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Aitkin, Max (Lord Beaverbrook)
Accession #
94.54.2
Description
article, Halifax Herald, June 10, 1963, by James Gowan.
Aitkin rented a cottage near the Lawson property on the NWA, on the 'three penny lot' when he was
working in Halifax as a young man.
Armdale Girls' Chorus
97.13.1
Armdale: Akerlund interview
00.26.5
Pearson McCurdy said it was "on the hill below the yacht squadron"
compilation of clippings on the Armdale Glee Club, Armdale Girls' Choir, Armdale Chorus and
Armdale Girls' Chorus. Founded as a Rhythm band in 1934 under the direction of Mary Dee Girroir of
Melville Cove, it grew into the Armdale Glee Club in 1937. They achieved national and international
prominence with regular CBC broadcasts in the 1940s and a NFB film in 1953. Article, September
1994 in Canadian Home Journal.
oral history interview with Mrs. Wilma (Tapp) Akerlund, March 18, 1999.
02.6.4
93.4
Mrs. Akerlund grew up in Armdale, living on Dutch Village Road in the Doull house (formerly the
Downs Zoological Gardens) and later on the St. Margaret's Bay Road. She attended Miss Piers' school.
Her grandmother lived at Hiddenhurst on the Edmonds Grounds.
memo from PSC re extension of water mains in Spryfield, Armdale, Jollimore areas
article from the 'Nova Scotian', May 11, 1990
92.10
Fenerty: Mayflowering in Old Armdale
Articles from the 'Nova Scotian':
Armdale: water mains
Armdale: article
Armdale: articles
Fenerty: Armdale was a Quiet Place
Fenerty: Remembering Armdale
Armdale: bridge
Robertson: A Site for Industry
monthly telephone bulletin, July-August 1955, v.XLVIII #7 and 8, p. 140
o/s TK M33
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Armdale: description and history
Accession #
Armdale: Edmonds Grounds
Armdale: newspaper photo
93.2
91.3
Armdale: people in wartime
Armdale: Raine interview
Armdale: Rotary
97.16.2
91.3
95.32.1
Armdale: walkway
91.3
Description
NSARM
MG100 v148 #32
growth 1935: MG1 v1767 #44
history: MG100 v104 #31
history: Kay Hill v/ms file, Armdale
21 slides of the Edmonds Ground taken in 1985 just before redevelopment as Regatta Point
newspaper photo 'early morning depicting the beauty of the NWA' showing the houses along
Armshore Drive from the water.
clippings of various people from the Armdale area during wartime
interview with Mrs. Edna (Fenton) Raine of 14 Armshore Drive
Lorna Inness column July 25-Aug 7, 1952
'That was the week...'
with photos of traffic jam August 1952, aerial view, Head of Arm October 6, 1955
photocopied from Spryfield Mirror 95.34
newspaper article, May 29, 1987, regarding the proposed walkway from Regatta Point along the
shoreline of the St. George Greek Orthodox church.
Also article of June 10, 1987
photo at NSARM, copy in MSHS collection
Atlantic Sugar House Ltd.
map (undated) showing refinery 95.78.9
incorporated 1882, reported to provincial secretary in '83 and '84
Avalanche: Ferguson's Cove
bakery: The Spryfield Bakery
94.14
torn down 1926 by Pearson McCurdy (some say it was F.B. McCurdy, who first owned the property
and gave it to Pearson) because it was considered dangerous. Some of the stone and beams used in P.
McCurdy's new house Cottsleigh (now RNSYS clubhouse)
description of an avalanche at Ferguson's Cove from the 'Acadian Recorder' March 24,1849
located on the Herring Cove Road, on the right heading out of town, just past Sussex Street. (Opposite
the IGA store in the 1980s) Dickie Drake ran it, Wally Beazley owned it. Ben Slaunwhite worked
there age 14. (information from Ben Slaunwhite)
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Accession #
00.41
banks: Royal Bank of Canada
99.8
barytes mill, NWA
96.18
Bauld, Henry G.
93.12
Bennett family, Armdale
books: 250 Years Young
93.10.1
books: Alongside the Navy
0.41
books: Areas/Detailed Planning
93.25.2
Description
Gow, Jean Donald, Alongside the Navy, 1910-1950: an Intimate Account. Ottawa, 1999. A
reminiscense including life in wartime Halifax with mention of the submarine nets, York Redoubt,
smuggling, Bald Rock, Sleepy Cove, Duncan's Cove, and the wreck of the Clare Lilley at Portuguese
Cove.
historical material on the Royal Bank, Spryfield Branch, collected by the branch for a display on the
31st anniversary of the branch opening in 1964. Contains advertising material from 1964, 1965, 1970
and a list of managers. Also 2 photographs of the branch manager presenting the material to MSHS
member Heather Watts.
copy prepared for the MSHS Heritage display on Industry:
Chandler Electric Light Co.
Fenerty's Skate Factory
Fenerty's Shovel Factory
Brush Factory
Barytes Mill
Coughlan Marble and Granite
Henderson & Potts Paint Works
remembrances of Henry G. Bauld in the 1940s (when he was in his 80s) from Barbara Fisher. She
used to accompany him to "the Camp" which was the barn of the Micmac Game & Fish Club in
Harrietsfield, which he had bought after the Micmac Club burned, and turned into a summer home.
Bauld had been a founder of the original club.
"The Birches" on the St. Margaret's Bay Road was the home of the Bennett family from ca. 1886. Mrs.
Joseph Bennett, Charles H. Bennett, Miss Jean Bennett. The house was sold in 1956 to Frank M.
Leaman. MSHS member Iris Shea was a nurse at Northwood when Miss Jean Bennett was there.
(information from Iris Shea)
250 Years Young, Our Diocesan Story 1710-1960. Published in thanksgiving for 250 years of
continuous Anglican worship in the area comprising the diocese of Nova Scotia.
Gow, Jean Donald, Alongside the Navy, 1910-1950: an Intimate Account. Ottawa, 1999. A
reminiscense including life in wartime Halifax with mention of the submarine nets, York Redoubt,
smuggling, Bald Rock, Sleepy Cove, Duncan's Cove, and the wreck of the Clare Lilley at Portuguese
Cove.
Areas for Detailed Planning. Report prepared by the Municipal Development Plan Committee, 1977
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Books: Beyond the NWA
Accession #
95.59
Description
Watts, Heather M., Beyond the North West Arm: A Local History of Williams' Lake.
books: Can. Child. Own Reader
01.3.1
Researched and written for the Williams' Lake Conservation Company, 1979, revised and updated
1994.
textbook: Canadian Children's Own Readers, book one, Ginn & Co.
books: cookbook (Spryfield?)
4.16.3
books: cookbook, Harrietsfield
99.5
books: cookbook, Spryfield
94.16.1
books: Coote Cove
00.4
books: Discovering Our Past...
books: Dun & Bradstreet 1948
books: Evolution/Hfx Fortress
books: History of Halifax City
01.21.2
97.10.2
93.10.2
95.65
books: Joe
books: Kidston genealogy (Tait)
94.25.1
99.17
books: Managemnt/Sm. Hist. Mus.
94.16.2
books: NS Readers sixth book
books: NS Vital Statistics
02.6.9
93.10.3
books: NS Vital Statistics
93.10.4
books: NS Vital Statistics
93.10.5
books: NS Vital Statistics
93.10.6
This copy was used by Flora Nicholson in the Spryfield school in 1942.
cookbook: cover missing, therefore unidentified but the advertisements and names indicate a Spryfield
group.
"Cooking Favorites of Harrietsfield"
cookbook of the Harrietsfield Fire Auxiliary (in poor condition)
cookbook: Rockingstone Favourites sponsored by the Merchants Association of Spryfield Town
Centre
Wright, H. Millard, Coote Cove (Crystal Crescent) The Story of an Abandoned Community, Halifax
County, Nova Scotia, 1794-1945.
Discovering Our Past from Armdale to Pennant", a compilation of articles written by Iris Shea.
reference book for credit ratings of merchants, manufacturers and traders in the Maritime Provinces.
Piers, Harry. Evolution of the Halifax Fortress 1749-1928. Halifax: PANS, 1947.
Akins, Thomas Beamish Akins, History of Halifax City. Originally published 1847 and 1895,
reprinted 1973(?)
Fowke, H. Shirley, Joe or A Pair of Corduroy Breeches. self published 1971
John Kidston Tait, The Kidstons of Logie, edition 2, 1991
Definitive genealogy of the Kidston family around the world to 1991.
Guthe, Carl E., The Management of Small History Museums. Nashville: The American Association
for State and Local History, 1977.
Nova Scotia Vital Statistics from Newspapers, 1769-1812. Genealogical Committee
Nova Scotia Historical Society, publication #5.
Nova Scotia Vital Statistics from Newspapers, 1813-1822. Genealogical Committee
Nova Scotia Historical Society, publication #1.
Nova Scotia Vital Statistics from Newspapers, 1823-1828. Genealogical Committee
Scotia Historical Society, publication #3.
Nova Scotia Vital Statistics from Newspapers, 1829-1834. Genealogical Association
Nova Scotia Historical Society, publication #6.
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books: NSHR v3 #1 1983
Accession #
95.60
books: Place Names of NS
books: Purcell's Cove
94.25.3
00.39
books: Race to Fame
books: Schools fm Armdale/Pennant
95.59
95.40
books: Sketches & Traditions
99.16
books: The Church of Saint Paul
94.16.4
books: Land Development Distrib.
93.25.1
books: Memories of Harrietsfield
Boutilier's Ferry: 1945
01.21.1
97.3b
Brookfield, S.M.: quarry
95.80
Brown, George
97.1.6
Description
Nova Scotia Historical Review, article by Barbara Shaw "There's No Life Like It: Reminiscences of
Lightkeeping on Sambro Island"
Place Names and Places of Nova Scotia, Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1974
Millington, Elsie (Purcell), Purcell's Cove: the Little Place that Helped Build Halifax City. self
published, 2000.
Darrach, Claude, Race to Fame, the Inside Story of the Bluenose
Shea, Iris, Schools From Armdale to Pennant: a Collecion of Historical Information and Photographs.
Compiled by the Mainland South Heritage Society 1995
Regan, John W. Sketches & Traditions of the Northwest Arm. First published 1908, facsimile edition
1978.
Harris, Reginald V., The Church of Saint Paul in Halifax, Nova Scotia: 1749-1949
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1949
Land Development Distribution Strategy, Technical Report Transportation. Planning Department, City
of Halifax, June 1976.
A compilation of articles on Harrietsfield written by Eric Salmonson
good photocopy of newspaper photograph of the line-up for Boutilier's ferry on a warm day in 1945.
The ferry landing was at the foot of Oakland Road on the peninsula and in The Dingle on the western
shore. Since few people had cars, the ferry gave people access to the beaches and park across the
NWA.
photocopied pages from Wm. A. Parks, "Report on the Building and Ornamental Stones of Canada,
Vol.2, Maritime Provinces", 1914.
text refers to quarries worked by John Cline, Isaac, Andrew and Amos Yeadon, Francis Coughlan;
S.M. Brookfield at Terence Bay, and to quarries formerly worked by the government (Queens Quarry)
at Purcell's Cove.
poor quality photocopies of photos of George Brown and The Fisherman's Crew, 1876 (97.1.5)
newspaper articles about the memorial service and dedication of memorial pulpit at St. James Church,
Herring Cove in 1926 (97.1.6)
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brush factory, NWA
Accession #
96.18
calendar: MSHS heritage 1992
92.21
calendar: MSHS heritage 1993
92.21
Description
copy prepared for the MSHS Heritage display on Industry:
Chandler Electric Light Co.
Fenerty's Skate Factory
Fenerty's Shovel Factory
Brush Factory
Barytes Mill
Coughlan Marble and Granite
Henderson & Potts Paint Works
Iceboating, Williams' Lake
Melville Island Prison, 1928
Herring Cove Road, 1943
Barns at Kidston Farm, 1923
Cows at Drysdale Farm, Herring Cove Road
the Atlantic Sugar House, ca. 1900
Boultilier's Boat Rental 1937
Herring Cove, 1895; Cunard School, 1922
the Rockingstone
Thomas Hosterman House, Armdale, 1936
Arm Bridge, ca. 1870
Emmanuel Church, Spryfield
Sleigh on Church St. Spryfield
Moving a Boulder, Jollimore
York Redoubt Tramway; Sambro Light 1926
Umlah Farm, ca. 1930
Toll gate at Kidston farm, 1937
Pilot Boats at Purcell's Cove
ARP Group in Spryfield, ca. 1943
Head of NWA from Chebucto Road, ca. 1940
the Mont Blanc anchor Edmonds' Grounds
Jollimore from the NWA, before 1908
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calendar: MSHS heritage 1995
Accession #
95.1
calendar: MSHS heritage 1996
96.15
calendar: MSHS heritage 1997
96.36
Description
Kidston farm, Spryfield, ca. 1930
St. Paul's Church & Glebe, Herring Cove
Herring Cove Road, Spryfield, 1952
view of Ketch Harbour, 1879
St. Augustine's Church, Jollimore, c1930
the Lear family at Fairmount 1898
Explosion cloud over Melville Cove 1945
Herring Cove Rd. at Old Sambro Rd
Schooner Monica A. Thomas;
Pinegrove Hotel; Stella Maris Church FC.
Storage Sheds, Portuguese Cove
Cutting wood at Sambro, 1932
Parsons Ocean Power Plant, Herring Cove
St. John the Baptist Chapel, 1920
Queen's Quarry, Purcell's Cove 1916
Spring Concert, Spryfield School ca.1927
Students, Harrietsfield School, 1939
Regatta, NWA, 1920; Dart Farm Spryfield;
Shady Side Canteen Melville Cove 1933
Dredging for Gold Melville Cove 1930s
Ferne and Chesley Knowlton, PC, 1943
Coot Cove near Sambro, ca. 1935
Drysdale's Hyland Dairy Milkwagon 1950
Head of NWA early 1950s
Sambro ca. 1948; Portuguese Cove, 1950s
Blades Lumber Mill, 1926
Rev. A.F. Dentith
Dentith Road Fire Station 1949
Westhaver's Store, Herring Cove 1941
Ketch Harbour Schoolchildren, ca. 1896
Fraser Farm Harrietsfield, 1960
Art Gilfoy and his mother Harrietsfield
St. Augustine's Ladies' Guild 1944
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calendar: MSHS heritage 2000
Accession #
00.5
calendar: MSHS heritage 2001
00.33
calendar: MSHS heritage 2003
calendars: MSHS heritage
calendar 1992
91.4
Description
Melville Cove Hockey Team 1938
Kline Heights Aces, 1930s
John W. O'Neill, 1909
Spryfield School 1939; Cunard class Jollimore 1923; PC Ladies Softball 1925,
Frasers of Harrietsfield 1910
Nickersons of Sambro Creek 1910
Rodgers of Bald Rock 1915
Margaret (Reyno) Morgan with bicycle
Visitors at the Dart Farm, 1930
Amos Yeadon, ca. 1924
SS Clare Lilley; Ferguson's Cove 1940s
Nickerson family East Pennant
Greenwood house, Sambro
Building of Long Lake Dam Road (Dentith)
Armdale Girl's Chorus, 1945
the Barge Hellenall 1933
Kidston family, 1921
Ketch Harbour class of 1921
Jollimore Brownies, ca. 1936
John A. Keddy farm Harrietsfield c.1908
Ketch Harbour Lighthouse, ca. 1938
SS Unranium on rocks Chebucto Head 1913
Central Spryfield grade 9, 1950
The Hebridean, Herring Cove, ca 1939
Leitch cabin Colpitt Lake, ca. 1950
Ketch Harbour ca. 1948
Emma Brunt & Myrtle Forbes, Harrietsfld
Melville Island, ca. 1948
Trolly track, Pur.Cove Quarry ca. 1915
Jollimore shoreline, 1890s
Spryfld Fire Dept. ca. 1948
View fm Long Cove//St John the Baptist
photos, descriptions, correspondence
calendars are in open calendar file
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calendar 1993
calendar 1995
calendar 1996
calendar 1997
calendar 2000
calendar 2001
Camp 12, Harrietsfield
Accession #
92.21
95.1
96.15
96.36
00.5
00.33
93.10.8
Fishing club near the Rod and Gun Club, Harrietsfield. Story that Mayor MacIlraith arranged for the
grant of land at Harry's Lake for Sam Jollimore and Sam lived there until he died. Later Sam Boutilier
lived there. Many Jollimore people used the camp. (information from Eric Salmonson)
the legend on Capt. Moorsum's map, 1827, (Citadel) says: The new road through Spryfield makes the
distance to Margarets Bay (sic) 24 miles from Halifax and is in tolerable order. From it branches a
very bad road to York Redoubt and another to Herring Cove and Camperdown.
