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Atlantic Provinces Transportation Commission

  • CA PANB MC204
  • Collection
  • 1921-1993

This collection consists mainly of reports of royal commissions and other bodies, assembled for information of the Atlantic Provinces Transportation Commission. There are 15 series: MS1 Royal Commission to investigate the fisheries of the maritime provinces and the Magdalen Islands (1927-1928); MS2 Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada (1921-1927); MS3 The Maritime Claims Commission - Duncan Commission Hearings (1926); MS4 Royal Commission on Transportation (1949-1954); MS5 Board of Transportation Commissioners for Canada (1929-1968); MS6 Hearings (1954); MS7 Submission of the Royal Commission on Transportation (1959-1961); MS8 Water and Air Transportation Committee (1973-1982); MS9 Royal Commission on Transportation (1959); MS10 Royal Commission on Coasting Trade (1955-1956); MS11 Submission on the Railway Rates (1951-1952); MS12 Maritime Transportation Commission (1921-1965); MS13 Standing Committees (1959-1977); MS14 Railway Transport Committee (1982); MS15 Freight Audit (1970-1993)

Atlantic Provinces Transportation Commission

New Brunswick Association of Optometrists

  • CA PANB MC220
  • Fonds
  • 1921-1970

The fonds consists of records relating to the formation and development of the New Brunswick Association of Optometrists. There are minutes and membership lists for the entire period of its existence and examination papers of applicants for certification. The records of public education campaigns include advertising, volunteer records and information about educational efforts at schools. There are minutes and notes from board meetings, annual reports and correspondence with the American and British optometrical associations. Correspondence between the association and its members and with the provincial government has also been preserved. Financial records include bank statements and dues, accounts, and miscellaneous legal records.

The records deposited in 1975 (5 meters) have been arranged and described but those deposited in 1987 (10 meters) have not get been completely processed.

New Brunswick Association of Optometrists

J. Leonard O'Brien

  • CA PANB MC299
  • Fonds
  • 1866-1973

This fonds documents the business activities, political career, and personal life of Joseph Leonard O'Brien.

Records relating to his years in provincial politics include correspondence, notes from his diaries, political scrapbooks, and materials relating to election campaigns and his position as Speaker of the House of Assembly. Federal political records include correspondence, copies of speeches, scrapbooks, photo albums, and materials pertaining to election campaigns and the Progressive-Conservative Association (letters, memos, minutes, briefs). A few of the political records pertain to his father, John O'Brien, who was a member of the House of Assembly for New Brunswick.

Records from J. Leonard O'Brien's years as Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick include official and private correspondence, speeches, invitations to various events, thank-you and congratulatory cards, scrapbooks, photo albums, guest books from Government House (1858-1965), an honorary degree, and materials pertaining to royal visits (1950s), the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, and the Order of Malta.

Business records include correspondence, financial records, account books, day books, ledgers, agreements, court records, and other material pertaining to O'Brien Limited; correspondence, minutes of board of directors meetings, financial records, agreements, inventories, reports, payroll records, purchase records, account books, ledgers, cash books, sales books, vouchers, invoices, and receipts pertaining to Chatham Industries Limited; correspondence, financial papers, inventories, purchase invoices, sale invoices, and loading orders for Trafalgar Mills Ltd.; and correspondence, financial records, agreements, a copy of the letters patent, a ledger, and reports regarding Plaswood Corporation of Canada. Business records dating to the years prior to 1917 relate to John O'Brien's business activities.

Also included are financial records, correspondence, invoices, account books, general ledgers, and inventories relating to the O'Brien Store; correspondence financial records, and an agreement pertaining to Miramichi Concrete Products Co.; and correspondence, financial records, and guests lists for the Big Hole Salmon Fishing Club, Limited, which was incorporated in 1907 with its heading office in Hillsborough, Albert County; New Brunswick. J. Leonard O'Brien was probably a director or a shareholder or both of this company.

