The Website
In the Spring of 2003, it became clear that many of the documents and pictures that hold the stories of the communities around Hubbards were falling into decay and needed to be preserved in some way. The idea was launched to use technology to not only preserve the documents but also to provide much greater access to them for the people who lived here or who wanted to know these stories.
Funding was granted through the Halifax Regional C@P Association and the Hubbards Area Heritage Collection project began. Material that had been stored in the J. D. Shatford Public Library and the Heritage Society office as well as in people’s homes was collected and digitized and loaded on the Web site so that people everywhere could see the pictures, read the articles and hear the stories that make up the rich history of this area. We are indebted to the members of the Hubbards Heritage Society who have provided much of the content for the site, for the many photographs from Ned Norwood’s collection and many others in the community who helped to make this project possible. The website has since been updated with new albums and information in the Summers of 2013 and 2014. We hope to see the site grow as more pictures and documents are scanned to add to the stories. |
. Acknowledgements
The Hubbards-Tantallon C@P Board. For initiating the funding proposal for the project. Elaine Murray, Branch Manager, Hubbards-Tantallon Library. For her support and guidance. Garth Smedley, the C@P Board. For generous technical support with creating the original website. Sheena Masson, M@sson Communications and Ben Howell Davis. For design and construction of the original web site, image processing, and database. Lindsay Schnare, past summer student (2013/2014). For enhancing and updating design of our website. Lenny Poirier, Communications Director. For active technical support, participation in daily activities & for arranging for funding for a summer student and subsequently recruiting. Edmund (Ned) Norwood, Resident Historian. For his continued input to our daily activities in particular in providing guidance and support to our summer student. For his dedication to historical facts and for giving permission to use photographs taken by his father, Robert Norwood. Roy and Lois Harnish. For actively and later posthumously providing documents and relative historic data dating back to the early 1800's. Joanne E. Eldershaw. For providing copies of deed from Mill Cove, c. 1800. Rhys Harnish, our Treasurer. For active participation and direction in our daily operations & for images and articles about The Shore Club and the Tuna Blue Inn (Dauphinee Inn) and general knowledge of Hubbards & area. Cherry Hunt, Jill Cochrane, and the family of Robert John Keith. For providing and giving permission to use photographs and documents. Greg Simms, Hubbards Heritage Society-Chair. For chairing our monthly board meetings, providing direction, promoting our organization, recruiting new members and generally maintaining a viable flow, Greg is actively engaged in all events & activities of our society. Judy Hopkins, Hubbards Heritage Society- Vice Chair. For her her continued input & participation in fully supporting our society particularly our annual 'dinner theatre' for which she runs the show. Judy delegates responsibilities, provides coordination as required, writes all the scripts, oversees all aspects of the theatre & participates in MC'ing the evening . Judy gets fully engaged in sourcing relative historical data on families, individuals and institutions through a series of personal interviews from which historical profiles are compiled. Ann and Andy Hare. Members at large. (See John Stone). Rowyn MacLean. Member at large Glen Dorey. Member at large David Murdoch. Member at large Karen Rieber. St. Margaret's Bay Region Tourism Development Association, Hubbards Visitor Information Centre. For continued support. Barbara Peart, author of 'As the Last Leaf Fel'l. For permission to quote her work in the History and Timeline section. Alfreda Withrow, author of St. Margaret's Bay. For permission to quote her work in the History and Timeline section. All excerpts from St. Margaret's Bay by Alfreda Withrow, published in 1997 by Nimbus Publishing, Ltd are reproduced with consent of the author and publisher. Any other use is strictly prohibited. Mary Jane Dorey.For her continued support of our society and filling the role of secretary for a number of years. John Stone. For Johns' continued support ofour society in particular by MC'ing our annual 'dinner theatre' (at times supported by Andy Hare). |