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Acadia Gas Engine Company fonds

  • MS-4-81
  • Fonds
  • 1969-1973

Fonds contains three product catalogues produced by the Acadia Gas Engine Company. The earliest dated catalogue was published in January, 1969 and another was published in 1973. One catalogue is undated.

Acadia Gas Engine Company.

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 partn...

Adams and Knickle Limited.

Alfred Dickie fonds

  • MS-4-64
  • Fonds
  • 1857-1937, predominate 1890-1927

This fonds consists of records which document the personal and business activities and interests of Alfred Dickie and, to a lesser extent, those of his immediate family and employees. Although the records span Dickie’s lifetime, few relate to his ...

Dickie, Alfred, 1860-1929

Arthur Fordham and Company fonds

  • MS-4-2
  • Fonds
  • 1899-1967

Fonds contains records documenting Arthur Fordham's leather merchant activities from 1899-1967. Fonds includes miscellaneous early records, 1899-1933; sales and purchases journals, 1921-1953; cash books, 1918-1962; ledgers, 1921-1967; corresp...

Arthur Fordham and Company

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'...

Bigelow Family

Burns and Company memorandums and company bulletins

  • MS-4-175, SF Box 45, Folder 38
  • File
  • 1944

File contains bulletins on meat and dairy markets sent from the company office in Winnipeg, Manitoba to salesmen in the Eastern Sales Division. File also contains memorandums sent to L.W. Morgan from the company office in Winnipeg.

Burns and Company.

Business correspondence of John M. Blaikie

  • MS-2-85, SF Box 18, Folder 30
  • File
  • 1860-1902

File consists of correspondence regarding Blaikie's mercantile and shipbuilding businesses.

Blaikie, John M., 1837-1929

Charman and Grant fonds

  • MS-4-144
  • Fonds
  • 1912-1945

The fonds contains business records of Charman and Grant general store, including invoices and a general ledger. Also included is a VE Day address by William Grant.

Charman & Grant.

Cooley Brothers fonds

  • MS-4-91
  • Fonds
  • 1948-1951

Fonds includes correspondence and the minute book of the Halifax Jewellers Association, 1948-1951.

Cooley Brothers.

Correspondence from Corning and Chipman

  • MS-4-67, SF Box 46, Folder 23
  • File
  • 1879-1923

File contains correspondence from Corning and Chipman, a law firm based in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Materials were created in 1879, 1881, 1888, 1891, 1893-1903, 1906, 1912, 1915, 1917 and 1923.

Corning and Chipman.

Cyril R. Smith fonds

  • MS-4-176
  • Fonds
  • 1922-1923

Fonds contains business correspondence regarding the purchase of a boiler. Fonds also contains a specification for a boiler manufactured by John Inglis Company.

Smith, Cyril R.

David Nelson fonds

  • MS-4-80
  • Fonds
  • 1888-1893

Ledger 1888-1893; Miscellaneous invoices and correspondence 1891-1893

Nelson, David

Dominion Chair Company fonds

  • MS-4-61
  • Fonds
  • 1870-1975

The fonds consists of architectural plans, Bass River picnic files, correspondence and invoices, counter books, customer and employee records, export papers, interest books, journals, ledgers, legal documents, merchandise invoices, photographs, pr...

Dominion Chair Company.

Frieze and Roy fonds

  • MS-4-57
  • Fonds
  • 1838-1941

The fonds consists mainly of general business correspondence and financial records recording the financial affairs of the business. The fonds also consist of legal records, mainly indentures and insurance policies for the business, sales and opera...

Frieze and Roy.

George E. Smith Company fonds

  • MS-4-22
  • Fonds
  • 1911-1916

The George E. Smith Company, named after its founder, was a hardware company in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Upon Smith's death on February 16, 1916, the company remained in operation. The fonds includes the correspondence (including financial trans...

George E. Smith Company.

George Graham fonds

  • MS-4-228
  • Fonds
  • 1932-1977

Miscellaneous business files including information on Renada Gold Mines Limited, 1933, and list of shareholders in General Trust and Executor Corp, 1938 and the Maritime Life Assurance Company, 1932. Copies of sermons by Reverend Harleigh M. Rosen...

Graham, George

George MacKay fonds

  • MS-4-78
  • Fonds
  • 1911-1912

Fonds contains business records accumulated by George MacKay, including correspondence, receipts, and invoices.

MacKay, George

H.L. Ruggles fonds

  • MS-4-168
  • Fonds
  • 1925-1968

Fonds contains business records and personal correspondence of H.L. Ruggles. Financial records primarily relate to Ruggles' wholesale grocery business, but some materials relate to the settlement of his mother's estate. Personal correspo...

Ruggles, H.L.

