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Alexander E. Kerr fonds
Fonds · 1851 - 1975
Fonds contains personal documents of Alexander E. Kerr, including sermons, notes, personal writings and essays, certificates and degrees, pamphlets, publications, newspaper clippings, two photographs, and minimal correspondence. MS-2-153
Carleton Stanley fonds
Fonds · 1915 - 1962
Fonds comprises correspondence, speeches, lectures, article and book manuscripts, newspaper clippings and other records documenting the work of Carleton Stanley. MS-2-163
Charles Bruce fonds
Fonds · 1870 - 1974
Fonds consists of the personal papers of Charles Bruce, including a scrapbook, notebooks, personal and professional correspondence, published and unpublished work, and research materials and notes. MS-2-297
Fonds · 1880 - 1954
Fonds consists of Cox's records regarding his student life at Halifax Medical College and newspaper clippings about his family. MS-2-765
Florence Jessie Murray fonds
Fonds · [1884?] - 1975
Fonds consists primarily of Florence Jessie Murray's personal records regarding her career as a medical missionary in Korea, including correspondence, manuscripts, pamphlets and photographs. There is also a small volume of records that originated with her brother, Alexander Murray, and father, Robert Murray, including correspondence between Alexander Murray, Florence Jessie Murray and E.J.O. Fraser; Reverend Robert Murray's correspondence; and records regarding his involvement with the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes. MS-2-535
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
Freeman F. Tupper fonds
Fonds
Fonds consists of research notes and materials on the history of Nova Scotia and, more specifically, Liverpool and its prominent families, including family trees and hand-drawn annotated maps. Also included are many manuscripts on a variety of topics relating to Tupper's historical research, ranging from John Cabot and the early explorers to lesser-known local events in the history of Nova Scotia. Also present is a small collection of personal diaries and copies of deeds and legal documents from the Tupper family. MS-2-201
Henry Davies Hicks fonds
Fonds · 1929 - 1990
Fonds comprises records documenting Henry Hicks' political career and tenure as president of Dalhousie University, as well as his personal activities and hobbies. Record types include diaries and appointment books, correspondence, manuscripts, philatelic records, newspaper clippings and photographs. MS-2-511
James Stanley Hillis fonds
Fonds · 1917 - 1992
Fonds consists of materials regarding the student lives of James Stanley Hillis and his wife Pauline E. Hillis. Records include notebooks, books, and others textual records. Fonds also contains photographic negatives and prints of Pauline E. Hillis with friends, and of their son Eric Stanley Hillis at the age of 5, and two manuscripts regarding Hillis & Son Limited. MS-2-645
Janet M. Eaton fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1980] - [ca. 1989]
Fonds consists of Janet M. Eaton's materials regarding her professional involvement with the Canadian Association for Adult Education and the Continuous Learning Association of Nova Scotia. Fonds includes meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, conference programmes, and other textual records. MS-2-699