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Consists of family and business records created, accumulated and used by five generations of the McCullough, McManus, and Gallagher families. Consists predominantly of correspondence, including several letters to Mary McCullough from her children and grand-children. Letters from her son Frank McCullough, 1900-1930s, discuss family and community news at home as well as activities, attitudes, and impact of world events in West Africa while Frank was working in the Gold Coast colony. Also contains letters to Sheila McManus from family, friends, and acquaintances; other assorted family correspondence; letterbooks, order and account books of Patrick Gallagher; legal records; scrapbook illustrating clothing and dress, ca. 1920s-1930s; ephemera pertaining to drama and travel; newspaper clippings; and photographs and picture postcards. Other photographs are found with the letters. Records document Irish Roman Catholic society and family life in Saint John, N.B. and Halifax, N.S. for nearly 150 years; early ecomomic and labour history in Saint John between 1825 and the 1860s; British colonial activities in the Gold Coast, West Africa, between 1900 and the 1930s, and Hugh MacLennan's experiences at Oxford University, England, described in his letters to Sheila McManus.