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Mark your calendars

Saturday, April 13 at 11 a.m.
Historical Room, Newcastle Community Hall

Find out what we’ve been doing for the past year, elect 2024-2025 Board of Directors, participate in our fun and informative Show and Tell and enjoy a light lunch afterwards.

NVDHS General Meeting

On Wednesday, April 17, at 7 p.m., join us for a talk at Newcastle Community Hall (main hall) on the fascinating world of antique bottle collecting, featuring local collectors Carl Parsons, George Miller and Glen Moorhouse. Free and open to all.

Local artist, Jane Eccles, has painted many historical dresses in her career, including two dresses from notable Newcastle women, Olive Wilmot and Anna Vincent Massey, who were part of Newcastle’s “elite” at one time.

In order for everyone to be able to see these dresses and their mirror images, we will be open on Family Day, February 16, from 9:30 a.m. to noon, so bring the family over to take a look. There will be special activities for kids. (up-coming history buffs!).

From behind-the-scenes preparation through to the jolly old elf himself, relive the 2023 parade in our slideshow and find yourself, your friends or your family enjoying the festivities on November 19, 2023!

Help us promote and preserve Newcastle history by making it more easily accessible and available to the community and beyond, through our digitization project. With the help of summer students and our volunteers, we’ve been busy cataloguing and documenting our collection for the past four years, but we still have lots to do.

We’re looking forward to the New Year with hope and enthusiasm – and would be thrilled if you would join in the effort to help fund our activities, including a summer student for 2024. All donations made before the end of day December 31, up to a total of $2000 will be matched. Help us raise $4000 for 2023!

November 15, 2023, 7:30 p.m.

NVDHS General Meeting

Guest speaker John McFeeters is an avid detectorist and finder of historic artifacts. He will talk about his fascinating hobby and show us the various treasures he has located in our area.

He has done metal detecting on many public and private properties over the years, including abandoned homesteads, schools and churches. Locally, this includes Ebor House; the site of the Samuel Wilmot homestead and Fish Hatchery; and the original Massey foundry site. 

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Community Hall

In May, NVDHS collaborated with Vatandoust Sirrs Real Estate Team to produce a special edition of their On The House magazine to honour the 100th anniversary of the Newcastle Community Hall. On The House is distributed free to all households in Newcastle, Orono and Wilmot Creek – you should have received your copy by now. If you haven’t, we have additional copies available at the historical room, so drop by any time we’re open (9:30 to noon, Tuesdays and Saturdays) to pick up your free copy.