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Ann (Haley) Berman

  • CA CCA MC 867
  • Item
  • [194-?]

This series contains the papers of Ann (Haley) Berman including a scrapbook compiled by Ann with a detailed map of New Brunswick on the cover. Newspaper and magazine clippings collected in the scrapbook concern significant New Brunswick places and landmarks, people, and events from the 1940s. Some notable cut-outs include articles on Dochet, or St. Croix, Island, fires in St. George including a two-storey wooden frame 1800's house, customs officers at Upper Mills, lighthouse and fog stations in the Bay of Fundy and their keepers, the Home and School Association on Campobello, fishing in Blacks Harbour and other areas of the Bay of Fundy, and mysterious moose carcass near St. George. The scrapbook also contains clippings on the city of Saint John’s history, some of New Brunswick’s earliest settlers, famous families and individuals such as Lord Beaverbrook or Charles Saint Etienne de La Tour, New Brunswick hospitals and the Red Cross, hunting and fishing, and global events like post World War II talks between Britain, the U. S. and Russia.

Register of sheep marks

  • CA CCA MC10
  • Item
  • 14 May 1798 to 8 May 1806

Item covers period 1798, 1801 - 1803. Information provided identifies sheep farmers during the period and describes ear cuts/piercings that were used for identification purposes of the animals.

Common Place Books - Volumes 1 & 2

  • CA CCA MC38
  • Item
  • 1811 - 1815

Books consist of a hand written index ; published articles are pasted onto the pages ; poems, stories and letters are written on both of the books pages and inserted written items ; as an example there is a 1588 copy of a speech given by Queen Elizabeth I and 1786 article on the East India Company ; printed pictures have been cut out and pasted in the books. Book has also been used to press several Maple leaves.

Harris Hatch land grant

  • CA CCA MC613
  • Item
  • 1818

This collection consists of a Crown land grant (1818) given to Harris Hatch for property on the Digedeguash River. Wax seal attached.

Hatch, Harris

St. Andrews Library Fonds

  • CA CCA MC26
  • Item
  • 1820 - 1858

3 books from the first St Andrews Library. Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott; An Apology for the Bible by Rev. Richard Watson; An Autumn near the Rhine.

Census of Northern and Southern Grand Manan, 1821

  • CA CCA MC22
  • Item
  • 1821

Census information showing names of male and female residents, including children over 16 and children under 16, and indicating the numbers of oxen, cows, sheep and hogs owned. Document is part of the House of Assembly papers. A transcript of this is to be found on page 27 volume 1 of "Sands of Time" published by the Grand Manan Genealogical Society 1980.

General Store of John Grimmer

  • CA CCA MC43
  • Item
  • 1832 - 1833

Ledger records daily business activities related to General Store and Blacksmith work ; pages record as many as thirty transactions per sheet for purchases and blacksmith services ; many names are repeated throughout the documents ; and indicate an active and thriving business ; items sold include such dry goods as flannel, skeins of thread, and cotton, pints of rum and wine, fish, shoes, ox ring and shoes, tobacco, and molasses.

Reverend John Fryer Petition

  • CA CCA MC16
  • Item
  • 1841

Consists of two petitions, one from John Fryer and One from James Curtain regarding the operation of ferries between Chitty's Cove and Joe's Point in St. Andrews and the American side (1841).

Log Book of Princess Royal

  • CA CCA MC20
  • Item
  • 10 March 1842 - 11 May 1843

Log Book of the Brig Princess Royal, built by William Allison Broderick at Parrsboro, N.S. in 1840. It was registered at the port of Halifax in January, 1941, James Ratchford and George Humphray, owners. Registerd at St. Andrews, July 1841 to Frederick A. Babcock, Thomas Turner, Robert Walton and Harris Hatch, John Rodgers, Harris Anderson Hatch, Daniel Smith Morrison (Gentlemen) , Richard Milton Andrews (Barrister at Law), John Stephen Jarvis, (sail maker), Henry ONeill and James Healy (Butchers), George McCullouch (Merchant), John Irwin (Pedler), James Clarke (Pilot), Samuel Getty and Charles Williams (grocers). Samuel McCurdy (School Master), James Burgess (Carpenter). Registry changed to Cork, 1847. It covers voyages to the West Indies and Liverpool.(March 10 1842 - May 11 1843.)

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