Dates: 1860, 1919-1973
Extent: Approx. 26 cm of textual records; 1 map
Scope and Content
This series contains notes, memoirs, obituaries, and reminiscences by Raddall about many individuals; some excerpts make their way into his novels as anecdotes. Also included here are correspondence, sketches, photographs, notes, and research materials on a wide variety of topics of interest to THR including Sable Island, shipping, pulp operations, gold mining, Queen's County local history, Mi'kmaq culture, Nova Scotia aviation history, telegraph systems, trials, and Nova Scotia humour.
Arrangement
The "People" subseries described below has been arranged alphabetically by last name.
In one case, a letter (to Harold Connolly dated August 19, 1949), clearly unrelated to the folder of materials it was in (Bank of Liverpool) was moved to the folder on Irish Settlers in Queens County, where it thematically fits.
Access Restrictions
Box 31, Folder 13 is closed until 2019.
| Subseries: People | |
| (Typescripts unless otherwise noted.) | |
| 29.7 | Joseph Barss |
| "Joseph Barss Sr. & Joseph Barss Jr., two famous Liverpool privateer captains" - circa 1960 - 29 pp. | |
Alexander Graham Bell | |
| --See Sinclair Lewis notes below in this series: Box 29, Folder 9 | |
Bliss Carman | |
| --See Charles G. D. Roberts notes below in this series: Box 30, Folder 1 | |
Sylvanus Cobb | |
| "Sylvanus Cobb" - circa 1945? - 4 pp. | |
Maynard L. Colp | |
| "Memoirs of Group-Captain Maynard L. Colp, O.B.E., R.C.A.F. (Retd.)" - - 1968-1969 - 33 pp. | |
Seward Coombs | |
| "Memoirs of Seward Coombs" - circa 1945 - 7 pp. | |
Rev. Duff | |
| --See Photograph Series, Box 54, Folder 49, p1585 | |
Arthur Leonard Dunphy | |
| "The 8th Battalion, Winnipeg Rifles, at the battle of Amiens, August 8 & 9, 1918" - circa 1944 - 4 pp. --See also Herbert A. Mowat notes below in this series, Box 29, Folder 9 | |
Stanley Edwards | |
| "Stanley Edwards, The Mystery Man of Sable River" - circa May 1970 - 8 pp. | |
| Clipping - Chatelaine - May 1970 | |
Carl Freeman | |
| --See Edgar Wright notes below in this series, Box 30, Folder 1 | |
Mary I. Freeman | |
| "The Three Old Maids" - 6 pp. | |
James Gardner | |
| "Journal of Captain James Gardner" - 1968 - 34 pp. | |
| 29.8 | James D. Gillis |
| The Cape Breton Giant, A truthful memoir by Jas D. Gillis. Halifax, NS: T.C. Allen and Co., 1919. | |
| My Palestine Pilgrimage by James D. Gillis. North Sydney, NS: Herald Print, 1936 | |
| Typescript - "Certified True Copy by THR, April 13, 1945" of "My Visit to Halifax in March, 1945" by J. D. Gillis; clipped to it are a letter from Gillis to Andrew Merkel dated April 5, 1945 and a mimeograph of the "Certified True Copy" - 19 pp. | |
| Typescript - "Halifax Revisited" by THR - 12 pp. | |
| Poem (photocopy) by Kenneth Leslie commemorating Gillis's March 1945 visit to Halifax - signed on back by James Gillis, 1945 | |
| "Bulletin of the Nova Scotia Centre Poetry Society," which includes reference to Gillis's visit - March 19, 1945 | |
| Clipping - September 25, 1961 - Cape Breton Post - Re: James D. Gillis | |
Sam Glode | |
| "Malti Went Crazy" - 1944 - 3 pp. | |
| "Sam Glode, Micmac Indian" - 1944 - 21 pp. | |
William Keddy | |
| "Memoirs of William Keddy" - circa 1950 - 14 pp. | |
Charles La Tour | |
| Typescript - "Charles La Tour and His Contemporaries, Historical References" - circa 1945 - 11 pp. | |
| Manuscript - "La Tour" - 6 pp. | |
| 29.9 | Sinclair Lewis |
| "Sinclair Lewis and Alexander Graham Bell, J. A. D. McCurdy, et al." - circa 1961 - 1 p. | |
Harold McCormick | |
| "The Affair of Harold McCormick and Ganna Walska" - late 1960s? - 3 pp. | |
