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Fonds · 1770-[183-]

Fonds consist of baptism certificate, personal correspondence, newspaper clippings and printed materials.

FitzGerald, Alexander
Basil Fearn fonds
Fonds · [194- ]-[197-]

Fonds consists of 235 black and white photographs and negatives, mainly of vessels constructed at the Clarenville Shipyard during the period that Basil Fearn was manager of the yard, commencing in 1947. The majority of the photographs are identified. At least 50 percent of the images show vessels under construction at the yard. Some of the images were printed from negatives in 1997.

Vessels include the Matthew, the Terra Nova, the Newfoundland, the Marilyn Marie, the Richard, the Northern Wave, the George Kentner, the Philip E. Lake, the Penny Luck, the Shirley Blanche, the Algerine, the Hermitage, the Random Sound, the East Wind and the Right Wind, built for Job Brothers.

Fearn, Basil
Harry C. Winsor fonds
Fonds · [195-]

Fonds consists of manuscripts and published data relating to the Newfoundland fisheries, including FAO publications, confidential reports, Newfoundland fishery statistics for 1950-1954 by community, a memorandum for vocational education for fishers, and an article on the twelve-mile limit for territorial waters.

Winsor, Harry C.
Agnes Pratt Home fonds
Fonds · [195-]-1995

Fonds consists of administrative records of the Senior Citizens Home, including property (legal and financial) ([195-]-1987), Watkins Estate trust fund account (1979-1982), annual reports (1975-1995), financial statements (1962-1994), reports and correspondence to various agencies (primarily the United Church of Canada ) (1958-1992), minutes and reports of the board (1972-1993). In addition there is a file concerning several expansions of the home (1970-1986). Several issues of the home's newsletter are included (1979, 1993). It also includes blueprints, architect's assessments, brochures and photographs. Also included are several ancillary files containing miscellaneous information as it relates to housing the elderly.

Agnes Pratt Home
Fonds · 1943-1995, predominant [196-?]-1995

The records consist of records of the provincial CGIT committee, including Camp Council, and comprise a constitution, newsletters, reports, minutes, financial statements and miscellaneous printed material. Series 2 consists of 33 photographs and 17 35 mm slides ([198-]-199-]). It also contains published material and several artifacts (1943-1975).

Canadian Girls in Training
John Munn and Co. fonds
Fonds · Photocopied [196?] (originally created 1770-1918)

This fonds consists of photocopies of separate items which were kept at the premises of John Munn and Co. in Harbour Grace. It includes seal landing books, 1849-95, Harbour Grace Customs records, 1770-1918, and minutes of the Conception Bay Mutual Marine Insurance Club, 1850-87.

John Munn and Co.
Nathan Smith DeMill fonds
Fonds · Microfilmed [196?] (originally created 1833-1851)

Fonds consists of two microfilmed letter books dating 1833-47 and 1847-51, which contain correspondence from Nathan Smith DeMill to various businesses. The letter books provide information about accounts, orders, cargo, sailing dates and voyage destinations.

DeMill, Nathan Smith
Thomas Lang fonds
Fonds · Microfilmed [196?] (originally created 1780-1864)

Fonds consists of business papers, correspondence, accounts, and estate papers relating to Thomas Lang's business operations at Greenock and Newfoundland.

Fonds is arranged in the following series: Thomas Lang business papers; Correspondence and accounts; Lang correspondence; Business papers; Crawford and Co. papers; Papers of Lang estate; Papers and correspondence.

Lang, Thomas
John Richard Goodridge fonds
Fonds · Transcribed [196?] (originally created 1872-1913)

Fonds consists of a typed transcript of a diary of John Richard Goodridge for 1872-1913. The diary gives information relating to his involvement in the business of Alan Goodridge & Sons with partners Henry C. Goodridge and Augustus F. Goodridge. It also accounts his travels relating to marketing Newfoundland fish and purchasing vessels.

Goodridge, John Richard
E. R. Seary fonds
Fonds · [196?]-1977

Fonds consists of the working papers of Professor Seary for his 1976 publication Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland. It includes an index of family names and information about different spellings of surnames, geographic distribution of surnames and particular information about persons with specific surnames culled from selected historical documents.

The fonds also includes correspondence, clippings about surnames, folklore survey cards pertaining to Newfoundland surnames, newspaper clippings about Seary's research and other subjects, correspondence between Seary and various individuals about family names and other academic subjects.

Seary, E.R.