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Military Service of Al Lomas
folder · 1943- 1967
Part of Lomas family fonds
This folder holds Royal Canadian Legion application by Alton Anderson Lomas and correspondence detailing his military service 1943-1967, 2022.006, Ser. 13, #1
folder · 1917- 1996
Part of Lomas family fonds
This folder holds small books “Paris for Englishmen and for Americans” guide book for Allied Soldiers given to Alton Inkerman Lomas (father of Al Lomas) (1919), “Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo” (undated but published in Belgium where Lomas family lived in 1960-1963), “A Pictoral Record of the work of the N.Z. Y. M. C. A. on Active Service” (1919), and collected photographs of “the Military Convalescent Hospital, Woodcote Park, Epsom” (England, 1917), along with “Canada’s Military Nurses” article (1996). 2022.006, Ser. 13, #2
Memoirs
folder · 1977- 1989
Part of Lomas family fonds
Includes typed memoirs of M. Vincent McKeen (1977) of Aspen, and Margaret K. Sullivan (1989), “Highway 7” essay, lengthy excerpt of “Tales From Sherbrooke” by J. Huntley MacLean (1983) with hand-written notes clipped to cover, two page essay on the Jordan family stonecutters of Pleasant Valley, now known as Jordanville. 2022.006, Ser. 12, #1
Local Industry
folder · 1904- 1985
Part of Lomas family fonds
This folder holds news clippings with Sherbrooke news about timber (Eastern Chronicle, 1904), Timber Cruising in Nova Scotia in 1921 (Forest Times, 1985), and a press release for “Maritime Capital The Shipping Industry in Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914” (McGill/Queens University Press, 1990). 2022.006, Ser. 10, #1
Regional Heritage Resources
folder · 1980- 1992
Part of Lomas family fonds
This folder holds the full text of Nova Scotia’s Heritage Property Act (1980), correspondence with a flyer for the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia trip to Sherbrooke, Heritage Conservation Districts booklet (1992), Registering Provincial Heritage Properties booklet in two forms, Nova Scotia Department of Tourism Conservation Assistance for All Burial Grounds and Cemeteries of Historical Importance, flyers for Genealogical Association of N.S. (1982), Maritime History Archive at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, correspondence from Federation of Nova Scotia Heritage (1990), printed notes on Practical Preservation (1999), Heritage Grant Programs, and Registering Heritage Properties (1998), and a copy of The Occasional Journal for Nova Scotia Museums index of journal articles Vol. 9 no. 1 - Vol. 10 no. 3 (1984-1987). 2022.006, Ser. 9, #1
Heritage Inventory Program 2
folder · 1991
Part of Lomas family fonds
This folder holds 11 files of inventory site forms with photographs, architectural comments, and historical comments about heritage properties in the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s, specifically Marie Joseph, and Ecum Secum. All forms are signed by Craig MacDonald in 1991. Files are numbered 001, [MISSING 002], 003-012. Also, there is a news clipping about The Heritage Inventory Program (HIP) that describes a heritage home in Antigonish and credits the Town of Antigonish and Canada Employment Center with supporting the program. 2022.006, Ser. 9, #3
Heritage Planning Books
folder · 1972- 1989
Part of Lomas family fonds
Contains four Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia publications “Historic Buildings in Halifax Urban Design part 1 Downtown” (1972), “Brunswick Street” (1972), “Resource Library Catalogue” (1989), “Preservation for Use” (1972), as well as “Registering Provincial and Municipal Heritage Properties" publication from Nova Scotia Department of Culture, Recreation and Fitness (1986). 2022.006, Ser. 9, #4
Heritage Inventory Program 1
folder · 1991
Part of Lomas family fonds
This folder holds 12 files with completed inventory site forms with photographs, architectural comments, and historical comments about properties in the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s, specifically Marie Joseph, Ecum Secum, Liscomb Mills, and Spanish Ship Bay. All forms are signed by Craig MacDonald in 1991. Files are numbered 013-024. 2022.006, Ser. 9, #2
folder · 1971- 1992
Part of Lomas family fonds
Collects news clippings and magazine articles about gold mining in Nova Scotia, including copy of The Sherbrooke Oracle (5 December 1864), “Goldenville Boom: gold mining heydays” (The Shopping News, 16 February 1983), “The Lady Prospectors of the Last Century” covering 1886-1890 in c. 1990 clipping, “Gold Fields of Eastern Nova Scotia” by David E. Stephens (1971), booklet on Miner’s Safety Lamps, data on Nova Scotia mining, typed memories of prospector and miner Matthew McGrath, article “Our Gold Fields”, “Invisible Gold” and other clippings from the New Yorker magazine (1987), “Gold’s Eternal Allure” (1988), “Contributions of the Geological Survey of Canada to the Canadian Mining Industry, 1842-1942 (1992), Nova Scotia Business Journal (1987). 2022.006, Ser. 8, #5
folder · 1962- 1989
Part of Lomas family fonds
This folder holds a “Nova Scotia Gold” pamphlet (1989), “Nova Scotia’s Golden Past” (c. 1979), Goldenville map (Ambrose Church, 1876), “Plan and Section of Goldenville Gold District, Guysborough County, NS” geological survey by E. R. Faribault that names gold companies, Christmas dinner menu from 1934 prepared by Blanche Jordan for Guysboro Mines Ltd. of Goldenville, postcard of gold mining scene in Goldenville, photograph postcard of gold bricks from Goldenville, Eastern Chronicle news clippings on Goldenvile (1862-1891), Letter to the editors of The Eastern Shore Sandpiper discussing Goldenville history (1990), flyer for Women’s Institutes of Nova Scotia talk on Gold Properties, photograph of mine at Goldenville, and “Thousands Flocked to Seek Their Fortunes in Guysboro County During 19th Century Gold Rush” (The Evening News, New Glasgow, 16 November 1962). 2022.006, Ser. 8, #6