| Clipping - "Opera: Mary the First" - Time - January 13, 1967 | |
J.A.D. McCurdy | |
| "John McPherson, Queens County Poet" - circa 1965 - 4 pp. | |
Zenas Millard | |
| "Adventures of Zenas Millard, Seaman of Liverpool, N.S." - 1957 - 2 pp. | |
Philip Hooper Moore | |
| "Philip Hooper Moore" - 1969 - 16 pp. | |
John G. Morton | |
| Correspondence - October 7, 1966 - Halifax, NS - From Bruce Fergusson, NS Provincial Archivist to THR - 1 p. | |
| "John G. Morton: Some biographical and other notes regarding the man and his diary" - circa 1966 - 7 pp. | |
| "Some Index Notes for the John G. Morton Diary" - circa 1966 - 3 pp. | |
| "Extracts from the diary of John G. Morton" - circa 1966 - 69 pp. | |
Silvanus Morton | |
| "Excerpt from the Diary of Silvanus Morton" - 2 pp. | |
Herbert A. Mowat | |
| "8th Canadian Battalion at Amiens, August 1918" - circa 1944 - 5
pp. --See also
Arthur Leonard Dunphy notes above in this
series, Box 29, Folder 7 | |
| 30.1 | Tom Nickerson |
| "The Reunion (A true story of Cape Sable)" - circa 1945 - 1 p. | |
Captain Wallace Ogilvie | |
| "Notes re S/S 'Liverpool Rover'"and "Notes re S/S 'Peryness''' - 4 pp. | |
Simeon Perkins | |
| Typescript and Manuscript - "Notes from Simeon Perkins Diary" - circa 1945 - 32 pp. | |
| Typescript and Manuscript - "Further notes from Simeon Perkins Diary" - circa 1945 - 4 pp. | |
| "Smallpox Epidemic in Liverpool, NS-1800-1801" - 8 pp. | |
| Manuscript - "Perkins House" circa 1957 - 3 pp. | |
| "Notes by Francis F. Tupper, written on the original copy of the attached map" - 1957 - 1 p. and attached map - 1 p. | |
| "The Simeon Perkins House: References in his diary" - 5 pp. | |
| Manuscript - "Simeon Perkins" - 1 p. | |
| "Copy of a letter to Joshua Newton Esq. at Halifax, Feb 20th, 1802" - 2pp. | |
| Copy of a letter to Joshua Newton October 11, 1816? - 4 pp. | |
| "Perkins House" - circa 1960 - 1 p. | |
| "Simeon Perkins and his Family" - circa 1960 - 4 pp. | |
| "Perkins House, Liverpool" - circa 1960 - 1 p. | |
| "Simeon Perkins as a Farmer" circa 1960 - 3 pp. | |
| Early Liverpool and its Diarist by C. B. Fergusson, Bulletin of P.A.N.S. No.16, Halifax, 1961 | |
Charles G. D. Roberts | |
| "Data on C. G. D. Roberts and Bliss Carman" - envelope containing notebook - 1946 | |
Leonard Christopher Rudolf | |
| "History of My Great Grandfather Written by Himself" - 10 pp. and attached card | |
John van Dyke | |
| "A Loyalist Who Returned (after Some Years in Nova Scotia) to His Old Home in the United States" - 3 pp. | |
Ganna Walska | |
| --See Harold McCormick notes above in this series, Box 29, Folder 9 | |
William Wigglesworth | |
| "Fishing schooners" - after 1940 - 10 pp. | |
Charles Williams | |
| "Charles Williams' Story" - 1945 - 2 pp. | |
| "Steamship versus Devil-fish" - 1945 - 2 pp. | |
Ebenezer Williams | |
| "The 'Baralong' Case" - 7 pp. in covers | |
Edgar Wright | |
| "De Mortuis" [memoirs of Edgar Wright and Carl Freeman] - circa 1945 - 26 pp. |
| Subseries: Sable Island | |
| 30.2 | Correspondence: R. O. Allen |
| January 21, 1951 - Toronto, ON - From R. O. Allen to THR - 2 pp. | |
| February 11, 1951 - Toronto, ON - From R. O. Allen to THR - 3 pp. | |
Correspondence: Mrs. Fred Androschuk | |
| October 1965 - Sable Island, NS - From Mrs. Fred Androschuk to THR - 4 pp. stapled to envelope | |
Correspondence: Frank G. Burns | |
| May 28, 1960 - Sable Island, NS - From Frank Burns to THR - 1 p. and enclosure of letter dated May 28, 1960 from Sable Island residents to Edmund Morris, S.P.C.A., and Halifax Chronicle Herald | |
Correspondence: Willard F. Goff | |
| April 6, 1961 - Seattle, WA - From Willard F. Goff to THR - 1 p. | |
