History and Biographies.

Call Number:
HIL-MICL FC LSC .N4M8A7H5
Category:
Special Collections
Creator:
New Brunswick Museum. Archives.
Material Description:
1 microfilm textual records 35 mm
Background:

The reel contains microfilm copies of selected articles from the scrapbooks of W.O. Raymond, Daniel Owen and others, as well as articles from various publications.

Contents:

The Collection includes the following titles:

Expulsion of the Acadians; Report in the Gentleman's Magazine concerning a debate in Parliament as to whether the Provincial Troops of North America should be put on the British Establishment, 1783; A Bit of French Acadian History; Sir James Anderson; Architecture in Boston, 100 Years Ago; The Ashburton Treaty; Canada Got Square Deal: Professor Adam Shortt on Ashburton Treaty, 1909; The Loss of the Atalante, H.M. Sloop-of-War; Historic Houses of America: The Bentley or Billopp Manor House, Staten Island; Canada and Her Neighbor; Sir Samuel Cunard; Days of the Cunarders; The New Cunarder, 1892; Reminiscences of Dartmouth; James Demille; Reminiscences of Digby; Old Documents, Bass family; The Question of Morality in Dress - History Repeating Itself, 1892; Joseph P. Edwards, Annapolis; The Episcopal General Convention of 1789, Philadelphia; Fishery Draft and How It Is Worked, 1863; Diary of Sarah [Scofield] Frost, Saint John, NB; Salving the Hungarian, 1910; Mr. Knapp and Mr. Leslie, includes a History of the Knapp Family; History of Loyalists and Settlement at Kingston, New Brunswick; The Cows of Lunenburg; The King's New Brunswick Regiment; The Dawn of Freemasonry in the Maritime Provinces; A Monument and Its Story: Church of England Burying Grounds, St. John; Pistols Which Have a History: A Pistol Presented by General Wolfe to Captain Samuel Holland, includes Holland family history, 1907; The Head of the House of Pubnico: The Fisherman Baron; Grand Trunk Gives Up G.T.P. With Great Reluctance, 1916; The Historic Feat of Captain Charles Rainsford, Captain in the 104th Regiment of Foot; Saxby Gale, 4 October 1869; Slavery in Canada; An Old Indian Tribe, Abenakis, 1892; Maine's Persistent Indian; Prehistoric Maine: For a Thousand Years a Summer Resort of Indians, 1909; H.M.S. Tilbury, 1757; United Empire Loyalists; and Woodstock in Ashes, 17 May 1877.

Originals:

The original documents are held by the New Brunswick Museum Archives.

Archival Ref. No.:

NBM F 29.

Finding Aids:

There is a subject index at the beginning of the reel.

The subject index with additions and corrections is available in print.

Notes:

This material is in typescript form.