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Fonds consists of Brown’s collection of mining documents, the manuscript for his book, Place Names of Nova Scotia as well as an undated mining manuscript. Also included is a copy of the poem The Mayflower, the book Gaelic Lessons for Beginners, a scroll addressed to E.G. McKay, a leather nameplate, newspaper clippings and correspondence.

Item is a black leather nameplate which reads, in gold, “Thomas J. Brown, Secretary, Royal Commission 1925, With Compliments, Government of Nova Scotia.”

Item is a photograph of a group of about seventeen C.N.R. workmen including Alex MacDonald, trackmaster.

Item is a typewritten letter from The Indian Cove Coal Company Ltd., signed by M. Dwyer, to Thomas J. Brown returning borehole records for the Jubilee Pit and Gannon Road. Also included was an April 30, 1929 balance sheet for the Indian Cove Coal Company.

Item is a copy of Gaelic Lessons for Beginners by an unknown author. The book is inscribed in the front cover to Meg MacKay.

Item is a copy of the poem “The Mayflower: The Emblem Flower of Nova Scotia” by John McPherson of Liverpool, Nova Scotia.

Item is one clipping from an unidentified newspaper titled, ‘“Thomas J. Brown’s ‘Place Names of Nova Scotia’ Should be Writer’s Handbook,” about the publication of Brown’s book.

Item is a letter from a representative of the House of Commons, [Thomas Cauley], in Ottawa, Ontario to Thomas J. Brown thanking him for his recent telegram, expressing his regrets that Brown was retiring as Deputy Minister of Mines, and giving him a report about the Scotia and Dominion Submarine Areas.

Item is a typewritten letter from M. Dwyer of Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia to Thomas J. Brown regarding R.E. Archibald’s account and contract, or lack of contract, with Sydney Mines.

Item is a typewritten follow-up letter from Thomas E. Vaughan to The Indian Cove Coal Company Ltd. in reference to R.E. Archibald’s February 9, 1923 letter to the company regarding the wholesaler’s accounts. A handwritten note is written on the back of the letter.

Item is a typewritten letter from R. E. Archibald, Wholesale and Retail Dealer of Soft Coal, Hard Coal and Petroleum Coke, to The Indian Cove Coal Company Ltd. regarding the Camp Hill Hospital coal account. A handwritten note is included on the back of the second page.

Item is a handwritten goodbye letter addressed to E.G. McKay by M. Dwyer on behalf of the staff at the Sydney Mines Colliery in Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia. Mr. McKay was leaving the Sydney Mines for a steel company in the United States.

Item is a twenty-three page, typewritten paper about coal mining in Nova Scotia written by an unidentified author. The first three pages of the manuscript are missing.

Collection consists of materials related to The Cape Breton Highlanders, including photographs, recruitment ledgers, rolls and daily orders, correspondence, regimental histories, programs, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings and the World War 2 war diaries.

Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diary Volume 12.

Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diary Volume 11.

Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diary Volume 10.

Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diary Volume 9.

Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diary Volume 8.

Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diary Volume 7.

Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diary Volume 6.

Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diary Volume 5.

Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diaries Volume 3.

Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diaries Volume 2.

Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diary Volume 1.

Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diaries Volume 4.

Item is one photograph of a group of thirteen Cape Breton Highlanders having a small celebration during World War 2 (WW2) in [Holland or Belgium or Germany], possibly on the evening that peace was declared. Included in the photograph are Leo [?], of New Waterford, Nova Scotia, and Earl Wilson, from Sydney, Nova Scotia, sitting in the grass; Hiram Connelly from the Annapolis Valley; [?] McLeod (playing the violin), from Inverness, Nova Scotia; [?] White from Halifax, Nova Scotia; [?] Curtis from Sydney, Nova Scotia; and, Private Louis Broussard (F607694) who is dancing in the centre of the photograph.