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St. Mary's Genealogy Research Centre at Sherbrooke Village
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Sarah Mason-Wilson at 1983 Re-enactment of Landing of Country Harbour Loyalists
Country Harbour Loyalist Society
Fonds · 1783-2006
Fonds gathers material about the history of Loyalists in Guysborough County, N.S., from their arrival in 1783, as well as the activities of the Country Harbour Loyalist Society, notably their 1983 re-enactment of the Landing of the Loyalists and the 2006 grand opening of the Municipal Park and Loyalist Walking Trail in Stormont, Country Harbour. Fonds includes papers generated by the operation of the society, including paperwork for the incorporation of the society, meeting minutes, event planning notes, and letters of support from the community. Fonds consists of the following series:Series 1: Parks CanadaSeries 2: HistorySeries 3: Legal Society BusinessSeries 4: Re-Enactment PhotographsSeries 5: Guysborough County Heritage AssociationSeries 6: Minutes of the Country Harbour Loyalist SocietySeries 7: The Loyalist TrailSeries 8: Form Letters of SupportSeries 9: Volunteer Involvement 2021.029
History of Loyalists
folder · 1783-2005
Fait partie de 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
Lester V. Macdonald fonds
Lester V. Macdonald fonds
Fonds · ca. 1820s - 1980s, predominant 1950s -1970s
Fonds consists of ledgers pertaining to the operation of Macdonald Garage and Equipment, Sherbrooke (1927-1951), one accounts ledger for the 19th-century Sherbrooke merchant Alexander Macdonald that lists the names of numerous St. Mary's area residents along with their occupation, goods purchased, and payments made, either cash or in-kind (ca. 1850-1860). Reports, files, meeting minutes, and correspondence relating to the development of Sherbrooke Village Restoration and the work of the Sherbrooke Restoration Commission. Reports, files, meeting minutes, and correspondence relating to the work of the St. Mary's Development Association. Reports and correspondence relating to upgrading and training programs at St. Mary's Rural High School (1968-1970). Meeting minutes of first home and school association (1935-1937). Drafts of Sherbrooke Women's Institute's Tweedsmuir Village Book (ca.1947). Meeting minutes of the St. Mary's District Ratepayers Association (1966-1968). Miscellaneous newspaper clippings, genealogy research files, photocopied photographs and documents, as well as primary documents such as letters, deeds, and maps relating to the historic people, places, buildings, societies, religious institutions, industries, businesses, and events within the Municipality of the District of St. Mary's. Book of regulations and prizes for the Guysborough County exhibition (1889). Research notes and short histories of Sherbrooke and area written by Lester V. Macdonald, as well as other miscellaneous local history and genealogy files and correspondence pertaining to the St. Mary's River region. Some materials are copies of 19th and 20th century records. A small amount of personal material of Lester V. Macdonald, including collected ephemera, clippings, correspondence, and a wartime diary entry is included. Fonds consists of the following series:Series 1: LedgersSeries 2: Correspondence and FilesSeries 3: Reports and Compilations 2018.017
SMGRC Anglican church records collection
Fonds · 1841- 1982
Collection consists of 7 reels of microfilm; 1 PDF file. Microfilm reels:Liscomb Parish: NS Archives reels # 11612, 11613 (Baptisms 1852 – 1920; Marriages 1852 – 1958); Port Dufferin Parish: NS Archives reels # 11778, 11779 (church records 1847 – 1961); Ship Harbour Parish: NS Archives reels # 11874, 11876 (church records 1841 – 1982); Ecum Secum Parish: NS Archives reels # 11352, 11353 (church records 1910 – 1967; account books and vestry minutes (1937 – 1964). Records are incomplete. PDF document:Liscomb Burial Register (1868 – 1959). Prior to 1843 the Municipality of St. Mary’s did not have a Church of England / Anglican clergyman assigned to the area. Visiting missionaries, ministers, and even a bishop occasionally travelled through the area beginning as early as 1822. The first permanent clergyman, Joseph Alexander, arrived on the Eastern Shore as an itinerant catechist in 1843. Alexander, a native of Yorkshire, England, ministered approximately from Beaver Harbour, Halifax County, to Torbay, Guysborough County. Consequently early records pertaining to the Municipality of St. Mary’s are incomplete and scattered. Churches were established as follows: St. James’, Sherbrooke, 1840; St. Thomas’, Indian Harbour Lake, 1854; St. Luke’s, Liscomb, 1857; St. John’s / St. Mary’s, St. Mary’s River, original begun ca 1846 – ca 1927; replaced by new building ca 1927 and consecrated 22 September 1932 as St. John’s (deconsecrated in 2012 and subsequently sold and moved to a nearby site for use as a private dwelling); St. Paul’s, Port Bickerton, 1891; St. Barnabas, Ecum Secum, opened 1887, consecrated 12 May 1889; St. Matthew’s, Marie Joseph, original “English Church” at Fancy’s Point consecrated 13 July 1858, replaced by new church, St. Matthew’s Anglican, Marie Joseph in 1906, deconsecrated 8 December 2004. 2017.007
Margaret Ellsworth collection
Margaret Ellsworth collection
Collection · ca. 1860s - ca.1990s
