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History of Loyalists
folder · 1783-2005
Part of Country Harbour Loyalist Society
History of Loyalists in Guysborough County, article specific to Country Harbour from from North Carolina Historical Review 1783-1812 (published 1990), news clipping 1963, typed list of land grantees under Major Wright Grant with list of names, Arrival of the St. Augustine Loyalists 1783, East Florida and Country Harbour, Black Loyalists and Country Harbour 1783-1819, Loyalist Facts 1783 with notes on Black Loyalists, Country Harbour Loyalists 1783 with poem “Loyalist Farewell” with mention of reenactment in 1983, The Connection: East Florida and Country Harbour, Blacks and the American Revolution (c. 2005), United Empire Loyalists, the Augustine Loyalists (c. 2004), Country Harbour Loyalists information collected by Sarah Mason Wilson. 2021.029, Ser2.1
Early School Records
folder · 1866
Part of Lomas family fonds
This folder holds Caroline McKeen teaching license and School Register from Wine Harbour School (1866). McKeen was the great-grandmother of Alton Anderson Lomas. 2022.006, Ser. 16, #22
Shipping 1
folder · 1870- 1996
Part of Lomas family fonds
This folder holds photographs of ships on the St. Mary’s River, S. S. Dufferin at Sonora, papers about Sailing Ship Rigs, Honeymoon at Sea in 1923 by Eva Brushett, news clippings (1870, 1902, 1995, 1996) and copied excerpts from publications (1973), notes about The Fury (1964), The Whale, “The Coastal Vessels of Guysborough County”, and list of ships including Isabella built at St. Mary’s in 1828, correspondence from Alton Lomas to his younger brother and a curator at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic discussing the Mary F. Anderson, the Mabel E. Gunn and the history of shipping in Sherbrooke. 2022.006, Ser. 23, #1
Bridge Opening
folder · 1870
Part of Lomas family fonds
1 black and white print of a photograph Opening First Bridge over the St. Mary’s River at Sherbrooke, 1870. 2022.006, Ser. 17, #1
St. Mary's in 1871
folder · 1871
Part of Lomas family fonds
This file corresponds to the title: St. Mary’s in 1871: a snapshot after the “rush”. It consists of copied pages from the 1871 Census of Guysborough County, Nova Scotia. 2022.006, Ser. 2, #7
Heritage Goldenville Society 2
folder · 1876- 2000
Part of Lomas family fonds
This folder gathers an agenda for the Eastern Shore Gold History meeting (2000) with supplemental material including related activities, themes, and directions for a driving tour of the gold district, a business card for Louis Lemieux of the National Museum of Natural Sciences, map of Goldenville (Ambrose Church, 1876) with hand-written notes, letter from Jo Ann Fewer, Antigonish Heritage notes, another copy of the Heritage Goldenville Society mandate and description, news clippings from 1998-1999 on mining, hand-written Goldenville Business Directory with notes, slip from Department of Natural Resources naming maps sent to Alton Lomas, one page about John Alexander Stiles, fax copies of requested news clippings, contact for Mining Day in Stellarton, advice and suggested supplies for exhibition planning and development projects written by Janet Maltby and David Carter, copy of an appeal from the Heritage Goldenville Society challenging the classification of the Goldenville church as commercial property, program from sod turning ceremony (7 August 1998), blueprints for proposed Heritage Goldenville Society Museum in Goldenville Church location, correspondence with Royal Oak Mines (1998), and an application to ACOA (Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency) for a Nova Scotia Goldmine Interpretive Center (1999). 2022.006, Ser. 8, #8