Fonds reflects the business relating to Sackville, New Brunswick of the Intercolonial Railway and the ICR’s daily operations. Fonds consists of an Intercolonial Timetable from 1889 (including a page for Sackville, New Brunswick) and five Intercolonial Railway waybills dated 1887-1889 that detail goods and merchandise to be transported from Saint John, New Brunswick to Sackville, New Brunswick to be delivered to residents including K.R. Fawcett, E. Reed, H.N. Knight, and Miss L. Rayworth. (17/44)
Fonds reflects the lives, careers, and military services of George Rogers and his family. Fonds consists of various textual records and photographs from the George Rogers family of Sackville, New Brunswick. It includes letters between family members; newspaper clippings about the family; and photographs of the family home and activities of George, his two wives, and their 13 children. The fonds also consists of a letter from Karen Eames in 2018 that accompanied the rest of the fonds documenting her knowledge of the Rogers side of her family.
Items are a number of receipts with dates falling between 1949 and 1950. Included are the following: two receipts for water bills; one receipt for an Everyready Battery from Perry Electric and Supply Co.; a car insurance receipt for the Chevy; a lawn swing bill delivered by the Canadian Buffalo Sled Co. Ltd.; a receipt from Alden Hicks for pressing 16 tons of hay; two receipts from Perry Electric and Supply Co. for repairs to the Philco radio; a property tax receipt for 53 Lansdowne Street; one coupon for a pen from Federal Pen in Trois-Riviere, Quebec; and a news clipping about Dr. George J. Trueman, former president of Mount Allison University.
Item is a paid bill from C. W. Palmer, General Repairs on All Makes of Cars, located on Queen’s Road. The repairs, costing $91.42 including $45.25 for labour, were paid by John Alward.
Item is a blue and white square program with advertisements on the top and bottom of each page. End page details components of harness horse equipment. "Sackville Downs Raceway Performances and Official Program"
Fonds consists of five archival items pertaining to George Campbell and Sons Ltd., including two receipts and one tax bill made out to George Rogers, a long-term employee of the George Campbell and Sons Ltd.
This collection consists of the correspondence relating to railway history involving requests for information on specific trains to/from George Brown. Some correspondence is printed with company letterhead. A few pieces of correspondence have documents attached which relate to railway history. There is a letter referring to a trip around the world by Nellie Bly, a New York City newspaper reporter with the remark that some portions of her trip were done by train.
This fonds consists of historical correspondence, reports, acts, agreements and other material about New Brunswick railways. There are monthly payrolls of Salisbury and Harvey Railway, 1898-1901; accounts of the Albert Railway, 1877-1882; cancelled cheques and promissory notes of the N.B. Railway Co., 1884-1887; and records of the Northern and Western Railway Co., Railway Extension Co., and Cumberland Railway and Coal Co. The collection includes timetables, correspondence, lists of locomotives, notes, notices, newsletters and copies of newspaper articles.