Cemetery listings for:
97.1.4
96.18
McNab's Island
Fraser Road
Yeadon Family (Herring Cove Road)
Whitehead Road
St. James Anglican, Herring Cove
St. Paul's, Halifax
Emmanuel Church, Anglican, Spryfield
handwritten copy of the 1891 census for Pennant
copy prepared for the MSHS Heritage display on Industry:
Camperdown: road, 1827
cemetery listings
census: Pennant 1891
Chandler Electric Light Co.
Description
Chandler Electric Light Co.
Fenerty's Skate Factory
Fenerty's Shovel Factory
Brush Factory
Barytes Mill
Coughlan Marble and Granite
Henderson & Potts Paint Works
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Chebucto Head
Accession #
91.1
96.6.1
Description
photocopies of photographs:
Chebucto Lighthouse 1921
Wireless Operators Brannen & Coade
Chebucto Head 1920
Chebucto Head 1920
(not copied for MSHS binders)
clipping: mysterious steel cross erected
churches: Bethany Chapel
96.6.1
94.41
article with photos from Homes Weekly, Mail Star, 24/Aug/1994, "A Home Like No Other"
churches: Bethany United
Mail Star, 7/Sep/1994, "Old Church Perfect Workspace for Internationally-famed artist" (94.41.2)
See:
churches: Bethany United & Lears
history: Mail Star, 23/Sep/1929 p. 19
Mail Star, 5/Dec/1953, p. 20 and
Mail Star, 8/Dec/1953, p. 14
PANS v/f, Halifax Churches, Bethany
open file on Lear family:
churches: Church of England
churches: Emmanuel, Spryfield
94.37
00.30
transcript of 1994 interview with Mrs. Raine who knew them in her youth
notes on the Lear sisters from AGNS
The Lear family and Bethany United Church by Norman Graham, February 2000
extract from "the Estates and Haunts of Dutch Village by Dick E. Nebel, 1975. MG1 v.1487 #9
Article by Iris Shea
"The Church of England presence from Purcell's Cove to Pennant"
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 4 No 11, February 2003
Annie Dart, from the Dart farm on the Old St. Margaret's Bay Road, was the organist for many years
at Emmanuel Church. At first the church had no organ but Annie had a harmonium (a keyboard with
vibrators, using air pumped by foot pedals to produce music) at home which her brother William
carried back and forth for her.
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churches: Emmanuel, Spryfield
Accession #
95.17
Description
consecration clipping, 1930 (95.17.7)
new building, Herring Cove Road, article from Diocesan Times August 1947 (95.17.2)
burning the mortgage, newspaper photo (95.17.6)
dedication clipping, Diocesan Times, contains good short history with names and dates of clergy and
changes to building (95.17.8)
history, 2/Feb/1939 (95.17.9)
churches: Emmanuel, Spryfield
churches: Emmanuel, Spryfield
churches: Jollimore United
93.10.9a
93.10.9a
93.15
churches: NWA Mission Chapel
churches: Parkhill United
02.3
churches: St. Augustine's
93.21
churches: St. Augustine's
95.27
churches: St. James, Armdale
churches: St. James, Herring Cove
churches: St. John the Baptist
94.42
95.30
churches: St. Paul's Spryfield
churches: St. Paul's, Halifax
93.10.9a
94.16.4
History from the Halifax Suburban Mirror Vol. 13, No. 4, 29/Sep/1971
"From Store to Church at Jollimore", The United Churchman, 3/Sep/1953
history 1951-1961 by Kay Morris
see: Acadian Recorder, 18/Aug/1882
50th anniversary of Parkhill United Church, September 30, 2001.
Order of Service and invitation
St. Augustine's Ladies Guild:
minutes of the organizational meeting, 23/Feb/1928
write-up for historical display at Outdoor Recreation Centre, formerly St. Augustine's Church,
Jollimore.
see:
PANS scrapbook #185, MG9 v185 p87
letter from H.L.Fenerty re pastors of
churches in Armdale. Mail Star 13/May/1966 p.4 col.3
items from Chronicle Herald/Mail Star:
20/Nov/1954 Churches by the Sea
also MG9 v47
16/Apr/1966 also MG9 v47 p286
copy of pamphlet about the church's 100th anniversary 1878-1978
Golden Anniversary Booklet 1929-1979
PANS: MG9 v43 p105
history in the Halifax Suburban Mirror Vol. 13, no. 4, 29/Sep/1971
Harris, Reginald V., The Church of Saint Paul in Halifax, Nova Scotia: 1749-1949
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1949
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churches: Stella Maris
Accession #
99.1
churches: Stella Maris, Ferguson's Cove
churches: Stella Maris, Ferguson's Cove
churches: United Church
00.30
churches: Parkhill United Jollimore
churches: St. Augustine's, article
93.4
00.30
churches: St. James, Harrietsfield
Claridge, Ed: articles & memoirs
95.32.5
00.27
Cline, John: quarry
95.80
Description
open file
correspondence re heritage designation
the house opposite Stella Maris Church is not the original house which burned down. Hanrahan rebuilt
it. He was born in 1894 and live there almost all his life except when he went into town to go to school
in winter. He was caretaker of the church - built the fire on Saturdays so it would be warm enough for
Mass on Sunday. (information from Mrs. Gerry Coughlin)
no Catholic cemetery there - used the village cemetery on the hill
no resident priest - he came from Herring Cove or, later, Purcell's Cove
article by Iris Shea
The United Churches of Mainland South
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 3 No 7, October 2001
"Jollimore Church turns 40" by M. Allen Gibson (illustrated)
Article by Iris Shea
"Anglican Church in Jollimore began as a mission of St. Luke's Cathedral in Halifax"
'Discovering Our Past"
Chebucto News Vol 4 No 9 December 2002
article from Churches by the Sea column by M. Allen Gibson
article: Mail Star, ski area in Harrietsfield, 1964
memoir: "Remembering a place called Spruce Hill", sketch of building layout
memoir: Harrietsfield School & sketch
copy: school assessment 1930, poll tax assessment 1926, road tax assessment 1916.
photocopied pages from Wm. A. Parks, "Report on the Building and Ornamental Stones of Canada,
Vol.2, Maritime Provinces", 1914.
text refers to quarries worked by John Cline, Isaac, Andrew and Amos Yeadon, Francis Coughlan;
S.M. Brookfield at Terence Bay, and to quarries formerly worked by the government (Queens Quarry)
at Purcell's Cove.
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Clubs: Micmac Game & Fish Club
Clubs: Rod and Gun Club, Hrtsfld.
Accession #
93.12
93.12
see also Rod and Gun Club
Situated at the end of Club Road in Harrietsfield just before Harry's Lake. Formed ca. 1915 by 12 men
including George Rockwell, Ches Milton and Albert Edwards, all of Jollimore.
see also Micmac Game & Fish Club
history: Mail Star, 24/Jun/1960 p.3
Clubs: Saraguay Club, history
Clubs: Shore Club, Jollimore
Description
incorporated 1900
-located on Bauld's Hill, Harrietsfield
-purpose: preservation and conservation of native game and fish on club lands; breeding of native and
exotic game and fish, stocking of club lands and waters.
-burned down ca. 1914 (rumoured arson)
97.3c
Cobb, Andrew, architect
Cochran, William: grist mill
Coote Cove: history
00.4
Coote Cove: legend
95.39
Coote Cove: map
95.62
formerly Henry Lawson's summer property known as "Summer Rest". Painting of the house in the
present clubhouse.
good photocopy of newspaper photograph ca. 1945 of the newly formed Shore Club in Jollimore. It
was a youth club and all 28 young people are identified.
Andrew Cobb designed:
the Memorial Tower (with Dumeresque)
Cottsleigh for Pearson McCurdy
the Dwyer house in Boulderwood
NS Royal Gazette, 28/Apr/1807
to be sold at the Old Court House in Halifax on Thursday the 25th of June at XII o'clock "that valuable
Grist Mill erected on the NWA belonging to Mr. McIntosh and Mr. Cochran."
It was also advertised for let and "terms may be known by applying to Mr. Cochran in Halifax or to
Mr. McIntosh at Spryfield"
Wright, H. Millard, Coote Cove (Crystal Crescent) The Story of an Abandoned Community, Halifax
County, Nova Scotia, 1794-1945.
legend related to Ray Bignell by Earle Horne re deserting British sailor who hid in Coote Cove with a
family there. He was betrayed to the authorities for a guinea, drummed round the fleet and as a result
died.
hand drawn map of Coote Cove
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Coughlan, Francis: quarry
Accession #
96.18
95.80
Chandler Electric Light Co.
Fenerty's Skate Factory
Fenerty's Shovel Factory
Brush Factory
Barytes Mill
Coughlan Marble and Granite
Henderson & Potts Paint Works
photocopied pages from Wm. A. Parks, "Report on the Building and Ornamental Stones of Canada,
Vol.2, Maritime Provinces", 1914.
text refers to quarries worked by John Cline, Isaac, Andrew and Amos Yeadon, Francis Coughlan;
S.M. Brookfield at Terence Bay, and to quarries formerly worked by the government (Queens Quarry)
at Purcell's Cove.
s"The first house in Spryfield", it was right on the bend of the Herring Cove Road above Melville
Cove next to the Irving station. Demolished ca. 1990. House was bought from the Hostermans by
Robert & Elizabeth Drysdale. Mr. Cox, governor of the Melville Island prison, bought it from them
for his son. James Francis Smith bought it from Cox, 1919. (information from Helen Smith)
Cox, Governor of Melville Island: house
Cracker, Joe
Description
copy prepared for the MSHS Heritage display on Industry:
93.10.11
97.10.3
Crystal Crescent Beach
00.30
dairy: E.J. Roche
dairy: Hyland
dairy: Rockingstone
96.9.14
96.4
96.3
dairy: Rockingstone, 1940s
95.11
photo: 00.24
clipping from the Spryfield News, 15/Dec/1976, "the Saga of Herring Cove's Joe Cracker" by Keith
Tyndall (93.10.11)
clipping from the Daily News, 2/Feb/1997, "Halifax Harbour's Forgotten Disaster" by Parker Barss
Donham
article by Alana Paon "Development and Restoration of Crystal Crescent into Pennant Point Park" in
the Chebucto News, Vol. 3 No. 4, July 2001.
copy of a page of milk tickets from E.J. Roche
typed copy of Eldon Drysdale's hand written notes about Hyland Dairy
Information gleaned from conversations with Elsie Morash and Nan Geizer, 1/Feb/1996, by Marjorie
Swingler
invoice form from the Rockingstone Dairy, Spryfield, 1940s. Proprietor John Kidston.
the invoice has a small photo of the stone with a family group on top.
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Darrach, Claude
Dart family, Spryfield
Accession #
95.33
00.29
Deadman's Island: history
99.2
Deal family
92.4
Dempsey family: article
00.30
Dentith family: property
02.6
Dentith, Rev. A.F.: clippings
94.51
Dentith, Rev. A.F.: letter from
92.6
Dentith, Rev. A.F.: poem
Dentith, Rev. A.F.: presentation
Dentith, Rev. A.F.: tribute
Development: Regatta Point
95.17.10
95.17
93.10.9t
91.3
Development: Regatta Point
Dingle Estate (Fleming Park)
95.32.2
95.42
Description
notes taken by Heather Watts at a MSHS meeting with Claude Darrach in his home, 13/Jan/1994
colour photocopy and description of an oak child's sled, made by W & J Dart of Spryfield before 1885
brief genealogy of the Dart family with information about them, and reminisence of Annie Dart, from
Elsie Kidston Morash
History of Deadman's Island and Melville Island compiled by Briany Stanford for the NWA
Community Planning Association, 1973, is part of the NWA Neighbourhood Plan.
some information (incomplete) about the Deal family who were connected by marriage to the
Fenerty's and Drysdales
article by Iris Shea
‘Tracing the Herring Cove Dempseys' ancestry from Ireland's Wexford County"
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 4 No 12, March 2003
property plan of Dentith lot on Long Lake Road (02.6.1)
agreement of sale, J.W. Sutherland to Rev. A.F. Dentith for $1, 1913 (02.6.2)
newspaper clippings "half century given to helping in boys' work" (94.51.1)
"First Scoutmaster of Spryfield" (94.51.3)
copy of letter from Rev. A.F. Dentith to Lee Umlah, 8 July 1931, offering condolences on the death of
George Umlah
poem "Spryfield", by Richard L. Dwinell, written November 1932 and dedicated to him
presentation by Lord Baden Powell 1935 (95.17.3)
newspaper clipping (photocopy) "Scout Troop Pays Tribute to Clergyman"
article, May 29, 1987, "meeting promised on walkway extension" regarding the proposed walkway
from Regatta Point along the shoreline of the Greek Orthodox church.
article June 10, 1987, "walkway not encroaching on waterway" regarding the walkway planned for the
Regatta Point development.
article by Alison Day "Paradise Lost" from the Westender, May 1985
2 deeds:
Fleming to Fraser, 1908 and 1910.
description of Fleming's intentions by Peter Buell and the result.
plan of the property.
(all are copies)
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diving: booklet
Accession #
99.10
Drysdale family
92.4
Drysdale family
94.54.3
Drysdale, Robert & Elizabeth: house
Duncan's Cove: photos
91.1
Duncan's Cove: 2nd World War
00.41
Duncans Cove: historic walk script
93.12
Dutch Village
94.22
Description
booklet "Passport to Diving", published by NS Underwater Council, 1990. Lists dive sites in Mainland
South and beyond.
some information (incomplete) about the Deal family who were connected by marriage to the Fenertys
and Drysdales
article from Halifax Suburban Mirror, 6/Sep/1969 "Spryfield 40 Years Ago", is an interview with
Charles Drysdale about the family and life in Spryfield. It includes photos of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Drysdale, the Sutherland house, haying on the Drysdale farm, Charles Drysdale, and the Drysdale
milk wagon.
"The first house in Spryfield", it was right on the bend of the Herring Cove Road above Melville Cove
next to the Irving station. Demolished ca. 1990. House was bought from the Hostermans by Robert &
Elizabeth Drysdale. Mr. Cox, governor of the Melville Island prison, bought it from them for his son.
James Francis Smith bought it from Cox, 1919. (information from Helen Smith)
photo: 00.24
poor photocopies of photographs of Duncan's Cove, 1920 and 1921; Reay Bridger's boat.
(not copied for MSHS library binders)
Gow, Jean Donald, Alongside the Navy, 1910-1950: an Intimate Account. Ottawa, 1999. A
reminiscense including life in wartime Halifax with mention of the submarine nets, York Redoubt,
smuggling, Bald Rock, Sleepy Cove, Duncan's Cove, and the wreck of the Clare Lilley at Portuguese
Cove.
Scripts for historic walks:
Duncan's Cove to Ketch Harbour
Harrietsfield to Harry's Lake
York Redoubt
the Historic Northwest Arm
Duncan Cove
photos of walks Duncans Cove to Ketch Harbour, Old St. Margaret's Bay Road including Umlah
tombstone, Kidston Lake and Rocking Stone.
copy of article by G.M. Robinson 13/Jul/1960 (unknown paper)
"Dutch Village in the '80s"
Dutch Village: estates
"the Estates and Haunts of Dutch Village" by Dick E. Nebel, 1975.
