Commemorating The 190th Anniversary of the Founding Of Bass River
Compiled By Member of the Women's Institute and other interested Citizens
June 1955.
Acknowledgemen is hereby expressed with our grateful thanks to all those who supplied information making the compiling of this history possible.
For excerpts from the Miller Book Port and Province, from histories written by the late Edward Fulton, Ross Fulton and Currie Creelman, and for information supplied by Ed. Fisher, Truman Starratt, Alexander Starratt, William Starratt and others.
Contents: The Copy of original grant to James Fulton ... Early History of Bass River and Castlereagh ... Other early settlers ... Early life in Bass River ... Religious life and Churches (United, Baptist, Nazarene, Church of England).
Industries: Farming ... Fishing ... Lumbering ... Shipbuilding ... Dominion Chair Co. Manufacturing ... Silica Works ... Stores ... Garages ... Hotels ... Maple Sugar Making ... Hobbies.
Social and Fraternal Life in Bass River ... Educational Life and Progress ... Mail Service ... War Record ... Red Cross ... Modern Improvement ... Bass River as it is Today (1955).
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