The fonds consists of typed transcriptions of letters written by Ritchie to his mother while serving in the South Africa (Boer) War. The letters are dated 17 January 1900, 22 February 1900, and 28 February 1900 written from Belmont and Paardeberg Drift, South Africa. Letters describe William Ritchie's experience fighting the Boers in graphic detail and give information about the everyday life of a soldier in the Boer War. The letter dated 22 February vividly describes a charge on the Boers during which he received a superficial wound from shrapnel while under fire from 5 different points. Included in the letters are a few references to letters received from family members in Canada, receiving copies of Saint John newspapers and his comments about city councillors.
Typewritten transcripts of letters (3) W.J. Ritchie to mother re service in South African (Boer) War, Jan-Feb 1900
This fonds administrative records of the church, most of which come from the period after 1936. The earlier records include correspondence of the Board of Trustees, 1838-1893, 1957-1958, and some receipts and invoices,1838-1920. There are also minutes of the Board of Stewards, 1936-1949, 1964; membership lists, reports and other material of the Board of Sessions, 1940-1961; balance sheets and budgets, 1945-1964; and minutes of the A.O.T.S Men's Club, 1954-1968.
Centenary Queen Square United Church (Saint John, N.B.)
Correspondence re the New Brunswick Public Archives, 1912-1937;
Correspondence to Milner, 1891-1938;
Original diary of Ann Green Winslow;
Copies of a number of letters and other historical documents, 1750-1841;
Notes by Milner on topics including various railways, forts, Boishebert, Missquash, marshes, Chignecto, libraries, mining, forestry, Sackville, prohibition, genealogies, Cumberland, Westmorland, Sunbury, Kent and Albert Counties, Nova Scotia, Dorchester, Hillsboro, Moncton, Petitcodiac, Salisbury, Shediac ;
Original manuscript of Saint John in the Forties by Milner;
Essays on Maritime Union, 1906-1935;
Copy of Town's Clerk Book of Records in the township of Parrsboro, 1786 and for Southhanpton;
Original List of Voters for Sackville, 1864;
Scrapbooks re railways, N.S., Fort Beausejour, war, Acadian, Grand Pre;
Account of licenses 1797-1798;
List of names and ages of scholars in Sackville District No.1, March 5 - Sept. 5, 1834;
Recognizances and warrants re riot and assault on Wm. H. McNutt, 1843;
Other legal and criminal documents, 1843-1844;
School return by the Trustee of Schools for the parish of Sackville concerning the establishment of the school house in district #13, 1841;
Returns of scholars in parish school, 1852
Other school reports and documents for school district of Sackville, 1831-1832,1845 Note: fonds needs arrangement and description
The fonds consists of 9 volumes of minute books. The 5 volumes dated from 1897 to 1945 belonged to the United Women's Missionary Societies and the remaining 4 volumes (1945-1973) belonged to the Women's Inter-Church Council of Saint John.
Information about the structure of meetings, some names of members and missionaries and general missionary work is included. The Women's Inter-Church Council minutes include some financial reports, a type copy of the constitution and by-laws adopted in 1967, and some printed orders of church services and newsclippings relating to the annual World Day of Prayer. In volume 9, there are lists of executive members and denominational members of the Council from 1965-1973.
Fonds consists mainly of the business records of the Whelpley family, particularly James A. Whelpley. There are deeds and legal agreements relating to family and business properties, including agreements with the Keene Manufacturing Company about manufacturing Whelpley patented skates. There are patents and applications for patents in United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, France and Hungary.
The business correspondence deals mainly with orders for skates from Canada, United States and Scotland. There are financial records and accounts, including a mortgage and an insurance policy for the family business. There is also a group of records dealing with participation in exhibitions, including Canada's International Exhibition in 1890 in Saint John and the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, 1893.
The fonds consists of a record book for Zion Church, dated 1859 to 1865. The record book contains the minutes of monthly church meetings that include some names of those present. It documents the structure of the meetings and type of business conducted. An historical sketch of Zion Church, its endowments, rules of order and a confession of faith, are included in the book. There is also a membership list for August 1864 with names and street addresses.
File of miscellaneous documents includes: assignment of lease, Jessie Keltie to Rhonda Barnhill, Margaret Baisley, and Phoebe T. Dunham, 1879; tax levy, Daniel Ramsay, 1881; lease, Count DeBury to Union Hall, 1889; insurance policies, stock receipts, and financial statement, 1928
Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). North End (Portland) Branch
This item consists of a photocopy of reminiscences of a vacation of a woman visiting the Kitchen family in Woodstock Road. in Fredericton, New Brunswick during the summer of 1910.
