This fonds consists of the business and financial records of the Read Stone Co. Ltd. as well as family correspondence and other personal records. It includes minutes of meetings, correspondence, letterbooks, general ledgers, day books, cash books, accounts receivable and accounts payable ledgers, order books, sales invoices, survey records, bills of lading and other shipping records, invoices, accounts, receipts, bank books, cancelled cheques, draft notes, and time books. Family records include correspondence, diaries, photographs, and material pertaining to the Independent Order of Foresters.

There are also brochures, labels, advertising boards, catalogues of various suppliers, almanacs, grindstone and rock samples. Lastly the fonds includes several annual reports and statements of the Dominion Steel Corp. and British Empire Steel Corporation (1920s), issues of the journals, The Maritime Merchant (1920s) and the Contract Record & Engineering Review (1910s), and a copy of an unpublished thesis entitled, "The Cumberland Basin grindstone industry by James D. Snowden," (1972).

First accession contains items from six plywood boards used in the Grindstone Museum set up by Herbert C. Read in the “Carriage House” of the Marshlands Inn, which includes various materials pertaining to the Read Stone Company and grindstone production, including primarily photographs, as well as graphic drawings, newspaper clippings, and other textual records.

Second accession, contains materials pertaining to the Read Stone Company, grindstone production, and the Read family. Content includes primarily photographs, as well as postcards, articles, and a guest book from the Marshlands Inn which was formerly the Read home, and that contained a museum devoted to displaying the history of the grindstone industry in Sackville.

This fonds documents the business activities of Robert B. Adams -- undertaker, mortician, and funeral director. It consists of account ledgers which record the name of the deceased, his or her date of birth, the cause and place of death, the place of burial, and the name of the individual requesting services (1903-1908).

Also included are records of casket sales (1896-1902), death returns of the Fredericton Board of Health (1899-1904) containing detailed information about the deceased, three burial permits (1905), a floor plan for the funeral parlor, and a few additional business records.

The fonds consists of one account book for Robert Jones' general grocery store for 1881, 1884, 1891.

This account book includes entries on half-pay; business transactions in grain, lumber, foodstuffs, shoes and boots, rum, tobacco, and other goods; and exchanges of labour. It also includes receipts of payments made on accounts and brief entries relating to voyages of the trading vessel the "Mary Salter," specifically, the dates she left and returned to Nova Scotia and her ports of call. Entries are written in several hands other than Robert Salter's, one possibly being William W. Salter's.

This fonds consists of the administrative records of the club. It includes committee minutes, 1923-1938, registers, financial and legal documents, 1896-1954, correspondence, membership records, logs, diaries and information about racing and the annual cruise.

The fonds consists of 9 series (the correspondence files also contain some committee reports, and chronicle the activities of the standing and ad-hoc committees of the board):

• Books nos. 1, 2, and 3 (accession 4801) contain minutes, reports, constitution and by-laws, letters, financial statements, annual returns, membership lists, and clippings, for the years 1901-1947.
  Book 4:
• General Correspondence, 1915-1966;
• Subject Correspondence, 1922-1964;
• Subject Files, 1921-1965;
• Financial Records, 1919-1958;
• Certificate of membership.
  Also included is:
• Stamp of the Sackville Board of trade (artifact);
• a wooden gavel, presented to The Sackville Board of Trade on its 50th Anniversary by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, 1952;
  • photograph of a group of unidentified men on a platform in front of the armories, Sackville, New Brunswick.

Fonds relates to the daily operations, how and what they made and sold, how their products were used and by whom, and it’s uniqueness for the time period of the Sackville Harness Shop in Sackville, New Brunswick. Fonds contains five series: financial documents including blank invoices, blank receipts, eight bundles of individual price lists, price tags, and two ledgers; promotional materials including sticker labels, four magazines with their ads in them, five shop catalogues, tags, two business cards, address label, two labels for neatsfoot oil, a brochure, two post cards, and a wall calendar (1999); photographs of the founders, of three men at the Amherst, Nova Scotia parade with a horse wearing the harnesses from the shop, of Halifax exhibitions, of a CTV news broadcaster (Maria Penopalis) in the shop, of materials made at the shop, of materials sold at the shop, and of the interior (including two photos of Bill Long working there); moving images including a copy of a film on the shop by the National Film Board of Canada; and media about the shop including write-ups on the harness shop, four photocopies of Budweiser horses in harnesses from the shop, and a Globe and Mail-Weekend magazine featuring a story on the harness shop from 1973.

Fonds contains five series:
Series 1: Financial; 1957-1978, 1971-1983, [198-].
Series 2: Promotional Materials; 1955, 1975, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1999, 2014, 2018, 2020.
Series 3: Photographs; 1919, 1993, 1994, 2017.
Series 4: Moving Images; 1965.
Series 5: Media about the Shop; 1973, [ca. 1980].