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John M. Homans, General Merchant fonds
Fonds · 1904-1909, 1960
Fonds consists of records from the Homans' store, including a day book ledger from 1904-1909 which records daily sales at the store and whether or not the sales were paid for. Fonds also includes two receipt books showing store sales from 1960. Accession number 2009.039, 2009.040
Post office records
Série organique · 1894-1919
Fait partie de Laura F. Stoddard family fonds
Series is part of the Laura F. Stoddard family fonds and consists of three ledgers containing general records of registered mail for 1894-1903, 1904, and 1914-1919. Series also consists of two notes from William Condon of the Egg Island Light c.1897 to Walter Stoddard, Postmaster at Clam Harbour, concerning registered mail as well as one note from another sender dated May 1895. These notes were originally located in the registered letters journal for the post office. Series also includes one certificate of post office registration for a letter addressed to Parker Archibald, and two Post Office Department notices to the postmaster at Clam Harbour concerning his salary as well as three envelopes. Accession number: 2013.010
World War I memorabilia
Série organique · [ca. 1914-1920]
Fait partie de Laura F. Stoddard family fonds
Series forms part of Laura F. Stoddard family fonds and consists of items from the Stoddard Hotel that date to the First World War. Series includes one postcard featuring the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London; four Union Jack stamps, and one “Subscriber Victory Loan 1918” card with an attached pin that says “Victory Loan Salesman.” Accession number: 2013.010
Land grants, deeds, and wills
Série organique · [ca. 1784-1924]
Fait partie de Katherine L. Stoddard family fonds
Series forms part of Katherine L. Stoddard fonds and consists of three land deeds including one for land in Hantsport purchased from Charles Cowley Brown and his wife Emma by Robert J. Stoddard, Master Mariner, for six hundred dollars in 1924; one for land in Kings County purchased from George A. and Louise Yeaton by Robert J. Stoddard for one dollar in 1924; and one for land in Horton, King’s County, purchased by Robert J. Stoddard of Musquodoboit Harbour from John L. and Eunice E. Graham for three thousand six hundred dollars in 1923. Series also includes transcripts of a grant for five hundred acres to Thomas Stoddard dated September, 1784. Also includes typed transcripts of memorials written by Michael Eisan to the governor discussing a request for land in Jeddore and a later purchase of land in Ship Harbour c. 1786-1791 as well as another memorial dated 1796, wherein Eisan requests that he be granted permission to take possession of some back lands to attempt to raise grain in order to sustain his family, as he and his neighbors were having difficulty doing so on their current land in Ship Harbour; it being so close to the sea. Another transcript includes a deed for 200 acres on Lot. 20 purchased by Eisan from Joseph Lumb (or Lamb) for nine pounds in 1791. The transcripts also include a rejected petition made by Michael Eisan, Loyalist, for relief due to loss of property in South Carolina. The series also includes transcripts of the will of Thomas Stoddard of Clam Harbour dated 1813, bequeathing his land to his sons Walter Hercules, Thomas Ratchford, George William Sherlock, and Edmund Fanning. Michael Eisan (1730-1833) was the grandfather of Katherine Stoddard’s great grandmother Elizabeth Eisan. Accession number: 2013.008
Religious records
Série organique · 1902-1925
Fait partie de Laura F. Stoddard family fonds
Series forms part of the Laura F. Stoddard family fonds and consists of a blank pledge card for a Members Associate Pledge likely for the Christian Endeavour Society as well as a certificate stating that William E. Stoddard enlisted in the White Ribbon Army of the N.S.S.S. Association in 1902 at the Sabbath School of the Union Church in Owl’s Head and pledged to abstain from alcohol, tobacco, and profanity. There is also a certificate presented to Robert Burns Williams by the Presbyterian Church of Canada for the memorizing of scripture in 1914 and one presented to Florence Etta Stoddard for reciting the catechism in 1907. Series also includes the communion roll of the Presbyterian Church at Clam Harbour which lists the names of both male and female voters, a pamphlet on the method of taking the vote on church union, and a number of used voter ballots from the vote on church union. There is also one bulletin from the First Baptist Church in Chanston Illinois which mentions a Miss Helen Fisher who attended the Nova Scotia Provincial Normal College. Accession number: 2013.010
