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Fonds · 1910-1978
Fonds consists of financial records belonging to William Gaetz including insurance papers, receipts, correspondence, documents related to the estate of Josephine Gaetz, and military pension information. Also included are records related to Gaetz’s time spent serving in WWI, correspondence with soldiers during WWII, records related to Gaetz’s membership in the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Musquodoboit Harbour United Church for which Gaetz acted as treasurer. Church records include financial papers and correspondence, account books, receipts, religious education material, meeting minutes, photographs, insurance documents, and other material. Fonds also includes records pertaining to electoral districts and voters as Gaetz was one of the revisors of the voter lists for his district. In addition, fonds includes lists of officers of the Musquodoboit Harbour Volunteer Fire Department and other material. Accession number 2012.001
Wallace Russell fonds
Fonds · ca. 1930-1955
Fonds consists of receipts for sales and purchases by Wallace Russell, a receiving station license from the Department of Transport-- Telecommunications Division and photocopies of boat plans found in Russell's home. The fonds is divided into the following two series: S1- Receipts and licenses S2- Boat plans Accession number: 2013.009
Fonds · [ca. 1945-1999]
Fonds consists of photocopies of records from the Twin Oaks Memorial Hospital. The records appear to have been reproduced as part of a display for the hospital, possibly created by Ena Rowlings. The records include correspondence, financial records, posters, policies, regulations, and mandates. Also included are original photographs. Accession number 2013.065
Ronald Slade family fonds
Fonds · 1818-1959
Fonds consists of birth, marriage, and death records for Slade family members, religious records, records relating to occupations of Ronald Slade, correspondence, photographs, and other records. Accession number 2013.027
Robert M. Ritcey fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1860-1940], [ca. 1965]- 2007
Fonds consists of records of the activities of Robert M. Ritcey and includes research material and publications, genealogy, correspondence regarding Martinique Beach, and copies of old photographs of Ritcey family members. Accession numbers 2010.004, 2012.001
Robert Kim Stevens fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1972]-[ca. 2002]
Fonds consists of records of the activities of Robert Kim Stevens. Records were created and accumulated between about 1972 and 2003. Fonds is arranged into five series: correspondence, research material and publications, family files,maps, and drawings. Accession number 2003.010.
Robert A. Logan fonds
Fonds · 1919, 1934-1959, [1962]
Fonds consists of records related or possibly related to Robert A. Logan’s activities as a gold prospector in the area around Lake Charlotte, Halifax County, Nova Scotia. During the 1930s, Logan was Vice-President and manager of Prospectors Associated Activities Limited (sometimes abbreviated to PRASAC), a prospecting and mining company based in Lake Charlotte (then known as Ship Harbour Lake). Although he ceased his involvement with PRASAC in the 1940s, Logan may have continued prospecting in the area. The records are primarily related to the purchase of mining and ore-processing equipment and include correspondence, brochures, catalogues, instructions, invoices, receipts, and notes. Accompanying one letter from a manufacturer is a photo of an offered piece of equipment (a concentrating table). Also included are a handwritten table of supplies needed to feed eight men on a 10-week expedition, a typed summary of gold mining operations for the years 1935-1936 and the first quarter of 1937, drafts and instructions for a letterhead design for PRASAC, and a copy of a hand-drawn map sketching shipping routes between PRASAC’s headquarters and major cities in Atlantic Canada, Eastern Canada, and the Northeastern United States. Although most mining-related records are from the 1930s, some date to the 1940s, and one product brochure dates to 1919. Fonds also includes records related to Logan’s life and other activities in the Lake Charlotte area, including correspondence, instructions and brochures related to equipment which Logan bought for his home or personal use. Some instructions are prepared by Logan himself, including a set of handwritten notes and diagrams which details his repairs and installation of a well pump, as well as giving instructions for its use. In addition, fonds includes copies of a plan showing the lands of Lawrence Webber, Upper Lakeville, to be leased by the estate of J. Edward Webber, Lake Charlotte, dated August 8, 1967. Fonds also includes a photograph of Robert A. Logan and his wife Daisy (Barrett) Logan taken in May of 1962. Accession number 2010.006.
Fonds · 1894-1957
Fonds consists of papers from the Pleasant Point School trustees. They consist of financial records including tax records, memorandums, and receipts as well as meeting minutes, teachers’ agreements, correspondence, and other school related materials. Accession number 2013.022
Percy H. Webber fonds
Fonds · 1919, 1928-1929
Fonds contains a variety of receipts and invoices issued to Percy between 1927 and 1929, an agreement from 1919 over purchasing a tour car (possibly for taxi service), and correspondence including a letter from an employer regarding spring preparation of the car. Accession number: 2004.009
Lydia Webber fonds
Fonds · [ca.1880]- 1940
Fonds consists of postcards, photographs, correspondence and other material created and accumulated by Lydia Webber. Accession numbers 2008.009, 2009.040