| April 14, 1961 - Liverpool, NS - From THR to Willard F. Goff - 1 p. | |
| May 30, 1961 - Seattle, WA - From Willard F. Goff to THR - 1 p. | |
Correspondence: A. M. Mansfield | |
| February 27, 1962 - Ottawa, ON - From A. M. Mansfield to THR - 1 p. | |
| March 1, 1962 - Liverpool, NS - From THR to A. M. Mansfield - 1 p. | |
Correspondence: D. S. Martin | |
| January 17, 1948 - Halifax, NS - From D. S. Martin to THR - 1 p. | |
Correspondence: Elsie Pomroy | |
| March 31, 1951 - Toronto, ON - From Elsie Pomeroy to THR - 1 p. | |
Correspondence: Mrs. Joseph Thomson | |
| March 18, 1954 - Regina, SK - From Mrs. Joseph Thomson to THR - 2 pp. | |
Correspondence: G.L.W. Vickridge | |
| July 7, 1967 - Dartmouth, NS - From G. L. W. Vickridge to THR - 1 p. | |
| July 11, 1967 - Liverpool, NS - From THR to G. L. W. Vickridge - 1 p. | |
| July 24, 1967 - Dartmouth, NS - From G. L. W. Vickridge to THR - 1 p. | |
| August 14, 1967 - Dartmouth, NS - From G. L. W. Vickridge to THR - 1 p. | |
Correspondence: Caroline S. Beckwith | |
| File folder with THR's notes about further references to resources about Sable Island; contains the two items pertaining to Beckwith | |
| January 28, 1959 - Victoria, BC - From Caroline S. Beckwith to THR - 1 p. | |
| Typescript - note entitled "Brooch from Sable Island" pertaining to the letter | |
Sketches and Photographs | |
| Original Watercolour - circa 1860 - by a member of the family of Philip S. Dodd, Superintendent of Sable Island - 1855-72 | |
| Sketch - "Diagram of transmitting apparatus, Sable Island wireless station" by THR - 1921 | |
| "Gloucester fishing schooner 'Esperanto' after striking a sunken ship and sinking herself" - 1921 --Moved to Photograph Series, Box 51, Folder 4, p162 | |
| "Trawler 'Fabia' of Boston engaged in attempt to salvage sunken schooner 'Esperanto'" - 1921 --Moved to Photograph Series, Box 51, Folder 4, p160 | |
| "Fishing trawler 'Fabia' of Boston, with diving and salvage gear aboard" - 1921 --Moved to Photograph Series, Box 51, Folder 4, p161 | |
| "Brick hearth found on Sable Island by Donald Patterson March 1963" --Moved to Photograph Series, Box 54, Folder 25, p1418 | |
| "Ruins of a brick hearth, accompanied by human remains and 18th century relics found on Sable Island by Donald Patterson March 1963" --Moved to Photograph Series, Box 54, Folder 25, p1419 | |
| "Human bones, beside a brick hearth, found on Sable Island by Donald
Patterson March 1963" --Moved to Photograph Series, Box 54,
Folder 25, p1420 | |
| 30.3 | Clippings and Research Material |
| "Sable Island: Its History and Phenomena" [1894] by George Patterson - 44 pp. | |
| Picture of the "Crofton Hall" - circa 1925 | |
| Offprint - D. W. Rosebrugh, "The Graveyard of the Atlantic" from Canadian Geographical Journal - February 1932 | |
| "Dreaded Menace Creeping Like Giant Octopus in Search of Fresh Victims" - circa 1935 | |
| "A Decent Burial for Old Warship," Halifax Chronicle Herald - August 17, 1950 | |
| "Viceroy of Sable Island" from Varsity Graduate - March 1959 | |
| "Paintings Perpetuate Visit to Fabled Island," Halifax Chronicle Herald - April 3, 1962 | |
| "Sable Island: A 'Graveyard' and a Pasture," Halifax Chronicle Herald- June 10, 1963 | |
| H. G. Classen, "The Missing Messengers," The Atlantic Advocate - January 1964 | |
| Melville Bell Grosvenor, "Safe Landing on Sable Island," National Geographic Magazine - September 1965 | |
| Reprint - Arthur W. Mansfield, "The Mammals of Sable Island," The Canadian Field-Naturalist - January-March 1967 | |
| "She's Been Around and Around," Halifax Chronicle Herald - July 7, 1967 | |
