Dates: 1915, 1922-1969
Extent: Approx. 19 cm of textual records
Scope and Content
One of the notebooks, a military notebook with a bullet hole through it, belonged to THR's father. The other twenty-four contain information recorded by THR and pertain to a variety of subjects, including the Mackay-Bennett, pulp mill shipments, people, places, folklore, financial accounts, and recreational interests.
Access Restrictions
None.
| 31.14 | Firearms - n.d. |
| 31.15 | Telephone Lineman's book - 1920 |
| 31.16 | Mackay-Bennett diary with newspaper clippings glued over some text - diary from January 1921, clippings up to the 1940s |
| 31.17 | "Pulp Shipments Macleod Pulp and Paper Co., Ltd." - 1922-1927 |
| 32.1 | Miscellaneous - including Saga of the Rover Accounts, and A. Haliburton - 1937 |
| 32.2 | Miscellaneous - including Cornwallis Road and Winslow Papers - circa 1935 |
| 32.3 | Miscellaneous - "Nature Notes & Walks; Tuna Fishing; Grand Pre; Gull Islands; Hooked Mats; Gaelic; Railway Ties; Tarleton's Legion; "A Treatise of Military Discipline" by Humphrey Bland; Railroading; Guy Minard's Memoirs of Lumbering; Murray's Rock; "Colonel A," Sir. A. Currie, Sir Archie MacDonell, and Enos Collins by Col. F.; Timber Cruising in Nfld., Women's Suffrage in N.S.; RCMP" - 1938-1940s |
| 32.4 | Misc. - "Schooner 'Fieldwood,' Turks I's Salt, Lequille NS, Hythe, etc." - circa 1938 |
| 32.5 | Misc. - "Fishing. Sea. Nova Scotia" - late 1930s? 1940s? |
| 32.6 | "Almanac"; includes loose sheet "Invasion by Germans, Apl 1940" - 1938-1969 |
| 32.7 | "Reminiscences of William Henry Smith, Liverpool, NS" - circa 1940 |
| 32.8 | "18th Century words and phrases & early 19th century words and phrases" - 1940s? |
| 32.9 | "Cape Breton Journey" - 1940 |
| 32.10 | "Notebook No. 1" [Historical Miscellany, Nova Scotiana] - 1940s |
| 32.11 | "Notebook No. 2" [Miscellaneous, Liverpool] - 1940s? |
| 32.12 | "Legends and Superstitions and Anecdotes" - 1940s |
| 32.13 | "Swordfishing in NS; Nova Scotia Cooking Recipes"; Notebook includes correspondence dated May 27, 1941 from A. H. Leim to THR - 2 pp. (and 8 pp. enclosure "Swordfish") |
| 32.14 | Miscellaneous - 35 loose pp. - Circa 1945 |
| 32.15 | "Tall Tales" - Circa 1945 |
| 32.16 | Miscellaneous - 1948 |
| 32.17 | Miscellaneous - Circa 1948 |
| 32.18 | "Quotations" - Late 1940s-1950s |
| 32.19 | "Quotations" - 1950s-1970s |
| 32.20 | College/Marriage expenses: Tom and Francie - 1953-1956 |
| 32.21 | Indian Gardens/Milton Cemetery - circa 1959 |