This fonds consists of the business records of Wheaton Brothers. It includes 2 day books (1855-1864, 1885-1891) and a single account ledger (1854-1864, 1893-1904). The day books provide such detailed information as names of customers, dates of transactions, goods and products sold, services rendered, amounts charged, and payments received. There is also information pertaining to the hiring of workers, particularly, their date of hiring, term of employment, and wage promised.

The account ledger contains individual customer accounts that provide detailed information on goods and services purchased, amounts charged, and payments received. Frequently, the customer's place of residence is noted. The firm's customers lived in Sackville, Shediac, Amherst, Shemague, Salisbury, Petitcodiac, Coverdale, Tignish, Jolicure, Dorchester, and elsewhere.

The fonds also contains Frank Wheaton's accounting exercise book or work book, which provides information on 19th century accounting practices. He may have been a student in the commercial department of Sackville Academy in the 1870s.

Lastly, there are a few household accounts of Hedley Hicks with Sackville merchants dating to the 1930s, along with a very few household accounts of E. A. Wheaton dating to the same period.

This fonds consists of accounts of timber sales (1857-1860) and timber rafts (May-June 1887); the day books of the D. D. Glasier and Son grocery store (1876-1898); and a letter from R. D. Wilmot (1894).

This fonds consists of the official records of the Chatham Gas Light Company, including minutes, correspondence, accounts, and other financial documents. There are also records of stockholders and statements of gas consumption.

The fonds contains the minute book of Queens Own Lodge No. 96 Order of Good Templars from 1866 to 1881 and the minute book of Queens Own Lodge No. 184 from 1886 to 1889. Minutes record installation and expulsion of members, and sometimes note the talks and social activities following the meeting.

There is a financial secretary's ledger (1930-1933) which records the payment of dues by individual members. There are some loose financial records, an undated charter of the lodge, and the script of a short temperance play or skit. There are also 2 rule books, the "Blue book for the use of subordinate divisions of the order of the Sons of Temperance", 1857 and "Ritual for the subordinate lodges of the Independent Order of Good Templars", 1894.

This fonds consists of personal records of both George T. Taylor and William P. Taylor. Included is a single diary (1869-1871) belonging to William P. Taylor in which he records details of his activities as a carpenter and joiner, as well as those of his sons, John and George. He also mentions George's work as a photographer and John's work as a builder and repairer of steam engines, along with local events, notably, fires, earthquakes, and hangings.

George T. Taylor's records include a diary (1901-1905) and a notebook (pre-1900) pertaining to his career as a photographer. The diary contains information on his daily activities, his business and personal finances, local and family events, and his travels, including his 1901 canoe trips in Oromocto Lake and French Lake.

His undated notebook records details of a photographic tour, which included stops at Sussex, Pointe-du-Chêne, Shediac, Richibucto, Chatham, Bathurst, Tobique, and Grand Falls. It also includes a sketch titled "North West," a listing of trip expenses, and listings of "card pictures" or photographs taken. There are also copies of issues of "Photographic Notes" (1860); "The Philadelphia Photographer" (1876-1868); "The Photographic Times" (1871, 1877); Anthony's "Photographic Bulletin" (1874); "The Photographic Journal", the "Journal of the Photographic Society" (1859-1867); indexes of the latter publication for the years 1859 and 1860; and George Taylor's copy of "The Painter, Gilder and Varnisher's Companion," published in 1868.

Also included are a pass issued in 1863 by Lieutenant-Governor Arthur H. Gordon to George Taylor granting him the authority to take photographs throughout the province; a letter to Taylor (1911) regarding a fire insurance policy; transcriptions of extracts of notices published in "The Sentinel and New Brunswick General Advertiser" (1939) relating to the Bank of British North America, the Bank of New Brunswick, and the Commercial Bank of New Brunswick; and a transcription of an extract of Edmund Ward's account of his 1839 tour through northern and eastern New Brunswick.

