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Lieutenant Governor presents Regional Heritage Fair awards

16/5/2016

The day's finale: a group photo of the students on the Courthouse steps. Back row (l to r) MLA Brian Keirstead, Dawne McLean, His Honour, Mr. Ronald Vienneau, and Lt.Gov. Jocelyne Roy Vienneau.

The Albert County Museum was bustling with activity and excitement on Wednesday, May 11 with Anglophone East students participating in the 2016 Regional Heritage Fair.

This year, the Honourable Jocelyne Roy Vienneau, Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, and His Honour, Mr. Ronald Vienneau were present to view the heritage projects and then participate in the Awards Ceremony, making this an extraordinary experience for all in attendance.

A brief history of the Steeves family name

13/5/2016

Heinrich and Regina Stief left their homeland Germany in 1749 and settled in Pennsylvania. From there, in 1766, they and a small group of fellow settlers migrated to the rough terrain around New Brunswick's Petitcodiac River.

Faced with starvation, frigid winters, and abandonment by their sponsors-‐among them Benjamin Franklin‐-the settlers defied the odds by not only surviving, but prospering. The Stief family finally settled in what is now Hillsborough, Albert County, New Brunswick.

In the Return of Inhabitants of the Township of Hillsborough taken in 1783 the Stief name disappeared and was anglicized into Steeve. The Walling Map of 1862 records the name as Steves and after a couple other subsequent ‘clerical errors’ the name has become Steeves. Steeves descendants now number upwards of 300,000 worldwide.

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Lieutenant Governor presents Regional Heritage Fair awards

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