John C. Tracy (1855-1937) Wrote a Book

John Colby Tracy's "Book" is a handwritten collection of Oromocto River, New Brunswick genealogies and historical stories produced between 1927 and the mid 1930s. It was donated to the New Brunswick Provincial Archives by his daughter, Lola Harrison, and has been transcribed in five parts the author of the blog, johnwood1946. 

The five parts can be found at:

1. https://johnwood1946.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/john-c-tracys-book-part-1-of-5/
2. https://johnwood1946.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/john-c-tracys-book-part-2-of-5/
3. https://johnwood1946.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/john-c-tracys-book-part-3-of-5/
4. https://johnwood1946.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/john-c-tracys-book-part-4-of-5/
5. https://johnwood1946.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/john-c-tracys-book-part-5-of-5/

I'm sure that this blog and the transcription of the book are filled with helpful information about my mother's New Brunswick family, relatives, and neighbors. Here are just the first hundred blog posts listed--there are a couple of hundred more. I'll be exploring the entire blog eventually.

1. Saint John: From Nothing, to Become Canada’s Winter Port – Mar. 28, 2018
2. Saint John, New Brunswick Churches in 1910 – Mar. 21, 2018
3. Chief Making Among the Passamaquoddy Indians – Mar. 14, 2018
4. Canoeing Down the Restigouche River in 1895 – Mar. 7, 2018
5. Northern New Brunswick, Heaven on Earth – Feb. 28, 2018
6. Indian Place Names From Around Passamaquoddy Bay – Feb. 21, 2018
7. Alexander McNutt’s Accomplishments Went Well Beyond Maugerville – Feb. 14, 2018
8. Albert County, New Brunswick, about 170 Years Ago – Feb. 7, 2018
9. 1865: Rise in Support of this Mighty Project! The Confederation Debate – Jan. 31, 2018
10. The Genesis of Prince Edward Island’s Distinctive Property Laws – Jan. 24, 2018
11. Saint John’s ‘English Period’, 1758 to 1782 – Jan. 17, 2018
12. Education in New Brunswick in 1837 – Jan. 10, 2018
13. The Babcock Tragedy, a Story of Madness and Murder – Jan. 3, 2018
14. Cape Breton, from about 1000 AD to the Mid-1600’s – Dec. 27, 2017
15. Christmas as it was in Saint John, 1808 – Dec. 23, 2017
16. The Saint John River, the Rhine of America – Dec. 20, 2017
17. A Veiled Threat to Invade New Brunswick – Dec. 13, 2017
18. A Few Weeks in 1755, the Expulsion of the Acadians Begins – Dec. 6, 2017
19. The Magical Dancing Doll – Nov. 29, 2017
20. Immigration to New Brunswick in 1832, and Lumber Mills – Nov. 22, 2017
21. Harvey, New Brunswick, 1837 – Nov. 15, 2017
22. On the Road to Responsible Government in New Brunswick – Nov. 8, 2017
23. Through the Woods in the Dead of Winter; Fredericton to the Miramichi – Nov. 5, 2017
24. Acadia in 1720, as Seen by Paul Mascerene – Oct. 25, 2017
25. Nova Scotia’s Sham Government in 1720 – Oct. 18, 2017
26. Three Short Wabanaki Thunder Stories – Oct. 11, 2017
27. Stanley, N.B., Carved from the Wilderness – in a Hurry – Oct. 4, 2017
28. Drunkenness Yearly More Common Amongst all Classes – Sept. 27, 2017
29. John Cabot, London Superstar and Discoverer of Cape Breton – Sept. 20, 2017
30. Nicolas Denys, the First Proprietor and Governor of all of the Gulf Coast of Acadia – Sept. 13, 2017
31. Promoting New Brunswick in 1832 – Sept. 6, 2017
32. A View of Acadian History, from 30,000 Feet – Aug. 30, 2017
33. Nova Scotia During the Revolution, an American Perspective – Aug. 23, 2017
34. The Many Trials of Richard Valpey of Yarmouth, and his Service to the American Cause During the Revolution – Aug. 16, 2017
35. From Saint John to Annapolis Royal, Around the Bay of Fundy in 1787 – Aug. 9, 2017
36. Nova Scotia in 1775: “Every Spot is Inhospitable and Frigid” – Aug. 2, 2017
37. Notes About Edward Cornwallis, Who Has Been in the News Lately – July 26, 2017
38. Starving, Fly-Bitten, and Lost in the Woods – July 19, 2017
39. Saint John and Saint George, New Brunswick, in 1842 – July 12, 2017
40. The Razing of Chignecto, and the Attack on Fort Nashwaak – July 5, 2017
41. Captain Henry Mowat’s Account of the Battle on the Penobscot – June 28, 2017
42. Voyage of the First Fleet of 1783, and the Settlement of Kingston by a Band of Loyalists – June 21, 2017
43. 1,500 Dead in Saint John. The Cholera Epidemic of 1854 – June 14, 2017
