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Chaloner family

  • CA MNBM ID1748
  • Fonds
  • 1784-1828

The fonds consists of family records. There are two lot certificates for land on Germain Street, dated 1783, belonging to John Chaloner (lot 553) and Benjamin Chaloner (lot 554). There is a commission of 1827 appointing Benjamin Chaloner tide surveyor, gauger, and weightmaster in Saint John. There is also a bond, dated 1828, given by Ninyon Chaloner to Benjamin C. Chaloner, executor of John Chaloner's estate. It bound Ninyon to ensure that Peggy, a Black woman who had been the late John Chaloner's servant, received comfortable care during her lifetime and at her death, a decent burial at Ninyon's expense.

Challoner family (Saint John)

She never was a lady

  • CA MNBM ID1753
  • Item
  • 1953

This is the script of the radio play "She Never was a Lady" about the sailing ship "Marco Polo". The "Marco Polo" was constructed in Saint John, New Brunswick, by James Smith. It was purchased by James Barnes of Black Ball Line of Australian packets. On its first run to Australia in 1852, Captain James Forbes boasted that he would have the ship back on the Mersey within 6 months, which was an unheard of feat in those days. Captain Forbes arrived back in Liverpool in 5 months and 21 days. Over the years, the "Marco Polo" routinely kept very fast times. The ship was lost in 1883 and off Cavendish, Prince Edward Island.

Schull, Joseph

Christ Church (Norton, N.B. : Anglican)

  • CA MNBM ID1762
  • Fonds
  • 1797, 1811-1922

This fonds consists of 2 file folders containing typewritten copies of records from Christ Church, Norton. Included are 3 volumes of vestry minutes, 1811-1922; record of marriages, 1896-1913; burials, 1845-1915; deed ,1797, and miscellaneous historical and biographical notes.

Christ Church (Norton, N.B. : Anglican)

Saint John's Church (Gagetown : Religions) [1790-1890]

  • CA MNBM ID1763
  • Fonds
  • 1790, 1796, 1890

This fonds consists of copies of a contract, 1790, between the Rector, wardens, and vestry and Solomon Dingee and James Peck to build the church. The contract gives details of the size, shape and materials to be used in the church, as well as financial provisions.

There are also copies of a letter, 1796, appointing the Rev. Richard Clark to the parish of Gagetown, and of a letter, 1890, the resignation of the Rev. H. Hackenly.

Saint John's Church (Gagetown, N.B.: Anglican)

First Church Christ, Scientist (Saint John)

  • CA MNBM ID1767
  • Fonds
  • 1930

This fonds consists of a report from the building committee and 2 architectural drawings.

First Church Christ, Scientist (Saint John, N.B.)

Lavinia Akerly bond

  • CA MNBM ID1779
  • Fonds
  • 1869

Consists of a single, handwritten bond between Lavinia Akerly and her brothers on one side, and James and William Keleher on the other. The Akerlys agree to drop the charges against James in return for $60 and are bound to keep their agreement to a sum of $120.00.

Akerly, Lavinia

Mercy Anne Coles

  • CA MNBM ID1782
  • Fonds
  • Copied [after 1900], (originally created [1864])

The fonds consists of a typescript copy of the diary kept by Mercy Anne Coles during the trip to the Quebec City Conference in 1864 with her parents. It describes the many activities scheduled for relatives of the delegates such as daily sightseeing tours around Quebec City and the dinners and balls held in the evenings. There are many prominent politicians named in her diary: D'Arcy McGee, William McDougall, Alexander Campbell, Alexander Galt, George Etienne Cartier (Mercy referred to him as Mr. Carter), John A. MacDonald, Leonard Tilley and Louis Riel. She refers to some of them by first name. The daily entries describe travelling from Charlottetown by boat to Shediac, N.B., then by train through the United States to Quebec City and leaving Quebec City by boat to Niagara Falls en route to Buffalo, New York then travelling to Ohio.

Coles, Mercy Anne

Upper Gagetown / Dora Isa Coy

  • CA MNBM ID1788
  • Item
  • [ca. 1958]

The fonds consists of a typed manuscript of the history of Upper Gagetown, New Brunswick, written in about 1958. It begins in 1755 and focuses on early settlements by the French, English and Loyalists, giving some names and locations of settlement. There are descriptions of the daily life of these settlers including clearing land, cooking, hunting, fishing, raising sheep, spinning and knitting, and basket-making learned from Louie and Mollie Sebatis (Sabatis? possibly aboriginal people).

There is a discussion of the use of both rowing boats and steamboats for transportation, which names many vessels including the "Reindeer", "General Ward" and "Antelope". There are references to the destruction caused by the forest fires in 1897 and 1921. The author also gives a brief description of churches in the area.

Coy, Dora Isa

Enquiry into the Empress of Ireland

  • CA MNBM ID179
  • Fonds
  • 16 June 1914 - 27 June 1914

This fonds consists of 4 bound volumes of typescripts and 1 folder dealing with the commission into the wreck of the "Empress of Ireland."

The 4 bound volumes are one of the sets of original copies made for the members of the commission and contain the verbatim evidence heard by the enquiry. Volume 1 - (2 copies) 16-19 June 1914 includes typed alphabetical index of volumes I and II. Volume III, 26-27 June 1914, includes the closing arguments. There is also a file folder including a certificate of appointment of commissioners; a photograph of commissioners, and a copy of a map prepared by Captain Kendall showing the course of the "Empress" and the supposed course of the "Storstadt".

Enquiry into the Empress of Ireland

George Cumming

  • CA MNBM ID1795
  • Fonds
  • 1818, 1837

This fonds cconsists of two letters, one from Hugh in 1818 and the other from Mary in 1837. The letters contain family news.

Cumming, George

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