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Correspondence
Series · ca. 1940-1950
Part of Ronald Slade family fonds
Series forms part of the Ronald Slade family fonds and consists of a Christmas card to Hattie from Annie and correspondence related to rural mail delivery and application for a mail box. Accession number 2013.027
David James Vaughan fonds
Fonds · 1929-1938
Consists of financial records including invoices, correspondence, and tax assessments. Accession number 2012.001
Series · 1940-1951
Part of Ronald Slade family fonds
Series forms part of the Ronald Slade family fonds and consists of forms, invoices, and pamphlets related to Ronald Slade’s occupation as a truck driver, a vacation stamp booklet from 1942, records concerning his big game license, and a receipt from T. Eaton Co. Budget Plan Office. Accession number 2013.027
Helen Jennex fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1910]-[ca. 2004]
Fonds consists of material documenting the activities of Helen Jennex and includes material related to her interest and involvement in local history and heritage activities as well as records related to her activities as an educator. Accession number 2009.039
Hilchie family fonds
Fonds · 1873-2001
Fonds consists of deeds, other property records, cartographic material, photographs, correspondence, family records, picture postcards, poems, newspaper clippings, legal documents, and other textual records. Accession number 2017.059
Series · [ca. 1910]-[1984?]
Part of Helen Jennex fonds
Series forms part of Helen Jennex fonds and consists of material documenting Jennex’s activities as an historical researcher, collector of historical items, and member of the Eastern Shore heritage and museum community. Series is arranged into six sub-series, including illustrations, church drawings, publication layouts, community research, photographs, and publications. Accession number 2009.039
Fonds · [ca. 1784-1998]
Fonds consists primarily of documents related to Katherine L. Stoddard’s research and her interest in genealogy, particularly that of her own family. Stoddard’s records include information related to many Eastern Shore families, including the Stoddard and Ritcey families, as well as local history. Fonds also includes correspondence, cookbooks and handwritten recipes, photographs, postcards, maps, certificates, land grants, yearbooks, deeds, and wills. Accession number: 2013.008
Local history
Series · c.1767-1810, 1852-1988
Part of Musquodoboit Harbour Heritage Society collection
Series forms part of the Musquodoboit Harbour Heritage Society collection and consists of research and photocopies of material related to various industries and services along the Eastern Shore. Includes an excerpt of a paper written by Mrs. Grace Forsythe on November 20, 1975 regarding the pulpwood industry in the 1930s and transcripts from the Nova Scotian, October, 1852, regarding the postal service on the Eastern Shore and the mail run carried out by William Anderson between Musquodoboit and Halifax. Series also contains photocopies of excerpts of a thesis written by George R. Evans in 1938 regarding gold mining in Nova Scotia in the nineteenth century. Also included is general research about local history of the Eastern Shore and a copy of an article written by Walter Bayer that was published in the Dartmouth Free Press in 1980 and entitled, Musquodoboit Harbour at the Turn of the Century. Series also consists of a document that refers to the heritage Houses of Anderson Road, including the Bayer-Anderson House, John Bayer V House, James Locker House, Georges Bayer VI House, John Mosher House, and Dan Dauphinee House. Also included is a copy of a drawing of the Ben Power House circa 1810 by Joan E. Flewelling in 1979. Series also contains two genealogy charts. The first is that of the Bayer family featuring the descendants of Hans George Bayer I and Eva Catherine Rouche and the second features the John Anderson family of Musquodoboit Harbour showing the connection with the Rowlings family, drawn by Joan Flewelling in 1983. Accession number: 2012.001
Collection · [ca. 1971-2012]
Collection consists of records donated to and accumulated by the Musquodoboit Harbour Heritage Society, relating to the history of communities and inhabitants along the Eastern Shore. The records consist of interview tapes and transcripts, photographs, land records, and information pertaining to the history of industries and services on the Eastern Shore as well as heritage houses. The records consist of both original and photocopied materials. Accession numbers: 2012.001, 2013.068
Item · 1913-1927
Item consists of a ledger or secretary’s book recording the meetings of the Musquodoboit Harbour Tennis Club between 1913 and 1927. At the beginning of the record, meetings are held frequently and focus on the establishment of a tennis club at Musquodoboit Harbour. Subsequent entries record the minutes of annual meetings up to 1927. Accession number 2012.001