at the opening by a causeway—the railway trestle—where trains which look toys in the distance amuse observant guests. A sluice gate has been built into the causeway and the tide is allowed to bring in fresh water from the open bay as desired, but it allows the water to remain at beach level and sun-warmed, without regard to semi-daily ebb and flow.
The beach is a few minutes' walk through pine woods or by road and has been maintained by yearly deposit of freight car-load after freight car-load of sand on an otherwise rocky shore; another advantage of being "railway-owned." There are ample dressing rooms, attendants and a tea-room, not to speak of the orchestra, and guests may spend the whole day on the beach if they wish. Diving-rafts and floats and other beach-gear are on hand. There is also sailing in protected coves and the open bay.
Set across the hotel lawns from the main building is the Casino, near enough to be handy, and far enough away so that, as is unfortunately not the case at all summer resorts—those who want to sleep can do so. Bowlers can enjoy their favourite sport on four alleys; there are billiards and ping-pong and other games, all in the basement, and a fine hardwood floor for dancing. There are gala nights from time to time, and "horse racing" regularly before the dancing, as well as movies.
The hotel provides high-class metropolitan service, with a friendly atmosphere abetted by the number of college students who work as waitresses and bell-boys and in other such jobs; and the comfortable colonial-style fireplaces, nooks and furnishings.
While it is a center of an exclusive summer colony, the Algonquin is also equipped to offer perhaps the greatest variety of fishing in one immediate area anywhere in the world. A half-hour from the hotel, deep-sea fishing parties can drop a line into Passamaquoddy Bay and bring in haddock, cod and pollock and the silvery smelt. In the near-by hinterland of New Brunswick, the least settled of Canada's ten provinces, lakes, streams, and pools within a radius of a few minutes to an hour's drive offer everything from land-locked salmon to specked trout. One of the charming nearby spots is Chamcook lake whose mirror-like waters yield togue and lake trout to the fisherman using troll or fly, and other waters offer small-mouth and black bass, sea salmon and rainbow trout.
For the convenience of its own guests, the Algonquin has placed row-boats at many lakes in the surrounding country-side and will also provide an 18-foot sponson canoe, with trailer. The hotel is in a position to provide full information regarding guide service, fishing conditions or rental of equipment.
St. Croix Courier
July 12/1951
News Notes: small Latvian colony establishing itself in St. Andrews.
St. Croix Courier
July 26/1951
Archie Skinner wins New Brunswick/PEI open and pro titles.
St. Croix Courier
Aug 9/1951
Charles St. to honor upcoming visit of Prince Charles and Princess Elizabeth to Canada.
St. Croix Courier
Aug 23/1951
Lord and Lady Shaughnessy guests at Commodore Hotel.
Miss Olive Hosmer's gift to New Hospital: Hosmer Memorial laboratory. "Miss Olive Hosmer of Montreal and St. Andrews (Linden Grange) has recently made a handsome gift to the New Charlotte County Hospital in donating the sum of $8,500 for the construction of the laboratory rooms to be known as the Hosmer Memorial laboratory. In addition she has given the sum of $6,000 for new equipment for the laboratory. This equipment has already been purchased, and when the hospital is in operation, it will have one of the most up-to-date and best-equipped small laboratories in Canada. . . . Further evidence of Miss Hosmer's generosity and interest in the new hospital is her gift last year of $1,000 made during the public subscription campaign."
St. Croix Courier
Aug 30/1951
News Notes: stop signs placed on many intersections in town. "The majority of summer visitors and transient tourists are familiar with stop signs and the proper procedure when they come to one. We have been told that a great many native car owners, however, do not pay any attention to them and as a result people from out of town are complaining bitterly.
With Labour Day near at hand, another holiday season is drawing to a close and one by one the march is on for those fortunate enough to have summer vacations. Soon the exodus will be complete. For the most part business has not been good in all lines. Money seemed to be a scarce commodity this year and many people appeared to be content with spending the necessary dollars for food and lodging. Consequently the novelty and luxury business suffered. . . . One noticeable fact was the absence of many yachts and power launches which usually visit St. Andrews during the summer season and possibly financial reasons had to do with this angle as well.
St. Croix Courier
Aug 30/1951
Piece on whales and how to recognize them. Lt. Gov McLaren and wife returning to Saint John after spending the summer at Algonquin cottage four.
St. Croix Courier
Sept 6/1951
Big dances at Arena, with 11-piece "Blue Barron" providing music. Two vocalists. Trumpeter hot.