| "Ponies Undisturbed by Drillers," Halifax Chronicle Herald - July 20, 1967 | |
| "Abandoned Mobil Well Explained," Halifax Chronicle Herald - December 23, 1969 | |
| "Sable Hit Hard by Oil, Weather," Halifax Chronicle Herald - March 20, 1970 | |
| "Sable Ponies Won't Eat Hay," Halifax Chronicle Herald - March 24, 1970 | |
| "Strike on Sable is Confirmed," Halifax Chronicle Herald - June 26, 1971 | |
| "What's Happening on Sable Island? Oil!" Globe and Mail - August 13, 1971 | |
| "Shell Abandons Sable Area Well," Halifax Chronicle Herald - September 14, 1971 | |
| "Oil and Ecology on Sable Island," Weekend Magazine - April 8, 1972 | |
| Picture of the Sable Ferry, Halifax Chronicle Herald - July 7, 1972 | |
| "The Graveyard Shift," The Dartmouth Free Press -
December 6, 1972 | |
| 55 | Sable Island Map |
| Constructed from air photographs - 1952 | |
| 30.4 | Research Notes |
| Manuscript - "Sable Island" - 1 p. | |
| "Sable Island" [notes from "The American Coast Pilot" by Edmund Blunt, 1806] - 2 pp. | |
| "Sable Island" [notes from "Account of Nova Scotia" by Thomas C. Haliburton, 1829] - 8 pp. | |
| "Shipwreck at Sable Island" [notes from The Morning Courier, March 18, 1848] - 2 pp. | |
| Advertisement from The Morning Courier, November 21, 1848 - 1 p. | |
| "The Sable Island Ghost" [1853] - 4 pp. | |
| Manuscript - "From clippings inserted in J. Bernard Gilpin's 'Lecture on Sable Island' pamphlet at N. S. Archives" [1858] - 1 p. | |
| "Sable Island" [misc. notes from books by Edwin Crowell, Mather B. DesBrisay, and A. W. H. Eaton] - 5 pp. | |
| "Sable Island" [notes from "History of Nova Scotia" by Beamish Murdoch, 1866] - 13 pp. | |
| "Sable Island" [notes from "History of Acadia" by James Hannay, 1879] - 3 pp. | |
| "Sable Island" [notes from a paper by S. D. MacDonald, 1884] - 4 pp. | |
| "Cats for Sable Island" from Halifax Chronicle Herald [June 3 , 1889] - 1 p. | |
| "Sable Island Wireless station and its mainland connection, Camperdown" - 4 pp. (included attached note on source); attached clipping from Halifax Chronicle Herald [March 26, 1970] | |
| "Sable Island 1866" [notes from "Closing Scenes of the War with Russia" by F.H.D. Veith, 1913] - 11 pp. | |
| "Sable Island" [notes from "Acadiensia Nova" by W. I. Morse, 1935] - 6 pp. | |
| "The Sable Island Boutiliers" - from THR's diary - August 24, 1956 - 1 p. | |
| Typescript and Manuscript - "Human remains found on Sable Island in 1963" [circa 1963] - 4 pp. | |
| Notes from "The Lonely Sea and the Sky" by Sir Francis Chichester [1964] - 2 pp. | |
| "Sable Island 1964" from The Alumni News [ Dalhousie University] - July 1964 - 1 p. |
| Subseries: Shipping | |
| (Typescript unless otherwise noted.) | |
| 30.5 | Miscellaneous |
| Document - Alexander Crowell's Masters Certificate of Service dated 1856 - 1 p. | |
| "Leaves from a notebook giving details of labor & materials costs in the building of the brigantine 'Aldine'" - envelope containing 12 pp. | |
| "The 'Empire Sun'" - circa February 6, 1942 - 10 pp. | |
| "The Wreck of the 'Marjorie Parker' August 1941" - 5 pp. | |
| Clipping - "In Memory of a Great Champion" - Halifax Chronicle Herald - July 16, 1951 | |
| "H.M.S. Senegal and H.M.S. Blonde" - 1954 - 3 pp. | |
| "Memorandum of Agreement by Duncan C. Mulhall, Liverpool, N.S. to build a schooner for David Ritcey, Riverport, N.S. with specifications" - circa 1960 - 4 pp. | |
| "Murder aboard the Brigantine 'Zero' at LaHave Island" - circa 1963 - 9 pp. | |
| "The last will and testament of William Mortimer, retired shipmaster of Port Medway in the county of Queen, Nova Scotia [Dated in 1873] - circa 1965 - 2 pp. | |
