Greetings from Halifax, I would like to thank all those who helped make the July RCNA Convention in Halifax so successful / fun for myself and Donna. It started off with many people crossing a big item off their bucket list by going for a cruise on the Bluenose II. A lot of happy and …
This originally appeared in the April 1993 edition of the Canadian Numismatic Journal. About the only new information that I have is that Charles Fraser McTavish was born in Toronto, Ontario approximately 1868, and was married on 15 October 1903 to Annie Eliza Curtis. They originally lived in London, ON where he worked as an …
If the purpose of a research paper is to try and answer more questions than it raises… I may have failed. The White farthing token has told us just about all that we know concerning W. L. White. He operated Halifax House, a dry goods business, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The piece has been shrouded …
Col. Roderick R. McLennan and George Brown joined forces to form a private banking company in Alexandria, Glengarry County, Ontario in 1885. The two were from very different backgrounds, Brown was a career banker, and Col. Roderick R. McLennan (a.k.a. Big Rory), has been described as a larger than life Victorian gentleman. He was also …
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The token ”G. E. Stiles Lloydminster / “Good For 5 Cents In Trade” is a previously unrecorded token. The questions are who was G. E. Stiles, and the more important question for collectors of Alberta and Saskatchewan tokens, is which province does it belong to? History of Lloydminster The Lloydminster area was first settled in …