A post yesterday on additions to the Canadiana.ca serials collection was inadvertently deleted. Here are those items again and some additions to the Heritage collection this month.
For the serials collection, which are OCRd:
Evening times star (Saint John, N.B.) for 2 May 1910 to 15 January 1927, That’s a run of 2,177 issues with a few issues missing from the paper’s launch and, no doubt, gaps internally.
Union Publishing Co.’s farmers’ and business directory for the counties of Carleton, Dundas, Glengarry, Grenville, Lanark, Prescott, Russell and Stormont, for 1894. There are now 9 issues from 1885 to 1899. The is a good source for finding rural land lot and concession numbers.
The additions this month to the Heritage archival collection are:
Canada. Department of the Interior : Letters patent (Western Land Grants) 1907. Microfilm C-6146 and Mikan 156853.
Directorate of Movements : Marine files 1945 . Microfilm C-5635 and Mikan 135140. The file includes information on the military voyages of the Ile de France that arrived in Halifax on 21 October 1945 with 9900 passengers and the Lady Nelson arriving Halifax on 6 November 1945 with 500 passengers.
Nominal rolls and paylists for the Volunteer Militia 1855-19141879-1897 . Microfilm T-16674 and Mikan 194987.
What is meant by Letters patent ? Official document ? Granted by whom ? The King ? Parliament? Please explain
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