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Personal Materials of Frank Parker Day

This series includes files from his time at Mount Allison and Oxford universities, family -related materials and memorabilia, legal and financial documents (which include publishing contracts and insurance forms), as well as documents related to Swarthmore and Union Colleges. Other assorted documents include the address given at his funeral, clippings of book reviews, and scrapbooks (on microfilm) from 1905-1907.

The Bill Lynch Shops carnival ride records

Series contains materials documenting the rides used by the Bill Lynch Shows and related materials. Written material includes expenses, maintenance issues, and assembly instructions. Related materials include blueprints for the rides.

Legal documents of the La Have Outfitting Company

This series contains insurance policies on La Have Outfitting Co. and shareholder lists. The insurance policies include the amount the business was insured for and which types of insurance they had. The shareholder lists include names of the shareholders for various vessels and the amount of shares they held as well as the amount paid.

Correspondence of Frank Parker Day

This series contains all correspondence found in the fonds. Due to the broad scope of Day’s correspondence and the sometimes blurry lines that exist between his personal versus business letters, the series is not ordered by subject. Rather, correspondence is ordered chronologically by decade and alphabetically within the decade.

A detailed list of correspondents' names and exact dates of the letters is available in the Archives.

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.

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.

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.

Press books and scrapbooks

Series contains various biographical sketches intended for press releases, as well as scrapbooks of press releases about Ellen Ballon and her performances.

Personal papers of Ivan Maxwell Gillis

Series contains personal papers of and relating to Ivan Maxwell Gillis. Contents include copies of a scrapbook, copies of his degrees, newspaper clippings, letters of recommendation by others, an article on Gillis by Phyllis Blakeley, and a portrait of Gillis.

The Bill Lynch Shows financial records

Series contains documents related to the Bill Lynch Shows’ finances and the monetary purchases. Materials include daily reports from shows, daily cash statement forms (blank), invoices, receipts and receipt books, and cash books.

The Bill Lynch Shows administrative records

Series contains various administrative documents used to run the Bill Lynch Shows. Materials include letterhead, Greater Exposition Shows contract forms (blank), railway passes, commercial scripts, blueprints, and photographs.

Queens Mines Limited

Series consists of monthly reports on mining operations, administrative records, three audited financial statements, balance sheets, weekly financial summaries of operations and allocations of wages, and a random sample of memorandums on refined gold bullion from the Royal Canadian Mint. Files in the series were mixed in the business papers of Oland and Son Limited and no other records from the company are known to exist.

Queens Mines Limited.

Lois Creighton

Series consists of materials created and accumulated by Lois Creighton including correspondence, a diary, Dalhousie notebooks, and various other personal documents and memorabilia.

Creighton, Lois, 1894-1952

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.

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.

Honourable William Duff

The following are sub-series under Hon. William Duff; correspondence, financial, vessel papers. Correspondence consists of all political and personal correspondence written to and by Duff; Financial consists of financial statements, assets and liabilities of the Duff family; Vessel Papers consists of bills of sale and financial statements related to vessels owned or operated by Duff.

Duff, William, 1872-1953

Scrapbooks and offprints

Series contains published materials collected and arranged by Stewart, including newspaper and magazine cuttings, printed copies of his sermons and addresses, and journal offprints. The bulk of the material was created by Stewart, although some of the scrapbooks contain reviews of Stewart's work as well as articles about him. Many of the newspaper and magazine cuttings are glued into commercial scrapbooks, and his Obiter Scripta ("random writings") volumes are primarily bound and paginated journal offprints and magazine cuttings, sometimes including a dated table of contents and/or an index.

Financial correspondence

The letters contained within this series are all from companies writing to the Smith sisters about various financial matters including the transference of stock and payment for shares.

Poetry

Series consists of the poetry (published and unpublished) of Alan Creighton. He wrote on a wide variety of topics, but primarily nature (especially Nova Scotia, with works inspired by the places he lived in) and human nature. The records also include some (prose) musings on poetry, poets, and the creative process, as well as documents related to the Cheney-Trent poetry course he took by correspondence.

Diaries

This series contains Diaries from T. Wilsom Creelman, Annie Mackay Creelman, their son William Mackay Creelman and their daughter in-law Nancy Littlejohns Creelman.

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).

Legal matters of Adams and Knickle Limited

Legal Matters series consists of Adams & Knickle agreements, legal transactions and vessels related legal matters. Types of documents include articles of association, certificates of incorporation, court papers, deeds, estate settlements, fishermen's articles, fishing contracts, notices of protest, affidavits, and other vessel related legal materials. The information contained in this series includes legal relations Adams & Knickle had with its shipping partners, agents and the vessels used to transport goods and undertake fishing operations. They also document shareholder interests and any events of a legal nature that impacted on business a specific
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