The fonds consists of a price book that lists the prices of a huge inventory of goods, supplies, fish and timber products and produce. The page heading on page 2 reads "Trinity current prices for cash and barter agreed on between Messrs. Robinson Brooking & Co. and R. Slade & Co." Entries are made for summer and winter prices from 1850-1858.
Robinson Brooking & CoSeries consists of 3 volumes which record enrollments, dues and fines.
The fonds consists of day books, shop books, a log book for St. Augustine’s School, and a book titled “History of British Harbour, Newfoundland”.
The fonds has been arranged in four series: Series 1: Day Book, 1861-1888, 1897-1899, 1904-1905; Series 2: Shop Book, 1878-1885, 1893, 1895-1896; Series 3: Log Book, 1910-1915; Series 4: History of British Harbour, Newfoundland.
Gardner, ArthurThe fonds consists of mercantile copy books for John James Green; a ledger, day book, bill book, account book, notebook, order book and invoices for the Green Family Forge; education records from Harvey and Cecil Green and Mrs. Nemec’s education in schools in Trinity, St. John’s, and Sackville, New Brunswick; correspondence with members of the Green family; church bulletins; miscellaneous; colour glass plate negatives; black and white and colour photographs.
The fonds has been arranged in seven series: Series 1: Mercantile Copy Books, 1875; Series 2: Green Family Forge, 1862 - 1955; Series 3: Education Records, 1908, 1911, 1915, 1933 - 1950, 1994; Series 4: Correspondence and Poetry, 1933 - 1947, 1954, 1972, 1995 - 1996; Series 5: Church Materials, 1942, 1952, 1976,1985, 1991 - ; Series 6: Miscellaneous material; Series 7: Colour Glass Plate Negatives.
Green-Nemec Family FondsThe shipping records include statements of seals taken by individual vessel, 1875; an account of the sealing fleet, 1879-1881; vessels accounts for the vessels Isabella, Dart and Gem, 1863-1878; crew subscriptions to Church properties, 1879; papers relating to insurance claims for the brig Gem, 1877-1889; papers relating to the Dart, missing at sea, 1879; charter parties, 1855-1879 and sealing crew agreements for the Dart, 1871-1877, the Lion, 1875, 1879 and the Bear, 1875.
The financial records which make up this series provide an almost complete account of the firm's financial transactions for the period that they were in operation at Trinity. They include 23 volumes of journals, 1863-1900; 26 volumes of ledgers, 1863-1902; 13 volumes of petty ledgers, 1879-1901; store books, 1863-1901 (54 volumes); store cash books, 1869-1899 (21 volumes); day books, 1863-1895 (10 volumes); ledger indexes, 1881-1882 ( 2 volumes); cash collecting book, 1870-1871; produce books, 1870-1900 (14 volumes); account books, 1866- 1868 (3 volumes); blotter, 1892-1901 (2 volumes); stock books, 1878-1897 (2 volumes); barter books, 1880-1891 (2 volumes); order book, 1864. This series is arranged in sub-series by function.
This series contains all the unbound material having to do with accounts. It includes accounts of advances of cash to sealing crews, 1874-1884; advances to crews per Walter Grieve of St. John's, 1876-1879; James Gent in account with Grieve & Bremner, Trinity 1872- 1899; miscellaneous accounts, 1873-1894 and loose journal accounts, 1865. Also a photocopy of a Barter Book for 1874-1875.
Printed rules and regulations, 1869, 1926; applications and correspondence, and promotional material, clippings and photographs of the 150th Anniversary Celebrations, 1988. Walter G. C. White file containing historical notes and information on the Trinity Club, and Rev. Canon Lockyer History of the Trinity Club, which includes photographs of club presidents.
The series consists of the minutes of vestry, one photocopied volume, (1874-1883) and 9 original volumes.
Vestry CommitteeThe fonds contains records of the administration of the church of St. Paul's from 1874-1969, and includes the minutes of meetings of vestry, records of committees and boards, financial records, correspondence and invoices, vestry registers, clergy's records, some legal documents re the acquisition of land, and seating plans for both the old and the new church. Other records include photographs of the present and the former church, as well as portraits of many of the rectors of the parish; a full set of plans for the building of the church by architect Stephen J. Earle; a painting by J. S. Hayward of the Anglican Cathedral of St. John's; and visitors' books.
The records have been organized in 11 series according to form and function; Series 1: Minutes of Vestry, 1874-1958; Series 2: Committees and Boards, 1892-1945; Series 3: Financial Records, 1879-1964; Series 4: Correspondence, 1905-1960; Series 5: Vestry Registers, 1913-1921; Series 6: Clergy's Records, 1881-1969; Series 7: Legal documents, 1895; Series 8: Sunday School, 1904-1913; Series 9: Visitors' Books; Series 10: Plans and blueprints, [1892 - 1980]; Series 11: Photographs.
Anglican Parish of St. Paul, Trinity, Trinity Bay, NL