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Samuel Holland collection / [created by] Public Archives and Records Office

  • CA PCA Acc2324
  • Collection
  • [between 1964 and 1973, 2002]

This collection consists of several photocopies of documents relating to Samuel Holland including: notes concerning Holland's life compiled by an archivist at the Public Archives and Records Office; several copies of "The Life and Times of Major Samuel Holland" by Willis Chipman, and transcripts of correspondence between Holland and the British government. The copies were made some time between 1964 and 1973. In the Item listing which follows, the dates refer to the originals.

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Ruth Aitken Bristol collection

  • CA PCA Acc2400
  • Collection
  • 1889-1969

The collection consists of genealogical information concerning the Aitken family which was collected by Ruth Aitken Bristol. The files are arranged into the following series:

  1. Aitken family history
  2. Obituary notices
  3. Photographs
  4. Miscellaneous historical documents

Included are an autobiography written by John Astor Aitken between 1959 and 1961, with comments written by Ruth Aitken Bristol in 1969; obituary notices and genealogical notes concerning the Aitken and Townsend families; and twelve photographs of Aitken family members, tombstones and homes.

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Holman Island collection : 1936-1970

  • CA PCA Acc2603
  • Collection
  • 1972, 1999

The collection contains a history class paper on Holman's Island, Prince Edward Island, by Fraser E. Clark, and several newspaper articles about James L. Holman and the Island Park Hotel. The collection also includes a photograph of the Island Park Hotel (ca. 1900) and a colour photograph of an Island road.

Ms. E. McEwen collection

  • CA PCA Acc2677
  • Collection
  • ca. 1913

The collection consists of ten photographs and one postcard. Photographs include images of Charlottetown such as the post office, Provincial Building, Fort Edward, as well as the Victoria Park Roadway, Queen Square, Queen Street, and Victoria Row in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Another photograph depicts a Mi'Kmaq woman and a child standing outside a teepee. The postcard is entitled, "A Million Dollar Train transporting silver foxes from Tignish to the ranch of The Chas Dalton Silver Black Fox Co. Ltd." Individuals pictured in front of the train include Charles Dalton, M.G. Mooney, Edward Martin, Dr. Lundie, W.B. Prowse, Andy Bagnall and Pat Dorsey.

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Smith, Alley collection

  • CA PCA Acc2702
  • Collection
  • 1764-1912

This collection includes 1168 textual items, plus 235 images collected by Judge George Alley and Henry Smith pertaining largely to the early history of Prince Edward Island. A large proportion of the collection deals with the history of Charlottetown and the colony of Prince Edward Island during its early years of settlement. The collection is divided into 25 series, based on the arrangement that was imposed by the donor, and possibly earlier arrangement prior to donation to the Public Archives and Records Office. Arrangement was based on provenance, subject or contents or type of document. Series order has been rearranged to reflect government documents, family papers and miscellaneous. Many of the series include government records such as bills, acts, proclamations and petitions, Journals of the House of Assembly and Legislative Council, minutes of Council and claims, proposals and reports to the government. The collection includes several series of records pertaining to a number of families and individuals including: George Alley and the Alley family, Fanning family, Wright family, Bagnall family, Isaac Smith, James Bardin Palmer, and Edward Palmer. The collection includes lantern slides, photographs, textual materials and plans. The subject of the photographs is early Charlottetown, and its residents. Photographs include streetscapes, public buildings and private residences, and portraits of city officials and clergymen. The collection also includes records pertaining to the following subjects: inns, taverns, bridges, ferries, Loyalists, schools and education, the Land Question, military, agriculture, the administration of justice, postal service, land records, Charlottetown Market House, Court House, and Province House. A number of the documents in this collection are copies of original documents, many copied at the request of Judge George Alley in pursuit of his interest in writing a history of Prince Edward Island.

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Mrs. R. S. Armitage collection

  • CA PCA Acc2721
  • Collection
  • [before 1974]

This collection consists of 3 photographs. The first is of a military review; the second is of an unidentified male in a horse-drawn carriage; and the third is of the firing of the guns at Victoria Park, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

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Mrs. Howard Vickerson collection : [1918-1920]

  • CA PCA Acc2772
  • Collection
  • Copied 1975

This fonds consists of 18 photographs of three ships built by John A. MacDonald (1874-) of Tracadie, Prince Edward Island, in 1918-1920.

The first of the 3 MacDonald ships whose images have been captured in this collection is the "Anna MacDonald". She was built and launched in 1920 and was at least partially owned by John A. MacDonald. The "Anna MacDonald" weighed 183 tons.

Ship number 2, the "Barbara MacDonald" was owned solely by John A. MacDonald. She was built in 1919 by Duncan S. MacLaren and launched in that same year. The 162 ton schooner was wrecked on her maiden voyage, when she sank during a fierce storm off the coast of Newfoundland on December 14, 1919.

The final vessel, the "Victory Chimes" was built at Cardigan in 1918 by Kimble Coffin. She weighed 297 tons and was jointly owned by John A. MacDonald, George A. Thomson and Eleanor B. Lyons.

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York residents photograph album

  • CA PCA Acc4363
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1870-1900]

The collection consists of 34 portrait images comprised of 28 cabinet cards, 3 cartes-de-visites and 4 tintypes. There is also one death announcement card. Approximately half of the images are identified although identifications may be suspect in some cases. Those that are identified were residents of York in the nineteenth century. About half of the photographs were taken by C. Lewis or George H. Cook of Charlottetown, PEI.

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Indenture of apprenticeship : James Brawders to John Newson, cabinet-maker

  • CA PCA Acc4377
  • Collection
  • 10 March 1870

This collection consists of an indenture of apprenticeship, an agreement made between James Brawders, 19, with the consent of his mother Ellen Brawders, and John Newson, cabinet-maker of Charlottetown. Brawders agrees to place himself in apprenticeship to John Newson for four years to learn the art or trade of a cabinet-maker, and to abide by a specific code of behaviour. Newson agrees to teach Brawders his trade and to pay him 25 pounds per year. Ellen Brawders agrees to provide board, lodging, clothing and medical care for James during the time of his apprenticeship. Both parties are bound by a bond of 20 pounds.

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George T. Fulford post card collection

  • CA PCA Acc4378
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1920-1939]

The collection contains 4 postcards produced sometime between 1920 and 1939, depicting the entrance road to Government House, Government Pond, Charlottetown Harbour, and the grounds of the Cundall home (now Beaconsfield) which was in close proximity to Government House. Government House is located at the edge of Victoria Park, overlooking Charlottetown Harbour, Prince Edward Island, on land set aside for this purpose as early as 1789. The residence itself was built between 1832 and December 1834 when Lt.- Gov. Aretas W. Young moved in. With the exception of a brief period of time following World War I when it provided office space for a convalescent hospital, it has served continuously as the official residence of the Lieutenant-Governor.

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