Lastly, the fonds contains his personal records including general and family correspondence; documents pertaining to the O'Brien and McPeake family histories; financial records and photographs; a few records relating to the North West Boom Co., the South West Boom Co., Atlantic Sugar Refineries Ltd., Acadia Pulp and Paper Ltd., Bank of Nova Scotia, and J. McPeake O'Brien Store; documents pertain to the estate of Kathleen O'Brien; and documents and printed material pertaining to a number of associations, clubs, and universities including Canadian Red Cross Society, Boy Scouts of Canada, University of New Brunswick, Université de Moncton, St. Thomas University, and Mount Allison University.

A number of maps showing mineral occurrences, mining claims, the location and extent of Chatham Industries Limited lands, various hydro electric projects, and other areas of the province have been moved to the Map Section. Oversized records also have been moved to the Map Section. Loose photographs have been transferred to the Photograph Section. There are also several lithographs of Fredericton and area dating to the 1830s.

O'Brien, Joseph Leonard

Barry family

  • CA PANB MC303
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1840]-1943

This fonds documents the legal career of Jeremiah Hayes Barry and sheds light on his family life, his personal activities, and the activities of his children.

It consists of more than 450 legal case files that contain correspondence and legal documents pertaining to property transactions, the settling of estates, civil suits, bankruptcies, agreements, and other matters. Legal records also include additional professional correspondence, a legal ledger (1887-1906), a journal pertaining to the Symonds & Burpee estate (1880-1891), office accounts, ledgers, and legal papers (1840s-1900s).

Personal records include correspondence relating to J. H. Barry's appointment to the Supreme Court, his personal correspondence, and materials relating to the Victoria Public Hospital, the University of New Brunswick, St. Francis Xavier University, St. Dunstan's parish (Roman Catholic) and St. Dunstan's school.

Family records include the correspondence of J. H. Barry, Isabella Barry, and the Barry children; household receipts; invoices; materials pertaining to the children's schooling (examinations, study notebooks on various subjects, grades); Charles Barry's lecture notes from Dalhousie law school; newspaper clippings; and photographs.

Barry family (Fredericton)

William F. Burditt family

  • CA PANB MC304
  • 1866-1975

The fonds consists largely of family correspondence, with some business and professional records belonging to William F. Burditt. Family correspondence includes letters addressed to William F. Burditt; his wife Lury; their sons and daughters, William, Jr., Arthur F., and Mary Louise (May); William, Sr.'s father, Thomas, his brothers, John F. and Frank, and his sisters, Nellie and Anna Mary. There are also a few records relating to William F., Sr.'s daughter, Edith C. Burditt, as well as family photographs, genealogical records, and records of personal and household expenditures (1892-1904).

Business and professional records include William F. Burditt's correspondence with various companies for the years 1879-1929, his record of accounts with Arthur P. Tippet & Co., diaries of work performed at his farm, and a notebook containing information on a variety of subjects. There are also a printed copy of a paper he read before the St. John City and County Good Roads Association; newspaper clippings on subjects, such as town planning, trade and industry, taxation, immigration, exhibitions, and the Farmers' Club; legal documents, including his estate records and a patent issued to him for a trip mechanism for harvester rakes; and a printed prospectus of the St. John Window Glass Company. Lastly, the fonds contains research materials and essays, including 2 brief histories of St. Martins and Mollie Smith's recollection of East Saint John.

Burditt, William Fotherby (family)

Canadian Forestry Association of New Brunswick Inc.

