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Description archivistique
Local history
Série organique · 1922-1994
Fait partie de Katherine L. Stoddard family fonds
Series is part of the Katherine L. Stoddard fonds and consists of various articles and excerpts pertaining to different aspects of life and culture on the Eastern Shore including Musquodoboit Harbour, Petpeswick, and Ostrea Lake. Series includes recollections of life, events, and activities in the area in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and poems describing local scenes. Series includes an excerpt from the Evening Mail in 1922 containing stories of the Greenoughs of Petpeswick and memories, recollections, facts, and stories from Musquodoboit Harbour, Ostrea Lake and Point Pleasant, both about places themselves and the people, including one mention of R.J. Stoddard. Articles included describe sealing adventures in which Eastern Shore residents participated, hijackers on the Old Guysborough Road in the 1890s, and the history of the Ritcey family. There is also a copy of a poem about Petpeswick Harbour written by Verna MacDonald and an excerpt of an article describing the buildings that used to make up the village centre of Musquodoboit Harbour as well as an article about Robsons who moved from Clam Harbour to Estmere in Cape Breton and lived there from 1901 to 1909. Accession number: 2013.008
Maps
Série organique · 1861
Fait partie de Katherine L. Stoddard family fonds
Series is part of the Katherine L. Stoddard fonds and consists of one photocopy of a map of Musquodoboit Harbour dated 1861 that includes the names of landowners. Accession number: 2013.008