PANS MG1 v.1487 #9
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Name
Editorial Committee: corrections
Edmonds family
Edmonds Grounds
Accession #
Edmonds Grounds
93.2
Electric Railway: right-of-way
95.42
95.32.2
01.1
Description
Corrections to some sections of Alfreda Withrow's book One City, Many Communities (00.3.3)
article by Alison Day "Paradise Lost" from the Westender, May 1985
clippings from the Spryfield News:
25/Aug/1976 "The Edmonds Grounds: Mont Blanc Anchor is a Reminder of the Past"
15/Dec/1976 "Edmonds Grounds Offered to City for $1.2 million"
16/Feb/1977 "Edmonds Grounds: Closer to a Reality"
21 slides of the Edmonds Ground taken in 1985 just before redevelopment as Regatta Point
see also: Hosterman property 94.23
"Paradise Lost" 95.32.2
clippings 01.1
One of the desires of Sir Sandford Fleming when he deeded his Dingle Estate to the Lieutenant
Governor in 1908 was that an Electric Railway (tram line) be built to service the Dingle.
copy of deeds with plan attached.
Estate Papers: article
00.30
Fenerty family
92.4
Fenerty family
95.13
Fenerty's Shovel Factory
96.10
(information from Peter Buell)
article by Iris Shea
Estate Papers – A valuable family history resource
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 2 No 10, January 2001
some information (incomplete) about the Deal family who were connected by marriage to the Fenertys
and Drysdales
articles by Lorna Inness from the Mail Star based on interviews with Lloyd H. and Herbert L. Fenerty.
Lloyd and Herbert were the sons of E. Lawson Fenerty. Phyllis Fenerty is the daughter of Herbert L.
Fenerty.
laser copies of Harry Pier's drawing of E.Lawson Fenerty's Shovel Factory at Chocolate Lake;
information on the shovel factory; newspaper account of the fire that destroyed it.
see also Morning Herald 8/Jul/1925 p.10
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Fenerty's Shovel Factory
Fenerty's Skate Factory
Accession #
96.18
Description
copy prepared for the MSHS Heritage display on Industry:
96.18
Chandler Electric Light Co.
Fenerty's Skate Factory
Fenerty's Shovel Factory
Brush Factory
Barytes Mill
Coughlan Marble and Granite
Henderson & Potts Paint Works
copy prepared for the MSHS Heritage display on Industry:
Fenerty, E. Lawson
Fenerty, E.L.: court case
Fenerty, Lloyd H.
99.14
99.9
Fenerty, Phyllis: article
Fenerty, Phyllis: articles
93.4
92.10
Ferguson's Cove Park: article
Chandler Electric Light Co.
Fenerty's Skate Factory
Fenerty's Shovel Factory
Brush Factory
Barytes Mill
Coughlan Marble and Granite
Henderson & Potts Paint Works
"Our Canada" patriotic song, words by ELF, music by Kate Mackintosh, 1897. (PANS v/f o/s v.23
#13)
other songs written by ELF and his suit against the city over water rights: (MG100 v.140 #29)
US patent for brushmaking machine 1884 (RG5 series GP v.13 #45-46)
shovel factory: (MSHS 96.10)
obituary: Halifax Herald 1/Aug/1932
photocopies of documents in the legal case of E.L. Fenerty v the City of Halifax over water rights
article on Lloyd Fenerty
article on Canadian Oil Pioneers, section on Lloyd Fenerty
3 articles by Lorna Inness based on Lloyd Fenerty's reminiscneces
"Mayflowering in Old Armdale" (illustrated)
Articles written about Armdale local history by Phyllis Fenerty.
"Armdale was a Quiet Place" (illustrated)
"Remembering Armdale" (illustrated)
article from the Shoreline News, v.2,#2, June 1994.
Residents Association raising funds to make Connaught Battery, 2 miles north of York Redoubt, into a
park.
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Ferguson's Cove: avalanche
ferries: Boutilier's, cash book
Accession #
94.14
95.66
ferries: Boutiliers 1945
97.3b
ferries: Jollimore, 1940s
95.8
ferries: Purcell's
96.6
ferry: Jollimore, list of owners
firefighting: history
97.10.1
Fleming, Sandford
Fleming, Sandford: name
95.27
Fleming, Sandford: Dingle Estate
95.42
Description
description of an avalanche at Ferguson's Cove from the 'Acadian Recorder' March 24,1849
cash book from Boutilier's Ferry for April-September 1948. Contains names of regulars of the
Boutiliers Ferry from April-August 1948. A few names are listed for September.
good photocopy of newspaper photograph of the line-up for Boutilier's ferry on a warm day in 1945.
The ferry landing was at the foot of Oakland Road on the peninsula and in The Dingle on the western
shore. Since few people had cars, the ferry gave people access to the beaches and park across the
NWA.
article in the Binnacle, RNSYS, Oct/1994
Sailing on the NWA. "The Jollimore ferry was the one remembered best. In winter a row boat was
used but when no ice was around, the ferry operated a little launch with a row of seats on either side.
Powered by a 'make and break' engine it was always a thrill to see how Mr. Jollimore operated that
engine....."
grandson of Joseph Purcell who began the ferry service from Point Pleasant Park to Purcell's Cove and
Ferguson's Cove
newspaper clippings telling of his experiences
Sam Jollimore
Joe Boutilier (ran Sam out of business)
Arnold Burns (probably owned by Cruikshank)
Roy Jollimore (Cruikshank)
Lloyd Bignell (Cruikshank)
(Information from Ray Bignell)
An Historical Celebration 225 Years of Firefighting in Halifax, 1768-1993: the people and events that
shaped the Halifax Fire Department
write-up prepared for a display at the Recreation Centre in the Dingle.
his name is frequently mis-spelled as "Sanford" or "Flemming". The correct spelling is Sandford
Fleming.
Fleming was knighted in 1897 and was then referred to as Sir Sandford Fleming or Sir Sandford.
conditions of deed of Dingle lands to the Lieutenant Governor in 1908 described by Peter Buell.
Dingle Road, Electric Railway, wharf use, "Green Road". Copies of deed with plan.
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Fleming, Sir Sandford: Park
Accession #
95.27,97.3a
food: article
00.30
Foreign Protestants: article
00.30
Foreign Protestants: article
forest fire, 1964
00.3.2
95.72
Fraser, William E.: memoir 1995
Fraser, William E.: memoir 1999
Frazee's Canteen
95.31
00.2
Gilfoy family
92.4
Gilfoy, Arthur (Arlie)
Gilkie family
Gilkie, A.J.: boat
95.45
92.12
95.38
Gilkie, Roy: tape summaries
94.21
Girl Guides: 5th Spryfield Co.
00.3.7
Description
write-up on Sir Sandford Fleming Park for the display at the Recreation Centre in the Dingle. (95.27)
photocopy of newspaper photo of the line-up at Ken's Canteen in Fleming Park on a hot day in 1946.
(97.3a)
article by Iris Shea
"Food Played Many Roles in the Lives of Early Settlers"
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 3 No 11, February 2002
article by Iris Shea
Tracing your Forefathers arrival in Halifax
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 1 No 9, December 1999
article from the Chebucto News by Iris V. Shea on the Foreign Protestants
newspaper clippings concerning forest fire in Purcell's Cove, Williams Lake, Oceanview Drive areas
May 1964.
memoir by Eric Salmonson with sketch map of Fraser property in Harrietsfield.
memoir in two parts of William Ernest (Bill) Fraser of Harrietsfield, by Eric Salmonson.
corner Herring Cove Road and Old Sambro Road. Wallace Beazley took it over from Frazee. Frazee
relocated next to the Pinegrove Hotel near Central Spryfield School.
Incomplete genealogical information on the related Gilfoy, Drysdale and Deal families.
Clippings of Doris Gilfoy's win in a 1927 international swimming race from Ferguson's Cove to the
Waegwoltic Club.
Memoir by Eric Salmonson
information on the Gilkie tenure as keepers of the Sambro Light
newspaper article on purchase of rum runner (sunk in the NWA 30/Aug/1934) by A.J. Gilkie of
Melville Cove. He converted it into a pleasure boat for his family.
Summary of a taped conversation with Roy Gilkie, at the MSHS meeting, 14/Apr/1994, together with
information taken from taped interviews with Hugh Dunlop and Russ Lownds.
Details of Roy's interesting life at the Sambro Light, photography for McAskill, work for the Ministry
of War Transport, the family boatyard in Melville Cove, iceboating on the Arm.
reports, clippings, notes on 5th Spryfield Girl Guide Company, 1961-1966.
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Gruber, Casper: memorial 1793
Accession #
Halifax Co.: planning strategy
96.29.1a
Halifax County: land grants map
Halifax Explosion, memoir
Halifax: history (Akins)
Harrietsfield: article
99.11
02.5.1
95.65
00.30
Harrietsfield: assessment records
Harrietsfield: book
Harrietsfield: fish and game clubs
00.27
01.21.1
Harrietsfield: land grants
95.55
Harrietsfield: land grants 1793
Description
memorial of Casper Gruber, late of the Anspach Yagers, 21/Feb/1793 asking for 150 acres of land in
Harriet Fields.
PANS document v.224 doc.85
2 pages concerning heritage, Halifax County Municipality: Municipal Planning Strategy for Planning
District 5 (Chebucto Peninsula) September 1988
parts of index sheets 56, 57 and 66, land grants, Halifax County.
memoir of the Halifax Explosion by Roy Hunter of Jollimore
Akins, Thomas Beamish. History of Halifax City. Originally published 1847, 1895, reprinted 1973 (?)
article by Iris Shea
"Prominent 18th century Halifax entrepreneurs attracted to Harrietsfield"
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol.4,No.6, Sept. 2002
copy: school assessment 1930, poll tax assessment 1926, road tax assessment 1916.
a compilation of articles on Harrietsfield written by Eric Salmonson
see:
Micmac Club
Rod and Gun Club
Camp 12
Plan of property belonging to the heirs of the late A. Henry situate in Harriet Fields. Surveyed 1849.
shows Henry's Lake, Moody's Lake, Marryat's, Shea's, D. Brunt's and Marlin's houses, land granted to
A. Henry 1773, McIntosh, Hosterman, old and new roads.
memorial of Casper Gruber, late of the Anspach Yagers, 21/Feb/1793 asking for 150 acres of land in
Harriet Fields.
PANS document v.224 doc.85
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Harrietsfield: memoirs
Accession #
Harrietsfield: road improvement
95.31.4
Harrietsfield: school, 1940s
00.27
Harrietsfield: schools
00.30
Harrietsfield: ski area, 1964
Harrietsfield: historic walk script
00.27
93.12
Description
William Ernest Fraser (95.31.1, 00.2)
Col. Henry Bauld and the Micmac Club in the 1940s (95.31.2)
Back Road to Sambro, 1940s (95.31.3)
Harrietsfield Roads and snow clearance, 1940s (95.31.4)
Arthur (Arlie) Gilfoy farm (95.45)
Thomas Clement Keddy (95.49)
Harrietsfield School (00.27)
Spruce Hill Lake (00.27)
memoirs by Eric Salmonson:
William Ernest Fraser (95.31.1)
Col. Henry Bauld and the Micmac Club in the 1940s (95.31.2)
Back Road to Sambro, 1940s (95.31.3)
Harrietsfield Road Improvements and snow clearance, Harrietsfield, 1940s (95.31.4)
Arthur (Arlie) Gilfoy farm (95.45)
Thomas Clement Keddy 95.49)
Harrietsfield School or Green Hill School, a memoir by Ed Claridge, with sketch and layout of interior
copy: school assessment 1930
article by Iris Shea
Early Harrietsfield Schools and their Students
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 3 No 2, May 2001
article: Mail Star, ski area in Harrietsfield, 1964
Scripts for historic walks:
Duncan's Cove to Ketch Harbour
Harrietsfield to Harry's Lake
York Redoubt
the Historic Northwest Arm
Duncan Cove
photos of walks Duncans Cove to Ketch Harbour, Old St. Margaret's Bay Road including Umlah
tombstone, Kidston Lake and Rocking Stone.
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Harry's Lake: historic walk script
Henderson & Potts Paint Factory
Henry, A(nthony), land grants
Accession #
93.12
Description
Scripts for historic walks:
Duncan's Cove to Ketch Harbour
Harrietsfield to Harry's Lake
York Redoubt
the Historic Northwest Arm
Duncan Cove
96.18
photos of walks Duncans Cove to Ketch Harbour, Old St. Margaret's Bay Road including Umlah
tombstone, Kidston Lake and Rocking Stone.
Copy prepared for the MSHS Heritage display on Industry:
95.55
Chandler Electric Light Co.
Fenerty's Skate Factory
Fenerty's Shovel Factory
Brush Factory
Barytes Mill
Coughlan Marble and Granite
Henderson & Potts Paint Works
plan of property belonging to the heirs of the late A. Henry situate in Harriet Fields. Surveyed 1849.
Henry, Judge Hugh McDonald
94.36
Herring Cove Junior High: histories
97.1
shows Henry's Lake, Moody's Lake, Marryat's, Shea's, D. Brunt's and Marlin's houses, land granted to
A. Henry 1773, McIntosh, Hosterman, old and new roads.
b 1850, d 1914
son of William Alexander Henry
called to the bar 1874
Puisne Judge, Supreme Court of NS
1893-1903
retired because of a stroke, rented land on the Kidston farm, Spryfield, where he lived in a cabin with
a man to care for him. Loved horses.
obituary: Halifax Herald 16/May/1914 p.1
Research by the students of Herring Cove Junior High School into the local history of the area.
Published as "From the Shoreline Coves to the Harrietsfield Lakes". (97.1.2)
similar brochure produced the following year with new research (97.1.3)
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Herring Cove: industry
Accession #
94.35
Herring Cove: Joe C.
93.10.11
97.10.3
(colour laser print in library binders)
clipping, "the Saga of Herring Cove's Joe Cracker" by Keith Tyndall
from the Spryfield News, 15/Dec/1976 (93.10.11)
93.10.8
97.10.3
clipping from the Daily News, 2/Feb/1997, "Halifax Harbour's Forgotten Disaster" by Parker Barss
Donham (97.10.3)
account of the sinking of La Tribune at Herring Cove in the monograph of St. Paul's Cemetery by
George Mullane (1902) (93.10.8)
Herring Cove: LaTribune
Herring Cove: road, 1827
Hill, Kay: article about
01.11
Hill, Kay: article by
94.31
Hill, Kay: house, Ketch Harbour
Hill, Kay: house, Ketch Harbour
01.2
94.52
Description
share certificate for 5 shares at $100, dated 28 March 1922, in the name of Nellie Kirk, in Parsons
Ocean Power Co. Ltd.
clipping from the Daily News, 2/Feb/1997, "Halifax Harbour's Forgotten Disaster" by Parker Barss
Donham (97.10.3)
the legend on Capt. Moorsum's map, 1827, (Citadel) says: The new road through Spryfield makes the
distance to Margarets Bay (sic) 24 miles from Halifax and is in tolerable order. From it branches a
very bad road to York Redoubt and another to Herring Cove and Camperdown.
"Kay Hill: Struggles and Triumphs" by Eleonore Schonmaier, in the Ketch Harbour Light, December
1994, issue 5.
the article gives an outline of Hill's career. She was about to leave her house in Ketch Harbour to live
in Herring Cove.
Evelyn McCready was postmistress in Ketch Harbour for 25 years.
profile of Evelyn McCready by Kay Hill in the Ketch Harbour Light (no date) probably about 1994.
municipal research report on her former house (1998)
papers relating to purchase, grants, repairs, history and sale of the house, which was built ca. 1847.
photos.
subdivision plan of Mackey property
Hosterman business, NWA
92.10
application for heritage registration completed by Kay Hill but not sent.
article by Barbara Robertson
"A Site for Industry"
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Hosterman family & property, NWA
Accession #
94.23
Hosterman Mill, NWA
Hosterman property NWA
Hosterman property, NWA
95.32.2
Hosterman: house, Herring Cove Road
hotels: Pinegrove, Spryfield
houses: "The Birches", Armdale
houses: Cottsleigh, Boulderwood
houses: Drysdale house, Herring Cove Rd
houses: Hanrahan house, Ferguson's Cove
94.54.4
Description
article on Hosterman Mill and Melville Foundry, Halifax Evening Express, 17/Mar/1862 p.2
Report of the Provincial Museum 1935-36, written by Harry Piers
typed chronology and family tree
article on Hosterman Mill and Melville Foundry, Halifax Evening Express, 17/Mar/1862 p.2
article by Alison Day "Paradise Lost" in the Westender, May 1985
"many years ago a whale wandered into the Arm and was driven ashore at the Hosterman property"
(Regan, Sketches and Traditions of the NWA)
"The first house in Spryfield", it was right on the bend of the Herring Cove Road above Melville Cove
next to the Irving station. Demolished ca. 1990. House was bought from the Hostermans by Robert &
Elizabeth Drysdale. Mr. Cox, governor of the Melville Island prison, bought it from them for his son.
