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              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
              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.
              Deputy Sheriff, Co. of Guysborough Files and Correspondence
              Sub-series · 1947-1954
              Part of Lester D. MacKeen fonds
              Sub-series consists of files and correspondence relating to the work of Lester D. MacKeen as Deputy Sheriff for the County of Guysborough, including issuing levies, collection of fines and taxes, settling of property disputes, warrants, summons, and executions, advertisements for sale of disputed property. Includes correspondence with barristers and solicitors and the High Sheriff for the County of Guysborough. Sub-series consists of four files: 1) Cochrane Hill Mine Property; 2) J.J. MacKay vs. Lorne MacKay -- 1948 Fargo Truck; 3) Daniel Ross vs. John Jordan and Alvin Jordan; 4) Miscellaneous.
              Florence M. MacDonald fonds
              Florence M. MacDonald fonds
              Fonds · ca. 1890s-1980s
              Fonds consist of records created and accumulated by Florence M. MacDonald relating to her personal life and three generations of the Donald MacDonald family of Sherbrooke, Guysborough County. Included are a Gaelic language Bible (1867) belonging to Donald MacDonald; a cookbook (1879) interleaved with handwritten family recipes and recipe clippings belonging to Mrs. Donald MacDonald; and records relating to James Wm. MacDonald, Murray MacDonald, and John Geddie MacDonald. Also included are MacDonald family portraits and two photograph albums, one of Florence MacDonald and friends in Sherbrooke and Halifax, and another of lumbering, hunting, and fishing along the St. Mary's River; Province of Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture Domestic Science Bulletin No. 1, Women's Institute Division, The Cooking and Canning of Vegetables (1916); community newspaper clippings and obituaries; personal files and correspondence; and genealogy research and correspondence relating to the MacDonald and Sutherland families of St. Mary's. Also included are originals and copied b&w photographs and negatives used or considered as part of Florence MacDonald's book "Sherbrooke as I Remember It," published in 1987. Fonds is arranged in the following series: 1) Genealogy and Family History, 2) Newspaper Clippings and Obituaries, 3) Photographs, 4) Personal Correspondence, Files, and Certificates, and 5) Sherbrooke As I Remember It Files and Photographs 2020.009
              Frank W. Jordan fonds
              Frank W. Jordan fonds
              Fonds · 1885-2002, predominant 1930s-1970s
              Fonds consists of personal, business, association and institutional records relating to the Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s, with a special emphasis on Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia. Included are meeting minutes, reports, and news from local associations including Heritage Goldenville Society, Royal Canadian Legion, Queen’s Lodge No. 34 A. F. & A. M., Sherbrooke Amateur Athletic Association, Sherbrooke Hockey League, St. Mary’s Boat Club, St. Mary’s Curling Club, St. Mary’s Driving Society, St. Mary’s Guest Home Society, St. Mary’s Historical Society, St. Mary’s District Rink Association and RecPlex, St. Mary’s River Association (1924-2003, predominantly 1970s-early 2000s); correspondence from the Department of Fisheries (c. 1920s); news clippings, reports, and press releases for local events including Communities in Bloom and Old Fashioned Christmas at Sherbrooke Village (1945-2002, predominantly early 2000s); maps, budgets, reports, meeting minutes, and other paperwork from Historic Sherbrooke Village (1971-1977); ledgers, news clippings, pulp samples from a local mill, and other papers related to local merchants and industry in the region (1872-2001, predominantly 1948-1968); papers from the Presbyterian, United, and St. James Anglican Churches, as well as the St. Mary’s Municipal School Board, Post Office, Library, St. Mary’s District Lions Club, St. Mary’s Memorial Hospital, Sunset Rest Cemetery, Down East Fire Fighters Association and Fire Department (1915-1996, predominantly 1930s-2000s); newspapers with Sherbrooke-related content, including the Family Herald and Weekly Star (1948), The Eastern Chronicle (1919), and Canso Breeze (1965-1966); a diary, family photographs, horse racing album, military service records, business ledgers, and personal family papers of Frank Jordan himself alongside unpublished memoirs and other papers from other Sherbrooke residents on the subject of local history; photographs, personal accounts, and newsletters about the St. Mary’s River (1900-2002, primarily concerning the 1956 flood). Also included in the collection are oral histories recorded at meetings of the St. Mary’s Historical Society (1978-1990). Fonds consists of the following series:Series 1: Andersons and Murdochs, Collected PapersSeries 2: Associations, LocalSeries 3: Department of FisheriesSeries 4: Diary (Digitized)Series 5: Emergency Measures OrganizationSeries 6: Events, LocalSeries 7: Historic Sherbrooke VillageSeries 8: Horse Racing Album (Digitized)Series 9: Business, LocalSeries 10: Institutions, LocalSeries 11: Municipality of the District of St. Mary’sSeries 12: Newspapers, RegionalSeries 13: Oral HistoriesSeries 14: Papers, CollectedSeries 15: Photographs (Digitized)Series 16: Periodicals, Collected RegionalSeries 17: St. Mary’s District Development AssociationSeries 18: St. Mary’s Historical Society and Historical MaterialSeries 19: St. Mary’s River 2020.011
              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
              McDaniel family fonds
              McDaniel family fonds
              Fonds · 1868-1913
              Fonds are arranged in the following series: Series 1, Business Ledgers; Series 2, Invoices and Statements; Series 3, Miscellaneous. Fonds consists of three record books (1868 – 1913) containing entries from various facets of John and James McDaniel’s business interests that includes names of customers, stage coach proprietors, mines and miners, freight, prices; invoices and statements of purchase for goods and services from local and non-local merchants purchased by the McDaniel family; invoices for services offered by the Sherbrooke Hotel; miscellaneous documents relating to the McDaniel family, including one letter from Mrs. Watson to May McDaniel which makes reference to the Halifax Explosion (Dec. 24, 1917); a notice of increase in subscription of The Evening Mail (1918); Notice of Road Tax for Mr. John Wilson, signed by Herbert McDaniel, Surveyor of Highways (1924). 2019.004
              Municipal Files and Correspondence
              Series · 1933-1947; predominate 1933-1934
              Part of Lester D. MacKeen fonds
              Series consists of files and correspondence relating to municipal roles performed by Lester D. MacKeen as secretary of the Unemployment Relief Central Committee (also known as Overseers of the Poor) and as a Deputy Sheriff for Guysborough Co. Series consists of three sub-series: 1) Unemployment Relief Central Committee Food Orders; 2) Unemployment Relief Central Committee Correspondence; 3) Deputy Sheriff for Guysborough Co. Files and Correspondence.