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Harry and Rachel Morton
2005-004 · Fonds · 1835-2009

Consists of textual records, photographs, postcards, a land survey plan and one object. The contents document the history of the King, Lovett, Morton, Pallen, Stafford, Wainwright, and Wiswell families in Nova Scotia. It includes extensive correspondence, particularly during the Second World War while Harry Morton was serving in the Canadian Navy, as well as while he was studying medicine in London, England, in the 1930s. The correspondence also includes letters from Rachel Wainwright's time at St. Leonard's School in St. Andrew's, Scotland, with related documents and photographs. Another significant item in the fonds is the C.F. Longley scrapbook, which contains images of Halifax during the South African War and in the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion, as well as many buildings, homes, and public spaces in Halifax and Nova Scotia in general.

Morton, Harry, 1905-2001