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Archival description
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.

Fonds · 1904-1997

Fonds consist of records relating to the functional bodies of the Charge which include various boards, committees, organizations and groups. Included are minutes, reports, correspondence, membership and subscription records, publications, accounts and annual reports.

The records are arranged in the following series: Board and Committee records, 1908-1975; Sunday School records, 1920-1975; Subscription lists, membership lists, and accounts, 1904-1920; Annual Reports, 1925-1967; and Church history and other published material, 1938-1975.

United Church of Canada. Grand Falls Memorial Pastoral Charge
Fonds · 1817-1996

Fonds consist of records relating to the functional bodies of the Charge which include various boards, committees, organizations and groups. Included are vital statistics, minutes, financial records, reports, and publications.

The records are arranged in the following series: 1.0 Baptism, marriage and burial registers, (1849-1961); 2.0 Membership Records [19-]; 3.0 Board and Committee Records (1852-1941); 4.0 Women's Groups Records (1953-1973); 5.0 Sunday School/ Sabbath School Records (1931-1942); 6.0 Correspondence/ Subject Files (1889; 7.0 Church histories [19-]; 8.0 Scrapbooks, 1963-1988; and 9.0 Annual Reports, 1958-1996.

United Church of Canada. Grand Bank Pastoral Charge
Graeme Beare collection
CA Them Days APL 213 · Collection · 1983

Collection consists of handwritten correspondence from Mr. Graeme Beare to Mrs. Saunders regarding the article he had written for the S.S. Kyle (1983); and the handwritten article entitled " A Honeymoon on The Kyle", written by Graeme Beare.

Fonds · Microfilmed 1979 (originally created 1807-1810)

Fonds consists of a microfilmed letterbook containing outgoing correspondence dated from 19 March 1807 to 28 April 1810. The letters were sent by George W. Ledgard and his staff in Poole to his partners John Gosse and Thomas Chancey, in Carbonear, Newfoundland, and to other merchant firms, agents, bankers, and captains.

Gosse, Chancey & Ledgard (Firm)
Gosling family fonds
Fonds · 1908-1965

The fonds consists of the papers of William Gilbert Gosling and research notes and drafts of his book Humphrey Gilbert, correspondence, one photograph album, one postcard album and several loose photographs that belonged to Armine Nutting Gosling and Ambrose Gosling, typed speeches and talk about Bermuda read by A.G. Gosling over the radio (1957); Ambrose Gosling's photograph album (including photographs of central Balkans, WWI, 1914-17), photographs of Salonika and photographs documenting the aftermath of major fire; Ambrose Gosling's postcard album (featuring Salonika and other sites), cast photo of "The New Boy", featuring Armine Nutting Gosling; photograph Newfoundland Lawn Tennis Club.

Gosling family
Gordon (Sydney Gordon) Myles
Fonds · 1984-1996

The fonds consist of Gordon Myles' family and community research files. It includes an exhaustive collection of genealogical material as well as some completed family histories and a history of the community of Grand Bruit on the south coast of Newfoundland. The main families included in Myles study are the Billards, Kinslows, Myles/Miles, MacDonald /McDonalds and Melbournes. The research material consists of photocopies from parish records, cemetery inscriptions, census, land grants, newspapers, directories, yearbooks and published material. Myles' research notes are meticulously compiled and organized, and include questionnaires, pedigree charts, data sheets containing vital statistics and draft monographs.

All the material was collected or created between 1984 and 1996. In the case of photocopies and transcripts, the dates of the original material are included in the file level description.

The fonds has been organized into seven series and sub-series to clarify the original order. Order within the files has been maintained. Series are: 1. Correspondence. 2. Family history. 3. Community history, Grand Bruit. 4. Vital statistics. 5. Family records (genealogies). 6. Name files. 7. Research material.

Myles, Gordon (Sydney Gordon)
Collection · [ca.1950-1970]

The collection contains a photographic account of the seal hunt from the SS Terra Nova and the SS Algerine. The photographer was Wilson Pynn and the photographs were printed by Newfoundland Department Mines and Resources (PF-104).

The collection also consists of photographs taken on the last annual seal hunt conducted in 1981, when Slade, as Deputy Minister of Fisheries, went to the hunt in the Lady Johnson II with Captain Morrissey Johnson. The collection includes photographs of Hon. Jim Morgan, then Provincial Minister of Fisheries (PF-301).

Slade, Gordon C.
Gordon Rendell collection
CA Them Days APL 176 · Collection · 1958, 1966, 1976, 1991

Collection consists of a bookklet entitled " It's the Goose" (1958), a newsletter about CBC Northern and Armed forces (1996); a request for a radio show to Gordie Rendell from Jessie Williams (1976); an article taken from the LABRADORIAN entitled " Rendell retires after 30 years with CBC" written by Bert Pomeroy (1991); and information taken from CBC regarding the Naming of Happy Valley Contest.

Gorden Rendell
Gordon Morris Collection
CA Them Days APL 262 · Collection · 1942 - 1948

Collection consists of pieces of a diary; a sign announcing a dance (1948); literature detailing the phonetic alphabet, landing conditions, letter code; and a record of parcels for McNamara Construction Co. Ltd. Moncton NB, Dec 10, 1942

Gordon Morris