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Frank W. Jordan fonds
Frank W. Jordan fonds
Fonds · 1885-2002, predominant 1930s-1970s
Fonds consists of personal, business, association and institutional records relating to the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s, with a special emphasis on Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia. Included are meeting minutes, reports, and news from local associations including Heritage Goldenville Society, Royal Canadian Legion, Queen’s Lodge No. 34 A. F. & A. M., Sherbrooke Amateur Athletic Association, Sherbrooke Hockey League, St. Mary’s Boat Club, St. Mary’s Curling Club, St. Mary’s Driving Society, St. Mary’s Guest Home Society, St. Mary’s Historical Society, St. Mary’s District Rink Association and RecPlex, St. Mary’s River Association (1924-2003, predominantly 1970s-early 2000s); correspondence from the Department of Fisheries (c. 1920s); news clippings, reports, and press releases for local events including Communities in Bloom and Old Fashioned Christmas at Sherbrooke Village (1945-2002, predominantly early 2000s); maps, budgets, reports, meeting minutes, and other paperwork from Historic Sherbrooke Village (1971-1977); ledgers, news clippings, pulp samples from a local mill, and other papers related to local merchants and industry in the region (1872-2001, predominantly 1948-1968); papers from the Presbyterian, United, and St. James Anglican Churches, as well as the St. Mary’s Municipal School Board, Post Office, Library, St. Mary’s District Lions Club, St. Mary’s Memorial Hospital, Sunset Rest Cemetery, Down East Fire Fighters Association and Fire Department (1915-1996, predominantly 1930s-2000s); newspapers with Sherbrooke-related content, including the Family Herald and Weekly Star (1948), The Eastern Chronicle (1919), and Canso Breeze (1965-1966); a diary, family photographs, horse racing album, military service records, business ledgers, and personal family papers of Frank Jordan himself alongside unpublished memoirs and other papers from other Sherbrooke residents on the subject of local history; photographs, personal accounts, and newsletters about the St. Mary’s River (1900-2002, primarily concerning the 1956 flood). Also included in the collection are oral histories recorded at meetings of the St. Mary’s Historical Society (1978-1990). Fonds consists of the following series:Series 1: Andersons and Murdochs, Collected PapersSeries 2: Associations, LocalSeries 3: Department of FisheriesSeries 4: Diary (Digitized)Series 5: Emergency Measures OrganizationSeries 6: Events, LocalSeries 7: Historic Sherbrooke VillageSeries 8: Horse Racing Album (Digitized)Series 9: Business, LocalSeries 10: Institutions, LocalSeries 11: Municipality of the District of St. Mary’sSeries 12: Newspapers, RegionalSeries 13: Oral HistoriesSeries 14: Papers, CollectedSeries 15: Photographs (Digitized)Series 16: Periodicals, Collected RegionalSeries 17: St. Mary’s District Development AssociationSeries 18: St. Mary’s Historical Society and Historical MaterialSeries 19: St. Mary’s River 2020.011
SMGRC Deeds collection
Collection · 2020 -
Collection consists of original grants and deeds for properties located within the St. Mary's region. Some deeds include small, hand-drawn maps of the transacted property and surrounding properties, often showing property relationship to waterways including the three branches of the St. Mary's River. 2020.039; 2019.008; 2020.008
Sarah Mason-Wilson at 1983 Re-enactment of Landing of Country Harbour Loyalists
Country Harbour Loyalist Society
Fonds · 1783-2006
Fonds gathers material about the history of Loyalists in Guysborough County, N.S., from their arrival in 1783, as well as the activities of the Country Harbour Loyalist Society, notably their 1983 re-enactment of the Landing of the Loyalists and the 2006 grand opening of the Municipal Park and Loyalist Walking Trail in Stormont, Country Harbour. Fonds includes papers generated by the operation of the society, including paperwork for the incorporation of the society, meeting minutes, event planning notes, and letters of support from the community. Fonds consists of the following series:Series 1: Parks CanadaSeries 2: HistorySeries 3: Legal Society BusinessSeries 4: Re-Enactment PhotographsSeries 5: Guysborough County Heritage AssociationSeries 6: Minutes of the Country Harbour Loyalist SocietySeries 7: The Loyalist TrailSeries 8: Form Letters of SupportSeries 9: Volunteer Involvement 2021.029
Lomas family fonds
Lomas family fonds
Fonds · 1866- 2009, predominant 1970- 2000
Fonds consists of collected research on the history of the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s from its earliest records, with a special focus on gold mining and Goldenville, Nova Scotia, as well as the personal archives of the Lomas family recording their decades of public service alongside historical material gathered from their families and the community in Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia. The historical research begins with the earliest inhabitants of the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s, and continues with the arrival of Europeans, reports on the economic development of the area, essays on regional occupations, churches, charitable organizations, schools, government, transportation, communications, energy, banking, health care, recreation, and the war effort in two world wars. It collects research on the communities of Ecum Secum, Marie Joseph, New Chester, The