A personal account of the 1917 Halifax explosion, by Annie Marguerite (Daisy) Chapman
- MS-2-709, SF Box 101, Folder 27
- File
- 1994
Part of Allan James Chapman fonds
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A personal account of the 1917 Halifax explosion, by Annie Marguerite (Daisy) Chapman
Part of Allan James Chapman fonds
Chapman, Allan James
MacMechan, Archibald McKellar
Breaking disaster : newspaper stories of the Halifax Explosion [edited manuscript]
Part of Pottersfield Press fonds
Breaking disaster : newspaper stories of the Halifax Explosion [edited manuscript]
Part of Pottersfield Press fonds
Breaking disaster : newspaper stories of the Halifax Explosion [edited manuscript]
Part of Pottersfield Press fonds
Breaking disaster : newspaper stories of the Halifax Explosion [edited page proofs]
Part of Pottersfield Press fonds
Part of Lockeport Historical Collection
File contains business correspondence addressed to (and a couple written by) William McMillan, Lockeport, between October 1917 and April 1918, regarding receipt of shipment of goods to be sold in his general store, or confirmation of goods to be sent overseas.
File contains correspondence regarding Halifax Explosion fallout from the following brokers: Ben's Limited (regarding "having our bakery roof blown off" and "nearly every good bread box smashed to pieces at North Street Station") , Carritte-Paterson Man'f'g Co. (regarding being "pleased to advise that [...] we have again been able to get our Plant in operation"), Consumers Cordage Company (announcing that "while our plant at Dartmouth was severely damaged [...] we were fortunate in having a large and well assorted stock of rope on hand in our warehouses"), R.B. Seeton (regarding a "credit slip for the goods that have apparently been blown to smithereens in the explosion", but reminding that it is "a very small matter compared to what we have had to sustain here"), John Tobin & Co. (regarding the need of the entirety of the "wholesale grocery trade of Halifax are at present feeding the people of Halifax, [which is] urgently needed here")
File contains correspondence from Fuel Control Canada regarding coal usage (from C.A. Magrath, Controller, and C.W. Peterson, Deputy Controller).
File contains both typed and handwritten correspondence and balance orders from the following brokers: Acadia Gas Engines (Bridgewater), Edward Allen (Yarmouth), Amherst Foundry Co. Limited, G.E. Barbour Co. (Saint John), H.S. Berner & Co. (New York), Calder, Fraser & Co. (Dartmouth), Canada Cement Company (Montreal), Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co. (Halifax), David Cohen & Co. (New York), Davis & Lawrence Co. (Montreal), Andrew Doane (Ingomar), Dominion Molasses Company (Halifax), Dominion Oil Cloth Company (Montreal), Thomas A. Edison, Inc. (Orange, NJ), Emerson & Fisher (Saint John), T.H. Estabrooks Co. (Saint John), Frank Fales (Saint John), D.M. Ferry & Co. (Windsor, ON), Arthur Fordham & Co. (Halifax), Gault Brothers Co. (Montreal), S.R. Giffin & Sons (Goldboro), L. Gnaedinger Son & Co. (Montreal), Gourock Ropework Export Co. (Montreal), J.L. Greenwood (North East Harbour), Gunns Limited (Toronto), Gurney-Massey Company (Montreal), Trueman Hagar (Round Bay), Mrs Ida Harlow (Sable River West), Harnett-Smith Company (Boston), L. Higgins & Co. (Moncton), Hutchings Company (Saint John), Imperial Oil Limited (Halifax), J.B. Jones (East Jordan), Kelly's Limited (Halifax), Kilgour Bros. (Toronto), A.H. Lambourn (New York), Leather Label Over-haul Co. (Walkerville, ON), Liverpool Monumental Works, Lockett & Messenger (Bridgetown), Lynola Mfg. Co. (New York), D.M. Lyons (Crowell), T. McAvity & Sons (Saint John), A. & W. MacKinlay (Halifax), McLaughlin Motor Car Company (Yarmouth), J.C. McLeod (Point Tupper), Manchester Robertson Alison (Saint John), Martin-Senour Co. (Montreal and Halifax), C.E. Millard (Liverpool), G.P. Mitchell & Sons (Halifax), Moirs Limited (Halifax), J. & M. Murphy (Halifax), Northern Electric Company (Montreal), Nova Scotia Steel & Coal Company Limited (New Glasgow), Parrish, Phillips & Co, (New York), Payzant & King (Halifax), Peabody Overalls (Walkerville, ON), Perfect-Knit Mills (Listowel, ON), Rhodes, Curry & Co. (Halifax), Royal Print & Litho. (Halifax; regarding the "lack of bindery hands [and] skilled workmen"), Wm. Robertson (Halifax), Robin Hood Mills Limited (Montreal), St. John Milling Company (West Saint John), Saunders & Duffus (Halifax, underwriters slips), I.B. Shaffner (Halifax), Sherer-Gillett Company (Guelph and Chicago; regarding outstanding payments: "You have disappointed us"), Sylvanus Smith & Co. (Gloucester, MA), E.K. Spinney (Yarmouth), Wm. Stairs, Son & Morrow (Halifax), Stanfield's Limited (Truro), John Starr, Son & Co. (Halifax), Supplies Limited (Kentville), Swift Canadian Co. (Toronto), Robert Taylor Co. (Halifax), Telfer Woodworking Company (Bridgewater), Thorbourn Bros (Gunning Cove), W.H. Thorne & Company (Saint John), Walker Bros. (Milton), F.G. Wheaton (Amherst), A.N. Whitman & Son (Canso), Wolverton Milling Co. (Saint John), T.E. Worthen & Son (Crowell's), Yarmouth Cycle & Motor Car Co., Yarmouth Fruit Co., among others.
Correspondence regarding Halifax Relief Commission dormitories
Part of President’s Office fonds
Correspondence regarding relief efforts for the Halifax explosion
Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds
Part of Dal Magazine
Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds
Halifax Explosion Memorial Evening
Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds
"Halifax Relief Commission Still Spends over $100,000 Annually," The Chronicle-Herald
Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds
Hillis, James Stanley
James Stanley Hillis' manuscripts regarding Hillis & Sons Limited and Nova Scotia industries
Part of James Stanley Hillis fonds
Part of James Stanley Hillis fonds
Letter from Katherine Creelman to Annie Creelman concerning the Halifax Explosion
Part of Creelman Family fonds
DeMille, Marjorie (Williams)
Letters of Bruce Oland regarding the Halifax Explosion and S.S. Mont-Blanc's cannon
Part of Oland family fonds
Minute book of the Medical Relief Committee of Dartmouth
Halifax Medical Commission Relief Committees
Naylor Publications - Halifax Explosion Copies
Naylor Publications - Halifax Explosion Copies
Naylor Publications - Halifax Explosion Copies
Naylor Publications - Halifax Explosion Copies
Naylor Publications - Halifax Explosion Copies
Naylor Publications - Halifax Explosion Copies
Newspaper clippings about the Halifax Explosion
Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds
Pamphlet "The Halifax Catastrophe"
Part of W. Graham Allen fonds
Photograph of a building devastated in the Halifax Explosion
Part of Oland family fonds
Photograph of a Halifax Church damaged by the Halifax Explosion
Underwood & Underwood, NY
Photograph of an unidentified exterior shot after the Halifax Explosion
Photograph of damage from the Halifax Explosion
Underwood & Underwood, NY
Photograph of damage from the Halifax Explosion in a residential area
Underwood & Underwood, NY
Photograph of damage to the homes on Campbell's Road after the Halifax Explosion
Photograph of MacDonald Memorial Library after Halifax Explosion
Photograph of members of the Halifax Health Commission in Massachusetts
Photograph of Science building after the Halifax Explosion
Photograph of the damage to a home in Richmond after the Halifax explosion
Underwood & Underwood, NY
Photograph of the damage to St. John's Church after the Halifax Explosion
Photograph of the damage to the Tuft's Cove Schoolhouse after the Halifax Explosion
Photographs of buildings after the Halifax Explosion
Photographs of reproductions of postcards depicting the Halifax Explosion
Underwood & Underwood, NY
Receipts from the Halifax Disaster Record Office
Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds
Part of Reference Files
Research material for the official history of the Halifax Explosion
Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds
Statement of employee losses after the Halifax Explosion
Sieniewicz, Thaddeus M.