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Archival description
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
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
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
School activities
Series · 1948-[ca. 2004], predominant 1956-1965
Part of Helen Jennex fonds
Series forms part of Helen Jennex fonds and consists of material documenting Jennex’s activities as a teacher and principal at various schools on the Eastern Shore, including the Robert Jamison Memorial Consolidated High School, Oyster Pond School, and Musquodoboit Harbour Consolidated School. Series is divided into three sub-series, including school photographs, school yearbooks, and school exercises. Accession number 2009.039
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
Photographs
Series · [ca. 1880]-[ca. 1975], [1995?]
Part of F. Mitchell, Hosking family fonds
Series forms part of F. Mitchell, Hosking family fonds and consists of photographs accumulated by the Mitchell and Hosking families. Photographs are of people and places along the Eastern Shore, some of which are identified, including Mitchell and Hosking family members as well as pictures of the Garth M. Hosking General Store and Hosking’s Garage. Also includes a photograph of Mrs. Flora Mitchell. One picture, taken significantly later than the others, depicts Mildred Hosking and two other people in front of an historical display of the Hosking Store, probably around 1995. Accession numbers 2003.011, 2006.001, 2010.011
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
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
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