Sackville

Undiscovered glories of a small town.

Well, there is no more attractive town than Sackville!

How we love it! Here is its Town Hall and some typical houses.

Ellen Pickle (the owner) welcomed me at this bookstore,

which is well known throughout the region, and...

...was present at the tidal wave of book lovers at the

huge United Church. In fact, it was a glorious Indian

Summer day, and one family came. But they bought

three copies. I talked about the series, mainly

for the benefit of Ellen.

Ellen had partnered with the Tantramar Heritage Trust,

President Ron Kelly Spurles, whose many members mark

and preserve the heritage of this gloriously untouched town.

The building codes being developed here will preserve it

for years to come.

Next to Mount Alison, deemed by Macleans as the best

undergrad university in all Canada this year, and

fourteen out of the last 20 years!

Here is the swan pond.

Then to the Mount Allison Dendrochronology (tree-dating) lab and...

...its head, Prof. Colin Laroque..

In 2006, MAD came to The Olde Homestead

in Shigawake to date our buildings.
The MAD lab dated the Old Homestead as c. 1810, 
making it the oldest house on the Gaspe Coast, 
recently confirmed by and article the French 
Canadian magazine “Gaspesie.”

They dated the foundation beams of the barn 
(some 40 feet long and 18" square) to have been growing 
BEFORE Jacques Cartier arrived in the Gaspe.