Tobique Valley Genealogy & Local History Group

06/14/2026

This is a photo from Ed Anderson's collection. We need some help identifying the buildings on the left....starting on the rights is Sam Campbell's then Little Pepino's on the left, then what? This is where Ron Margison's Diner would have sat, what was it before? We can't tell if this building is one or two structures...you can see the two dormers, and then it looks like another building. There is a third roof further up the street, is that the NAPA/Shaw Auto building? We think this photo is before Cochrane's Drugstore was built....cars suggest early 40's? Any ideas?

06/14/2026

Another early shot showing the only sidewalk in town. Perhaps someone knows if one of these houses was the "Pigs Ear", an early drinking establishment not favoured by Donald Fraser Jr.

06/14/2026

Photo from the 1920's with some brave lads a few inches from the river!

06/14/2026

A very early photo of the bridge and Plaster Rock....which was basically non-existent in this photo....say 1905...so between this photo and the panoramic photo below, Plaster Rock was created...so between 1905-1933...28 years.

06/13/2026

This is an amazing photo of Plaster Rock, probably sometime between 1923 and 1933. We can guess these dates by looking at a couple of structures in the photo. The covered bridge across the river was destroyed in the spring freshet of '34. If you look past the steel mill burner on the right, across the river you can see the steeple of the United Baptist Church. This is the 1923 rebuilt version...the original church sat where the Great Canadian Dollar Store is now. The curvature was created by the lenses taking the photo.....think the old fashioned kind, square box and bellows with a tripod and cloth draped over the photographers head.

05/09/2026

Did you ever wonder about the stone at the end of the Arthurette Bridge? Here is the story as printed in the Tobique Times a few years ago.

04/11/2026

Jack and Verna Cooper house, Arthurette. Originally the family home of John Babbit McNair, 23rd Premier of NB 1940-1953 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._McNair Photo contributed by Barb Inman

04/01/2026

No date; no names; but most likely a drama production from Donald Fraser School performed sometime in the mid 1970s.

03/07/2026

02/26/2026

Bessie, Laura and Mary DeWitt with friend Madge Reynolds. Undated. Ann Drost Collection, TVGL History Group Archives.