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Certificates of Appreciation presented to residents.

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Mayor Grace Losier and Council presented certificates to those owners of historic places who provided permission for their properties to be registered on the New Brunswick Register of Historic Places. Due to the co-operation of residents, the Heritage Committee was able to identify and research many of the historic places with the able assistance of researcher Joanna Aiton.

Mayor Grace Losier and Council presented certificates to those owners of historic places who provided permission for their properties to be registered on the New Brunswick Register of Historic Places for part two of the project. Due to the co-operation of residents, the Heritage Committee was able to identify and research many of the historic places with the able assistance of researcher Joanna Aiton.

On February 28, 2017 as part of Black History month, 5 local landmarks were renamed from insensitive names to names reflecting the rich black history of our area. 3 Grand Bay-Westfield landmarks; Negro Lake. Negro Brook and Little Negro Lake were renamed Corankapoon Lake, Black Loyalist Brook and Richards Lake respectively. Richards and Corankapoon were black refugees from the American War of Independence who were granted land in Grand Bay-Westfield in the 1780's. Their history is contained on this site under "articles" and " Early black settlers".

Dr. Ed Doherty presided over the ceremony with words of thanks were expressed to Ralph Thomas by the premier and the mayors of Saint John and Grand Bay-Westfield. Dave Taylor of the town and the town;s heritage committee were instrumental in providing research to the Black History Society to enable these changes to be made with the support of the mayor Grace Losier and council.