Le fonds atteste principalement de la vie d'Anselme P. Bourque cultivateur à l'aise du comté de Westmorland au Nouveau-Brunswick. Le fonds est constitué de trois séries : papiers personnels (1831-1944), activités professionnelles (1843-1929) et divers (1850-1950). Les séries comprennent de la correspondance, des contrats d'arrangements, un testament détaillé de Jean LeBlanc (1753-1832), un déporté, et des centaines de billets à ordres, factures et reçus inédits illustrant la diversité des transactions financières de son créateur. On y trouve également de rares pièces relatives à l'éducation, tels des registres scolaires et des contrats d'enseignement.
Fonds consists of correspondence, legal, and financial papers relating to the life and practice of Hitchings, as well as documents relating to initiatives he was involved with, including the Middle Bridge Corporation, Saint Stephen's Academy, and the incorporation of the Town of St. Stephen.
Ledger records daily business activities related to General Store and Blacksmith work ; pages record as many as thirty transactions per sheet for purchases and blacksmith services ; many names are repeated throughout the documents ; and indicate an active and thriving business ; items sold include such dry goods as flannel, skeins of thread, and cotton, pints of rum and wine, fish, shoes, ox ring and shoes, tobacco, and molasses.
This collection contains documents pertaining to Freeman Hale Todd's business ventures, including his logging and lumber business along the St Croix River Region, as well as his merchant and grocery businesses. These include account books, promissory notes, receipts and documents related to shipping as well as deeds, indentures, mortgages, assignments of land and insurance policies. There are also wills, family papers and matters relating to Probate that pertain to Freeman Hale Todd's estate after his death on 9 September 1885. Documents involving a co-partnership between Ninian Lindsay Todd and F. H. Todd & Sons are also included. Freeman Hale Todd's election address from when he was elected in 1865 as a candidate opposing the Confederation of New Brunswick with Canada also fall under the scope of this collection. There are also some documents related to his eldest son Frank Todd which include promissory notes, receipts, correspondences, and mortgages related to his business ventures and investments in Maine and New Brunswick.
This fonds consists mainly of legal documents and correspondence related to Charles Connell's career and activities as a lawyer, politician, businessman, and land owner. Legal documents include deeds, leases, mortgages, bonds, and indentures, all naming transactions made by clients of Charles Connell and legal documents naming Charles Connell as either a purchaser or seller of land. Also contained within the fonds are land grants owned by Charles Connell, including information, such as, county and parish name, acreage, lot number, and the date when it was registered. Correspondence includes business letters regarding Connell's interests in the lumber industry and real estate and personal correspondence of Connell family members.
Fonds consists of baptism/marriage/burial records, membership records, minutes, financial records, reports, correspondence, orders of service, and attendance rolls from the churches within Bathurst Pastoral Charge, including its Methodist and Presbyterian predecessors. Fonds is composed of following sous-fonds: Bathurst Pastoral Charge records Bathurst and New Bandon Methodist Circuit records Trinity United Church records St. Luke’s Presbyterian Church records St. Luke’s United Church records First United Church records
This fonds consists of original material including letters and telegrams to and from Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley. The correspondents include: Sir John A. Macdonald, Charles Tupper, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, George Brown, Georges-Etienne Cartier, Alexander Galt, Reverend Ezekiel McLeod, Charles Fisher. The correspondence covers topics such as Confederation, the Inter-Colonial Railway, election results and temperance. The specific correspondence is indicated at item level. Also included is a statement of Canada's financial position between the years 1861 and 1864, two publications entitled Debates of Assembly 1867 and Correspondence Respecting the Proposed Union of the British North American Provinces 1867, a memorandum by Robert Jardine, a land deed (1837), a poem and a newspaper clipping.
Fonds consists mainly of records created and accumulated by Pomeroy as biographer and friend of author and poet Charles G.D. Roberts. Records document Roberts’ work, including his interests in the Tantramar area of New Brunswick, where he spent the majority of his childhood, and his relationship with Pomeroy. They also shed light on Pomeroy’s activities as collector and interpreter of Canadian literature mainly between 1920-1950. Records related to Bliss Carman, Arthur Stringer, Marshall Saunders, Mary Electa Adams, Isabella Crawford, Dorothy Leisner Roberts, Annie Charlotte Dalton, G.B. Lancaster are also included. Files contain correspondence; published and unpublished poetry and prose by various authors; scrapbooks; photographs; postcards; and clippings.