E. Homans clam factory
Série organique · [ca. 1920-1930]
Fait partie de Laura F. Stoddard family fonds
Series is part of the Laura F. Stoddard fonds and consists of one label for canned clams packaged in Clam Harbour by E. Homans. Ebenezer Homans (1858-1933) owned a clam factory in Clam Harbour (c. 1920s) in addition to a lobster factory in Little Harbour (c. 1930s-1940s) and a general store which he established in 1901, making him the first storekeeper in the Clam Harbour area. He was the father of John Homans, who took over the family store following the death of his father. Accession number: 2013.010
Correspondence
Série organique · 1910-1934
Fait partie de Laura F. Stoddard family fonds
Series forms part of Laura F. Stoddard family fonds and consists of eleven postcards, a Christmas card, and several notes to Hannah, Walter, and Laura Stoddard from various correspondents and from all over the world including Italy, the United States, and Britain. Series also contains ten letters to Walter and Hannah Stoddard from Reverend James Anderson including nine prayer cards. In addition there are two military Christmas cards from 1918 to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Stoddard including one from a Private Duncan near [Brussels] and one from France from N. Webber of the Canadian Forestry Corps, 70th Co. Overseas. There is also one letter to Mrs. Hannah Stoddard from the Imperial War Graves Commission dated 1923 concerning the erection of a headstone, correspondence to Hannah Stoddard from the Treasury Department, Bureau of War Risk Insurance concerning the life insurance of Frank Cecil Stoddard who was enlisted in the US army; and a wreath order form and card sent to Mrs. W. E. Stoddard from the War Graves Commission. Series also includes a number of birth and wedding announcements as well as a letter to Walter Stoddard from his brother Dr. T. A. Stoddard discussing the purchase of land to establish a muskrat, mink, and fox fur farm. There is also a booklet on raising muskrats, which is referenced in the letter. Accession number: 2013.010
Pièce · July 11, 1937
Fait partie de Annabel (Siteman) Ells fonds
L-R: Anna “Myrtle”(Siteman) Siteman. (b. 1894, d.1993), Lewis Ervin Siteman (b. 1887, d. 1961) and three of their children includingDouglas Stuart, Anna “Marion”, Lewis Donaldson. Picture taken on Clam Harbour Beach. Accession number: 2013.066
Financial records and permits
Série organique · 1903-1941
Fait partie de Laura F. Stoddard family fonds
Series is part of the Laura F. Stoddard family fonds and contains one booklet from The Great-West Life Assurance Company that includes financial notes as well as a handwritten will whose author and beneficiaries are unknown. Series also includes one Halifax County tax receipt to Walter Stoddard from 1903, one life insurance policy for W. E. Stoddard from 1914 and one insurance policy renewal notice. Series also consists of one permit for transit from Halifax to Clam Harbour for the body of Florence Stoddard, sister of Laura Stoddard. Accession number: 2013.010
Judge Frederick Montye Morson
Série organique · [ca. 1900-1944]
Fait partie de Laura F. Stoddard family fonds
Series is part of the Laura F. Stoddard family fonds and consists of one business card for Pringle & London, suppliers of decorative leaded glass including ecclesiastical stained glass and memorial windows as well as importers of antique, cathedral and opal glass. They were located in Toronto and may have been employed by Judge Frederick Montye ‘Monty’ Morson (1853-1944) to supply a new window for the Clam Harbour United Church. Judge Morson stayed at the Stoddard Hotel in Clam Harbour every summer for thirty years and donated a memorial window to the church. Series also includes one black and white photograph of Judge Morson c. 1936. Accession number: 2013.010