Fonds 484 Davis, Hodgson, Coulter fonds

31 photographs

Date: 1821-1919 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of documents and photographs originating with the Davis family. They include two copies of an 1820 Last Will and Testament for John Davis with probate attachments dated 1850 and 1856; a 1902 Agreement for Sale of land and a 1916 lease by William Herbert Davis from St. Andrews, Manitoba; and a printed brochure for the Municipality of St. Andrews Manitoba.

Physical description: 3 cm textual records

Access points:

•                Textual record (documentary form)

Folded copy of the 1820 Will of John Davis titled Administration (with the Will and Codicil annexed) of the unadministered Goods of John Davis, deceased. Dated 2nd January 1850. Extracted by Slade, Wadeson & Crickitt, Proctors; Doctors’ Commons. Attached is a probate document from 1850.

Second folded copy of the 1820 Will of John Davis titled “Administration (with the Will and Codicil annexed) of the Goods left unadministered of John Davis, deceased. Dated 31st March 1856. Extracted by Slade Wadeson Crickitt & Appach, Proctors Doctors’ Commons. Attached is a probate document from 1856.

Legal agreement dated March 22, 1902 for the sale of land described as the NW 1/4 of Section 24 and the north half of the NW 1/4 of Section 13, Township 15, Range 3, East of the Principal Meridian. The vendor is William Herbert Davis of the Parish of St. Andrews and the purchaser is John Allan of the City of Winnipeg.

Placecard for Mr. Davis for Christmas Dinner in 1909. The menu for the dinner is listed inside the card.

Dance card for the 50th Anniversary celebration of Mr. & Mrs. Edward Hay at Lockport, Manitoba dated 1914. Edward Henry George Gunter Hay was the first MLA in the 1870 Manitoba parliament for St. Andrews South. He married Frances Gibson at St. Andrews, Manitoba in 1864.

Black-bordered sympathy acknowledgement card on the death of Frances Ann Hay, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Edward Hay, who died of pneumonia at St. Boniface Hospital on February 25, 1915. The card reads: Mr. and Mrs. E.H.G.G. Hay and Family sincerely thank you for your kind expression of sympathy in the irreparable loss of their daughter, Frances Ann Hay. March 11th, 1915. The Heights, St. Andrews.

Lease Agreement between Teddy Liss of St. Andrews, Manitoba and the National Trust Company for the lease of River Lot 58 on the Red River in the Parish of St. Andrews from William Herbert Davis, dated May 9, 1916.

1919 circular for the Rural Municipality of St. Andrews regarding a debenture issued for road construction. It includes a 1918 map of the municipality, which is on the west side of the Red River south of Lake Winnipeg.

Folded copy of 1856 parchment that appears to be a title transfer from Miss Matilda Davis and others to Benjamin Chandler. The location is No 7 Brudenell Place, New North Road, Hoxton. The title was transferred in return for 200 British pounds. Matilda Davis was the daughter of John Davis. She was educated in England and later returned to St. Andrews, Manitoba. Sometime in the 1850s, she established a private girl’s school. The school was supported by families of the Red River Settlement and by officers of the Hudson’s Bay Company from across western Canada who sent their daughters there to be educated as English ladies.

Date: [1905-1923] (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of photographs from St. Andrews dated ca. 1905-1923. They include an unidentified family and their farmstead, paddle-wheelers on the Red River, St. Andrews Church, St. Andrew’s Locks built ca. 1907, the champion team of the Selkirk County Cricket League, and photographs of unidentified inhabitants of St. Andrews.

Physical description: 24 photographs

Access points:

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

Two photographs of a farmstead, believed to be in the municipality of St. Andrews, Manitoba, dated July 1905 and July 1906.

Three scenes of the Red River, dated June 1907, two showing a paddle-wheeler barge or ferry in the middle of the river and one showing men working on a boat berth alongside the river.

Cardboard frame with photograph adhered in centre, showing three men and a horse in front of a grove of trees.

St. Andrews Church, in St. Andrews, Manitoba, was built in 1907. It is now a provincial historic site.

Six young women lying on the grass. Label on the back of the photo says, “St. Andrews, Aug 20th, 09.”

