This fonds consists of original handwritten (and typed copy) of the oral interview with Owen Ingalls Jr. about the Hector Weir. No sound recordings were made.
This fonds consists of handwritten and typed transcripts of oral interviews conducted to preserve the local history of the Grand Harbour Store on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick. Natalie Urquhart, Archives Assistand, conducted two interviews for the Archives in 2006 to preserve the local history of the Grand Harbour Store. No sound recordings were made. The first oral interview was with Merlene Atkinson whose grandparents lived in a part of the building. The second interview was with Owen Ingalls Jr. (known as Jr.) on October 8, 2006 in his home in Seal Cove, Grand Manan.
The collection consists of an interview with Harry Stanley regarding Whale Cove Weirs, photographs from the, store receipts, account books and certificate from his store “Bruce Stanley & Sons”.
This collection consists of newspaper articles, magazine articles, letters, stories, and histories relating to Machias Seal Island lightstation and bird sanctuary. There are articles concerning the boundary dispute between the Canadian and United States governments over ownership of the Island and a computer printout of the International Court of Justice Case Summaries Judgement of 12 October 1984 concerning ownership.
Collection consists of preliminary minutes from a North Head Local Service District community meeting in 1949 and resulting correspondence re street lights. The Village of North Head minutes 1968-1995, correspondence, bonds, By-Law s, audit reports, and receipts, 1968-2002. The Villages of Grand Manan Island were amalgamated in 1995 and North Head was absorbed into the Village of Grand Manan. Locally the villages are called by their original names but their governance is island wide.
This fonds contains family genealogy records on Ganong, note books kept by Alice as a teacher for elementary schools on Grand Manan in Castalia and Grand Harbour, scrapbooks of cards and valentines with small family photos throughout the scrapbooks, Eugene Somers 'Tractor and Equipment Training' binder with his tests and correspondence while doing the course, loose black pages of an old family photo album with local scenes and soldiers in uniforms and group photos of ladies all dressed in white with black chest sashes/banners with the letters"GC"on them while out on excursions, ca 1900-1930's, one color photo of Ganong relations in 1980, Eileen Somers school records and obituary bulletin.
