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Wartime records
Series · [1914-1918], [1943?]-1944
Part of Anna Barbara Webber family fonds
Series forms part of Anna Barbara Webber family fonds and consists of records related to Blois Webber’s military service during the Second World War from 1943 to 1945. Blois was a Private in the 1st Battalion of the Regina Rifle Regiment, trained at Camp Borden, Ontario, and was wounded in action in Belgium on February 18, 1945. Series includes letters from Blois to his sister Frances Robson and one letter to Frances’ husband Doug Robson, including one letter to Frances written a week after he was wounded. Series also includes two telegrams from Ottawa to Frances informing her of Blois’ injuries. In addition are two pay books and a wartime devotional book possessed by Blois Webber. Inserted into the pages of the devotional book is a slip of paper containing information about Blois’ rank and training company. Series also includes a five franc note with the date October 11, 1944 written on it, which was originally housed in a billfold and was probably acquired by Blois in Europe as a souvenir. Series also includes a letter from Leonard Stanley Webber to his cousin Emma, written sometime during the First World War while Leonard was in active service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Accession number: 2010.009
Collection · 1915-1953
Collection contains a manuscript of Ballads and Sea Songs from Nova Scotia and related material, including page proofs, research notes, off-print, and correspondence. Material primarily documents Mackenzie's interest in ballads from Nova Scotia. MS-2-296
Wartime records
Series · 1918-1919, 1944-1945
Part of Hilchie family fonds
Series forms part of Hilchie family fonds and consists of military records, photographs and medals of Everett Hilchie and Donald Hilchie, picture postcards, and a Remembrance Day program. Accession number: 2017.059
Percy H. Webber fonds
Fonds · 1919, 1928-1929
Fonds contains a variety of receipts and invoices issued to Percy between 1927 and 1929, an agreement from 1919 over purchasing a tour car (possibly for taxi service), and correspondence including a letter from an employer regarding spring preparation of the car. Accession number: 2004.009
Robert A. Logan fonds
Fonds · 1919, 1934-1959, [1962]
Fonds consists of records related or possibly related to Robert A. Logan’s activities as a gold prospector in the area around Lake Charlotte, Halifax County, Nova Scotia. During the 1930s, Logan was Vice-President and manager of Prospectors Associated Activities Limited (sometimes abbreviated to PRASAC), a prospecting and mining company based in Lake Charlotte (then known as Ship Harbour Lake). Although he ceased his involvement with PRASAC in the 1940s, Logan may have continued prospecting in the area. The records are primarily related to the purchase of mining and ore-processing equipment and include correspondence, brochures, catalogues, instructions, invoices, receipts, and notes. Accompanying one letter from a manufacturer is a photo of an offered piece of equipment (a concentrating table). Also included are a handwritten table of supplies needed to feed eight men on a 10-week expedition, a typed summary of gold mining operations for the years 1935-1936 and the first quarter of 1937, drafts and instructions for a letterhead design for PRASAC, and a copy of a hand-drawn map sketching shipping routes between PRASAC’s headquarters and major cities in Atlantic Canada, Eastern Canada, and the Northeastern United States. Although most mining-related records are from the 1930s, some date to the 1940s, and one product brochure dates to 1919. Fonds also includes records related to Logan’s life and other activities in the Lake Charlotte area, including correspondence, instructions and brochures related to equipment which Logan bought for his home or personal use. Some instructions are prepared by Logan himself, including a set of handwritten notes and diagrams which details his repairs and installation of a well pump, as well as giving instructions for its use. In addition, fonds includes copies of a plan showing the lands of Lawrence Webber, Upper Lakeville, to be leased by the estate of J. Edward Webber, Lake Charlotte, dated August 8, 1967. Fonds also includes a photograph of Robert A. Logan and his wife Daisy (Barrett) Logan taken in May of 1962. Accession number 2010.006.
Financial records
Series · 1920-1959
Part of William Ansell Gaetz family fonds
Series consists of life insurance papers and related correspondence, documents concerning the estate of the late Josephine Gaetz in 1956, and tax records including school assessment receipts and municipal tax receipts. Series also consists of records related to Gaetz’s occupation as a section man with the railway and includes an application for a Sixth Victory Loan Bonds payroll deduction plan through the Canadian National Railway Company in the name of William Gaetz dated April 21, 1944 for one bond in the amount of fifty dollars. Series also includes correspondence and a receipt concerning William Gaetz’s payment of dues to the Canadian National Eastern Lines System Federation Brothers of Maintenance of Way Employees dated 1959. There are also five additional receipts for dues paid to the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees lodge by William Gaetz in 1937 and 1938. Also included in the series are tax assessment rolls for the Municipality of Halifax, District 37, from 1934 listing names of taxable persons, their occupations, residences, property values, exemptions, age, school sections, etc. In addition there are assessment rolls of real property of non-residents and of persons unknown in the Municipality of Halifax, district 18 for 1946. These records lists the names of taxable persons, number of acres, descriptions of the lots, property values, occupations, school section numbers, and addresses.
Religious education
Subseries · 1927-1952
Part of William Ansell Gaetz family fonds
Subseries consists of correspondence from the United Church of Canada Board of Religious Education as well as pamphlets for religious gifts and calendars, a brochure, and a pamphlet containing plans for Sunday School workers leading up to Easter.
Lester D. MacKeen fonds
Fonds · 1928-1969
Fonds consists of four series: 1) Blacksmith and Heating Business Records, 2) Personal Files, Statements, and Correspondence, 3) Municipal Files and Correspondence, 4) Blacksmith and Heating Business Receipt Books (1938-1969), and 5) Blacksmith and Heating Business Ledgers. Fonds consist of records documenting the day-to-day business operations of Lester D. MacKeen's blacksmithing and heating business; files, statements, and correspondence relating to the personal life and daily activities of Lester D. MacKeen; records and correspondence relating to municipal roles performed by Lester D. MacKeen as secretary of the Unemployment Relief Central Committee (also known as the Overseers of the Poor) for the Municipality of St. Mary's between 1933 and 1934 and as Deputy Sheriff for Guysborough County. 2014.008
David James Vaughan fonds
Fonds · 1929-1938
Consists of financial records including invoices, correspondence, and tax assessments. Accession number 2012.001