James Francis Smith bought it from Cox, 1919. (information from Helen Smith)
photo: 00.24
article from Mail Star, 21/Dec/1959
Old Spryfield Landmark Gone" with photo
"The Birches" on the St. Margaret's Bay Road was the home of the Bennett family from ca. 1886. Mrs.
Joseph Bennett, Charles H. Bennett, Miss Jean Bennett. The house was sold in 1956 to Frank M.
Leaman. MSHS member Iris Shea was a nurse at Northwood when Miss Jean Bennett was there.
(information from Iris Shea)
Cottsleigh (the clubhouse of the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron) was built by B.P. McCurdy in
1929 for his first wife who died of tuberculosis in the early 1930s. There is an engraved stone to the
right of the entrance door with the date and name. The roof slates came from Montreal - it was heated
by coal-they used timbers and stone from the demolished mill and refinery. Architect was Andrew
Cobb.
"The first house in Spryfield", it was right on the bend of the Herring Cove Road above Melville Cove
next to the Irving station. Demolished ca. 1990. House was bought from the Hostermans by Robert &
Elizabeth Drysdale. Mr. Cox, governor of the Melville Island prison, bought it from them for his son.
James Francis Smith bought it from Cox, 1919. (information from Helen Smith)
photo: 00.24
The house opposite Stella Maris Church is not the original house which burned down. Hanrahan
rebuilt it. He was born in 1894 and live there almost all his life except when he went into town to go to
school in winter. He was caretaker of the church - built the fire on Saturdays so it would be warm
enough for Mass on Sunday. (information from Mrs. Gerry Coughlin)
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houses: James Francis Smith, 1919
Accession #
houses: Kay Hill, Ketch Harbour
94.52
Description
"The first house in Spryfield", it was right on the bend of the Herring Cove Road above Melville Cove
next to the Irving station. Demolished ca. 1990. House was bought from the Hostermans by Robert &
Elizabeth Drysdale. Mr. Cox, governor of the Melville Island prison, bought it from them for his son.
James Francis Smith bought it from Cox, 1919. (information from Helen Smith)
photo: 00.24
papers relating to purchase, grants, repairs, history and sale of the house, which was built ca. 1847.
photos.
subdivision plan of Mackey property
houses: Kidston farm, Spryfield
houses: Sutherland House
93.14
Hunter, Roy: Explosion memoir
02.5.1
Hussey, Samuel R.
01.22.3
Ice: article
00.30
industry, NWA
92.10
application for heritage registration completed by Kay Hill but not sent.
previously known as Thornhill Farm and Rockingstone Farm
Annie Dart (whose sister Mary married Archibald Glen Kidston) said that the first Kidston house was
on the hill in present day Thornhill Park and was much finer than the later one. It burned down and
money was sent from Scotland to rebuild it. Her sister Mary was the first Mrs. Kidston in that later
house. (information from Elsie Kidston Morash)
Account of life in the Sutherland house, Spryfield, when rented by the Dowes, 1948-1965, just before
demolition.
article "Old Sutherland House to Yield to Progress" on demolition of the Sutherland farm house, with
photo. (92.3)
emoir of the Halifax Explosion by Roy Hunter of Jollimore
newspaper clipping: Samuel R. Hussey honoured with the Canadian Council for the Blind's first
Award of Merit. Also brief memoir by Bernice Bignell.
article by Iris Shea
Winter Ice Tragic and Profitable for Early Settlers
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 2 No 11, February 2001
article by Barbara Robertson
"A Site for Industry"
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industry, NWA: Robert Lawson
Accession #
Jollimore Village: photo
92.11
Jollimore Village: survey
95.2
Jollimore, Alexander: survey
95.2
Jollimore, Bill
Jollimore: Cunard School
00.30
Jollimore: Shore Club, ca. 1945
97.3c
Jollimore: water mains
Keddy, Don: house and motel
02.6.4
Description
running a nail works: Nova Scotian 10/Feb/1832
importing sheet iron: PANS, House of Assembly papers, Trade & Commerce petitions, 31/Jan/1838
fire at brewery and nail factory:
Nova Scotian 21/Mar/1839
importing machinery for a grist mill he is building: Trade & Commerce petitions 1/Mar/1841
all located on NWA at Lawson mill cove
photocopy of photo from PANS Irvine Album #36, #106, shows houses and wharves.
Not copied for MSHS library binders.
copy of survey showing division of lands, estate of Alexander Jollimore, Jollimore Vilage, North West
Arm...
10/Dec/1934, George W.G. Allen
copy of survey showing division of lands, estate of Alexander Jollimore, Jollimore Vilage, North West
Arm...
10/Dec/1934, George W.G. Allen
Peter McCurdy remembered Bill Jollimore and his children Teresa and Joan who married a salvage
diver from Purcells Cove. They did not work for Pearson McCurdy but rented the cottage to the north
of the house from him, where later the Jensens lived. The foundation is visible (1995) in the boatyard.
article by Iris Shea
William Cunard property gives name to early Jollimore School
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 2 No 2, MY 2000
good photocopy of newspaper photograph of the newly formed Shore Club in Jollimore. It was a
youth club and all 28 young people are identified.
memo from PSC re extension of water mains in Spryfield, Armdale, Jollimore areas
Keddy home on Chocolate Lake was demolished by descendent Don Keddy to build a motel. The
house was presumed built ca. 1840, demolished 1960.
planning permission for motel 1961.
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Keddy, Thomas Clement
Accession #
95.49
Ken's Canteen, Fleming Park
97.3a
Kent, Edward, Duke of: signal system
Ketch Harbour: newspaper
01.11
Ketch Harbour: postmistress
94.31
Ketch Harbour: walk script
93.12
Ketch Harbour:Peter Martin article
00.30
Description
memoirs by Eric Salmonson:
William Ernest Fraser (95.31.1)
Col. Henry Bauld and the Micmac Club in the 1940s (95.31.2)
Back Road to Sambro, 1940s (95.31.3)
Harrietsfield Road Improvements and snow clearance, Harrietsfield, 1940s (95.31.4)
Arthur (Arlie) Gilfoy farm (95.45)
Thomas Clement Keddy (95.49)
write-up on Sir Sandford Fleming Park for the display at the Recreation Centre in the Dingle. (95.27)
photocopy of newspaper photo of the line-up at Ken's Canteen in Fleming Park
on a hot day in 1946. (97.3a)
article by Jim Morrison on the Duke of Kent's signalling System in the Beaver, Christmas 1991
The Ketch Harbour Light, serving Duncan's Cove, Ketch Harbour, Sandy Cove and Bald Road,
December 1994, issue 5.
Evelyn McCready was postmistress in Ketch Harbour for 25 years.
profile by Kay Hill in the Ketch Harbour Light (no date) probably about 1994.
Scripts for historic walks:
Duncan's Cove to Ketch Harbour
Harrietsfield to Harry's Lake
York Redoubt
the Historic Northwest Arm
Duncan Cove
photos of walks Duncans Cove to Ketch Harbour, Old St. Margaret's Bay Road including Umlah
tombstone, Kidston Lake and Rocking Stone.
article by Iris Shea
The Legacy of Peter Martin reaches into its Second Century
Kidston family
Annie Dart (whose sister Mary married Archibald Glen Kidston) said that the first Kidston house was
on the hill in present day Thornhill Park and was much finer than the later one. It burned down and
money was sent from Scotland to rebuild it. Her sister Mary was the first Mrs. Kidston in that later
house. (information from Elsie Kidston Morash)
Chebucto News Vol 3 No 3, June 2001
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Kidston family and property
Accession #
94.28
Description
copy of Mail Star articles, 12/Sep/1963 about Kidston family and property, information supplied by
Arthur Roy Kidston, son of Arthur and Elizabeth Kidston.
draft of Kidston family tree being worked on by Heather Watts
John Kidston Tait, The Kidstons of Logie, edition 2, 1991
Kidston family: genealogy
Kidston family: Tait genealogy
94.6
99.17
Kidston Farm: article 1999
00.30
Kidston Farm: article 2001
00.30
Kidston property
01.1
Kidston, Arthur Roy
94.28
Kidston, J.F.
92.3
Kidston, John: dairy business
95.11
Kidston, Mrs. John (Giacomina)
94.6
Kidston, William: letters 1813
02.1
Knowlton, Ferne DeWolfe
95.10
the invoice has a small photo of the stone with a family group on top.
condensed version of an interview with Mrs. John Kidston (former Giacomina Tortorici) at the
Kidston Farm 13/Jul/1992. The interview contains her impressions of Spryfield in 1929, farming
there, the Kidston farmhouse and the Kidston family.
photocopies of 4 letters to William Kidston from Thomas Davidson in Pictou concerning shipping and
cargoes, 1813.
Mentions Kidston, Dobson & Telford.
article from Halifax Star, 9/Apr/1946
Knowlton, Mr. and Mrs. Chesley
95.10
"Writes New Text Books: Purcell's Cove Teacher Does Books for Young"
article: "Man and wife teach in New Cove School" (Dalhousie School in Purcell's Cove)
this is a definitive genealogy of the Kidston family around the world to 1991.
article by Janet Kidston
Some Historical Facts about Spryfield's Kidston Farm
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 1 No 8, November 1999
article by Iris Shea
"The Kidston Farm a productive industry since the 1770s"
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 3 No 8, November 2001
clipping from the Spryfield News 2/Mar/1977
Future of Kidston Lands up in the Air"
copy of Mail Star articles, 12/Sep/1963 about Kidston family and property, information supplied by
Arthur Roy Kidston, son of Arthur and Elizabeth Kidston.
copy of a letter from J.F. Kidston to the Evening Mail regarding various members of the Sutherland
family.
invoice form from the Rocking Stone Dairy, Spryfield, 1940s. Proprietor John Kidston.
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La Tribune
Accession #
93.10.8
97.10.3
Lawson, Henry
Lawson, Robert: businesses at NWA
Lear family
94.37
Lear, Kate: watercolour
93.17
Leiblin, Henry
95.25
Description
account of the sinking of La Tribune at Herring Cove in the monograph of St. Paul's Cemetery by
George Mullane (1902)
clipping from the Daily News, 2/Feb/1997, "Halifax Harbour's Forgotten Disaster" by Parker Barss
Donham
obituary, Acadian Recorder 24/Mar/1892
youngest son of William Lawson
partner in firm of Edward Lawson & Co.
Nova Scotian 7/Jan/1841
withdraws from above firm
Morning Herald, 2/Jan/1843
running a nail works with William Lawson Jr.: Nova Scotian 10/Feb/1832
importing sheet iron: PANS, House of Assembly papers, Trade & Commerce petitions, 31/Jan/1838
fire at brewery and nail factory:
Nova Scotian 21/Mar/1839
importing machinery for a grist mill he is building: Trade & Commerce petitions 1/Mar/1841
open file:
transcript of 1994 interview with Mrs. Raine who knew them in her youth
notes on the Lear sisters from AGNS
The Lear family and Bethany United Church by Norman Graham, Feb. 2000
extract from "the Estates and Haunts of Dutch Village by Dick E. Nebel, 1975. MG1 v.1487 #9
see also 02.10, copies of paintings
letter fm. Harriot Lear on religion
watercolour of the monument in Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, N.S.
Signed by K.A. Lear
the Lear sisters Kate and Isabel often gave small paintings as wedding presents to former Sunday
School students and friends when they married.
1767 receives 500 acres (bk 7 p196 p633)
1769 sells it (NS Chronicle March 21-28)
1770 HL, baker, of Halifax signs marriage bond.
"18th Century Property Values in Leiblin Manor" compiled by Iris Shea
"Leiblin Manor, Spryfield" by Iris Shea
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Leitch, Roy
Accession #
95.74
Leitch, Roy: article
01.1
lighthouses: Chebucto Head
01.22.1
lighthouses: Ketch Harbour
01.22.2
Lodges: Duke of Kent, tokens
Long Lake: waterworks article
95.67
00.30
Longard, Alfred H.
00.38
Longard, Annie & Gladys
Longley, Charles: property
94.19
92.17
Description
information compiled for Bruce Nunn
wins Rhodes scholarship, Daily Echo 23/Mar/1908
interview: Acadian Recorder 19/Jan/1916
photograph of his cabin at Colpitt Lake
article from the Standard 13/Dec/1947
"Mr. Storm" by Cyril Robinson
PANS have most issues of "Storm", (published from 1939-1957)
obituary from the Mail 10/May/1957
article Spryfield News, 19/May/1976
"Publisher of Spryfield newspaper was known by many names"
article by Anne Flemming from the Lightkeeper, Vol.7, No.4, Dec. 2000/Jan. 2001. Anne and Stanley
Flemming lived at Chebucto Head light where he was the keeper, for 30 years..
brief description of the Ketch Harbour Light from the Lightkeeper, Vol.8, No.1, March 2001. Lists the
three keepers: Charles Martin 1905-1931, Thomas Martin 1931, and Wilfred Fleming 1931-1952.
The light was built in 1905 and discontinued in 1962
3 tokens from the Duke of Kent Lodge, 1952
article by Iris Shea
Long Lake was main source of drinking water from 1848-1976
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 2 No 7, October 2000
photo, career, family
amateur photographer in many of the communities of Mainland South in the 1930s and 1940s. Some
of his large photograph collection was donated by his daughters to MSHS
daughters of Alfred H. Longard
famly cottage at Purcell's Cove
large photo collection donated to MSHS
father an early photographer
Annie died 1991, Gladys 1994
file had obituary of Gladys and an article on the sisters' contribution to the sport of badminton in Nova
Scotia
collection of deeds to the Longley property at Melville Cove dated 1752, 1781 (2), 1909, 1934, 1938/
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Lord, Homer
Accession #
01.17
map: Coote Cove
map: Geological 1989
map: historical Chebucto Pen
95.62
95.45
. 96.29.1c
map: land grants fm index sheets
map: Prospect 1907
99.11
95.54
map: quarries 1908
95.79.1
map: shipwrecks of Hfx. Harbour
maps & plans: Hfx Military 1963
maps & plans: various
97.15
00.1.1
95.78
Description
clippings and information on Homer Lord, potter and teacher, and the Lord family of Armdale.
Includes a photocopy of a photo (ca. 1896) of the Lord house at the corner of the Herring Cove and
Purcells Cove Roads, which became the IPC store. 2 baby photos of Homer Lord in the Egan grounds.
hand drawn map of Coote Cove
Geological Highway Map of Nova Scotia, published 1989.
Municipal Planning Strategy Planning District 5 (Chebucto Peninsula) Map 2, Historical Features
see also 00.1.2
parts of index sheets 56, 57 and 66, land grants, Halifax County.
Geological Survey map, Prospect sheet #69.
published 1907
City of Halifax map #68, 1908,
Department of Mines,
shows the quarries in Mainland South
Halifax Military Town Plan, 1963
plan of survey for Henry Lawson, Esq. NWA, Halifax, N.S.
