Notebook for Customers of George W. Capen of Eastport, Maine; possibly owned by Elias Thurber of Campobello Island, New Brunswick

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Small notebook given to customers of George W. Capen of 61 Water Street, Eastport, Maine.  

Possibly owned by Elias Thurber (1841-1925) of Campobello Island in New Brunswick, Canada - his name appears on the inside back cover.

Capen sold a wide variety of items, as the back cover shows - everything from Lumber to Refrigerators to Horse Harnesses to Plows to Bran and Oats.

The page below shows the name Eva.

The page below shows the value of herring sold.

The page below might show the name Addie.

The inside cover, below, shows the name Elias ?, perhaps Elias Thurber.  Interestingly, there was an Elias Thurber (1841-1925) on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, just across Passamaquoddy Bay from Eastport, Maine.  Perhaps Elias was the owner of this little notebook.

If you have a theory as to the owner of this notebook or the names that appear in it, please leave a comment for the benefit of other researchers.

Vintage Map of MacMaster Island in New Brunswick in Passamaquoddy Bay

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Vintage postcard sized piece of MacMaster Island, situated in Passamaquoddy Bay near L'Etete and Little L'Etete Passages and St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada.  The card was printed by Stanford's Geographical Establishment, London.

There's nothing printed or written on the reverse.

Someone appears to have typewritten over whatever was the original Letter A entry and substituted Willingdon Harbour, on the Little L'Etete Passage side.

Willingdon Harbour may have been named for Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon, who was the Governor General of Canada from 1931 to 1936.    

Poem "The Maiden of Quoddy", by James De Mille (1833-1880)

Poem entitled "The Maiden of Quoddy, written by James De Mille (1833-1880), Maritime Canada author, poet and professor.

Found in the June 1930 issue of Canadian Geographical Journal, published by the Canadian Geographical Society at Montreal.

 

Hear Linnea Good's sublime rendition

The Maiden of Quoddy
By James De Mille

Sweet maiden of Passamaquoddy,
Shall we seek for communion of souls
Where the deep Mississippi meanders,
Or the distant Saskatchewan rolls?
Ah, no! in New Brunswick we'll find it -
A sweetly sequestered nook -
Where the swift gliding Skoodoowabskooksis
Unites with the Skoodoowabskook.

Meduxnakik's waters are bluer;
Nepisiguit's pools are more black;
More green is the bright Oromocto,
And browner the Peticodiac.
But colours more radiant, in Autumn,
I see when I'm casting my hook,
In the waves of the Skoodoowabskooksis,
Or perhaps in the Skoodoowabskook.

Let others sing loudly of Saco,
Of Passadumkeag or Miscouche,
Of Kennebeccasis or Quaco,
Of Miramichi or Buctouche;
Or boast of the Tobique or Mispec,
The Musquash or dark Memramcook;
There's none like the Skoodoowabskooksis
Excepting the Skoodoowabskook!

Think not, though the Ma-ga-gua-da-vic
Or Bocabec, pleases the eye;
Though Chi-put-nec-ti-cook is lovely,
That to either of these we will fly.
No! when in love's union we're plighted,
We'll build our log house by a brook
Which flows to the Skoodoowabskooksis,
Where it joins with the Skoodoowabskook.

Then never of Waweig or Chamcook
I'll think having you in my arms;
We'll reck not of Digdeguash beauties,
We'll care not for Popelogan's charms,
But as emblems of union forever
Upon two fair rivers we'll look;
While you'll be the Skoodoowabskooksis
I'll be the Skoodoowabskook.

From online research - corrections and/or additions requested: 

James De Mille (changed from DeMill) was born 23 August 1833 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, the son of Nathan S. and Elizabeth Tongue (Budd) DeMill.  His paternal grandparents were John and Elizabeth (Smith) DeMill.   John DeMill was a Loyalist from Connecticut who settled in New Brunswick, Canada.  Elizabeth was also from a Connecticut Loyalist family.

James De Mille's maternal grandparents were Elisha and Mary Ann (Bonnell) Budd.  Elisha Budd was a Loyalist from New York, who settled in Nova Scotia.  His father, James Budd, also a Loyalist, from White Plains, New York, was killed at his own door in 1778 by a party of Whigs who called themselves "The Cow Boys".  Mary Ann Bonnell's father Isaac was a Loyalist from New Jersey who settled in Digby, Nova Scotia.

James De Mille married Elizabeth Ann Pryor, daughter of Dr. John Pryor, first president of Acadia College.  

Click here for a biography of James De Mille at the site Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.