Sherbrooke, NS

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              Municipal Unemployment Relief Central Committee Files and Correspondence
              Sub-series · 1933-1947; predominate 1933-1934
              Part of Lester D. MacKeen fonds
              Sub-series consists of records relating to the work of the Unemployment Relief Central Committee for the Municipality of St. Mary's (also known as the Overseers of the Poor) during the Depression era. Sub-series includes ledger listing heads of households receiving relief, letters requesting relief and offering reasons why relief is required, reports of distributed aid, correspondence with provincial government offices concerning unemployment relief, and one warrant to bring up mother and putative father after birth of child (1947) related to the larger work of the Overseers of the Poor.
              Sherbrooke Village Restoration audio-visual collection
              Collection · ca. 1980s - 1990s
              Collection consists of audio-visual materials relating to the history, culture, and natural landscape of the St. Mary's River region, as well as the activities of Sherbrooke Village Restoration. Most audio-visual materials in the collection were recorded as part of the research and programming activities of Sherbrooke Village Restoration and its staff members in the 1980s and 1990s, including oral history interviews, public presentations at Sherbrooke Village as part of staff training or other programming activities, and broadcast, educational, and/or promotional media relating to the Sherbrooke area or Sherbrooke Village Restoration.
              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
              Women's Institute fonds
              Fonds · 1914 - 2018
              Fonds consist of records documenting the work and operation of seven Women’s Institute branches in the western region of Guysborough County: Denver-Newtown (1914-2012), Aspen-Glenelg (1914-1998), Sherbrooke (1914-1924), Port Hilford (1955-2000), Sonora (1931-1975), Seal Harbour-Drumhead (1968-1982), Port Bickerton (1949-2018). Also included are records of the wider Guysborough District of the Women’s Institute of Nova Scotia (1964-1998). The fonds include 51 books consisting of minutes of meetings, financial accounts, reports, membership lists, lists of directors and officers, and records of attendance. Interleaved within the books are miscellaneous receipts and correspondence. One photograph album with captions showing day-to-day life in the communities of Denver and Newtown (circa 1955), and “A History of the Village of Sherbrooke and Vicinity” (1947), created as part of the Tweedsmuir Village Books national competition. By 1914, Women’s Institute branches had formed in the communities of Newtown, Aspen-Glenelg, and Sherbrooke in Guysborough County following a visit by Miss Jennie Fraser, Superintendent of the Women's Institutes of Nova Scotia. The Women’s Institute branches represented in the fonds were formed on the following dates: Newtown (later Denver-Newtown) –– 31 August 1914. Still active.Aspen-Glenelg –– 29 August 1914. Dissolved 1996.Sherbrooke –– 27 August 1914. Still active.Port Hilford –– 10 December 1948. Still active.Sonora -- 26 November 1931. Still active.Seal Harbour-Drumhead –– ca. 1937. Dissolved 1982.Port Bickerton -- 20 July 1949. Dissolved 7 May 2018. The Guysborough District of the Women’s Institutes of Nova Scotia established educational programs for local women, held regular meetings and events, and convened district rallies. Early work of the Newtown (later Denver-Newtown), Aspen-Glenelg and Sherbrooke Women’s Institute branches centered on war relief and supporting the Red Cross through knitting socks and wristlets and making handkerchiefs and cheesecloth bandages. On 6 April 1917 the Sherbrooke branch resolved to support women’s right to vote. Meetings were often centered on themes concerning home economics, agriculture, health and welfare, readings and recitations. Lunches were frequently served at meetings, and institute picnics and banquets were popular. The branches evolved over the years in terms of activity and membership, with later members supporting graduating high school students through bursaries. 2014.005; 2016.003; 2018.001; 2018.016