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Only top-level descriptions Public Archives and Records Office of Prince Edward Island Diaries (1950-2000) English
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Albert William Wood fonds

  • CA PCA Acc4790
  • Fonds
  • 1900; 1923-1949; 1974-1984

The fonds consists of genealogical records pertaining to various families which are connected to the Wood family. The material was likely collected and used by Albert in the writing of his Wood genealogy entitled "An Island Family". The fonds also includes notes, transcripts of church, cemetery, land, and census records, a birth and baptismal certificate for Albert William Wood, a Catechism primer belonging to Albert Wood, correspondence, a diary (1974), six postcards and five photographs.

Wood, Albert William

Dr. George Dewar and Jean Dewar fonds

  • CA PCA Acc5018
  • Fonds
  • 1915, 1932-2003

The fonds consists of the records of Dr. George Dewar and his wife Jean Dewar, including diaries, correspondence, research and writings, speeches, photographs, and other material. The fonds has been divided into two sous-fonds: Dr. George Dewar and Jean Dewar.

Dewar, Dr. L. George

Elizabeth Reeves fonds : [1939-1979]

  • CA PCA Acc3262
  • Fonds
  • Microfilmed 1981

The fonds consists of a series of diaries from 1939 to 1979. Each covers a period of approximately five or six years with entries for the same day of each year written on the same page. Entries contain information about the weather, farm chores, family and community events. At the end of each diary there is a section containing items of interest such as genealogical information, deaths, marriages, fires, and community happenings from the area of Freetown, Bedeque, Wiltshire, and Kensington.

Reeves, Elizabeth (Burns)

Erica Rutherford fonds

  • CA PCA Acc5027
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1930S]-2005; Copied 2009

The fonds consists of personal and business papers, correspondence, sketchbooks, writings, photographs, and other records belonging to Erica Rutherford (1923-2008). The records, which span the years ca. 1930s-2005, document Rutherford's various careers as an actor, set designer, director painter, printmaker, teacher, illustrator, and writer. The fonds also consists of personal papers which provide insight into the private life of an individual who struggled with gender identity from a young age, ultimately undergoing transsexual surgery to live her life as a woman. The fonds has been divided
into the following five series:

Series1: Art and artistic career
Series2: Theatre and film
Series3: Writing
Series4: Biographical sketches, exhibit lists, etc.
Series5: Personal papers, daybooks, photographs, etc.

Rutherford, Erica

J. Spurgeon Jenkins fonds

  • CA PCA Acc4012
  • Fonds
  • 1934-1939, 1941-1949, 1952-1957

This fonds consists of twenty-one 13.5 x 20 mm bound yearly journals kept by Spurgeon Jenkins. Daily entries consist of comments on the weather, visits with family and friends and other social outings, and descriptions of hunting trips with details of game shot. As well, Mr. Jenkins commented on work-related outings and interactions, and various legal actions which resulted from his work as a game warden and later as a tax collector for the City of Charlottetown. The journals contain some addresses of family and friends preceding the January 1st entries as well as various notes made in the cash account and bills receivable sections after the December 31 entries. Mr. Jenkins used this area to keep accounts of the birds and other wildlife which he shot and for which he collected bounty.

Jenkins, J. Spurgeon

Palmer/Haslam/Inman/Muncey family fonds

  • CA PCA Acc4311
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1860-1993 ; Copied 1997, 2011

This fonds consists of the records of members of the Palmer, Haslam, Inman and Muncey families. The records span the years ca.1860-1993 and include diaries, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, and other materials. The fonds has been divided into the following series:

Series 1: James B. Palmer
Series 2: Sarah Palmer
Series 3: Ida Palmer
Series 4: Edith E. Palmer
Series 5: Amelia Palmer
Series 6: Hedley V. Palmer
Series 7: Lilly (Palmer) and Henry Inman
Series 8: Mary Inman
Series 9: Lucy (Palmer) and George L. Haslam
Series 10: Gladys Muriel Haslam
Series 11: Robert J. Haslam
Series 12: Reginald and Doris (Muncey) Haslam
Series 13: Sue (Muncey) Lowther
Series 14: Lloyd Haslam
Series 15: Albert James Haslam
Series 16: Miscellaneous personal papers
Series 17: Photographs and scrapbooks

Haslam, George Leslie (Family)