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Archival description
Park information
Series consists of records relating to the Committees efforts to keep the public informed and involved in the planning and development of the Park System. Series contains documents created by the Committee and by provincial park planners, including reports; notices; memorandums; question and answer documents; diagrams; maps; and blank questionnaire forms. Included is a brochure mapping and describing progress on the Park, published in 1978 by the Parks and Recreation Division of the Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests and produced in cooperation with the Committee. Also included in the series is a map showing proposed phased land acquisition for the Park. Series also contains documents related to background research on undertaken by Committee members, including statistics, regulations, a government publication on land registration, and other material. In addition, series contains clippings related to the earlier Ship Harbour National Park proposal, which were compiled in the early 1970s by Aubrey Siteman, the father of Committee member Lantz Siteman. 2009.034, 2009.035, 2013.019
Equipment & correspondence
Series · [ca. 1935-1959]
Part of Robert A. Logan fonds
Series forms part of the Robert A. Logan fonds and consists primarily of catalogues, pamphlets, brochures, and instruction manuals as well as correspondence related to various equipment that Logan was interested in purchasing or had purchased. Also included are invoices, receipts, and notes. The equipment was likely for use in Logan's mining operations. Also included are maps, copies of newspaper clippings related to Logan searching for treasure, lists of supplies needed to feed eight men during a ten week expedition, and other materials. 2010.006
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
Series · 1965-2005
Part of Robert M. Ritcey fonds
Series forms part of the Robert M. Ritcey fonds and consists of copies of correspondence related to Ritcey’s advocacy for the protection of Martinique Beach in Halifax County, Nova Scotia. Correspondence is between Ritcey, provincial and federal government officials, and others, and dates from 1965 and 2005. In the 2005 correspondence, Ritcey expresses particular concern over protecting the area surrounding and leading up to the beach from private developments. Series also includes a copy of a clipping about the beach, probably from 1965. Accession number 2010.004
History
Series · 1945-1960, [ca.1984-1999]
Part of Twin Oaks Memorial Hospital fonds
Series forms part of the Twin Oaks Memorial Hospital fonds and consists of one sheet of handwritten notes regarding the history of the hospital and two copies of newspaper clippings related to the hospital fair and a levy for the hospital’s deficit around the time when the Red Cross ceased to provide assistance to the hospital in 1958. Also included is a typed history of the hospital. Accession number 2013.065
Local research
Series · [ca. 1955], 1962-1963, 1969-1970
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 records relating to research undertaken by board members on local events and other topics of interest to the board. Series contains clippings and other material, and includes newspaper articles and advertisements promoting tourism on the Eastern Shore. Also included in the series are clippings, a government publication, correspondence and other material related to the proposal for a Ship Harbour National Park. In addition, series includes newspaper clippings reporting on board activities. Accession number: 2009.037
Scrapbooks
Series · 1935-1998
Part of Grace (Williams) Forsythe fonds
Series consists of twenty-seven scrapbooks containing clippings of local interest, the majority of which were created by Grace Forsythe. The earliest scrapbooks were created by her mother, Mrs. E. S. Williams (Ada Harpell Williams). One scrapbook contains clippings of obituaries from 1935-1978 and was created by Helen Jennex. Accession number: 2010.032
Series · c.1911-1942
Part of Grace (Williams) Forsythe fonds
Series forms part of the Grace (Williams) Forsythe fonds and consists of records related to Alexander ‘Sandy’ and Cora (Harpell) Myers, who was the sister of Grace’s mother. Cora was born on January 26, 1896 in West Jeddore and became a teacher in the early 1900s. She and her husband Sandy (1893-1957) owned the Salmon River House where Grace lived for several years following her retirement. A note found among the records indicates that they were used by Grace to help create the publications produced by the Marine Highway Historical Society. The series includes a photograph of Cora Harpell’s class at Ostrea Lake School in 1915 with the names of the students; a scrapbook containing clippings of songs; stories; and the prize winners of a matrimonial letter contest featuring Cora’s entry, No Fake Gentleman. Also included are various clippings regarding her school in Ostrea Lake; her graduating class from the Provincial Normal College in 1914; as well as handwritten poems and stories. Series also includes the lyrics to the Normal College school song, an application for a teacher’s license in 1912 that was rejected because she was too young, and a teacher’s license issued in 1914, as well as an earlier letter from a friend in1911. Cora died in Musquodoboit Harbour on February 24, 1995 at the age of 99. Series also contains receipts including postal and remitters’ receipts, invoices, ration forms and coupons, product labels, local business letterhead and advertisements, coupons, tax assessments, a tax notice, and enumeration records. Also included is correspondence to Sandy Myers from people coming to Salmon River House, a Christmas card from Arnold Logan, a Guide’s License, and an order form for a vest. Accession number: 2010.032
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
Series · [1783], [ca. 1915-1969]
Part of Annabel (Siteman) Ells fonds
Series forms part of the Annabel (Siteman) Ells fonds and consists of excerpts and clippings from various newspapers including the Family Herald, notes from Pictou County newspapers, and stories taken from various magazines. The majority of the clippings and notes refer to various Eastern Shore families but also include clippings about locations like Halifax and Dartmouth as well as schools, poems, recipes, church and local history, and notes on vessels that shipped along the Eastern Shore. Also includes vital records. In addition, series contains a German pamphlet from 1923 entitled Das Hakenkreuz, a copy of the statement of Fred Gerhardt regarding the destruction of the Potentate by German submarine in 1918, petitions, and correspondence including one love letter to a young Annabel from Dewey McElmon in 1915 which still contains a lock of hair. Accession number: 2013.066