News Notes: Men's Club: After having been in three different locations since its founding some years ago by the late Frank Stuart, the Men's Club is soon to have its own permanent home. Work has already been begun on the building, which is situated directly back of the Post Office at the spot where the Public Wharf joins the abutment. The new building measuring 18 by 36 feet over with a 16 foot ceiling, will include a spacious clubroom and an enclosed verandah facing the harbour. The entire building will be insulated for use all winter and the materials used will be the best, it is stated. The contract price is said to be close to $5,000 and already the subscription list of donations by members totals over $1,000. The Men's Club has enjoyed continued prosperity since its beginning and has been a most worthwhile effort on the part of those who keep it going. Many pleasant hours are spent within its confines by men both young and old, who would not have an opportunity to enjoy each other's friendship if it were not for this fine institution. When the new building is ready for occupancy we venture to say that being located back at street level again and so near the Market Wharf, the Club will be more popular than ever.
Possibility figure skating club may be formed in St. Andrews this winter.
St. Croix Courier
Sept 13/1951
News Notes: Women's Club?
Now that a Men's Club quarters are nearing completion and will be ready for occupancy in a couple of weeks, we hear rumours that a Women's Club is to be formed. We are told they have a building plan ready and have gone so far as to pick out a location. It will be opposite the Men's Club on the left hand side of the wharf. The building will be of similar design but all under one roof and will not have patent shingle siding. Distaff doings in the new club will be restricted to knitting and crocheting (no gossip) and Canasta but we have been informed by a reliable source that the real purpose of the Club is to give many of the women a chance to keep an eye on their husbands.
St. Croix Courier
Sept 13/1951
Ice-war between Sonja Henie and Barbara Ann Scott looming. Henie reconsidering retirement.
St. Croix Courier
Sept 20/1951
News Notes
District Nurse Fund contributors—a who's who of summer residents. .
St. Croix Courier
Sept 27/1951
CPR wins appeal on damage suit in Algonquin Pool. The New Brunswick Appeal Court upheld claim of Ann Noell of Ottawa for damages suffered in June, 1949, when she dived into a pool and broke her neck. CP appealed successfully against the New Brunswick Workmen's Compensation Board refusal to pay damages in suit against CPR and Algonquin for $200,000. Noel allotted $3,000 from Compensation Board. Board originally refused on grounds that Noell not performing regular duties when injured. CPR case argued by C. F. Inches, Saint John. Board's case by R. Fraser Winslow, KC, Fredericton. Noell by W. E. Clark, Saint John.
St. Croix Courier
Sept 27/1951
News Notes from St. Andrews
Shortage of Ice: This part of the country is experiencing a severe shortage of storage ice for domestic use. Even with the great number of electric refrigerators in use today large numbers of householders till use natural ice. George Higgins, the local ice merchant, supplies over 150 accounts with block ice during the summer season. During the last month he has been buying up any surplus stock wherever he can find it. Finally he has had to call on the artificial ice plant in Saint John for assistance. With so much ice available in Chamcook Lake in the winter it would seem like a wise move to establish a large icehouse at the lakeside and save the expense of trucking it to town to be stored. In the spring and summer the ice has to be dug out of the sawdust and trucked again to the consumer. By having a storage supply at the lake it could be sluiced into the icehouse easily and then the one trucking and handling would give it to the consumer directly from the lakeside.
Happy Corners—Some little time ago we were asked by Mr. Walter DeWolfe of St. Stephen if we could tell him where "Happy Corners" was located in St. Andrews. It seems that in the year 1819 Mr. DeWolfe ancestors (Stevenson's) came out to this country and spent the night at a house called "Happy Corners." Mr. DeWolfe has this information in a diary. The next day they continued on to St. Stephen and eventually settled there. After making a great many inquired among the older residents of St. Andrews, without success, we have at last been enlightened by Mrs. James Ross. "Happy Corners" was a small house just behind the old Coffee House. Both the Coffee House and Happy Corners were destroyed by the disastrous fire of June 1930. The present home of Frank Henderson is on the site of the old Coffee House. How or why the adjacent building was called Happy Corners remains unknown but Mrs. Ross can vouch for the location of the house as her own family lived in it at one time.
Official Opening Next Week—The new quarters of the Men's Club are expected to have their official opening next week. Just what the plans are for the inaugural have not been made known but there is a rumor that Lt. Gov. D. L. McLaren will be on hand to cut the ribbon and dedicate the new building.
St. Croix Courier
Oct 4/1951
Fourth floor being added to CC Hospital. Photo.
News Notes: at present 7 rinks with artificial ice in province.
St. Croix Courier
Oct 11/1951
Shot of assembly in auditorium of new (Now Middle) school.
St. Croix Courier
Oct 18/1951
Special train to leave St. Andrews Nov. 6 for Fredericton on occasion of Royal Visit, as in 1939.
St. Croix Courier
Oct 25/1951
News Notes: Beacon Press recently installed linotype machine. Previously hand set. Proprietor Eddie Williamson.
Men's Club has Venetian blinds, storm windows, and a new flagpole. Henry McQuoid pres. of St. Andrews arena.
St. Croix Courier
Nov 8/1951
Shiretown IODE hear Dr. Mowatt on English culture.
