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New Brunswick Dental Society

  • CA MNBM ID344
  • Fonds
  • 1890-1947

This fonds consists of minute books of annual meetings, cash books, secretary-treasurer's account book, and a dues book, all covering almost the entire period, 1890-1947. There is also material about the Dental Act and legislative bills and amendments.

New Brunswick Dental Society

Sussex and Studholm Agricultural Society

  • CA MNBM ID3532
  • Fonds
  • 1841-1985

This fonds consists of the administrative records of the society. It includes minute books, 1841-1981, accounting records, membership lists, 1959-1971, reports and programs, 1844-1932. There is also some correspondence between Clyde Macdougall, Sussex Agricultural Representative, and A. F. Colwell, Cumberland Bay, 1939-1947.

Agricultural Society (Sussex and Studholm, N.B.)

Gilbert family genealogy

  • CA MNBM ID360
  • Collection
  • 1826-1957

The fonds consists of genealogical research material about the Gilbert and allied families history from the mid-16th century onwards. It includes George Gilbert's correspondence with family members about the family history and a manuscript copy of "The Gilberts of New England," which was edited by Geoffrey Gilbert of Victoria, British Columbia and published in 1959.

There are also Gilbert family estate papers, 1826 -1924, dealing with the estates of Elizabeth Gilbert Wilson, Bradford Gilbert and Henry Gilbert.

Gilbert family

H. S. Gregory & Sons (firm)

  • CA MNBM ID362
  • Fonds
  • 1896-1947

This fonds consists of:

  • Pilot's register of shipping, 1896-1913;
  • Register of shipping, 1914-1927;
  • Day books records of cargo and destination of scows and tugs, 1911-1926;
  • Journal, 1920-1947;
  • Ledger, 1912-1918, 1923-1925;
  • Journal recording vessels towed by Gregory's tugs, 1927-1930;
  • Notebook re tugs, steamship agents, vessels calling at port of Saint John during winter seasons, 1925-1940;
  • Accounts and bills, 1918-1940.

H. S. Gregory & Sons

Colwell family

  • CA MNBM ID368
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1877-1949]

The collection consists of 3 record books, 8 scrapbooks and 2 boxes of material relating mainly to Saint John local history. There are 2 fire station record books recording fire alarms in Saint John, 1889-1900 and 1901-1907. The books provide dates, box numbers, building owners and locations, damages, causes and insurance coverage.

The 1889-1900 record book was kept by E.P. Leonard (1852-1907), an engineer at No. 4 Engine House. A third book contains photographs of drawings in the New Brunswick Museum collection and a photo of St. Philip's African Methodist Episcopal Church on Queen Street, Saint John. Some of the scrapbooks are indexed and contain pasted newsclippings. A large quantity of material relating to fires and firefighting is included. The boxes contain newspapers, sketches, various awards and certificates, written histories, and about 75 snapshots (mostly identified).

Colwall family (Saint John)

Paisley family

  • CA MNBM ID3747
  • Fonds
  • 1879-1897

Fonds includes music and prayer books, Paisley genealogy notes, correspondence between Harriet Paisley and her parents, 1879-1881. There is an invitation to William and Miss Paisley from the City of Saint John, 1890 and a typescript and original of Harriet Paisley's diary, 1892. There are autographs albums, 1881-1887, 1888-1897 and typescript as well as a scrapbook.

Paisley family

William Mahood

  • CA MNBM S 74 - 3
  • Fonds
  • 1831-1852

This fonds is the material associated with Mahood's job as land surveyor. It includes diaries of activities, book of tables and astronomical observations, field journals of sketches, plans and descriptions of grants and land holdings. There are survey and inspection reports of sawmills and logging operations as well.

Mahood, William

Edmund Breese

  • CA MNBM ID383
  • Fonds
  • [1897]

The fonds consists 2 prompt books, one for "As You Like It" and the other for "Virginius", both plays performed in Saint John sometime around 1897. The books were made by separating the pages of the published scripts and pasting each page onto the page of a larger note book, thus leaving ample space for notes about stage directions, lighting and other matters.

Breese, Edmund

Wiggins Male Orphan Institution

  • CA MNBM S 78A - 1
  • Fonds
  • 1876-1978

This fonds consists of minute books of the Governors, 1891-1937, and committees, 1892-1895, and accounts and auditors' statements. There is a record of examinations, 1885-1913, and admission applications, 1876-1944 (incomplete). There are also reports from the committees and the principal, 1880-1943 (incomplete), correspondence, 1877-1937 and deeds.

Wiggins Male Orphan Institution

Eclectic Reading Club

  • CA MNBM ID419
  • Fonds
  • 1880-1959

This fonds consists of minute books, committee books, and ephemera. There are 6 minute books covering the period 1880-1953 which contain lists of members. The two committee books cover the periods December 1890-1908 and May 1909-1956. Both sets of record books include lists of the titles of books selected to be read and the names of readers.

There are also printed and typed programmes covering the years 1896-1959, including programmes of plays and a printed booklet "An Evening on Edward Fitzgerald" (a translator and poet) with a biography. One of the programmes is written on a piece of birchbark which has been embellished with gold ink.

Eclectic Reading Club

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