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Archival description
Gert Crosbie fonds
Fonds · 1973-1980

Fonds consists of family history material collected and used by Gert Crosbie while working on the history of her husband's family, the Manuel family of Exploits and Burnt Island, Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland. The fonds includes originals of Gert's student papers on the Exploits families. The fonds contains cemetery inscriptions, photographs, correspondence and a file containing information on the Crosbie family. Material previously donated by Crosbie (MF-007) has been refiled in this fonds.

Crosbie, Gert
Collection · [ca. 1907-1928]

Collection consists of 62 photographs of the Grand Falls and Botwood area, Newfoundland, ca. 1907-28. Images include the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company (AND) facilities, logging operations, the pulp and paper making process and community events in the area, as well as shipping activities at Botwood.

Collection is arranged in six series: 1. Paper mill buildings; 2. Paper mill machinery; 3. Logging operations; 4. Grand Falls dam; 5. Shipping operations, Botwood; 6. Company and community photographs.

Collection · Reproduced 1998 (originally created ca. 1900 - [195-])

The collection contains 204 copies of original photographs gathered by the Haystack Reunion Committee for inclusion in its commemorative booklet, Haystack Reflections, published in 1997. The images include schools, churches, business premises, work and social activities, special events, Haystack residents, and the changing landscape of the community in the first half of the 20th century. All have been identified and described on MHA photographic database. Families include Gregory, Drake, March, Coffin, Wakely, Gilbert, Wareham, Allen, Halfyard, Paul, Bendle, Best, Johnson, Jarvis, Tulk, Bert, Peach, Quinton, Pike, Reid, Bugden.

Haystack Reunion Committee
Herbert Crowe letter book
Fonds · Photocopied 1977 (originally created in 1902)

Item consists of photocopied extracts from a letter book (1902) with correspondence concerning the development of a shipbuilding policy in Canada.

Crowe, Herbert
HMS Calypso fonds
Fonds · 1881-1920, 1952

Fonds consists of records relating to the construction of the ship and records created while she was commissioned with the Royal Newfoundland Reserve. The fonds includes three journals relating to the construction of the vessel, HMS Calypso, including details of the vessel's construction kept by J.H. Lovell, carpenter at Chatham Dockyard (1881); a record of weights for the vessel (1883-84); and detailed sketches of the machinery aboard the vessel (1883). Each journal contains detailed hand drawn and painted illustrations. Other files include two pieces of correspondence, one of which is a letter from David Murray to the editor of Shipbuilding and Shipping Record regarding the construction and history of the vessel, 2 Aug. 1952.

The fonds also includes four drill registers created while the vessel was used to train members of the Reserve. These lists individuals and the period of their drill, the training vessel and remarks; a register of trainees; deck logbooks (1914-20); regulations concerning summary punishments and character, conduct, badges etc.(1911-13); and day books recording liquor accounts. A salt delivery book recording deliveries after the vessel was sold to Murray's is also included.

Fonds is arranged in two series: 1. Construction journals, 1881-1884, 1952; 2. Royal Naval Reserve drill registers, 1904-1922.

Calypso (ship)
Collection · Microfilmed [196-?] (originally created 1671-1900)

The Maritime History Archive commenced the collection of Irish parish records during the period 1973-1980. The parish records document the genealogical origins of Newfoundland families whose ancestors had emigrated from Ireland before the twentieth century.

The collection consists of microfilmed copies of many Roman Catholic parishes in the Irish counties of Clare, Cork, Kerry, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford and Donegal, as well as many Church of Ireland parishes in counties Cork and Waterford. There are also vestry books for two parishes in County Clare: Castletown Arra and Killahoe.

Maritime History Archive, Memorial University of Newfoundland
James Peake fonds
Fonds · Microfilmed in 1977 (originally created 1835-1866)

Fonds consists of microfilmed selections from the Peake papers, consisting of letter books, 1835-37 and 1845-50, and outgoing and incoming correspondence for 1841-66.

Peake, James
Joseph Buckley ledger
Fonds · Microfilmed 1989 (originally created 1693-1701)

Item consists of a microfilm reproduction of an account book (109 p.) that contains numerous entries, including accounts with Sir Edmund Andros, Captain Cyprian Southack, and Major John Walley.

Buckley, Joseph
Collection · December 8, 1994

Collection consists of photographs of the Launch of the Cabot Celebrations exhibit taken by David Bradley for the Maritime History Archive.

Launch of the Cabot Celebrations (Bonavista, N.L.)
Fonds · Microfilmed 1978 (originally created 1783-1874)

Fonds consists of microfilmed ships' accounts, insurance policies and papers for the following vessels: Sally (1796-1801); Dove (1797-99); Snow Mary (1803-04); Mary (1803-04); Susanna (1805); Cattle (1810); Paraquay (1849); General Higgins (1851-52); Hibernia (1789-91); Belmont (1858); Lampedo (1856-58); and Rosannah (1785).

The fonds also includes Leavitt family letters (mostly to Daniel, George and Joseph) for 1802-66; indentures and bonds (1798-1874); bills, receipts and promissory notes (1700-1856); Daniel Leavitt account book (1798); account book (1796-97); and Saint John City Poor House account book (1810-13).

Leavitt (Family, Saint John, N.B.)