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McCain family

  • CA CC MCC23
  • Fonds
  • 1815-1967

Fonds consists mainly of documents related to McCain family-owned businesses during the period of 1815-1967. Contained within the fonds are ledgers, account books, notebooks, receipts, and business correspondence with company associates. Family correspondence is shared by the following McCain family members: Andrew, Hazel, Henry and his wife, Mary, Muriel, Hugh Gordon, Billy, Hugh John, and John McCain. Photographs, dated 1880 to1931, show family members. Also included in the fonds are maps which show the locations of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Glassville, NB; Winnipeg, Manitoba; and Carleton County, NB.

McCain family

Hanington family

  • CA MNBM ID1992
  • Fonds
  • 1818, 1851-1912

The fonds consists of records belonging to several generations of the Hanington family. There is a letter, 1818, from William Hanington in Shediac to his son, John, in Halifax about the purchase of merchandise for his business. Two modern copies of this letter are also included. There are school certificates for good character and deportment belonging to Jane Chase from the New York Ward School, 1851 and 1853, and Mrs. Hunts Seminary for Young Ladies, 1858.

There are also travel documents belonging to Mabel Hanington for a journey through Siberia and Russia en route to Switzerland. There is also a published English language reader and a pamphlet in Chinese.

Hanington family

Indian Island store account books

  • CA MNBM ID501
  • Fonds
  • 1820-1896

This fonds contains eight volumes: five ledgers and three day books, which give an extensive picture of the fishing industry along the coasts of the Bay of Fundy and Maine, including names of schooners and accounts of fishermen from Deer Island, Grand Manan, Campobello, St. Andrews, and Eastport (Maine).

Indian Island store

1821 Wheldon Land Deed

  • CA THT 2011.17.1
  • Item
  • 18 January 1821

Item is a property deed transferring 300 acres of land between Sackville/Dorchester from "Christ Richardson & others" to "Jn. [John?] Wheldon"
Single piece of paper is folded into a booklet

J.S. Parker and Sons

  • CA MNBM ID301
  • Fonds
  • 1823-1886

This fonds consists of the accounting ledgers of J. S. Parker and Sons. The company appears to be operating as a general store as well as a shipbuilding concern. The accounts record sales to customers, supplies (including lumber) purchased for building ships, and payments to workmen. The company appears to have provided board and lodging for some of its workers, as detailed in the accounts.

J.S. Parker and Sons (firm)

John Venner Thurger

  • CA MNBM ID110
  • Fonds
  • 1824 - 1831

This fonds consists of a letter book of John Venner Thurgar, 1827-1831 and a receipt book of business transactions for Robinson & Thurgar, 1824-1829.

Thurgar, John Venner

Parks family

  • CA MNBM ID277
  • Fonds
  • 1824-1915

This fonds consists of the correspondence and papers of William Parks and school notebooks and estate papers of Samuel Parks. There are leases, deeds, mortgages, accounts, correspondence and other material of the Parks family, 1824-1899, and militia and military records, 1861-1915. Also included are a financial statement of St. Stephen's Church for 1877 and receipts re St. John Presbyterian Church, 1843-1849, 1850-1861.

Parks family (Saint John)

Thomas Hazen ledger

  • CA UNB MG H 51
  • Fonds
  • 1825-1835

Little has been discovered about general merchant Thomas Hazen, except that he operated a business in New Brunswick from at least 1825 to 1835.

Hazen, Thomas

Charles Duncan Everett

  • CA MNBM ID112
  • Fonds
  • 1826 - 1844

This fonds consists of an account book, 1832-1843, and business material including bankruptcy documents and promissory notes.

Everett, Charles Duncan

Colter family

  • CA PANB MC66
  • Fonds
  • 1829-1916, predominant, 1871-1916

The fonds contains primarily the business records of Alexander Colter and his son, George Colter. There are bonds received and issued, mortgages, election clippings, bank balances, commercial and legal records, and personal letters, including a few from George's son, Ashley. There are some small notebooks containing miscellaneous accounts, a surveyor's notes and diary entries. There is also a set of McKillop's "Commercial and Legal Record," a circular published weekly in Saint John from 1894-1896. An account book for an unknown business concern, probably a sawmill, dated 1829-1845, is also included.

Colter family (St. Mary's)

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