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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
Series · 1786-1861, [copied 1949-1958]
Part of Annabel (Siteman) Ells fonds
Series forms part of the Annabel (Sitman) Ells fonds and consists of information from census records collected and copied by Annabel Ells as well as court papers. Documents include census abstracts for Ship Harbour, Shoal Bay, Little Harbour, Pope’s Harbour, Clam Harbour, Tangier, Owl’s Head, and Mushaboom as well as census records listing heads of families for Districts 26 and 27 including Pope’s Harbour, East Ship Harbour, Jeddore, Clam Harbour, and Little Harbour. Also included are notes on Electoral District 24-26 with voter lists. Court papers include abstracts from Supreme Court records as well as individual cases that include such family names as Abbott, Bean, Blakely (Blakeney), Curry, Den, Eisan, Lessee, Marks, Merryweather, Murphy, O’ Brien, Reardon, Rennels, Robson, Shellnutt, Silver, Siteman, Stoddard, Sutherland, Thorogood, Tucker, and Weaver (Webber). Accession number: 2013.066
Churches & cemeteries
Series · 1973-1980
Part of Eastern Shore District High School fonds
Series forms part of the Eastern Shore District High School fonds and consists of essays written by students pertaining to the history of various churches and cemeteries along the Eastern Shore. Series includes information pertaining to St. Anselm’s cemetery and Christ Church Cemetery in Chezzetcook, Clam Harbour Graveyard, the history of St. Paul’s Church in Mushaboom, St. George’s Cemetery and Ostrea Lake Anglican Church, the East Petpeswick Catholic graveyard, St. Mark’s Church in Porters Lake, and St. James Cemetery in Upper Lakeville. Some cemetery papers include lists of those who are buried there, family background information such as origin of names, lists of how many people died in given years, and hand drawn maps.
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
Community history
Series · 1973-1975
Part of Eastern Shore District High School fonds
Series forms part of the Eastern Shore District High School fonds and consists of essays written by students pertaining to the history of different areas along the Eastern Shore. Areas included are Bayers Settlement, Chezzetcook, Clam Harbour, Gaetz Brook, Jeddore, Lake Charlotte, Upper Lakeville, Lake Echo, Little Harbour, Musquodoboit Harbour, Ostrea Lake, Petpeswick, Porters Lake, and Ship Harbour. The essays feature topics such as occupations, industries, sports, electricity, tools, education, transportation, census information, the early mail run, the general history of the area and its inhabitants as well as changes that have occurred over the years. Included in the series is the draft of the publication, The Shore Thing, which was a compilation of selected essays from the grade ten local history projects in 1974 to 1975. In addition to the essays, the publication contains jokes, recipes, puzzles and stories. There is also a photocopied picture of ice houses in Lake Banook and a photocopied article about the vessel, Fleur de Lis.
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
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
Family land records
Series · 1834, [197-?]
Part of Anna Barbara Webber family fonds
Series forms part of Anna Barbara Webber family fonds and consists of an 1834 grant issued to James Peter Webber and Andrew Webber for a 100-acre piece of land along Mary’s River near Clam Harbour. Series also includes a sheet of notes, probably written by Frances Robson, describing the history of ownership of William Wilson Webber’s Upper Lakeville property. Accession number: 2010.009
Financial records
Series · 1962-1970
Part of Burris Russell fonds
Series forms part of the Burris Russell fonds and consists of an unemployment insurance commission book from 1969-1970 that belonged to Burris Russell. Series also contains a bill of sale dated April 7, 1962 for a fishing boat sold to Wallace Russell by Burris Russell for two hundred and fifty dollars. Thomas ‘Wallace’ Murray Russell and Burris ‘Bub’ Russell were second cousins twice removed. Accession number: 2013.017
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