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              Series · 1943
              Part of William Ansell Gaetz family fonds
              Series forms part of the William Ansell Gaetz family fonds and consists of correspondence and a receipt concerning William Gaetz’s payment of dues to the Canadian National Eastern Lines System Federation Brothers of Maintenance of Way Employees dated 1959. There are also five additional receipts for dues paid to the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees lodge by William Gaetz in 1937 and 1938. In the early days of the railroads, railway barons amassed great fortunes while their employees worked long hours for little pay, with no vacation time, insurance, or pensions. The poor working terms and conditions motivated workers to organize into unions in order to ameliorate their situation. The Brotherhood of the Maintenance of Way Employees was founded in Demopolis, Alabama by John T. Wilson in 1887 as a fraternal organization to represent the workers who build and maintain the railway tracks, bridges, and buildings. In 2004 it became a division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
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              Series · 1920-1959
              Part of William Ansell Gaetz family fonds
              Series consists of life insurance papers and related correspondence, documents concerning the estate of the late Josephine Gaetz in 1956, and tax records including school assessment receipts and municipal tax receipts. Series also consists of records related to Gaetz’s occupation as a section man with the railway and includes an application for a Sixth Victory Loan Bonds payroll deduction plan through the Canadian National Railway Company in the name of William Gaetz dated April 21, 1944 for one bond in the amount of fifty dollars. Series also includes correspondence and a receipt concerning William Gaetz’s payment of dues to the Canadian National Eastern Lines System Federation Brothers of Maintenance of Way Employees dated 1959. There are also five additional receipts for dues paid to the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees lodge by William Gaetz in 1937 and 1938. Also included in the series are tax assessment rolls for the Municipality of Halifax, District 37, from 1934 listing names of taxable persons, their occupations, residences, property values, exemptions, age, school sections, etc. In addition there are assessment rolls of real property of non-residents and of persons unknown in the Municipality of Halifax, district 18 for 1946. These records lists the names of taxable persons, number of acres, descriptions of the lots, property values, occupations, school section numbers, and addresses.
              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
              Roger Embree fonds
              Fonds · 1967-1986
              Fonds consists of manuals, train schedules, station directories, CN Car Control Manuals (Cape Breton), trainmen return time sheets, training material and practice tests (for conductors), United Transportation Union booklets, train collection receipts, signal flash cards, operating rule books and time books.
              Fonds · 1910-1978
              Fonds consists of financial records belonging to William Gaetz including insurance papers, receipts, correspondence, documents related to the estate of Josephine Gaetz, and military pension information. Also included are records related to Gaetz’s time spent serving in WWI, correspondence with soldiers during WWII, records related to Gaetz’s membership in the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Musquodoboit Harbour United Church for which Gaetz acted as treasurer. Church records include financial papers and correspondence, account books, receipts, religious education material, meeting minutes, photographs, insurance documents, and other material. Fonds also includes records pertaining to electoral districts and voters as Gaetz was one of the revisors of the voter lists for his district. In addition, fonds includes lists of officers of the Musquodoboit Harbour Volunteer Fire Department and other material. Accession number 2012.001