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Hosking General Store Fonds

Original records spanning three generations (1891-1966) of a family run general store from Oyster Pond. Records include invoices, receipts, shipping records, account books, ledgers and inventories.

Eastern Shore School Attendance Registers

Original attendance registers with a variety of date ranges (1891–1987) from Clam Bay, Clam Harbour, DeBaie’s Cove, East & West Jeddore, East Ship Harbour, Head Jeddore, Jeddore Lakeville, Lake Charlotte, Lakefront Consolidated, Little Harbour, Lower Lakeville, Mooseland, Murphy’s Cove, Mushaboom, Musquodoboit Harbour, North Ship Harbour, Owls Head, Harbourside, Oyster Pond, Robert Jamison, Pleasant Harbour, Popes Harbour, Sheet Harbour, Sheet Harbour - East and West River, Sheet Harbour Passage, Ship Harbour, Spry Bay Elementary, Spry Harbour, Tangier - Advanced, Tangier - Consolidated, Tangier - Primary, and Upper Lakeville. Records not fully complete. Some restrictions apply.

Church Records

Microfilm and photocopies of births, deaths, marriages and baptisms from most of the Anglican churches serving the Eastern Shore, including Dartmouth Christ Church, Holy Trinity (Tangier), Ship Harbour Parish, St James’, St. John’s, St. Genevieve’s, St. George’s, St. Paul’s, St. Stephen’s. The Centre also has copies of Catholic records from St. Peter’s & Presbyterian records from Reverend James Rosborough. Copy restrictions apply.

Census

Microfilm copies of census records for Halifax County from 1851–1901. Indices to some of these censuses are available in our Library and our computers.

Annabell Siteman Ells Collection

Microfilm copy of a portion of the Annabell Siteman Ells Collection (originals housed at the Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management). The collection contains valuable information gathered by Ms. Ells about the communities and families of Ship Harbour and area.

Maps

A variety of maps covering the Eastern Shore, including the A.F.Church maps from 1864, the Crown Land Grant Maps, and the Faribault-Fletcher Geological Maps from the turn of the 20th century.

Robert Kim Stevens Collection

The working files of long time genealogist, Kim Stevens, contains a variety of documents and correspondence arranged in over 245 family folders from Abriel to Zong. The collection also contains over 200 books and periodicals on genealogy and local history. The Research Centre is also the Canadian distributor of all of Mr. Stevens’ Maritime Imprints series of publications on Eastern Shore families and a variety of indices to census, church records, and vital statistics.

Family Histories & Obituaries

A growing collection of self published and working files from family history researchers. Donations of self-published works are welcome. Vertical family files also contain a variety of obituaries published in newspapers over the last century. Obituaries have been copied from the orginal to ensure preservation.

Cemetery Listings

Still a work in progress—the Centre is compiling an up-to-date cemetery listing of all burials in the Lake Charlotte area, including pioneer cemeteries. Transcriptions of many cemeteries are on file.

Reference Books & Files

A variety of reference books focusing on local histories and genealogies and vertical files containing clippings, histories, sermons, and articles.

Community Photo Database

A collection of over 1000 High Resolution scans of photographs and gathered from community members and descendant further a field. All photographs are searchable and classified by date, surname, location, etc. This is an on-going project, and we welcome new photos for scanning.