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Crowell Shoe Store fonds
Fonds · 1878-1899
Fonds consists of letters, receipts, bills mainly from boot and shoe companies and dealers in Halifax, Moncton, Upper Canada and the United States. Also included are customer account books and shipping records. There are significant gaps in the records.
Cumminger Bros. fonds
Fonds · ca. 1877
Fonds consist of four invoices for goods purchased from suppliers for sale in Cumminger Bros. general store, including Edward Albro & Co., cut nail manufacturers and importers of iron, hardware, chains, anchors &c.; Gordon & Keith, furniture manufacturers and general house furnisher; A. & W. MacKinlay, publishers, booksellers, and stationers; and another unknown firm from which fabrics, gloves, and purses were purchased. Also included is a photocopy of a business card for "Cumminger Brothers, Importers of British & Foreign Merchandise, Sherbrooke, N.S." 2020.028
Ford Webber fonds
Fonds · 1940-1951, 1962, 1982-1998, 1943-1962 predominant
Fonds consists of local news leaflets entitled, Webbers Shore News, published by Ford Webber, school books and scribblers, and other books belonging to Ford Webber from the 1940s. Accession numbers: 2010.017, 2013.023
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
Fonds · 1913-1949
Fonds consists of account books and day books from G. J. Leslie store (and its inheritors) between 1918 and 1949. Fonds also consists of a voters list of Spry Bay in 1928 and transcripts created by Siobhan Nelson of the account books. Accession number: 2008.028
Fonds · 1891-1977
Fonds consists of records of the store that in later years was called the Garth M. Hosking General Store. Accession numbers 2003.011, 2006.001, 2010.008
George L. Monk fonds
Fonds · 1894-1905
Fonds consists of records related to the business operations of George L. Monk, including both wholesale and retail activities. Records include receipts and invoices from business transactions with primarily Halifax-based wholesalers as well as correspondence and three account books. Accession number 2012.024
Fonds · 1911-1998
Consists of records created and accumulated by Grace Edith Forsythe primarily during her career as an educator and as a result of her involvement with the Marine Highway Historical Society, including records related to her teaching career, photographs, and material related to local history. Also included are publications produced by the Marine Highway Historical Society as well as layouts and preliminary copies. Contents also include scrapbooks, correspondence, advertisements, recipes, and material related to the Red Cross Society. In addition, fonds includes records acquired by Grace Forsythe and related to her aunt and uncle Cora (Harpell) and Sandy Myers, who owned the Salmon River House and with whom Grace lived for a time. Accession number 2010.032
Fonds · 1904-1909, 1960
Fonds consists of records from the Homans' store, including a day book ledger from 1904-1909 which records daily sales at the store and whether or not the sales were paid for. Fonds also includes two receipt books showing store sales from 1960. Accession number 2009.039, 2009.040
Fonds · [ca.1980-2011]
Fonds consists of records of the Lake Charlotte Area Heritage Society, including records related to Memory Lane Heritage Villages planning and establishment; board and committee records, marketing, membership and community fundraising, institutional funding, research and interpretation, Memory Lane Heritage Village operation, Eastern Shore Archives, events, bound plans and proposals, oral histories, and audiovisual material. Accession number: 2010.014, 2012.017