Since fall 2022, Archives & Special Collections has been digitizing issues of Acadia’s student newspaper, the Athenaeum, making decades of student perspectives on campus life fully searchable and accessible to the public from anywhere in the world. More than 500 issues are now available online on the Archives & Special Collections digital collections website. We need your help to finish the...
The phrase “six precious souls and a man from Gaspereau” has been attributed to Rev. Dr. John Mockett Cramp, President of Acadia College. After extensive research through multiple collections locally and nationally, Archivist Wendy Robicheau found no written source to prove that he uttered this phrase. He may well have said it, but the written evidence no longer seems to exist. According to...
“Professor Chipman was upon the mainsail, which had got adrift when the boat upset. He was heard to call aloud for help, but none could be rendered. [Charles] Benjamin saw him at about twenty rods distance, a few minutes before Mr. Very sunk: he appeared to be then dead.” (Distressing Calamity, Christian Messenger extra, 11 June 1852, 1) The story told by Charles Benjamin and recounted in the...
