Letter to Mrs. Anne Read from son Herbert Comeau Read
- CA PANB MC224-MS29-38
- Item
- July 17, 1939
Part of Read Stone Co. Ltd.
Letter describes life in Stonehaven.
Read Stone Company
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Letter to Mrs. Anne Read from son Herbert Comeau Read
Part of Read Stone Co. Ltd.
Letter describes life in Stonehaven.
Read Stone Company
Will & Barbara Campbell Series
17 items of textual records
First series contains several items relating to George Campbell and Sons Ltd. as well as organizations with which the Campbell’s were involved (Highway Board of Sackville, Sackville Marsh Improvement Co.). Includes minute books, business correspondence, and accounting records.
Second series contains several volumes of accounting and other business-related records, including ledgers, order books, day books, etc. pertaining to George Campbell and Sons Ltd. Also includes a booklet listing voters in polling district #6 in the parish of Sackville, Westmorland County, New Brunswick.
Part of Raymond Dixon Collection
Items are ninety holiday cards glued onto the pages of an album. For the majority of the items, the writing on the back is not accessible without damaging the album, so recipients, senders, and dates have not been determined
Items which have become loose are located in the front inner-cover
Fonds contains photographs and textual records pertaining to the descendants of Isaac Wry, which were handed down to and kept by his great granddaughter, Pauline Mary (Alward) Spatz. Most of the content refers to Pauline, her parents John Bunyan and Mabel Lena (Wry) Alward, and her grandparents John Willard and Jennie Grace (Snowdon) Wry, as well as other close relatives. The records listed here were part of a donation that also included a number artifacts.
Fonds is divided into four sousfonds which are further divided into relevant series. All content has been arranged chronologically.
Sub-fond 1: John Willard Wry and Jennie Grace (Snowdon) Wry
Sub-fond 2: Mathilda Wry and Mary Elsie Wry
Sub-fond 3: John Bunyan Alward and Mabel Lena (Alward) Wry
Sub-fond 4: Pauline Mary (Alward) Spatz
John Willard Wry & Jennie G. Snowdon Wry
Part of Wry Family Fonds
Subfonds contains various textual items pertaining to John Willard Wry and Jennie Grace (Snowdon) Wry. Includes incoming correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other textual records.
Part of Wry Family Fonds
Subfonds contains various textual items pertaining to Mathilda “Tillie” Wry and her sister Mary Elsie Wry. Includes an autograph album, incoming correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other textual records.
Item is the family bible which was published in 1841 belonging to the Boultenhouse family. On the first page is written “John E. Boultenhouse” … “From his Mother, who died Jan 5 1868”. In the middle of the volume are four pages labeled “Family Record” with subheadings, “marriages”, “births”, and “deaths”.
Transcription available at Boultenhouse Heritage Centre
Accession contains two photographs pertaining to the Enterprise Foundry Co. and one list of names corresponding to one of the photographs.
Part of Read Stone Company Fond
Item is a copy of the history of the Read Grindstone as dictated to George Stanely by Herbert William Read in 1971. Document was revised and edited by Herbert W. Read’s son, Herbert C. Read.
First accession contains items from six plywood boards used in the Grindstone Museum set up by Herbert C. Read in the “Carriage House” of the Marshlands Inn, which includes various materials pertaining to the Read Stone Company and grindstone production, including primarily photographs, as well as graphic drawings, newspaper clippings, and other textual records.
Second accession, contains materials pertaining to the Read Stone Company, grindstone production, and the Read family. Content includes primarily photographs, as well as postcards, articles, and a guest book from the Marshlands Inn which was formerly the Read home, and that contained a museum devoted to displaying the history of the grindstone industry in Sackville.