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CA Them Days APL 276 · Fonds · 1935 - 1941

Fonds consists of records of the Newfoundland Ranger Force at Battle Harbour from its inception in 1934 until it disbanded in 1950 and depicts the everyday activities of the Ranger Force in Battle Harbour and includes correspondence, diaries, reports, memorandums, customs papers, statements, crime reports, Newfoundland Ranger "Instructions", inventory, telegraphs and game regulations. Of particular note within this fonds is a diary from the Battle Harbour Detachment of the Newfoundland Ranger Force which outlines the day-to-day policing activities of Ranger Lt. S.M. Christian covering dates October 1939 to May 1941. Included in Customs Papers are shipping reports, licences of import and export and declarations of value. The Crime Reports contain various reports from the Ranger Force, which included crime reports and relief official reports. Correspondence files contain reports, statements, requests and stock books of the Labrador Detachment. The files also include a listing of the nine Ranger Force Detachments in Labrador: Hebron, Nutak, Nain, Davis Inlet, Hopedale, North West River, Cartwright, Battle Harbour, and Forteau. Records are arranged in a chronological order year by year.

The Newfoundland Ranger Force, Battle Harbour Station
Algernon Willis fonds
CA Them Days APL 891 · Fonds · 1864

This is Algernon Willis’s journal of his voyage to Labrador from Boston from July 1 to September 5, 1864. It was transcribed by his great-granddaughter, Penelope Pendleton Beye. This typed journal is about 50 pages.

Mary Ford fonds
CA Them Days APL 239 · Fonds · 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949

Collection consists of the type written diary of Mary Ford of Zoar, Labrador

Mary Ford
Rev. George Pickering Fond
CA Them Days APL 895 · Fonds · 1929

This is Rev. George Pickering’s diary. It was written during what is likely his only trip to Labrador, a 1929 visit to North West River, Mud lake area. This diary is about 23 pages with some extra empty pages.

Ray Cooper Fonds
CA Them Days APL 898 · Fonds · 1958-1964, 1968, 1973-1975

Collection consists of photocopies of Ray Cooper’s Journals.
Dated Sep 1958 - Mar 1964, 1961 Books 1 and 2, Hunting Season 1961, Oct - Dec 1968, Fall Hunt 1973, Fall Hunt 1974, Fall Hunt 1975

CA Them Days APL 060 · Fonds · 1973 - 1996

Fonds consists of administrative records of the Labrador Heritage society including memorandum of Association, correspondence, financial records, letterhead, rules and regulations, and minutes. Fonds also includes written histories of the society, newspaper articles, booklets, brochures, and other published material.

Labrador Heritage Society
CA Them Days APL 105 · Fonds · 1920, 1921, 1930, 1957, 1970

Collection consists of a booklet entitled: ‘A Brick for Labrador’ written by Lady Grenfell (1930), [moved to LIBRARY]; telegrams between C.S Bauman, Dr. Grenfell, and the Government (1920); various correspondence regarding the movement of C.S Bauman to Labrador to work with the Grenfell Mission (1920); a certificate of discharge issued to C.S Bauman (1920), a receipt from IGA to Mr. Bauman (1920), expenses and accounts of a Labrador trip (1920), a notice of smallpox vaccination, a handwritten note to Mr. Lawrence C. Hatch, and an envelope addressed to Mrs. William Bryan (1970)

Dr. Clair Sylvester Bauman
Linda Mugford fonds
CA Them Days APL 889 · Fonds · 1960-2006, 1991-1996, 2001-2006

A typed seven page document written by William A. Andersen titled “Makkovik’s History Traces 140 Years,” and “A Case study of the Andersen family and the origin and development of the community of Makkovik,” a marriage certificate for Abraham Mugford and Winnifred Pottle from 1925 and a genealogy file for the surname Rich

A. H. Murray
William Brooks Cabot fonds
Fonds · 1899-1910

Fonds consists of 42 black and white photographs taken by Cabot during his journeys in Labrador. The photographs are part of an exhibition of 57 photographs held at the Johnson Memorial Gallery of Middlebury College in Vermont from January-February 1985. The photographs are mainly of Innu men, women and children engaged in their daily activities and of the landscape surrounding their homes.

William Brooks Cabot
Homer Green fonds
CA Them Days S281-S292, S2075-S2080, S2400, S2437, S2460, S2761-S2780, S2857, S3132, S3135-S3136, S3141-S3143, S3146-S3147, S3165 · Fonds · 1989, 1990, 1993, 1995

Collection consists of 51 coloured slides, 1989-1995, depicting various scenes encountered by Green on his travels through Labrador: portraits of individuals and groups in Fox Harbour, Makkovik, Red Bay, Nain, Northwest River and Sheshatshiu; dwellings and buildings; Labrador Canoe Regatta-1993; Trappers’ Monument.

Homer Green