Dartmouth, 16/Sep/1891
James F. Anderson C.E., Surveyor
Divisions of McIntosh's Lot #4, 1871
Twining property, 1864
maps & plans: various
96.23
Halifax to Harring Cove, showing Harrietsfield, 1965
Lawson's Mill Cove Water Lots, ca. 1900
Lawson's Mill Cove, ca. 1900
Halifax Harbour-NWA, 1889
Henry Lawson's Summer Rest Property 1870
Halifax Co. index sheet #66
NWA and Williams Lake, 1886
Halifax Harbour to Spruce Hill Lake
Halifax City Street Map 1985
Halifax Harbour to Long Lake sheet 5N11-D5
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maps & plans: various
maps & plans: various
Marriott, George
Accession #
95.78
(cont'd)
96.23
(cont'd)
96.28
Description
Amos Yeadon property 1934
divisions of land in Jollimore
Club Building Co. 1938, showing the
location of Hills Rock, early
surveyor's marker
Halifax Harbour approaches Chart 1916
newspaper clippings, 13/Feb/1939
"Double Tragedy in Spryfield Fire"
"Tiny Victims of Tragedy"
Ida Mae Marriott was a schoolteacher in Spryfield. She appears in several school photographs in the
binders.
Marriott, Ida Mae
She and her husband lived on Quinpool Road next to the West End Baptist Church. Her husband was a
blacksmith.
Marriott, Ida Mae: school
Marryatt, Peter & Naomi
Martin, Peter: article
92.20
McCready, Evelyn
94.31
McCurdy, F.B.
McCurdy, Peter
00.30
Ida Mae Marriott School named for her
programme of the first open house of Ida Mae Marriott School, May 19, 198
article by Iris Shea "The Legacy of Peter Martin reaches into its second century" in the Chebucto
News Vol.2 No.3, June 2001.
profile by Kay Hill in the Ketch Harbour Light (no date) probably about 1994.
Evelyn McCready was postmistress in Ketch Harbour for 25 years.
F.B. McCurdy (father of B.Pearson McCurdy, grandfather of Peter) owned Fernwood, later Emscote.
He summered from about 1912 at Chittick's cottage (where the Saraguay Club tennis courts are). The
terraces between the cottage and the water can still be seen (1990s)
information from Peter McCurdy
born at Cottsleigh, 1938
information about his family, the house where he grew up (Cottsleigh) and the area. January 1995
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McIntosh, George
Accession #
McIntosh, George (card 2)
McIntosh, George: mill
Description
b ---, m Louisa ---, d 1821
children: Sophia, Louisa Ann, ---, --1780 general merchant in Halifax
1780 settled his affairs as he "intended to embark for England at the first opportunity"
1783 bought Spryfield Farm and later brought his family there to live.
c1799-1811 grist mill at the Arm
Captain of volunteer company of militia, at York Redoubt
overseer of roads Spryfield/Harrietsfld.
NS Royal Gazette, 28/Apr/1807
to be sold at the Old Court House in Halifax on Thursday the 25th of June at XII o'clock "that valuable
Grist Mill erected on the NWA belonging to Mr. McIntosh and Mr. Cochran."
It was also advertised for let and "terms may be known by applying to Mr. Cochran in Halifax or to
Mr. McIntosh at Spryfield"
portrait by Robert Field, reproduced in the catalogue of the Field exhibit, AGNS 1978.
daughter of George & Louisa McIntosh
b
m Matthew Richardson, Studley 25/09/1811
d
children: Louisa Sophia Richardson
Caroline Mary Ann Richardson
Georgina McIntosh Richardson
daughter of George & Louisa McIntosh of Spryfield, and one of his executors.
McIntosh, Louisa Ann
McIntosh, Sophia
Melville Cove: deeds
Melville Cove: school
92.17
95.15
Melville Foundry: articles
99.15
Melville Island Prison: article
Melville Island Prison: article
96.6.2
00.30
published a notice in the Acadian Recorder 19/Jan/1822 warning the public not to trespass or cut wood
on George McIntosh's lands. Signed by Sophia McIntosh, John Smith, William Smith.
collection of deeds to the Longley property at Melville Cove dated 1752, 1781 (2), 1909, 1934, 1938.
Sister Pius Memorial School
history, clippings on opening, list of teachers, clipping of proposal to close
photocopies of articles from the Evening Express 17/Mar/1862: "At the Head of the NWA" and "A
Guided Tour of the Melville Foundry"
extract from Francois Lambert Bourneuf's journal
article by Iris Shea "A Forgotten Part of Military History" in the Chebucto News, vol.2 #9
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Melville Island Prison: articles
Accession #
95.32
Description
article by Amy Pugsley "Yacht Club Site once housed British Prison." (95.32.3)
Melville Island: article
00.30
Melville Island: history
99.2
Memorial Tower: book, pamphlet
93.24
Memorial Tower: printing plate
00.42
metal printing plate showing the Memorial Tower
Memorial Tower: article
01.1
Memorial Tower: display text
Merlin family
95.27
94.53
Merlin family: verse memoirs
97.14.1,.2
clipping from the Spryfield News,
8/Sep/1976
"Opened in 1912: A Monument to Halifax's Early Settlers" by Keith Tyndall
write-up for the display at the Recreation Centre in the Dingle
eulogy, Mary Catherine Merlin
poem for James E. Merlin Sr.
Happy 87th birthday, James E. Merlin Sr.
obituary, James E. Merlin Sr.
copy of land grants map, showing the Merlin grant
photo of Little Dutch Church and Merlin tombstone.
"My Heritage of Simple Family Stories" by MSHS member Jean Merlin. (97.14.1)
Merlin, Hans George: poem
96.26
article by Alex Nickerson "Prisoners of War" (95.32.4)
article by Iris Shea
Melville Island - A Forgotten Part of Military History
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 2 No 9, December 2000
History of Deadman's Island and Melville Island compiled by Briany Stanford for the NWA
Community Planning Association, 1973, is part of the NWA Neighbourhood Plan.
extracts from J.A. Chisholm's book on the Memorial Tower (1913) and the pamphlet sent to all school
teachers in Nova Scotia (both in PANS)
"Mother and Dad Enjoyed Classic Movies!!" by Jean Merlin. (97.14.2)
a family history in the form of a poem "My Great Grandfather Hans George Merlin's Last Will and
Testament, February 26th, 1787" written by MSHS member Jean Merlin about her ancestor Hans
George Merlin.
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Micmac Game & Fish Club
Accession #
93.12
Description
incorporated 1900
-located on Bauld's Hill, Harrietsfield
-purpose: preservation and conservation of native game and fish on club lands; breeding of native and
exotic game and fish, stocking of club lands and waters.
-burned down ca. 1914 (rumoured arson)
see also Rod and Gun Club
a group of Indians used to come and cut wood (they cut and peeled pulp) on the Old St. Margaret's
Bay Road in summers. They lived in a log cabin in the woods about half way to Umlah's...they wore
loin cloths and feathers in their hair, the chief had a headdress. He was scared of them!
Micmac: ca. 1939
Miles, Joseph & Sarah, property
(information from Ben Slaunwhite)
John Howe Jr. sold lot #4 in Jollimore Village (50 acres) to Joseph & Sarah Miles, "late of Melville
Island" in 1830. Unable to pay, they sold it back.
Miller, Ruth: interview
mills: McIntosh & Cochran
They gave their name for a time to Miles Lake (the Frog Pond or Dingle Lake) and Miles Cove (Fairy
Cove). Miles Lake appears on the Middleton survey of 1870 (93.7.13)
typewritten summary of interview with John Umlah and Mrs. Ruth (Umlah) Miller, in April 1992.
NS Royal Gazette, 28/Apr/1807
to be sold at the Old Court House in Halifax on Thursday the 25th of June at XII o'clock "that valuable
Grist Mill erected on the NWA belonging to Mr. McIntosh and Mr. Cochran."
93.3
MSouth Community Service Award
94.40
MSouth Detailed Area Plan 1981
MSouth Information Report 1980
93.25.4
93.25.3
It was also advertised for let and "terms may be known by applying to Mr. Cochran in Halifax or to
Mr. McIntosh at Spryfield"
copy of the nomination made by MSHS of Peter Saulnier for the Mainland South Community Service
Award, 1993.
2 photographs of Peter receiving the award in May 1994
Detailed Area Plan for Mainland South, City of Halifax Planning Department, November 1981
Mainland South Information Report, February 1980
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newspapers: Chebucto News
Accession #
00.30
newspapers: Ketch Harbour Light
01.11
newspapers: Shoreline News
93.26
newspapers: Spryfield Mirror
93.10.9
newspapers: Storm
01.1
newspapers: Suburban Mirror
93.10.9
newspapers: Mainland South News
92.1.127
Description
Vol. 1, #1-12; Apr99-Mar00
Vol. 2, #1-#12; Apr00-Mar01
Vol. 3, #1-8, #10-12 ; Apr01-Mar02
Vol. 4, #1,#7-12; Apr02-Mar03
open file
oversize
contain Iris Shea's articles
"Discovering Our Past"
The Ketch Harbour Light, serving Duncan's Cove, Ketch Harbour, Sandy Cove and Bald Rock.
December 1994, issue 5.
community newspaper for Halifax Co. District 5:
Vol. 1, #1 May; #2 Aug; #3 Nov; 1993
Vol. 2, #1, Mar; #2 Jun; 1994
issue #6 Sep; #7 Nov; 1994
issue #8 Feb; #9 Mar; 1995
Vol. 3, #10, 22/Jun/1961
see also:
Vol. 4, #17, 6/Sep/1962 (95.4.1)
Vol. 3, #18, 24/Aug/1961 (95.28.7)
Vol. 1, #24, 1/Oct/1959 (00.40)
article Spryfield News, 19/May/1976
"Publisher of Spryfield newspaper was known by many names"
PANS have most issues of "Storm", (published from 1939-1957)
Vol. 2, #25, 1970
Vol. 13, #4, 1971
13th year, #32, 1973
No. 1, March 1986 (92.1.127)
No. 2, April 1986 (92.1.128)
No. 3, May-June 1986 (92.1.129)
edited by MSHS member Dorothy Roberts
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newspapers: Mainland South Reporter
Accession #
92.1
Description
20 copies of the Mainland South Reporter from November 1989 (edition 1) through to 1991 (vol. 20)
newspapers: MSouth Reporter '98
01.23
Vol. 1, #1-7 Aug98-Feb99
continued as the Chebucto News, 00.30
see also 92.1, an earlier paper under this name
Nicholson family
Nicholson, Bert: letter
Nicholson: survey plan, Dentith Rd.
Northwest Arm Comm. Planning. Asso.
02.6.3
02.8
99.2
Northwest Arm Hockey League
97.13.2
Northwest Arm Hockey League,artic.
00.30
oversize box
3 Nicholson brothers were caretakers at the 3 lakes that formed the city water supply - Spruce, Long
and Chain Lakes
letter from Leo to Bert, March 1912 re life of young people in Spryfield (illustrated)
survey plan of lands owned by Mrs. Constance Nicholson, Dentith Road, Spryfield, 1963
memorandum of association, 1971
list of directors, aims, bylaws, minutes
few items of correspondence; financial statement, auditor's report 1972
NWA Neighbourhood Plan 1973
report on historic sites (B. Stanford)
waterfront access draft for Mayor
article on NWA walk with the Mayor
Dunbrack/NWA bridge: proposed alignment
compilation by Iris V. Shea of Highlights of the North West Arm Hockey League, 1947-1948. The
information is taken from the scrapbook of Hallie MacDonnell who played forward with the
championship team of Melville Cove in 1947.
article by Iris Shea
"North West Arm Hockey League Created Friendly Rivalry Among Communities"
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News, Vol 3, #12, March 2002
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Northwest Arm Neighbourhood Plan
Accession #
99.2
Northwest Arm: bridge
99.2
Northwest Arm: bridge, 1907
93.10.10
Northwest Arm: development
01.1
Northwest Arm: development
91.3
Northwest Arm: estates
94.54.2
Northwest Arm: history
95.13
Northwest Arm: history
99.16
Description
memorandum of association, 1971
list of directors, aims, bylaws, minutes
few items of correspondence; financial statement, auditor's report 1972
NWA Neighbourhood Plan 1973
report on historic sites (B. Stanford)
waterfront access draft for Mayor
article on NWA walk with the Mayor
Dunbrack/NWA bridge: proposed alignment
memorandum of association, 1971, NWACPA
list of directors, aims, bylaws, minutes
few items of correspondence; financial statement, auditor's report 1972
NWA Neighbourhood Plan 1973
report on historic sites (B. Stanford)
waterfront access draft for Mayor
article on NWA walk with the Mayor
Dunbrack/NWA bridge: proposed alignment
newspaper clipping, unidentified, 1907, with cartoon sketch by Andrew Cobb of proposed bridge
across the Arm to the proposed Memorial Tower. Article titled "Not a Very Pressing Need But it is
High Time That We Began to Think About It--More Work for Improvement Board"
clipping from the Spryfield News 1/Sep/1976
"Private versus Public Use: The Past and Future of the North West Arm"
article, May 29, 1987, "meeting promised on walkway extension" regarding the proposed walkway
from Regatta Point along the shoreline of the Greek Orthodox church.
article June 10, 1987, "walkway not encroaching on waterway" regarding the walkway planned for the
Regatta Point development.
article in Mail Star, 10/Jun/1963
James Gowen "In the days of great estates Arm was 'valley of giants'"
articles from the Mail Star by Lorna Innes:
"At the Head of the Arm" l/Aug/1979
"Student Days in Halifax" 9/Apr/1980
"Speeding at 8 mph" 10/Apr/1980
"NWA once boasted Industrial Mile" 22/Sep/1979
Regan, John W. Sketches & Traditions of the Northwest Arm. First published 1908, facsimile edition
1978.
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Northwest Arm: industry
Accession #
92.10
Northwest Arm: industry
96.18
Northwest Arm: industry
99.15
Northwest Arm: painting
95.9
Northwest Arm: sailing ca. 1945
Northwest Arm: walkway
95.8
91.3
Northwest Arm: hockey league
00.30
Northwest Arm:historic walk script
93.12
Description
article by Barbara Robertson
"A Site for Industry"
copy prepared for the MSHS Heritage display on Industry:
Chandler Electric Light Co.
Fenerty's Skate Factory
Fenerty's Shovel Factory
Brush Factory
Barytes Mill
Coughlan Marble and Granite
Henderson & Potts Paint Works
photocopies of articles from the Evening Express 17/Mar/1862: "At the Head of the NWA" and "A
Guided Tour of the Melville Foundry"
Christmas card (UNICEF 1994) featuring painting by Elizabeth Nutt
North Wesst Arm (1927) by Elizabeth Styring Nutt (1870-1946) AGNS
article on sailing on the Northwest Arm 50 years ago, from the Binnacle, October 1994.
article, May 29, 1987, "meeting promised on walkway extension" regarding the proposed walkway
from Regatta Point along the shoreline of the Greek Orthodox church.
article June 10, 1987, "walkway not encroaching on waterway" regarding the walkway planned for the
Regatta Point development.
article by Iris Shea
North West Arm Hockey League Created Friendly Rivalry Among Communities
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 3 No 12, March 2002
Scripts for historic walks:
Duncan's Cove to Ketch Harbour
Harrietsfield to Harry's Lake
York Redoubt
the Historic Northwest Arm
Duncan Cove
photos of walks Duncans Cove to Ketch Harbour, Old St. Margaret's Bay Road including Umlah
tombstone, Kidston Lake and Rocking Stone.
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Nutt, Elizabeth Styring: painting
Accession #
95.9
Oakley family, article
00.30
Description
Christmas card (UNICEF 1994) featuring painting by Elizabeth Nutt
parks: Pennant Point
00.30
parks: Point Pleasant
Parsons Ocean Power Plant
96.6.4
94.35, 96.34
North West Arm (1927) by Elizabeth Styring Nutt (1870-1946) AGNS
article by Iris Shea
"The Oakleys of Mainland South Trace
their History to County Tipperary, Ireland"
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News, Vol. 4 No 7, October 2002
John Umlah, Ruth (Umlah) Miller 93.3
Mrs. Edna (Fenton) Raine 91.3
94.37
Mrs. Giacomina (Tortorici) Kidston 94.6
Mrs. Venita McCully 00.26.2
Roy Gilkie, 1994 (1957,1986)00.26.3 & .4
Mrs. Wilma (Tapp) Akerlund, 1999 00.26.5
Roy Hunter, Mrs. McQuillan
Pearson McCurdy, George Martin
Gerry Draper
Margaret Rollings
Ken and Barbara Hall
article by Alana Paon "Development and Restoration of Crystal Crescent into Pennant Point Park" in
the Chebucto News, Vol. 3 No. 4, July 2001.
