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1925-1952 (Creation)
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- Lynch, Bill, 1900-1972
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23 cm of textual records and other material
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William P. Lynch was born on 25 August 1900 at Ferguson's Cove, Nova Scotia, the son of Matthew and Josephine (Palmer) Lynch. He was raised on McNab's Island, Nova Scotia. He began a road show in 1925 and won the bid to hold his carnival at the Halifax Exhibition in 1929. It later became the Bill Lynch Shows, the only major carnival owned locally and operated exclusively in Atlantic Canada. He died in Halifax on 23 October 1972.
Custodial history
The records were left behind on McNab Island by the Lynch family and found in the process of preparing the site as a provincial park. The material was subsequently transferred to the Archives by Bob Blumsum, District Supervisor Halifax West, Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, in 1993.
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Fonds consists of records primarily documenting Lynch's business activities as a carnival operator in Nova Scotia and other Atlantic provinces. Fonds contains incoming and outgoing correspondence both for the Bill Lynch Shows and Harold Curran, family papers, carnival ephemera, administrative, financial and operational records, photographs including items hand-coloured by J.F. LeBlanc, and a watercolour, as well as technical drawings of amusement rides and a map. The records also document personalities such as Charles Atlas and Elly Aredelty (Trapeze Artist) and the types of equipment used for rides and amusements.
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The graphic materials formerly in MG 1 volume 3196A were assigned accession 1993-418.
Image: Bill Lynch shows.
Physical description
Includes 14 b&w photographs, 1 watercolour, 2 technical drawings, 1 map.