Canada Post sent my Christmas cards to many of the wrong places, leaving the St. Martins area out completely. It gave us a chance to make direct deliveries to some of the people we found home and businesses we found open getting ready for Christmas.
Merry Christmas to my wonderful constituents in the Fundy - St. Martins neck of the woods.
Tina and Don Monahan of Sussex KOA are at it again with their third KOA President’s Award for excellent service. This is an impressive national win. I enjoyed stopping in with a congratulatory certificate and a little chat. Tina and Don bought the campground and Sussex Drive-In five years ago and they have been doing an incredible job.
Many people are familiar with the history of the internment camp at Ripples (located near Minto) that held Jewish prisoners during the Second World War. But most are not aware of the incredible art and craftsmanship those prisoners created during those years between 1940-1945.
I enjoyed visiting a new prisoner art exhibit at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery entitled “ESCAPE: Art from the New Brunswick Internment Camp” with Fredericton-Grand Lake MLA, Minister Kris Austin.
This exhibit showcases original prisoner art in dialogue from paintings, sketching, woodworking, and sculptures. It is available until Dec. 31 if you want to stop in.
The Internment Camp B-70 located in Ripples was built during the Second World War by the Canadian Government as one of 18 prisons across the Country that held Jews sent from England who fled Nazi oppression, Canadian citizens who had spoken out against the war, Fascit or Nazi sympathizers and captured Italian and German merchant marines.
The NB Internment Camp Museum in Minto holds the nation’s richest, most important collection of Canada’s internment camp heritage. The Beaverbrook is showcasing just a sampling of those treasures. I look forward to accepting Minister Austin’s invitation to visit the Minto museum next summer to see the full collection.
