Moore's Mills Book Order Information

Anyone interested in ordering a copy of Moore's Mills: Life in a New Brunswick Village - Voices from the 1890's can send a cheque, money order or bank draft for $34.95 plus shipping via surface mail ($10.00 for Canada & $15.00 for the United States) to:
Graydon Mitchell
10769 Pier Road
Kingsport NS B0P 1H0 CANADA

Please contact me at 902-582-7525 or graydon@mitchellconsulting.ca if you have any questions.

Book Launch - Celebrating Moore's Mills

The launch for the book Moore's Mills: Life in a New Brunswick Village - Voices from the 1890's by Graydon Mitchell (pictured here with Eileen Dick McGaw) took place in the former Moore's Mills school house on Saturday, December 6, 2008. The book signing and sale event was attended by over 50 residents, former residents and relatives of both groups. It was a great opportunity for friends and neighbours to catch up on the current news of the day and to share memories of growing up and living in Moore's Mills.

The hard-covered book is a pictorial history of the village and features over 200 pages of photographs and information on Moore's Mills during the 1890's. It includes chapters on the village and mills, churches and cemeteries, public buildings, businesses, life and times, homesteads and villagers, history in prose, history in verse, Cape Ann Association and descendants of William Moore.

The book launch also coincides with the commemoration of the village’s 225th anniversary of its founding in 1783. Copies of the book have been donated to The Charlotte County Museum in Milltown, The St. Croix Public Library in St. Stephen and The Ross Memorial Library in St. Andrews for public viewing.

Moore's Mills Book Signing & Sale

The Author Invites You to Attend a Book Signing & Sale...

Saturday, December 6, 2008
1:00 – 3:00 PM
James E. McGibbon Memorial Hall (formerly Moore's Mills School) in Moore’s Mills, N. B.

The recently published book, Moore’s Mills: Life in a New Brunswick Village – Voices from the 1890’s, depicts the events of everyday life and achievements of the individuals who lived in this small enterprising village during the end of the nineteenth century. The book is filled with photographs, gleaned mostly from personal collections, which provide a window on what life was like in this small Loyalist village.

Inside the Moore's Mills Book

During the eighteenth century, all the land around Moore’s Mills was a wilderness of sleepy lakes, babbling brooks, rushing rivers and dense forest filled with wildlife that roamed through the pathless woods.

The first settlement in Charlotte County began in May 1784 by people of His Britannic Majesty’s 71st Regiment united in a corporate body called the Cape Ann Association. They obtained a large grant of land in the parish of St. David. Among its members was William Moore, who came to New Brunswick from New Boston, New Hampshire with his wife, Hannah Livingstone, and their family of 12 children. In 1785 he secured for himself and his sons water rights on the stream and built the first mill in the area. He gave the name “Moore’s Mills” to the settlement.

This mill was to prove of great value to the settlers in building their permanent homes, most of which were one-story Cape Cod style. The farms yielded bountiful harvests; the stream was alive with fish and the forests were filled with game. The industrious women wove all the cloth needed for garments, their homes were comfortable and there were no taxes to pay. We can gather from this picture a colony of people living in utmost peace and contentment amid the wilderness.

The text of this book, written by the Moore’s Mills correspondents for the local newspaper, depicts the events of everyday life and achievements of the individuals who lived in this small enterprising village during the 1890’s. The photographs, gleaned mostly from personal collections, provide a window on the past.

Pre-order the Moore's Mills Book

My book on Moore's Mills - Life in a New Brunswick Village: Voices from the 1890's will be available for purchase in the fall of 2008. Details on the book launch in New Brunswick will follow in another post.

If you would like to pre-order a copy of the book, please send a cheque for $34.95 (plus $10.00 for postage) to: Graydon Mitchell, 10769 Pier Road, Kingsport NS B0P 1H0 and I will forward your copy once I receive them from the printers.

If you have any questions, please contact me by email at graydon@ns.sympatico.ca or by calling 902-582-7525.