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Item is Pictou County Notary Public John McLeod's register of protests documenting declarations by ships' masters of circumstances beyond their control which may have given rise to loss or damages.

McLeod, John D.

Logbook of the schooner Vincent A. White

MS-2-107, SF Box 23, Folder 7
Item
1923 - 1924

Item is the logbook of the tern schooner Vincent A. White on two voyages: Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, to Glasgow, Scotland, from 26 June-7 November 1923; and Lunenburg to Havana, Cuba, from 14 February -2 April 1924.

Vincent A. White (schooner)

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

MS-4-177, Box 11, Folder 23
File
1922

Part of Lockeport Historical Collection

File contains business correspondence addressed to William McMillan and Fred Giffin (with a few written by McMillan), Lockeport, between June 1922 and September 1922, regarding receipt of shipment of goods to be sold in McMillan's general store, or confirmation of goods to be sent overseas.

File contains both typed and handwritten correspondence and balance orders from the following brokers:
Acadia Gas Engines (Bridgewater), Brenton M. Acker (Birch Town), C.R. Banks (Torbrook Mines, NS), G.E. Barbour Company (Saint John), Barrett Company (Halifax), Beaver Company (Thorold, ON), J.T. Bell (Montreal), C.E. Bentley (Truro), W.R. Brock Company (Montreal), Brock & Paterson (Saint John), Buffalo Specialty Company, Canada Cement Company (Montreal), Canada Feed & Oil Limited (Halifax; regarding outstanding accounts after plant closure), Canada Wire and Cable Company (Halifax), Canadian Drug Co. Limited, Canadian General Electric Company (Halifax), Canadian National Railways, Canadian Oil Companies (Toronto), Cloverdale United Farmers Limited (Springfield), Congoleum Company (Montreal), H.S. Cook & Co. (formerly Burrell-Johnson, Yarmouth), M.P. Cook & Company (Yarmouth), Craven & Speeding Bros. (Sunderland), H.H. Crosby (Hebron), Crude Oil Engine Company of Canada (Montreal), Davis & Fraser (Halifax), Dixon & Corbitt and R.S. Newall & Co. (Gateshead-on-Tyne), Andrew Doane (Ingomar), Dominion Molasses Company (Halifax), Dominion Rubber System (Maritime) Limited (Halifax), Dustbane Mfg. Co. (Ottawa), Emerson & Fisher (Saint John), Enterprise Foundry Co. (Sackville, NB), Frank Fales & Sons (Saint John), Gibson Bros. (Halifax), Gloria Light Company (Chicago), M.W. Graves & Co. (Bridgetown), Charles Hagar (Roseway), Trueman Hager (Round Bay), W.B. Hamilton Shoe Co. (Toronto), A.W. Hebb (Bridgewater), Fletcher Hebb (Bridgewater), J.W. Hebb, Lakeside Farm (Hebb's Cross), J.C. Hemeon (Liverpool), E.S. Hendry (Milton), Hunt Brothers (London, ON), Imperial Oil Limited (Halifax), J.B. Jones (East Jordan), Lake of the Woods Milling Company (Saint John), John Lockett & Son (Bridgetown), T. McAvity & Sons (Saint John), Avery MacDonald (Lower Port Joli), McDonald Tea Co. (Saint John), Manchester Robertson Allison (Saint John), Maritime Brokers Limited (Halifax), Willett Martin (New York), Martin-Senour Co. (Halifax), Miner Rubber Company (Halifax), G.P. Mitchell & Sons Limited (Halifax), J.E. Morse & Co. (Halifax), J. & M. Murphy Limited (Halifax), National Drug and Chemical Company of Canada (Halifax), New Germany Fruit Co. Limited, F.F. Nicoll (Clyde River), Northern Aluminum Company (Toronto), Palmolive Company (Montreal), Parker & Sawyer (Halifax), Parker Broom Company (Ottawa), Parrish, Phillips & Co. (New York), Peabody's Limited (Walkerville, ON), Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Co., Quaker Oats Company (Halifax, via Peterborough), Rafuse & Eisenhauer Limited (Bridgewater), Frank Reardon Limited (Halifax), Retail Merchants Association of Canada (regarding the Sales Tax Act, among other topics), E.K. Spinney (Yarmouth), Wm. Stairs, Son & Morrow Limited (Halifax), Sterling Materials Co. (Montreal), T.C. Swaine (Barrington), A.E. Thorbourn (Gunning Cove), W.H. Thorne & Company (Saint John), John Tobin & Co. (Halifax), Walker Bros. (Milton), Yarmouth Fruit Co., among others.