44. Fishing on the Nepisiquit River in the 1870’s – June 7, 2017
45. The Clock at Fredericton City Hall – May 31, 2017
46. Prohibition in Saint John in the 1920’s, an Exposé – May 24, 2017
47. Boss Gibson’s First Railroad – May 17, 2017
48. The New Brunswick Postal Service in 1856 – May 10, 2017
49. Defending the ‘Worthless, Unsteady and Villainous’ Cutters of Wood – May 3, 2017
50. Tossed by the Sea Into a Frozen Wilderness-1788 – Apr. 26, 2017
51. The King of France Cannot Have Given You Our Land, Because it Was Not His – Apr. 19, 2017
52. Bureaucracy and the Expulsion of the Acadians – Apr. 12, 2017
53. From Pictou, Nova Scotia to Saint John, New Brunswick via Charlottetown and Shediac in 1867 – Apr. 5, 2017
54. A Sunday EXTRA: No Meeting of Minds Between the Acadians and the British in 1717 – Apr. 2, 2017
55. Grand Falls, New Brunswick in 1844 – A Vast Ocean of Trees – Mar. 29, 2017
56. Shabby Streets, Decaying Houses, and Steep Plank Sidewalks. Saint John in 1874 – Mar. 22, 2017
57. In the Beginning – Wabanaki Creation Stories – Mar. 15, 2017
58. Pride versus Rascals and Villains in Saint John in 1791 – Mar. 8, 2017
59. The Trent Affair – Mar. 1, 2017
60. A Shocking Description of Anti-Confederates in Rural Nova Scotia in 1867 – Feb. 22, 2017
61. Surveying Through the Wilderness in 1844 – Feb. 15, 2017
62. At the Bend of the Petitcodiac in 1844: Moncton – Feb. 8, 2017
63. Maria Rye and Her British Home Children – Feb. 1, 2017
64. New Brunswick’s East Coast in 1832, Following the Miramichi Fire – Jan. 25, 2017
65. Slavery in the Loyalist Era – Jan. 18, 2017
66. Weather and the Seasons in Micmac Mythology – Jan. 11, 2017
67. New Brunswick’s Roads in 1832: ‘Many paths are misnamed roads’. Jan. 7, 2017
68. Nova Scotia and New England During the Revolution – Dec. 28, 2016
69. A Holiday Special: Christmas as it Was in Saint John in 1808 – Dec. 23, 2016
70. Expressions from Cuffer Down plus Signs and Omens – Dec. 21, 2016
71. From Passamaquoddy to the Petitcodiac: What it Was Like in 1832 – Dec. 14, 2016
72. Raymond Writes About the Lives and Customs of the Mi’kmaq and Maliseet People – Dec. 7, 2016
73. The Governor’s House was an Outrage to Good Taste – Fredericton in 1832 – Nov. 30, 2016
74. An Unparalleled and Abominable Deception – Nov. 23, 2016
75. Not a Metropolis, but the Largest Town in the Province – Saint John in 1832 – Nov. 16, 2016
76. Lumber Camp Life, and Game-Wardens Poaching Moose – Nov. 9, 2016
77. Louisbourg: It Didn’t Have to Happen. It Just Didn’t Have to Happen – Nov. 2, 2016
78. Let Us Consider the Lowly Seagull – Oct. 26, 2016
79. 5 – David Kennedy Completes His Travels of 1876 in Halifax – Oct. 19, 2016
80. 4 – David Kennedy’s Tour of Nova Scotia in 1876 – Oct. 12, 2016
81. 3 – David Kennedy’s Tour of Newcastle, Chatham and Bathurst in 1876 – Oct. 5, 2016
82. 2 – David Kennedy’s Visit to Saint John, New Brunswick in 1876 – Sept. 28, 2016
83. 1 – David Kennedy’s Travels from Quebec City to New Brunswick in 1876 – Sept. 21, 2016 (This blog posting was lost on Sept. 28th. I decided not to re-post, since it would clutter my subscribers’ screens.)
84. A Short History of Early English Nova Scotia – Sept. 14, 2016
85. Fish Wardens Described as Useless Political Appointments – Sept. 7, 2016
86. With Indian Guides in the Wilds of New Brunswick, 1862 – Aug. 31, 2016
87. Blog post #300: Port Royal from 1604 to 1613. Of Heritage Value to all North Americans – Aug. 24, 2016
88. Hunting Down the Last of the Old Growth Pine – Aug. 17, 2016
89. Dr. James Robb – Aug. 10, 2016
90. Peace Negotiations With Pierre Tomah on the Saint John River – Aug. 3, 2016
91. Business Opportunities on Campobello Island – July 27, 2016
92. A Pompous Captain on the Evils of Logging – July 20, 2016
93. The Too-Easy Life of Nova Scotians Disproved – July 13, 2016
94. Why Not to Marry a Nova Scotia Woman, and How to Make Maple Sugar – July 6, 2016
95. The Bloody Assault on Fort Louisbourg in 1758 – June 29, 2016
96. The Medical Men of Saint John in its First Half Century – June 22, 2016
97. Henry Ketchum and the Chignecto Marine Transport Railway – June 15, 2016
98. A War Journal from Majabidwaduce on the Penobscot – June 8, 2016
99. Mi’kmaq Magic and Medicine – June 1, 2016
100. Thomas Wood, and His Visit to the Saint John River in 1769 – May 25, 2016