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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
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
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
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
Sherbrooke, early history
folder · 1971 - 1993
Part of Lomas family fonds
This folder holds an overview of the history of Fort Sainte-Marie 1669-1907, essay about Nicolas Denys visits to NS in 1600s (written c.1971), hand-written notes on early Sherbrooke history (notes briefly touch on native people). 2022.006, Ser. 1, #1
Collected Histories 2
folder · 1971
Part of Lomas family fonds
This folder holds a hand-written early history of Sherbrooke (c. 1607-1655), Tragedies of Sherbrooke and Stillwater, Eastern Chronicle article Historical Sketch by schoolgirl Ethel Anderson (1898), Population of Guysborough County and St. Mary’s (1966, 1971), hand-written Heritage Day write-up with history of Sherbrooke area naming its early families, communities, and buildings, chart documenting the division of NS into counties (1759), news on election returns in St. Mary’s (1882), typed history of Mounted Police and Veinotte’s Funeral Home in the format of Al Lomas’ history notes. 2022.006, Ser. 1, #10
History of Nova Scotia
folder · 1993
Part of Lomas family fonds
Items relating to Nova Scotia history including “A Friendly Scot Looks at Nova Scotia in 1853”, “Port Royal and Its Inhabitants 1605-1755”, news clippings (1984, 1990, 1991, 1993), 1991 Census of Canada, History of Lochaber (Antigonish County) and Beautiful Lochaber poem by Joseph Howe, text of “A Friendly Scot Looks at Nova Scotia in 1853” talk given by D. C. Harvey in 1946, copied pages about HRH the Prince of Wales visiting Canada (sometime before he was crowned King Edward VIII in 1936), “Amherst’s Four Fathers of Confederation”, “History in the Making” article about shipping historian Judith Fingard (1990), excerpt from book about Charles G. D. Roberts in Windsor NS, small note with question about NS House of Assembly in 1784. 2022.006, Ser. 1, #11
Collected Papers
folder · 1960- 1975
Part of Lomas family fonds
Consists of “Sources for Research - Antigonish and Guysborough Counties” (c. 1960), “Index to Deed Books from St. Mary’s Court House, Sherbrooke, Guysborough County NS” (1815-1841), “Records from Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia” birth and marriage announcements, c. 1760s-1820s, collected information on Sherbrooke-native Katherine (Kate) Fraser, missionary to Armenia sent by her niece Mrs. Dorothy Outerbridge of Bermuda (1975). 2022.006, Ser. 1, #12
Deed
folder · 1930
Part of Lomas family fonds
1930 deed from John Duncan McKeen & his unnamed wife to Canadian National Railway Company giving title to “land at Aspen, Guysborough County, N.S., for the Sunny Brae-Guysborough Branch of Canadian National Railway”. 2022.006, Ser. 1, #14