St. Martins
Attached to a church while a graveyard is not.
What is a Cemetery.
The uses of the hoses in the War Moncton photo.
What is a air hose and hammer to rivet the pins.
This item was used primarily when entering or travailing in a harbour during fog. Also could give a code to nearby ships about their direction and purpose.
What is a manual fog horn.
The age of the Tynemouth creek formation.
What is 300-320 million years.
The first vessel which used a single tree at hoydsmythes corner, now XTR corner as the keel.
What is the Rachel.
Built 1886 with three stores of brick, 217 feet long and 130 feet deep.
What is the Union Baptist Seminary.
The oldest walrus in New Brunswick.
What is ~12700 Years.
The six year old that sold the local school yard to their friend for 5 cents.
Who is Painless Parker.
These towering Carboniferous plants were relatives of modern horsetails, growing up to tens of meters tall in swamps.
What are Calamites?
Vessels built in St. Martins would be towed to Saint John for this necessary step.
What are sails and rigging.
The saint Governor General Carleton in 1786 renamed the Quaco area after.
What is the patron saint of soldiers.
(St. Martin of Tours)
This group was organized with Captain Jame Moran as adjutant in 1822.
What is the St. Martin Militia.
Prince Victor, Lydia Smith, Captain George Cochrane, Kings Orange Rangers, Atlantic Salmon, Indigenous People, Mickey Huttges, Saw mill, Open Book.
What is the mural.
This ancient tree had strap-like leaves and grew in upland areas and often caused the first "log jams".
What are Cordaites?
Spruce, Pine, Larch, Hemlock, Maple and Birch.
What are woods used/available in construction of the ships in St. Martins.
Once known as "the most beautiful and up to date gas station east of Montreal".
What is the seaside service station.
This fossil was from the time of the "Great Dying". Where the majority of life on the planet went extinct.
What is the Pareiasauromorpha .
The real name for the code word "Lord of the Bay" given to Annie DeLong in 1941 by a agent from the department of transportation.
What is a submarine (U-boat).
During the Carboniferous Period, the Tynemouth Creek Formation area was tropical and located near this modern geographic region.
What is the latitude of Brazil or Venezuela?
will accept equator
1880's St. Martins produced 20 million feet of this.
What is Lumber.
When the first train ran on the new St. Martins Hampton railway.
What is 1879.
bonus: last train
1940
The age of the Atlantic Ocean.
What is 200 million.
Born 1887, wife of Captain Benjamin Fownes. She was aboard the Lizzie C.Troop after leaving Nagasaki Japan they were struck by a typhoon pushing them to shore. Losing her husband and baby in the crash.
Who is Alpharetta Fownes.
These dramatic rises and falls in sea level during the Carboniferous were caused by the growth and melting of these massive ice features at the South Pole.
What are continental glacial ice sheets?
Ships were constructed with local woods with exception to the planking and decking instead they used this wood imported from southern United States.
What is yellow pine.
Bonus: Why use yellow pine over other woods.
Yellow pine is very strong and hard and flexible allowing it to be bent, steamed and shaped of the hull.