Affiliated Items
Petition
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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
Petition
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Collection: Dykes and Common Fields
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
Correspondence concerning including the Wickwire Marshlands into the Grand Pre Marsh Body
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Collection: Grand Pre Marsh Body
Description: Letter to the Nova Scotia Marshlands Reclamation Commission from the Grand Pre Marsh Body regarding a request to include the Wickwire marshlands into the Grand Pre Marsh Body. Includes a discription of the Grand Pre Marsh Body's boundaries.
Accession Number: 2007.032-GMB/028B
Type: textual record
Correspondence concerning land use regulations
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Collection: Grand Pre Marsh Body
Description: Letter to Ron Gourley, chairman of the Marshland Reclamation Commission, from the Bishop-Beckwith, Grand Pre and Wellington Marsh Bodies regarding land-use regulations.
Accession Number: 2007.032-GMB/028B
Type: finding aid
Meeting minutes (1971-1993)
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Collection: Grand Pre Marsh Body
Description: Minutes of the annual Grand Pre Marsh Body executive committee meetings from March 1971 to April 1993.
Accession Number: 2007.032-GMB/001
Type: textual record
Letter to Editor concerning dykeland dispute sent to government
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Collection: Grand Pre Marsh Body
Description: A letter to The Editor at The Advertiser in Kentville, Nova Scotia from the Grand Pre Marsh Body and the Bishop-Beckwith Marsh Body regarding a article entitled "Dykeland dispute sent to government" in January 24, 1995 edition. The marsh bodies point out the false and misleading information contained in the article and attempt to clarify the issues of land-use regulation addressed in…
Accession Number: 2007.032-GMB/029A
Type: textual record
Meeting minutes (1994 February 7)
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Collection: Grand Pre Marsh Body
Description: Minutes of a joint meeting held between the Grand Pre, Bishop-Beckwith and Wellington Marsh Body executive. They met to jointly discuss changes to the Marshland Reclamation Act and work collectively to amend the Act. Attached is a letter, written by Ruth Conrad, to the Marshland Reclamation Commission regarding the outcome of the joint executive meeting.
Accession Number: 2007.032-GMB/028B
Type: textual record
Meeting minutes (1995 March 20)
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Collection: Grand Pre Marsh Body
Description: Minutes of the annual meeting of the Grand Pre Marsh Body on March 20, 1995. Some topics included: issues concerning Shore Road, liability insurance, concern over finances for road and ditch maintenance, right to tow vehicles off marsh roads and the resignation of Ruth Conrad as secretary.
Accession Number: 2007.032-GMB/028B
Type: textual record
Presentation concerning a proposed Open Space Park and a tourist brochure
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Collection: Grand Pre Marsh Body
Description: A presentation given by Ruth Conrad, of the Joint Executive Committee of the Grand Pre and Bishop-Beckwith Marsh Bodies, to the Wolfville Town Council in April of 1994 regarding the proposed Open Space Park and a tourist brochure that designates roads on the Wickwire and Bishop-Beckwith Marshlands as walking trails.
Accession Number: 2007.032-GMB/029A
Type: textual record
Meeting minutes of the Dykelands Preservation Society (1995 August 23)
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Collection: Grand Pre Marsh Body
Description: The minutes of the Dykelands Preservation Society in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Includes attendance, discussion of the mission and objectives of the DPS, a society newsletter, and a public launching of the society. Also includes a list of volunteers to help out at a fundraiser.
Accession Number: 2007.032-GMB/029B
Type: textual record
Correspondence concerning building a running dyke, with attached plan
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Collection: Grand Pre Marsh Body
Description: Letter to Waldon Kennedy from the Grand Pre Marsh Body regarding a deed for a running dyke to be built by the M.M.R.A. Amount of compensation is described and prices listed. Attached is a plan of the breakdown of a section of the right of way required by the M.M.R.A. on the east dyke on the Grand Pre Marsh and a hand written list of proprietors and possibly estimates of compensation for damages…
Accession Number: 2007.032-GMB/006
Type: map
Correspondence concerning dispute with Town of Wolfville
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Collection: Grand Pre Marsh Body
Description: A letter to the Honorable Robbie Harrison, MLA of Kings South, from the Grand Pre Marsh Body and the Bishop-Beckwith Marsh Body regarding a letter the Mayor of Wolfville, Gwen Phillips, sent to him. The marsh bodies comment on and correct statements that were contained in the letter.
Accession Number: 2007.032-GMB/029A
Type: textual record
Correspondence concerning controversy over the land-use regulation
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Collection: Grand Pre Marsh Body
Description: A letter to Ron Gourley, Chairman of the Marshland Reclamation Commission from the Grand Pre, Bishop-Beckwith and Wellington Marsh Bodies regarding a letter to Hank Kolstee from the solicitor of the Town of Wolfville, James Dewar on the controversy over the land-use regulation in which the marsh bodies sought approval from the Commission.
Accession Number: 2007.032-GMB/029A
Type: textual record
Sherman Bleakney
Dates: 1945 to 2012
Collection: Sherman Bleakney, Archival Catalogue
Type: archival description