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Arnold Doane fonds
Fonds · 1878-1910
Fonds consists of two series: personal correspondence and notebooks containing Barrington history
A. C. A. Doane fonds
Fonds · 1852-1888
Fonds consists of letters to A. C. A. Doane regarding Doane family genealogy. Also includes a letter from the Trustees of the Barrington Grammar School to the Barrington School Board asking for pay for the teacher, A. C. A. Doane. There is also a watercolour of A. C. A. Doane.
Cape Sable Historical Society fonds
Fonds · 1933-1985
Fonds consists of minutes from both regular and executive meetings, membership lists, financial records, receipts, accession books, donation records and correspondence.
Captain Angus N. Smith fonds
Fonds · 1893
Fonds consists of one journal kept by Smith while commanding the steamship Beta, used to record his expenses incurred and some of his activities. Also included is a short autobiography.
Evelyn M. Richardson fonds
Fonds · 1919
Fonds consists of three series: correspondence about publications, family photographs, manuscripts and reprints of stories
Frank A. Doane fonds
Fonds · 1939-1946
Fonds consists of an annotated manuscript of the booklet written by Frank A. Doane entitled "Old Times in Barrington", revised in 1944, published in Truro. Also includes a copy of Doane's marriage certificate, and manuscripts of articles for "South Shore Notes" printed in the Truro Daily News printed in the late 1940's, and proofs for his book Old Times. Photograph is of the Doane's Truro home.
Abigail Homer Doane fonds
Fonds · [ca.1850]
Fonds consists of three watercolours of flowers painted by Abigail Homer Doane.
Almira Bell Family fonds
Fonds · 1827-1844
Fonds consists of correspondence between Almira Bell and her sisters Lucretia, Sarah and Clarissa, and their mother Catherine, regarding family and events in the communities of Shelburne and Barrington, Nova Scotia
Centreville Free Baptist Church on Cape Sable Island
Fonds · Photocopied 1988
a photocopy of a transcription made in 1939 of minutes of meetings of the congregation and membership lists. Also includes the names and dates of members baptized into the Centreville Free Baptist Church.
John Sargent fonds
Fonds · 1783-1832
Fonds consists of accounts from the family's tailor/shoemaker, torn pages from Sargent's day book, minutes from a town proprietor's meeting where it was decided to allow Sargent to erect a mill on the mill stream, receipts, deeds and bonds (ca. 49 items) related to properties owned and sold by Sargent, and to transactions witnessed by him as a Justice of the Peace.