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