Collection consists of letters, genealogy research, obituaries, newspaper clippings, poetry, a scrapbook, and numerous photographs created, compiled, or accumulated by Margaret Ellsworth relating to the Fraser family of Waternish, Guysborough County and their descendants living throughout Canada and the United States. Also included are materials relating to the MacIntosh family of Sherbrooke and the Giffin family of Isaac's Harbour, Guysborough County. Photographs range in date from the mid-19th century to the late 1980s, and include studio portraits, candid family and community snapshots, as well as landscape images of the St. Mary's River valley and Isaac's Harbour areas. 2016.001
Anderson family fonds
Anderson family fonds
Fonds · ca. 1863-1936
Fonds consists of family and business records relating to the Anderson family of Sherbrooke, Guysborough County. Included are 4 ledgers and 2 accompanying indexes from A. Anderson & Sons, general merchants (ca. 1908 to 1936); business receipts, invoices, and statements relating to A. Anderson & Sons; personal correspondence, predominantly between Caroline MacKeen Anderson and her children, (ca. 1863 to 1907); photocopies of C.W. Anderson's report cards from Pictou Academy (1887-1888); records relating to the Anderson's shipping interests; teaching records of Caroline MacKeen Anderson and a school register for Sherbrooke section (1866-1867); several portraits of Anderson family members; and other miscellaneous records. 2020.017; 2020.029; 2020.031; 2020.037; 2020.038; 2020.059; 2022.006; 2022.016
Lomas family fonds
Lomas family fonds
Fonds · 1866- 2009, predominant 1970- 2000
Fonds consists of collected research on the history of the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s from its earliest records, with a special focus on gold mining and Goldenville, Nova Scotia, as well as the personal archives of the Lomas family recording their decades of public service alongside historical material gathered from their families and the community in Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia. The historical research begins with the earliest inhabitants of the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s, and continues with the arrival of Europeans, reports on the economic development of the area, essays on regional occupations, churches, charitable organizations, schools, government, transportation, communications, energy, banking, health care, recreation, and the war effort in two world wars. It collects research on the communities of Ecum Secum, Marie Joseph, New Chester, The Liscombs, Spanish Ship Bay, Sherbrooke, Sonora, Wine Harbour, Indian Harbour, Port Hilford, Port Bickerton, Harpelville, Fisherman’s Harbour, Jordanville, Stillwater, Waternish, Melrose, Aspen, The Forks, Denver, Glenelg, Smithfield, the Caledonias, Goshen, Argyle, Garden of Eden and the St. Mary’s River. Goldenville, Nova Scotia, is covered extensively with maps, photographs, census reports and other papers. Many histories of the region are collected in this fond, including unpublished memoirs. Papers from the Prince Henry Sinclair Society, St. Mary’s Historical Society, West River Station Restoration Committee, St. Mary’s Anglican Church in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Sherbrooke Library, Sherbrooke Village, Canso Historical Society, and the Liberal Party of Nova Scotia are also in this fonds, alongside a generous collection of material generated by the Lomas family themselves. There are records from the foreign service of Alton Anderson Lomas in the United States, Mexico, Belgium, and China, as well as his political work in Ontario and Nova Scotia. There is also an extensive record of the community service done by Al and Aleah Lomas, notably her work as librarian at the Sherbrooke Library, and several awards for volunteer service. In addition to the Lomas family material, this fonds holds genealogy research for many local families, notably the McKean/McKeen, Anderson, Henderson, Landesberg, and McLane families. There are photographs of local people and landscapes dating back to the 1870 opening of the first bridge over the St. Mary’s River at Sherbrooke, up to the 2005 wedding reception of Aleah Lomas Anderson and Murray Anderson, with an emphasis on the Anderson, Lomas, Palmer, and MacDonald families. The fonds also has audio and video recordings of interviews, speeches, and brief reports discussing topics of interest to the eastern shore of Nova Scotia. Fonds consists of the following series:Series 1: History of the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’sSeries 2: Lomas History of the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’sSeries 3: St. Mary’s Historical SocietySeries 4: CemeteriesSeries 5: ChurchesSeries 6: Foreign ServicesSeries 7: GenealogySeries 8: Gold Mining and Heritage Goldenville SocietySeries 9: Heritage / Heritage Inventory ProgramSeries 10: Industry, LocalSeries 11: MapsSeries 12: MemoirsSeries 13: MilitarySeries 14: News ClippingsSeries 15: ObituariesSeries 16: Personal PapersSeries 17: PhotographsSeries 18: Photographic SlidesSeries 19: Sherbrooke LibrarySeries 20: Sherbrooke VillageSeries 21: Audio RecordingsSeries 22: VHS cassette tapesSeries 23: Ships and shippingSeries 24: Books and Periodicals, CollectedSeries 25: MacDonald familySeries 26: Glass negativesSeries 27: Canadian Government ServiceSeries 28: Community Initiatives 2022.006
Early School Records
folder · 1866
Fait partie de Lomas family fonds
This folder holds Caroline McKeen teaching license and School Register from Wine Harbour School (1866). McKeen was the great-grandmother of Alton Anderson Lomas. 2022.006, Ser. 16, #22