Esther Clark Wright:
A Bibliography, 1914-1988

Patricia Townsend


1914

"A Contrast." Acadia Athenaeum 41 (December 1914): 70.

1915

"Christmas Night." Acadia Athenaeum 42 (December 1915): 66.

1916

"On the Washademoak." Acadia Athenaeum 42 (January 1916): 140-2.

"Rivers and Lakes." Acadia Athenaeum 42 (January 1916): 146-8.

"January Thaws." Acadia Athenaeum 42 (January 1916): 154.

"The Propylaeum Society." Acadia Athenaeum 42 (June 1916): 502.

"Public Opinion." Acadia Athenaeum 42 (June 1916): 565-8.

1917

"Mission Band Lesson." Tidings 24 (January 1917): 12-14; 24 (February 1917): 11-13.

"Mission Band Lesson: The Grande-Ligne Mission." Tidings 24 (March 1917): 17-19.

"Mission Band Lesson: On Turkey." Tidings 24 (April 1917): 12-14; 24 (May 1917): 13-14.

"Mission Band Lesson: Missions to Turkey." Tidings 24 (June 1917): 12-14.

"Mission Band Lesson: On Persia." Tidings 24 (July/August 1917): 11-12.

"Mission Band Lesson: On South America." Tidings 24 (September 1917): 14-15.

"Mission Band Lesson: Bolivia." Tidings 24 (October 1917): 11-12.

"Mission Band Lesson: African Adventurers." Tidings 24 (November 1917): 30-2; 24 (December 1917): 10-12.

1918

"Mission Band Lesson: African Adventurers." Tidings 25 (January 1918): 11-13; 25 (February 1918): 13-14; 25 (April 1918): 13-15; 25 (May 1918): 16-17.

1919

"The Challenge to Canadian Womanhood." The Maritime Baptist 14 (20 August 1919): 11.

1920

"The Student Volunteer Convention at Des Moines, December 31-January 4." The Maritime Baptist 15 (4 February 1920): 8.

1922

"Overseas Students in British Universities." Canadian Student 4 (March 1922): 18-20.

1924

"On Behalf of the Rising Generation." The Maritime Baptist 19 (26 March 1924): 5.

1926

"On Being a Canadian." Canadian Forum 6 (September 1926): 374-5.

"A Selected Bibliography of Publications, 1920-25, Relating to the World Wheat Situation." Wheat Studies 11 (August 1926): 293-324.

1931

"The Genesis of the Civil Engineer in Great Britain, 1760-1830." Ph.D. dissertation, Radcliffe/Harvard University, 1931. [467] p.

1932

"Acadia Notes." The Maritime Baptist 27 (27 January 1932): 13; 37 (10 February 1932): 13; 26 (6 April 1932): 13; 26 (27 April 1932): 13; 26 (11 May 1932): 13.

1933

"Acadia Notes." The Maritime Baptist 37 (25 January 1933): 12-13; 37 (15 March 1933): 13; 37 (12 April 1933): 13.

"At the Village Well: A Play in Three Scenes." Tidings 62 (December 1935): 6-8.

1936

"The Wild Cherry Trees." Dalhousie Review 16 (July 1936): 209-11.

1937

"The Man Who Puts the Empire to Bed." Dalhousie Review 16 (January 1937): 473-4. [radio broadcasts.]

1938

"Centennial Notes." Acadia Bulletin 24 (July 1938): 23-4.

"Centennial Plans." Acadia Bulletin 24 (April 1938): 1-3.

"The Early Smeatonians." Newcomen Society Transactions 18 (1937/38): 101-10.

"The Robins." Dalhousie Review 18 (April 1938): 77-81. [birds.]

1940

Alexander Clark, Loyalist; A Contribution to the History of New Brunswick. Kentville, N.S.: Printed by the Kentville Publishing Co., 1940. 81 p.

"Brook Lore." Dalhousie Review 20 (July 1940): 213-8.

1941

"Acadia’s Twenty-Five Year Class." Acadia Bulletin 27 (May 1941): 1-3.

"Amber For Paddington." The Maritime Baptist 36 (4 June 1941): 6-7.

