History Speaks!

Every spring the Historical Society offers a series of presentations dealing with some aspect of the history of Keswick Ridge and its people. In recent years, as technology has made it possible, we’ve broadcast these occasions on the Internet and recorded them so that folks who couldn’t attend can still enjoy them (scroll down for a list of past lectures). Next up in our 2025 series is:

Sunday, May 4, 2:00pm:
Watching The Clothes: Dating Historical Photographs Using Costume Clues
With Archivist Heather Aiton

New to our speaker series, Heather Aiten has a Masters degree in Public History and has studied costume at Dalhousie University. While in Halifax Heather worked in the costume department of the Halifax Citadel National Historic Site. After moving to Ontario Heather worked as assistant archivist at the Trent Valley Archives where she discovered that her knowledge of historical clothing is an asset when it comes to dating historical photographs. We are happy that Heather has returned to her home province and is now Project Archivist with UNB’s Archives and Special Collection. Do you have old photos you are trying to date? You might want to bring them along!

May 4th, 2pm, at The Old Schoolhouse (112 Route 616). Can’t make it in person? Join us on Zoom! (click here for a link just ahead of the presentation)

Past History Speaks Talks
Click on the title to view (or read)

John Leroux, “Revisiting The Architecture Of Keswick Ridge.” (April 6, 2024)

Roger Nason, “The Narrative History of the Property at 684 Tripp Settlement Road, Now Known as Sandow Farm.” (April 28, 2024)

NOTE: Technical difficultiies made the broadcast and recording of this talk unusable. Roger, however, kindly sent us the text and illustrations; clicking the link above will take you to them.

Gillian Holden, “Letters from Scotch Settlement: Michael Shaw Stewart Mitchell and Mary McPherson (Mamie) Mitchell, 1861-1873.” May 7, 2023)

Jessica Carver, “The Women’s Institutes of Scotch Village, NS, 1913-1923: 10 Years of Social Change” (April 23, 2023)

Dr. Bonnie Huskins & Dr. Michael Boudreau, "'Just the Usual Work': The Social Worlds of Ida Martin, Working-Class Diarist in Saint John" (May 1, 2022)

Roger Nason, "John Hamilton: New Brunswick's Forgotten Black Inventor" (April 24, 2022)

Leah Grandy, "Researching Loyalist Stories: Using the Loyalist Collection to Recover the Lives of New Brunswick Loyalists" (April 10, 2022)

Evelyn Fidler, "Change in the Saint John River Valley: The Mactaquac Dam and the Creation of King's Landing" (April 3, 2022)

Dr. Ross Hebb, "In Their Own Words: Three Maritimers Experience the Great War 1914-1919" (April 25, 2021)

Dr. Jane Jenkins, "'It was a pitiful time': Lost Voices of Canada's 1918 Influenza Epidemic" (April 18, 2021)

Roger Nason, "A Glimpse at the History of the Tripp Family Farm and the Beginnings of Tripp Settlement, 1784-1940" April 11, 2021)

Gary Sharpe, “The Entire History of New Brunswick in One House: River House on Crock’s Point Road” (March 28, 2021)