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Webber's Shore News
Series · 1982-1998
Part of Ford Webber fonds
Series forms part of the Ford Webber fonds and consists of issues of Webbers Shore News, a leaflet published monthly by Ford Webber from the 1980s to 1990s which reported on local news and events in the Lake Charlotte area. Included is a complete run of the publication, featuring issues number one (December 1982) through one hundred eighty-five (June 1998), with the exception of issue number seventy-nine (August 1989), which is missing. Issues include flier catalogues featuring products for sale at Webbers Store. Accession numbers: 2010.017, 2013.023
Union Church (Lake Charlotte, N.S.) fonds
Union Church (Lake Charlotte, N.S.) fonds
Fonds · 1896-1966, [2009]
Fonds consists of records of the Union Church of Lake Charlotte, Halifax County, Nova Scotia and include account books and other financial records and minutes of meetings. Included is an original account book detailing the annual list of individuals who contributed to the church, along with the amount paid to the minister. Cash disbursements and cash received are logged at the back of the book. Fonds also contains reproductions of three books containing the meeting minutes of the church dating from the first meeting in 1896 up until 1987. The books also record financial accounts of the church from 1896 to 1994, including cash disbursements and cash received. Also included with the books are reproductions of receipts and sheets of paper recording subscriptions for repairs to the church building, accounts, and other information. Accession numbers 2004.015, 2009.044, and 2013.040
Ship Harbour Lake Mutual Telephone Company fonds
Ship Harbour Lake Mutual Telephone Company fonds
Fonds · 1955-1974
Fonds consists of records of the Ship Harbour Lake Mutual Telephone Company and includes minutes of meetings, records of telephone charges, invoices, and time sheets. Accession number 2009.039
School records
Series · ca. 1945-1951
Part of Ford Webber fonds
Series forms part of the Ford Webber fonds and consists of records from Ford’s school years, including examination books, and exercise books containing English compositions, writing exercises, mathematics, health, and other subjects. Also included is a scribbler containing information about baseball games played by students including Ford. In addition, series contains a souvenir card containing poetry given to Ford by his teacher, Doris Dakin, in June of 1945 when he was in grade two. Series also includes two report cards, one quarterly and one monthly; and three certificates showing that he had completed grades two, three, and four. Accession numbers: 2010.017, 2013.023
Roy Wilson Webber fonds
Roy Wilson Webber fonds
Fonds · 1914-1931
Fonds consists of two school certificates of graduation; one to certify that Roy Wilson Webber passed the grade nine in 1914 and one to certify that he passed the grade ten provincial examination in Halifax in 1915. Also included is a poll tax form from 1931. Accession number: 2008.004
Robert A. Logan fonds
Robert A. Logan fonds
Fonds · 1919, 1934-1959, [1962]
Fonds consists of records related or possibly related to Robert A. Logan’s activities as a gold prospector in the area around Lake Charlotte, Halifax County, Nova Scotia. During the 1930s, Logan was Vice-President and manager of Prospectors Associated Activities Limited (sometimes abbreviated to PRASAC), a prospecting and mining company based in Lake Charlotte (then known as Ship Harbour Lake). Although he ceased his involvement with PRASAC in the 1940s, Logan may have continued prospecting in the area. The records are primarily related to the purchase of mining and ore-processing equipment and include correspondence, brochures, catalogues, instructions, invoices, receipts, and notes. Accompanying one letter from a manufacturer is a photo of an offered piece of equipment (a concentrating table). Also included are a handwritten table of supplies needed to feed eight men on a 10-week expedition, a typed summary of gold mining operations for the years 1935-1936 and the first quarter of 1937, drafts and instructions for a letterhead design for PRASAC, and a copy of a hand-drawn map sketching shipping routes between PRASAC’s headquarters and major cities in Atlantic Canada, Eastern Canada, and the Northeastern United States. Although most mining-related records are from the 1930s, some date to the 1940s, and one product brochure dates to 1919. Fonds also includes records related to Logan’s life and other activities in the Lake Charlotte area, including correspondence, instructions and brochures related to equipment which Logan bought for his home or personal use. Some instructions are prepared by Logan himself, including a set of handwritten notes and diagrams which details his repairs and installation of a well pump, as well as giving instructions for its use. In addition, fonds includes copies of a plan showing the lands of Lawrence Webber, Upper Lakeville, to be leased by the estate of J. Edward Webber, Lake Charlotte, dated August 8, 1967. Fonds also includes a photograph of Robert A. Logan and his wife Daisy (Barrett) Logan taken in May of 1962. Accession number 2010.006.
