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VOLUME 2, ISSUE 3
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Salisbury readies for a new fire hall
Pickleball explodes in popularity
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A vital service
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A Bank Building Comes Back From the Brink
he former Bank of New Brunswick, and later Bank of Nova Scotia, building at the crossroads in Riverside-Albert is now under the care of the Chipoudy Communities Revitalization Committee (CCRC). That group is working to determine next steps for the historic structure. Until 2021 the building operated as a museum. Says William McCullum, chair of the CCRC board, “COVID hit the museum hard.” As volunteers found it difficult to continue, “our group started to talk about not allowing this building to become decrepit, or be torn down, or fall into disuse. “It took a while, but we acquired the building last May.” Its roots go back to the original construction in 1903, as the Bank of
New Brunswick, which merged with the Bank of Nova Scotia in 1913. The bank once housed a gracious apartment for the bank’s manager and family and for decades stood as one of the most prominent buildings in the community. It was moved twice – including once by horse and a small crew of men in the 1920s, and again using more modern methods around the time it was converted to a museum. The building was in fulltime use as a bank into the 1980s. At that time banks, like many other businesses and organizations, began consolidating into larger communities and closing outlets in smaller Continued on page 3
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The former Bank of New Brunswick (and later Bank of Nova Scotia) building at the crossroads in Riverside-Albert.
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1991-2025
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