| "Wreck of the Barque 'Menapia'" - circa March 1969 - 2 pp. | |
Liverpool | |
| Clipping - "Vessels registered at the port of Liverpool, from the year 1840 to the year 1910" | |
| "Liverpool and Milton owned ships. Partial list compiled by Francis Tupper" - circa 1945 - 3 pp. | |
| Sketches - "Launching at Liverpool" - circa 1945 - 1 p. | |
| "Shipping registered at Liverpool N.S. in 1866" - circa 1965 - 8 pp. | |
| "Ships belonging to Liverpool, Nova Scotia, in the Year 1868" - circa 1965 - 6 pp. |
| Subseries: Pulp Operations | |
| (Typescript unless otherwise noted.) | |
| 30.6 | "Report on Water Power on the Mersey River, Nova Scotia by C. E. Yorston, C. E. 1915" - 15 pp. |
| "Macleod Pulp & Paper Co. Ltd. Comparative Statement-Workmen's Compensation Board Funds 1924-1925" - 7 pp. | |
| "Proposed Improvements to Macleod Pulp Mills" - 5 pp. | |
| "Analysis of Pulp Wood Shipped by Rail, 1925" - 1 p. | |
| "Pulpwood Shipped to Macleod Mills by Rail 1926" - 2 pp. | |
| "Distribution Wages 1926" MacLeod Mills - 1 p. | |
| "Rapid Falls Mill record of felts used 1925-1926" - 5 pp. | |
| "Macleod Pulp & Paper Company Ltd." - 12 pp. | |
| Assorted stock-taking notes, Macleod Pulp & Paper Company Ltd. - 3 pp. | |
| Mersey Hydraulic Company Ltd. - 2 pp. | |
| "Estimates of Timber: Halifax, & South Western Railway Lands Annapolis County" - 4 pp. | |
| "History of Pulp Mills at Milton as compiled by J. R. Gordon of Milton, March, 1934" - 4 pp. | |
| "Report on a survey of timber land in Western Nova Scotia by Titus Smith in the year 1801" - 52 pp. | |
| "The Pine Woods of Queens County" - 8 pp. | |
| Clipping - "The MacLeod Pulp Mills," Mersey Quarterly - Fall 1963 |
| Subseries: Gold Mining Operations | |
| (Typescript unless otherwise noted.) | |
| 30.7 | Prospectus pamphlet - "Outstanding Gold Mining Development: King-fissure Mine Operated by the United Goldfields of Nova Scotia Limited" [1931] |
| Eleven photographs relating to Molega, NS mining --Moved to Photograph Series, Box 54, Folder 27, p1430-p1451 | |
| The Mersey Quarterly - Summer 1966 | |
| Manuscript and Typescript - Notes re. Gold Mining in Queens Co. by Hugh Byrne - 14 pp. | |
| "The King Fissure Gold Mine: Items from my diary" - Retyped circa 1966 - 3 pp. | |
| Manuscript and Typescript - "Gold in Queens County" - circa 1966 - 4 pp. | |
| "Extracts from 'The Liverpool Advance', 1986 and 1897, about Gold Mining" - 1966 - 3 pp. | |
| Extracts from 'The Goldfields of Nova Scotia' by W. Malcolm" - circa 1966 - 6 pp. |
| Subseries: Queens County Local History | |
| (Typescript unless otherwise noted.) | |
| 30.8 | Liverpool-Milton Railway |
| "The Smallest Ancestor" - Notes from an article in the CNR Magazine - 1 p. | |
| Correspondence - September 12, 1960 - Halifax, NS - From H. B. Jefferson to THR - 1 p. | |
| Clipping - "Telephone Man Sparks Liverpool & Milton," The Chronicle-Herald - January 21, 1961 | |
| Clipping - "Crowds Out for First Run of L & M 's 'Mersey,'" The Chronicle-Herald - January 28, 1961 | |
| Clipping - "Famous Novelist Recalls Last Years of L. & M.," The Chronicle-Herald - February 18, 1961 | |
| Clipping - "2 Shots Through Flue End Poker Party in Van," The Chronicle-Herald - February 25, 1961 | |
Methodist Church in Liverpool | |
| News sheet - Liverpool Transcript - March 8, 1866 | |
| "The Methodist Church in Liverpool" and "Methodist Centenary
Church" - 4 pp. | |
| 30.9 | Bank of Liverpool |
| UK Supreme Court Summons of Henry Smith of Brooklyn - December 1875 - 1 p. | |
| "The Bank of Liverpool in liquidation" - 2 pp. | |
| "Items from the letterbook of Francis W. Collins" - 12 pp. | |
