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Annabel (Siteman) Ells fonds
Annabel (Siteman) Ells fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1900-1969]
The fonds consists of records accumulated by Annabel (Siteman) Ells during the course of her research on the area of Ship Harbour and the families who lived there as well as personal records created and accumulated throughout her lifetime. The fonds includes a wide variety of records such as land related documents, wills, Loyalist petitions, census information, court papers, church registers and vital statistics including marriage, birth, and death records; school papers, genealogies, clippings and notes taken from various newspapers and periodicals, photographs and negatives, correspondence, postcards, and diaries. The records within the fonds shed light on the history of Ship Harbour and its families, the work of Annabel Ells, her personal life from a young girl growing up on the Eastern Shore to travelling as a young woman and attending school, entering into various careers, living as an independent woman in the early 20th century, her marriage later in life and her lifelong interest in her Ship Harbour home. http://www.heritagevillage.ca/LCASresources/Annabel_%28Siteman%29_Ells_fonds_Inventory.pdf Accession number 2013.066
Edith MacInnis collection
Collection · 1913-1973
Collection consists of materials accumulated by Edith MacInnis including Dr. MacDonald's Almanac, published by J. MacDonald, M.D., Binghamton, N.Y. (1913); T. Eaton Co. Maritimes Limited wallpaper sample book (ca. 1950s); EMAC Times, vol. 1, Grade 9-A school paper from St. Mary's Rural High (1973); The Canso Breeze, vol. 49, no. 29 (October 4, 1968); one minute book for the Melrose School Club (ca. 1952-1953); and one topographical map of Liscomb (1975). 2016.002
Eldorado Lodge No. 32 A.F. & A.M. fonds
Eldorado Lodge No. 32 A.F. & A.M. fonds
Fonds · ca. 1882-1910
Fonds consist of one meeting minutes book for Eldorado Lodge No. 32 A.F. & A.M., located in Wine Harbour, Guysborough County (ca. 1892-1910). 2020.043
Hart Family fonds
Fonds · 1870s - 1920s
Eleven ledgers and daybooks belonging to the Hart family of Port Hood. CMR-08-1
James William MacDonald fonds
James William MacDonald fonds
Fonds · 1876-1936
Fonds consist of five accounts ledgers listing account name and community, goods purchased, price, and payment, both cash and in-kind (1876-1936), notes on harness-making supplies and items (ca. 1918), notes on length and dimensions of types of harness, two scrapbooks with pasted receipts and statements of purchase from leather and harness manufacturers, suppliers, and wholesalers across Nova Scotia and Montreal (1886-1930); stock certificates for mining companies, an annual report for the Pasadena Gold-Silver Mines (1923), one letter, and a leather-bound notebook with miscellaneous notes.
Junction of Colchester, Halifax and Guysborough Counties
Item · [after 1836]
Original hand drawn map which shows the topographical junction point of Colchester, Halifax and Guysborough Counties. This is an early, undated map, but since Guysborough was officially named in 1836, we know this map to be later than this date, but likely no later than 1875. The map shows land grants and grantee names, waterways and roads. Of note is Windsor College marked on 5 acres. 2019.24.1
Lester D. MacKeen fonds
Lester D. MacKeen fonds
Fonds · 1928-1969
Fonds consists of four series: 1) Blacksmith and Heating Business Records, 2) Personal Files, Statements, and Correspondence, 3) Municipal Files and Correspondence, 4) Blacksmith and Heating Business Receipt Books (1938-1969), and 5) Blacksmith and Heating Business Ledgers. Fonds consist of records documenting the day-to-day business operations of Lester D. MacKeen's blacksmithing and heating business; files, statements, and correspondence relating to the personal life and daily activities of Lester D. MacKeen; records and correspondence relating to municipal roles performed by Lester D. MacKeen as secretary of the Unemployment Relief Central Committee (also known as the Overseers of the Poor) for the Municipality of St. Mary's between 1933 and 1934 and as Deputy Sheriff for Guysborough County. 2014.008
Margaret Ellsworth collection
Margaret Ellsworth collection
Collection · ca. 1860s - ca.1990s
Collection consists of letters, genealogy research, obituaries, newspaper clippings, poetry, a scrapbook, and numerous photographs created, compiled, or accumulated by Margaret Ellsworth relating to the Fraser family of Waternish, Guysborough County and their descendants living throughout Canada and the United States. Also included are materials relating to the MacIntosh family of Sherbrooke and the Giffin family of Isaac's Harbour, Guysborough County. Photographs range in date from the mid-19th century to the late 1980s, and include studio portraits, candid family and community snapshots, as well as landscape images of the St. Mary's River valley and Isaac's Harbour areas. 2016.001
McDaniel family fonds
McDaniel family fonds
Fonds · 1868-1913
Fonds are arranged in the following series: Series 1, Business Ledgers; Series 2, Invoices and Statements; Series 3, Miscellaneous. Fonds consists of three record books (1868 – 1913) containing entries from various facets of John and James McDaniel’s business interests that includes names of customers, stage coach proprietors, mines and miners, freight, prices; invoices and statements of purchase for goods and services from local and non-local merchants purchased by the McDaniel family; invoices for services offered by the Sherbrooke Hotel; miscellaneous documents relating to the McDaniel family, including one letter from Mrs. Watson to May McDaniel which makes reference to the Halifax Explosion (Dec. 24, 1917); a notice of increase in subscription of The Evening Mail (1918); Notice of Road Tax for Mr. John Wilson, signed by Herbert McDaniel, Surveyor of Highways (1924). 2019.004
Mountain Glen I.O.G.T. Lodge fonds
Mountain Glen I.O.G.T. Lodge fonds
Fonds · 1911-1920s
Fonds consist of two meeting minute books of the Mountain Glen Temperance Lodge, Glenelg (1911-1919), two song sheets from the International Order of Good Templars [I.O.G.T.], a blank application membership to the I.O.G.T. (known as "taking the pledge") (192?). 2020.001