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folder · 1896-1899
Part of McConnell family fonds
File consists of account books for McConnell merchant activities in the Forest Hill Mines area of Guysborough Co., N.S. James McConnell (1873-1957) appears to be the bookkeeper and was likely store manager. Books list names of customers, goods purchased, and payment. 2020.044, Ser 1.2
Labrador Account Books
folder · ca 1880s-1890s
Part of McConnell family fonds
File consists of account books for brothers William and James McConnell's merchants activities along the Labrador coast. 2020.044, Ser 1.1
History of Loyalists
folder · 1783-2005
Part of Country Harbour Loyalist Society
History of Loyalists in Guysborough County, article specific to Country Harbour from from North Carolina Historical Review 1783-1812 (published 1990), news clipping 1963, typed list of land grantees under Major Wright Grant with list of names, Arrival of the St. Augustine Loyalists 1783, East Florida and Country Harbour, Black Loyalists and Country Harbour 1783-1819, Loyalist Facts 1783 with notes on Black Loyalists, Country Harbour Loyalists 1783 with poem “Loyalist Farewell” with mention of reenactment in 1983, The Connection: East Florida and Country Harbour, Blacks and the American Revolution (c. 2005), United Empire Loyalists, the Augustine Loyalists (c. 2004), Country Harbour Loyalists information collected by Sarah Mason Wilson. 2021.029, Ser2.1
folder · 1963-1992
Part of Country Harbour Loyalist Society
news clipping on Mutiny on the Saladin (1963), letter to Mrs. Jean Clark, teacher, from Marion Hudson containing news paper clipping for a hanging connected to Saladin mutiny, Chronicles of Guysborough County collection of articles written by Sarah Mason Wilson and published by the Guysborough Gazette (c. 1992) 2021.029, Ser 2.2
folder · 1993- 1996
Part of Lomas family fonds
Includes society newsletters, meeting minutes, news clippings, correspondence, and a transcript of Jack Sinclair’s talk on the history of Ballantyne’s Cove and Cape George. Also, more general information on Henry Sinclair and Clan Sinclair. 2022.006, Ser. 1, #5
First European Visitors
folder · 1997
Part of Lomas family fonds
Articles, and essays about early European visits to NS, naming Vikings, Knights Templar, and potential treasure in Oak Island. 2022.006, Ser. 1, #6