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Bigelow family fonds
Fonds
Fonds contains the personal and professional records of four generations of the Bigelow family of Nova Scotia. It includes correspondence, legal and financial documents, diaries and memoirs, and photographs that document primarily the family's shipbuilding activities as well as the genealogical interests of John Robert Bigelow. MS-4-92
Burris Russell fonds
Fonds · ca. 1930-1985
Fonds consists of records that belonged to or were created by Bub Russell and includes photographs, financial records, and local history. Accession number: 2013.017
Series · 1937-1997
Part of Fonds Père Clarence d'Entremont
La série est constituée de 144 dossiers qui sont classés par noms propres : Amirault, Arsenault, Aucoin, Babin, Barillot, Barr, Barteaux, Bastarache, Belliveau, Benoit, Beveridge, Blanchard, Blauvelt, Bonenfant, Boniface, Boudreau, Bourgeois, Bourneuf, Bourque, Boutier, Breau, Brown, Burke, Burridge, Castin, Charest, Chartier, Clermont, Collins, Comeau, Cormier, Corporon, Cottreau, Cyr, Damours, D’Auteuil, Degannes De falaise, d’Entremont, Deslauriers, Deveau, Devilliers, Devoe, Dingle, Doiron, Doty, Doucet, Douville, Dugas, Dulain, Duon, Dupuis, Durkee, Eno-Enault, Fitzgerald, Forest, Fortier, Fougère, Frontain, Frost, Gagnon, Gaudet, Gautrot, German, Girouard, Godin-Bellefontaine, Goguen, Goodwin, Goudreau, Granger, Guidry, Guillaut, Harding, Harris, Hébert, Hemeon, Hipson, Hubbard, Jacquard, Kenney, Landry, Lanoue, Larkin, LeBlanc, Famille de Honoré LeBlanc, LeFebvre, Léger, LeJeune, Lennox, LePoupet, Lorgéré, Maffre, Maillet, Malone, Martell, Martin, Mazerolle, McCarthy, McCauley, McCullough, McDonnell, McLaughlin, McManus, Melanson, Mius (sud N.-É.), Mius (golfe du St-Laurent), Mius (en général), Monbourquet, Morin, Morris, Moulaison, Murat, Newell, Patten, Pellerin, Petitpas, Poirier, Pothier, Rice, Richard, Robbins, Robichaud, Rodrigue, Russell, Rust, Saint-Pierre, Samson, Saulnier, Scott, Seeley, Shand, Shaw, Smith, Stuart, Surette, Thériault, Thibault, Thibodeau, Trahan, Vacon, Van Horn, Ward, Wrayton, [Sans titre], [Sans titre - Cimetières Massachusetts]. 1998.3-f11
C. L. Bennet fonds
Fonds
The fonds contains considerable material from the Dalhousie Review from 1950 to 1953-correspondence, book reviews, articles pending; correspondence relating to Dalhousie University Faculty of Graduate Studies and Senate; examinations and papers of Dalhousie students (bulk in 1930s); correspondence, outlines, and galley proofs of the Canada Books, I to VI, 1933-1951; correspondence and other material relating to the Down Under Club and Anzac Club, 1940s; personal papers, including Bennet's course notes and exams from his days as a student at Harvard; copies of acting scripts; photos of local theatre productions, School for the Blind, Dalhousie University English Department; photo of the first Soviet war bride in England (Nora Murray); copies of Archibald MacMechan's Late Harvest and E. Ritchie's In the Gloaming. MS-2-486
Fonds
This fonds contains a small volume of financial records relating to Charles Davison's grocery business in Hansport, Nova Scotia, including invoices, promissory notes and account statements. There is also a photograph of Davison and a copy of a letter written to his wife. MS-4-146
Catherine Banks fonds
Fonds
Fonds contains materials documenting Catherine Banks' professional playwrighting career beginning with her first published play, Eula's Offer. Materials include research notes and drafts of scripts (both handwritten and typed), correspondence, contracts, production and publicity materials, a videocassette, a DVD, photographs, sketches, and a small selection of personal papers. MS-2-8
Fonds
Fonds consists of papers created and/or accumulated by Catherine Creighton and her family, including those of her husband Graham and children Edith, Anna, Lois, Frieda, and Howard. While the fonds includes correspondence from Wilfred Creighton to his siblings and parents, Wilfred's papers are not included as a sous-fonds within the fonds. The bulk of the fonds consists of correspondence from family and friends, but also includes diaries, photographs, financial papers, personal papers, memorabilia, print materials, scrapbooks, articles, and artwork. Records in the fonds provide a well-rounded depiction of the family's daily activities and lives - from their relationships with each other, their extended family, and their community, to their financial status, values, education, and careers. MS-2-656
Fonds · [ca. 1900]-2008, predominant 1974-2004
Fonds consists of records of the Chezzetcook Historical Society and its members. Textual records were created between about 1900- 1930, 1950- 1955, 1965, and 1974- 2008, but the majority date to between 1974 and 2004. Fonds includes research material, genealogical information, publications, society records regarding its operation, inventories, maps, and photographs. Accession number 2009.018.
Community activities
Series · 1976-2008
Part of Chezzetcook Historical Society fonds
Series forms part of the Chezzetcook Historical Society fonds and consists of records relating to activities and events which the Society and its members organized or participated in, including public displays of historical artifacts, society parties, the dedication of a local war memorial, and the Chezzetcook Acadian celebrations of 2004. Series contains guest books, photographs of events, programs, brochures, correspondence, notes, an article, a newsletter, a videocassette, and other material. Series also contains entries in two competitions organized by the society for local grade six and seven students; one for a design for the Society’s seal and one for a 500-word essay on a local historical topic. In addition, series includes correspondence, clippings and other material related to society members’ involvement in an early 1980s movement to prevent the government from running Highway 107 through the Chezzetcook Marshes.
Series · c.1911-1942
Part of Grace (Williams) Forsythe fonds
Series forms part of the Grace (Williams) Forsythe fonds and consists of records related to Alexander ‘Sandy’ and Cora (Harpell) Myers, who was the sister of Grace’s mother. Cora was born on January 26, 1896 in West Jeddore and became a teacher in the early 1900s. She and her husband Sandy (1893-1957) owned the Salmon River House where Grace lived for several years following her retirement. A note found among the records indicates that they were used by Grace to help create the publications produced by the Marine Highway Historical Society. The series includes a photograph of Cora Harpell’s class at Ostrea Lake School in 1915 with the names of the students; a scrapbook containing clippings of songs; stories; and the prize winners of a matrimonial letter contest featuring Cora’s entry, No Fake Gentleman. Also included are various clippings regarding her school in Ostrea Lake; her graduating class from the Provincial Normal College in 1914; as well as handwritten poems and stories. Series also includes the lyrics to the Normal College school song, an application for a teacher’s license in 1912 that was rejected because she was too young, and a teacher’s license issued in 1914, as well as an earlier letter from a friend in1911. Cora died in Musquodoboit Harbour on February 24, 1995 at the age of 99. Series also contains receipts including postal and remitters’ receipts, invoices, ration forms and coupons, product labels, local business letterhead and advertisements, coupons, tax assessments, a tax notice, and enumeration records. Also included is correspondence to Sandy Myers from people coming to Salmon River House, a Christmas card from Arnold Logan, a Guide’s License, and an order form for a vest. Accession number: 2010.032