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Catalogues and publications
Series · 1949-1965
Part of Garth M. Hosking General Store fonds
Series forms part of Garth M. Hosking General Store fonds and consists of product catalogues, suggested retail price lists, order forms, and trade catalogues. Supplier catalogues and price lists from Martin-Senour, Bolands, C-V Paint and Varnish, and Sportswear Specialties. Trade magazines include Autobody, General Motors, CIL Oval, Maritime Merchant and Service Garage. Some catalogues and publications are probably related to Hosking’s Garage. Accession number: 2003.011
Certificates
Series · 1950-1951
Part of Hosking's Garage fonds
Series forms part of the Hosking’s Garage fonds and includes a certificate of qualification for motor vehicle repair for 1950 issued by the Province of Nova Scotia. Included with the certificate is an application for a 1951 renewal which would have been attached to the certificate.
Certificates
Series · 1888-1950
Part of F. Mitchell, Hosking family fonds
Series forms part of F. Mitchell, Hosking family fonds and consists of four certificates including two presented to William Hosking, one given to Garth Hosking, and a voter registration certificate belonging to Mildred Hosking. Accession number 2003.011
Correspondence
Series · 1903-1969
Part of F. Mitchell, Hosking family fonds
Series forms part of F. Mitchell, Hosking family fonds and consists of three letters including one handwritten letter addressed to Mildred and Garth Hosking, one handwritten letter addressed to Roxie Mitchell Hosking from Jemima (possibly Jemima Catherine Mitchell, m. Nelson Havelock Mitchell), and two typed letters to Garth Hosking from Atlantic Chevrolet-Oldsmobile Ltd. Also includes one military related post card and other material. Accession number 2003.011
Correspondence
Series · 1954-1965, predominant 1954-1964
Part of Eastern Shore Board of Trade, District 19 fonds
Series forms part of the Eastern Shore Board of Trade, District 19 fonds and consists of correspondence of the board and its members. Included is correspondence with government officials related to requests for speed zones on Highway 7, the demolition of a derelict wharf in Oyster Pond, the construction of a jetty in DeBaie's Cove, improvement of snow removal services, general road improvements and repairs, and the creation of an RCMP detachment in Lake Charlotte. Series also includes correspondence related to tourism promotion, banquets and other events which the board hosted or participated in, as well as correspondence with other organizations in which the board held membership including the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Maritime Provinces Board of Trade, and the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council. In addition, series includes reports of board sub-committees, receipts, clippings, and other material. Accession numbers: 2009.037, 2010.019
Series · 1904, [191-], [194-], 1953, 1959
Part of Garth M. Hosking General Store fonds
Series forms part of Garth M. Hosking General Store fonds and consists of correspondence related to the Store, including a letter from a customer to Mildred Hosking, and a letter to Garth Hosking from the Employment Insurance Commission. Series also includes sets of blank letterheads and invoices in W.M.O. Mitchell’s name from the 1910s. Also included in the series is a 1941 license to sell gasoline issued to W.M.O. Mitchell. Series also includes blank letterheads from Hosking’s Garage. In addition, series includes a 1904 list of voters from the number 27 polling district of Halifax County. Accession numbers: 2003.011, 2006.001
Eastern Shore tourism
Series · c. 1960-1994
Part of F. Mitchell, Hosking family fonds
Series forms part of F. Mitchell, Hosking family fonds and consists of brochures and correspondence belonging to Garth Hosking regarding tourism on the Eastern Shore. Accession number 2003.011
Education
Series · 1932-1962
Part of Grace (Williams) Forsythe fonds
Series forms part of the Grace (Williams) Forsythe fonds and consists of the minute book of the West Jeddore School trustees from 1944 to 1959, scripts of pageants that may have been performed in schools, and a periodical entitled The Canadian Red Cross Junior, Vol. XXIII, No. 10 dated 1944, which reflects Grace Forsythe’s involvement with the Red Cross Society and her efforts to establish Junior Red Cross Societies in her schools. Series also contains three books created by Grace’s students including a scrapbook of clippings of famous people created by a grade seven class in 1953, a book of stories and drawings entitled Our Story Book created by students in 1961, and a book of stories of rescue created by grade six students in 1962. Also included is a book of lesson plans written by Grace in summer school in Truro in 1942 and an article containing the autobiographical account of Dr. G. G. Sedgewick entitled, A Secret Chapter in the History of Education, which recounts the trials of a new teacher in Oyster Pond in 1900. In addition, series contains a typed copy of Grace Forsythe’s memoirs of her teaching career together with a scrapbook of photographs of students from 1932-1957, illustrating her story, and two certificates recording her completion of grades nine and ten which also list subjects studied and grades received. Accession number: 2010.032
Financial ledgers
Series · 1892-1895, 1919-1966
Part of Garth M. Hosking General Store fonds
Series forms part of Garth M. Hosking General Store fonds and consists of account books, day books, expense books, day book indexes, and other ledgers. Account books list the names of people who had credit at the store, their daily purchases and the frequency of their payments on account. Day books record daily sales at the store, and whether the sales were paid or put on account. Expense books record payments made to each supplier and a list of general expenses such as telephone, freight and postage. A summary list of annual expenses follows at the end of each year. The early expense books from the 1890s sketch out expenses and also serve partially as account books. Day book indexes record the names of individuals receiving credit and the corresponding page number in the account books. However, the indexes are not labelled or dated, so some appear not to correspond to account books in the fonds. The two ledgers record monthly expenses for the store from 1960-66. Some books record expenses for Hosking’s Garage. Accession number: 2003.011
Financial records
Series · 1834
Part of F. Mitchell, Hosking family fonds
Series forms part of F. Mitchell, Hosking family fonds and consists of personal receipts, invoices, bills, lists of expenditures, and policies mostly belonging to the Hosking and Mitchell families, as well as one receipt from the store of G. L. Monk in Ship Harbour for lumber. Series also includes one land grant, two land indentures, two maps and one bill of sale.The land grant is dated August 12, 1834 and in it the Crown grants Colin Mitchell Sr. two hundred acres of land in Oyster Pond adjacent to a lot of land granted to Edward Hare. The document discusses the boundaries of the property and includes a map of the Oyster Pond area, clearly showing Colin Mitchell’s land grant as well as that of Edward Hares, and land near Navy Pool surveyed for W. Myers. The land grant is signed by Lieutenant Governor, Major General Sir Colin Campbell. The second map in the series is of a land grant map of Halifax County from the Department of Lands and Forests dated 1932.The land indentures include one transaction between Samuel Mitchell and John D. Mitchell dated April 7, 1873. In it, Samuel Mitchell gives John D. Mitchell a parcel of land at the head of Jeddore harbour, in the area of Oyster Pond, for the sum of forty dollars. The document is witnessed by Timothy Archibald John Cribby. The second indenture is between Hibbert, Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia, and Archibald Prest and dated 1883. In the indenture, Prest buys a parcel of land in Mooseland for the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars. The bill of sale is dated November 25, 1874 and transfers sixty-four shares in the ship P.C. Hill to John Mitchell. Series also includes records regarding the settlement of the estate and outstanding debts of the late Philip Mitchell. The estate was settled by his nephew, John Duncan Mitchell. Accession numbers 2003.011, 2010.013