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Description archivistique
Charles Henry Webber fonds
Fonds · 1894
Fonds contains an indenture between Catherine and Lawrence Marks and Charles Webber to purchase land in Clam Harbour, the will and probate of Maria Elizabeth Mitchell (Charles' mother-in-law), a photograph of the Mitchell home in Oyster Pond; and several letters. Accession number: 2004.009
Hilchie family fonds
Fonds · 1873-2001
Fonds consists of deeds, other property records, cartographic material, photographs, correspondence, family records, picture postcards, poems, newspaper clippings, legal documents, and other textual records. Accession number 2017.059
Roy Wilson Webber fonds
Fonds · 1914-1931
Fonds consists of two school certificates of graduation; one to certify that Roy Wilson Webber passed the grade nine in 1914 and one to certify that he passed the grade ten provincial examination in Halifax in 1915. Also included is a poll tax form from 1931. Accession number: 2008.004
Murdoch family fonds
Fonds · 1909
Fonds consist of one log book from the S.S. Dufferin, September 1909 - December 1909. The log entries were made by Capt. William Murdoch and minimally describe weather, wind, course, and daily activities. Pasted within the inside cover and first 4 pages are newspaper clippings related to household tips, a clipping of A.A. Gunn (possibly Alexander Angus Gunn of East River St. Mary's, part owner of Sherbrooke's Scotia Lumber & Shipping Company), and a clipping about a car accident in Sherbrooke titled "Vehicle Plunges Down Bank But Lands In Shallow Water" (1937). 2020.034
Harold L. Hill fonds
Fonds · 1914-1918
Fonds consists of a notebook kept by Hill while completing training for the Canadian Engineers unit. MG 20.2
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
St. Mary's Rebekah Lodge fonds
Fonds · 1945-1957
Fonds consists of two meeting minute books of the St. Mary's Rebekah Lodge (1945-1956) and a photocopy of agreement between the Queen's Masonic Lodge No. 34, Sherbrooke and the Marimon (International Order of Odd Fellows) and St. Mary's Rebekah Lodges concerning rental of the Queen's Lodge building for meetings (1957). 2020.004
Stewart Family fonds
Fonds · ca.1867 - 1934
Fonds is arranged in the following series: 1) Accounts Ledgers, 2) Voters and Voting, 3) Miscellaneous. Fonds consist of records relating to the business and farming activities of the Stewart family, predominantly Harry E. Stewart, owners and operators of Eleven Mile House located near the forks of the St. Mary's River in Melrose, Guysborough County. Eleven Mile House was an historic inn and coach stop from which the Stewart family also ran a store and offered postal services. The family also farmed. The house was called Eleven Mile House because it was located eleven miles from Sherbrooke on the Antigonish to Sherbrooke road. Fonds consist of the Stewart Family's business account ledgers that list the names of numerous Melrose and area residents and companies and goods and services purchased, payments made by either cash or in-kind labour, lodging and meals (ca. 1867-1934). Ledgers also describe work done by local community members for Harry E. Stewart at the house or on the farm or in the woods, as well as the family's seasonal farming activities. Fonds include voters lists and voting information for the provincial polling districts of Glenelg (no. 10) and Caledonia (no. 13) relating to Harry E. Stewart's role as reviser of voting lists, as well as Nova Scotia Franchise Act booklets and the Handbook for Liberal-Conservative Committeemen on Naturalization Assessment and Revision of the Voters' Lists (1907-1916). Fonds also include miscellaneous records relating to the Stewart family and Eleven Mile House including a telephone directory (1922), book of mails sent from Melrose post office (October 1872 to June 1876), and a school drawing belonging to Katie Stewart, daughter of Harry E. Stewart. 2016.002
Georgia Harriet Cunningham fonds
Fonds · 1909-ca. 1940
The fonds consists of 28 photographs taken by Georgia Harriet Cunningham after she opened a professional photography business in Bridgetown in 1909. The images of people, buildings and scenery depict life in and around Bridgetown. 88.109, 93.601
Samuel Newton Weare fonds
Fonds · 1900-1939
Samuel Newton Weare (1867–1939) was born in Lowell MA, the son of Albert and Julia (Newton) Weare. In the first decades of the 20th century, he operated a drugstore and photography studio in Bridgetown. The fonds consist of 145 photographs, depicting people, events, buildings, vessels and animals in and around Bridgetown and Annapolis Royal.