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Fonds · 1919-1928
Fonds consists of a Nova Scotia Women’s Institute official minute book covering the 1919-1928 period. The minute book contains lists of branch officers, records of attendance, minutes, membership lists, accounts, and treasurer’s annual reports. The branch minutes are detailed and document the many activities of the Indian Point branch, including lectures, social events, the management of branch finances, and projects designed to raise funds for community projects, particularly improvements and programs at the community school. MBMS-7
Edith C. Hamm fonds
Fonds · [ca.1928]-1945
Fonds consists of photographs documenting the early life of Edith C. Hamm, as well as the lives of other members of the Hamm family and family friends, primarily in the Mahone Bay area. MBMS-6
W.M. Kerr fonds
Fonds · 1836, 1872
Fonds consists of a bound volume comprising 91 pages of Kerr’s apothecary recipes (“receipts”) and 17 pages of food recipes written later by an unidentified person. MBMS-41
Ernst-Zwicker Family fonds
Fonds · 1778-1903
Fonds consists primarily of deeds and indentures relating to the acquisition and sale of parcels of land in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. There are also legal documents relating to judgements, wills, and the disposition of estates. MBMS-38
Marie Best fonds
Fonds · 1880-1959
Fonds consists of photographs (mostly dating from 1920-1950) either taken or collected by Marie Best. More than one-tenth of the photographs document life on the Best family farm in Blockhouse. Among the other main subjects are Animals, Buildings and Street Views, Celebrations and Events, Churches, Farming, First World War, Lunenburg County (Outside of Mahone Bay Area), Other Locations (Outside of Lunenburg County), People, School Photos, Second World War, Shipbuilding, and Transportation. MBMS-24
Burgoyne family fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1890]-1969
Fonds consists of correspondence, a legal agreement, school records, notebooks, certificates, and clippings relating primarily to the shipbuilding activities of Frederick Stannage Burgoyne during the 1923-1927 period and to his daughter Enola Burgoyne Macleod’s education during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The photographs largely document members of the Burgoyne family, friends of Enola Burgoyne MacLeod and De Wolf Burgoyne, and some Burgoyne-related shipbuilding activities. MBMS-3
Fonds · 1875-1920
Fonds consists of correspondence, a diary, invoices, receipts, statements, certificates, indentures, and photographs mainly documenting aspects of Slaunwhite’s long sea-faring career. The diary records a trip from Bridgewater to Puerto Rico and Boston on the brigantine Maggie in 1877. The records also include a few documents relating to Slaunwhite’s family, including his wife, parents, and his brother-in-law Edwin Bailly of Lunenburg. MBMS-4
John McLean & Sons fonds
Fonds · 1858-1965
Fonds consists of legal documents, correspondence, notes, blueprints, and photographs that primarily document the shipbuilding activities of the John McLean & Sons shipyard in Mahone Bay. The photographs feature annotations (on the front or back of mounts) that identify vessels, members of the McLean family, some shipyard workers, and other subjects, including some early views of Mahone Bay. Among the vessels depicted are the schooners Crofton U. McLeod, H.H. MacIntosh, and John W. Miller. There is also a photograph of the CPR steamer Mount Temple aground on West Ironbound Island in 1907. The blueprints and related textual records document vessels built by both John MacLean and Sons and the Mahone Bay Shipbuilding Company. The legal documents pertain to real-estate issues. An accrual processed in 2020 comprises a group of 29 photographs (mostly tintypes) and a group of 70 glass negatives. The tintypes and related photographs date from the c. 1861-1890 period and consist mostly of portraits of John McLean’s wife and children. The glass negatives date from c.1891 -1895 and consist of street views of houses, portraits of people (including two portraits of John McLean), and one military photo. These glass negatives have been attributed to John McLean who was best known as a local shipbuilder but self-identified as a photographer in the 1871 census and on his daughter’s marriage record in 1879. It is possible that McLean was also responsible for the tintypes. MBMS-5
Duncan–Hayes family fonds
Fonds · 1859-1955
Fonds consists of correspondence, diaries, notes, an autograph book, indentures, invoices, financial statements, business records, certificates, grey literature, ephemera, memorabilia, and a photograph documenting the activities of both George and Lucy Hayes Duncan, as well as their three children and Lucy’s brother John Hayes. The fonds has been arranged in six series: George Duncan Records, Lucy Catherine (Hayes) Duncan Records, John Hayes Records, Edith Helen Duncan Records, Jane Dorothea “Dora” Duncan Records, and John Henry Duncan Records. MBMS-2