Back to school Monday, with a trip to the Dawson Settlement School. This photo shows the rear of the building.

Time for a Sunday drive to the Hopewell Rocks in this circa 1928 photo. Notice the person in the bottom right corner, let’s hope the tides going out because if not, they’re in for a swim!

This photo came from Archives New Brunswick showing a prominent Widow’s Watch on the roof of this house. The widow’s watch was aptly named, as although the sea brought wealth to the county, it was also unforgiving with many a life lost. These watches can be seen all around the county on houses close to the water and you could see for miles down the river from them.

Today is the 75th Anniversary of VE day (Victory Europe), May 8, 1945 to May 8, 2020. Today 75 years ago the Second World War ended in Europe with the complete surrender of Nazi Germany. After 6 years of war there was peace. (The war in the Pacific would continue until August 15, 1945.) Here is a great photo of Cyril Cook in Seaman's Uniform, on May 9, 1943 with an unidentified man in Air Force uniform. This photo was take at the 1919 Victory Loans Gun in Hopewell Cape.

Keeping with agriculture, here is a photo of D. C. Munro's Farm, Belview, Hopewell, N.B. Photo taken by John Woodruff. Notice the windmill on the barn.

It’s that time of year again, potato planting time. Here is an early photo of potatoes being cultivated in Lower Coverdale. That’s a lot of spuds!

Did you know there are 99 cemeteries in Albert County? This photo is of the Hillsborough cemetery taken in 1966 before restoration of cemetery. Notice in the background the Blue Bird restaurant, which is now Rocco’s Italian restaurant.

Back to School Monday, today we travel to Hopewell Hill. Hopewell Hill had a "Superior" school, which implied that students could take high school work there. Basically a two-room building, although it looks as if the attic space was usable, given the windows. The BW photo was taken about 1920, from the costumes. The other two photos show the building out of use before being torn down in 1966. Click to see them.

Let’s take a Sunday drive to Cape Enrage. Here is a great photo of the Lighthouse at Cape Enrage in 1908.

Lumbering was an industry that took place across the county. In this photo we see logs spread all over hillside in foreground, horses and wagons along with temporary saw mill activity in background, Hopewell, ca. 1940.

The CPO of Coverdale base, Irene Carter, related this wartime story” One of our operators (Anne Elder) received a strong blast from NSHQ in Ottawa for sending in a bearing on a sub which was obviously incorrect as she had placed the sub in the St. Lawrence River. A few days later they at least had the courtesy to apologize when the they found the sub really was in the St. Lawrence!”.

This photo shows an unidentified member of the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service (W.R.C.N.S.) operating direction-finding equipment at H.M.C.S. COVERDALE, Riverview, New Brunswick, Canada, August 1945. If you want to learn more about this amazing bit of Albert County history please visit this site: http://jproc.ca/rrp/rrp2/coverdale.html

On this date 75 years ago, April 30, 1945, a Coverdale operator intercepted a message sent by German Admiral Karl Doenitz telling all his forces that Hitler was dead. She was the first allied person to hear the news of his death. The HMCS Coverdale base was established as a Special Wireless Station (High Frequency/Direction Finder (HF/DF) station) on November 23, 1942 and operated until 1970.