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A Nova Scotia serendipity / Andrew Merkel : [manuscript]

Item is a 1000 word article by Andrew Merkel describing the history of the Granville Shore's economic decline, its lack of transportation routes and the impact on tourism triggered by reconstructing the Port Royal Habitation. The manuscript contains no information about where or whether the article was published.

America's first garden / Andrew Merkel : [manuscript]

Item is a 1000 word article by Andrew Merkel reporting the development of historic gardens adjacent to the reconstructed Habitation in Lower Granville. The manuscript contains no information about where or whether the article was published.

Andrew Merkel fonds

  • MS-2-326
  • Fonds
  • 1900-1954
Fonds contains records created and collected by Andrew Merkel, including correspondence with friends and associates such as Charles Bruce, Kenneth Leslie, and Robert Norwood; manuscripts; newspaper clippings; and copies of The Song Fishermens’ Song Sheet and The Order of Good Cheer.

Merkel, Andrew Doane

Andrew Merkel's correspondence

Series comprises correspondence with friends, colleagues and publishers as well as manuscripts solicited by Merkel from other journalists about their reminiscences of life and work in the Halifax Bureau and/or about aviation for AIR (Atlantic Radio and Aviation).

Andrew Merkel's poetry manuscripts

File contains loose manuscript pages of largely handwritten poems, written in pencil or ink variously on writing paper, The Sydney Printing Company letterhead, and foolscap. There are also several typed poems and a page transcribed from Beamish Murdoch's History of Nova Scotia.

Andrew Merkel's poetry notebook

Item is a soft cover student notebook containing poems written by Andrew Merkel between 1909 and 1910, including "The Beatification of Joan of Arc" and "Death of King Edward VII."

Andrew Merkel's student poetry notebook

File contains a notebook probably dating from Merkel's student years at King's College, which features handwritten poems and illustrations or doodles, as well as three inserts of printed poems. There is also a copy of King's College Record, Vol XXVI, No. 224 (Windsor, NS, February 1905). The first page contains "On Joining the Haliburton Club," October 1905.

Correspondence to Andrew Merkel from Charles Bruce

File also includes three drafts of an address made by Charles Bruce at a dinner held on 11 May 1946 in honour of Andrew Merkel's retirement as Atlantic superintendent of The Canadian Press and a copy of the CP Informative Bulletin, which includes an account of the dinner and tributes to Merkel from editors at Halifax Herald and Halifax Chronicle.

Harriette Richardson : a one act play, by Andrew Merkel : [manuscripts]

File contains four manuscript copies of a one-act play by Andrew Merkel titled variously "Harriet Richardson" and "Mrs. Richardson Wins." The latter version contains hand-written edits that appear in the both copies titled "Harriet Richardson." One manuscript lists the author as "Marc Lescarbot" and is two pages longer than the others. The copy typed on legal-sized onion skin paper contains a note that the play was originally presented at the Community Centre, Annapolis Royal, on 5th June 1947. There is also a short note critiquing the play.

I buy a farm : [manuscript]

Item is a partial manuscript written by Andrew Merkel describing how he came to live in Lower Granville after his retirement. The first page is missing and it's unclear whether there are more missing after page number six. The manuscript contains no information about where or whether the article was published.
In the offing : a tribute to Bliss Carman

In the offing : a tribute to Bliss Carman

Item is a copy of In the Offing: A Tribute to Bliss Carman, which was printed for private circultion by The Abanaki Press in Halifax in June 1929. It was considered the thirteenth number of The Song Sheet and dedicated to Carman. Table of contents include: The sea gypsy / Richard Hovey. -- In the offing / Bliss Carman. -- Reinforcement for the city under the star / Charles Bruce. -- Flood tide / Ethel H. Butler. -- Go, lank rover / Kenneth Leslie. -- What new wonders / Andrew Merkel. The issue includes a small original photograph pasted to the first page and a printed photograph of Bliss Carman taken by M.O. Hammon attached to the back cover.
Letters and poems of Molly Beresford sent to Andrew Merkel

Letters and poems of Molly Beresford sent to Andrew Merkel

File contains 71 handwritten letters sent from poet Molly Beresford to Andrew Merkel between 1922 and 1936; three postcards; one Christmas card; and four poems, including "The Philosophy of a Would-Be Poet," "Moon Shadows," "To a Fair Lady on returning to her a Pair of Rubber Shoes."

Letters sent to Andrew Merkel on the occasion of his retirement from the Canadian Press

File contains letters of acknowledgement and congratulation from W.A. Buchanan, former president and director of the Canadian Press; A.R. Coffin; "Mike," chief accountant at The Canadian Press; Ben Deacon, manager of the Canadian National Railway System Press Bureau; Robert W.A. Dunn, Montreal Daily Star; Harold Fair, Reuters, New York; J.K. Grainger, vice president of Moncton Publishers Limited; G. Hambleton, Canadian Information Service; Clara L.K. Holmes, CPR; Freeman Jenkins, president of the United Mine Workers of America; C. LeCouteur, Sydney Post-Record; L.H. Mulland, Cable and Wireless Limited; "the Parson," Annapolis Royal; Sam Ross, Vancouver's CKWX; Donald R. Smith, managing editor of The Telegraph-Journal, Saint John, NB; Norma Smith, The Ottawa Journal; Bob Stanson, Archie and Bill Bartlett, Montreal Daily Star; and Walter S. Thompson, director of public relations at Canadian National Railway System.

Manuscripts of newspaper articles written by Andrew Merkel

Subseries consists of typewritten manuscripts of 1000 word articles by Andrew Merkel largely regarding events in Granville and the Annapolis Basin. Letters to R.J. Rankin at The Herald that accompany several of the manuscripts suggest that these articles were all submitted to (and published by) the Halifax newspaper.
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