- Boiestown, New Brunswick
Boiestown (1991 population: 349) is a Canadian rural community in Northumberland County,
New Brunswick .It is situated on the
Southwest Miramichi River approximately 60 kilometres northeast of Fredericton, near the province's geographic centre.Founded as a
lumber ing community in the early19th Century , Boiestown is named afterThomas Boies , aNew Hampshire native who owned the area's first lumber mill. Forestry is still the main industry in the area.Boiestown is home to the
Central New Brunswick Woodsmen’s Museum . Nearby attractions includePriceville Footbridge , the longest suspension footbridge in New Brunswick, andNelson Hollow Bridge , the oldest covered bridge in the province.Boiestown is the setting for "
Peter Emberley ", a well-known traditional ballad and the favourite lumbering song of New Brunswick. The song recounts the story of a young man from Prince Edward Island who was killed in the Miramichi woods when a log rolled on him. The ballad was sung throughout Atlantic Canada and in Ontario lumbercamps. It is immortalised inEdward D. Ives 1959Folkways Records album [https://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/containerdetail.aspx?itemid=983 "Folksongs of Maine"] , and in the 1962 recording [https://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/containerdetail.aspx?itemid=656 "Folksongs of the Miramichi: Lumber and River Songs from the Miramichi Folk Fest, Newcastle, New Brunswick"] .Bob Dylan 's "Ballad of Donald White" is adapted from the music and words of "Peter Emberley".External links
* [http://www.inmgroup.net/jeep1/history/id6.html History of Boiestown]
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