Monday, July 2, 2007



This artifact was donated to the Museum four years ago. It was found among the contents of one of Bathurst's oldest homes, Joe Doucet's home that eventually became the florists shop known as "Oliver's Gardens". A plaque was placed on this home several years ago and when it was sold and remained florist shop under a local owner, the Oliver family left Bathurst for the West. Some time later when the Olivers were closing their property in BC they discovered this "Intercolonial Railway Baggage Tag" in an old trunk which originally came from Bathurst and belonged to Joe Doucet and was used as the railway tag in the town of Bathurst. The late Mrs. Oliver thought it belonged in Bathurst and forwarded it to the Museum where it is displayed inside a brass shadow box frame.

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