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Amos P. Ward fonds
Fonds
Fonds comprises personal and professional correspondence and papers relating to the schooners Rowena (1903-1907); Lizzie Rich (1905), Stella Maud (1907-1910) and the Carrie C. Ward, including registers, bills, and ship inventories. MS-2-200
Captain Isaac Rayne and family fonds
Fonds · 1799 - 1932
Fonds consists of primarily of Captain Isaac Rayne and Captain's George Rayne's personal records regarding their private life, including two locks of Captain George Rayne's hair, correspondence, receipts of payments, family records, and others textual records. Fonds also contains personal records of Robert W. Rayne and others family members. MS-2-657
Dorothy and John Dobson's research notes about the O'Brien family
File · 1938, 1997
File comprises Dorothy and John Dobson's research records and notes about the O'Briens, a family of Nova Scotia master mariners. There are also photographs of the schooner Lilian E. Kerr. MS-2-679, SF Box 31, Folder 31; SF Box 99, Folder 3
James Benjamin Westhaver fonds
Fonds
Fonds includes items dealing with the invention of and patenting of a hydraulic gold extractor first registered in 1887. Also involves setting up a company to use the machine and begin gold mining. The material covers a period of 1883 to 1905, and involves many individuals in the business and legal community of Halifax and the South Shore. It also includes the original patent with the specification and diagrams, other diagrams, a 31 page hand written report by Westhaver on his trip to Dawson City, Yukon in 1902 to test his separator. A very interesting collection of letters, documents, legal correspondence, governmental material, etc., etc., dealing with the starting of a company to use the gold separate and Westhaver's various difficulties with financing and control. MS-2-587, SF Box 4, Folders 1-14, 16; SF Box 45, Folders 25-32
John McWhinnie fonds
Fonds · 1866 - 1912
Fonds contains correspondence, receipts, reports, and notebooks relating to John McWhinnie's years as a master mariner. MS-2-589
Jonathan Borden Marsh fonds
Fonds
Fonds consists of Marsh's account book with the barque Vibilia and her owners (1869-1882) as well as pilot and customs papers. Also included is a charter contract for the Ellerslie (1886). MS-2-48, SF Box 18, Folder 15
Joseph Everett Faulkner fonds
Fonds · 1919 - 1937
Fond includes documents and paperwork relating to Joseph Everett Faulkner's tours on Canadian ships. MS-2-524