Research and interpretation
Series · 1994-2005
Part of Lake Charlotte Area Heritage Society fonds
Series forms part of Lake Charlotte Area Heritage Society fonds and consists of records related to research undertaken into Memory Lane Heritage Village’s historical setting, background, and artefacts. Series also includes records related to village interpretation, animation and programming, including the training of interpreters and animators as well as audio material consisting of 1940s radio program excerpts meant to enhance the experience of visitors. In addition, series includes records and drawings related to the construction of the village’s replica clam factory in 2005. Series also includes records related to a request from the Acadian House Museum for the society’s help in relocating an historical building. Society member Gordon Hammond, who had been involved in the relocation of buildings for Memory Lane Heritage Village, lent his experience and expertise for the relocation. Series contains notes, texts, clippings, drawings (including plans and other architectural drawings), program descriptions, training documents, inventories of artefacts, visitor guides, a recipe book, audio discs, packaging and instructions for original building materials including Insul-bric and Murray Shingles, as well as other material. Accession numbers: 2010.014, 2012.017
Photographs and postcards
Series · [ca.1915-1990]
Part of Katherine L. Stoddard family fonds
Series forms part of the Katherine L. Stoddard fonds and consists of one postcard featuring a picture of the motel in Lake Charlotte c. 1970s. Also includes one copy of a photograph of Emily Usher Ritcey c. 1915. Emily Margaret Usher was born March 27, 1891 and was the daughter of William Philip Usher and Emily Anderson Mack of Musquodoboit Harbour. She married Herbert Simon Ritcey on January 26, 1915. They lived in Dartmouth and she died March 1, 1974. Herbert Simon Ritcey was born August 24, 1874 in West Petpeswick and was the son of Simon (ship captain) and Susanna Elizabeth (Gaetz) Ritcey. He was the brother of Katherine L. Stoddard’s paternal grandmother, Harriet “Edith” Ritcey Stoddard, making Emily Usher Ritcey her sister-in-law. Accession number: 2013.008
Photographs
Series · [ca. 1880]-[ca. 1940]
Part of Lydia Webber fonds
Series forms part of the Lydia Webber fonds and consists of black and white photographs accumulated by Lydia Webber, including portraits and other images of people. Six photographs are identified, including pictures of Maud Webber in 1902, Buford Webber, Marguerite “Babe” Webber, Nelson Webber; Ruth, Kenneth and Lloyd Webber; and Lydia's brother Hudson Webber with their niece Myrtle Webber, daughter of Amos. Five photographs identified with the names ‘Nancy’, ‘Mildred’, ‘Edna’, and ‘Floss’ (with husband ‘Leslie’) are possibly of Nancy Ann Webber and her daughters Mildred, Edna and Flossy or Nancy Mary Webber, sister of Lydia. Accession number: 2009.040
National Air Photo Library collection
National Air Photo Library collection
Collection · 1931-1945
Collection consists of forty monochrome aerial photographs of the Eastern Shore taken between 1931 and 1945. Also includes seven corresponding flight maps. Photographs illustrate the landscapes and coastlines of various locations along the Eastern Shore as they were in 1931-1945. Areas covered by the aerial photographs within this collection include Owl's Head, Little Harbour, Clam Harbour, Burnt Point, Clam Bay, Lake Charlotte, Ship Harbour, Upper Lakeville, Oyster Pond, and the Jeddores. Accession number 2013.039