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1886-1911 (Creation)
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- Bennett Smith & Sons
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32 cm of textual records
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Bennett Smith & Sons was a shipbuilding and shipping company with offices in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Saint John, New Brunswick. Bennett Smith was well known as one of the largest and wealthiest shipowners in the Maritimes. After his death in 1886, Bennett Smith & Sons was taken over by Bennett's sons, John Marshall Smith and Charles Dewolfe Smith.
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Fonds consists of three letter books, 1894-1911, and a journal, 1886-1892, relating to various aspects and transactions of the shipbuilding and shipping business of Bennett Smith & Sons, Charles DeWolfe Smith and John Marshall Smith.
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Donated by Harold Lister of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia in 1997.
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Accounts of William Smith (1804-1878), a brother of Bennett Smith, are located in MG 7 volume 26.
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Image: Bennett Smith Shipyards, Windsor.
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- Smith, Bennett (Subject)