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Tuna sticking in the 1950s, Progress Enterprise Sept 6. 1978.

Sport Fishing: Thomas Howell (left) with 956 lb Tuna and Zane Grey with his 758 pound tuna that held the world record for many years. (unknown newspaper).

The Gainesborough Hotel, by Susan de la Ronde, Bay News, November, 1980.

Future king nearly drowns in N. S., Man about news, Alex Nickerson, Halifax Mail Star, March 14, 1980.

Obituary of Sea School cadet Robert John Keith, Second World War vet re-enlisted for Korea, Windsor in Brief, November, 1986.

Ceremony marks opening of new Hubbards church, Lois Burke-Fowlie, undated, unattributed.

Hubbards Landmark being restored to former glory. Nadine Fownes, Halifax Mail-Star, July 28, 1990.

Mill Cove Baptist Church marks 100th anniversary, Churches by the sea by M. Allen Gibson, Chronicle-Herald, 2000.

The ebb and flow of Atlantic fishery, Halifax Herald, Feb 3. 2001.

Tuna Flat races featured at Hubbards Festival, Clipper News July 19, 2002.

Hubbards residents mourn end of historic mansion. Matriarch, maybe ghost inhabited stately home by Kelly Shiers, April, 7, 2002 Chronicle Herald, Halifax, NS,

Jim Sims Still Answers "Call of the Wild" at 78 by Adrian Waller

 

J. D. Shatford:

Shatford Very Much Alive in Hubbards, Frank DePalma, The Mail Star, Halifax, NS, January, 15, 1985.

Shatford Memorial Trust outlines assistance plans, Halifax Mail Star,  July 9, 1975.

Rose Cary Shatford: A Personal Memory, by Peter McCreath, Penny Saver, March 13, 1980.

Story of J. D. Shatford, unknown periodical, February, 1959, pg 1.

Story of J. D. Shatford, unknown periodical, Feburary, 1959, pg 2.

 

Robert Norwood:

The Life and Photography of Robert Norwood, The Elder Statesman, June, 1985.

 


 

Documents


Gravestone Inscriptions for Hubbards Area Cemetaries.

1792-93 Census of St. Margaret's Bay (Gary Meade).

 1817 Census, St. Margaret’s Bay.

St. Margaret’s Bay Directory 1864.

Nomination of John Dauphiny as an Assessor of County Rates for the Settlement of Margaret's Bay by the Grand Jury of the County of Halifax, 1842.

Public proclamation from Halifax Clerk of the Peace, May 3, 1839, making public the statutes for assessments in Halifax County.

Letter to Mr. John Dauphinee, St. Margaret's Bay concerning an insurance claim payment on his Brig 'The Loyalist', July 4, 1832.

Receipt of payments from Mr. John Dauphinee to George Lyons, January and February, 1838 for Rum, Bitters, corks, one pair of unbleached hose, and accounts against his Brig 'The Loyalist'.

Bill of Lading for John Dauphinee's Brig 'The Loyalist' from Scott & Co., Kingston Jamaica for the transport of 240 Columbian doubloons and two pounds three shillings and eleven pence in small Gold and change to be shipped to St. Margaret's Bay signed by the Master of the Loyalist, Hugh Setter, May 26, 1832.

Accounts for Edward Harnish and Richard Slawnwhite from Williman Barron for clothes and tobacco, December 26th, 1835.

Receipt from N.L. Todd & Co. for John Dauphinee, St. Margaret's'Bay for 11,013 feet of logs, September 17, 1885.

Receipt from Scotia House, C. & W. Anderson, Halifax for John Dauphinee purchase of groceries, November 7, 1885.

Receipt from McLean Bros., Blandford, NS to Henry Dauphinee for groceries, August 2, 1910.

Mill Cove Church (St. Marks) minutes from 1898-1923.

Southern District Telephone Directory, 1915.

Yearbook, Shatford Memorial School, 1963.

St. Margaret's Bay Sea School entrance permission note for cadet John Robert Keith, c. 1943

St. Margaret's Bay Sea School list of gear for cadets, c. 1943.

St. Margaret's Bay Sea School list of commandant's lectures, c 1943.

Brochure for Gainesborough Hotel. (Front) A.W. Shatford, proprietor, c. 1930.

Brochure for Gainesborough Hotel. (inside) A.W. Shatford, proprietor, c. 1930.

1948 Guide of Where to Stay in Nova Scotia, cover.

1948 Guide of Where to Stay in Nova Scotia listings.