Fonds consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence documenting the business operations of A. Belcher & Co. and of Andrew Belcher’s activities as agent for the General Mining Association (GMA). The incoming correspondence are 41 letters (1825-1832, 1865) addressed to either Belcher or Almon which document shipments of coal, flour, cheese, gunpowder, fish and lumber; itemize contracts undertaken; and give details about other business dealings including mortgages, construction projects and outstanding debts. It also includes one letter written to Almon a number of years after the business had ceased operation.
The outgoing correspondence is a copy letter book attributed to A. Belcher & Co., 520 pages with a name index, covering 11 Sep 1830 to 16 Sep 1833. There are lengthy letters to supervisors of the coal mines in Sydney, Albion Mines (Stellarton), Bridgeport and Pictou, NS, as well as letters to Richard Smith, visiting GMA engineer; G.P. Duval the GMA contact in London; the London office of A. Belcher & Co.; and business contacts in New York, Jamaica, Bermuda, Boston, Newfoundland and Quebec. The contents document shipments of food stuffs and supplies, especially coal and the parts needed for the newly invented steam engine being installed in the coal mines by Richard Smith of London. One personal correspondent is with William Archer, a former enslaved man living in Bermuda, writing Belcher for help to free his mother. Belcher also comments on the postal service, an independent Cape Breton, and growing competition from the United States and Samuel Cunard.
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2005-004/004-001
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1910
Part of Harry and Rachel Morton
2005-004/004-001
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1910
Part of Harry and Rachel Morton
2005-004/004-001
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1910
Part of Harry and Rachel Morton
MG 20 vol 1453 item 9
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1926
Part of Nova Scotia Dietetic Association
1993-119/001-20
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8 January 1921
Part of C.H.L. Jones
MG 20 vol. 3538 file 09
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1996
Part of Canadian Federation of University Women -- Halifax Club fonds
2009-037 Ac 3678
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28 January 1991
Part of Bridglal Pachai
2008-053/003-45
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[photocopied 199-?]
Part of Garth Vaughan
2008-053/007-04
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[reproduced 199-?]
Part of Garth Vaughan
2011-044/001-016 D
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1936
Part of Frank Clifford Goulding Smith
RG 7 vol 4 no 56
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19 July 1826
Part of Nova Scotia Department of Provincial Secretary
2005-047/015-10
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1984-1993
Part of Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia
2009-049/001-15
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July 1945
Part of J. Loran Morrison
MG 100 vol. 169 file 34 item B
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Part of C.H. Johnson
2008-026, 2013-030.
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1825-1865, predominant 1825-1833
1995-364/001-141
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193-?
Part of J.P. Norrie
RG 7 vol 7 no 74
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31 December 1833
Part of Nova Scotia Department of Provincial Secretary
2009-037/008-02
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[ca. 1907]
Part of Bridglal Pachai
MG 1 vol 105 item 50
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16 June 1775-28 August 1775
Part of Bailly family
MG 1 vol 105 item 49
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28 June 1780
Part of Bailly family
2009-015/001-12
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1945
Part of Tyrus Smith fonds
2009-015/001-16
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1945
Part of Tyrus Smith fonds
RG 7 vol 7 no 17
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7 April 1833
Part of Nova Scotia Department of Provincial Secretary
2011-062/006-38
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1973
Part of Nova Scotia Teachers Union fonds
2011-062/006-35
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1974
Part of Nova Scotia Teachers Union fonds