This fonds documents William J. West's career as a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick. It consists of more than 400 individual case files containing correspondence, judgments, notes, briefs, and other legal documents. The fonds also includes miscellaneous legal correspondence (1952-1967), lists of barristers, and dockets, as well as correspondence, speeches, and newspaper clippings relating to his political career.

Lastly, the fonds contains personal correspondence, personal legal records, genealogical notes on the West family, a transcript of an interview with William West, invitations to social functions, family photographs, newspaper clippings, and materials pertaining to riverboats and steamships on the St. John River.

The fonds consists of typed transcriptions of letters written by Ritchie to his mother while serving in the South Africa (Boer) War. The letters are dated 17 January 1900, 22 February 1900, and 28 February 1900 written from Belmont and Paardeberg Drift, South Africa. Letters describe William Ritchie's experience fighting the Boers in graphic detail and give information about the everyday life of a soldier in the Boer War. The letter dated 22 February vividly describes a charge on the Boers during which he received a superficial wound from shrapnel while under fire from 5 different points. Included in the letters are a few references to letters received from family members in Canada, receiving copies of Saint John newspapers and his comments about city councillors.

Typewritten transcripts of letters (3) W.J. Ritchie to mother re service in South African (Boer) War, Jan-Feb 1900

This fonds consists of W. J. Bedell's letterbook dating from 1837 to 1838. It contains correspondence to Gilmour and Rankin on the Miramichi and to Robert Rankin in Saint John, NB.

This fonds consists of a minute book and business papers. The minute book contains the Charter of the company and the by-laws, as well as information about the operation of the company and the directors of W. Hawker & Sons, including that son Samuel was managing the firm by 1920 and William C. planned to return to the United States to resume his drugstore business in 1920. Business papers include a stock transfer, a trust agreement, certified copy of company by-laws dated 1926 as well as a brief historical sketch of the company from its founding to the reorganization in 1926. There are also three deeds, 1926, which relate to William C. Hawker and his share of the business.

The series consists of material related to William H. Wyton and his war records.

The fonds consists of eight notebooks of William Moore on natural history subjects.

Letter from William Francis Ganong (1864-1941) to James Hannay, dated 12 April 1891, marking the controversy, which lasted until Hannay's death, over the location of Fort La Tour, the early fort built by the French at the mouth of the St. John River.

This fonds consists of 23 series of financial records including ledgers, day books, waste books, cash books, invoice books, receipt books, inventory books, journals and other accounting records.

Microfilmed copies of company records for operations at Shippagan and Lameque, dating from 1827-1913, are available on 9 reels of microfilm. These records may differ from the textual records. See related records note for details on microfilm nos.

The fonds consists largely of family correspondence, with some business and professional records belonging to William F. Burditt. Family correspondence includes letters addressed to William F. Burditt; his wife Lury; their sons and daughters, William, Jr., Arthur F., and Mary Louise (May); William, Sr.'s father, Thomas, his brothers, John F. and Frank, and his sisters, Nellie and Anna Mary. There are also a few records relating to William F., Sr.'s daughter, Edith C. Burditt, as well as family photographs, genealogical records, and records of personal and household expenditures (1892-1904).

Business and professional records include William F. Burditt's correspondence with various companies for the years 1879-1929, his record of accounts with Arthur P. Tippet & Co., diaries of work performed at his farm, and a notebook containing information on a variety of subjects. There are also a printed copy of a paper he read before the St. John City and County Good Roads Association; newspaper clippings on subjects, such as town planning, trade and industry, taxation, immigration, exhibitions, and the Farmers' Club; legal documents, including his estate records and a patent issued to him for a trip mechanism for harvester rakes; and a printed prospectus of the St. John Window Glass Company. Lastly, the fonds contains research materials and essays, including 2 brief histories of St. Martins and Mollie Smith's recollection of East Saint John.