C. Allison Peck, from Hopewell, was the son of lawyer and member of the Provincial Legislature, Charles A. Peck. In 1894, he finished his training as a druggist and decided to set up shop in Hillsborough, purchasing the house and storefront from retiring druggist, John A. Beatty.

Just in time for this coming Victoria Day weekend! This chromolithograph shows four generations from 1900 shows four generations of British monarchs: the ruling Queen Victoria at the time, Kings Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII.

Homemakers used cake boxes to keep baked goods fresh and to keep bugs and other pests out. They were also used in bakeries as ornate store displays.

Myrtle Kool, known to everyone as Molly, was born in Alma in 1916. Her father was a Dutch sea captain, who built and operated a scow the Jean K., named after Molly's older sister. The scow, a small ship which is used to transfer cargo back and forth between ships anchored out in the Bay and the shore, operated in the waters around Alma, Point Wolfe, Moncton, and sometimes traveled as far away as Boston.

The Grindstone Island lighthouse became a prominent feature of the island when it was built in 1859. The light was eventually discontinued in 1984, but over those 125 years, there lived 8 lighthouse keepers who tended to the lighthouse and lived on the island. The journals seen here are from the eighth and final lighthouse keeper, Wilbur Wainwright ‘Pappy’ Weston.

Before modern day automation, many tools were used to efficiently produce various different types of crops, including the potato. This shute, for example, would have been used to plant potatoes deep in the ground. It was used on the Isaiah Milton farm on Caledonia Mountain and measure 33 inches in length.

From 1850 to 1880, Albertite was shipped in mass quanitities from Hillsborough to Boston, where it was used to light the Boston street lamps. The majority of Albertite mining took place in the Albert Mines between 1854 until 1884. In fact, according the pay sheets from 1879, the Albert Mining Co. sold 5,367 tons of Albertite for $94,096 that year.

These half-model ships were used at the Bennett Shipyard in Hopewell Cape for ships built between 1860 and 1918. Included here are the ship models for brigantine ‘PJ Nevius’ (1860), and schooners ‘Vincent A White’ and ‘Meredith A White’ (1918), as well as barquentine Royal Harrie (1872), which was built at the neighbouring John Leander Pye Shipyard.

The moustache cup is a tea cup designed to include a small ledge on the inside of the cup. It was used to protect, of course, one’s moustache from the heat and moisture of the tea. A small opening between the ledge and the cup allowed for liquids to pass through, but not touch the pampered moustaches of the time.