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Himmelman Supply Company fonds

  • MS-4-118
  • Fonds
  • 1928-1987, predominately 1955-1978

Fonds contains the business papers from Himmelman Supply Company and several other companies owned or operated by Ernest H. Himmelman and Lawrence Himmelman. These include O.K. Service Shipping Company, Himmelman Shipping Limited, Oakland Shipping Limited, LaHave Investments Limited, Nova Hereford Farms, and Himmelman Supermarket Limited. The fonds contains a variety of business papers, including meeting minutes and administrative records, ships' vessel papers, correspondence, financial statements and ledgers, legal agreements and contracts, blueprints and maps, and photographs.

Some of the personal papers of Lawrence Himmelman are also included in the fonds, including correspondence with the LaHave School, the local fire department, and other groups, financial records, and contracts and agreements.

In 1954, a fire in the Himmelman Supermarket destroyed many of the business records. Most records in the fonds are from after this date, though some vessel papers and correspondence from before the fire survived. See individual series descriptions for more detailed descriptions of the scope and content of the fonds.

Fonds consists of 18 series. Administrative, Correspondence, Financial, and Vessel Papers Series contain records for Himmelman Supply Company and subsidiary companies. Additional records for subsidiary companies are found in series for Himmelman Shipping Company, O.K. Service Shipping Limited, Oakland Shipping Limited, LaHave Shipping Limited, and LaHave Investments Limited. Each vessel from the O.K. Service Fleet also has a series. See individual series descriptions for more detailed descriptions of their scope and content.

Himmelman Supply Company.

Frieze and Roy fonds

  • MS-4-57
  • Fonds
  • 1838-1941
Fonds comprises general business correspondence, financial records and legal records, primarily indentures and insurance policies. There are also sales and operations records and vessel records, including insurance policies, charter parties and printed protests. Family records include estate papers, and records created and collected during David Frieze's tenure as a justice of the peace for Hants County, as well as electoral records and records created by Maitland Presbyterian Church, Sons of Temperance, and the Maitland School.

Frieze and Roy

Francis B.A. Chipman's Dalhousie law school notebook

  • MS-2-582, SF Box 45, Folder 4
  • Item
  • 1900-1901
Item is Francis Chipman's notebook from law school containing notes on shipping lectures by Dean Richard Weldon.

Chipman, Francis Beverley Allan

Everett MacDougall's photographs

Series contains photographs, portraits, prints, and postcards of sea captains and ships. Most of the material has notes by Everett Macdougall on the verso. These notes contain information about the origins and builders of the ships as well as biographical information about the sea captains in the portraits.

Everett MacDougall fonds

  • MS-2-266, SF Box 31, Folder 14-15; SF Box 35, Folder 3-5
  • Fonds
  • 1877-1937
Fonds comprises photocopies of MacDougall’s diary, reference letters, correspondence from the author Frederick William Wallace and MacDougall’s sister Alice, miscellaneous business papers, and photographs of MacDougall, other mariners, and shipping vessels.

MacDougall, Everett, 1858-1938

Dockrill Brothers Ltd. fonds

  • MS-4-216
  • Fonds
  • 1917-1952
The fonds consists primarily of correspondence. Other materials include records of business activity including payroll records, insurance policies, completed work records, financial records, and lists of furniture and household effects.

Dockrill Bros. Limited.

Culp family fonds

  • MS-2-539, SF Box 44, Folders 2-15
  • Fonds
  • 1798-1902
Fonds comprises land deeds, wills and other legal documents, as well as charter agreements for the schooner Mary and a bill of sale for the Candid.

Culp Family

Correspondence from Registrar General of Shipping to Roy Laurence, January 27, 1937

Correspondence from Registrar General of Shipping to Roy Laurence, January 27, 1937

Item consists of typed correspondence sent from the Registrar of General Shipping, London, likely to Roy Laurence, dated January 23, 1937, discussing the death of Harry Croker. Item also includes ship discharge information. Item is "Enclosure 7" accompanying correspondence between Thomas Raddall and Roy Laurence.
Copy of the Mary Celeste 1872 salvage hearing in Gibraltar

Copy of the Mary Celeste 1872 salvage hearing in Gibraltar

Item consists of a facsimile of the original December 18, 1872 court document regarding the mystery of the Mary Celeste, undertaken at the Vice Admiralty Court of Gibraltar, before Sir James Cochrane Knight, Judge and Commissary, and collected in the 1970s by Irving Deale.
Collected research correspondence regarding Mary Celeste

Collected research correspondence regarding Mary Celeste

Collection contains correspondence related to Mary Celeste research in 1973, between Irving Deale and Ernest Dodge, Joseph Howerton, J.S. Harley, Audrey Logie, Stephen Orr, John Lochhead, Keith Matthews, Milton Gustafson, Valerie Simpson, H.M. Puddington, C.P. Lambert, Felix Pizzarello, George Orr, C. MacKinnon, Caroline Jarvis, Sandra Hopkins, and others.

