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Archival description
Item · December 21, 1917
Consists of one handwritten letter written by Private. Joseph Settle, while stationed at the Halifax Armouries, to Mr. F. Frankum, Montreal, on December 21, 1917. The letter provides a firsthand account of the Halifax Explosion and its aftermath. 2014-040
Item · 1936-1937
Item is a photograph album of road construction workers, machines, vehicles, and community landscapes of Belliveau’s Cove, Digby County; Woods Harbour, Shelburne County; Mill Village, Queens County; East Pubnico, Yarmouth County; and Barton, Digby County, all in Nova Scotia. Some photographs are given captions and include names of the machinery and people: Frank Hiltz, Cerita Doucett, Hazel, Fidelis LeBlanc, Ira Blinn, Earnie [sic] Frank, Harry Frank, Dennis Saulnier, Bill Rutledge, Alf Haack, W.P. Bickle, Fred Heath, Terry Crowell, and George Fletcher. Album also includes a list of locations worked with dates. The name of the photographer is unknown. 2017-038
Levi Hart letters
Item · 1858-1865
Consists of eight letters from Joseph Howe to his business contact Benjamin Wier & Company of Halifax, and then to the firm of Wylde, Hart & Company, also of Halifax. Written just prior and during Mr. Howe’s time as Premier of Nova Scotia (1860-1863), most of the letters contain routine business matters and one letter mentions the dismissal of [Jonathan] McCully from a political post. 2014-026
Item · 1962
Item is a handwritten and illustrated memoir by Simone Stehelin, describing her experiences of travelling from France to Nova Scotia in 1895 at the age of ten and settling in her new home in the woods outside Weymouth where she lived with her parents, 7 brothers and 4 sisters until 1910. The memoir is in French and includes 2 printed and hand-coloured maps of the area as well as 35 pen and ink drawings, some in colour. The memoir was written in 1962 in Paris, France. 2016-027
Railway Employee ledger
Item · ca. 1898- ca. 1939
The large ledger records employee information for railway workers between ca. 1898 and ca. 1939, a time span which encompass several railways (the ledger was likely started by the local Intercolonial Railway office and was continued after Canadian National Railway took over). The amount of information captured for each employee varies, but always includes full name, dates of hiring, position and rate of pay. Some entries include more genealogical information, including place of birth, place of current residence (usually Halifax), religion and even more narrative information like who recommended the individual for employment and reasons for dismissal (including death, laid off, and being called for military service).
Item · between 1885 and 1892
Item is a lithographic print of Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Thompson (1845-1894) showing him standing behind his desk. The print was done by Desbarats & Co. of Montreal, Quebec. 2017-064