News Notes: Archie Skinner, pro at Algonquin Club, only Canadian entered at $10,000 North and South Tournament at Pinehurst, NC. Accompanied by H. P. O'Neill, medical advisor, and Robert Cockburn, trainer. When left expected to sleep in car as no accommodation left within 50 miles of links.
St. Croix Courier
Nov 15/1951
News Notes: Tannery Fire. Pottery shop, well known St. Andrews business, in old tannery building on Pagan St. destroyed by fire. Owned by George Jervis of Hartford, Conn.
St. Croix Courier
Nov 15/1951
New School (present Middle School) to be officially opened Friday. Photos. Whole issue devoted to school.
St. Croix Courier
Nov 22/1951
News Notes: Men's Club to be opened Nov. 29 by Lt. Gov McLaren and a 45's match to be played against St. Stephen with McLaren as Captain (45's a long-standing tradition in club, esp. with McLaren)
St. Croix Courier
Dec 6/1951
Lieut.-Gov. D. L. McLaren Opens New Building (Men's Club)
On Thursday evening at 8:00 the new St. Andrews Men's Club was officially opened by Lt.-Gov. D. L. McLaren. He was accompanied by Major William Schofield as aide-de-camp. The Men's Club started Dec. 29, 1944 and was organized by the late Frank Stuart, a native son who returned to reside in St. Andrews after spending a number of years in the US. He was the club's first president.
It is a social club for men only where they enjoy card games, chess, checkers and dominoes, and occasionally engage in friendly tournaments with guests from neighbouring towns. There is always reading material available which has been donated by individuals. The club occupied its first years in the building now owned Thompson's Taxi, later moving to the Handy building and remaining there until this fall when the new club room was erected at the head of Market Wharf on the edge of Memorial Square at the cost of about $5,000.
It is an entirely insulated building 35 by 18 feet with a hip roof, two four-foot picture windows on the harbor side, and a verandah facing the wharf. The outside is finished with white painted clapboards, and the interior of the building is finished with knotty pine. Five ventilators supply plenty of fresh air and there is a washroom and storage room. It has oil heating and fluorescent lighting, Venetian blinds on the windows and awnings on the harbor side. Funds were provided by members, popular subscription and special gifts from some of the honorary members. The membership in this club has rapidly increased and at the present time there are about 43 resident members who pay $1 per month and 73 honorary members at a fee of $1 per season. Among the latter are many summer residents. Included among the gifts to the Men's Club is a Union Jack flag, size three by six feet, a gift from Mrs. Howard Pillow, of St. Andrews and Montreal. Hanging on the walls of the new club room one can see treasured pictures collected through the years, among them autographed photographs presented by the Governor General Viscount "Alexander of Tunis; Lt.-Gov. D. L. McLaren; Hon. C. D. Howe; Sir James Dunn; Dr. H. D. Burns, and Miss Barbara Ann Scott, all of whom have visited the club personally.
St. Croix Courier
Dec 13/1951
Mrs. D. W. McKay succumbs to long illness.
The death of Mrs. Adeline (Storr) MacKay, widow of D. Will MacKay, formerly active in musical circles and community affairs here and in St. Stephen, occurred in hospital Sunday morning, Dec.2, in her 77th year. She had been ill for several months. Mrs. MacKay, born at St. Andrews July 13, 1895, was the eldest of seven children of the late Thomas and Annie Isabella (Holt) Storr and lived in St. Stephen and the United States for some time before returning to St. Andrews to reside 44 years ago.
The family took up residence in St. Stephen when she was child, her father having been transferred to that town as a railway engineer, and she was educated in St. Stephen schools. Taking up music, she studied piano and pipe organ with Miss Annie Porter and for seven years was organist of Christ Church Sunday School, also applying as organist at Christ Church. She studied voice in St. Stephen and Saint John. In addition to singing in Christ Church choir, her pleasing soprano voice was often heard in solo work with the choir and in community activities.
Mrs. MacKay was employed for a time by Ganong Bros, but at the age of 20 moved to Lynn, Mass. to reside with an aunt, Mrs. Marie Hold Brackett, where she was employed in a catering house making up table favors, helping plan receptions (dinners, etc.). After two years there she went to California, where she lived in San Francisco, Santo Barbara and Lower Caledonia. She also toured the western states, and was for a time piano accompanist for a woman violinist. In 1905 she returned to Lynn to remain for another two years.
She was married at McAdam June 19, 1907, to David William McKay of St. Stephen and the couple came to St. Andrews to reside. Here she was associated with her husband in the photography business. At the same time she continued her musical activities by studying violin under Prof. Suck of the Algonquin orchestra for seven years. Of late years she had taught a class of piano pupils.
The Right Hon. Charles Vincent Massey
Governor General: 1952 - 1959 Appointed: February 1, 1952 Sworn In: February 28, 1952, Ottawa Born: February 20, 1887, Toronto, Ontario Died: December 30, 1967