Archives - Our Holdings

Here is a small sample of our archival holdings.

Family records

• Loyalist Reverend Jacob Bailey, 1759-c.1800 - his journals, letterbook and sermons
• Lent/Ruggles family papers (1798-1945), including the will of Hercules Lent of New York, father of Loyalist Abraham Lent, an early settler of Clements. Papers include contract for building a sailing ship in 1845.
• Delap family papers (1884-1891), including the ship's log of the barque Lancefield
• Mills, Perkins, Pickup, Ritchie and Shafner families - their scrapbooks and papers
• Elizabeth Delancey - her cyphering book c.1800
• Isabella Owen, Maria McClafferty and Hortense Gilliatt - their scrapbooks (first half of the 20th century)

Business records

• Frederic Beeler, cobbler in the Annapolis area, and his son, George F. Beeler - ledger c. 1819
• Eben Cutler, dry goods merchant in Annapolis - ledger 1790-1793
• Gilbert F. Ditmars, Moose River (Clementsport) - ledger 1832-1841
• Fortier Lumber Company and Annapolis Hardwood Company - shipping records, first half of 20th century
• Lequille Carding Mill - business ledger, 1903-1948
• Ernest Mills - shipping records concerning A.D. Mills & Sons, Pickels & Mills, and Ernest A. Mills Enterprises, including records of the schooner F.W. Pickels
• Hotel registers

Photograph collections

• Fred Harris, an amateur photographer, a lawyer, and eventually, Town Clerk. The fonds consist of 228 prints and 201 slides which portray late Victorian life c. 1895-1905 in Annapolis Royal and the surrounding area. Included are several images of vessels.
• Sidney Payne, a professional photographer with the Dominion Entomological Laboratory in Annapolis Royal. The fonds consist of 372 photographs which include photography work for the laboratory, personal photos and commission work in the area, c. 1910-1940.
• Harold Thorne Stultz, an amateur photographer and scientist at the Dominion Entomological Laboratory in Annapolis Royal. During his time in this community during the 1930s and '40s, he created an extensive collection of portrait photographs. This fonds is currently being processed and accessioned into our archival collection.
• Paul Yates, a professional photographer who operated studios in Annapolis Royal and Digby in the first half of the 20th century. The fonds consist of 1,089 negatives, some of which have been reproduced, and four boxes of journals.