Liscombs, Spanish Ship Bay, Sherbrooke, Sonora, Wine Harbour, Indian Harbour, Port Hilford, Port Bickerton, Harpelville, Fisherman’s Harbour, Jordanville, Stillwater, Waternish, Melrose, Aspen, The Forks, Denver, Glenelg, Smithfield, the Caledonias, Goshen, Argyle, Garden of Eden and the St. Mary’s River. Goldenville, Nova Scotia, is covered extensively with maps, photographs, census reports and other papers. Many histories of the region are collected in this fond, including unpublished memoirs. Papers from the Prince Henry Sinclair Society, St. Mary’s Historical Society, West River Station Restoration Committee, St. Mary’s Anglican Church in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Sherbrooke Library, Sherbrooke Village, Canso Historical Society, and the Liberal Party of Nova Scotia are also in this fonds, alongside a generous collection of material generated by the Lomas family themselves. There are records from the foreign service of Alton Anderson Lomas in the United States, Mexico, Belgium, and China, as well as his political work in Ontario and Nova Scotia. There is also an extensive record of the community service done by Al and Aleah Lomas, notably her work as librarian at the Sherbrooke Library, and several awards for volunteer service. In addition to the Lomas family material, this fonds holds genealogy research for many local families, notably the McKean/McKeen, Anderson, Henderson, Landesberg, and McLane families. There are photographs of local people and landscapes dating back to the 1870 opening of the first bridge over the St. Mary’s River at Sherbrooke, up to the 2005 wedding reception of Aleah Lomas Anderson and Murray Anderson, with an emphasis on the Anderson, Lomas, Palmer, and MacDonald families. The fonds also has audio and video recordings of interviews, speeches, and brief reports discussing topics of interest to the eastern shore of Nova Scotia. Fonds consists of the following series:Series 1: History of the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’sSeries 2: Lomas History of the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’sSeries 3: St. Mary’s Historical SocietySeries 4: CemeteriesSeries 5: ChurchesSeries 6: Foreign ServicesSeries 7: GenealogySeries 8: Gold Mining and Heritage Goldenville SocietySeries 9: Heritage / Heritage Inventory ProgramSeries 10: Industry, LocalSeries 11: MapsSeries 12: MemoirsSeries 13: MilitarySeries 14: News ClippingsSeries 15: ObituariesSeries 16: Personal PapersSeries 17: PhotographsSeries 18: Photographic SlidesSeries 19: Sherbrooke LibrarySeries 20: Sherbrooke VillageSeries 21: Audio RecordingsSeries 22: VHS cassette tapesSeries 23: Ships and shippingSeries 24: Books and Periodicals, CollectedSeries 25: MacDonald familySeries 26: Glass negativesSeries 27: Canadian Government ServiceSeries 28: Community Initiatives 2022.006
S - Cartes Géophraphiques
Series · 19-?
Part of Fonds Père Clarence d'Entremont
Cette série est constituée de 192 cartes géographiques, incluant des cartes anciennes, moderne, routières, topographiques et bénéficaires. Ces cartes géographiques illustrent la vie et les parcours des Acadiens à travers le monde 1998.3-f11
Havre de Pubnico
Havre de Pubnico
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Part of Fonds Père Clarence d'Entremont
Photographie d'une carte gra[joqie des terres entourant le havre de Pubnico montrant la réparation des terres entre les différents propriétaires. La date, le titre, l'échelle et la provenance du document no sont pas indiqués. 1998.3-f11
Robert Kim Stevens fonds
Robert Kim Stevens fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1972]-[ca. 2002]
Fonds consists of records of the activities of Robert Kim Stevens. Records were created and accumulated between about 1972 and 2003. Fonds is arranged into five series: correspondence, research material and publications, family files,maps, and drawings. Accession number 2003.010.
Maps
Series · ca. 1740-1780
Part of Robert Kim Stevens fonds
Series forms part of Robert Kim Stevens fonds and consists of one early Italian map of Acadia, Ile Royale and the surrounding area including Ile St. Jean. The map was likely drawn by Jacques-Nicholas Bellin, a French-born hydrographer and geographer who produced many maps of Canada and other French territories in North America and was chief cartographer of the French Navy in 1721 and later Official Hydrographer of the King. 2013.026
Chezzetcook Historical Society fonds
Chezzetcook Historical Society fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1900]-2008, predominant 1974-2004
Fonds consists of records of the Chezzetcook Historical Society and its members. Textual records were created between about 1900- 1930, 1950- 1955, 1965, and 1974- 2008, but the majority date to between 1974 and 2004. Fonds includes research material, genealogical information, publications, society records regarding its operation, inventories, maps, and photographs. Accession number 2009.018.
E.J. Webber fonds
E.J. Webber fonds
Fonds · 1941-1945, 1951-1955
Fonds consists of records related to the activities of E. J. Webber during his time spent serving with the 2nd Reserve Battalion Halifax Rifles in World War II and his shared activities with his wife Babe Webber in her role as postmistress in Lake Charlotte during the 1950s. Records were created between 1941 and 1945, and between 1951 and 1955. Fonds has been arranged into the following two series: S1- 2nd Reserve Battalion Halifax Rifles S2- Lake Charlotte Post Mistress Accession number 2009.045