Charter agreement between Charles T. White and T.S. Drisko

  • MS-4-284, SF Box 49, Folder 7
  • Item
  • 1887
Item is a charter party between T. S. Drisko and Charles T. White. The charter details the terms of a shipment of cargo from Apple River, Nova Scotia to New York, New York. The charter was brokered by James L. Sullivan.

White, Charles T.

Chanties by various authors

Chanties by various authors

File contains handwritten copies of various sea chanties collected by Frank Parker Day. Includes "Yankee Ship," "A la Claire Fontaine" (accompanied by musical notation), "Storm Along," "Shenandoah," and other untitled chanties.

Captain George Gardner Morrison fonds

  • MS-2-410
  • Fonds
  • 1871 - 1901
Fonds contains three logbooks kept by Captain George G. Morrison and receipts and correspondence belonging to his father, James J. Morrison.

Morrison, George Gardner

Business correspondence to William McMillan, Lockeport, regarding confirmation to ship goods, and receipt of shipments

File contains business correspondence addressed to William McMillan, Lockeport, from spring 1897 through the end of 1897, regarding receipt of shipment of goods to be sold in his general store, or confirmation of goods to be sent overseas. File contains both typed and handwritten correspondence. File contains correspondence from the following receivers and brokers: Ames Holden Co. (Montreal), Black Bros. & Co. (Halifax), Brayley, Sons & Co. (Montreal), Champion Medicine Co. (South Ohio, NS), A. Chisholm, Merchant (Mahone Bay), Clayton & Sons (Halifax), Crowell Bros. (Halifax), Davis & Lawrence Co. (Montreal), Dearborn & Co. (Saint John), De Long & Seaman (Boston), I.V. Dexter (Liverpool), Goldsoll's Diamond Palace (Chicago), Dodds Medicine Co. (Toronto), Doull & Gibson (Montreal), Equitable Savings Loan Building Association (Toronto), Emerson & Fisher (Saint John), Theodore H. Estabrooks (Saint John), A. Gunn & Co. (Halifax), John G. Hall & Co. (Boston), Hamilton & Company (Chebeague and Portland, ME), Harlow & Kempton (Milton, NS), Kenny & Co. (Halifax), McCall, Shehyn & Co. (Quebec), MacKenzie, Crowe & Co. (Bridgetown), A. & W. MacKinlay (Halifax), T. Milburn (Toronto), John Millard (Liverpool), Moir, Son & Co., Bread, Biscuit and Confectionery (Halifax), J.E. Morse & Co., Teas (Halifax), J.G. Morton (Liverpool), Wm. Muir (Halifax), John Muldrew & Co. (Toronto), D.C. Mulhall (Liverpool), North National Bank (Rockland, ME), M. & H. Oxner (Chester Basin), Frank Powers (Lunenburg), A.F. Russell (Boston), St. Croix Soap Manf'g Co. (St. Stephen, NB), W.H. Schwartz & Co. (Halifax), A. & W. Smith & Co. (Halifax), E.K. Spinney (Yarmouth), Standard Tobacco (Toronto), A.F. Stoneman & Co. (Yarmouth), John Tobin & Co. (Halifax), Welcome Soap Company (Saint John), Dr. Williams Medicine Company (Brockville, ON), Yarmouth Building and Loan Society, among others.

Business correspondence to William McMillan, Lockeport, regarding confirmation to ship goods, and receipt of shipments

File contains business correspondence addressed to William McMillan, Lockeport, written between July and November of 1904, regarding receipt of shipment of goods to be sold in his general store, or confirmation of goods to be sent overseas. File contains both typed and handwritten correspondence, and telegram cables. File contains correspondence from the following receivers and brokers: Edward Allen (Yarmouth), Ames Holden Company (Saint John), Amherst Boot & Shoe Manufacturing Co., Archibald Company (Truro), Geo. E. Barbour (Saint John), W.R. Brock Company (Montreal), Jas. A. Brook Co. (Montreal), Buckler Brick Co. (Annapolis Royal), Amos Burns (Clementsport, NS), Burrell-Johnson Iron Company (Yarmouth), Canadian Drug Co. Ltd. (Saint John), Clayton & Sons (Halifax), E. Frank Close (Boston), G.W. Cole & Co. (New York), J.N. Creed & Co. (Halifax), Crown Silver Plate (Toronto), De Long & Seaman (Boston), Wm. H. Edgett (Moncton), Empire Tobacco Company (Montreal), Ganong Bros. Confectioners (St. Stephen), Gunn & Co. (Halifax), Harlow & Kempton (Milton, NS), Levi Hart & Son, Limited (Halifax), Henderson & Potts Limited (Halifax), Herald Remedy Co. (Chicago), L. Higgins & Co. (Moncton), Katie B.L. Hogg (Shelburne), Imperial Oil Company, London Rubber Company (Montreal), McAlpin Consumers Tobacco Co. (Toronto), Manchester, Robertson & Allison (Saint John), G.P. Mitchell & Sons (Halifax), J.E. Morse & Co. teas (Halifax), Nickerson, Grant & Co. (Yarmouth), T.W. Quinn (Liverpool), St. John Milling Co. (West Saint John), W.E. Sanford Manufacturing Co (Hamilton), R.B. Seeton & Co. (Halifax), Simson Bros Co. wholesale druggists (Halifax), S.A. Skillings & Son (Portland, ME), Slater Shoe Co. (Montreal), E.K. Spinney (Yarmouth), Wm. Stairs, Son & Morrow (Halifax), Robert Taylor Co. (Halifax), John Tobin & Co. tea department (Halifax), United Lumber Company (Halifax), Arthur N. Whitman (Halifax), A.N. Whitman & Son (Canso), White & Blanchard (Shelburne), among others.

