Series consists of legal contracts pertaining to, or agreed to, by the company and some of its prominent employees (namely Frank Powers and A. F. Powers). The majority of these documents are deeds, leases, and mortgages relating to the Powers Brothers' real estate holdings in Lunenburg and surrounding area. This includes property in the area of Lapland, Lunenburg County, which A. F. Powers co-owned during the mid twentieth-century. The series also includes: agreements between the company and other organizations, which are usually financial in nature (such as loan repayment agreements with the Royal Bank of Canada); employee agreements; insurance papers; professional licenses (e.g. Plumbing licenses); and the will of A. F. Powers. Some files in this series, particularly those pertaining to insurance and the Lapland property, also include correspondence, usually with local government or legal counsel. Bulk from 1910 - 1985.
File contains job estimates for individuals, businesses, and organizations including: C. Lalande; Mr. Lawrence; Mr. Lee; W. B. Leslie; W. Logan; Lutheran Church of the Resurrection. File also contains correspondence and plans.
File contains unbound ledger sheets include a list of contracts, the total amount spent on each contract, and the total amount each contract has paid. File also includes lists of new contracts.
Journal used to track Powers Brothers' shares over a period of 60 years. Includes names of stockholders and the number of stocks they had purchased, sold, or transferred.
File includes a variety of documents which support work done on different jobs, such as correspondence, blueprints and drawings, product literature, quotes and estimates, invoices, etc. Where available file titles are from original file arrangement by Powers Brothers; many files are arranged in reverse chronological order - this is the original arrangement. The job numbers in each file title were given by Powers Brothers and are found in varying files across multiple series as these numbers were their method of tracking jobs. Some job numbers repeat.
Series consists of documents pertaining to various job estimates calculated by Powers Brothers for jobs located in Nova Scotia and the Atlantic Provinces. There are two types of documents: estimate sheets and estimate files. The estimate sheets were generally created in response to job requests from organizations (namely businesses, hospitals, and schools), although some pertain to residential jobs. The majority of estimate sheets were deselected; the ones that have been retained are representative of how Powers Brothers calculated and presented estimates to potential clients. The estimate files contain materials used in the creation of job quotations. These materials include: correspondence (with clients, contractors, and vendors), calculation sheets, plans, brochures, catalogues and price lists, manuals of parts to be used or repaired by Powers. Job estimates can also be found throughout the Correspondence and Job Files series. Bulk from
