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1922-1996 (Creation)
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- MacDonald, Sharon M.H., 1948-
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- 5 cm of textual records
- 4 photographs
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Sharon MacDonald was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1948, the daughter of Dr. Robert Murray and Katherine Constance (MacLeod) MacDonald. She is a freelance historian who has worked with the Nova Scotia Museum, as a Research Fellow with the Canadian Museum of Civilization and presently is a Research Associate with the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canadian Studies at St. Mary's University. She completed her doctorate at the University of New Brunswick in 2010 on Western women who supported the Indian Independence Movement. She co-wrote Old Nova Scotian Quilts with Scott Robson. She continues to write and work in Halifax.
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Collection consists of records compiled or accumulated by Sharon MacDonald, including correspondence, promotional items, photographs, press clippings and related documentation. The contents of the collection include documents relating to her uncle, Roland F. Harris, as well as files of Mr. W.P. Potter, a lawyer who practiced in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Mr. Potter's files include information about Lady Bessie B. Borden, the Nova Scotia Tuberculosis Commission, and the Nova Scotia Motor League and their publication, The Headlight, along with photographs of 1920s car crashes and wrecks and the ship, Lady Nelson. Also includes some genealogical information about her Murray family connections and more specifically the descendants of Alexander (1765-1826) and Mary (Beaton or Matheson) Murray of Achnagarrin Farm in Rogart, Sutherlandshire, Scotland.
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Donated by Sharon MacDonald in 2011.