Grand Pre, Kings County, N.S. | Acadia Archives Digital Collections

Petition

Collection: Dykes and Common Fields

Description: Petition requesting a dyke and aboiteau be built across Island Creek West. Includes signatures of petitioners.

Accession Number: 2015.005-DCF/007

Creator: Proprietors of the Undyked Marsh Land, Proprietors of the Grand Pre Dyke

Type: textual record

Petition

Collection: Dykes and Common Fields

Description: Petition from Henry B. Webster to Robert L. Harvey & Robert Palmeter requesting the marsh be drained. Signed by W.C. Hamilton, W.A. Woodman, Geo. H. Brown and Leander Harris.

Accession Number: 2015.005-DCF/006

Creator: Webster, Henry B.

Type: textual record

Account

Collection: Dykes and Common Fields

Description: Account, G.R. Harvey due Commissioners Grand Pre Dyke.

Accession Number: 2015.005-DCF/008

Creator: Proprietors of the Grand Pre Dyke

Type: textual record

Description: Petition signed by the Proprietors of the Grand Pre Dyke appointing Robert Palmeter and Nathaniel Faulkner as Commissioners of Sewers for the Township of Horton, to look after the dykes and aboiteaux around Grand Pre.

Accession Number: 2015.005-DCF/002

Creator: Proprietors of the Grand Pre Dyke

Type: textual record

Petition

Collection: Dykes and Common Fields

Description: Petition signed by the Proprietors of the Grand Pre Dyke appointing Robert L. Harvey as Commissioner of Sewers for the Township of Horton, to look after the dykes and aboiteaux around Grand Pre.

Accession Number: 2015.005-DCF/003

Creator: Proprietors of the Grand Pre Dyke

Type: textual record

List of Accounts for Labour Performed and other necessary charges for keeping the Grand Paree Dyke in repair for the year 1857

Collection: Dykes and Common Fields

Description: Contains list of names including Palmeter, Taller, Black, Levant, Taylor, Davis, Davidson, Peter, Porter, Woodworth, Gould, Brown, Harris, Ryan, Hardaker and others.

Accession Number: 2015.005-DCF/001

Creator: Gould, Stephen, Hamilton, Edward, Stewart, William

Type: textual record

Grand Pre, N.S.

Collection: Elizabeth McWhinnie

Description: 1 postcard : col. ; 8.5 x 13.5cm. – Postcard shows the commemorative church at the Grand Pre Historic Site. A pond and a large willow tree are in the foreground with the church reflected in the pond. The postcard notes that the Park is operated by the Dominion Atlantic Railway.

Accession Number: 2011.065-WHI/011

Type: postcard

Shoreline, dykes, aboiteaux and placement of dyke walls and aboiteaux

Collection: Sherman Bleakney

Description: Three base maps of the dykes, aboiteaux and shoreline from Wolfville to Grand Pre from 1760 - 1973 altered by Sherman Bleakney. Bleakney has indicated, in colour, the system of dyke walls from 1760-1950. Probably compiled by Sherman between 1994 and 1997.

Accession Number: 2004.039-BLE/004

Creator: Bleakney, John Sherman, 1928-2019

Type: map

Dead dyke wall at Deportation Creek

Collection: Sherman Bleakney

Description: Two photographs and three maps of the "Dead Dyke" at "Deportation Creek" on the Grand Pre marshlands, Nova Scotia. Includes notes about the Acadian dykes by Sherman Bleakney and lot numbers of the Dead Dyke area in Horton.

Accession Number: 2004.039-BLE/014

Creator: Bleakney, John Sherman, 1928-2019

Type: photograph

Lease agreement

Collection: Dennison family

Description: Lease agreement between J. Marion White of Grand Pre and F.C. Dennison of Hortonvillle concerning a lot of dyked marsh land purchased from James N. Fuller.

Accession Number: 1900.058-DEN/003

Type: textual record

Lease

Collection: Dennison family

Description: Lease between Dr. Henry Chipman of Grand Pre and Francis Dennison of Hortonville, farmer, for a lot of dyke land on the Grand Pre Dyke.

Accession Number: 1900.058-DEN/002

Type: textual record

Lower Dyke Common Field record book

Collection: Proprietors of the Lower Dyke Common Field

Description: Contains the minutes from the Lower Dyke Common Field Proprietors' meetings from 1865-1929.

Accession Number: 1936.001-LDC/002

Creator: Proprietors of the Lower Dyke Common Field

Type: textual record

Lower Dyke Common Field record book

Collection: Proprietors of the Lower Dyke Common Field

Description: Contains the minutes from the Lower Dyke Common Field Proprietors' meetings from 1814-1865.

Accession Number: 1936.001-LDC/001

Creator: Proprietors of the Lower Dyke Common Field

Type: textual record

Photo album

Collection: Haley family

Description: Photograph album of Haley family and friends as well as students of the Acadia Ladies' Seminary and the area around Grand Pre. Some people are identified.

Accession Number: 1900.207-HAL/1

Creator: Haley, Marjorie King, b. 1894

Type: album