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Fonds · 1941, predominant 1954-1970
Fonds consists of records of the Eastern Shore Board of Trade, District 19 and its members. Records in the fonds are arranged into five series, including correspondence, publications, local research, meeting minutes, and financial and legal records. Accession numbers 2009.037, 2009.038 and 2010.019
Fonds · 1966-1980
The first three series of the fonds consist of essays and research written and compiled by Mr. Patrick Milligan and Mr. D. Engram’s grade ten students at Eastern Shore District High School between 1973 and 1980 as part of a class project on local history. The essays include information about various aspects of the history of the Eastern Shore such as industries and occupations, activities, cemeteries, churches, individuals, houses, education, and family and community history. Selected essays from Mr. Milligan’s local history course, 1974-1975, were compiled into a school publication called The Shore Thing, a preliminary copy of which is included in the fonds. The purpose of the book was to introduce students to their own area and familiarize them with the history of local communities along the Eastern Shore. It was placed in the school library for the benefit of all students. The fonds also consists of yearbooks and a newspaper published by the school during the first ten years of its operation. Accession numbers 2006.003, 2012.001
Events
Series · 2000-2006
Part of Lake Charlotte Area Heritage Society fonds
Series forms part of Lake Charlotte Area Heritage Society fonds and consists of records related to events hosted at Memory Lane Heritage Village. Series contains correspondence, notes, posters, press releases, reports, participant/guest lists, invitations, meeting minutes, questionnaires, receipts, instructions, menus, seating plans, itineraries, photographs, video, and other material. Series is arranged into ten sub-series for different events and types of events: the annual antique car show, the annual antique show and tell, the annual model boat & ship festival, the Eastern Shore Homecoming, Dominion Day events, heritage dinners, weddings and family reunions, irregular events, the annual Atlantic Canada Harmonica Festival, and volunteer appreciation dinners. Accession numbers: 2010.014, 2012.017
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
Lena Ferguson fonds
Fonds · 1974-2001
Fonds consists of approximately 137 hours of oral history interviews conducted by Lena Ferguson. Most interviewees were residents of the Eastern Shore region of Halifax County, particularly the Chezzetcook area. Interview topics include genealogy, local industries, occupations, music, shipping, community life, traditions, and folklore. In addition to interviews, the creator recorded school reunions, concerts, weddings, and church anniversaries. Several paper transcripts are included as well as scrapbooks featuring articles written by Lena and other newspaper articles regarding the Chezzetcook area. 2019.014
Lydia Webber fonds
Fonds · [ca.1880]- 1940
Fonds consists of postcards, photographs, correspondence and other material created and accumulated by Lydia Webber. Accession numbers 2008.009, 2009.040
Collection · 1931-1945
Collection consists of forty monochrome aerial photographs of the Eastern Shore taken between 1931 and 1945. Also includes seven corresponding flight maps. Photographs illustrate the landscapes and coastlines of various locations along the Eastern Shore as they were in 1931-1945. Areas covered by the aerial photographs within this collection include Owl's Head, Little Harbour, Clam Harbour, Burnt Point, Clam Bay, Lake Charlotte, Ship Harbour, Upper Lakeville, Oyster Pond, and the Jeddores. Accession number 2013.039
Photographs
Series · [ca. 1880]-[ca. 1940]
Part of Lydia Webber fonds
Series forms part of the Lydia Webber fonds and consists of black and white photographs accumulated by Lydia Webber, including portraits and other images of people. Six photographs are identified, including pictures of Maud Webber in 1902, Buford Webber, Marguerite “Babe” Webber, Nelson Webber; Ruth, Kenneth and Lloyd Webber; and Lydia's brother Hudson Webber with their niece Myrtle Webber, daughter of Amos. Five photographs identified with the names ‘Nancy’, ‘Mildred’, ‘Edna’, and ‘Floss’ (with husband ‘Leslie’) are possibly of Nancy Ann Webber and her daughters Mildred, Edna and Flossy or Nancy Mary Webber, sister of Lydia. Accession number: 2009.040
Photographs and postcards
Series · [ca.1915-1990]
Part of Katherine L. Stoddard family fonds
Series forms part of the Katherine L. Stoddard fonds and consists of one postcard featuring a picture of the motel in Lake Charlotte c. 1970s. Also includes one copy of a photograph of Emily Usher Ritcey c. 1915. Emily Margaret Usher was born March 27, 1891 and was the daughter of William Philip Usher and Emily Anderson Mack of Musquodoboit Harbour. She married Herbert Simon Ritcey on January 26, 1915. They lived in Dartmouth and she died March 1, 1974. Herbert Simon Ritcey was born August 24, 1874 in West Petpeswick and was the son of Simon (ship captain) and Susanna Elizabeth (Gaetz) Ritcey. He was the brother of Katherine L. Stoddard’s paternal grandmother, Harriet “Edith” Ritcey Stoddard, making Emily Usher Ritcey her sister-in-law. Accession number: 2013.008
Robert A. Logan fonds
Fonds · 1919, 1934-1959, [1962]
Fonds consists of records related or possibly related to Robert A. Logan’s activities as a gold prospector in the area around Lake Charlotte, Halifax County, Nova Scotia. During the 1930s, Logan was Vice-President and manager of Prospectors Associated Activities Limited (sometimes abbreviated to PRASAC), a prospecting and mining company based in Lake Charlotte (then known as Ship Harbour Lake). Although he ceased his involvement with PRASAC in the 1940s, Logan may have continued prospecting in the area. The records are primarily related to the purchase of mining and ore-processing equipment and include correspondence, brochures, catalogues, instructions, invoices, receipts, and notes. Accompanying one letter from a manufacturer is a photo of an offered piece of equipment (a concentrating table). Also included are a handwritten table of supplies needed to feed eight men on a 10-week expedition, a typed summary of gold mining operations for the years 1935-1936 and the first quarter of 1937, drafts and instructions for a letterhead design for PRASAC, and a copy of a hand-drawn map sketching shipping routes between PRASAC’s headquarters and major cities in Atlantic Canada, Eastern Canada, and the Northeastern United States. Although most mining-related records are from the 1930s, some date to the 1940s, and one product brochure dates to 1919. Fonds also includes records related to Logan’s life and other activities in the Lake Charlotte area, including correspondence, instructions and brochures related to equipment which Logan bought for his home or personal use. Some instructions are prepared by Logan himself, including a set of handwritten notes and diagrams which details his repairs and installation of a well pump, as well as giving instructions for its use. In addition, fonds includes copies of a plan showing the lands of Lawrence Webber, Upper Lakeville, to be leased by the estate of J. Edward Webber, Lake Charlotte, dated August 8, 1967. Fonds also includes a photograph of Robert A. Logan and his wife Daisy (Barrett) Logan taken in May of 1962. Accession number 2010.006.