Halifax Seed Company fonds

  • MS-4-21
  • Fonds
  • 1956-1965, bulk 1960 and 1965

The fonds contains business correspondence between the Halifax Seed Company and their associates worldwide as well as two ledger books. Advertisements and printed matter originally enclosed with correspondence provide an insight into the 1960s rel...

Halifax Seed Company.

J.E. Morse fonds

  • MS-4-7
  • Fonds
  • 1900 - 1920

This fonds contains correspondence, agreements, price lists, financial records and photographs relating to the J.E. Morse Tea company. Also contains a picture of the Studley Quoit Club plus a key to the group picture.

Morse, J.E.

James E. Dickie and Company fonds

  • MS-4-63
  • Fonds
  • 1855-1901, 1924

This fonds consists of documents illustrating the diverse interests of James Edward Dickie and his family. While nearly all of the records date from the ownership of the Stewiacke general store by James E. Dickie and his son Edwin, the fonds does ...

James E. Dickie and Company.

James M. Smith fonds

  • MS-4-73
  • File
  • 1870-1922

Fonds consists of three microfilm reels of business records and a photocopied excerpt of a furniture catalogue. No original materials are included . Materials include three volumes of ledgers (1880-1904), bills of lading (1886-1898), correspondenc...

Smith, James M

L.E. Shaw Limited fonds

  • MS-4-174
  • Fonds
  • 1915-1971

Fonds consists of textual records and photographs that document the Shaw family and portions of the history of L.E. Shaw Limited. Fonds contains bills payable/receivable, annual reports, catalogues and bulletins, and photographs of Shaw family and...

Shaw Group, The.

La Have Outfitting Company fonds

  • MS-4-88
  • Fonds
  • 1905-1973

The La Have Outfitting Company fonds contains mainly financial records related to their business of outfitting and supplying vessels, as well as sales of fish, coal and salt between the years of 1905-1976. These records include invoices cash books...

La Have Outfitting Company.

Letters to John Young from his son, William Young

  • MS-2-80, SF Box 18, Folder 28
  • File
  • 1815, 1833

File consists of one handwritten letter (1833) to John Young from his son and business agent, William Young, and a transcription of an earlier letter (1815) from William.

Young, John, 1773-1837

Londonderry Stoves Company ledger

  • MS-4-25, SF Box 46, Folder 17
  • File
  • 1889-1895

File contains a business ledger of Londonderry Stoves Company. The ledger includes entries from 1889-1895. File also contains miscellaneous papers. Each item has been marked to indicate where it was found.

Londonderry Stoves Co.

Melville McKean fonds

  • MS-4-44
  • Fonds
  • 1895-1925

Invoices, deeds and day book and ledger 1895-1921

Memoranda from a deed of settlement of the Bank of British North America

  • MS-4-11, SF Box 46, Folder 14
  • File
  • 1836

File contains a seven page handwritten memoranda from a deed of settlement of the Bank of British North America (May 28, 1836). The deed of settlement was negotiated for the purpose of establishing banks in the British colonies of North America. F...

Bank of British North America.

Murphy, L. and M. Ltd. lists of shares

  • MS-4-71, SF Box 46, Folder 24
  • File
  • 1897-1904

List of dividends paid to shareholders in the Halifax Academy of Music, 1897 and a shares certificate, 1904

Murphy, L. and M. Ltd.

Powers Brothers fonds

  • MS-4-86
  • Fonds
  • 1858–1987

Fonds consists of administrative files, community involvement details, contract records, correspondence, employee records, financial documents, job estimates and job files, legal documents, photographs, plans, printed material, notes on solar heat...

Powers Brothers.

Receipt book of Matthew Richardson

  • MS-4-74, SF Box 48, Folder 1
  • Item
  • 1820-1822

Item is a leather-bound receipt book with receipts from 28 December 1820 to 30 July, 1822. Receipts are written by idividuals who received cash (pound sterling) from Matthew Richardson.

Richardson, Matthew

Scott Paper Company fonds

  • MS-4-68
  • Fonds
  • 1913-1972

Fonds consists of correspondence, financial documents, journals and ledgers, legal documents, photographs, plans, printed material, and reports. This material spans almost 60 years and gives insight into a company which changed hands several times...

Scott Paper Company.

Seaside Inn fonds

  • MS-4-136
  • Fonds
  • 1928-1943

Fonds contains three registers providing the names and residences of hotel guests from 1928-1943.

Seaside Inn.

Shipping Reference Collection

  • MS-8-Ref
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1880]-[ca. 1970]

The Shipping Reference Collection incorporates virtually all miscellanous shipping records and reference material that were accessioned as part of "MS-8-Ref." A large portion of the collection consists of reference files on various vesse...

Armour, Charles