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Fish family

  • CA PANB MC86
  • Microfilmed [ca. 1979]

The fonds contains ledger books from the Fish family businesses, including the blacksmith shop ledger, day accounts, invoice books, stock books and cash expenditure books. Some detail financial specifics for their blacksmithing interest, others record the details of the general merchandise store and the lumber yard holdings.

Fish family (Newcastle)

Fox family

  • CA PANB MC341
  • Collection
  • 1864-1979

This collection consists of a small notebook or diary in which Fannie Fox recorded information about the Fox family's trip by car from Fredericton, New Brunswick to Flanders, Ontario via Montreal, Kingston, Toronto, London, and various points in the states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Oregon (1925). There are also genealogical notes on the Fox family, a postcard dated 1920 from Fannie to Stella, and a copy of a 1979 letter from Stella Fox to Heidi Hughes Little pertaining to Tommy Hughes, a child of the Middlemore Home who was adopted by the Brunswick W. Fox family. The letter also refers to Tommy's younger brother Ernest Hughes, who was adopted by a family on the north side of the St. John River opposite Fredericton, and to a third adopted child, Roland Summers.

Lastly, there is a daybook, dating from 1864-1867, which records purchases made at a general mercantile establishment located at Dumfries or Poquiock[Pokiok?], in York County. The name of the proprietor is unknown. The business sold household goods, foodstuffs, clothing, hardware, yard goods, lumber, shingles, and other merchandise. The daybook was used as a scrapbook, probably in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The photographs have been moved to the Photograph Section (P94).

Fox family

Bricklin Vehicle Corporation

  • CA PANB MC208
  • Fonds
  • [1970?]-1978

The fonds contains printed informational literature and owners' manuals and over 7000 detailed plans and drawings of the Bricklin car.

Bricklin Vehicle Corporation (N.B.)

1978 Fawcett Foundry Inventory

  • CA THT 2010.7.1
  • Item
  • 1978

Item is an inventory of Fawcett Enamel & Heating products, advertisements and price lists for 1978.

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)

Sussex Cheese and Butter Company fonds

  • CA PANB MC209
  • Fonds
  • 1898-1974

The fonds consists of a complete set of minute books for the Sussex Cheese and Butter Company, 1898-1974, and one minute book for the Millstream Creamery, 1949-1966.

Sussex Cheese and Butter Company (Sussex, N.B.)

T.H. Swift and Sons fonds

  • CA PANB MC235
  • Fonds
  • 1926-1973

This fonds consists largely of the financial records of T. H. Swift and Sons businesses. The records of the store include bound ledgers and account books, 1934-1965, and other loose financial records and correspondence, 1926-1973. There are invoices, orders and shipping records as well as inventory records, some customers accounts and banking records. There are also payroll, income tax and insurance records.

The records of Lockowan Coal Company include financial and banking records and some time sheets for workers handling explosives, 1932-1947.

Personal and business records of Rene Swift, 1925-196, include financial and investment records, souvenirs and records of his work with local service clubs and charities. There are also some records of the Peerless Construction Company, 1937-1940. Plans of the general store and the Minto Coal Company office, 1942, are available in the map section.

T.H. Swift and Sons (Minto, N.B.)

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

Charles D. Stewart

  • CA MtA 094
  • Fonds
  • 1912-1938, 1972

The Charles D. Stewart series contain general correspondence, 1912-1934; correspondence regarding a memorial to Mrs. Charles D. Stewart, 1918 and 1934; letters to Charles Stewart regarding the death of Harriet S. Stewart; and material regarding Harriet Starr Stewart.

The Harriet Starr Stewart series includes letters and notes to Harriet from members of various Women’s Missionary Societies upon her leaving for Regina, 1917; a letter (possibly a draft) to friends of the Sackville Auxiliary of the W.M.S. from Harriet S. Stewart, Regina, 1 May 1917; a statement of appreciation by the Board of Management of the Sackville Methodist Sunday School, following Harriet’s departure for Regina; and an MA Hood received by Harriet S. Stewart, Mount Allison University, 1885. Included in the papers is a book, "Tales of Tantramar". A souvenir of Sackville, New Brunswick, by Mabel Dixon.

Stewart, Charles D.

Minto Mining Industry

  • CA PANB MC57
  • Collection
  • 1907-1972

This collection consists of records of the Rothwell Coal Company (formerly Evans Brothers), 1906-1950, including maps and plans. There are records of collective agreements and other labour records. The recollections of some local residents, writings by Marion Upton, a local historian, and printed reports, mostly from government bodies have been included.

Minto (N.B.) mining industry

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