East Riverside-Kingshurst
History
- East Riverside-Kingshurst: An Historical Sketch by Nancy Glennie
- “The History of Gibbon Road (and My Home in Particular)” by Robert Taylor
Photo Gallery
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- Wilson’s Garage In ERK (later McPhee’s home garage on Rothesay Road).
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- Aerial view: Riverside Clubhouse, centre left; Holder’s Store, below it; Riverside Train Station, lower right; Percy Thomson’s mansion, inner right.
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- Golfers and families enjoy the day, mid-to-late 1920s.
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- Benjamin Appleby was a shipbuilder in the mid 1800s. His shipyard was located in East Riverside Kingshurst at the end of Appleby Drive between 1836 and 1859.
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- In 1898, Kingshurst East Riverside, then known as East Riverside or Riverside Beach, had its own train station.
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- Duncan Hewitt’s airplane disappeared over the English Channel July 12, 1940. He was the first Canadian casualty in the Battle of Britain. (Courtesy RNS Archives)
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- Originally known as the Green farm, this property sits at the top of Green Road. (Courtesy Bill McKnight)
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- An aerial view of Low Wood Estates, Rothesay’s first condominium and town house buildings, 1963.
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- Looking down a driveway in winter, halfway up Renshaw Road, 1948. No houses yet on the opposite side of the road. (Courtesy Brian Wilson)
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- Green’s sawmill operated on the shores of the Kennebecasis River from 1900 to 1920.
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- Green’s sawmill.
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- Holder’s store, circa 1915, was located across the road from Riverside Golf Club. (Courtesy Riverside Golf Club)
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- Bill Randles, (lower right), poses behind his garage with son-in-law Frank MacPhee(standing), son Billy Jr. and Colin Rayworth, early 1940s. (Courtesy Gary Randles)
