The Tantramar Heritage Trust is hosting a Zoom celebration this Saturday at 2pm to celebrate Heritage Week in New Brunswick.
Hear Heritage Trust board member Susan Amos talking about what the group has planned:
This will be the first ever virtual Heritage Day celebration for Tantramar Heritage Trust, says Amos.
“It’s a time that we can try something a little bit different,” says Amos. “So we’re taking advantage of that and we hope that everyone will come out and join us on Saturday.”
The festivities will include highlights from a quiz that the Trust has been running on the social media all week long, including questions like:
What was the old name for the gypsum outcrop at “Pink Rock”, situated at Hard Ledge on the Shepody Bay side of the Cape Maringouin peninsula?
(answer at the bottom of this article)
“We’re going to highlight a few of the more interesting ones and see if anybody on the zoom call has any stories to tell or any photos they’d like to send in,” says Amos.
Two students currently working part-time for the Trust will also have presentations, looking at shipbuilding and the foundries, two major industries of Sackville past. “They will each be sharing a couple of interesting artifacts from the Boltonhouse Heritage Museum,” says Amos.
Marshview Middle School students will also partake in the event, with two groups presenting on Fort Beauséjour and the history of the marshes. “These are projects that the children have done for school,” says Amos, “and they have made videos of them so that they’re able to share those with us.”
Finally on Saturday, the Trust will conclude its Flag Day contest. Monday is National Flag Day of Canada, on the anniversary of the first raising of the current flag in Ottawa, on February 15, 1965.
Flag Day has a little extra significance in Sackville, because George Stanley, the designer of the red and white maple leaf design, lived here. Stanley spent many years teaching and working at Mount Allison University. He died in 2002.
According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, when Stanley submitted his design to the committee in charge of finding a design for a new Canadian flag, he argued that it be simple enough for children to draw.
The Trust is inviting people to post selfies with the Canadian flag, says Amos. “And the last thing we’ll do at our Zoom celebration on Saturday is to draw a name up from the people who have submitted photos and that person will win a little prize from the Tantramar Heritage Trust.”
The celebration starts Saturday at 2pm on Zoom. Click here to join:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86427795012
As promised, here’s the quiz answer:
Question: What was the old name for the gypsum outcrop at “Pink Rock”, situated at Hard Ledge on the Shepody Bay side of the Cape Maringouin peninsula?
Answer: Plaster of Paris.
