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Ruby Lillian Kaiser fonds
Fonds · ca. 1943 – 2014
Fonds consists of four scrapbooks, miscellaneous newspaper clippings, obituaries, funeral service programs, memoriams, genealogy files and photocopied photographs relating to the Burns, Jordan (Jordain), Mahar, and Pride (Pryde) families, community histories of Sonora, Wedge Island, and Wine Harbour, and other miscellaneous local history and geneaology files and correspondence pertaining to the St. Mary's River region. Some materials are copies of 19th-century records. 2014.007
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
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