This fonds contains material related to the St. Croix Historical Society, including a pair of newsletters published by the society from February 2002 and November 2003 and a pamphlet for a self-guided tour of Holmes Cottage in Calais, Maine.
This collection contains newspaper clippings from the Telegraph-Journal, a Saint John based newspaper, which are related to Charlotte County. Topics of these articles can include local news, tourism, historic buildings, genealogy, and politics.
The bulk of this fonds documents the literary career of John Reade. It includes correspondence and manuscripts, as well as newspaper clippings and scrapbooks of Reade's poems, certificates of John Reade's ordination (as a deacon and as a priest), affidavits, and biographical articles. Several letters are from Charles G D Roberts (1885) and Archibald Lampman (1889); there is also correspondence from F R Robinson regarding John Reade's leaving the ministry.
This fonds also contains correspondence addressed to and written by individuals other than John Reade, some of which is on a religious theme. Personal items include Annie Reade's diplomas, Mary Reade's will, Reade family photographs and an autograph book inscribed to John Reade from George Sully
Fonds consists of correspondence, writings and research materials belonging to Hannay. The correspondence includes letters to and from W.O. Raymond, W.F. Ganong, Charles G. D. Roberts, and Joseph Howe, 1857-1909. There are copies of Royal Navy reports on Bay of Fundy fishery, 1853, and typescripts of writings by Hannay, including articles clipped from newspapers, 1870-1909.
Research notes and background material included the original of a "Report to British cabinet on the Railway between Halifax and Quebec," 1857, and handwritten notes on the Tilley family, 1889.
The scrapbook contains the following items: newspaper clippings of the letters of George Boardman to the St. Croix Courier, dated 1895-1896, and historical sketches of the St. Croix River region.
Item contains a group of photographs showing the museum set up by Herbert Read in Marshlands Inn, Sackville, NB to display grindstone industry artifacts.
Item is a newspaper clipping announcing the death of John Willard Wry, written in Sackville on August 22, 1937. According to the text, Willard passed away in the Amherst hospital following an operation for the amputation of his right leg.
Item includes newspaper clippings pertaining to the death of Mathilda Wry. The clippings included are the obituary, death announcement, funeral description, and a card of thanks from J Willard Wry and family.
Item is the last letter that Mabel Alward received from her sister J. Pearl C. Wry before her death in 1923. The letter was sent from Lansdowne Street, Sackville, NB to Wood Point, NB. Original envelope included.