The Homestead - 1981-07-16 - Annapolis Valley Saga

The Homestead - 1981-07-16 - Annapolis Valley Saga

A book review appeared in the July 16, 1981 issue of The Homestead about a recently published book called Annapolis Valley Saga. Of particular interest to the un-named reviewer was some information about the place names Imbertville and nearby Joggin Bridge. The scan of the article appears below, while the article text is shown here for search purposes:

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One man's recollections

ANNAPOLIS VALLEY SAGA by Malcom Cecil Foster and Howard Truman. Published by Lancelot Press.

As we picked up the book it fell open to page 101 and our eye caught the sentence "I plodded my way to the westward with this caravan, and arrived on schedule at a place down a bit below Deep Brook that is now known as Imbertville."
Two things about that sentence kept us from turning to page 1. The first was the word "Imbertville" which, to the best of our knowledge was an invention of the Dominion Atlantic Railway. The community it purports to be is Smith's Cove which was founded by one Joseph Smith in the 18th century.
Having been born and raised there, the reviewer never saw the name anywhere except on the name board of the railway station which was dead center in the village.
The railway conferred the name Smith's Cove on the neighbouring village of Joggin Bridge in the form of the sign on the depot there.
The second word is "caravan". We flipped back a few paragraphs and must say this word is most apt. The railway was planning to complete "the missing link" between Digby and Annapolis Royal and the "caravan" was a collection of wagons and "fox-bait" horses acquired by the utterer of the quotation in the first paragraph with which to work on that project.
Dr. Foster was born at Torbrook, south of Middleton son of Delacy Foster, whose story is recounted in ANNAPOLIS VALLEY SAGA.
His mother was Mary Sophia Vroom Foster. The Vrooms were Dutch and among the first settlers of the Parish of Clements, just west of Annapolis Royal. Dr. Foster was working on the book when he died in 1952.
Dr. Trueman became involved with the book's production in the 1970's, working on Dr. Foster's manuscript, courtesy of his (Dr. Foster's) niece, Mrs. Donald A. Knight, owner of the manuscript.
His is not, of course, the story of the completion of "the missing link." That's only a fraction of the "saga".
Instead, it is an account of a man who lived a full and interesting life right here in one of the finest places on earth, the Annapolis Valley.

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