Mail Star clipping 11/Aug/1982 about annual "shilling ceremony"
share certificate for 5 shares at $100, dated 28 March 1922, in the name of Nellie Kirk (94.35)
Penitentiary, NWA
93.7
33 photographs and clippings re Parsons Ocean Power Plant (96.34)
opened 1844, demolished 1948
Pennant: census 1891
Pennell, Matthew
97.1.4
Photographers, Longard, Alfred H.
94.19
Oral History Interviews
Oral History Interviews (cont'd)
notes on the Penitentiary are with the Gordon Jollimre photos of its demolition
handwritten copy of the 1891 census for Pennant
lighthouse keeper, Sambro Light, 1772-1801
article and poem by Joseph McDonald in the Shoreline News vol.2 #2, June 1994
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Photographers, MacAskill, W.R.
Piers, Harry: notes
Accession #
97.16.1,
00.35.2
96.13
Description
Nova Scotia Museum: Piers Papers VII, History, B. notes c. Nova Scotia General #39
notes on Snuff Mill, Hail and Henry, Geizer Family, Chocolate Lake, Hosterman's, Ferry
Pinegrove Hotel, Spryfield
94.54.4
Pinegrove Hotel, Spryfield: menu
Pinegrove Hotel: article
02.5.3
00.30
Pioneers
95.78.11
Planters: article
00.3.2
poem: "Spryfield"
95.17.10
poem: for Hans George Merlin
96.26
poem: Rocking Stone
Portuguese Cove: article
94.28
00.30
Portuguese Cove: SS Kenkerry
Portuguese Cove: SS Clare Lilley
95.48
00.41
article from Mail Star, 21/Dec/1959
"Old Spryfield Landmark Gone" with photo
menu of dinner for the Sleigh Drive of the NCOs, 1st Regiment Canadian Artillery, January 10, 1910
article by Iris Shea
The Pinegrove Hotel - A Spryfield Landmark for 65 Years
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 2 No 4, July 2000
portfolio: (suitable school material for children) The Story of the Pioneers and How they Settled
Canada
article by Iris Shea
Many families listed in early polls as "planters"
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 1 No 10
poem "Spryfield", by Richard L. Dwinell, written November 1932 and dedicated to Rev. A.F. Dentith,
Rector of Spryfield
a family history in the form of a poem "My Great Grandfather Hans George Merlin's Last Will and
Testament, February 26th, 1787" written by MSHS member Jean Merlin about her ancestor Hans
George Merlin.
poem by Phyllis Judge "Ballad of the Rocking Stone"
article by Iris Shea
The Purcells of Portuguese Cove and Purcell's Cove
'Discovering Our Past'
The Chebucto News Vol 3 No 4 July 2001
account of the sinking of the SS Kenkerry on Black Rock, Portuguese Cove, 17/Jan/1935
Gow, Jean Donald, Alongside the Navy, 1910-1950: an Intimate Account. Ottawa, 1999. A
reminiscense including life in wartime Halifax with mention of the submarine nets, York Redoubt,
smuggling, Bald Rock, Sleepy Cove, Duncan's Cove, and the wreck of the Clare Lilley at Portuguese
Cove.
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postcard collection
Accession #
postcard collection (cont'd)
Purcell family: article & genealogy
00.30
Purcell's Cove: article
00.30
Purcell's Cove: article
00.30
Purcell's Cove: history
00.39
Purcell's Cove: school, teachers
95.10
Description
fishermen's sheds, Portuguese Cove 92.19
NWA from Dingle Tower, 93.5.1 and 93.5.2
schooners in Purcell's Cove 93.5.3
Purcells Cove fm Battery Drive 93.5.4
Scene on NWA 93.8.1
Melville Island prison, 1912 .2
Memorial Tower, ca. 1929 .3
Memorial Tower, ca. 1900 .4
Purcell's Cove, ca. 1920 .5
entrance to NWA (same as 93.5.4) 93.8.6
Rocking Stone (ladder only) 1906, 93.8.7
Dingle gate posts 1910 .8
Rocking Stone (ladder & men) 92.1.28
Rocking Stone (ladder only) .29
NWA from Dingle Tower 1936 00.31.5
article by Iris Shea
"The Purcells of Portuguese Cove and Purcell's Cove"
The Chebucto News, Vol.3 No.4, July 2001
article by Iris Shea
The Purcells of Portuguese Cove and Purcell's Cove
'Discovering Our Past'
The Chebucto News Vol 3 No 4 July 2001
article by Elsie (Purcell) Millington
Purcell's Cove - the little place that helped build Halifax
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 2 No 6, September 2000
Millington, Elsie (Purcell), Purcell's Cove: the Little Place that Helped Build Halifax City. self
published, 2000.
article on Dalhousie School opening in 1942: "Man and wife teach in New Cove School"
Principal Chesley Knowlton and teacher Ferne Knowlton. Text books written by Ferne Knowlton.
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Purcell, William R. (Bill)
Accession #
96.6.3
quarries
95.79.1,
95.79.2,
95.97.3
PANS
Crown Lands Record Office
information from Ben Slauenwhite
quarries: Mainland South area 95.80
photocopied pages from Wm. A. Parks, "Report on the Building and Ornamental Stones of Canada,
Vol.2, Maritime Provinces", 1914.
quarries: Williams Lake Road
Raine, Mrs.: oral history interview
recipes, recipe books
Description
grandson of Joseph Purcell who began the ferry service from Point Pleasant Park to Purcell's Cove and
Ferguson's Cove
-newspaper clippings telling of his experiences. Illustrated with good photo.
-Mail Star clipping 11/Aug/1982: un- veiling of the plaque to Purcell family
-obituary
information on quarries in Mainland South
quarries: Purcell's Cove
A survey map by T.G. Toler, dated 1826, shows a network of roads leading to three quarries which
produced granite, ironstone and slate, at the mouth of the NWA.
91.3
text refers to quarries worked by John Cline, Isaac, Andrew and Amos Yeadon, Francis Coughlan;
S.M. Brookfield at Terence Bay, and to quarries formerly worked by the government (Queens Quarry)
at Purcell's Cove.
interview with Mrs. Edna (Fenton) Raine of 14 Armshore Drive concerning Armdale, the Lears,
Melville Island etc.
Roche family recipes for making salve and cough syrup 96.9.11
recipe books:
Rockingstone Favourites 94.16.1
[Spryfield] recipe book 94.16.3
Cooking Favorites of Harrietsfield 99.5
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roads: accounts/road work
Accession #
96.9.9a,b,c
roads: article
00.30
roads: back road to Sambro
95.31.3
roads: Dentith Road, 1963
roads: Herring Cove Road, 1977
02.8
01.1
roads: marker stone
00.30
roads: marker stone
92.18
Description
copy of accounts for road work from Thomas Roche's account book. Lists men working, material,
labor:
Herring Cove to Bear Cove, 1873.
Bald Rock Road, 1877
Duncan's Cove Road, 1877
Long Pond Bridge, 1895
Herring Cove Road Bridge, 1895
Herring Cove Forks Bridge, 1895
McIntosh Bridge, 1895
article (probably by Peter Saulnier)
'Discovering Our Past'
Early roads were managed by "overseers"
Chebucto News, Vol 1 No 2, May 1999
memoirs by Eric Salmonson:
William Ernest Fraser (95.31.1)
Col. Henry Bauld and the Micmac Club in the 1940s (95.31.2)
Back Road to Sambro, 1940s (95.31.3)
Harrietsfield Road Improvements and snow clearance, Harrietsfield, 1940s (95.31.4)
Arthur (Arlie) Gilfoy farm (95.45)
Thomas Clement Keddy (95.49)
survey plan of lands owned by Mrs. Constance Nicholson, Dentith Road, Spryfield, 1963
clipping from the Spryfield News 16/Feb/1977
"Guidelines Set for Herring Cove Road"
article by Iris Shea
Historic Road Sign from Dart's Forks rests at Spry Centre
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 3 No 10, January 2002
photographs of the marker stone which was originally situated on the old St. Margaret's Bay Road in
what is now known as the Long Lake Provincial Park. Others have described it as being on the Old
Sambro Road at Dart's Corner.
In 2001 the stone was moved to the Captain William Spry Community Centre through the efforts of
the Mainland South Heritage Society
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roads: Spryfld/Harrietsfld, 1785
Accession #
93.10
roads: St. Margaret's Bay Road 1827
roads: Williams' Lake Road, ca. 1930-50
Roche family: birth/death dates
96.9.10
Roche family: recipes
Roche, E.: account ledger pages
Roche, E.J.: dairy
Roche, Thomas: diary pages 1893
96.9.11
96.9.9e
96.9.14
96.9.13
Roche, Thomas: farm accounts
96.9
Roche, Thomas: order/separator
96.9.12ab
Description
Any person or persons who are inclined to contract for making a Road from a certain Spot near the
Bridge beyond the North West Arm to Spryfield, and to complete that already begun, from Spryfield
to Harrietfields, in such Direction as shall be shewn to the Contracting Parties on their Application: the
Road to be made full 16 feet wide and well finished for the passing of Carriages….etc. A. Henry
the legend on Capt. Moorsum's map, 1827, (Citadel) says: The new road through Spryfield makes the
distance to Margarets Bay (sic) 24 miles from Halifax and is in tolerable order. From it branches a
very bad road to York Redoubt and another to Herring Cove and Camperdown.
1930s-1950s: dirt road, one car width, widened when sewer put in, some filling and raising of the road
by the lake. No houses between Purcells Cove Road and Serricks house. Bushes would brush the sides
of the car on either side. No traffic but Drysdales horse and cart selling milk. Grass in the middle, trees
meeting overhead. (memories of Evelyn Serrick, Lil Boutilier, Myrtle Burton.)
copy of page listing birth dates of the children of Edward Roche and Elizabeth O'Connor:
Thomas, b 25/Jul/1848 d 23/Sep/1940
Edward, b 17/Jul/1851 d 16/Jan/1871
David, b 27/Apr/1853 d 12/Sep/1908
Bridget, b 31/Aug/1856 d 4/Mar/1894
Richard, b 25 Nov/1857 d 19/Dec/1913
Roche family recipes for making salve and cough syrup
copy of accounts ledger (2 pages) for November 1874, account of E. Roche
copy of a page of milk tickets from E.J. Roche
copy of two pages from Thomas Roche's diary for March and April 1893. Information on weather,
family illness, farm work, church.
"Statement of Farm work income and expenditure for the Several Years which I had charge of
business I begun in 1871 the year in which Edward died but I have no account until the beginning of
the year 1874. Thomas Roche."
copy of Income and expenditures listed for 1874-1880
copy of order form for an American Wonder separator #10, capacity 125 lbs. Terms of payment $3
with order and $2.25 per month for 12 months
April 25, 1924
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Roche, Thomas: road work
Accession #
96.9.9a,b,c
Roche: farm income
Rocking Stone Dairy: invoice
96.9.15
95.11
Rocking Stone: article
94.9
Rocking Stone: article
Rocking Stone: article
Rocking Stone: open file
96.5
94.29
94.28
Rockwell, George
Rod and Gun Club, Harrietsfield
Salmonson, Eric: memoirs
93.12
Description
copy of accounts for road work from Thomas Roche's account book. Lists men working, materials,
labor:
Herring Cove to Bear Cove, 1873.
Bald Rock Road, 1877
Duncan's Cove Road, 1877
Long Pond Bridge, 1895
Herring Cove Road Bridge, 1895
Herring Cove Forks Bridge, 1895
McIntosh Bridge, 1895
statement of farm income from the Roche Farm Spryfield 4/Nov/1876 to 30/Dec/1876
invoice form from the Rocking Stone Dairy, operated by John Kidston, Spryfield, 1940s
invoice has a small photo of the stone and a family group on top.
copy of article in Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine quoting the Acadian Recorder, "Description of the
Rocking Stone in Nova Scotia" (1824 quoting 1823)
article by Heather Watts on the Rockingstone, from the Seniors' Advocate, Vol.13, #1, Jan/Feb 1996
copy of illustration from the Canadian Illustrated News, 8/Mar/1873 with descriptive text.
open file:
article, Mail Star, 12/Sep/1963 "Famed Stone Rocks No More"
page from John Quinpool, First Things in Acadia
poem by Phyllis Judge "Ballad of the Rocking Stone"
copy of newspaper photo including George Mont, Colin Baker, Ken Butler, Alex MacKinnon
George Rockwell from Jollimore worked for B. Pearson McCurdy at Cottsleigh. Peter McCurdy
described him as "a Jack of all trades".
Situated at the end of Club Road just before Harry's Lake. Formed ca. 1915 by 12 men including
George Rockwell, Ches Milton and Albert Edwards, all of Jollimore.
see also Micmac Game & Fish Club
William Ernest Fraser (95.31.1, 00.2)
Col. Henry Bauld and the Micmac Club in the 1940s (95.31.2)
Back Road to Sambro, 1940s (95.31.3)
Harrietsfield Road Improvements and snow clearance, Harrietsfield, 1940s (95.31.4)
Arthur (Arlie) Gilfoy farm (95.45)
Thomas Clement Keddy (95.49)
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Sambro Light: article
Accession #
5.60
Sambro Light: article
00.37
Sambro Light: Gilkie family
Sambro Light: Gilkie transcript
92.12
94.21
Sambro Light: history
94.39
Description
Article by Barbara Shaw "There's No Life Like It: Reminiscences of Lightkeeping on Sambro Island".
Nova Scotia Historical Review, Vol. 3, #1, 1983
article by Kathy Brown in the Lightkeeper Vol. 7 #3, September 2000
"How the Sambro Lighthouse Lens was Saved"
information on the Gilkie tenure as keepers of the Sambro Light
Summary of a taped conversation with Roy Gilkie, at the MSHS meeting, 14/Apr/1994, together with
information taken from taped interviews with Hugh Dunlop and Russ Lownds.
Details of Roy's interesting life at the Sambro Light, photography for McAskill, work for the Ministry
of War Transport, the family boatyard in Melville Cove, iceboating on the Arm.
material on history of the Sambro Light
photos of 1994 visit with the NS Lighthouse Preservation Society and material on the Society
Sambro Light: Matthew Pennell
2 issues of The Lightkeeper (newsletter of the NS Lighthouse Preservation Society):
Vol. 2, #1, January 1995
#2, April 1995
Matthew Pennell, lighthouse keeper, Sambro Light, 1772-1801
Sambro: history
Sambro: history
Saraguay Club: history
article and poem by Joseph McDonald in the Shoreline News vol.2 #2, June 1994
brochure "Sambro Community Roots" by Lee Scarfe and Steven Parsons, October 13, 1996.
extract from "Cruising Nova Scotia from Yarmouth to Canso" by Clark, Penner & Rogers, 1979
history: Mail Star, 24/Jun/1960 p.3
Saulnier, Peter: award
Saulnier, Peter: model houses
97.8
95.63
94.40
00.30
formerly Henry Lawson's summer property known as "Summer Rest". Painting of the house in the
present clubhouse.
copy of the nomination made by MSHS of Peter Saulnier for the Mainland South Community Service
Award.
2 photographs of Peter receiving the award in May 1994
article and photograph
Chebucto News Vol 2 No 5, August 2000
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Schonmaier, Eleonore: article
Accession #
01.11
schools: Armdale
schools: article
95.51
92.3
schools: article
00.30
schools: book of info & photos
95.40
schools: Central Spryfield
95.69
schools: Cunard School, Jollimore
00.30
schools: Elizabeth Sutherland
92.3
schools: Falkland Village
95.12
Description
article about Eleonore Schonmaier, who has just published her first book: Passion Fruit Tea. In the
Ketch Harbour Light, serving Duncan's Cove, Ketch Harbour, Sandy Cove and Bald Rock. December
1994, issue 5.
newspaper clipping with photo, 21/Jun/1922 grade 1 class
article by Peter Saulnier "Schools of the Past"
article with photograph about the construction of the Elizabeth Sutherland Memorial School
article by Iris Shea
An Early History of Schools in Mainland South
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 2 No 1, April 2000
Shea, Iris, Schools from Armdale to Pennant: a Collection of Historical Information and Photographs.
