Letters, Documents, etc
Correspondence on Provincial Secretary’s Office letterhead from Hon. Pro. Secretary to the Digby Municipal Clerk regarding Road Grant showing the sum of $2095.89 credit of the Municipality of Digby for the current year. Signed by Wm. Reynolds
Date: April 14, 1890, Halifax
Accession Number: 2000.42.05
Location: Archival Closet; Archival box labelled “Misc. Records #4”
Picture to the left and inscription on the right advertising goods for store on Water Street, Digby, N.S. for B. J. Roop, Successor to J. L. Peters. Motto “Service and Quality”
Accession Number: 2000.25.04
Location: Archival Closet; Archival box labelled “Misc. Records #4”.
This hardcover scribbler appears to have been used by Edith Turnbull for writing notes during Bible Study/Sunday School, Etc. When you flip the book over and open it from the back, it was used as a Scrapbook by Mrs. Maynard Turnbull, Bayview.
Accession Number: 1982.60.2
Location: Archival Closet; Archival box labelled “Misc. Records #4”
List or Manifest of Aliens Employed on the Vessel as Members of the Crew. There are 16 names on the list. Vessel “City of Calo___ [illegible]
Accession Number: 2000.01.01
Location: Archival Closet; Archival box labelled “Misc. Records #3”
Canada Food Board certifies Charles A. Height of Little River, N.S. a license of Retail Butchers to Deal Retail in Meats, Produce, Flour & Feed, also Fruit & Vegetables at Little River, N.S. License to expire May 14, 1919. License No. 9-10374.
Also includes The Canada Gazette Extract regarding Regulations for the Food Controller. Dated Saturday, November 17, 1917, and a typed letter from the Canada Food Board, Ottawa.
Date: August 10, 1918
Accession Number: 1990.109.03a,b & c
Location: Archival Closet; Archival box labelled “Misc. Records #3”
The Department of Marine and Fisheries; a Special Fishing License to W. W. Hayden & Fred Robinson, both residents of Digby for the sum of $5.00. License was good for April 1, 1908 to March 31, 1909. This license was for a brush weir for herring situated off West Beach, Bayview, Digby County.
2 pages
Written across the top “Al Robertson, Inspector”
Dated: April 14, 1908
Accession Number: 1980.13.2a & b
Location: Archival Closet; Archival box labelled “Misc. Records #3”
Hand-written account of Jacob Cornwell (1778-1864)
2 pages
Accession Number: 2004.7.2
Location: Archival Closet; Archival box labelled “Misc. Records #3”
Typed article on Rev. John Chipman Morse, D.D. (1819-1907), by Rev. J.M. Saunders, D.D.
3 pages
Accession Number: 2004.7.1
Location: Archival Closet; Archival box labelled “Misc. Records #3”
Copies from pages of Honorable Rear Admiral Robert Digby’s original Order Books which are located at the Archival of Minterne Estate at Dorset, England.
http://admiraldigbymuseum.ca/?page_id=46
http://www.minterne.co.uk/mjs/history.html
Date: 1783
Accession Number: 2006.186.1a-1f
Location: Archival Closet; Archival box labelled “Misc. Records #2”