Adams and Knickle Ltd. fonds

MS-4-27
Fonds
1897-1968

The fonds consists of records which document the business activities and interests of Adams & Knickle Ltd. from 1897 until 1968. Information contained in this fonds provides insight into the company’s role as a major fishing and shipping partner in the fishing and shipping industry in Nova Scotia. Also included in this fonds is information about the company’s international relations with the various agents engaged in this industry; the types and amounts of fish landed, processed, shipped and sold by the company; the many transactions involved in operating vessels; and various events that impacted on the company’s operations. The types of documents include: affidavits, agent accounts, agreements, catch journals, correspondence, damage claims, deeds, employment records, financial statements, fish sales records, fishing contracts, ledgers, notices of protest, port documents, sailing journals, time journals, vessel accounts and journals, vessel certificates, and vessel shares.

Adams and Knickle Limited.

Lunenburg Outfitting Company fonds

MS-4-84
Fonds
1877-1983

The fonds consists of correspondence, financial records, sales and shipping operations, and vessel papers which document the business's operation between 1943 and 1983. Also included in the fonds are the records of the Lunenburg branch plant of Booth Fisheries Canada Company, Lunenburg Outfitting Company's president Honourable William Duff and Wilfred E. Knickle. Types of records found in the fonds are correspondence, cash books, cheque registers, fish sales and shipment books.

Lunenburg Outfitting Company.

"P" correspondence

MS-4-118, Box 23, Folder 3
File
1956-1961

Part of Himmelman Supply Company fonds

File contains an alphabetical file of correspondence between Himmelman Supply Company and correspondents with names beginning with P. Correspondents include Palmer Refrigerator Company, Plymouth Cordage Company of Canada, T.S. Pattillo and Company, Captain Cecil Parsons, Palmetto Shipping Company, and others.

"P" correspondence

MS-4-118, Box 23, Folder 2
File
1951-1955

Part of Himmelman Supply Company fonds

File contains an alphabetical file of correspondence between Himmelman Supply Company and correspondents with names beginning with P. Correspondents include the Panther Company, James Pitman Jr. (representing the Bonne Bay Fisheries Society), Provincial Wholesale Drugs, Pyke Brothers Limited, Payzant and King Limited, Mr. Ernest Pettipas, and others.

"XYZ" correspondence

MS-4-118, Box 23, Folder 1
File
1951-1964

Part of Himmelman Supply Company fonds

File contains an alphabetical file of correspondence between Himmelman Supply Company and correspondents with names beginning with X, Y, or Z. Correspondents include the Yarmouth-Boston Freight Service, James. N. Young, Young's Marine Electronic Service, and Zwicker and Company.

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

Shipping registers and research cards of Trevor Bebb

MS-4-177.2013-053
Collection
[19--]-[ca. 2013]

The accession contains index cards originally stored in 10 small plastic boxes and 1 long cardboard box. The cards were created by Trevor Bebb and contain entries from various shipping registers. The cards describe vessels, captains, and sailors. The accession also contains two oversized ledgers from the nineteenth century and several manuscript sheets of poetry. One plastic box was empty when it entered the archives.

Bebb, James Trevor

Photograph of the sundial and mast house at the H.M. dockyard, Halifax

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 30, Item 4
Item
[before 1939]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, has a stamp marking it copyright to the Royal Canadian Navy on the reverse side. The photograph was taken inside the south gate of the dockyard.

Photograph of the south gate of the dockyard in Halifax

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 30, Item 5
Item
June 1936

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, has a stamp marking it copyright to the Royal Canadian Navy on the reverse side.

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

Wm. Stairs, Son and Morrow Limited fonds

MS-4-6
Fonds
1879 - 1937

Fonds contains business journals (1882-1933), ledgers (1879-1937), cash books (1908-1924), contracts, and building specifications and plans for Wm. Stairs, Son and Morrow, hardware merchants.

Wm. Stairs, Son and Morrow Limited

Photograph of the Sable Island supply ship CS Lady Laurier

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 6
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of a ship -- likely the twin-screw steamer CS Lady Laurier -- approaching Sable Island on a resupply mission, ca. 1920.

Photograph of a dory approaching Sable Island from an unidentified fishing boat

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 7
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of a dory containing four people, approaching Sable Island from a distant unidentified fishing boat, likely around 1920.

Photograph of three dories ashore on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 8
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of three dories ashore on Sable Island, arriving from an unidentified distant fishing boat, taken ca. 1920.

Photograph of supply ship CS Lady Laurier from the west end beach, Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 34, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of the Sable Island west end beach from supply ship CS Lady Laurier

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 34, Item 3
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of stacked shipping containers at the pier near Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 16, Folder 13, Item 46
Item
2000

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Aerial photograph of the container pier and Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 16, Folder 13, Item 52
Item
2000

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Item consists of an aerial photograph of Point Pleasant Park and the adjacent container pier, taken from above South End Halifax.

