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Benjamin Dodge fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1777-1832

Fonds consists of one day book used to record daily transactions. Dodge sold mainly timber, but also wheat, bricks, molasses and various sundry items.

Charlotte M. Gilpin fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1897, 1901-1902, 1915-1934

Fonds consists of one album containing photographs of a trip to England, Scotland, postcards, and photos of C.M. Gilpin, W.J. Gilpin Jr., C. Gilpin, Barney's River, and Digby. All images have been identified. Also included is one notebook kept by Charlotte while taking an art history course at the Acadia Seminary and some legal documents regarding the settlement of her mother's estate, including her mother's last will and testament and a memorial to Charlotte, which is on display (copy) in Gilpin Room (original is in storage).

Dr. George B. Dexter fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1824-1837, 1844

Fonds consists of one account book of Dr. Dexter with index. Entries record nature of visit and charges. Dexter also performed some dental work. Fonds also contains one letter to Capt. G.K. Cheatham regarding the death of his son, Richard Dexter.

Dr. J.B. Gilpin fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1846-1873

Fonds consists of numerous letters written by Charlotte Smith to Dr. Gilpin while he was working in Halifax, Annapolis Royal and Pictou, prior to their 1849 marriage. Also included are 3 letters from Gilpin's father, John Bernard Gilpin, including one humourous letter where Gilpin writes to his son, posing as the family dog. Fonds also includes a daguerrotype of Charlotte as a young girl and 18 watercolours, 16 of which Gilpin painted while he was visiting Sable Island awaiting the delivery of the lighthouse keeper's baby. Subjects include wrecked vessels, ponies, wildlife, and the Island's landscape.

Jeanette Yates fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1945-1965

Fonds consists of black and white photographs which have been coloured by Yates. Images consist mainly of portraits of local children, weddings, graduations and adult portraits.

Lizzie Waters fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1863-1875

Fonds consists of photographs of Waters' family and friends.

Mary (Waters) Gilpin fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1859-1872

Fonds consists of photographs of Waters and Gilpin families and friends.

Maud MacDonald fonds

  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1900]

Fonds consists of photographs of MacDonald family and friends.

Municipality of the District of Digby fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1885-1970

Fonds consists of assessment rolls, collector rolls, one minute book of the Council, alms house patient registers, general correspondence of the clerk/treasurer (Rosco Handspiker), accounts and names of bus drivers, minutes of the Road and Bridge Committee, debentures for the Municipality, minutes of the board of health and miscellaneous financial records (mainly receipts and cancelled cheques).

Myrtle House fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1894-1895

Fonds consists of one book used to register guests. Futher in the ledger, the name Myrtle House is crossed out, and Clifton Terrace is written in.

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