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Catalogues

Series contains catalogues of various products manufactured by L.E. Shaw. Series also contains catalogues and bulletins collected by the company.

Operations

This series contains sales receipts, payroll records, financial statements, stock lists and work related operations. The series also contains a Customs, Canada, Export Entry application.

R. G. Dun Credit Reports

The R. G. Dun Credit Reports are a window into the lives of general merchants, businessmen, and farmers in the early 1900s. These reports paint a picture of the financial hardships Canadians faced in the years leading up to World War I.

Acadia Fisheries

Series consists of documents created and used by Acadia Fisheries, a subsidiary of A. M. Smith and Co. These documents include correspondence with business associates and government departments; administrative documents relating to the construction of the Mulgrave Plant; legal agreements and contracts; and financial statements and related documents (loan applications, inventories, operational estimates).

N + M Smith

This series contains various documents related to the operations of N. & M. Smith, which was a predecessor to A.M. Smith and Company. The series is divided into sub-series Correspondence, Legal, Financial, and Printed Matter, and contains material such as letters, deeds, vessel papers, plans, cable code books, export schedules, and other documents mostly related to late 19th and early 20th century shipping.

Salt Fish

This series contains various materials related to the production and sale of salt fish: samples of packaging from different fish companies and products, factory plans and blueprints, directory of suppliers and dealers, industry reports. Also includes newsletters, minutes, reports, and other documents issued by the Canadian Atlantic Salt Fish Exporters Association, of which A. M. Smith Co. was a member.

Shipping

This series contains a variety of information related to the process of shipping goods by A.M. Smith and Company. This includes vessel papers, freight rates and contracts, export order and papers, papers regarding rates and regulations for shipping, and customs forms. Some items kept as examples of the procedures involved in shipping goods, such as contact lists, reports, and cable code books.

Smith Canneries

Series consists of documents created and used by Smith Canneries, a subsidiary of A. M. Smith and Co. The majority of files in this series are correspondence with various organizations with which they did business. There are several financial folders, which include financial statements, income tax returns, ledgers, journals, documentation of operating costs. The series also contains agreements, deeds, and other legal documents.

Vatcher

Series contains administrative, correspondence, financial, legal, and other printed material from L.W. Vatcher Limited, a subsidiary of A.M. Smith and Co. Vatcher was also engaged in fisheries and fish exporting. Correspondence in this series is addressed to business clients and partners around the world and includes many of the same addressees as the Correspondence Series. The correspondence covers all aspects of business operations, including fish sales and exports, pricing, shipping routes and schedules, and general operations of the company. Financial records include account ledgers, certificates, insurance claims, budget reports, and other documents related to the financial management of the company. Legal records include deeds, contracts, agreements, and other documents related to the incorporation and documentation of the company's assets and activities. Printed materials include newspaper clippings, an annual report of the Bank of Nova Scotia, and two cable code books.

Brochures

This series consists of brochures for various businesses, weekly freight reports, notices and similar documents relating to shipping.

Harza Administrative Records

This series contains administrative records, including a considerable amount of internal correspondence and memos the majority of which pertain to Charles MacLennan's activities with Harza. The specific project files in this series are valuable for their insight into the administration of various Harza projects. These records serve as examples as to how the company was organized and maintained.

HARCAN

This series deals with the Canadian corporation created by Harza, referred to as both HARCAN and Harza of Canada. The records mainly detail the creation of the Canadian company, as well as the development of policies and procedures. Information about HARCAN's fate is difficult to find, although records in the collection hint that it was an unsuccessful venture.

Tidal Power Consultants

Tidal Power Consultants Limited was a corporation created to carry out studies concerning the Bay of Fundy Tidal Power Project for the Atlantic Tidal Power Engineering and Management Committee as necessary. Four sponsoring firms all have abundant experience in the utilization of electrical power and water resources: Montreal Engineering Company Limited, The Shawnigan Engineering Company Limited, Harza of Canada Limited, and Balfour Beatty Power Consultants Canada Limited. Dr. E. L. Wilson from Sheffield University is a special consultant to the group, since he has done extensive studies on tidal power projects in Britain.

The series contains notes, correspondence, and clippings concerning Tidal Power Consultants (TPC). There are some administrative records of the organization itself, but the majority concern records about various projects that TPC were involved in or were researching.

Bay of Fundy

These are general records relating to tidal power in the Bay of Fundy and attempts to gain approval and funding for the project.

Letters to the Editor

This series contains letters by Charles MacLennan to the editors of the Chronicle Herald and the Atlantic Advocate , with regard to Fundy Tidal Power Development. There is also a small amount of correspondence about these letters.

