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Anna Barbara Webber postcard collection

  • Accession number 2008.013.
  • Fonds
  • 1905-1914, predominant 1906-1912

Collection consists of postcards accumulated by Anna Barbara Webber. Postcards date from 1905 to 1914, but predominantly from 1906 to 1912. Most postcards are addressed either to Anna Barbara or to her (then) future husband William Wilson Webber, although there are also some to other family members. Most of the postcards refer to events and activities on the Eastern Shore and in Dartmouth, where Anna Barbara lived during this time period. Postcards are each assigned an individual number from 1 to 696, and are arranged into five categories pertaining to their styles or types: postcards representing specific communities, landscape postcards, photograph postcards, greeting cards, and romance cards. Within each category, cards are arranged in order of their number.

Webber, Anna Barbara, 1884-1922

Chezzetcook Historical Society fonds

  • Accession number 2009.018.
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1900]-2008, predominant 1974-2004

Fonds consists of records of the Chezzetcook Historical Society and its members. Textual records were created between about 1900 and 1930, between 1950 and 1955, in 1965, and between 1974 and 2008, but predominantly between 1974 and 2004. Records in the fonds include community research material, genealogical research material, material related to the Society's activities in the community, publications, the Society constitution and meeting minutes, financial and legal records, correspondence, inventories of its holdings, photographs, and maps.

Chezzetcook Historical Society

General record of registered letters

  • Accession number 2009.039.
  • Fonds
  • 1919-1920

Fonds consists of a ledger recording registered letters mailed at, received for delivery at, or passing through the Jeddore Oyster Pond Post Office, Oyster Pond, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, from June 14, 1919 to August 11, 1920.

East Jeddore School fonds

  • Accession number 2009.039.
  • Fonds
  • 1921-1936

Fonds consists of records of the East Jeddore School. Records were created between 1921 and 1936. Fonds contains a ledger which records school taxes owing by individual taxpayers, along with their payment status, for the period of 1930-1936. Also recorded are teacher salaries, supply costs, insurance fees, and other expenses for the same period. The ledger book also includes minutes of School meetings from 1923-1935. Fonds also includes a sheet of paper which records valuations of taxpayers property in East Jeddore and school taxes for 1921. The sheet is folded and inserted between two pages of the ledger.

East Jeddore School

John M. Homans, General Merchant fonds

  • Accession number 2009.039.
  • Fonds
  • 1904-1909, 1960

Fonds consists of records of the Homans store. Records were created between 1904 and 1909, and in 1960.; ; Fonds includes a day book ledger from 1904-1909 which records daily sales at the store and whether or not the sales were paid. Fonds also includes two receipt books of store sales from 1960.

John M. Homans, General Merchant

Helen Jennex fonds

  • Accession number 2009.039.
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1910]-[ca. 2004]

Fonds consists of material documenting the activities of Helen Jennex. Material was created between about 1910 and about 2004. Records in the fonds are arranged into two series, one of material related to Jennexs history and heritage activities, and one of material related to her school activities.

Jennex, Helen, 1912-1986

Treasurer book

  • Accession number 2009.039.
  • Fonds
  • 1943-1958

a treasurer book of the Home & School Association of Jeddore Oyster Pond, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, covering the period from 1943 to 1958. Recorded in the book are receipts from the Associations various income sources, as well as expenses for the Associations various programs and events. Also included in the expenses are equalization fees which may have been intended for other affiliated home & school associations, and sums for the purchase or rental of a Gestetner copying machine.

Home & School Association (Oyster Pond, N.S.)

Trustees of Harbourside School (Owls Head, N.S.) fonds

  • Accession number 2009.042.
  • Fonds
  • 1968-1983

Fonds consists of financial records of the Trustees of Harbourside School of Owls Head, Halifax County, Nova Scotia. Records were produced between 1968 and 1983. Fonds contains pages from a ledger book listing income and expenses of the Trustees from January 1968 to June 1973. The ledger pages also list transactions of the Trustees bank accounts from June 1977 to February 1983. Some transactions are also listed on sheets of looseleaf paper. Fonds also includes two invoices addressed to the Harbourside School, one from Brookfield Foods and the other from the University of New Brunswick. In addition, fonds includes two bank deposit slips and a calculator printout.

Trustees of Harbourside School (Owls Head, N.S.)

E.J. Webber fonds

  • Accession number 2009.045.
  • Fonds
  • 1941-1945, 1951-1955

Fonds consists of records of the activities of E. J. Webber. Records were created between 1941 and 1945, and between 1951 and 1955. Records in the fonds are arranged into two series, one of records related to Webbers activities as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd Reserve Battalion Halifax Rifles during World War II, and one of records related to Webber and his wife Marguerites activities while sharing the duties of Postmistress of Lake Charlotte, Halifax County, Nova Scotia.

Webber, E.J. (Edward James), 1897-1963

Monthly time book

  • Accession number 2010.003.
  • Fonds
  • 1942-1943

a time book which records the names of men and hours worked on a project from September to December 1942. The names of at least 60 men are listed, working shifts of usually 10 hours each day from Monday to Saturday. The name of the foreman given is Garth M. L. Hosking, and the name of B.H. Mitchell on the cover indicates that he was likely the contractor. The book also records the use of B.H. Mitchell's horse and truck, Reg Days horse, and another companys truck. Although the nature of the project is not described, the men were probably working on constructing large floating barges to be used as part of the war effort. The barges were constructed locally at Hartlin Settlement, Halifax County and then carried by tugboat to Halifax Harbour. The main timbers used were imported, but the decking came from local mills, including Mitchell's. Also recorded in the book are shifts worked by Garth Hosking during May and June 1943.

Mitchell, B.H. (Byron Hadley), 1894-1945

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