Lastly, the fonds contains a watercolour depicting hunters at a campsite, possibly by George T. Taylor, and other sketches and paintings attributed to George Taylor, his siblings, and his children.

See P5 for more than 913 photographs or negatives taken by or credited to George T. Taylor. Photographs that may have been taken by a photographer other than George Taylor have been identified. Many of Taylor's photographs are of Fredericton and area (Oromocto, Marysville, Devon) landmarks, street scenes, commercial enterprises, residences, and special events. There are photographs of businesses, residences, scenes, and landscapes taken in the Grand Falls, Boiestown, Edmundston, and Tobique areas, as well as in other communities in the province. Also included are portrait photographs, photos of Taylor family members, and shots of construction sites (bridges and railways) and steamboats on the lower St. John River. The photographs are located in P5.

The fonds documents the activities of members of the Quayle family, particularly Perley Quayle, from the 1880s to the 1950s. In consists of 150 letters written to and by family members or their friends living in Maine, Ohio, Florida, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick. These include Anna Buck, Allan B. Quayle, Christina Scott, Christina Shaddick, David McLean, Mrs. E. C. Hale, Judge Elias J. Hale, Evelyn Tozer, Fanny Quayle, Harriet Buck, Hedley V. Tweedie, John Shaddick, Levisa Tozer Quayle, Mary Hosford Yeo, Nathaniel Buck, Perley Quayle, Ronald Hurley, Robert Quayle, Sarah Buck Sawyer, William Buck, and William Quayle.

The fonds also contains 30 letters written to Perley Quayle from a number of different correspondents, including W. O. Raymond, W. F. Ganong, E. Rowlands, Mary Quayle Innis, H. V. Tweedie, E. N. Quail, Gertrude Tweedie, Louise Manny, F. C. Ryan, W. A. Wilson, G. Lanctot, P. G. Roy, W. S. Godfrey, S. E. Starbird, K. Williston, Mrs. H. V. Tweedie, Marion Parker, George MacBeath, and Mrs. D. Arbuckle.

Lastly, it includes genealogical information on the Quayle, McNaughton, Forsyth, Tweedie, Williston, and Vanderbeck families; biographical information on Robert Murray, the Reverend William C. Gaynor, and Daniel Ferguson, all of the Miramichi; an historical sketch of the United Church of Williamstown by Perley Quayle; a memoir of the Miramichi by Father William Gaynor; published financial statements for the Methodist Church Derby Circuit (1921, 1923, 1954); a typescript poem by Patrick Hurley in memory of Father Morissey; newspaper clippings; and tax collector William Quayle's notebook (1880).

This document is a deed of conveyance, dated 1862, from George and Mary Moffat to the Crown of lots 181 and 182 located in the town of Dalhousie, N. B. The Moffats acquired title to this property in 1858.

This fonds consists of personal, business, and family records relating to members of the Miller family. It includes personal and family correspondence, 1879-1931 (9 items); an account book for farming operations, 1865-1875; farm receipts, 1863-1878; 11 receipts pertaining to the Methodist Church, 1898; four deeds for sale of land, 1875-1894, and one for the sale of a cow, 1893; and six fire insurance policies on houses in Bathurst, 1884-1896.

Also included are records of the Order of British Templars-Bathurst Lodge, including two copies of a Degree Book printed in Saint John (1867), a copy of a typed speech given by Miller, two books of accounts, and a listing of books missing from the lodge library (1874). There are also printed advertisements for Massey Harvesters and Steinberger Hendry Company globes.

Made in 1862, this cahier is a text and notebook on literature and literary works. It is an excellent example of early 20th century schooling material, specifically in terms of literary education. Théophile Allard used the cahier from 1862-1863.

This fonds consists of letters, legal papers, receipts, and printed material relating to the Thompson and Winslow families, miscellaneous clippings, invitations, cards and two Bibles. A number of photographs, which have be moved to P1/0092-0110 and P2/0280-0291, are also included