Sales and shipping operations

Sales and Shipping Operations series consists of fish catches, fish sales, stock journals and employment and time records. Types of documents include journals, notebooks, a salt fish barrel label, patterns for making sails and workmen compensation forms regarding employer pay roll totals for each year. The information contained in this series includes the size and species of fish catches; the market values of salted, dried, green and fresh fish that Adams & Knickle processed, packed and sold; the types of equipment and supplies provided by Adams & Knickle; and the cost and amount of effort required to get fish to market.

Frieze Family papers

This series contains wills, deeds, estate records and accounts for David Frieze and wife Eliza Frieze, George Frieze and Jacob Frieze. Also included are two poems believed to have been authored by David Frieze.

Justice of the Peace papers

This series consists of papers collected from David Frieze's time as a justice of the peace for Hants County. Types of records include correspondence, estate papers, wills, indentures, summons, agreements and land deeds.

Legal

This series contains indentures, court summons, a lumber agreement between Adam Roy and David Pratt and insurance policies on the business recording how much they were insured for and what types of insurance they held.

Maitland School

This series consists of records related to the Maitland School where Adam Roy was on the board of trustees. Types of records included insurance, loan papers, teacher agreements, correspondence, and trustee memos.

Presbyterian Church papers

This series consists of records relating to the Maitland Presbyterian Church and Sons of Temporance, which both Frieze and Roy were associated with. Types of records include a birth, marriage and death register, ledgers with collections to put forward on insurance for the church and fundraising, notices and publications.

Sales and operations

Scope and Content This series contains records relating to the sales and operations of the business. Some of these records include lumber surveying and supplies, scale records, market and credit reports, freight rates and circulars. A plan of a building is located in the oversize materials.

Timothy O'Brien

This series consists of records belonging to Timothy O'Brien. It is uncertain the connection between O'Brien and Frieze and Roy. Timothy O'Brien married Elizabeth Howe the widow of Edward Howe, the Honourable Joseph Howe's first born son. Types of records include a day book of O'Brien's finances and expenses, a certificate of the sale of shares on the vessel Hunter, and estate papers and last will and testiment of Timothy O'Brien.

Town of Maitland papers

This series consists of records relating to the town of Maitland. Types of records include poor rates collected and lists of voters.

Architectural plans

This series contains construction diagrams, illustrations, and a blueprint used by Dominion Chair Company employees, as well as maps, diagrams, and blueprints of the factory itself. The construction blueprint and diagrams are for chairs and other wooden items (an example of which is a crate). The illustrations are of chairs and other furniture, which appear to be clipped from catalogues. The material relating to the factory depicts the buildings and property of the company, and its location within the community of Bass River.

Bass River Picnic

This series contains documentation of two community picnics hosted by the Dominion Chair Company in Bass River in 1939 and 1941. The files include receipts of purchases made for the charitable event, as well as itemized lists of expenditures and profits. In 1941, the funds raised by the picnic were donated by the company to the Queen's Canadian Fund for Air Raid Victims.

Correspondence and invoices

This series contains correspondence to, and beginning in 1924, from, the Dominion Chair Company. Records are from businesses and individuals, and illustrate how their business was conducted in the late 19th through mid-20th century, including style of discourse, volume and variety of orders both incoming and outgoing, processes such as debt retrieval and exporting, acquiring start-up capital, etc. The correspondence series provides a succinct yet comprehensive overview of customer relations, product popularity and availability, as well as insight as to the inner workings of the factory. The series also illustrates the scope of Dominion Chair Co.'s business, with letters not only from throughout Canada but also the United Kingdom, West Indies, Australia, South Africa, and other predominantly British Empire locales.

Counter books

These books are the day-to-day records of activities within the Dominion Chair Company. They include a list of financial transactions arranged chronologically showing a range of financial activity. There are several different kinds including a general book, a 'workmans book', a 'counter book', a 'men's book' (which was probably related to the workman's book) and a 'delivery book.' All are organized the same way but probably with a specific function in mind.

Customer records

This series contains records of Dominion Chair Company's customers. These customers were not limited to the Bass River region or even Nova Scotia - regular clients include ones based in the Maritime Provinces, New England, Great Britain, and the Caribbean. Although there is no comprehensive customer list available, this series provides a glimpse into its various business partnerships. It includes: lists of customers from 1900 and 1931; a list of customers who were audited by the company; lists of orders placed by companies during the period 1892-1944 (note there is not one available for every year in this period).

Employee records

This series contains records of Dominion Chair Company's employees during the first half of the twentieth century. The majority of the records are time books, which provide employee names, the number of hours, or days, they worked, and their wages. The six time books often each contain two years of data, and were created between 1901 and 1943. Employee records also include a payroll journal, bonus sheet, a notebook of an employee's travel expenses, and a book describing the amount of wood hauled by each employee.