  • CA PANB MC306
  • Fonds
  • 1939-2001

This fonds documents the activities of the New Brunswick branch of the Canadian Forestry Association, from its organization in 1939, and sheds light on the workings of the national body. It consists of correspondence, minutes of meetings of the provincial and national bodies, reports, briefs, research papers, submissions, financial statements, copies of speeches and radio talks, and a copy of the constitution. The fonds also includes scrapbooks, newsclippings, and printed material, as well as a copy of T. M. Pond's "Summation of activities of the Canadian Forestry Association of New Brunswick, 1939-1976". Also includes a Prospectus of the Maritime Forest Ranger School (1966)

Canadian Forestry Association of New Brunswick

Ward Pendleton Family Association

  • CA PANB MC312
  • Fonds
  • 1796-1973

This fonds consists of a number of original documents and original copies of documents supporting the Pendleton's claim to New Ireland Island in the Bay of Fundy. These documents include quit claim deeds, wills, and receipts. Also included are copies of minutes of meeting of the Ward Pendleton Family Association, correspondence concerning the claim to the Island, and notes pertaining to Pendleton family history.

Ward Pendleton Family Association

Father Morriscy Medicine Company

  • CA PANB MC313
  • Fonds
  • 1909-1912

This fonds consists of correspondence, telegrams, and formulae relating to the manufacture and retail of the Reverend William Morriscy's remedies by the Father Morriscy Medicine Co. Limited of Montréal. It also includes printed copies of letters testifying to the efficacy of these remedies and a very few financial statements of the Father Morriscy Medicine Co. Limited.

Father Morriscy Medicine Company

Price and Murphy families genealogy

  • CA PANB MC314
  • Fonds
  • Photocopied [before 1969]

These documents were collected by members of the Price and Murphy families while researching the family history. They include copies of wills, deeds, and genealogical information. There is also a copy of the evidence taken at a coroner's inquest into the 1834 suspicious death of Miramichi resident John Merithew.

Price - Murphy family

Nashwaak Bicentennial Association

  • CA PANB MC315
  • Fonds
  • 1840-1884 and 1981-1983, 2003-2007, predominant 20th c.

This fonds consists of the administrative records of the Nashwaak Bicentennial Association and the research materials (primarily photocopied) collected in connection with the publication of "And the River Rolled On." Administrative records include correspondence, minutes of meeting, press releases, newspaper clippings, newsletters, and other material relating specifically to the work of the Bicentennial Association in connection with the production of its book, the organization of the Homecoming Week, and the creation of a brochure.

Research materials include notes, photocopies or transcriptions of documents, and other records used in writing the text of "And the River Rolled On." There are copies of agreements, deeds, wills, land grants, diaries, school returns, songs, poems (including one each by Martin Butler and Theodore Goodridge Roberts), and sketches of houses, as well as scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, maps, photographs, sporting guides, a listing of English immigrant children, and copies of addresses, talks, articles, or essays on early Nashwaak history, Nashwaak residents, their communities, institutions, industries, railways, and local events.

Research notes relate to a variety of historical topics, notably, land granting, the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment (Black Watch), the construction and functioning of local schools, the establishment of churches, family genealogies, growing-up, historical buildings, business and manufacturing establishments, community leaders and pioneers, and the Nashwaak River system.

There are also a series of tape-recorded interviews with Nashwaak residents and former Nashwaak residents, including, Glenn Pond, Aubrey Hanson, Arthur Evans, Malcolm Evans, George Johnson, Harry Brown, Harry Boyce, Ken Moore, Earl Moore, Gordon Williams, Dean Bell, Clara Bell, James Ross, Warren Dinsmore, Jack Fraser, Gerard McNeil, Maurice Johnston, William Wyton, Greta Sweeney, John MacLean, Angus MacBean, Pearl Woodcock, Ken Dunphy, Harry McNeill, Burpee Saunders, Charles Clayton, Walter Wade, Keith Allen, Mary Allen, Evelyn McKay, Ruby McDonald, Archie McDonald, Rolf Munroe, Kathleen McFarlane, Ralph Fullarton, Allan Cleghorn, Della Woodworth, Jean Spilman, D. Murray Young, Hazel Miles, Ray Forbes, Greta Ebbett, Greta Sweeney, Helen Gallagher, Birdie Shields, and Kaye Estey.

Maps have been moved to the Map Section, and the 114 photographs have been moved to the Photographic Section (P145).

Nashwaak Bicentennial Association (York County, N.B.)

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