Eastern Shore families: Head of Jeddore / Robert Kim Stevens. – Lake Charlotte: Maritime Imprints, 2001.
“Hosking (Roberts), Mildred Edna”. Chronicle Herald. 28 Jan. 2010 http://jobspress.com/announcements/obituaries/hosking-roberts-mildred-edna-%E2%80%94-93-oyster-pond
Memories of Oyster Pond's Village Store: 1891-1975 / Memory Lane Heritage Village, Lake Charlotte, Nova Scotia. – (Community Memories / Virtual Museum of Canada). 27 Jan. 2010 http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm.php?id=exhibit_home&fl=0&lg=English&ex=00000291
Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics / Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management.
Artefacts related to the Mitchell, Hosking family and store are accessioned under 2012.012 and 2012.013.
Flora Henry (1853-1918) came to Oyster Pond, Halifax County, Nova Scotia in the early 1870s to teach school. On December 8, 1875, she married John Duncan Mitchell (1845-1885). John Duncan Mitchell was a local seaman who was a grandson of Colin Campbell Mitchell (ca. 1767-1847) who immigrated to Nova Scotia from Fifeshire, Scotland in 1784. John had worked as a ship’s carpenter on the schooner “P.C. Hill” while it was captained by his uncle Philip Mitchell (1806-1871). John and Flora had two children together, Roxanna “Roxie” Ethel (1877-1941) and William Mose Ogle “Willie O” (1881-1949). John Duncan died in 1885 and in 1891 Flora, known then as Mrs. J.D. Mitchell or “Flowie Dunc,” opened a store in Oyster Pond. After Flora’s death in 1918, primary responsibilities for the store were passed to her son W.M.O. Mitchell, who continued running it until his death in 1949.
Frederick William Hosking (1874-1931) was a baker who immigrated to Nova Scotia from Portsmouth, England. On September 30, 1903 Hosking married Roxanna “Roxie” Ethel Mitchell (1877-1941). Roxanna was born in Oyster Pond, Halifax County, Nova Scotia and before she married Frederick, she worked as a dry goods clerk in Halifax. Frederick and Roxanna had two children, William Lyall (1905-1926) and Garth Merdon Leon (1912-1994). Frederick served overseas in the First World War and probably during this time Roxanna moved back to her family home in Oyster Pond, where her mother Flora (Henry) Mitchell (1853-1918) and brother William Mose Ogle “Willie O” Mitchell (1881-1949) were operating a store. After the war, the Hoskings opened an ice cream parlour on the second floor of the store. Frederick also spent time living and working in the United States, and died there in 1931. In 1939 their son Garth Hosking married Mildred Edna Roberts (1916-2009), a schoolteacher from Truro. In the late 1930s, Garth opened a garage near the Oyster Pond store, and upon his uncle W.M.O. Mitchell’s death in 1949, he assumed ownership of the store. The store was operated primarily by his wife Mildred Hosking until it closed around 1975. Garth and Mildred had three children, Elaine (Hosking) Dooks, Marlene (Hosking) LeLacheur, and Merdon Hosking.
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Includes: 70 photographs, 15 folders of textual records, 4 books, and 2 maps.
Fonds consists of records of the family of F. Mitchell and the related Hosking family of Nova Scotia and includes financial records, records related to the Murray Harbour Black and Silver Fox Ranching Company, photographs, diary excerpts, correspondence, certificates, records related to tourism, wartime and military memorabilia, religious records, records related to the Freemasons, and music.
Different accessions are arranged separately.
Some tintype photographs have rust and/ or flaking emulsion and the page from Flora Mitchell's diary is very delicate and torn in places. A book of poetry contained within the fonds is also fragile and its back cover has fallen off.
Some records (accessions 2003.011 and 2006.001) were donated by Mildred Hosking in 1995 as part of the contents of the Garth M. Hosking General Store building. The remainder of the records (accessions 2010.011, 2010.012 and 2010.013) were donated by Garth and Mildred Hoskings daughter Elaine Dooks in a series of transfers in 2010.
Possible additional accruals expected.
Records remained in the custody of the Mitchell and Hosking families until they were transferred to the care of the Lake Charlotte Area Heritage Society. A portion of the records were kept in the Garth M. Hosking General Store until the store was dismantled by the society in 1995. The records were then transferred several times to different storage locations under the supervision of the society. The records remained in basement storage (with dehumidifier) for approximately five years before being transferred to their final storage area in the Eastern Shore Archives in 2003. The remainder of the records were kept in the Mitchell/Hosking family home in Oyster Pond and were transferred to the Eastern Shore Archives in a series of transfers in 2010.
Donations were made by Mildred Hosking in 2003 and 2006 and by Elaine and Max Dooks in 2010 and 2011.
Title based on contents of fonds.
Scanned photographs are available in the photo archives database. The numbers of the scans are located on the posterior of the original photographs.
Typed transcript of the diary page is available.
Researchers are asked to view scanned photographs in photo archives database in order to minimize handling of originals.
Researchers are asked to view typed transcripts of diary excerpts due to fragile state of original document.
[File list available.](http://www.heritagevillage.ca/LCASresources/Mitchell_Hosking_Finding_Aid.pdf)
Philip Mitchell was born on May 29, 1806 and was the son of Catherine Elizabeth Webber and Colin Campbell Mitchell (ca. 1767-1847), who immigrated to Nova Scotia from Fifeshire, Scotland in 1784. Philip lived in Jeddore, never married, and had no children. According to his death record, he worked as a ship’s carpenter. He was also a seaman and captain of the schooner “P.C. Hill.” He died of inflammation on December 14, 1871. John Duncan Mitchell, husband of Flora (Henry) Mitchell, was the son of Philip’s brother John William Mitchell.
