 Arthur R Slipp, UNB Class of 1888. Recipient of: Stanley Silver Medal 1889.
Some time ago I came across information about a ancestor of note of Fredericton, New Brunswick, called Arthur Slipp, (not the current Mayor of Woodstock). I heard about this particular Arthur Slipp years ago; the first time it was a comment made due to the obvious connection with my surname; it was something about “a Slipp in Politics” in New Brunswick. The second time was while reading Maritime Radical, a book in which he and a business of his in the St. John River Valley were referenced. I did have a few Arthur Slipps in my genealogy files, but initially couldn’t find reference to their careers. I decided to seek out a bit more information on him through some Googling around on the web. Continue reading The Honourable Arthur Slipp
****WARNING: This Post is NOT for serious genealogists.***<<Reading it may be harmful to your (mental) health!!>>
Continue reading Mondo Slipp
Much has been written about the United Empire Loyalists and there are references elsewhere , as well as on this site, offering additional reading material on this subject. This Post is to give rise to discussion on various aspects of Leonard Slip’s Land Grants. Please feel free to comment.
Continue reading Leonard Slip Land Grants
These pages are from: A. Gregg Finley, The Loyalists: A catalogue featuring selected pieces of Loyalist history from the collections of The New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, N.B.: The New Brunswick Museum, 1975.
If you have the book, please scan the images and we can have a decent posting of them online (these photocopies [...]
Here are a some samplers made in the 19th century by some of our ancestors. I know there’s more of these out there, so please send them to me, or better yet, upload them into the Media Library, then let me know they’re there and I will edit them into this Post for all [...]
Meeting of the Officers of the Garrisons of St. John and Fredrictown, on Long Island, in the River St. John, New Brunswick is the official title of this painting but often referred to as “the BLIZZARD painting” due to its subject matter: the building in the background is Loyalist Leonard Slipp’s tavern/inn of the [...]
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