Municipality of the District of Argyle (1926-1987) fonds

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Municipality of the District of Argyle (1926-1987) fonds

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    • 1926-1987 (Creation)
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      Municipality of the District of Argyle (Yarmouth County, N.S.)

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    • 11.73 m of textual records
    • 137 architectural drawings
    • 3 maps

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    Custodial history

    All Municipal Council meetings were held at the Argyle Township Court House at Tusket since the Municipality's incorporation in 1879. However, a business office for the municipality was not established until 1945. Previous to the time, Municipal Clerks had always been from the village of Tusket, and kept the majority of the records at their homes.From 1945-1976, a proper staff was on hand in the Court House and about one-half of the records in the fonds are thought to have been left in the building when the Municipality of Argyle removed its offices to the renovated Tusket School Building in 1976. The Archives was subsequently established in the Court House building with these and other abandoned municipal records, forming the core of its holdings. The remainder of the records in the fonds were transferred to the Archives from the Municipal Office in approximately equal portions since 1990 and 1996. A small portion of the records were removed from the Archives' TMS series of documents, which had been arranged and described by grant-funded employees during the 1970s. These records were moved in order to bring together all of the Municipality's extant records from the late 1920s which otherwise would have been scattered throughout several archival series.

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    Fonds consists of records created or received by the Municipality of Argyle while carrying out its business activities. The records have been arranged in chronological order. The Municipal Clerk's files (series A) have been arranged in chronological order in subseries of one year and in alphabetical order within each year's set of files, as was the practice of the Clerk.

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        Restrictions of access apply to some of the records within the series relating to welfare and social services (series D). Records which are restricted are closed to the public for 80 years from the dateof their creation.

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        Credit must be given to the Argyle Township Court House Archives when material from this fonds is used or reproduced.

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