Business correspondence to William McMillan, Lockeport, regarding confirmation to ship goods, and receipt of shipments

File contains business correspondence addressed to William McMillan, Lockeport, (and a few from McMillan) written between September 1908 and December 1908, regarding receipt of shipment of goods to be sold in his general store, or confirmation of goods to be sent overseas. File contains correspondence from the following receivers and brokers: Edward Allen (Yarmouth), American Net & Twine Company (Boston), G.E. Barbour Company (Saint John), W.R. Brock (Montreal), Brookfield Brothers (Halifax), Burrell-Johnson Iron Company (Yarmouth), Clayton & Sons (Halifax), A.B. Crosby & CO. (Halifax), De Long & Seaman (Boston), Lemuel Dunlop (Sable River), J. Furman Ehrgott (Yarmouth), Emerson & Fisher (Saint John), J.W. Grant & Co. (Yarmouth), Hewson Woolen Mills (Amherst), L. Higgins & Co (Moncton), R.J. Lovell (Montreal), J.E. Lloyd (Bridgetown), Lovitt & Lovitt (Yarmouth), McAlpin Tobacco Company (Truro), A. & W. MacKinlay (Halifax), Meeker & Company (New York), National Phonograph Co. (Orange, NJ), John W. Peck (Montreal), J. Henry Peters Co. (Toronto), L.C. Prime (West Saint John), H.P. Robertson (Saint John), William Roche (Halifax),St. John Milling Co. Limited, Scottish FIsh Hook Factory (Glasgow), R.B. Seeton & CO. (Halifax), A. & W. Smith Co. (Halifax), George E. Smith (Halifax), Smith Bros. (Halifax), E.K. Spinney (Yarmouth), Wm Stairs Son & Morrow (Halifax), Stainfield Limited Manufacturers (Truro), Robert Sutherland & Son (Clyde River, NS), Robert Taylor & Co. (Halifax), W.H. Thorne (Saint John), Tower Canadian Oiled Clothing Company (Toronto), John C. Winston Co. (Toronto), Wolverton Milling Commpany Limited (Saint John), among others.

Business correspondence to William McMillan, Lockeport, regarding confirmation to ship goods, and receipt of shipments

File contains business correspondence addressed to (and a few written by) William McMillan, Lockeport, written between April 1911 and September 1911, regarding receipt of shipment of goods to be sold in his general store, or confirmation of goods to be sent overseas. File contains both typed and handwritten correspondence. File contains correspondence from the following receivers and brokers: Edward Allen (Yarmouth), Ames Holden McCready (Saint John), Barclay-Clements (Boston), Sidney R. Baxter & Co. (Boston), A.M. Bell (Halifax), Edwin Bower (Shelburne), W.R. Brock Company (Montreal), Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co. (Montreal), Clayton & Sons (Halifax), Cochran, Burns & Farnsworth Co. [successors to De Long, Seaman & Co. as of May 1911] (Boston), Dominion Molasses Company (Halifax), Edinburgh Roperie & Sailcloth Company (Saint John), Emerson & Fisher (Saint John), Arthur Fordham (Halifax), Furness, Withy & Co. (Halifax), J.W. Grant (Yarmouth), Greenshields Limited (Montreal), C.J. Hamilton & Sons (Halifax), Holzapfels Limited (Newcastle-on-Tyne), Imperial Oil Company (Halifax), Manchester Robinson Allison, Mann, Byars & Co. (Glasgow), G.P. Mitchell & Sons (Halifax), Nova Scotia Furnishing Company (Halifax), Ogilvie Flour Mills (Montreal), Payzant & King (Halifax), Frank Powers (Lunenburg), Queen Charlotte Islands Collieries (Vancouver, BC), Wm. Robertson & Son (Halifax), Saint John Milling Company, R.B. Seeton (Halifax), T.A. Slocum Limited (Toronto), Smith & Proctor (Halifax), Stanfields Limited (Truro), James H. Tarr (Gloucester), Robert Taylor Co. (Halifax), W.H. Thorne (Saint John), among others.
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