Collection search - Newellton

Hierarchical level:

Item

Electoral district:

Queens-Shelburne, Shelburne - Yarmouth - Clare

Date(s):

Established	Closing
1889-06-01	1984-05-31

Province:

Nova Scotia

Reference:

RG3-D-3

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Post Offices and Postmasters

Item ID number:

14751

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Additional information:

Distributing point - Clark's Harbour

Location - Barrington - 1889-06-01

Mail route - Cape Sable Island South Side and North East

Status - Group 3 at time of closure

Source:

PSFDS03-(20499)

Postmasters names and service information
Name of postmaster	Date of birth	Date of appointment	Date of vacancy	Cause of vacancy
Robert Colquhoun		1889-06-01	1893-08-10	Resignation
Joshua Smith		1893-10-01	1900-11-30	Dismissal, political partisanship
Ross Williams		1901-01-01	1904-12-08	Resignation
Clifford McKinnon		1905-08-01	1906-07-25	Resignation
Arthur B. Smith		1906-09-01	1931-11-04	Political partisanship
Mrs. Kathleen Smith	1898-02-20	1931-11-19	1938-05-27	Resignation
Mrs. Hilda Ruth Lewis	1889-09-20	1938-09-15	1939-05-15	Resignation
Mitchell Walter Newell	1893-12-15	1939-07-31	1964-01-15	*
Mrs. Evangeline Belle Townsend	*	1964-01-15	1967-09-09	Resignation
Murray Claude Townsend	*	1968-03-01		Resignation
Mrs. Evangeline Belle Townsend	*	1968-10-02	Acting	(still 1973-06)

*In compliance with the Privacy Act (1983), certain personal information has been deleted from this file.

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