1943

"Pioneer Families of New Brunswick." Telegraph-Journal "[Simonds.]" 74 (10 July 1943): 3; "[Babbitt.]" 74 (14 July 1943): 3; "[Greenlaw.]" 74 (17 July 1943): 3; "[Knapp.]" 74 (21 July 1943): 3; "[Logie or Loggie.]" 74 (24 July 1943): 2; "[Williston.]" 74 (28 July 1943): 3; "[Atherton.]" 74 (31 July 1943): 11; "[Knight.]" 74 (4 August 1943): 3; "[Lutz.]" 74 (7 August 1943): 2; "[Miles.]" 74 (11 August 1943): 3; "[Carle.]" 74 (14 August 1943): 3; "[Mckay.]" 74 (18 August 1943): 3; "[Wiggins.]" 74 (21 August 1943): 3; "[Smith.]" 74 (25 August 1943): 3; "[Boyer.]" 74 (28 August 1943): 3; "[Holder.]" 74 (1 September 1943): 2; "[Spragg.]" 74 (1 September 1943): 2; "[Davidson.]" 74 (8 September 1943): 3; "[Estey.]" 74 (11 September 1943): 3; "[Slipp.]" 74 (16 September 1943): 3; "[Dixon.]" 74 (18 September 1943): 3, 6; "[Beatteay.]" 74 (22 September 1943): 3; "[Underhill.]" 74 (23 September 1943): 3; "[Springer.]" 74 (29 September 1943): 3; "[Wetmore.]" 74 (2 October 1943): 3; "[Hatfield.]" 74 (6 October 1943): 2; "[Griffith.]" 74 (9 October 1943): 2; "[Palmer.]" 74 (13 October 1943): 3; "[Peck.]" 74 (16 October 1943): 2; "[Freeze.]" 74 (21 October 1943): 3; "[Huestis.]" 74 (23 October 1943): 3; "[Libby.]" 74 (27 October 1943): 3; "[Grierson.]" 74 (30 October 1943): 2; "[Hammond.]" 74 (3 November 1943): 3; "[Adams.]" 74 (8 November 1943): 3; "[Stockton.]" 74 (12 November 1943): 3; "[Melick.]" 74 (13 November 1943): 3; "[Lyon.]" 74 (17 November 1943): 3; "[Perley.]" 74 (20 November 1943): 3; "[Smith.]" 74 (24 November 1943): 2; "[Ingraham.]" 74 (27 November 1943): 3; "[Bull.]" 74 (1 December 1943): 2; "[Merritt.]" 74 (4 December 1943): 2-3; "[Dingee.]" 74 (8 December 1943): 3; "[Peabody.]" 74 (13 December 1943):2.

"Pre-Loyalists of New Brunswick." Educational Review 57 (March 1943): 12-15; 57 (April 1943): 11-15.

"The River Miramichi." Maritime Advocate and Busy East 34 (September 1943): 10-13, 29-30; 34 (October 1943): 10-13, 29-30; 34 (November/December 1943): 15-16, 18-21; 34 (January/February 1944): 19-27.

"St. Anne’s Point, 1783 to 1785." Daily Gleaner 53 (25 March 1943): 5; 53 (26 March 1943): 5; 53 (27 March 1943): 5.

Reviews: "A Conflict of Loyalties". Dalhousie Review 23 (April 1943): 83-6. [Thomas H. Raddall, His Majesty’s Yankees (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1943).]

1944

"The Founding of the Baptist Churches in New Brunswick." Tidings 70 (March 1944): 6-8.

"Landscape With Trees." Dalhousie Review 23 (January 1944): 441-7.

The Miramichi: A Study of the New Brunswick River and of the People Who Settled Along It. Sackville, N.B.: Tribune Press, 1944. 79 p.

"The Settlement of New Brunswick: An Advance Toward Democracy." Canadian Historical Association Report (1944): 53-60.

"Winning the Peace." Acadian 63 (9 March 1944): 3; also published in Maritime Advocate and Busy East 34 (May 1944): 20-1, 31.

1945

The Petitcodiac: A Study of the New Brunswick River and of the People Who Settled Along It. Sackville, N.B.: Tribune Press, 1945. 72 p.

"The River Petitcodiac." Maritime Advocate and Busy East 35 (January 1945): 10-13, 31; 35 (February 1945): 17-21; 35 (March 1945): 25-7; 35 (April 1945): 18-20; 35 (May/June/July 1945): 21-3; 35 (July 1945): 19-21; 36 (August 1945): 24-5; 36 (September 1945): 18-19.

