Family and personal life

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  • The subject term Family and personal life should be used with descriptions that relate to friendships, personal relationships, home life, generational records, genealogical records, sexuality, individuals, families, and support and charitable organizations who work for the private lives of families and individuals.

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Greeting Card Album

Items are ninety holiday cards glued onto the pages of an album. For the majority of the items, the writing on the back is not accessible without damaging the album, so recipients, senders, and dates have not been determined
Items which have become loose are located in the front inner-cover

Wry Family Bible

  • CA THT 2009.5.1
  • Item
  • 9 January 1882

Item is a black leather 19th century bible used by the Wry family. Printed by Glasgow William Collins, Sons & Co.

Sarah Burrell

  • CA MNBM ID4786
  • Fonds
  • 1883-1895

This fonds consists of a small leather-bound notebook containing household expenses, servants and nurses' wages, 1883-1895.

Burrell, Sarah Jane (Morris)

Mathilda Wry & Mary E. Wry

Subfonds contains various textual items pertaining to Mathilda “Tillie” Wry and her sister Mary Elsie Wry. Includes an autograph album, incoming correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other textual records.

Mathilda Wry Autograph Item

  • CA THT IWFFonds-2006.14.02-2006.14.02./1
  • Item
  • 1884-1941
  • Part of Wry Family Fonds

Item is a leather bound autograph album given to Mathilda Wry as a gift on her twentieth birthday. Amongst the autographs are two adjoining pages from roommates in the Mount Allison Ladies’ College (1887), a poem from her sister Mary E. Wry, and several entries from Great Village where Tillie visited and where her fiancée George was later the post master. Some of the entries are probably from sewing clients. There are also additional autographs from 1938 and 1941 written to Tillie’s niece, Mabel Alward.

Harper and Allen families

  • CA PANB MC286
  • Collection
  • 1889-1965, predominant 1889-1915

This collection consists primarily of personal records of Duncan S. Harper, Sadie Harper Allen, and Frank Allen. It includes 7 diaries of Sadie Harper, covering the years 1890-1898, along with a transcription of each, as well as the original and a transcription of 22 letters written in 1912 by Sadie Harper Allen to family members while she was travelling with her husband in England (London, Manchester, Ambleside, Stratford), Scotland (Edinburgh, Glasgow), and Switzerland.

The writer offers a portrait of pre-war Britain, recording her impressions of the suffragettes, her visit to the House of Commons to hear Prime Minister Asquith, British customs, and of dignitaries attending the Imperial Universities Congress in London. There are 3 additional letters written by Sadie Allen to her family, a letter from John (Jack) Allen to Bill commenting on Sadie Allen's 1912 letters, and Aunt Nellie's account of Sadie and Frank Allen's 1912 trip to Europe, written for publication in a New Brunswick newspaper. Transcriptions of the latter 4 letters are also included.

The collection also includes the original and a transcription of the diary of Duncan Small Harper in which he records details of his 1889 European tour, made primarily in search of medical help for his debilitating muscular disease.

Lastly the collection contains a brief curriculum vitae of Frank Allen; 2 poems composed by him; Allen and Harper families genealogical information; obituary notices for both Frank and Sadie Allen; a newspaper article on Professor Frank Allen, "an inspired physicist;" and photographs of Frank Allen (1912) and Sadie Harper Allen.

The diaries and letters were transcribed by the donor, Lillian B. Allen, prior to 1977.

Harper, Allen family (Shediac)

Jackie Gibson Collection

  • CA CCA 693
  • Collection
  • 1890 - 2003

This collection contains correspondences, documents, photos, and other types of material related to Joseph and Effie Gibson and their descendants. Most of the correspondence in this collection concerns Joe Gibson, a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot and oldest son of Joseph and Effie Gibson. Many photos of him and his crewmates, his letters home from overseas, as well as his schoolwork and notes from leaning how to fly an aircraft are also included in this collection. Several items which concern the affairs of John Gibson, Joe Gibson’s younger brother, can be found in this collection. These include correspondences and legal documents related to the estate of Charlotte Gibson, his sister, as well as an agreement between John Gibson and the Canada Railroad Company concerning interest and his land. Most of the personal items and published material in this collection belonged to John Gibson as well, these include publications related to his position as a volunteer firefighter, reports of organizations he belonged to, maps of the Town of St. Andrews, notes related to his work as a stonemason, and other items.

Gibson Family

Unidentified Group by a Fence

Item is a photograph of two men, three women, and three young boys standing by a fence in front of a house. Two horse and buggies are waiting near the left side of the house.

Big Head Rock

Item is a photograph of a man, woman, and three young girls standing on “Big Head Rock” near Minudie, NS.

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