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Thaddeus Holownia

  • CA MtA 59
  • Fonds
  • 1982-1991

This fonds conists three series: Series 1 - contains negatives produced by Thaddeus Holownia for the sesquicentennial publication "The History of Mount Allison University, 1839-1989", 1989. Not all of the images appearing in the publication are represented in this accession. Many were produced from photographs in the archives holdings, a few from other sources (possibly the Alumni Office), and others from his own photograph/negative collection. Where more then one negative for an image was produced, the one used for publication in not identified.

Series 2 - contains material related to exhibitions; publications with Thaddeus Holownia’s photography; and published or printed by the Anchorage Press.

Series 3 - contains a copy of "Dykelands, Photographs by Thaddeus Holownia & Poems by Douglas Lochhead", published by McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1989; and photographs, including plates for "Dykelands", a portrait of Thaddeus Holownia, and Douglas Lochhead and a panoramic view made up of three photo prints.

Holownia, Thaddeus

Sackville Art Association fonds

  • CA MtA 0019
  • Fonds
  • 1945-1985

Fonds documents the Sackville Art Association's work to support and promote art in the local community through exhibitions, lectures and public education activities. Series consist of minutes of meetings, 1945-1979; correspondence files, 1959-1984; newsletters, 1968-1985; exhibition lists and catalogues, 1919-1984; some Moncton Art Society newsletters, 1978-1981.

Sackville Art Association

Corey Smith fonds

  • CA MtA 0021
  • Fonds
  • 1908-1984

Fonds consists of personal papers and also includes records belonging to Ethel Peake, some given to Smith or possibly borrowed or received following her death and used in his research for biographical note "Ethel Marguerite Peake, 1885-1954" (accession 8426). Peake files contain correspondence 1908-1943; biographical brochure [between 1923 and 1936]; clippings; Mount Allison Department of Music student records, 1936-1944 (students of Peake); photographs, including several of Peake; Allison G. Patterson file, 1951 and 1981.

Smith, Corey

Suzanne Silvercruys fonds

  • CA MtA 0012
  • Fonds
  • 1784-1973 [predominantly 1910-1973]

Fonds consists of personal, biographical and family documents, citations, certificates, invitations, programmes, correspondence, war and political activities, radio and publishing ventures, speeches and addresses, sculpture projects as well as photographs, negatives, positives and reproductions. These are accompanied by scrapbooks containing clippings concerning a tour by the U.S. for Belgium Relief Committee, exhibitions of her works, speaking engagements and an audio tape cassette "The Communist Conspiracy", 1966. The contents of the fonds document the varied interests and achievements of this woman noted for her support of Belgian war efforts during the First and Second World Wars. This was followed by a career as spokesperson for Republican and conservative values in the United States through seeking public office, lectures tours and assisting with the creation of new political parties. Her main focus was on the creation of artworks and teaching and sharing her talents via lecture tours. Many noted individuals were sculpted and immortalized at the hands of Suzanne Silvercruys.

Stevenson, Suzanne (née Silvercruys)

Helen Creighton collection

  • CA MtA 0009
  • Collection
  • 1943-1971

Collection contains copies of notes on the traditional, folk, and Gaelic songs, from the Maritimes, contained on the discs made by Helen Creighton for the Archives of Folklore Division, Library of Congress, Washington, 1943-44, and 10 audio reels, on which the songs are recorded.

Also includes thank you letter from George Proctor, Professor and Head of Music Department, 1971, to Helen Creighton, for a letter and the transcriptions of the songs collected.

Creighton, Helen

Elsie Pomeroy fonds

  • CA MtA 0003
  • Fonds
  • 1833-1968

Fonds consists mainly of records created and accumulated by Pomeroy as biographer and friend of author and poet Charles G.D. Roberts. Records document Roberts’ work, including his interests in the Tantramar area of New Brunswick, where he spent the majority of his childhood, and his relationship with Pomeroy. They also shed light on Pomeroy’s activities as collector and interpreter of Canadian literature mainly between 1920-1950. Records related to Bliss Carman, Arthur Stringer, Marshall Saunders, Mary Electa Adams, Isabella Crawford, Dorothy Leisner Roberts, Annie Charlotte Dalton, G.B. Lancaster are also included. Files contain correspondence; published and unpublished poetry and prose by various authors; scrapbooks; photographs; postcards; and clippings.

Pomeroy, Elsie May

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

Gandy family

  • CA MtA 104
  • Fonds
  • 1882-1938

Fonds contains material compiled by the Gaudy family in relation to their involvement in the Saint John Male Choral Society. This includes programs; song sheets; a publication, “Elijah” An Oratorio, which was a synopsis and book of words; clippings; and miscellaneous records.

Gandy family

Margaret Duncan Borden fonds

  • CA MtA 0167
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1935

Fonds consists of a newspaper clippings about First Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a list of writing titles and a numbered series of correspondence and stories that were created by Margaret Duncan Borden. When between 70 and 75 years of age, Borden wrote a series of forty short stories, reminiscences and letters. She typed a number of carbon copies and sent them from her home in Oklahoma to her grandchildren, including those in Little Shemogue, New Brunswick. Some of the recollections refer to Little Shemogue and Borden’s childhood experiences there, including information about prominent Covenanter families in the community; others relate incidents later in her life, as wife and mother, raising a family with her clergyman husband. Some of the stories indicate date and place of origin, some do not.

Borden, Margaret Jane (Duncan)

John Hammond

  • CA MtA 42
  • Fonds
  • 1866, 1871-1929

Fonds consists of 9 series: John Hammond's sketch book; John Hammond's diary, June - December 1871; photographs; exhibit tickets; letter from Great Britain's Office of the Privy Council, London, England, granting John Hammond, British subject of Canada, permission to travel freely on the continent, 1887; clippings regarding John Hammond's exhibitions and career; biographical sketch of John Hammond; letter to John Hammond from the Director of The National Gallery of Canada, 1915; and John Hammond's paint box.

Hammond, John

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