Showing 224 results

Archival description
Only top-level descriptions New Brunswick Museum New Brunswick
Print preview View:

Manchester Robertson Allison

  • CA MNBM ID4818
  • Fonds
  • 1906-1948

This fonds consists of printed ephemera, an annual report for 1942-1943, and 4 bound scrapbooks for 1905-1918, 1923-1929, 1929-1932 and 1939-1948. The scrapbooks contain pressclippings, advertisements and internal notices, forms and publications. The subjects include the administration of the store, staff policies, records of employees and renovations at the store as well as articles about business and economic trends, especially in Saint John.

Manchester Robertson Allison (firm)

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.

Shives family

  • CA MNBM ID495
  • Fonds
  • 1846-1888

This fonds consists of the business and personal correspondence, financial records and estate papers of Willian Shives. There is also some correspondence of Alexander Shives.

Shives family

Turner family

  • CA MNBM ID5053
  • Fonds
  • 1860-1905; predominant 1875-1885

The fonds consists of shipping, business and family papers of the Turner and Reid families of Albert County, New Brunswick. There are shipping papers of the brig "Sherwood" including accounts, correspondence relating to the ship and its cargo. The shipping papers of the "Kesmark" include accounts with firms worldwide for ship provisions and equipment and correspondence relating to shipping. Various types of documentation include quarantine regulations, health certificates, surveying certificates, customs documents, manifests and a list of ship's stores (provisions).

There are discharge papers for seamen giving names and dates, and also a few names of crew signed on in Lubeck. There are ship's log books, including one dated 1890-1891, for a return voyage from Hillsboro to Newark, New Jersey, and others for voyages abroad.

Family correspondence includes letters written between Turner family members both in Canada and aboard ships sailing to destinations in Europe, South America, and the United States. Among other family papers are 3 diaries kept by Lottie Reid Turner in 1879, 1881, and 1883 while aboard ship. There is a Turner-Reid genealogy and the marriage certificate of Lottie Reid and James B. Turner. Also included is a petition to classify the school at Harvey as a superior school.

Turner family (Albert County)

Brown and Marr family

  • CA MNBM ID5056
  • Fonds
  • 1799-1921, predominant 1880-1900

This fonds consists of shipping, business and family papers of the Brown and Marr families of West Quaco. The shipping documents relate mainly to the vessels "Saguenay", "Lepreau", "Savannah", "Lancefield", "Kelverdale", "Lizzie C. Troop", and "Kate F. Troop" and their captains, Elisha Brown and Omar P. Brown.

The family papers include correspondence, accounts and ephemeral items. Some of the letters were written by family members from ports in Britain, the West Indies, South America and the United States while on their voyages."

Brown and Marr family (Quaco)

George V. Beatteay

  • CA MNBM ID509
  • Fonds
  • 1863-1921

This fonds contains the account books for George V. Beatteay's contract work. Some of the projects he worked on were: Quarantine Station on Partridge Island (ca. 1898-1900); Indiantown school; Immigrant building; M.R.A. warehouse; Wiggins Male Orphan Asylum; numerous personal dwellings; and the following vessels: Royal Oak, Skewsbury, Aclede, D.W. Clark, Annie F. McLeod, Jennie Clark, Iris, Olive, Lizzie, Crocus, Irish McLauglan, Ida E., Buckle, Rothesay Parole, Archille and Arnon.

Beatteay, George V.

Westmorland Bank of New Brunswick

  • CA MNBM S 5 - 5
  • Fonds
  • 1862-1863

The fonds consists of one volume, a ledger of the Westmorland bank

Westmorland Bank of New Brunswick

Robert Jones

  • CA MNBM ID62
  • Fonds
  • 1881, 1884, 1891

The fonds consists of one account book for Robert Jones' general grocery store for 1881, 1884, 1891.

Jones, Robert

Hilton Arthur Belyea

  • CA MNBM ID71
  • Fonds
  • 1905-1970

This fonds consists of a scrapbook compiled by Belyea's daughter about his career and correspondence of Hilton Belyea.

Belyea, Hilton Arthur

Elizabeth Innes

  • CA MNBM ID725
  • Fonds
  • 1840-1853

The fonds consists of a journal or memorandum book compiled by Innes. It contains dates of death of her family members and other individuals, primarily Saint John residents; texts of sermons by clergy in Saint John including some for funerals; texts for prayers and Bible verses. There are 3 recipes for cures for such ailments as sore joints and rheumatism. Also included in the journal are dates and locations of fires in Saint John and Portland, and a few dates of storms and earthquakes or tremors. Dates of some marriages, mostly in Saint John and Portland, are also recorded in the journal.

Innes, Elizabeth

Results 41 to 50 of 224