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Annabel (Siteman) Ells fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1900-1969]
The fonds consists of records accumulated by Annabel (Siteman) Ells during the course of her research on the area of Ship Harbour and the families who lived there as well as personal records created and accumulated throughout her lifetime. The fonds includes a wide variety of records such as land related documents, wills, Loyalist petitions, census information, court papers, church registers and vital statistics including marriage, birth, and death records; school papers, genealogies, clippings and notes taken from various newspapers and periodicals, photographs and negatives, correspondence, postcards, and diaries. The records within the fonds shed light on the history of Ship Harbour and its families, the work of Annabel Ells, her personal life from a young girl growing up on the Eastern Shore to travelling as a young woman and attending school, entering into various careers, living as an independent woman in the early 20th century, her marriage later in life and her lifelong interest in her Ship Harbour home. http://www.heritagevillage.ca/LCASresources/Annabel_%28Siteman%29_Ells_fonds_Inventory.pdf Accession number 2013.066
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.
Sub-series · 1947-1954
Part of Lester D. MacKeen fonds
Sub-series consists of files and correspondence relating to the work of Lester D. MacKeen as Deputy Sheriff for the County of Guysborough, including issuing levies, collection of fines and taxes, settling of property disputes, warrants, summons, and executions, advertisements for sale of disputed property. Includes correspondence with barristers and solicitors and the High Sheriff for the County of Guysborough. Sub-series consists of four files: 1) Cochrane Hill Mine Property; 2) J.J. MacKay vs. Lorne MacKay -- 1948 Fargo Truck; 3) Daniel Ross vs. John Jordan and Alvin Jordan; 4) Miscellaneous.
Edith MacInnis collection
Collection · 1913-1973
Collection consists of materials accumulated by Edith MacInnis including Dr. MacDonald's Almanac, published by J. MacDonald, M.D., Binghamton, N.Y. (1913); T. Eaton Co. Maritimes Limited wallpaper sample book (ca. 1950s); EMAC Times, vol. 1, Grade 9-A school paper from St. Mary's Rural High (1973); The Canso Breeze, vol. 49, no. 29 (October 4, 1968); one minute book for the Melrose School Club (ca. 1952-1953); and one topographical map of Liscomb (1975). 2016.002
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
Hart Family fonds
Fonds · 1870s - 1920s
Eleven ledgers and daybooks belonging to the Hart family of Port Hood. CMR-08-1
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.
Item · [after 1836]
Original hand drawn map which shows the topographical junction point of Colchester, Halifax and Guysborough Counties. This is an early, undated map, but since Guysborough was officially named in 1836, we know this map to be later than this date, but likely no later than 1875. The map shows land grants and grantee names, waterways and roads. Of note is Windsor College marked on 5 acres. 2019.24.1
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
Maps
Series · [ca. 1935-1965]
Part of Annabel (Siteman) Ells fonds
Series forms part of the Annabel (Sitman) Ells fonds and consists of several maps, the majority of which were produced by the Department of Mines and Resources between 1935 and 1948 and include the areas of Yarmouth, Shelburne, Queens, and Annapolis counties, Tangier, Upper Musquodoboit, Ship Harbour, Guysborough County, Ecum Secum, Moncton, Cape Breton, Owl’s Head, Port Dufferin, River John, New Glasgow, Halifax. Series also includes highway and tourist maps of Nova Scotia, the Maritimes, Halifax and Dartmouth from c. 1948-1965 as well as street guides of Halifax and Dartmouth c. 1955-1965. Also included are Department of National Defence topographical maps of Chezzetcook, Musquodoboit, Halifax, and Sambro from 1939 and 1943. Accession number: 2013.066