Compiled by the Mainland South Heritage Society 1995.
(book box)
West Spryfield school pupil lists
Central Spryfield Christmas Concert programme, 16/Dec/1963
Spryfield School, section #132, 13/Jan/1964:
Annual School Meeting Report
Superintendent's Report #132,
article by Iris Shea
William Cunard property gives name to early Jollimore School
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 2 No 2, MY 2000
article by Peter Saulnier "Schools of the Past"
article with photograph about the construction of the Elizabeth Sutherland Memorial School
extract from teacher Alvena Silver's book reminiscing about her experiences teaching at Falkland in
the 1920s.
write-up on Falkland Village school for the MSHS Heritage Day display, 1995
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schools: Harrietsfield
Accession #
00.30
schools: Herring Cove
schools: Ida Mae Marriott
schools: Purcell's Cove
92.20
95.10
schools: Sister Pius Memorial
95.15
schools: Spryfield
95.69
schools: Spryfield Home & School
schools: Spryfield Jr. High 1950
95.77
02.6
schools: Spryfield schools
00.30
schools: Spryfield, 1928
95.14
Description
article by Iris Shea
Early Harrietsfield Schools and their Students
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 3 No 2, May 2001
Merida Scott, schoolteacher, Herring Cove 1965-1993
biographical article in the Shoreline News, Vol. 2, #2, June 1994 p.3
programme of the first open house of Ida Mae Marriott School, May 19, 198
article on Dalhousie School opening in 1942: "Man and wife teach in New Cove School" Principal
Chesley Knowlton and teacher Ferne Knowlton. Text books written by Ferne Knowlton.
article from Halifax Star, 9/Apr/1946
"Writes New Text Books: Purcell's Cove Teacher Does Books for Young"
Sister Pius Memorial School
history, clippings on opening, list of teachers, clipping of proposal to close
-West Spryfield:school pupil directories
-Central Spryfield: Christmas Concert programme, 19/Dec/1963
-Spryfield School Section:
-Annual School Meeting,13/Jan/1964:
Chairman's Report, budgets, fin. stat.
Superintendent's Report, 13/Jan/1964 Circular # XVIII, 3/Dec/1963
statistics: 1963
staff, grades and enrolment, 1963
Spryfield Home & School group, picture
program for the Jr. High closing 1950
school magazines (3) Spryfield Jr. High
1949-50
article by Iris Shea
Elizabeth Sutherland opens first Spryfield School in 1841
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 2 No 3, June 2000
list of pupils at Spryfield School 1928
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schools: Spryfield, 1932
Accession #
94.24
schools: Spryfield, 1940
schools: Spryfield, crowding
schools: West Spryfield
00.18
95.17.5
95.69
schools: West Spryfield
schools: West Spryfield
schools: Green Hill, Harrietsfield
93.10.7
93.10.7
00.27
schools: Herring Cve Jr Hi history
97.1
Schumpt, Mary Jane (Jennie) biog.
03.4
Schumpt, Mrs. Jennie, Spryfield
Scott, Merida
92.20
ships: bark Petra
01.13
Description
information on the school
list of pupils taking part in the concerts in 1932
article: student record at Spryfield School, 1940
photocopy of newspaper photo "350 school pupils crammed into two small Spryfield buildings"
West Spryfield school pupil lists
Central Spryfield Christmas Concert programme, 16/Dec/1963
Spryfield School, section #132, 13/Jan/1964:
Annual School Meeting Report
Superintendent's Report #132,
West Spryfield School crest
school crest
article: Mail Star, ski area in Harrietsfield, 1964
memoir: "Remembering a place called Spruce Hill", sketch of building layout
memoir: Harrietsfield School & sketch
copy: school assessment 1930, poll tax assessment 1926, road tax assessment 1916.
Research by the students of Herring Cove Junior High School into the local history of the area.
Published as "From the Shoreline Coves to the Harrietsfield Lakes". (97.1.2)
similar brochure produced the following year with new research. (97.1.3)
biographical information compiled by her on April 8, 2001
Mrs. Schumpt taught school in Spryfield
various receipts
schoolteacher, Herring Cove 1965-1993
biographical article from the Shoreline News, Vol. 2, #2, June 1994 p.3
photocopy of the "Halifax & Approaches"
chapter of Disasters at Sea: An Anthology of Nova Scotia Shipwreck Stories, co-authored by Susie
Sweeney and Gail Anne McNeil. Includes accounts of the Petra, la Tribune, Humboldt, Portia,
Gloucester, Atlantic, A.W. Perry, Daniel Steinman, Uranium, Cape Bonnie, Letitia, Costarican Trader
and the Martin Van Buren
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ships: coastal steamer A.W. Perry
ships: fishing trawler Cape Bonnie
ships: fishing trawler Gloucester
ships: freighter Costarican Trader
ships: frigate La Tribune
Accession #
01.13
Description
photocopy of the "Halifax & Approaches"
01.13
chapter of Disasters at Sea: An Anthology of Nova Scotia Shipwreck Stories, co-authored by Susie
Sweeney and Gail Anne McNeil. Includes accounts of the Petra, la Tribune, Humboldt, Portia,
Gloucester, Atlantic, A.W. Perry, Daniel Steinman, Uranium, Cape Bonnie, Letitia, Costarican Trader
and the Martin Van Buren
photocopy of the "Halifax & Approaches"
01.13
chapter of Disasters at Sea: An Anthology of Nova Scotia Shipwreck Stories, co-authored by Susie
Sweeney and Gail Anne McNeil. Includes accounts of the Petra, la Tribune, Humboldt, Portia,
Gloucester, Atlantic, A.W. Perry, Daniel Steinman, Uranium, Cape Bonnie, Letitia, Costarican Trader
and the Martin Van Buren
photocopy of the "Halifax & Approaches"
01.13
chapter of Disasters at Sea: An Anthology of Nova Scotia Shipwreck Stories, co-authored by Susie
Sweeney and Gail Anne McNeil. Includes accounts of the Petra, la Tribune, Humboldt, Portia,
Gloucester, Atlantic, A.W. Perry, Daniel Steinman, Uranium, Cape Bonnie, Letitia, Costarican Trader
and the Martin Van Buren
photocopy of the "Halifax & Approaches"
01.13
chapter of Disasters at Sea: An Anthology of Nova Scotia Shipwreck Stories, co-authored by Susie
Sweeney and Gail Anne McNeil. Includes accounts of the Petra, la Tribune, Humboldt, Portia,
Gloucester, Atlantic, A.W. Perry, Daniel Steinman, Uranium, Cape Bonnie, Letitia, Costarican Trader
and the Martin Van Buren
photocopy of the "Halifax & Approaches"
chapter of Disasters at Sea: An Anthology of Nova Scotia Shipwreck Stories, co-authored by Susie
Sweeney and Gail Anne McNeil. Includes accounts of the Petra, la Tribune, Humboldt, Portia,
Gloucester, Atlantic, A.W. Perry, Daniel Steinman, Uranium, Cape Bonnie, Letitia, Costarican Trader
and the Martin Van Buren
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ships: hospital ship Letitia
ships: iron screw steamer Portia
ships: lib. ship Martin Van Buren
ships: paddle steamer Humboldt
Accession #
01.13
Description
photocopy of the "Halifax & Approaches"
01.13
chapter of Disasters at Sea: An Anthology of Nova Scotia Shipwreck Stories, co-authored by Susie
Sweeney and Gail Anne McNeil. Includes accounts of the Petra, la Tribune, Humboldt, Portia,
Gloucester, Atlantic, A.W. Perry, Daniel Steinman, Uranium, Cape Bonnie, Letitia, Costarican Trader
and the Martin Van Buren
photocopy of the "Halifax & Approaches"
01.13
chapter of Disasters at Sea: An Anthology of Nova Scotia Shipwreck Stories, co-authored by Susie
Sweeney and Gail Anne McNeil. Includes accounts of the Petra, la Tribune, Humboldt, Portia,
Gloucester, Atlantic, A.W. Perry, Daniel Steinman, Uranium, Cape Bonnie, Letitia, Costarican Trader
and the Martin Van Buren
photocopy of the "Halifax & Approaches"
01.13
chapter of Disasters at Sea: An Anthology of Nova Scotia Shipwreck Stories, co-authored by Susie
Sweeney and Gail Anne McNeil. Includes accounts of the Petra, la Tribune, Humboldt, Portia,
Gloucester, Atlantic, A.W. Perry, Daniel Steinman, Uranium, Cape Bonnie, Letitia, Costarican Trader
and the Martin Van Buren
photocopy of the "Halifax & Approaches"
ships: pilot boat Hebridean
00.30
ships: schooner Annie M. Pride
00.30
chapter of Disasters at Sea: An Anthology of Nova Scotia Shipwreck Stories, co-authored by Susie
Sweeney and Gail Anne McNeil. Includes accounts of the Petra, la Tribune, Humboldt, Portia,
Gloucester, Atlantic, A.W. Perry, Daniel Steinman, Uranium, Cape Bonnie, Letitia, Costarican Trader
and the Martin Van Buren
article by Iris Shea
"Wartime Tragedy Devastates Families of Herring Cove and Surrounding Area"
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News, Vol.4,No.8, November 2002
article by Iris Shea
"Winter weather and rocky coastline create havoc for ships"
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 4 No 10, January 2003
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ships: SS Atlantic
Accession #
01.13
Description
photocopy of the "Halifax & Approaches"
ships: SS Clare Lilley
00.41
ships: SS Daniel Steinman
01.13
chapter of Disasters at Sea: An Anthology of Nova Scotia Shipwreck Stories, co-authored by Susie
Sweeney and Gail Anne McNeil. Includes accounts of the Petra, la Tribune, Humboldt, Portia,
Gloucester, Atlantic, A.W. Perry, Daniel Steinman, Uranium, Cape Bonnie, Letitia, Costarican Trader
and the Martin Van Buren
Gow, Jean Donald, Alongside the Navy, 1910-1950: an Intimate Account. Ottawa, 1999, p. 123-125.
A reminiscense including life in wartime Halifax with mention of the submarine nets, York Redoubt,
smuggling, Bald Rock, Sleepy Cove, Duncan's Cove, and the wreck of the Clare Lilley at Portuguese
Cove.
photocopy of the "Halifax & Approaches"
ships: SS Kenkerry
ships: SS Uranium
95.48
00.30
ships: SS Uranium
01.13
shipwrecks, article
00.30
shipwrecks: "Disasters at Sea"
01.13
chapter of Disasters at Sea: An Anthology of Nova Scotia Shipwreck Stories, co-authored by Susie
Sweeney and Gail Anne McNeil. Includes accounts of the Petra, la Tribune, Humboldt, Portia,
Gloucester, Atlantic, A.W. Perry, Daniel Steinman, Uranium, Cape Bonnie, Letitia, Costarican Trader
and the Martin Van Buren
account of the sinking of the SS Kenkerry on Black Rock, Portuguese Cove, 17/Jan/1935
article by Iris Shea
"Winter weather and rocky coastline create havoc for ships"
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 4 No 10, January 2003
photocopy of the "Halifax & Approaches"
chapter of Disasters at Sea: An Anthology of Nova Scotia Shipwreck Stories, co-authored by Susie
Sweeney and Gail Anne McNeil. Includes accounts of the Petra, la Tribune, Humboldt, Portia,
Gloucester, Atlantic, A.W. Perry, Daniel Steinman, Uranium, Cape Bonnie, Letitia, Costarican Trader
and the Martin Van Buren
article by Iris Shea
"Winter weather and rocky coastline create havoc for ships"
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 4 No 10, January 2003
photocopy of the "Halifax & Approaches"
chapter of Disasters at Sea: An Anthology of Nova Scotia Shipwreck Stories, co-authored by Susie
Sweeney and Gail Anne McNeil. Includes accounts of the Petra, la Tribune, Humboldt, Portia,
Gloucester, Atlantic, A.W. Perry, Daniel Steinman, Uranium, Cape Bonnie, Letitia, Costarican Trader
and the Martin Van Buren
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shipwrecks: map
shovel factory
Accession #
97.15
96.10
Sleepy Cove: 2nd World War
00.41
slide shows: scripts
93.1
Smith, James Francis: house
smuggling: 2nd World war
00.41
smuggling: NWA
95.38
sport: hockey
00.30
sports: rowing
00.30
Description
map of shipwrecks in Halifax Harbour
laser copies of Harry Pier's drawing of E. Lawson Fenerty's Shovel Factory at Chocolate Lake;
information on the shovel factory; newspaper account of the fire that destroyed it.
see also Morning Herald 8/Jul/1925 p.10
Gow, Jean Donald, Alongside the Navy, 1910-1950: an Intimate Account. Ottawa, 1999. A
reminiscense including life in wartime Halifax with mention of the submarine nets, York Redoubt,
smuggling, Bald Rock, Sleepy Cove, Duncan's Cove, and the wreck of the Clare Lilley at Portuguese
Cove.
scripts for slide talks on local history in Mainland South prepared by Heather Watts. Suitable for
schools (various age levels) church groups, Guides, community groups.
"The first house in Spryfield", it was right on the bend of the Herring Cove Road above Melville Cove
next to the Irving station. Demolished ca. 1990. House was bought from the Hostermans by Robert &
Elizabeth Drysdale. Mr. Cox, governor of the Melville Island prison, bought it from them for his son.
James Francis Smith bought it from Cox, 1919. (information from Helen Smith)
photo: 00.24
Gow, Jean Donald, Alongside the Navy, 1910-1950: an Intimate Account. Ottawa, 1999. A
reminiscense including life in wartime Halifax with mention of the submarine nets, York Redoubt,
smuggling, Bald Rock, Sleepy Cove, Duncan's Cove, and the wreck of the Clare Lilley at Portuguese
Cove.
newspaper article on purchase of rum runner (sunk in the NWA 30/Aug/1934) by A.J. Gilkie of
Melville Cove. He converted into a pleasure boat for his family.
article by Iris Shea
North West Arm Hockey League Created Friendly Rivalry Among Communities
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 3 No 12, March 2002
article by Iris Shea
"Local fishermen were centre stage in rowing regattas"
Chebucto News
Vol.3, No.5, August 2001.
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sports: softball
Accession #
00.30
Spruce Hill Lake: pumping station
00.27
Spry, Captain William: article
00.30
Spry, Mrs. William (Mary):
94.18
Description
article by Iris Shea
Softball Teams from 1936
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 3 No 6, september 2001
article: Mail Star, ski area in Harrietsfield, 1964
memoir: "Remembering a place called Spruce Hill", sketch of building layout
memoir: Harrietsfield School & sketch
copy: school assessment 1930, poll tax assessment 1926, road tax assessment 1916.
article by Iris Shea
Captain William Spry (1734-1802)- A Short History of Spryfield's Heralded Founder
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 3 No 1, April 2001
deed in which Mary Spry, wife of Captain William Spry, relinquishes her dower rights in a property in
Gallands Division in Halifax, sold by her husband to Alexander Thomson in 1780. At the time (1780)
she was living at Woodstock Street in the County of Middlesex.
Spry, William: agent appointed 1790
document shows her signature
baptised: 4/Apr/1734
married: Mary
children: William Frederick, bap.1770, Harriet, bap.1773,
St. Pauls, Halifax
died: 1802, London
deed: 28-345,46
Spry, William: death 1802
"William Spry of Titchfield...Esq. Col. in his Majesty's Corps of Royal Engineers...makes Lieutenant
William Bartlett, also RE, his attorney to receive money debts, goods, owing payable and belonging to
him from his settlers on the River Saint John, the Hillsboro' River or in any part of Nova Scotia"
from GM 72(2) (1802), 692, July 12th
Spry, William
"Died in Howland Street, age 68, Lt. Gen. William Spry, Commander of the Corps of Royal
Engineers. His death was occasioned by a cold caught in attending the ascension of Garnerin's balloon.
