This collection contains documents pertaining to Freeman Hale Todd's business ventures, including his logging and lumber business along the St Croix River Region, as well as his merchant and grocery businesses. These include account books, promissory notes, receipts and documents related to shipping as well as deeds, indentures, mortgages, assignments of land and insurance policies. There are also wills, family papers and matters relating to Probate that pertain to Freeman Hale Todd's estate after his death on 9 September 1885. Documents involving a co-partnership between Ninian Lindsay Todd and F. H. Todd & Sons are also included. Freeman Hale Todd's election address from when he was elected in 1865 as a candidate opposing the Confederation of New Brunswick with Canada also fall under the scope of this collection. There are also some documents related to his eldest son Frank Todd which include promissory notes, receipts, correspondences, and mortgages related to his business ventures and investments in Maine and New Brunswick.
Textual and photographic material related to E. Jacqueline Davis during her time as a nurse in the US Army during WW2. The textual material includes orders which include E. Jacqueline Davis from her time working at Cushing General Hospital in Framingham, Massachusetts, as well as her letters home from her time serving in a camp on the island of Tinian in the Pacific Ocean. The photographs are contained in an album, along with news clippings and other ephemera.
This series contains letters from E. Jacqueline Davis to her mother and “Vidy” concerning her experiences working as a nurse on a US Army camp on the island of Tinian in the Pacific Ocean near Japan. In these letters Jacqueline discusses her voyage across the Pacific to Tinian, developments during the final days of the war with Japan, what camp life is like, encounter the Japanese civilians and POW*, and events happening at home. Other textual documents in this series include a notice of a change of address for Jacqueline, programmes for church services on Tinian, a document detailing how to mail Christmas packages to soldiers overseas, a map of the Pacific islands, and a document outlining regulations for troop transport. There are also a few newspaper articles, which include several issues of “This Small World”, a newspaper published at the military camp Tinian which has articles on developments of war with Japan and in Europe as well as sports and other items of interest. There are a few other newspapers for enlisted personnel.
The series contains military orders which include E. Jacqueline Davis while she served as a nurse at Cushing General Hospital in Framingham, Massachusetts. These military orders can include other nurses and personnel. The different types of orders in this series includes leaves of absence, one of which is to visit St. Andrews, NB, reassignment, promotions, and travelling for temp duty. There are also a few letters in this series, such as the letter which appointed Jacqueline as a reserve nurse in the US Army, a request to notarize legal forms before her active duty commences, correspondences with an insurance administration concerning her life insurance, and a letter requesting that she come to the Army’s headquarters in Massachusetts for a physical. A few other miscellaneous textual documents in this series include a certificate that Jacqueline has no property accountability or other obligations at her current station, a document which lists regulations and other information a recently recruited nurse would need to know, a voucher for per diem and travel expenses, and a certificate of completion of the basic training course for Army Nurses.
Steering committee notes and minutes as well as attendees for saving the Passamaquoddy Bay from a proposed LNG tanker and regasification plant that would disrupt the local flora and fauna and businesses. Financial reports, mission statements, records of involvement from various companies, groups and individuals, municipalities of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Maine, USA, co-operations between Canada and the USA.
Three papers from the estate of William Deming, Calais Me, 1834-58. Includes a brewery receipt from 1858, a court summons from 1839 and bill of exchange from 1834. Papers are from William Deming Sr and William Deming Jr.
This fonds contains genealogical research material and correspondence compiled by Melvin W. Chase on the Young/Jung family, of whom he is a descendant on his mother’s side, as well as other families connected with the Youngs.
Fonds relates to the activities of Herbert Mariner Wood while attending Cornell University, though his primary residence was in Sackville, New Brunswick. Fonds consists of a photograph of the 1904-1905 Cornell University Hockey team with Herbert Mariner Wood pictured in the middle bottom row of the photo. Others in the photo include: unknown, unknown (Coach?), and A.R. Ellis (top row left to right), and J.M. Lee, E.S. Armstrong, Herbert Mariner Wood (Capt.), C.H. Day, and unknown (bottom row left to right). The only player with a direct connection to Sackville appears to be Herbert Mariner Wood. (PB3.8)