Export papers

This series consists of Customs and Sales Tax Drawback Claims completed by the Dominion Chair Company between the years of 1930-1941. These government tax forms include lists of the company's exports for the year, including the names of the destinations, and value of each shipment.

Interest Book

This book is another example of the meticulous record keeping of the Dominion Chair Company. These are interest records that were credited to the company. They represent various working relations with companies that purchased merchandise from the DCC.

Journals

This series contains a selection of the Dominion Chair Company's general journals that were kept between the years of 1874 and 1950. Employees used these journals on a daily basis to record all transactions. The journal created during the period of 1924-1950 includes annual sales statistics for the years 1925-1927. The majority of these journals have been de-accessioned, but the three that remain in the collection are representative of the time period and material they covered.

Ledgers

These are two ledgers from early in the history of the Dominion Chair Company. The first is a listing of purchasers, items purchased and amount owing in chronological order. The second, an Index, is an account of amounts owing listed in alphabetical order by the name of the person. Thus the ledgers show two different ways in which the Dominion Chair Company recorded the same information.

Legal documents

This series contains legal documents created, or signed, by the Dominion Chair Company. The majority of the documents are lumber agreements, which the company entered into with various local landowners. The series also includes insurance papers, sales contracts, a siding agreement with the Canadian Government Railways, and less "official" agreements established within the company itself, such as wage and employee agreements.

Merchandise invoices

These books contain lists of purchases and are arranged in chronological order within. Two of the books are general purchase invoices while the third is designated as specifically 'furniture purchase invoices.'

Printed material

This series contains printed material created by, or pertaining to, the Dominion Chair Company. The material, when not produced by the company itself, was created by local media organizations. It includes: a calendar, two catalogues, two pamphlets, and several price lists published by the company between 1894 and 1931 (note there is not one available for every year in this period). The series also contains two local newspaper articles celebrating the company's history; a script for an episode of the radio show "Wheel of Industry," which featured the Dominion Chair Company; and a printing plate used in the production of one of their catalogues.

Reports and shareholder papers

This series contains documents generated by, or pertaining to, the directors and shareholders of the Dominion Chair Company. These documents include 14 annual Directors' Reports published between 1909 and 1943, letters to shareholders, a newsletter, an analysis of the company's "special loans," lists of shareholders and investors (including those who did not live in the Bass River). This series provides a glimpse into the organizational structure and management of the company, as well as its economic performance during the first half of the twentieth century.

Sales Books/Journals

These are sales books for the Dominion Chair Company and are representative of collection. The books reflect the accounting style of the company as well as the various price changes for products over the years. They show what people were buying, when, and for how much.

Sales Invoice Copy book

These are Sales Invoice Copy Books for the Dominion Chair Company that are representative of both the range of sales as well as the invoices practices that they employed. These invoices reflect sales to many different countries, including the Caribbean, Ireland and South Africa while clearly showing the majority of their sales in the different areas of the Maritimes.

Statement books

Series contains seven statement books used to record daily cash transactions at the Dominion Chair Company. At the end of each book are summaries (monthly and yearly) of their cash sales. There are no details provided about the items sold, just the amount of cash exchanged. These books also include observations about the weather.

Stock

This series contains the Dominion Chair Company's various stock inventories, which were recorded in 27 books, and several unbound reports. The annual inventories primarily tracked the number of chairs and other furniture held in stock, as well as the wide range of items sold at the company's general store, including clothing, food, and toys. The inventories also include a book detailing the company's assets in Bass River, such as real estate and machinery, over a period of

Journals and ledgers

Series contains books held as examples of accounting and record keeping by the company. Records kept by the company include appraisal reports, wood purchasing summaries, payroll journals, and survey notes. This series also contains one file titled "Scrapbook" which contains a significant number of newspaper and magazine clippings regarding both Scott Paper Company and the more general pulp and paper industry.

Legal

Series consists of legal contracts pertaining to, or agreed to, by the company. The majority of documents are related to union and labour agreements, land titles and exchanges, contracts for service, and leases, etc.

Plans

Series contains drawings and blueprints of the company's land holdings, buildings, and equipment/machinery. The company developed some plans in-house, but the majority were outsourced to various engineers or architects, some of whom were based in Nova Scotia. Series arranged alphabetically by archivist. Duplicates and generic plans that did not pertain directly to the company were discarded.

Printed material

This series contains a variety of information that would have been used in the company's operations, including copies of government acts, news about latest trends in the field of pulp and paper, bulletins and relevant articles and research literature, etc. These items would have been used as resources to better operate the company.

Reports

This series contains reports and policies relevant to pulp and paper mill operations, which were published by or for the Scott Paper Company. These include the annual reports of the company, as well as statements and estimations of land ownership and labour potential.
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