1946

"Abiel Richardson, Innholder, of Cambridge, Mass." New England Historical and Genealogical Register 100 (April 1946): 128-32.

"Cumberland Township: A Focal Point of Early Settlement on the Bay of Fundy." Canadian Historical Review 27, 1 (March 1946): 27-32.

"Wife of Home Mission Pastor Honored by Acadia University." Link and Visitor 19 (1946): 291. [Alice Eliza Howlett Corey, wife of Judson Albert Corey.]

1947

"The Berry Pitcher." Dalhousie Review 27 (July 1947): 177-82.

"Last Willow Tree on River Bank Has Gone With Others." Daily Gleaner 57 (24 October 1947): 9, 12.

Review: Leviathan in Crisis, compiled and edited by Waldo R. Browne (Macmillan in Canada, n.d.); If Men Want Peace, edited by Joseph B. Harrison, Linden A. Mander and Nathaniel H. Engle (Macmillan in Canada, 1946); Griffith Taylor, Our Evolving Civilization (Toronto, n.d.); Dalhousie Review 27 (October 1947): 3+1, 374-5.

1949

The Saint John River. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1949. 254 p.

1950

"From the People [letter to the editor]." Daily Gleaner 60 (4 October 1950): 3. [protests increase in bread prices.]

"The Pennsylvania Dutch in New Brunswick." Pennsylvania Dutchman 11 (1 September 1950): 5.

"Should This Be ?" Optimist 3 (February 1950): 3-7.

"Trodden Ways." Dalhousie Review 29 (January 1950): 385-91.

1951

"Dutch on the Petitcodiac – Jacob Trites of Monckton." Pennsylvania Dutchman 11 (15 April 1951): 5.

"The Un-Maritime Provinces." Maritime Advocate and Busy East 41 (May 1951): 2, 27.

1953

"Regional Conference, Moncton, N.B., October 3, 1953." News Letter (Canadian Federation of University Women) 1 (December 1953): 2.

"Sixth International Conference of Social Work." Canadian Welfare 28 (1 February 1953): 11-12.

1954

"The Voyage of the Camel." The Maritime Baptist 22 (2 June 1954): 12 (264).

1955

"Elizabeth Cummings of Petitcodiac." Maritime Advocate and Busy East 45 ( July 1955): 9-12.

"The Fourth Vice-President [a report]." The Chronicle (1955/56): 54.

The Loyalists of New Brunswick. Fredericton, N.B., 1955. 365 p. Reprinted in 1972, revised in 1977 and reprinted in 1981 and in 1985.

1956

"The Effect of the Automobile on Canadian Life." Food for Thought 17 (November 1956): 69-73.

1957

Blomidon Rose. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1957. 206 p. Reprinted in 1972.

"The Naming of Monkton Mills." Maryland Historical Magazine 52 (September 1957): 248-50.

"Perennial Annuals." Canadian Welfare 32 (1 February 1957): 271-2. [flowers.]

1958

"Meet Senator Muriel McQueen Fergusson, Patroness of Young Canada’s Book Week, 1958." Canadian Library Association Bulletin 15 (July 1958): 22.

1959

"Canadians and Geography." Food for Thought 20 (December 1959): 108-11.

Grandmother’s Child: The Life of Harriet H.R. Clark. Ottawa: E. C. Wright, 1959. 110 p.

"Place of Pollock: The Passamaquoddy Bay." Canadian Geographical Journal 58 (June 1959): 182-7.

1960

"Two Hundred Years in Canada." Atlantic Advocate 50 (February 1960): 93-5. [Wright’s ancestors settle in Fort Beauséjour area.]

1961

Samphire Greens: The Story of the Steeves. Ottawa: The Author, 1961. 94, [15] p.

1965

"In Journeyings Oft." Proceedings and Minutes of the Seventh Assembly of the Baptist Federation of Canada. Acadia University, Wolfville, N.S., August 22-25, 1964, 52-6. Brantford, Ont.: [Canadian Baptist] Federation Office, 1965. [the progress of the Baptist cause in the Maritimes in the early 19th century.]

The Steeves Descendants. Wolfville, N.S., 1965. 923 p.

