A Message From the BAHS President

Members and Friends of the Bedeque Area Historical Society,
                  
We finally seem to have turned a corner with respect to COVID and are looking forward to a return to an almost normal summer.  We thus hope that you will be able to visit the Museum this summer, especially to see our new exhibits which will open shortly.
 
Our new exhibits are on the Mizuno family of Central Bedeque and on the early settlement history of Freetown, and there are expansions to our exhibits on the Acadians of Bedeque, the Freetown Royals hockey team, and Jacob Gould Schurman. There is also a display of paintings and mats by the late Eleanor Wheler of Bedeque and Fernwood.
 
Also for the first time we will be operating the L. M. Montgomery Lower Bedeque Schoolhouse as part of the Museum, which will add a whole new dimension to our work. In the school there will be new displays on L. M. Montgomery’s time in Bedeque and on her romance with Herman Leard; on her Loyalist ancestry and its connection with her writing; and on schooling in Bedeque in the early nineteenth century.
 
Our other exhibits continue from previous years, including the ‘Bedeque Harbour Loyalists’, the  Borden Ferry 100 exhibit, the Mi’kmaq Culture exhibit, the Five Objects Interactive Display, and our core displays on Callbeck’s Store and Howard Clark’s Red Barn Collection. 
 
We hope that these exhibits, as well as the other events announced in this Newsletter, will encourage you to visit the museum this summer.
 
All best wishes,                                                                                                                                       
Doug Sobey, President,        
(on behalf of the Board of the Bedeque Area Historical Society)