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Adelbert Hamilton fonds
Fonds · 1928-1941
Fonds consists of one ledger which details Hamilton's activities as a blacksmith, coal merchant and garage owner.
Blacksmith and Heating Business Ledgers
Series · 1926-1937
Part of Lester D. MacKeen fonds
Series consists of ledgers or job books that record the daily jobs performed at the blacksmith shop. Includes client name, job performed, and charge. Jobs performed include shoeing horses, repairing implements and conveyances, stove repair.
Blacksmith and Heating Business Records
Series · 1928-1956
Part of Lester D. MacKeen fonds
Series consists of records, files, and correspondence relating to the daily business operations of Lester D. MacKeen's blacksmithing and heating business, including business promotional calendars for 1928; trade literature and correspondence from paint, stove range, and agricultural equipment firms including Glidden Paints, Frost and Wood, Fawcett, Findlay, Enterprise, General Electric, Calkin, La Compagnie Normand Limitee, and A. Belanger Ltd.; receipts, invoices, bank drafts, order forms, statements, and correspondence relating to the firms Wm. Stairs, Son, & Morrow Ltd. of Halifax, NS and Jas. Simmonds Ltd., Halifax, NS from which MacKeen ordered blacksmithing supplies. Series is arranged in five files: 1) Promotional Materials; 2) Trade Literature Correspondence; 3) Wm. Stairs, Son & Morrow Ltd.; 4) Jas. Simmonds Ltd.; 5) Misc. Records and Receipts.
George Thomas fonds
Fonds · 1878-1880
Fonds consists of one ledger used to record accounts of services. Several pages have been torn from the front of ledger and the inside cover reads "Journal of Schooner Philistine, 20 April 1876". It recently was noted in the ledger that the removed pages were the journal entries of the Philistine.
Henry Dornan fonds
Fonds · 1869-1877
Fonds consists of a day book for Dornan's blacksmith business.
James Ramsay fonds
Fonds · 1877-1922
Fonds consists of 4 day books, 1 ledger, correspondence and a lease. Some of the correspondence is related to Ramsay's position of Customs Collector.
Lester D. MacKeen fonds
Lester D. MacKeen fonds
Fonds · 1928-1969
Fonds consists of four series: 1) Blacksmith and Heating Business Records, 2) Personal Files, Statements, and Correspondence, 3) Municipal Files and Correspondence, 4) Blacksmith and Heating Business Receipt Books (1938-1969), and 5) Blacksmith and Heating Business Ledgers. Fonds consist of records documenting the day-to-day business operations of Lester D. MacKeen's blacksmithing and heating business; files, statements, and correspondence relating to the personal life and daily activities of Lester D. MacKeen; records and correspondence relating to municipal roles performed by Lester D. MacKeen as secretary of the Unemployment Relief Central Committee (also known as the Overseers of the Poor) for the Municipality of St. Mary's between 1933 and 1934 and as Deputy Sheriff for Guysborough County. 2014.008