For almost 40 years, Westmorland Historical Society has produced newsletters, which are available for reference at the Graydon Milton Library and Genealogy Centre. More recent newsletters can be downloaded here:
September 2020
- Dorchester’s Mi’kmaq
- ‘Prankhurst Manor’: The Story of the Dollhouse
June 2020
- A Company’s Guilt or a Child’s Innocence? The Tragic Death of Agnes Melanson at the Dominion Cotton Mill, Moncton 1893
- Notes from Marlene’s Scrapbook
February 2020
- St. James Textile Museum Report
- Betty Adams in Memoriam
- Sir Pierre-Amand Landry: Does His Message Still Resonate?
September 2019
- Museum Manager’s Report
- Dorchester’s Last Hangings
June 2019
- Eddie Bowes in Memoriam
- The Worst Laid Plans of Mice and Men: The Sorry Saga of the Westmorland Chemical Park
- Dorchester’s Fourth Murder Trail and Hanging
February 2019
- St. James Report: The Millville Room
- “Up the Centre and Down the Muddle”: Doug How’s Tribute to Foster Hewitt
- Dorchester’s Third Jail and Hanging
September 2018
- Museum Manager/Curator’s Report
- Dorchester’s Second Jail and Hanging
- Dorchester Memories: Ernie Partridge Remembers Teddy, the Dorchester Bear
- A Special Magic: The First Fifty Years of Cooking at Keillor House
- New Bedroom Furniture in the Keillor House Master Bedroom
- St. James Textile Museum Report
June 2018
- Remembering Sylvia
- Dorchester’s First Jail and Hanging
- The Dorchester Poorhouse: Lost but Unlamented
- New Businesses to Open at the Bell Inn
February 2018
- The Bernie Brigade Does it Again
- WHS Awarded Senate Medal
- A Forgotten Bedfellow: Celebrating the Hand-Woven Coverlet
- All that Gliters: Shopping for Buttons in Early Westmorland County
- The Sad End of a Lost Landmark—and of a Dream
September 2017
- Celebrating the Haunted House Tour
- Museum Manager’s Report
- Albert J. Smith, Dorchester’s ‘Stepfather’ of Confederation
June 2017
- Dorchester Memories: Jim How; “It was better in the old days”
- Edward Barron Chandler and Albert James Smith: Dorchester’s Father and Stepfather of Confederation
- The Chandler Family (Based largely on Helen Petchey, Chandler of Rocklyn)
February 2017
- Another Honour for Alice
- The Weldon Hearse at Keillor House Museum
- Captain Edmund O’Neal, Aunt ‘Em’, and the Kaiser’s Watch
- An Update on the Date of Keillor House
September 2016
- Museum Manager’s Report
- What Can We Say About Alice (Folkins)? Part 2
- A Year at the Hardware Store, by Douglas How
- The Commemoration of Chandler House
June 2016
- Exhibit: Homey Elegance, Aspiring Gentility
- What Can We Say About Alice (Folkins)? Part 1
- A Family for All Seasons, by Douglas How
- New Publication: In Search of John Keillor
February 2016
- When Time Took Time, by Douglas How
- Katie’s Memories: A Rocklyn Girl’s Retrospective on the Early Years of WHS
- Report on the Keillor House Project
September 2015
- Museum Manager’s Report
- St. James Textile Museum Report
- The Acquisition and Restoration of Keillor House: Our First “Megaproject”
- Our Volunteers
June 2015
- Special Exhibit: Love in War Time
- The Early History of WHS Part 1
- Another Tidbit from the Keillor Project: The Dating of Keillor House
- Greater Dorchester Moving Forward
- Our WHS Volunteers
February 2015
- AMNB Honours Judy Morison
- John Keillor’s Account with Amos Fowler 1789-99
- Was Dorchester’s First Post Office in Keillor House?
- Notes from Marlene’s Scrapbook
- Our WHS Volunteers
September 2014
- Meet the Staff
- The Origins of the Bell Inn Restaurant
- A Researcher’s Serendipitous Thrill
- Our WHS Volunteers
June 2014
- New Acquisition: Ledgers from the Windsor
- Book Review: Sackville Then and Now
- Cavour Chapman: A Public Spirited Citizen
- Our WHS Volunteers
February 2014
- Inga’s Home Run
- Dorchester Memories: Ernie Partridge Pt. III
- A History of the Bell Inn
- Notes from Marlene’s Scrapbook
- Our WHS Volunteers
September 2013
- St. James Textile Museum
- The Fine Art of Textile Conservation
- Dorchester Memories: Ernie Partridge Pt. II
- Memories of a Lost Landmark: The Hickman Barn
- A Tribute to our Volunteers from Westmorland Institute
- Our WHS Volunteers
June 2013
- Noteworthy Events
- Dorchester Memories: Ernie Partridge Pt. I
- Book Reviews: Two New WHS Publications
- Notes from Marlene’s Scrapbook
- Our Volunteers
February 2013
- Events Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Keillor House 2013
- A Tale of Two Churches Part 2: St. James, Dorchester
- Review of The Covenanters in Canada by Eldon Hay
- A Dorchester ‘Ferry Tale’
- Notes from Marlene’s Scrapbook
- Our Volunteers
September 2012
- Darrel Butler on the Keillor House Furniture Collection
- A Tale of Two Churches: The Presbyterians of Rockland and Dorchester
- Beyond the ‘Begats’ I Found Politics
- Notes from Marlene’s Scrapbook
- Our Volunteers
June 2012
- The Hotels of Dorchester
- Memories of a Different Kind: Dorchester Penitentiary as an Historic Site?
- Why Dorchester Became the Shiretown and Sackville Did Not
- Notes from Marlene’s Scrapbook
- Our Volunteers
February 2012
- Bernie’s Garden
- Preserving Dorchester’s History and Our Stories
- Domestic Textile Production in Early New Brunswick
- Notes from Marlene’s Scrapbook
- Our Volunteers
November 2011
- AMNB Honours Gene Goodrich
- Dorchester Memories – Garfield Spence, Part 2
- Westmorland Institution and WHS
- Notes from Marlene’s Scrapbook
- Our Volunteers
June 2011
- AMNB Honours Edith & Wayne Gilcash
- Robert J. Cunnungham
- Dorchester Memories – Garfield Spence, 1923-2008, Part 1
- New Welcome Centre in Keillor House
- Keillor House Museum
- Stage Coach Days, Part II
- Our Volunteers
May 2009
- The Intellectual World of Josiah Wood
- More Browsing in the Wood Library
- Dorchester Memories – Art McCready
- Stage Coach Days, Part I
- Keillor House Museum
- Memories from the Past
- Our Volunteers
October 2008
- Shipbuilding in Westmorland County
- Browsing in the Wood Library
- Dorchester Memories – Charlie McEwen
- St. James Museum
- Keillor House Museum
- Library & Genealogy
- Our Volunteers
February 2008
- ‘Highland Soldier’
- Josiah Wood
- Library & Genealogy
- St. James Museum
- Keillor House
- Board News
- Our Volunteers
October 2007
- With Axe & Bible
- The Wood Library
- St. James Church
- School Outreach
- Library News
- Keillor House News
- Our Volunteers