Clam Harbour (N.S.)

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              Financial records and permits
              Series · 1903-1941
              Part of Laura F. Stoddard family fonds
              Series is part of the Laura F. Stoddard family fonds and contains one booklet from The Great-West Life Assurance Company that includes financial notes as well as a handwritten will whose author and beneficiaries are unknown. Series also includes one Halifax County tax receipt to Walter Stoddard from 1903, one life insurance policy for W. E. Stoddard from 1914 and one insurance policy renewal notice. Series also consists of one permit for transit from Halifax to Clam Harbour for the body of Florence Stoddard, sister of Laura Stoddard. Accession number: 2013.010
              Post office records
              Series · 1894-1919
              Part of Laura F. Stoddard family fonds
              Series is part of the Laura F. Stoddard family fonds and consists of three ledgers containing general records of registered mail for 1894-1903, 1904, and 1914-1919. Series also consists of two notes from William Condon of the Egg Island Light c.1897 to Walter Stoddard, Postmaster at Clam Harbour, concerning registered mail as well as one note from another sender dated May 1895. These notes were originally located in the registered letters journal for the post office. Series also includes one certificate of post office registration for a letter addressed to Parker Archibald, and two Post Office Department notices to the postmaster at Clam Harbour concerning his salary as well as three envelopes. Accession number: 2013.010
              E. Homans clam factory
              Series · [ca. 1920-1930]
              Part of Laura F. Stoddard family fonds
              Series is part of the Laura F. Stoddard fonds and consists of one label for canned clams packaged in Clam Harbour by E. Homans. Ebenezer Homans (1858-1933) owned a clam factory in Clam Harbour (c. 1920s) in addition to a lobster factory in Little Harbour (c. 1930s-1940s) and a general store which he established in 1901, making him the first storekeeper in the Clam Harbour area. He was the father of John Homans, who took over the family store following the death of his father. Accession number: 2013.010
              Arts and recreation
              Series · [ca. 1870]- 1950
              Part of Laura F. Stoddard family fonds
              Series is part of the Laura F. Stoddard family fonds and consists of three envelopes of quilt patterns and seven cards with instructions for various dance steps including the waltz quadrille, polka quadrille, first sett quadrilles, military polka, Saratoga lancers, lancers, and the Caledonia quadrille. Series also includes two watercolour paintings by H. Brownhill. Harold Brownhill of Halifax was registered at the Stoddard Hotel on August 25, 1946. Both paintings features landscapes and one shows the Clam Harbour Church with the original steeple. Series also includes a photograph of one of the paintings. Harold Brownhill was born in 1887 in Sheffield, England and married Eugenie Mason of Halifax on July 10, 1916. Harold worked as an accountant and they had five children: Donald Hugh, Eugenie, Hazel, Douglas Sydney, and Roberta Grace. Series also consists of one poem by Burns Marks of Ship Harbour entitled Good Hopes in Britain’s Pride. Burns ‘Austin’ Marks was born July 14, 1898 in Ship Harbour. His parents were Catherine Caroline Quinn and Martin Gay Black Marks of Ship Harbour. Burns Marks died July 14, 1964 in Halifax. He was known locally as a poet and wrote many other poems related to local history and residents. Series also consists of one brochure for Camp Charlotte, Ship Harbour Lake. The brochure asks interested visitors to book through a Miss Helen R. Saunders and Miss Annie G. Creighton, USA. Camp Charlotte was just an idea that never actually came to be, no camp was established. Accession number: 2013.010
              Committees
              Series · [ca.1930-1960]
              Part of Laura F. Stoddard family fonds
              Series is part of the Laura F. Stoddard family fonds and consists of one sign posted by The Cranberry Committee, prohibiting the picking of cranberries and foxberries in the area between the first of August and the first of October. Accession number: 2013.010
              Correspondence
              Series · 1910-1934
              Part of Laura F. Stoddard family fonds
              Series forms part of Laura F. Stoddard family fonds and consists of eleven postcards, a Christmas card, and several notes to Hannah, Walter, and Laura Stoddard from various correspondents and from all over the world including Italy, the United States, and Britain. Series also contains ten letters to Walter and Hannah Stoddard from Reverend James Anderson including nine prayer cards. In addition there are two military Christmas cards from 1918 to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stoddard including one from a Private Duncan near [Brussels] and one from France from N. Webber of the Canadian Forestry Corps, 70th Co. Overseas. There is also one letter to Mrs. Hannah Stoddard from the Imperial War Graves Commission dated 1923 concerning the erection of a headstone, correspondence to Hannah Stoddard from the Treasury Department, Bureau of War Risk Insurance concerning the life insurance of Frank Cecil Stoddard who was enlisted in the US army; and a wreath order form and card sent to Mrs. W. E. Stoddard from the War Graves Commission. Series also includes a number of birth and wedding announcements as well as a letter to Walter Stoddard from his brother Dr. T. A. Stoddard discussing the purchase of land to establish a muskrat, mink, and fox fur farm. There is also a booklet on raising muskrats, which is referenced in the letter. Accession number: 2013.010
              World War I memorabilia
              Series · [ca. 1914-1920]
              Part of Laura F. Stoddard family fonds
              Series forms part of Laura F. Stoddard family fonds and consists of items from the Stoddard Hotel that date to the First World War. Series includes one postcard featuring the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London; four Union Jack stamps, and one “Subscriber Victory Loan 1918” card with an attached pin that says “Victory Loan Salesman.” Accession number: 2013.010
              Photographs
              Series · [ca.1890]-1962
              Part of Laura F. Stoddard family fonds
              Series forms part of the Laura F. Stoddard family fonds and consists of three photographs including two photographs of a church c. 1962, one interior and one exterior, and one photograph circa late nineteenth to early twentieth century of a man and woman with six children. Accession number: 2013.010
              Helene Read fonds
              Helene Read fonds
              Fonds · ca.1790-1996
              Consists of records related to the life, activities, and interests of Helene Read and includes family photographs, Stoddard family history and land information, personal and professional correspondence, information about the Nova Scotia Lifeguard Service and other organizations with which Helene was involved. Accession number 2013.019
              Land indentures, maps, wills
              Series · ca. 1760-1945
              Part of Helene Read fonds
              Series forms part of the Helene Read fonds and consists of a land indenture dated August 8, 1799 in which possession of land in Clam Harbour is passed from Robert, Colin, and Patrick Campbell and their wives to Thomas Stoddard. Series also includes information concerning other land grants in Clam Harbour belonging to the Campbell and Stoddard families between 1765 to 1894 and 1945. Four maps are also included in the series and include plans dated 1956 showing the division of the estate of James Stoddard as per his will, a map of the lands of Ralph Stoddard dated 1970, and two maps showing the subdivision of Lot 1 lands owned by Douglas F. Stoddard dated 1963. In addition there is one map of the land belonging to Robert Sr., Duncan, and Robert Campbell as well as two pages of microfilm copies of the land grant document presumably for that piece of land c. 1760. All maps pertain to land in Clam Harbour. Series also contains copies of the wills of James Edward Stoddard, Thomas Stoddard, Adam Stoddard, Edmund Fanning Stoddard, and documents concerning the estate of Nancy Stoddard. Accession number 2013.019