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Oland family fonds
Fonds · 1870 - 2010
Fonds consists of various personal records, including correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, slides, negatives, an artifact, and legal and financial records. Some business records from Oland and Son Limited and its affiliated companies are also included. MS-2-135
Municipality of the Town of Truro Fonds
Fonds · 1875 - 1988
The fonds consists of assorted records created by the Town of Truro, including annual reports, Sinking Fund Investments, assessment rolls (380 cm), school board records, nomination papers, for a century from 1886 - 1988. The fonds has had accruals since the initial acquisitions in 1999. The Victoria Park record series contains maps, ephemera, reports, minutes, financial statements, correspondence, and plans for the park; this series has had accruals. 2003.19.1 - 207
Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds
Fonds · 1880 - 2013, predominant 1900 - 2013
Fonds contains records documenting the history and functions of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Limited. Materials include administrative, financial and personnel records, as well as blueprints, correspondence, manuals, public relations and advertising materials and photographs. MS-4-180
Florence Jessie Murray fonds
Fonds · [1884?] - 1975
Fonds consists primarily of Florence Jessie Murray's personal records regarding her career as a medical missionary in Korea, including correspondence, manuscripts, pamphlets and photographs. There is also a small volume of records that originated with her brother, Alexander Murray, and father, Robert Murray, including correspondence between Alexander Murray, Florence Jessie Murray and E.J.O. Fraser; Reverend Robert Murray's correspondence; and records regarding his involvement with the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes. MS-2-535
Frank W. Jordan fonds
Frank W. Jordan fonds
Fonds · 1885-2002, predominant 1930s-1970s
Fonds consists of personal, business, association and institutional records relating to the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s, with a special emphasis on Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia. Included are meeting minutes, reports, and news from local associations including Heritage Goldenville Society, Royal Canadian Legion, Queen’s Lodge No. 34 A. F. & A. M., Sherbrooke Amateur Athletic Association, Sherbrooke Hockey League, St. Mary’s Boat Club, St. Mary’s Curling Club, St. Mary’s Driving Society, St. Mary’s Guest Home Society, St. Mary’s Historical Society, St. Mary’s District Rink Association and RecPlex, St. Mary’s River Association (1924-2003, predominantly 1970s-early 2000s); correspondence from the Department of Fisheries (c. 1920s); news clippings, reports, and press releases for local events including Communities in Bloom and Old Fashioned Christmas at Sherbrooke Village (1945-2002, predominantly early 2000s); maps, budgets, reports, meeting minutes, and other paperwork from Historic Sherbrooke Village (1971-1977); ledgers, news clippings, pulp samples from a local mill, and other papers related to local merchants and industry in the region (1872-2001, predominantly 1948-1968); papers from the Presbyterian, United, and St. James Anglican Churches, as well as the St. Mary’s Municipal School Board, Post Office, Library, St. Mary’s District Lions Club, St. Mary’s Memorial Hospital, Sunset Rest Cemetery, Down East Fire Fighters Association and Fire Department (1915-1996, predominantly 1930s-2000s); newspapers with Sherbrooke-related content, including the Family Herald and Weekly Star (1948), The Eastern Chronicle (1919), and Canso Breeze (1965-1966); a diary, family photographs, horse racing album, military service records, business ledgers, and personal family papers of Frank Jordan himself alongside unpublished memoirs and other papers from other Sherbrooke residents on the subject of local history; photographs, personal accounts, and newsletters about the St. Mary’s River (1900-2002, primarily concerning the 1956 flood). Also included in the collection are oral histories recorded at meetings of the St. Mary’s Historical Society (1978-1990). Fonds consists of the following series:Series 1: Andersons and Murdochs, Collected PapersSeries 2: Associations, LocalSeries 3: Department of FisheriesSeries 4: Diary (Digitized)Series 5: Emergency Measures OrganizationSeries 6: Events, LocalSeries 7: Historic Sherbrooke VillageSeries 8: Horse Racing Album (Digitized)Series 9: Business, LocalSeries 10: Institutions, LocalSeries 11: Municipality of the District of St. Mary’sSeries 12: Newspapers, RegionalSeries 13: Oral HistoriesSeries 14: Papers, CollectedSeries 15: Photographs (Digitized)Series 16: Periodicals, Collected RegionalSeries 17: St. Mary’s District Development AssociationSeries 18: St. Mary’s Historical Society and Historical MaterialSeries 19: St. Mary’s River 2020.011
Harry Nelson Collection
Collection · 1886 - 1975
The collection contains assorted reference materials about the history of the Truro, NS area that were acquired and/or created by Harry Nelson over his lifetime. There are 30 cm of research notes on the history of the communities of Colchester County, NS, which also contains correspondence and administrative records of the Colchester Historical Society with respect to exhibition planning. 1996.21.1 - 30
Thomas John (Jock) Murray fonds
Fonds · 1890 - 2018
Fonds consists Thomas John (Jock) Murray's correspondence and research materials on neurological disease, the humanities and the history of medicine. MS-13-69
Florence M. MacDonald fonds
Florence M. MacDonald fonds
Fonds · ca. 1890s-1980s
Fonds consist of records created and accumulated by Florence M. MacDonald relating to her personal life and three generations of the Donald MacDonald family of Sherbrooke, Guysborough County. Included are a Gaelic language Bible (1867) belonging to Donald MacDonald; a cookbook (1879) interleaved with handwritten family recipes and recipe clippings belonging to Mrs. Donald MacDonald; and records relating to James Wm. MacDonald, Murray MacDonald, and John Geddie MacDonald. Also included are MacDonald family portraits and two photograph albums, one of Florence MacDonald and friends in Sherbrooke and Halifax, and another of lumbering, hunting, and fishing along the St. Mary's River; Province of Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture Domestic Science Bulletin No. 1, Women's Institute Division, The Cooking and Canning of Vegetables (1916); community newspaper clippings and obituaries; personal files and correspondence; and genealogy research and correspondence relating to the MacDonald and Sutherland families of St. Mary's. Also included are originals and copied b&w photographs and negatives used or considered as part of Florence MacDonald's book "Sherbrooke as I Remember It," published in 1987. Fonds is arranged in the following series: 1) Genealogy and Family History, 2) Newspaper Clippings and Obituaries, 3) Photographs, 4) Personal Correspondence, Files, and Certificates, and 5) Sherbrooke As I Remember It Files and Photographs 2020.009
Frank Fulton Collection
Collection · 1896 - 1973
The fonds consists of materials related to the history of Truro and Colchester County, NS that were collected by Frank Fulton throughout his lifetime, including directories, scrapbooks, books. The collection of 118 photographs show the Fulton family's activities during World War II, including images taken overseas. They also show the family spending time at Spencer's Point, NS; Big Cove Camp and Melmerby Beach, Pictou County, NS; businesses around Truro, NS during the 1970s; Frank's ironworks collection; and several postcards of scenes around Truro. 2012.6.1 - 46
Fred Harris fonds
Fred Harris fonds
Fonds · 1897-1900
Frederick Wheelock Harris (1869–1941) was the son of Augustus and Mary Eliza (Wheelock) Harris. A lawyer, town clerk and amateur photographer, he grew up in the family homestead on the Dugway Road and later had a home in town. The fonds consist of 228 prints and 221 slides. They depict late Victorian life c. 1900 in Annapolis Royal area as well as Bridgetown, Bear River, Bridgewater and Halifax, Nova Scotia. It includes photographs of families, men, women, children, animals, vessels, events, cemeteries, a dentist's office, homes and a wide variety of streetscapes.