On the 4 pages above you will be able to view through pictures McNally's Ferry, a place and a way of life no longer in existence. It was located above Mactaquac on the St. John River.   With the building of the Mactaquac Power Generating Station and Dam in the mid-1960's this general area that had been the home of 5 generations of McNally's was completely flooded.  When the first McNally, Michael, came here in the late 1780's he settled on the hills above but later generations moved down closer to the river.  The picture above shows what the area was like in the early 1900's.

    G. Fred McNally, a descendant of Michael wrote about McNally's Ferry in the introduction to his biography.  G. Fred was, in the early 1960's,  the Chancellor of the University of Alberta. He wrote: 

    "This land was densely wooded with great oak, elm, and maple trees.  Since Michael's education had been designed to prepare him as a professional soldier, it is little wonder that he faced difficulty in making a living from the land. So he proceeded to open a school.  In the meantime he had married the daughter of a (pre)-Loyalist settler, and had settled on his newly acquired estate.  In time 4 sons were born, the youngest of these, my grandfather, inherited the land.  He married early and was blessed with a large family of sturdy sons who attacked the forest of hardwoods and soon had a sizable and productive farm cleared and cultivated...."