Digital Collections

Selections from the Esther Clark Wright Archives and the Vaughan Memorial Library's Special Collections. Please note: These images are provided for reference and research use only. If you wish to publish or use these images, please fill out the Request Permission to Publish form

Journalist and federal government employee, first Dominion Statistician. Professional papers.

Records of the Gormley family farm in Upper Falmouth. Photographs taken by Arch Gormley.

Grand Pre Marsh Body

Records of the Grand Pre Marsh Body. Minutes, administrative records, legal documents, and accounts.

Ladies Seminary student from 1912-1914. Photograph album of seminary students & Grand Pre area.

Harrison Flint Lewis

Graduate of Acadia, Class of 1917. Records related to his career as a naturalist and ornithologist.

Itinerant New Light preacher and hymnist based in Falmouth. Correspondence.

Horton Collegiate Academy

Preparatory school opened in 1828 by the Baptist Education Society in Wolfville.

J.F.W. Des Barres

18th century cartographer. Maps of the coastal areas of Nova Scotia.

James Easterbrooks

New Brunswick politician and Planter descendant. Correspondence.

John Daniel Logan

Writer, professor, literary and music critic, WWI veteran. Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs.

John Frederic Herbin

Acadia Class of 1890. Jeweller and Optician. Writer and historian of Acadian culture at Grand Pre.

John Mockett Cramp

19th century President of Acadia College. Journal, manuscripts, publications.

Church of England clergyman based in Wilmot. Journal, deed.

Joyce Duncanson

Diploma in Secretarial Science from Acadia, 1939. Acadia-related photographs.

Kings County Agricultural Society

Second oldest agricultural society in North America. Minute books, accounts, correspondence.

Kings County Regiment of Militia

19th century records of the 1st battalion and 1st regiment of the Kings County Militia.

Lillian Grant may have attended the Acadia Ladies Seminary. In 1916, she certainly lived in…

Louis Franquet (1697-1768), was a French army officer and military engineer. He traveled to French-…

Mamie Ingraham was a student of the Acadia Ladies' Seminary circa 1913/1914.

Margaret Marshall Saunders

Margaret "Marshall" Saunders (1861-1947) was born in Milton, Nova Scotia. In 1882, she…

Marsters family

Records of the Marsters family of Hants County. Deeds, diaries, photographs, correspondence.

Minnie Blanche Bishop

Scrapbooks of Minnie Blanche Bishop's poetry and prose, likely compiled by Lilian E. Bishop.

Orchardist's Notebook

This book contains notes from 1924 to 1926 in which an unidentified orchardist (or possibly…

Palmeter family

Records of the Palmeter family of Medford, Kings Co. Farming records, accounts, probate records.