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Parkinson family

  • CA MNBM 159
  • Fonds
  • 1812-1907

This fonds includes legal and land documents, mostly in St. Andrews, accounts and receipts, and family and business correspondence. There are also some records of the MacStay family, 1824-1889.

Parkinson family (St. Andrews)

Hanington family

  • CA MNBM ID1992
  • Fonds
  • 1818, 1851-1912

The fonds consists of records belonging to several generations of the Hanington family. There is a letter, 1818, from William Hanington in Shediac to his son, John, in Halifax about the purchase of merchandise for his business. Two modern copies of this letter are also included. There are school certificates for good character and deportment belonging to Jane Chase from the New York Ward School, 1851 and 1853, and Mrs. Hunts Seminary for Young Ladies, 1858.

There are also travel documents belonging to Mabel Hanington for a journey through Siberia and Russia en route to Switzerland. There is also a published English language reader and a pamphlet in Chinese.

Hanington family

Indian Island store account books

  • CA MNBM ID501
  • Fonds
  • 1820-1896

This fonds contains eight volumes: five ledgers and three day books, which give an extensive picture of the fishing industry along the coasts of the Bay of Fundy and Maine, including names of schooners and accounts of fishermen from Deer Island, Grand Manan, Campobello, St. Andrews, and Eastport (Maine).

Indian Island store

J.S. Parker and Sons

  • CA MNBM ID301
  • Fonds
  • 1823-1886

This fonds consists of the accounting ledgers of J. S. Parker and Sons. The company appears to be operating as a general store as well as a shipbuilding concern. The accounts record sales to customers, supplies (including lumber) purchased for building ships, and payments to workmen. The company appears to have provided board and lodging for some of its workers, as detailed in the accounts.

J.S. Parker and Sons (firm)

John Venner Thurger

  • CA MNBM ID110
  • Fonds
  • 1824 - 1831

This fonds consists of a letter book of John Venner Thurgar, 1827-1831 and a receipt book of business transactions for Robinson & Thurgar, 1824-1829.

Thurgar, John Venner

Parks family

  • CA MNBM ID277
  • Fonds
  • 1824-1915

This fonds consists of the correspondence and papers of William Parks and school notebooks and estate papers of Samuel Parks. There are leases, deeds, mortgages, accounts, correspondence and other material of the Parks family, 1824-1899, and militia and military records, 1861-1915. Also included are a financial statement of St. Stephen's Church for 1877 and receipts re St. John Presbyterian Church, 1843-1849, 1850-1861.

Parks family (Saint John)

Charles Duncan Everett

  • CA MNBM ID112
  • Fonds
  • 1826 - 1844

This fonds consists of an account book, 1832-1843, and business material including bankruptcy documents and promissory notes.

Everett, Charles Duncan

Beatteay family

  • CA MNBM ID1701
  • Fonds
  • 1839-1929

This fonds consists of property deeds, Methodist membership records, printed broadsheet, family history information, and a personal letter.

Beatteay family (Saint John)

Hanson family

  • CA MNBM ID1150
  • Fonds
  • 1840 - 1905

This fonds includes Oscar Hanson's correspondence, especially from his cousin Edgar Hanson, 1865-1894, and family business correspondence and legal papers, 1844-1905. There are records about fraternal organizations, 1840-1888; the Cameron Cooper Mine and Anthracite Coal Mining Co., 1876-1879, and the Post Office, 1871-1906. Also included are business records about shipping and lumbering, 1858-1883; New Brunswick government circulars, 1866-1879; and material dealing with elections, 1878-1889.

Hanson family (Lepreau)

Emmerson general store

  • CA MNBM ID77
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1840]-1917

This fonds consists of the financial and other business records of the store including correpspondence, ledgers, journals, account books and records of stock. Also included are Bytown Telegraph Co., articles of association, 1851 (this company was in account with Emmerson and Hodgson), post office records of John T. Hodgson; Victoria Co. Agricultural Society treasurer's book, 1863-1865; and Edmunston Park Driving Association minutes of meetings and list of shareholders (1893).

Emmerson, John

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