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Elizabeth R. (Paterson) Matheson

  • CA MtA 129
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1890]-1909

Fonds consists of Montessori student and teacher notebooks on sewing and colour lessons, and a kindergarten album containing examples of paper cutting, paper folding, embossing, plaiting, sewing, and interlacing; a textbook for needlework, knitting and cutting out; photographs of Elizabeth Paterson and family, Teacher Training College class, colleagues, and housing in South Africa; and 2 postcards.

Matheson, Elizabeth R. (née Paterson)

Berthot Carson photograph

  • CA MtA 035
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1892]

Items are a photograph of the Mount Allison Commercial students, "93" (with Lingley Hall in upper right hand corner), and a photograph of the Academy Baseball team, 1892-1893.

Carson, Berthot

Tait family collection

  • CA MtA 0025
  • Collection
  • 1893-1931

Collection contains:

Photographs: Ladies' College Drill, ca 1904; Mount Allison University Football Team, 1927; Ladies' College students on the steps of Fawcett Hall, ca 1930, photographed by E.P Smith and Son, Sackville, New Brunswick; Mount Allison students and faculty on the embankment next to the football field, with the University Residence in the background, 1928, photographed by E.P. Smith and Son, Sackville, New Brunswick.

Picture Postcards: Hall of Science and Centennial Hall, 1907, coloured and incribed with a note to Mrs. A.J. Tait from Bob; Main Gallery, Owens' Gallery, coloured; Reception Room of Mount Allison Ladies' College, 1906, inscribed with a note to Miss Mary Howie from Jessie.; Ladies' College and Lingley Hall, coloured.

Tait family

Hiram Copp

  • CA MtA 161
  • Fonds
  • 1893

Fonds consists of two letters to Hiram Copp, Sackville, New Brunswick, from James Robert Inch, Superintendent of Education, Province of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, regarding instructions for building a double house on Salem Street in Sackville. The letters are dated July 24 and August 1, 1893. They document the origin of a house owned by Mount Allison University since 1966, now called the French House. They also identify the residence of J.R. Inch, a former president of Mount Allison, who returned to Sackville to live after his retirement in 1909.

Copp, Hiram

Charles J. Makinson

  • CA MtA 40
  • Fonds
  • 1898-1902

Fonds consists of diaries by Charles J. Makinson, in which there are clippings and concert programs, with indexes to the vessels and special events.

Makinson, Charles J.

Laura Sophia Wood fonds

  • CA MtA 0154
  • Fonds
  • 1898-1900

Fonds consists of a "Canadian pocket diary for 1899" containing memoranda, grocery lists, accounts, and some brief entries ca. 1900 commenting on society and peoples' opinions. The book is accompanied by a letter addressed to [?] (illegible) from Dode (a nickname for Dora (Wood) Nichols, sister of Herb Wood), of Vancouver, British Columbia, dated Wednesday Oct. 27th [no year].

Item list:

  1. Canadian pocket diary compiled by Laura S. Wood. – 1899-1900. – 1 volume of textual records 14.5 x 9 x 1 cm

Item includes memoranda, grocery lists, accounts and some brief entries commenting on society and people’s opinions.

  1. Letter from “Dode” (Vancouver, British Columbia) to [Rames eco?]. – 27 October [bef. 1958]. – 1 leaf of textual records ; 20 x 12.5 cm

Item indicates that the sender was enclosing the book to the addressee and wonders “Is it right to send you this with her intimate little outbursts revealed in writing?” Dode is a nickname for Dora (Wood) Nichols.

Wood, Laura Sophia (Trueman), 1856-1935

Dorothy Willis Smith

  • CA MtA 66
  • Fonds
  • [1898?]-1917

Fonds consists of an undated ink sketch of Mount Allison Rugby player, entitled “The Captain”; a panoramic photograph, “Mount Allison Ladies’ College, 1917"; a photograph of Miss Fanning and her pupils, 1898-1899; and a Ladies’ College group photograph on the steps of Lingley Hall, 1898-1899.

Smith, Dorothy Willis

Gillis and Ford family

  • CA MtA 145
  • Fonds
  • [190-]-1910, 1931

Fonds consists of 5 copyprints:

  • Unidentified boy in horse-drawn carriage, in front of the Ford Hotel, West Main Street, Sackville, New Brunswick, early 1900s.
  • Ford's Hotel (front exterior), west Main Street, Sackville, New Brunswick. The original is inscribed, "1908 Ford Hotel Sackville".
  • Woman and child in horse drawn sleigh, on College Street, at the rear of the F.C. Richardson's store, Sackville, New Brunswick, with the Male Academy in the background. The original is inscribed, "1905 Nana & half-sister Hazel Ford".
  • Percy Gillis in a boat on the Lily Pond, ca. 1910,
  • Mount Allison Ladies' College students, near football field, 1931. The original is inscribed, "Initiation 1931"

Gillis - Ford family

Ella Smith

  • CA MtA 7
  • Fonds
  • 1902-1977, predominant 1932-1936

Fonds consists of records generated by Smith as teacher, traveler and lecturer.

Files contain travel documents; account books concerning prices in Russia, 1932; draft lecture notes on the history of Canada; public lecture notices and programs for Smith's presentations; scrapbook of press notices and clippings concerning her public lectures; postcards collected in travels and used to illustrate lectures; certificates; diplomas; letters of recommendation; photographs of Oxford University "first women's degree day" 14 October 1920, Women's Council parade, Sackville, New Brunswick, Mount Allison campus scenes; painting "Tantramar Marshes" by Stanley Royle; letter from Elizabeth Brewster, 1969; letters from Smith to family (mainly Helen Smith Skinner) and friends concerning Northern Spain during the time of the Spanish Civil War [1936?].

Smith, Ella Lauchner

Ethel Peake

  • CA MtA 8
  • Fonds
  • 1903-1953

Fonds consists of records generated by Peake's activities as both performer and teacher. Files contain correspondence concerning Royal Choral Society; promotional literature, press notices, programs related to Peake's performances; student records; notes; published music; Mount Allison Ladies' College banners.

Peake, Ethel Marguerite

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