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Cumminger Bros. fonds
Fonds · ca. 1877
Fonds consist of four invoices for goods purchased from suppliers for sale in Cumminger Bros. general store, including Edward Albro & Co., cut nail manufacturers and importers of iron, hardware, chains, anchors &c.; Gordon & Keith, furniture manufacturers and general house furnisher; A. & W. MacKinlay, publishers, booksellers, and stationers; and another unknown firm from which fabrics, gloves, and purses were purchased. Also included is a photocopy of a business card for "Cumminger Brothers, Importers of British & Foreign Merchandise, Sherbrooke, N.S." 2020.028
Fonds · ca. 1882-1910
Fonds consist of one meeting minutes book for Eldorado Lodge No. 32 A.F. & A.M., located in Wine Harbour, Guysborough County (ca. 1892-1910). 2020.043
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
Fonds · 1911-1920s
Fonds consist of two meeting minute books of the Mountain Glen Temperance Lodge, Glenelg (1911-1919), two song sheets from the International Order of Good Templars [I.O.G.T.], a blank application membership to the I.O.G.T. (known as "taking the pledge") (192?). 2020.001
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
Fonds · 1876-1936
Fonds consist of five accounts ledgers listing account name and community, goods purchased, price, and payment, both cash and in-kind (1876-1936), notes on harness-making supplies and items (ca. 1918), notes on length and dimensions of types of harness, two scrapbooks with pasted receipts and statements of purchase from leather and harness manufacturers, suppliers, and wholesalers across Nova Scotia and Montreal (1886-1930); stock certificates for mining companies, an annual report for the Pasadena Gold-Silver Mines (1923), one letter, and a leather-bound notebook with miscellaneous notes.
Series · 1926-1937
Part of Lester D. MacKeen fonds
Series consists of ledgers or job books that record the daily jobs performed at the blacksmith shop. Includes client name, job performed, and charge. Jobs performed include shoeing horses, repairing implements and conveyances, stove repair.
Series · 1933-1947; predominate 1933-1934
Part of Lester D. MacKeen fonds
Series consists of files and correspondence relating to municipal roles performed by Lester D. MacKeen as secretary of the Unemployment Relief Central Committee (also known as Overseers of the Poor) and as a Deputy Sheriff for Guysborough Co. Series consists of three sub-series: 1) Unemployment Relief Central Committee Food Orders; 2) Unemployment Relief Central Committee Correspondence; 3) Deputy Sheriff for Guysborough Co. Files and Correspondence.
Sub-series · 1933-1947; predominate 1933-1934
Part of Lester D. MacKeen fonds
Sub-series consists of records relating to the work of the Unemployment Relief Central Committee for the Municipality of St. Mary's (also known as the Overseers of the Poor) during the Depression era. Sub-series includes ledger listing heads of households receiving relief, letters requesting relief and offering reasons why relief is required, reports of distributed aid, correspondence with provincial government offices concerning unemployment relief, and one warrant to bring up mother and putative father after birth of child (1947) related to the larger work of the Overseers of the Poor.