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Series forms part of F. Mitchell, Hosking family fonds and consists of personal receipts, invoices, bills, lists of expenditures, and policies mostly belonging to the Hosking and Mitchell families, as well as one receipt from the store of G. L. Monk in Ship Harbour for lumber.
Series also includes one land grant, two land indentures, two maps and one bill of sale.
The land grant is dated August 12, 1834 and in it the Crown grants Colin Mitchell Sr. two hundred acres of land in Oyster Pond adjacent to a lot of land granted to Edward Hare. The document discusses the boundaries of the property and includes a map of the Oyster Pond area, clearly showing Colin Mitchell’s land grant as well as that of Edward Hares, and land near Navy Pool surveyed for W. Myers. The land grant is signed by Lieutenant Governor, Major General Sir Colin Campbell. The second map in the series is of a land grant map of Halifax County from the Department of Lands and Forests dated 1932.The land indentures include one transaction between Samuel Mitchell and John D. Mitchell dated April 7, 1873. In it, Samuel Mitchell gives John D. Mitchell a parcel of land at the head of Jeddore harbour, in the area of Oyster Pond, for the sum of forty dollars. The document is witnessed by Timothy Archibald John Cribby. The second indenture is between Hibbert, Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia, and Archibald Prest and dated 1883. In the indenture, Prest buys a parcel of land in Mooseland for the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars. The bill of sale is dated November 25, 1874 and transfers sixty-four shares in the ship P.C. Hill to John Mitchell.
Series also includes records regarding the settlement of the estate and outstanding debts of the late Philip Mitchell. The estate was settled by his nephew, John Duncan Mitchell.
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Series forms part of F. Mitchell, Hosking family fonds and consists of records related to the establishment of Murray Harbour Black and Silver Fox Ranching Company, Limited, a fox farming enterprise at Murray Harbour, Prince Edward Island. W.M.O. Mitchell became an investor in the business, which was short-lived. Series includes correspondence, brochures, financial updates, shareholder meeting notices, and other records. Correspondence is primarily between Mitchell and E. Sullivan, President of Gunn & Co. Limited, who was a founding shareholder in the company. Series also includes receipts and correspondence related to Mitchell’s purchase of stocks in the Wilden Silver Black Fox Company, Limited, which was possibly affiliated to the Murray Harbour company.
Originals of photographs that have been scanned are located in the photo binder [OS-A2] in the Webber aisle. The oversized photograph of Flora Mitchell is located in the Webber aisle, box OS-E1.
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Series forms part of F. Mitchell, Hosking family fonds and consists of photographs accumulated by the Mitchell and Hosking families. Photographs are of people and places along the Eastern Shore, some of which are identified, including Mitchell and Hosking family members as well as pictures of the Garth M. Hosking General Store and Hosking’s Garage. Also includes a photograph of Mrs. Flora Mitchell. One picture, taken significantly later than the others, depicts Mildred Hosking and two other people in front of an historical display of the Hosking Store, probably around 1995.
Some tintype photographs have rust and/or flaking emulsion.
Scanned photographs are available in the photo archives database on the computer. The numbers of the scans are located on the posterior of the original photographs.
Researchers are asked to view scanned photographs in photo archives database in order to minimize handling of originals.
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Series forms part of F. Mitchell, Hosking family fonds and consists of an excerpt from the diary of Flora Mitchell.
Paper is very delicate and torn in places.
Researchers are asked to view typed transcripts due to fragile condition of original document.
Includes typed transcripts.
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Series forms part of F. Mitchell, Hosking family fonds and consists of three letters including one handwritten letter addressed to Mildred and Garth Hosking, one handwritten letter addressed to Roxie Mitchell Hosking from Jemima (possibly Jemima Catherine Mitchell, m. Nelson Havelock Mitchell), and two typed letters to Garth Hosking from Atlantic Chevrolet-Oldsmobile Ltd. Also includes one military related post card and other material.
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Series forms part of F. Mitchell, Hosking family fonds and consists of four certificates including two presented to William Hosking, one given to Garth Hosking, and a voter registration certificate belonging to Mildred Hosking.
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Series forms part of F. Mitchell, Hosking family fonds and consists of brochures and correspondence belonging to Garth Hosking regarding tourism on the Eastern Shore.
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Series forms part of F. Mitchell, Hosking family fonds and consists of a book of poems from the First World War, a postcard, meal schedule, and a package of cigarette papers.
Book of poems is fragile and the back cover has fallen off.
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Series forms part of F. Mitchell, Hosking family fonds and consists of a booklet containing financial records of the Missionary and Maintenance (M & M) Fund from 1959 to 1966 as well as sheet music for the song, “My Prayer.” The Missionary and Maintenance Fund was operated by a committee within the United Church. The funds were collected and sent to Mrs. Gaetz of Musquodoboit Harbour, who was the general secretary.
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Series forms part of F. Mitchell, Hosking family fonds and consists of two programs outlining the details of meetings in 1952.
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Series forms part of F. Mitchell, Hosking family fonds and consists of four music books that belonged to Willie O. Mitchell, who was an excellent piano player.