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Charles Frederick Allison fonds

  • CA MtA 0001
  • Fonds
  • 1810-1859

This fonds consists of five series:

  • Series 1 : six scrapbooks, including mainly correspondence, bills, accounts and receipts of the Crane & Allison merchant and lumber business, and of the building of the Wesleyan Academy, Sackville, New Brunswick. The scrapbooks also include some Sackville Circuit records of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and Sackville School records. In addition, the fonds includes various correspondence regarding the establishment of the Wesleyan Academy and other business matters.
  • Series 2 : 11 letters; 9 from Enoch Wood, 1 from William Temple, and a copy of one from C.F. Allison to the Honorable A. Campbell, Member of Legislative Council, Nova Scotia.
  • Series 3 : Letter to C.F. Allison from Humphrey Pickard reporting on the progress of the Methodist Mission, 19 May 1846.
  • Series 4 : Letter to Rev. William Temple, Cahirman of the New Brunswick (School) District, from C.F. Allison, proposing the establishment of the Wesleyan Academy, 1839.
  • Series 5 : Letter to C.F. Allison from Cunard and Munn concerning the estate of William Crane and shipping business, 3 February 1854.

Allison, Charles Frederick

Corey Smith fonds

  • CA MtA 0021
  • Fonds
  • 1908-1984

Fonds consists of personal papers and also includes records belonging to Ethel Peake, some given to Smith or possibly borrowed or received following her death and used in his research for biographical note "Ethel Marguerite Peake, 1885-1954" (accession 8426). Peake files contain correspondence 1908-1943; biographical brochure [between 1923 and 1936]; clippings; Mount Allison Department of Music student records, 1936-1944 (students of Peake); photographs, including several of Peake; Allison G. Patterson file, 1951 and 1981.

Smith, Corey

Harriet Starr Stewart fonds

  • CA MtA 0152
  • Fonds
  • 1876-1897

Fonds consists of two volumes of autograph albums. The contents of the fonds are predominantly populated with signatures and salutations from fellow Allisonians and members of her wider family. The contents of the albums frequently indicate whether the person had died or in the case of women who they married.

Stewart, Harriet Starr, 1862-1931

Peter Penner

  • CA MtA 103
  • Fonds
  • 1978, 1983

Fonds consists of correspondence between Peter Penner and the Hon. Joseph R Smallwood, St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1978. A note regarding a telephone conversation with the Hon. Joseph R. Smallwood, 24 October 1983, is on the reverse of the 10 March 1978 letter to Peter Penner.

Penner, Peter

Lena M. Chipman

  • CA MtA 109
  • Fonds
  • 1906, 1912

Fonds contains a student notebook belonging to Lena M. Chipman, 1906, and a printed invitation to The Senior Class of the University of Mount Allison College At Home, 1 March 1912.

Chipman, Lena M.

Helen Elizabeth (Robertson) McMullin

  • CA MtA 111
  • Fonds
  • 1951-1960

Fonds contains correspondence between Betty and Roy Fraser, and letter between Betty and Jean C. (Mrs. Roy) Fraser.

McMullin, Helen Elizabeth (née Robertson)

G. Roy Long

  • CA MtA 114
  • Fonds
  • 1906

Fonds consists of a valedictory address delivered at the Convocation of Mount Allison University by G. Roy Long, 1906, and submission of autobiographical information G. Roy Long, candidate for a Rhodes scholarship for the province of Prince Edward Island, for the year of 1907.

Long, George Roy

Elizabeth R. (Paterson) Matheson

  • CA MtA 129
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1890]-1909

Fonds consists of Montessori student and teacher notebooks on sewing and colour lessons, and a kindergarten album containing examples of paper cutting, paper folding, embossing, plaiting, sewing, and interlacing; a textbook for needlework, knitting and cutting out; photographs of Elizabeth Paterson and family, Teacher Training College class, colleagues, and housing in South Africa; and 2 postcards.

Matheson, Elizabeth R. (née Paterson)

Raymond Clare Archibald

  • CA MtA 5
  • Fonds
  • [1824?]-1958; predominant 1883-1954

Fonds consists of records generated by Archibald in his activities as scholar, researcher, collector, historian of Mount Allison and by personal relationships with friends, family and fellow Allisonians. A large portion of the fonds relates to the Mount Allison Ladies' College.

Files contain: correspondence with classmates, Class of 1894, of which he was life president, and with academic colleagues; and records related to centenary of the Ladies' College. Scrapbooks contain correspondence, clippings, notices, posters, programs, memorabilia which document activities, students, faculty, buildings at Mount Allison, 1857-1935. Correspondence, guides, and scrapbook document the building of the MMAML collection.

Mary Mellish files contain letters to Mrs. Archibald from colleagues, testimonials, letters of recommendation, letters to her son and brother; speeches and poetry written by her, letters of sympathy to her son following her death.

Photographs consist of images of family members, friends, Mount Allison buildings.

Publications are mainly authored by R.C. Archibald, off-prints and monographs; bibliography available.

Archibald, Raymond Clare

Ella Smith

  • CA MtA 7
  • Fonds
  • 1902-1977, predominant 1932-1936

Fonds consists of records generated by Smith as teacher, traveler and lecturer.

Files contain travel documents; account books concerning prices in Russia, 1932; draft lecture notes on the history of Canada; public lecture notices and programs for Smith's presentations; scrapbook of press notices and clippings concerning her public lectures; postcards collected in travels and used to illustrate lectures; certificates; diplomas; letters of recommendation; photographs of Oxford University "first women's degree day" 14 October 1920, Women's Council parade, Sackville, New Brunswick, Mount Allison campus scenes; painting "Tantramar Marshes" by Stanley Royle; letter from Elizabeth Brewster, 1969; letters from Smith to family (mainly Helen Smith Skinner) and friends concerning Northern Spain during the time of the Spanish Civil War [1936?].

Smith, Ella Lauchner