He was a man of mild and amiable manners and deservedly respected by all who knew him. He lived
but a very short time to enjoy his promotion, about which he had expressed more than common
anxiety."
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Spry, William: departure, 1783
Spry, William: land grant, 1771
Spry, William: property, 1783
Accession #
96.1
Spryfield: articles, clippings
"Captain Spry requests that all Persons having any Demands upon him, Publick or Private, do bring in
their accounts to him Immediately, as he Proposed to embark for England by the first Opportunity."
copy of grant of land (80 acres) to William Spry, 11/Feb/1771
Nova Scotia Gazette 4/Feb/1783
"To be Sold, Spryfield Farm. 5 miles from town, consisting of 1500 acres between 80 and 100 of
which are cleared Upland, the rest in general well clothed with Hard or Cord Wood Trees. On the
Premises is a very good Dwelling House, 2 large Barns, a Stable and a number of other outhouses, a
Garden full of all sorts of Grafted Fruit Trees, now in their Prime, the Said Farm, with a large stock of
Cattle, Poultry etc. As per Inventory, being now let on Lease to Jacob Baur for 7 years, 2 of which are
expired at a Rent of 100 pounds Sterling per annum."
Minutes of the Executive Council, 16/Dec/1769: "Captain Spry has lately purchased 500 acres of land
at the NWA and as there is some good land at the back of it to which he has been to some expense in
making a road, prays that he may have granted to him 1,000 acres at the back and adjoining it."
GRANTED.
Spry, William: land grant, 1769
Spryfield: articles, clippings
Spryfield: articles, clippings
Description
Nova Scotia Gazette, 4/Feb/1783, p.3
93.10
95.28
93.10.9
see also Leiblin Manor articles, 95.25
unsorted collection of newspaper clippings
file of clipppings on Spryfield history, events, people, including:
paper: Social & Economic Change in Spryfield 1850-1950 by Joan Mayhew, 1977
Spryfield Mirror Vol. 3 #18, 1961
play about Captain William Spry (possibly a school production - no date, no author, no title.)
O'Connor & Payne, History of Spryfield
envelope, bill, calendar
file of clippings and photographs concerned with Spryfield history, events, people, development,
newspapers
(1 copy of the Spryfield Mirror,
3 copies of the Suburban Mirror)
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Spryfield: farming
Accession #
96.9
Spryfield: fire department
Spryfield: fire dept. article
94.33
00.30
Spryfield: fire, 1939
96.28
Spryfield: Girl Guides
Spryfield: history
00.3.7
94.54.1
Description
"Statement of Farm work income and expenditure for the Several Years which I had charge of
business I begun in 1871 the year in which Edward died but I have no account until the beginning of
the year 1874. Thomas Roche."
copy of Income and expenditures listed for 1874-1880
advertisement for a Jacobs Safety Ladder showing Spryfield firemen using one.
article by Peter Saulnier
Spryfield's Fire Department's early history
Chebucto News, Vol 1 No. 1, April 1999
newspaper clippings, 13/Feb/1939
(George Marriott family)
"Double Tragedy in Spryfield Fire"
"Tiny Victims of Tragedy"
reports, clippings, notes on 5th Spryfield Girl Guide Company, 1961-1966
Tyndall, Keith, A History of Spryfield
O'Connor, Therese & Payne, Effie, History of Spryfield [use with caution]
see 95.28.1
Daily News, 13/Jun/1985, "the History of a Community on the Move" (this is the O'Connor & Payne
history)
Spryfield: history
94.54.3
Spryfield: history clippings
Spryfield: marker stone
00.3.8
92.18
Place Names of Nova Scotia, see 94.25.3
article from Halifax Suburban Mirror, 6/Sep/1969 "Spryfield 40 Years Ago", is an interview with
Charles Drysdale about the family and life in Spryfield. It includes photos of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Drysdale, the Sutherland house, haying on the Drysdale farm, Charles Drysdale, and the Drysdale
milk wagon.
clippings on history of Spryfield kept by Flora Nicholson
photographs of the marker stone which was situated on the old St. Margaret's Bay Road in what is now
known as the Long Lake Provincial Park.
[others have said it was on the Old Sambro Road at Dart's Corner]
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Spryfield: memoir, 1929
Accession #
94.6
Spryfield: Pinegrove Hotel
00.30
Spryfield: poem
95.17
Spryfield: Santa Claus parade
Spryfield: schooldays
Spryfield: schools
00.27.3
00.3.9
00.30
Spryfield: sports
Spryfield: sports
Spryfield: St. Margarets Bay Road 1827
01.7
95.4
Spryfield: water mains
Spryfield: young people, 1912
submarine nets
02.6.4
02.6.3
00.41
submarine nets: article
95.41
Description
condensed version of an interview with Mrs. John Kidston (former Giacomina Tortorici) at the
Kidston Farm 13/Jul/1992. The interview contains her impressions of Spryfield in 1929, farming
there, the Kidston farmhouse and the Kidston family.
article by Iris Shea
The Pinegrove Hotel - A Spryfield Landmark for 65 Years
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 2 No 4, July 2000
poem "Spryfield", by Richard L. Dwinell, written November 1932 and dedicated to Rev. A.F. Dentith,
Rector of Spryfield
article on the first Santa Claus parade to be held in Spryfield, from the Spryfield News 1/Dec/1976
interview sheet on Spryfield schooldays of the past, completed by Flora Nicholson
article by Iris Shea
Elizabeth Sutherland opens first Spryfield School in 1841
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 2 No 3, June 2000
felt crest of Spryfield Golden Eagles GRS club
felt crest of IOOF Granites, Spryfield
the legend on Capt. Moorsum's map, 1827, (Citadel) says: The new road through Spryfield makes the
distance to Margarets Bay (sic) 24 miles from Halifax and is in tolerable order. From it branches a
very bad road to York Redoubt and another to Herring Cove and Camperdown.
memo from PSC re extension of water mains in Spryfield, Armdale, Jollimore areas
letter from Leo to Bert (Nicholson), March 1912 re life of young people in Spryfield (illustrated)
Gow, Jean Donald, Alongside the Navy, 1910-1950: an Intimate Account. Ottawa, 1999. A
reminiscense including life in wartime Halifax with mention of the submarine nets, York Redoubt,
smuggling, Bald Rock, Sleepy Cove, Duncan's Cove, and the wreck of the Clare Lilley at Portuguese
Cove.
article "Caught in History" from the Sunday Daily News, March 26, 1995
based on interview with Alan Ruffman after his talk to the MSHS on the submarine nets in Halifax
Harbour.
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sugar refinery: Atlantic Sugar House
Accession #
Sutherland family
92.3
Sutherland family: letters
Sutherland, Elizabeth (Bessie)
92.7
95.17.9
Sutherland, Elizabeth: article
00.30
Sutherland, John: letter (closed)
tapes: oral history interviews
97.9.2
00.26
The Micmac Club, Harrietsfield
95.31.2
Description
photo at NSARM, copy in MSHS collection
map (undated) showing refinery 95.78.9
incorporated 1882
torn down 1926 by Pearson McCurdy (some say it was F.B. McCurdy, who first owned the property
and gave it to Pearson) because it was considered dangerous. Some of the stone and beams used in P.
McCurdy's new house Cottsleigh (now RNSYS clubhouse)
- copy of letter fm J.F. Kidston to the Evening Mail regarding various members of the Sutherland
family.
- Saulnier article "Schools of the past"
- article with photograph about the construction of the Elizabeth Sutherland Memorial School
-article "Old Sutherland Home to Yield to Progress" on demolition of the Sutherland farm house with
photo
copies of various letters written by and to the Sutherlands. Also poems and accounts.
daughter of George Sutherland
article 2/Feb/1939 contains many of the facts or legends about Spryfield's first schoolteacher.
article by Iris Shea
"Elizabeth Sutherland, letters reveal sense of humour and strong belief in her religion"
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 4 No 1, April 2002
access to this letter is restricted.
Mrs. John A. Kidston 1992 (restricted)
approved summary 94.6
Mrs. Venita McCully 1993
Roy Gilkie 1994 MSHS
Roy Gilkie 1957 CJCH, and 1986 CHNS
Mrs. Wilma Akerlund 1999
memoirs by Eric Salmonson:
William Ernest Fraser (95.31.1)
Col. Henry Bauld and the Micmac Club in the 1940s (95.31.2)
Back Road to Sambro, 1940s (95.31.3)
Harrietsfield Road Improvements and snow clearance, Harrietsfield, 1940s (95.31.4)
Arthur (Arlie) Gilfoy farm (95.45)
Thomas Clement Keddy (95.49)
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Accession #
Topple, William
93.13.3
Description
some memories of growing up on Bryden Avenue in Spryfield, attending North School on Arnold and
other schools in the 1950s. Said Circle Drive was the original road and there are traces of "the old
stagecoach road" running behind the houses on Bryden.
William Topple was a Halifax County Councillor and retired superintendent of Fleming Memorial
Park. At one time he ran the Pinegrove Hotel in Spryfield.
Umlah, George
92.6
Umlah, John: interview
Umlah, John: tombstone 1896
Urban Farm Museum
Urban Farm Museum: article
93.3
93.12
open file
00.30
Venetian Night, 1994
95.8
article from newspaper 17/Oct/1939 "Councillor loses Home Furnishings". The Topple home in
Jollimore Village was destroyed by fire.
Ralph Turnbull at Boscobel had the biggest boat on the Arm - a yacht called the Wanderer.
(remembered by Peter McCurdy)
copy of letter from Rev. A.F. Dentith to Lee Umlah, 8 July 1931, offering condolences on the death of
George Umlah
typewritten summary of interview with John Umlah and Mrs. Ruth (Umlah) Miller, in April 1992.
photos of John Umlah tombstone in the woods on the Umlah farm on the Old St. Margaret's Bay Road
seeds brochure
article by Iris Shea
The Kidston Farm a productive industry since the 1770s
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 3 No 8, November 2001
The Binnacle, Oct/1994 p. 10
00.34
write-up with photos of Venetian Night 1994. This was the "second reincarnation of Venetian Night
on the Arm." A family event with games, free barbecue, war canoe races, parade of illuminated boats.
"All along the shore they were greeted with fireworks and illuminated homes. Tom Hayes took first
place and shoreside victory to the Morrison household"
brochure of the Historic Spryfield walk, produced by the Crabapple Mapping Project, 2000
Turnbull, Ralph
walks, historic: brochure
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walks, historic: Mainland South
Accession #
93.12
Description
Scripts for historic walks:
Duncan's Cove to Ketch Harbour
Harrietsfield to Harry's Lake
York Redoubt
the Historic Northwest Arm
Duncan Cove
99.14
00.30
photos of walks Duncans Cove to Ketch Harbour, Old St. Margaret's Bay Road including Umlah
tombstone, Kidston Lake and Rocking Stone.
photocopies of documents in the legal case of E.L. Fenerty v the City of Halifax over water rights
article on the history of the Halifax Water Works by Iris V. Shea, in the Chebucto News, Vol. 2, #7
and #8, October and November 2000.
offered at auction by James Shand in the Morning Chronicle, 23/Jul/1891
Williams' Lake: history
95.59
Williams' Lake: wildlife
95.73
13 acres from Williams' Lake to the NWA, 2 dwellings, barn, ice house with 2,000 tons of ice, fine
wharf. Also the exclusive privilege of cutting and shipping ice from the lake.
Watts, Heather M., Beyond the North West Arm: A Local History of Williams' Lake. Researched and
compiled for the Williams' Lake Conservation Company in 1979, revised and updated in 1994.
article by Allan MacKinnon "Do You See What I See" about wildlife on Williams' Lake.
water rights: Fenerty court case
Water Works: article
Williams' Lake Ice Company: sale
MacKinnon was President of the Williams' Lake Conservation Company for one year, about this time.
Woodcock Inn
the Woodcock Inn stood at the head of the NWA. In the 1950s it house Veniot's barber shop, Doyles
Restaurant and Soda Fountain. Miss Murphy ran the post office. The Armdale taxi was next door.
When the Woodcock Inn was torn down sometime in the early 1950s the Armdale taxi moved across
the street.
Woolford, John Elliot: drawings
99.13
(information from Sally LeBlanc?)
Woolford was the artist who accompanied the Earl of Dalhouse, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia,
during his travels in the province in 1817 and 1818. There are copies of some of his drawings in 92.10
and 96.62.
99.13 contains laminated photocopies of 7 of his drawings of the NWA area: Osterman's Mills (2),
Indian (Chocolate) Lake, Melville Island (2), Lettson's Mills, York Redoubt from the NWA
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Yeadon family: article
Accession #
00.30
Yeadon family: history
96.2
Yeadon, Amos: quarry
95.80
Yeadon, Amos: property 1934
Yeadon, Andrew and Judd
95.78.8
Yeadon, Andrew: quarry
95.80
Yeadon, Isaac: quarry
York Redoubt: 2nd world war
95.80
00.41
Description
article by Iris Shea
The Yeadon Quarries of Spryfield - a
family owned industry for nearly 100 years
'Discovering Our Past'
Chebucto News Vol 3 No 5, August 2000
"Yeadon of Nova Scotia" compiled by Iris V. Shea for the Mainland South Heritage Society, January
1996. The history covers a period beginning in 1763 with the arrival of John Yeadon to 1851 when
William Yeadon died.
photocopied pages from Wm. A. Parks, "Report on the Building and Ornamental Stones of Canada,
Vol.2, Maritime Provinces", 1914.
text refers to quarries worked by John Cline, Isaac, Andrew and Amos Yeadon, Francis Coughlan;
S.M. Brookfield at Terence Bay, and to quarries formerly worked by the government (Queens Quarry)
at Purcell's Cove.
Amos Yeadon property 1934
Andrew and Judd Yeadon were employed as stonecutters during the construction of the stone
buildings on the Studley campus of Dalhousie University in the 1920s. Andrew was a blacksmith and
sharpened the tools. "It took a skilled blacksmith to sharpen stonecutter's tools."
(information from Mr. Marshall, the architect and engineer on the project)
photocopied pages from Wm. A. Parks, "Report on the Building and Ornamental Stones of Canada,
Vol.2, Maritime Provinces", 1914.
text refers to quarries worked by John Cline, Isaac, Andrew and Amos Yeadon, Francis Coughlan;
S.M. Brookfield at Terence Bay, and to quarries formerly worked by the government (Queens Quarry)
at Purcell's Cove.
photocopied pages from Wm. A. Parks, "Report on the Building and Ornamental Stones of Canada,
Vol.2, Maritime Provinces", 1914.
text refers to quarries worked by John Cline, Isaac, Andrew and Amos Yeadon, Francis Coughlan;
S.M. Brookfield at Terence Bay, and to quarries formerly worked by the government (Queens Quarry)
at Purcell's Cove.
Gow, Jean Donald, Alongside the Navy, 1910-1950: an Intimate Account. Ottawa, 1999. A
reminiscense including life in wartime Halifax with mention of the submarine nets, York Redoubt,
smuggling, Bald Rock, Sleepy Cove, Duncan's Cove, and the wreck of the Clare Lilley at Portuguese
Cove.
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York Redoubt: info sheet, 1968
York Redoubt: road, 1827
Accession #
01.22.4
York Redoubt: historic walk script
93.12
York Redoubt: newsletters
93.23
Description
information sheet on York Redoubt, handed out at the opening of the fort as an historic site in 1968
the legend on Capt. Moorsum's map, 1827, (Citadel) says: The new road through Spryfield makes the
distance to Margarets Bay (sic) 24 miles from Halifax and is in tolerable order. From it branches a
very bad road to York Redoubt and another to Herring Cove and Camperdown.
Scripts for historic walks:
Duncan's Cove to Ketch Harbour
Harrietsfield to Harry's Lake
York Redoubt
the Historic Northwest Arm
Duncan Cove
photos of walks Duncans Cove to Ketch Harbour, Old St. Margaret's Bay Road including Umlah
tombstone, Kidston Lake and Rocking Stone.
newsletter #1, 1989: Historic Halifax Defence Complex "Planning for the Future"
newsletter #2, 1992: "Setting a Course for the Future"