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Saint John Theatre Company

  • CA MNBM ID2312
  • Fonds
  • 1975-1977

This fonds includes minutes and reports of the theatre and playbills.

Saint John Theatre Company

Survey of underwater historic resources

  • CA MNBM ID458
  • Fonds
  • 1973-1976

The fonds consists of maps, monthly reports for the survey of underwater historical resources and various reports relating to the survey. There are monthly reports, 1974-1976 and some photocopies of monthly reports from 1973. The reports describe methods and list publications and institutions consulted. Some include drawings of artifacts and the January and February 1976 reports include colour photographs and descriptions of china from the wreck of barque "Wallace" lost in 1841 and another vessel, possibly "Duke of Kent" wrecked near the Dixon Rocks in the Murr Ledges, Grand Manan Island, N.B. The June 1975 report includes underwater colour photos of "Wallace", "Mavourneen" and "Hestia" wreckage sites.

There are maps prepared by Eric Allaby. One titled "Some vessels wrecked around the coast of New Brunswick" pinpoints the exact locations ships went down mostly off the southwest coast. The names and types of the ships are included in a key with the date they were wrecked. There are ships as early as "Le Machault" in 1760 and as recent as the schooner "Kings County" in 1936. Other maps and diagrams include wreckage layout of the "S.S. Hestia", elevation of the brig "Glide", wreck layouts of the barque "Mavourneen" and the vessel "Britannia" and site assembly and elevation of the "Pocosi".

A report of a seminar to discuss the survey, held on Grand Manan on 10-15 June 1974 is included. There is also a copy of "The Role of Canadian Conservation in Underwater Heritage", 4 April 1975, a presentation to the Advisory Board for the Atlantic Region, Canadian Conservation Institute on the need to conserve New Brunswick shipwrecks. It includes diagrams and maps about the wreck of "Glide".

Allaby, Eric

Saint John Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association

  • CA MNBM ID506
  • Fonds
  • 1909-1976

This fonds consists of a complete set of minutes and annual reports. There is also a bank book, scrapbooks and estate papers relating to Arthur B. McIntosh, 1952-1960, Madeline R. Daley, 1970 and Lillian R. Russell, 1970.

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association (Saint John, N.B.)

Clara Fritz

  • CA MNBM ID1956
  • Collection
  • 1903-1975

This collection includes letters written by Clara Fritz to her mother in Saint John in 1903 and 1904 while en route to southeast Asia with information about life on board, descriptions and impressions of places she saw such as Haiphong and Da Nang in Vietnam and Hong Kong, China.

There is also a typewritten biography by Dr. Madeleine Fritz detailing her sister's education and work and including a few details about the voyage to Asia. Also included are 2 pages from the ship's log, a school certificate, a map marked with the route of Clara's trip, and a photocopied press clipping about it.

Fritz, Clara Winnifred, Ph.D.

Centenary Queen Square United Church (Saint John)

  • CA MNBM S 100
  • Fonds
  • 1835-1975

This fonds administrative records of the church, most of which come from the period after 1936. The earlier records include correspondence of the Board of Trustees, 1838-1893, 1957-1958, and some receipts and invoices,1838-1920. There are also minutes of the Board of Stewards, 1936-1949, 1964; membership lists, reports and other material of the Board of Sessions, 1940-1961; balance sheets and budgets, 1945-1964; and minutes of the A.O.T.S Men's Club, 1954-1968.

Centenary Queen Square United Church (Saint John, N.B.)

William Lusk Webster

  • CA MNBM S 204-1
  • Collection
  • 1825-1974

The William Lusk Webster collection, with the exception of a few personal papers and the items collected by Ralph Hewson (the Webster family lawyer and a local historian), covers the years after Dr. Webster's return to Shediac (1950). The collection includes correspondence and notes on the Fort Beauséjour Museum, Shediac; Acadian history; and the New Brunswick Museum. There are land grants and transfers with related notes and correspondence.

The material assembled by Ralph Hewson includes the school register of Fort Lawrence, 1878; assessment records from several polling districts, 1870-1873; lists of officers of Cumberland County, 1874,1881,1883; and financial records of St. Andrews Church (Pointe-du- Chêne), 1866-1812. Also included are records and correspondence of the New Brunswick Museum Foundation, 1949-1971 and personal papers of William Lusk Webster, 1920-1974.

Webster, William Lusk, Ph.D.

Pickard family

  • CA MNBM ID444
  • Fonds
  • 1766-1974

This fonds consists of Pickard family receipts, deeds, bonds and accounts and newspaper clippings of a series of articles about the Pickard papers written by Gerald Keith in 1953 and updated in 1975. Included with the fonds is the record of meeting of inhabitants of Maugerville in 1770.

Pickard family

International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union of North America Local 36

  • CA MNBM ID126
  • Fonds
  • 1903 - 1974

This fonds consists of the administrative records and correspondence of the Union. It includes minutes, financial records, membership and dues records. There is strike benefits documentation from 1908 and a guide book for local union secretary-treasurer, 1969.

International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union of North America Local 36 (Saint John, N.B.)

United Women's Missionary Societies

  • CA MNBM S 117 - 2
  • Fonds
  • 1897-1973

The fonds consists of 9 volumes of minute books. The 5 volumes dated from 1897 to 1945 belonged to the United Women's Missionary Societies and the remaining 4 volumes (1945-1973) belonged to the Women's Inter-Church Council of Saint John.

Information about the structure of meetings, some names of members and missionaries and general missionary work is included. The Women's Inter-Church Council minutes include some financial reports, a type copy of the constitution and by-laws adopted in 1967, and some printed orders of church services and newsclippings relating to the annual World Day of Prayer. In volume 9, there are lists of executive members and denominational members of the Council from 1965-1973.

United Women's Missionary Societies

MacBeath family

  • CA MNBM ID221
  • Collection
  • 1789, 1858-1972

This fonds consists of correspondence and other material assembled by the MacBeath family. It includes a letterbook of Allan MacBeath, 1857-1858; class lists of Victoria and Centennial schools (Saint John) kept by Edith MacBeath, 1888-1926; correspondence, notes and other material of T. Allan MacBeath and certificates and other material of MacBeath family.

Material created by other individuals and collected by MacBeath family includes a scrapbook kept by E.T.C. Knowles, 1870's; correspondence, deeds and other material related to the Botsford, Allan, Cornwall, McPherson, Millidge and Stephen families and a daybook of freight charges kept by Mr. Jones (general merchant, Petitcodiac Bend, Moncton) 1845-1847.

MacBeath family

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