| "The Bank of Liverpool" - 8 pp. | |
| Clipping and note - "Granddaughter of novel's heroine dies," Halifax Chronicle Herald - November 7, 1961 | |
| "The Bank of Liverpool" by Harry Eisenhauer, Canadian Paper Money Journal - January 1973 | |
Liverpool History | |
| 30.10 | "The Fort at Liverpool, N.S." - circa 1950 - 85 pp. |
| 30.11 | "Early tanners and tanneries in Liverpool, N.S." - circa 1950 - 2 pp. |
| Manuscript note on the destructive Liverpool fire of September 8, 1895 | |
| "Sunday's Conflagration" - Typescript of an article in the Liverpool Advance; the issue was undated, but probably in early September 1895 - 3 pp. | |
| "Liverpool in 1896 and 1897" - Extracts from the Liverpool Advance - circa 1950 - 81 pp. | |
| "Town of Liverpool" - Extracts from minutes of Town Council meetings early 1900s - 2 pp. | |
| "Points of Interest about Liverpool, N.S." - 1952 - 6 pp. | |
| Clipping - "The Town of Liverpool from 1900 to 1907," Liverpool Advance - November 23 ,1961 | |
| Clipping - "Liverpool 1900 to 1907," Liverpool Advance - December 7, 1961 | |
| "Rum-runners at Liverpool, N.S." in the 1920s - circa 1965 - 9 pp. | |
| "Liverpool, N.S. during World War Two (from the diary of THR)" - Compiled circa 1960 - 33 pp. | |
| Clipping - "Columbia," The Crowsnest - December 1959 | |
| "The Queens County Historical Society, 1929-1959" - Drawn from THR's personal diary from this period - Compiled circa 1959 - 14 pp. | |
| "Lord Dalhousie's Visit to Shelburne, Liverpool, and Lunenburg in 1817"
- excerpts transcribed from The Dalhousie Journals edited by Marjorie
Whitelaw (1978) | |
| 30.12 | Queens County Emergency Authority |
| "Rescue Chart" and instruction sheet - issued in early 1942 - 2 pp. | |
| "Notes on Emergency Procedures: Liverpool, N.S. 1940-1945," by H. A. Patterson - 13 pp. | |
South Shore Bridges and Roads | |
| "History of South Shore Roads (and bridges)" - circa 1942 - 7 pp. | |
| "A Brief History of Highways Bridges over the Mersey River" -
1963 - 5 pp. | |
| 31.1 | Collected Stories and Legends from Queens and Shelburne Counties |
| Index page - 1 p. | |
| "Bon Mature" - 4 pp. | |
| "Catherine's River" - 7 pp. and attached clipping | |
| "The Indian Gardens" - 20 pp. | |
| "Jim Charles and his Gold Mine" - 16 pp.; clipping and typescript of land deed | |
| "Along the Shores of the Rossignol" - 10 pp. | |
| "Injun Devil Country" - 4 pp. | |
| "The 'Indian Devil Country'" - 9 pp. | |
| "Caledonia, Queens County" - 9 pp. | |
| Correspondence (1941, 1945) regarding the Waterman family of Nova Scotia - 11 pp. | |
| "Tales of Buried Treasure at Port Mouton" - 3 pp. | |
| "Old Military Road from Shelburne to Annapolis" - 7 pp. and hand-drawn map | |
| "Pinehurst Lodge" - 5 pp.; wanted poster; clipping and menu card | |
| "Dunraven Bog" - 3 pp. | |
| "The Sable River Railroad" - 3 pp. and 2 clippings | |
| "Eight Mile House" - 6 pp. and attached clippings | |
| 31.2 | Irish Settlers |
| Correspondence - January 20, 1947 - Liverpool, NS - From THR to Eleanor C. Armstrong - 3 pp. | |
| Correspondence - August 29, 1949 - Liverpool, NS - From THR to Harold Connolly - 2 pp. | |
| "Irish Settlers in Queens County" - circa 1950 - 2 pp. | |
Irwin and Bartling Families | |
| Correspondence - March 5, 1941 - Liverpool, NS - From Janet Mullins - 3 pp. | |
| "Origin of the Irwin and Bartling Families in Queens County, N.S." - March 1941 - 1 p. | |
Dexter Tavern | |
| --See also Periodical Publications - Non-fiction Series, Box 22, Folder 4 | |
| "The old Dexter Tavern at Liverpool, N.S." - July 1961 - 5 pp. | |
| "The Old Dexter tavern at Liverpool, N.S." - 1966 - 4 pp. | |
