Spry Bay store ledger and scrapbook
Leslie family
Hilchie, Alice Elizabeth (Gerrard)
Account books
Business - records
Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917
Horticulture--Canada
Merchants
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Poetry
Shipwrecks
Stores (retail)
Vital Statistics
Weather
World War I, 1914-1918
World War II, 1939-1945
The item was originally a ledger from a store in Spry Bay c. 1896, in which accounts and retail transactions were recorded. The store may have been owned by the Leslie family. Later, around the time of the First World War, Bessie (Gerrard) Hilchey began using the ledger as a scrapbook and pasting newspaper clippings onto the pages, thereby covering most of the original ledger information. The scrapbook dates between about 1905 to 1953 and includes poems, newspaper articles, obituaries, marriage and engagement notices, graduation notices, clippings related to World War I and some small clippings about World War II, articles about horticulture, etiquette, single women and wives, bachelors and husbands, society columns, and articles about notable disasters or accidents including shipwrecks and fires. There are also handwritten notes mainly referring to the weather on the inside of the first page. These notes also record dates that buildings were constructed as well as the Halifax Explosion. Pages 195 to 285 have not been scrapbooked and remain purely accounts of retail transactions made at the store in Spry Bay, including the names of customers.
ca.1890-1896
ca. 1905-1953
Item consists of one scrapbook, which is actually an old ledger book from a store in Spry Bay, into which clippings have been pasted.
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