Photographs of the destruction caused at Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia, by the Brown Spruce longhorn beetle

MS-2-789, Box 16, Folder 13
File
2000

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 68 photographs taken largely by Bill Freedman (but also by Sweeney) at Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 2000. Photographs show aerial and up-close examples of the destruction wrought on the urban park by the invasive Brown spruce longhorn beetle, believed to arrive in the city via the nearby port.

Aerial photograph of Point Pleasant Park, the South End of Halifax, and the South End Container Terminal

MS-2-789, Box 20, Folder 20, Item 5
Item
July 25, 1992

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Item is an aerial photograph of Point Pleasant Park and the south end of Halifax, Nova Scotia taken on July 25, 1992. The photograph shows the campus of Saint Mary's University and the South End Container Terminal.

Aerial photograph of the Halifax peninsula

MS-2-789, Box 20, Folder 20, Item 11
Item
July 25, 1992

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Item is an aerial photograph of the Halifax peninsula taken on July 25, 1992. The photograph shows downtown Halifax, the Halifax Common, the Halifax Citadel, and the Container Pier. The campus of Saint Mary's University is featured in the southern side of the photograph.

Aerial photograph of downtown Halifax and Halifax Harbour

MS-2-789, Box 20, Folder 20, Item 12
Item
July 25, 1992

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Item is an aerial photograph of the Halifax peninsula taken on July 25, 1992. The photograph shows downtown Halifax, the Halifax Container Piers, Halifax Harbour, and Georges Island.

Recording of an interview with Keith Crow and other recordings

MS-2-130, Box 10, Folder 2, Item 4
Item
[1960?]

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds describing a group of children playing in a water hole; sounds of children playing; Barbara Hinds talking about her visit with Keith Crow in George River; Keith Crow playing the guitar; and Barbara Hinds' interview with Keith Crow about shipping fish.

Recording of an interview with Captain Doug Creaser

MS-2-130, Box 10, Folder 11, Item 1
Item
[1960?]

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Captain Doug Creaser, the area superintendent in charge of the department of transportation's sea lift. Creaser is from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Creaser talks about shipping in the north.

Articles about Erwin Schroeder and other material

MS-2-130, Box 1, Folder 9
File
1962-1966

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

File contains typed drafts of articles about Erwin Schroeder by Barbara Hinds; several copies of newspaper clippings from the Chronicle-Herald about Erwin Schroeder, some of which are mounted on paper; photocopies of newspaper articles about Erwin Schroeder; correspondence with Shipowners Assurance Management Ltd., Bull & Roberts, Inc., and The Observer; pages torn from the November 19, 1966 issue of Chemical Week; and a copy of the Canadian Concentrates Code.

Draft of article about the carriage of copper concentrate by ship

MS-2-130, Box 6, Folder 8
File
[after 1962]

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

File contains a typed draft of an article about the carriage of copper concentrate by ship. The article is typed on several smaller pieces of paper which have been glued together.

Changing hinterlands for Eastern Canadian container ports : 1978-1981 / Murray G. Brown and Mary R. Brooks

MS-2-802, Box 26, Folder 3
Item
[ca. 1981]

Part of Murray G. Brown fonds

Item is a report produced for the Canadian Marine Transportation Centre, Dalhousie University.

Records from the Joint Review Panel for the Whites Point Quarry and Marine Terminal Project

MS-2-88
Series
1987-2008

Part of Jill Grant fonds

Series contains Jill Grant's records from the Joint Review Panel for the Whites Point Quarry and Marine Terminal Project. Materials include the project's environmental impact statement, transcripts from scoping meetings and public hearings, records of the Joint Review Panel, reference and research materials, correspondence, maps and photographs, and other records. The series provides a comprehensive record of the activities of the Joint Review Panel, which was made up by Jill Grant, Robert Fournier and Gunter Muecke.

Chanties by various authors

MS-2-288, Box 22, Folder 18
Item
[19--]

Part of Frank Parker Day fonds

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.

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.

Jonathan Steele fonds

MS-2-70
Fonds
1864-1918, 1966

Fonds consists of correspondence, financial papers, bills and crew information, some of which relates to a ship called Habitant.

Steele, Jonathan

Ronald Justin Inness fonds

MS-2-600
Fonds
[19--]

Fonds consists of materials collected by Ronald Justin Inness about ships and shipping companies, including pamphlets, manuscripts, clippings, and correspondence. Fonds also contains manuscripts written by Ronald Justin Inness about the Innes' genealogy.

Inness, Ronald Justin

Ronald Justin Inness' records regarding shipping company histories