| "A Ghost in the Old Dexter Tavern?" - circa early 1970s - 2 pp. | |
Potanoc, Milton, Queens County | |
| "Origin of the Name Potanoc, Milton, Queens Co., N.S." - 2 pp. | |
| Correspondence: August 15, 1961 - West Hartford, CT - From Earl R. Lewis, Jr. to THR - 1 p. | |
Miscellaneous | |
| "Chanties and Other Songs of the Sea" - 1940 - 35 pp. | |
| "Port Medway" - circa 1960 - 10 pp. |
| Subseries: Mi'kmaq Culture | |
| (Typescript unless otherwise noted.) | |
| 31.3 | Correspondence - April 3, 1940 - Ottawa, ON - From W. J. Wintensky to THR - 1 p. |
| Correspondence - August, 1940 - Ottawa, ON - From W. J. Wintensky to THR - 1 p. | |
| "Some Micmac Place Names in Queens County Nova Scotia" - circa 1945 - 7 pp. | |
| "The Algonquin Crooked Knife" - circa 1955 - 1 p. | |
| "Micmac Notes, 1957," by J. S. Erskine, N.S. Museum of Science, Halifax - 19 pp. | |
| "Micmac Notes, 1958," by J. S. Erskine, N.S. Museum of Science, Halifax - 24 pp. | |
| "Micmac Notes, 1959," by J. S. Erskine, N.S. Museum of Science, Halifax - 25 pp. |
| Subseries: Nova Scotia Aviation History (Correspondence) | |
| (Many of the letters are copies.) | |
| 31.4 | Correspondence |
| February 22, 1969 - Pugwash, NS - From J. R. MacQuarrie to THR - 2 pp. plus enclosed copy of letter dated December 5, 1968 from W. L. Fillmore to J. R. MacQuarrie | |
| February 28, 1969 - Liverpool, NS - From THR to J. R. MacQuarrie - 1 p. | |
| March 2, 1969 - Liverpool, NS - From THR to W. L. Fillmore - 1 p. | |
| March 3, 1969 - Amherst, NS - From W. L. Fillmore to THR - 4 pp. (original) plus enclosed copies of letters dated March 3, 1969 from W. L. Fillmore to John MacQuarrie (contains annotations) and dated December 1968 from H. O. Maddens to W. L. Fillmore | |
| March 4, 1969 - Pugwash, NS - From John MacQuarrie to W. L. Fillmore - 1 p. plus enclosed carbon copy of letter dated March 3, 1969 from W. L. Fillmore to John MacQuarrie | |
| March 4, 1969 - Amherst, NS - W. L. Fillmore to THR - 9 pp. | |
| March 21, 1969 - Liverpool, NS - From THR to W. L. Fillmore - 1 p. | |
| March 21, 1969 - Liverpool, NS - From THR to H. O. Madden - 1 p. | |
| March 25, 1969 - Amherst, NS - From W. L. Fillmore to THR - 6 pp. | |
| April 1, 1969 - Amherst, NS - From W. L. Fillmore to THR - 1 p. and enclosed letter dated March 9, 1960 from James Barr to W. L. Fillmore and its reply dated March 11 (?), 1969 | |
| Circa April 15, 1969 - Liverpool, NS - THR to J. M. Ottley - 1 p. | |
| May 14, 1969 - Chase, BC - From J. M. Ottley to THR - 2 pp. | |
| May 20, 1969 - Amherst, NS - W. L. Fillmore to THR - 1 p. | |
| May 30, 1969 - Liverpool, NS - From THR to J. M. Ottley - 1 p. | |
| March 13, 1970 - Liverpool, NS - From THR to J. Alex Inglis - 2 pp. and enclosed photograph of Jim Ottley's Home Built Airplane (enclosure missing) | |
| June 12, 1970 - Liverpool, NS - H. Earl Thompson to THR - 1 p. and enclosed copy of a letter dated June 10, 1970 from R. W. Goodwin to H. Earl Thompson | |
Clippings | |
| January and March 1970 - "From Biplanes to Jets, Pioneer Knew Them All," Halifax Chronicle Herald (January 1970) and "Donald W. Saunders," Dalhousie Alumni News (March 1970) |
| Subseries: Telegraph Systems | |
| --See also Box 23, Folder 2 for THR's published article in The Dalhousie Review on telegraph systems | |
| 31.5 | "Telegraph Systems - 18th Century" - 2 pp. |
| "Notes re Telegraph System. Nova Scotia, circa 1795" - 2 pp. | |
| Drawings of Signal Codes - 3 pp. | |
| "A Treatise upon the Semaphoric System of Telegraphs" by John R. Barker - 9 pp. |
| Subseries: Trials | |
| (Typescript unless otherwise noted.) | |
| 31.6 | "The King Versus Harry Dauphinee" - circa 1938 - 13 pp. |
