The documents contained in this file provide insight into the general economy, trade and commerce, and daily life of the period in Charlotte County, as well as the fluctuating prices, import and export restrictions export regulations, and the wider effects of the Great Depression of the 1930s. They also provide insight into the technological changes of the early 20th century.

This file consists of bills, invoices, receipts, account statements, bank drafts, customs duty tickets, and correspondence regarding the purchase and sale of general goods including: boots, shoes, and rubber; cotton; linen; paper; lumber; groceries such as biscuits and ship’s bread, dairy products, chocolates and sweets, tea, spices, eggs, flour, sugar, and produce; wholesale grocers; wool; oil; silks, rugs, and mattings; drugs and chemicals, boots, shoes, and rubbers; grass, flower, and vegetable seed; fertilizer; stationary; grain and feed; hay, straw, pottery, kitchen appliances and furnishings; furnaces; home furnishings; farrier services; carriages; and hardware.

Other Charlotte County companies or corporations that appear in these documents include: Citizens Gas Company, (St Stephen); Clark’s Drug Store, (St Stephen); Charlotte County Co-Operative Co., feed, flour, groceries, and meats (St Stephen); Charlotte County Creamery; Customs Canada, St Stephen port; Maritime Electric Co. Ltd. (St Stephen); F.W. Farris & Sons, sardine packers (Fairhaven, Deer Island); H.E. Fraser, blacksmith (St Stephen); A.C. Gregory, furniture, oilcloth, linoleum, pianos, musical instruments (St Stephen); Roy M. Guptill, smoked herring (Grand Manan); John Giddens, general dealer (Rollingdam); J.E. Gaskill, dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, and hardware (North Head, Grand Manan); Ganong Bros. Ltd., chocolates and fine confectionery (St Stephen); Haley & Sin Ltd., lumber merchants, house finishing, and box shooks (St Stephen); Clifford W. Hanley, meats and groceries (St Stephen); P.E. McLaughlin, barrister, solicitor, and notary public (St Stephen); St Croix Soap Manufacturing Co., (St Stephen); Summer Fertilizer Co., (St Stephen); St Stephen Water Commissioners; St Croix Country Club Inc.; St Stephen Woolen Mills; New Brunswick Telephone Company, St Stephen Exchange; Allison Thomas, milk dealer (St Stephen); Tax, LeRoy Hill, St Stephen; H.W. Welch, fish. fisherman’s outfits, gasoline, oils, hardware, and groceries, (Deer Island); Cameron E. Wright, general merchant (Beaver Harbour); the X-l-ent Cleanser Co., manufacturers of the modern cleanser (St Andrews).

Also of note: Report of Treasurer Howard Murchie to Trustees Chipman Memorial Hospital Cash Account, January 31, 1931; Department of Agriculture Seed Branch, Control Sample Certificate for Customs Entry into Canada; Estate of Manzer & Co. dividend sheet, 1930 (St Stephen); Department of Agriculture Seed Branch, Seeds Act Amendment 1934; Department of Agriculture Seed Branch, field and garden seeds imported into Canada; Canadian United Kingdom Westbound Freight Conferences (Dishes 1933-34); Gasoline Pump License, NB Motor Vehicle Branch; Library Commission, regional library service delayed for one year due to economic conditions (1930); rental of warehouse from Robin Hood Mills Ltd. (1935).