1966

"How the Petitcodiac Was Settled." Telegraph-Journal 70 (27 January 1966): 4.

The St. John River and Its Tributaries. Wolfville N.S., 1966. 218 p. Reprinted in 1983.

"Steeves Family and Others Settled on Petitcodiac River, January 27, 1766." Daily Gleaner (27 January 1966): 3.

Review: Hangman’s Beach, by Thomas H. Raddall. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966. 421 p. Acadian 86 (1 December 1966): 2.

1967

"Edinburgh Festival, 1967." Acadian 87 (26 October 1967): 10.

"Fredericton, Fair Daughter of the Forest." Habitat 10 (nos. 3-6, 1967): 22-6.

"New Brunswick." Canadian Author and Bookman 42 (Summer 1967): 25.

Review: Frozen Ships: The Arctic Diary of Johann Miertsching, 1850-1854, translated and with an introduction by L. H. Neatby (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1967). 254 p. Acadian 87 (12 October 1967): 4.

Review: Tales from the Fens, by W. H. Barrett. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963). 203 p. Acadian 84 (9 March 1967): 8.

1969

"The Loyalist Bicentennial." Loyalist Gazette 7 (Spring 1969): 1, 4.

1972

With A. W. Skempton. "Early Members of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers." Newcomen Society Transactions 44 (1971/72): 23-47.

1973

People and Places, I: New Brunswick. Wolfville, N.S., 1973. 132 p.

1974

"Mrs. Solomon’s Fingers." Second Mile (December 1974): 13-14.

The Ships of St. Martins: Shipbuilding and a List of Vessels Built at St. Martins, New Brunswick, 1800-1899. Seascope Series; 2. Saint John, N.B.: New Brunswick Museum, 1974. 47 p. Reprinted in 1978.

1975

"The First Woman Speaker of the Senate." Second Mile (December 1975): 23-6. [Muriel McQueen Fergusson.]

"Only Seven Years to Plan." Loyalist Gazette 13 (Autumn 1975): 3.

1976

"The Boy from the Farm Who Made Good." Second Mile (December 1976): 20-3.

Saint John Ships and Their Shipbuilders. Wolfville, N.S.: E. C. Wright, 1976. 229 p.

"Treasures in New Brunswick." Second Mile (August 1976): 17-19.

A Tribute to Frances Maud McNally, 1876-1945. [S.l.: s.n., 1976.] 6 p. ["written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Acadia School of Economics, 1926-1976."]

Review: Ravenscrag: The Allan Royal Mail Line, by Thomas E. Appleton (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974). 222 p. Canadian Historical Review 57, 2 (June 1976): 207-8.

1977

"The Miracle of Restored Sight." Second Mile (February 1977): 3-6.

"Women and the State." Atlantis 3 (Fall 1977): 194-203.

1978

Planters and Pioneers. Wolfville, N.S.: E. C. Wright, 1978. 300 p. [Revised in 1982.]

1979

"Malls: Uneconomical and Ugly." Advertiser 100 (28 November 1979): 5.

1980

"A Note on the DeWolf Family of Nova Scotia." Pacific Studies 3 (no. 2, 1980): 41- 2.

"Without Intervention of Prophet, Priest or King." In Repent and Believe: The Baptist Experience in Maritime Canada, edited by Barry M. Moody, 66-74. Baptist Heritage in Atlantic Canada; v. 2. Hantsport, N.S.: Lancelot Press, 1980.

1983

"Discovering the Loyalists." Loyalist Gazette 21 (Spring 1983): 15-16.

"The Loyalist Today." Loyalist Gazette 21 (Spring 1983): 16.

1986

Back a Long Way. Wolfville, N.S.: E. C. Wright, 1986. 152 p.

1987

"Miss Chase, Miss Chute, Miss Clark." Acadia Bulletin 72 (Winter 1987/88): 12-13.

1988

"[Banquet Address.]" In They Planted Well: New England Planters in Maritime Canada, edited by Margaret Conrad, 320-1. Planters Studies Series; no. 1. Fredericton, N.B.: Acadiensis Press, 1988.

"Cumberland Township: A Focal Point of Early Settlement on the Bay of Fundy." In They Planted Well..., 36-41. [This is a reprint from Canadian Historical Review 27, 1 (March 1946): 27-32.]