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Lomas Liberal Campaign
folder · 1984
Part of Lomas family fonds
Typed resume for Alton Anderson Lomas with life details including military service and employment experience, letters of condolence and thanks to Al and Aleah from PM John Turner, Liberal Party President Iona Campagnolo and other prominent Liberals, as well as brother-in-law Lloyd Palmer, photo of Al campaigning, and a Gerald Regan promotional flyer. 2022.006, Ser. 16, #18
Lomas family photographs
folder · 1948- 2003
Part of Lomas family fonds
This folder holds photographs of Aleah Lomas Anderson, Alton Anderson Lomas, their children, grandchildren, family, and friends, including wedding photo (1949), Amelia MacKenzie on a swing (2003), and a university photographs of Aleah (1948). Some photographs in this folder are still unidentified. 2022.006, Ser. 17, #3
Lomas family
folder · 1924- 2000
Part of Lomas family fonds
Consists of news clippings specifically about members of the Lomas family. Includes Al and Aleah engagement announcement, wedding announcement for Al’s parents (1924), a print by photographer Gerry Lemay of Al Lomas and three fellow Assistant Trade Commissioners on the occasion of the announcement of their first foreign posts (March 1953), “Special Skills Required for Foreign Work” interview with Christy Ann Lomas (1984), Alton Anderson Lomas obituary (2000). 2022.006, Ser. 14, #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
Letters of Captain Tucker
folder · 1987
Part of Lomas family fonds
Transcriptions of letters from Captain Richard H. Tucker to his wife Mollie Tucker and brother Captain Joseph Tucker (1862-1865), along with a cover letter from descendant Jane Tucker (1987) 2022.006, Ser. 1, #4
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 · c. 1969
Part of Lomas family fonds
Photographs of John Hugh MacDonald, with man (possibly his son Neil who remained in Sherbrooke), at the house that was later purchased by the Lomas family in 1970. 2022.006, Ser. 17, #5
History of Sherbrooke
folder · 1942- 1955
Part of Lomas family fonds
This folder holds a complete copy of “History of Sherbrooke Nova Scotia” given to Agnes Manson by the author, Scott MacDonald, dated July 1942. This text begins its history in 1784, and ends with a list of MLAs that has a hand-written addition dated 1955, including the history of schools, churches, industry, horse racing, first people, and early prominent citizens. 2022.006, Ser. 25, #3
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
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