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Mathilda and Mary Elsie Wry

  • CA MtA 58
  • Fonds
  • 1879-1932

Fonds consists of personal records including legal and financial documents such as wills, deeds, mortgage records, 1879-1932; insurance policies 1909-1930; account book related to income and expenses of sewing work, 1882-1906; photograph albums and individual photographs mainly of family members; memorabilia; family Bible; publications; artifacts including mourning sampler for their mother, Mary Fields Wry, 1835-1916.

Wry, Mathilda

Vera M. Campbell fonds

  • CA MtA 0061
  • Fonds
  • 1926-1962

Fonds consists of a number of programmes and publications that were likely accumulated or acquired by Vera M. Campbell. The contents of the fonds document her life and, particularly in relation to her time spent studying music at Mount Allison University and the various concerts and productions that she was involved in during her time at the university.

Campbell, Vera Hazel Malcolm, 1908-1990

Wood family

  • CA MtA 67
  • Fonds
  • [184?]-1927

The fonds is arranged into 14 series: (1) photographs; (2) William Crane papers, 1827-1838; (3) Charles H. Wood papers, 1868-1870; (4) Josiah Wood papers, 1868-1916; (5) Laura S. (Trueman) Wood papers, 1868-1888; (6) Hester Wood papers, 1906-1907; (7) Wood family drawing books; (8) Coy family papers, 1832-1890; (9) Annie Rebecca Trueman papers, late 1800s; (10) Mount Allison University, 1859-1898; (11) notebook; (12) minute book; (13) miscellaneous; and (14) publications.

Wood family

Marjorie Jean Johnston

  • CA MtA 70
  • Fonds
  • [1919?]-1923

Fonds consists of correspondence, 1919-1923, between Marjorie J. Johnson and her mother (some also to her sister, Lal); bills pertaining to Mount Allison Ladies’ College; and term reports, 1920-1922. The letters discuss in detail the clubs and societies Johnson belonged to, and other social activities.

Johnston, Marjorie Jean

Laura and Reginald Ruggles Gates

  • CA MtA 71
  • Fonds
  • 1818-1989

The fonds consists mainly of records generated by the Gates' research activities related to anthropology and eugenics and the collection and distribution of scientific information concerning this topic. Some personal records are included and the Laura Ruggels Gates records center on the work of her husband.

The Reginald Ruggles Gates records consist of:

  • Publications;
  • Correspondence, academic;
  • Research, articles and lectures;
  • Royal Society;
  • Autobiography and family history;
  • Correspondence, personal;
  • Legal and financial;
  • Memorabilia;
  • Certificates;
  • Photoprints and photonegatives, slides, and Artifacts.

The Laura Ruggles Gates records, which comprise of most of the fonds, include:

  • Correspondence;
  • Research and lectures;
  • R.R.G. (Reginald Ruggles Gates) Memorials;
  • Memorabilia;
  • Clippings;
  • Photoprints and photonegatives;
  • Slides;
  • Audiovisual material;
  • Heraldic Crests;
  • Artifacts;
  • Publications from L.R.G.s (Laura Ruggles Gates') library.

Gates, Reginald Ruggles

Fredette Frame

  • CA MtA 927
  • Fonds
  • 1947, 1993

Fonds consists of material concerning Winifred Fox, compiled by Fredette Frame while doing research towards the exhibition “The Mount Allison Ladies’ College 1854-1937", Owens’ Art Gallery. Mount Allison University, 3 December 1993 to 16 January 1994. This includes: a letter to Fredette from Winifred Fox, 7 August 1993; "The Flowing Summer", by Charles Bruce, with illustrations by Winifred Fox, 1947; "Nova Scotia Book Illustrators, 1900-1960", from an exhibition catalogue, Dalhousie Art Gallery, 1993, with references to Winifred Fox; and "A show of history", by Julia Weston, from University affairs, December 1993, regarding Fredette Frame and the exhibition "The Mount Allison Ladies' College, 1854-1937", Owens' Art Gallery, 3 December 1993 - 16 January 1994.

Frame, Fredette

Early settlement at Chignecto / George F. Trueman

  • CA MNBM 2389
  • Fonds
  • 1933

The fonds consists of a typed draft of a history of the Chignecto Isthmus area presented to the New Brunswick Historical Society at Saint John on 25 November 1933 by Dr. George J. Trueman. This paper describes the settlement of the area including Sackville, Westcock, Aulac (Westmorland Point), Mount Whatley, Point du Bute, Upper Point du Bute and Port Elgin in New Brunswick and Amherst, Fort Lawrence, and Tidnish in Nova Scotia. Dr. Trueman discusses the early settlement of Acadia, the expulsion of the Acadians, the struggles between the English and French, and the arrival of the New England and Yorkshire settlers.

Some names of settlers and their locations are given. A bibliography is included. There is also an article from the "Telegraph Journal", Saint John, 25 November 1933, describing the presentation of the paper.

Trueman, George F.

In Nomad's Land, 1914-1918 War / Laurenz F. Harding

  • CA MNBM S 5 - 2
  • Fonds
  • after 1918

The fonds consists of a one volume, typewritten account of a soldier's experiences in the First World War. It includes accounts of life in the trenches and other experiences.

Harding, Laurenz F.

Whelpley family

  • CA MNBM Whelpley Family CB DOC
  • Fonds
  • 1874-1926

Fonds consists mainly of the business records of the Whelpley family, particularly James A. Whelpley. There are deeds and legal agreements relating to family and business properties, including agreements with the Keene Manufacturing Company about manufacturing Whelpley patented skates. There are patents and applications for patents in United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, France and Hungary.

The business correspondence deals mainly with orders for skates from Canada, United States and Scotland. There are financial records and accounts, including a mortgage and an insurance policy for the family business. There is also a group of records dealing with participation in exhibitions, including Canada's International Exhibition in 1890 in Saint John and the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, 1893.

Whelpley family

Hazel Deinstadt Bell

  • CA PANB MC6
  • Fonds
  • Photocopied [1992]

Hazel Deinstadt Bell's reminiscences about growing up in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and Saint John, New Brunswick, take the form of a letter to her great nieces and nephews, and were written in the 1950s. She recalls the introduction of the telephone, activities along the waterfront in Yarmouth, as well as street cars, hurdygurdies, trained bears, and Hallowe'en celebrations, in Saint John. She also mentions the Boer War (South African War), attending school, silent movies, outbreaks of smallpox, the exhibition, paddlewheel boats on the St. John River, and a visit to New York in 1901. She makes brief comments about her time overseas during World War I.

The fonds also includes a very few newspaper clippings containing information about her time in England and France, during World War I, and her father's career as a pastor in the Methodist Church.

Bell, Hazel Lawrence Deinstadt

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