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The Base Gagetown Community
History Association Inc. was officially organized in July 1998 to
collect the history of over 20 communities and the genealogy of the
750 families that resided prior to 1953 in the 500 sq. mile area in
Queens and Sunbury Counties of South‑Western New Brunswick, Canada,
now occupied by Canadian Forces Base Gagetown.
A J Brooks, Q.C. Member
of Parliament for Royal Constituency, stated in the House of
Commons on Dec 3, 1952 “that It had come as a great shock to the
people residing in western Queens County to read in the newspapers
that their homes were to be taken from them to be used as a military
camp. Not only do they have to leave their homes, but also their
farms, their communities, their churches, schools, friends,
societies and the cemeteries. They are splendid people whose
ancestors have lived in that section for four or five
generations.... There are no finer people in New Brunswick than
those in The CFB Gagetown area. They had good farm lands and some of
the finest dairy farms in New Brunswick. Then, too, they had
distinguished themselves in the last war”.
Our Association has a
private email list and associated web site with 140 signed on for
the exchange of information on Base families and communities.
Information for joining this list can be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bgcha/
You are invited to also visit our other site at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbbgcha/
The purpose of this
site is for the sharing of knowledge relating to the former training
area families and communities. This information may not be copied
for commercial use or distribution and is provided freely by our
Association with the understanding that it will not be copied for
financial gain and may not be modified or reposted without
permission from the BGCHA.
This web site will be
under construction for some time as time permits for the information
to be assembled. For additional information, questions or comments
about the Association, send an email to info@bgcha.ca (also see
Items Wanted ) Our postal mailing address is ‑
