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Bigelow family fonds

MS-4-92
Fonds
1865-1976

Fonds contains the personal and professional records of four generations of the Bigelow family of Nova Scotia. It includes correspondence, legal and financial documents, diaries and memoirs, and photographs that document primarily the family's shipbuilding activities as well as the genealogical interests of John Robert Bigelow.

Bigelow Family

Letter from Caroline Button (Bigalow)

MS-4-92, Box 4, Folder 26
File
1929

Part of Bigelow family fonds

File contains an envelope addressed to Mr. John E. Bigelow of Canning, Nova Scotia and a letter from his granddaughter Caroline Button (Bigelow) from Evanston, Illinois.

Letter from Halle Bigelow (son)

MS-4-92, Box 5, Folder 42
File
1913

Part of Bigelow family fonds

Letter from Halle Bigelow (son)

MS-4-92, Box 5, Folder 42, Item 1
Item
1913

Part of Bigelow family fonds

Letters from Jean Bigelow (granddaughter)

MS-4-92, Box 4, Folder 56
File
1917-1929

Part of Bigelow family fonds

File contains letters addressed to Mr. John E. Bigelow of Canning, Nova Scotia form his granddaughter Jean Bigelow.

Medical Report from the Nova Scotia Sanatorium regarding Mr. John Bigelow

MS-4-92, Box 1, Folder 53
Item
1935; 1938

Part of Bigelow family fonds

Photograph of Canning Harbour and Halle Bigelow's boat, Mabel B.

MS-4-92, Box 7, Folder 23
Item
n.d.

Part of Bigelow family fonds

Item is a photograph of Canning harbour. The vessel in the lower left is the Mable B workboat owned by Halle Bigelow, behind the Mable B and tied to the wharf is a scow used in the Warf building activities to haul timber and rock ballast to fill the wharf crib.