An older couple beside a young tree on the riverbank. Label on the back of the photo says, “Saints Rest, St. Andrews, Manitoba, Aug 22nd, 09.”

Four young women on the porch of a large frame house. Label on the back of the photo says, “St. Andrews, Manitoba, Aug 15th, 09.”

Older couple playing croquet in the yard of a frame farmhouse. Date on the back is July 1910.

Mother with grown children–two daughters and a son sitting under the trees outdoors. Date on the back of the photograph is July 1910.

St. Andrews Locks on the Red River north of Winnipeg. Date on the back of the photograph is July 1910.

Champions of the Selkirk County Cricket League may have been the St. Andrews team. Older man on the right looks like Edward Hay, first MLA for St. Andrews South.

Party of five sitting in the shade of a grove of trees. Two of the girls have parasols. Date on the back is August 12th, 1917.

Three couples sitting on the banks of the Red River at St. Andrews, Manitoba. Note on the back says At. Andrews, August 26th, 1917.

Young man in a three piece suit and boater hat. Note on the back says “Looks as if he had just come in violent contact with the toe of a boot. July 1918”.

Young man in shirt and tie sitting in the yard. Note on the back of the photograph says August 1918.

Young man in swimming attire sitting in the shallow waters of a river assumed to be the Red River. Note on the back of the photograph says July 19th, 1920.

Two copies of a photograph showing toddler and father on the porch of a tall frame house, the same house as the early photographs in this collection but now with a vine covering portions of the front of the building. Note on the back says, “Donald and W.H. July 25th, 1922”.

Couple building a fire outlined by railroad spikes (for kettle to sit on?) in the yard of a country home. The note on the back says, August 2, 1923.

Three unidentified women and a child sit in the shade of a ship-lap sided home.

An unidentified man standing on the shore of a river, probably the Red River.

Date: [1915-1916] (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of six photographs identified as belonging to the Hodgson family. Three of these are World War I portraits of Albert Hodgson’s sons: William, Arthur, and Llewelyn.

Physical description: 6 photographs

Access points:

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

Full-length army portrait of Pte. W. J. Hodgson, 53rd Battalion, Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Forces.

Head and shoulders army portrait of Pte. Arthur Hodgson, 65th Battalion, Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Forces.

Head and shoulders army portrait of Bugler L.V. Hodgson, 65th Battalion, Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Forces.

Postcard of a studio army portrait of Private W.J. Hodgson and a friend, both solders for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Forces.

Postcard photograph of two unidentified young Metis men in suits.

Woman driving an open car. Note on the back says, “Taken at Indian Head, Saskatchewan, September 18th, 1916.”

Date: 1930-[1940] (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of two documents from the Coulter family while they were living at Bridgeview, south of Spirit River, and two photographs of a World War II soldier, identified as Douglas, with his wife and his family. Douglas is Douglas Alexander Currie, great-grandson of John Davis.

Physical description: 2 pages

2 photographs

Access points:

•                Textual record (documentary form)

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

Mortgage agreement between Robert J. Coulter and John H. Blair (grain buyer) in the amount of $385.00 for “1 Bay Mare 6 years old white face, white hind feet named Judy; 1 Black Mare white star face, one white foot, named Peggy; 1 Black and white cow three years old; 1 Red and White cow seven years old.”

Discharge of Chattel Mortgage from John Blair to Robert J. Coulter in which Mr. Blair acknowledges that he has “received all the moneys due or to become due under the Chattel Mortgage” dated March 29th, 1930. Accompanied a Court House Receipt for payment and the envelope it was mailed in from R.C. Fitton, Agent and Notary at Spirit River.

Douglas Alexander Currie, great-grandson of John Davis. World War II Soldier with his girl. Note on the back says, “This is (Juanita? Hand-writing illegible) and Douglas”.

Photograph taken during WWII. The caption reads; “This was taken at the house when Douglas & (Juanita? Hand-writing illegible) were here. Would you know me?” L-R: Douglas Alexander Currie; Mary Harriet Louise Davis Currie; Robert Davis Currie; George Currie.