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Earle Lavers
Fonds · 1917-1923
Consists of a newspaper clipping with a 1923 obituary of a Halifax Explosion survivor and a Western Union cablegram advising of the death of the recipient's mother and brother during that great tragedy. 2010-007
Easson family
Fonds · 1734-1894, 1924
Consists of records documenting business and personal activities of four generations of the Easson family. Contains correspondence, invoices, receipts, account statements, promissory notes, land conveyances, bills of exchange, licences, survey plans, and other material relating to commercial transactions between Annapolis Royal, New England, Halifax, and Louisbourg; shipping in the 1700s including an incident involving a vessel at Tatamagouche; relations between the French and the Mi'kmaq; mill-work; maintenance of aboiteaux and dykes; local government; and social life and customs of Annapolis Royal. Family members represented include John Easson (1715-1790); son David (1748-1790) and his wife Elizabeth (ca.1750-1841); three of their eight children: David (1773-1812) and David's wife Zeruiah (ca.1790-1845), Thomas (1784-ca.1862), and Alexander (1786-1862); and three of Alexander's children: Deborah (1816-1888), Caroline (1822-1885), and David Stuart Easson (1823-1883). Also includes records of Thomas Prior, a free Black (previously enslaved), who was a neighbour of David Easson (1773-1812). MG 1 volume 3478
Akins family fonds
Fonds · 1764-1927, predominant 1803-1906
Fonds consists of records documenting primarily the business activities of three generations of the Akins family in Falmouth and Liverpool. Includes insurance journals (1803-1817) and account book (1787-1791) kept by Thomas Akins; business and family correspondence, (1811-1924); deeds, mortgages, bonds, and other legal material (1764-1906); account books, bills of sale, and correspondence of Charles Akins (1885-1906); Akin genealogy book, assessment roll of Falmouth, (1906); correspondence and reports of the Avon River Power Company (1921-1922); and a copy of Windsor Tribune issued 1 July 1927. MG 1 volumes 2-6
Fonds · 1918-1989, predominant 1933-1973
Consists of records created and/or accumulated by the Eastern Canada Towing Limited and its predecessors, Foundation Maritime and MIL Tug & Salvage Limited. The bulk of the records concern the company when it was Foundation Maritime, 1930-1968, and MIL Salvage and Towing, 1968-1973. There are four series: yearly financial statements of Foundation Maritime, 1933-1968; legal documents, 1934-1972; general correspondence, 1939-1989; and salvage contracts, 1918-1974, 1979. The legal documents relate to the companies' tug boats, containing bills of sale, agreements, inspection reports and certificates, registrations, radio licenses and similar material. The general correspondence files are arranged alphabetically by subject, and include correspondence of both the company president and the operations manager. The salvage contracts series documents the salvage projects undertaken by the company from 1930-1974 and 1979 (excepting the years 1956-1957, whose files are missing). Arranged in numerical and chronological order, there are several instances of missing numbers due to mis-numbering on the part of company staff. There is a chronological card index file to the salvage projects, 1918-1958, which contains details about ships and vessels that are not in the files themselves. The files include correspondence, radio dispatches and radiograms from ships, salvage reports, contracts and agreements, photographs and snapshots of wrecks (often with their negatives), news clippings, nautical charts and ships' plans, rough notes, daily logs of the tug captain on salvage operations, cost estimates and invoices, and court documents. There are also six film reels created by Foundation Maritime to display its tug services and salvage operations, ca. 1958-1960, apparently for news and promotional purposes. 2006-011
Fonds · 1980-1994
Consists of material documenting the activities of the commission and accumulated by the executive director. Arranged into five series: minutes of the commission, 1980-1994; correspondence of the executive director, 1980-1994; proposals and submissions to government, 1982-1993; case files, 1980-1994; and newspaper clippings, 1984-1989. The clippings are a photocopied chronological compilation of news events concerning the Eastern Shore, particularly concerning political and economic developments. Most are taken from the Halifax dailies, and include the occasional Eastern Shore publication. 1996-271
Edgar N. Rhodes
Fonds · 1892, 1916-1935
Consists of correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings and articles, pamphlets and other published material, reports, certificates, and financial statements created and accumulated by Rhodes, primarily during his political career from 1916 to 1935. Subjects include the 1917 election, Military Services Act, Farmers' Creditors Arrangement Act, proportional representation, federal budget and other financial matters. Fonds also contains photographic portraits of Rhodes as well as photographs of the speaker's chair and interior views of the House of Commons, blueprints of the Amherst subway, and a print of Acadia University. MG 2 volumes 404-421C
Edward A. Bollinger
Fonds · 1934-1959
Consists of negatives taken by Bollinger for his clients while operating The Camera Shop and later Camera Shop of the Maritimes. Subjects include exterior and interior views of businesses in Halifax such as Imperial Oil and Royal Bank and its employees, Victoria General Hospital staff and facilities, societies, churches, hotels, storefronts, Halifax shipyards, naval personnel and events, CHNS radio station events, and wartime housing. Also contains scenes of rural Nova Scotia including the South Shore, Annapolis Valley, and Cape Breton. There are also a small number of personal photographs of Bollinger's family including son Wynn, friends, and social events. The fonds also contains film footage taken by Bollinger while visiting Nova Scotia in the summer of 1934. Images include Halifax Public Gardens and a trip to Isle Haute, Peggy's Cove, "Evangeline" area, re-enactment of Champlain's landing at Port Royal, and the Nova Scotia Guides Meets held at Lake William. 1975-307
Edward Owens
Fonds · 1873-[ca. 1911]
Consists of an invitation, two letters, a notice, and an obituary for Edward Owens, who served as Quartermaster on S.S. Atlantic at the time that it was lost at sea off the coast of Nova Scotia. 1997-246
E.H. Armstrong
Fonds · 1886-1936, predominant 1923-1931
Consists of correspondence, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, speeches, notes, pamphlets, and government bills relating to Armstrong's political activities, primarily during his tenure as cabinet minister and premier. Major topics include roads, coal mining, Yarmouth County, and the provincial sanitorium at Kentville. Fonds also contains legal records relating to court cases heard by Armstrong, diaries, family and personal correspondence, financial records, photographs, postcards, and business ledgers kept at his law practice. MG 2 volumes 1-62A
Elizabeth Browne
Collection · 1959-1971
Consists of lists of passengers on ships that sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia, for Europe with some related menus and a letter. 2008-042