| "Documents used by Crown Prosecutor 1775-1783. Nova Scotia" - circa 1945 - 11 pp. | |
| "Documents in the case of the King vs. Daniel Hurley, Liverpool, N.S. 1816-17" - circa 1960 - 8 pp. | |
| "Documents in the Case of the King vs. Seth Huskins, Liverpool, N.S. 1816-17" circa 1960 - 13 pp. |
| Subseries: Nova Scotia Humour | |
| (Typescript unless otherwise noted.) | |
| 31.7 | "Nova Scotia Humour. Tales that are told, plain, and ribald, mainly Queens County yarns" - circa 1940 - 27 pp. plus one loose sheet on top |
| "Notes for a talk on Nova Scotia Humour" - circa 1940 13 pp. | |
| "The Wonderful Geography, a tale of Frank Strum's" - circa 1950 - 2 pp. | |
| "Milton in the 1860's" - circa 1953 - 2 pp. | |
| "The Hall of Fame" - circa 1955 - 1 p. | |
| "Cape Breton Yarns" - circa 1955 - 4 pp. | |
| "Lunenburg County Yarns" - circa 1955 - 5 pp. | |
| "Fred Herman's Story" - 1957 - 2 pp. | |
| "Jerry B. Nickerson's Story" - n.d. - 1 p. |
| Subseries: Miscellaneous | |
| (Typescript unless otherwise noted.) | |
| 31.8 | Published Reports |
| Annual Report of the Explosives Division of the Department of Mines for the Calendar year 1935 | |
| Map of Nova Scotia, Department of Mines - 1954; includes interleafed at page 23 notes (2 pp.) by THR on Nova Scotia place names | |
| Canada Mines and Technical Surveys: Transportation Facilities - 1958:
Northwestern Canada - 1958 | |
| 31.9 | S. S. Markland |
| Clipping - "Corvette" by E. C. Russell, The Crowsnest 17 (March-April 1965): 17-20. | |
| Souvenir - "The Three Musketeers" [Inscription placed in the Navy Room, Town Hall, Liverpool N.S.] - May 1965 - 1 p. | |
| Clipping - "Canadian Corvette Sunk in Collision; 23 Lost," December 10, 1941 | |
| Photograph - circa 1941 - Corvette "Hepatica" --See Photograph Series, Box 51, Folder 33, p1241 | |
| "Visit aboard S/S Markland March 1941" - 4 pp. | |
| "Corvette" - circa 1941 - 8 pp. (includes labelled sketch) | |
| "The Three Musketeers" - circa 1941 - 3 pp. | |
| 31.10 | Tales |
| Notes on Miscellaneous Tales - circa 1945 - 6 pp. | |
| "Diary Notes etc." - circa 1945 - 2 pp. | |
| "From my diary" - circa 1945 - 23 pp. | |
| 31.11 | General Topics |
| "Advertisements in the Royal American Gazette, Shelburne, 1784" - 6 pp. | |
| "Nova Scotia Militia Period 1865" - n.d. - 2 pp. sketches --See also Photograph Series, Box 51, Folder 7, p620a-p620e | |
| "Evangeline and the Real Acadians" - circa 1945 - 10 pp. | |
| "Old Wall-paper in Nova Scotia" - after 1948 - 4 pp. and attached newspaper clipping | |
| "Old Sailor's Ballads, Collected by the Late Capt. Fenwick Hatt of Liverpool, N.S." - 1973 - 16 pp. | |
| "Diary Notes" - 5 pp. | |
| "Notes re the Nova Scotia Bank Fishery, November, 1952" - 7 pp. | |
| "Nova Scotians in the Gold Rush to Australia and Tasmania" and attached newspaper clipping, "N.S. and N.S.W. Once Were Neighbors," Halifax Chronicle-Herald - December 16, 1957 - 1 p. | |
| "Notes from the Diary of Archibald MacMechan" - 7 pp. | |
| "British Strategic Withdrawal from the Western Hemisphere, 1904-1906" by Samuel F. Wells, Jr., Canadian Historical Review - December 1968 (and attached newspaper clipping from 1973) | |
| "August, 1926" - "Lief Erikson" photographs - 1 p. | |
Seal Island | |
| --See also Photograph Series, Album #3, Box 53, Folder 2 | |
| 31.12 | "Seal Island 1948, with a Preliminary note on the career of Jerry V. Nickerson" - 24 pp. |
| "Orinoco" - 1 p. | |
| Clipping - "Churches by the Sea," Halifax Chronicle-Herald - August 31, 1957 | |
| "Ships Wrecked on Seal Island and Adjacent Reefs" - 2 pp. | |
| 31.13 | "Seal Island" [about John Crowell] - 6 pp. |