This Bill of Sale for a Schooner called ‘Hopewell’. The ship was built at the Condon ship yard in Hopewell Cape in May 1868, and was one of four known ships built in the area called ‘Hopewell’. It was sold by Samuel James Calhoun to a Jonathan Robinson of Harvey for more than $400 (approximately $7500 today).

In the 18th and 19th century, many homeowners grew their own apple trees, and families processed these apples into a variety of products. Peeling, coring, and slicing enough apples for winter was difficult and time consuming, however, so soon many different inventions began to appear to aid in this work.

This poster was used to advertise the Steeves Family Gathering in 1867, the first ever of such a gathering for the family. Now numbering upwards of 300,000 descendants worldwide, the family name originated in Hillsborough as the Stief family from Germany.

This small slate, originally owned by Mrs. Ella Nelson, would have been used by school children in the early 20th century. The advantage of slates over paper was that slates could be wiped clean and used again, saving money on paper.

This large leather trunk with a metal frame was owned by Abner Reid McClelan. A. R. McClelan, born 1831 in Riverside-Albert, was a Canadian Senator and the tenth Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick.

The bullet mould seen here was primarily used to make lead musket balls, and while the date of this mould is unknown, this type is similar to those used in the late 1800s.

This grindstone likely comes from the Thibodeau mill in Shepody, which was established in 1700 using flour mill equipment purchased from a Boston Merchant.

In Hillsborough, the low lying marshlands below where the Salem & Hillsborough railway museum is now located, became a "lake" of sea water from the storm. The only Hillsborough parish casualty of the Saxby Gale was Miss Bray, shown here in a tintype, who drowned while driving in a horse and carriage attempting to cross this “lake”.

The Walling Map of 1862 is a topographical map of the counties of Albert and Westmorland. It was designed by American cartographer Henry Francis Walling and offers an abundance of detailed information for genealogists, as it is one of the first official maps that shows Albert County separate from Westmorland County.