The Connell House Museum maintains the house built in 1839 by Charles Connell, a prominent Woodstock citizen who served as New Brunswick postmaster general until the five-cent-stamp scandal.
Public can tour and even play old instruments in former postmaster general’s house in Woodstock
Jordan Gill · CBC News
· Posted: Aug 16, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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Connell House was the home of Charles Connell, one of the province’s most influential politicians during the era around Confederation. (Jordan Gill/CBC)
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We don’t know why Charles Connell, a politician of Loyalist stock who settled in Woodstock, replaced the face of Queen Victoria on New Brunswick five-cent stamps with his own face when he was the colony’s postmaster general.
We do know it cost him his job.
“It didn’t defeat him long,” said Joanne Barrett, the executive director of the Carleton County Historical Society, which runs the museum in the home that Connell, who made his money in the lumber industry,
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