Eric
Krause, Krause House Info-Research Solutions
I have visited the
National Archives of Canada (Ottawa - September 12, 2002) to
examine research material that is NOT described on its web site. Lynda Krause provided transcription assistance.
RESEARCH
VISIT TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF CANADA (OTTAWA), SEPTEMBER 12, 2002 ~
CONTENT REPORT
Eric
Krause, Krause House Info-Research Solutions
September 18, 2002
The Fortress should order photocopies of the following finding aids:
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Finding Aid 457, MG6, A2, France, Archives Départementales de la
Charente-Maritime. La Rochelle, REVISED by Andrés Desrosiers,
1976-1977, 405 pages. As far as I can determine from the Fortress of
Louisbourg Database, the Fortress does not have this detailed
description of holdings. Clearly, this finding aid also does not
describe the new post 1990’s material that Ken wanted me to seek out.
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Finding Aid 1676, MG1, F5B, Listes de passagers vers les colonies.
This aid did not appear in the general public location where I had
expected to find all paper aids, but rather, I spotted it in a
restricted zone for research staff (not sure why it was only there).
Also, for some reason, some the Isle Royalle references had been
highlighted.
I was also able to locate a copy of the accessions and inventories
created since 1994-10-01 in which I found a number of references
to microfilmed sources of potential interest to the Fortress.
Unfortunately, my time was restricted to simply recording the various
series and an examination of the microfilm had to be left to a future
visit (which I anticipate will happen after my return from the States in
2003). However, I have left a request with NAC re
Ken Donovan’s desire to identify the microfilm that contains “new”
Charente-Maritime material obtained in the 1990s.
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MG6 A2 - France. Archives départementales de la charente-maritime.
La Rochelle, Accessioned 1996-02-09
Microfilm 1616-1787, 53 bobines
F-428-F-441
F-445-F-454
F-464-F-465
F-468-F-469
F-473
F-477-F-480
F-487-F-488
F-490-F492
F-696
F-770-F-771
F-1830-F-1834
F-2202-F-2206
F-2232-F-2233
Transcripts 1599-1786
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MG 12, Great Britain, Admiralty 2, Admiralty and Secretariat; Out
letters, Accessioned 1994-10-18
Microfilm 1689-1830, 41 reels
B-2064
B-3434-B-3435
B-3824-B-3829
B-3931-B-3934
B-4042-B-4048
B-4536-B-4555
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MG 12, Great Britain, Admiralty 17, various Accounts, Accessioned
1994-10-18
Microfilm 1757-1830, 4 reels
B-5351-B-5352
B-5376-B-5377
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MG 12, Great Britain, Admiralty 1, Admiralty and Secretariat;
Papers, Accessioned 1994-10-18
Microfilm 1698-1913, 286 reels
A-814-A-818
B-292
B-466-B-473
B-833
B-1353-B-1362
B-1439-B-1458
B-2605-B-2635
B-2786-B-2804
B-2918-B-2920
B-2936-B-2942
B-2986-B-2990
B-3117-B-3140
B-3395-B-3417
B-3446-B-3455
B-3525-B-3651
B-3710-B-3712
Transcripts, 1695-1830, 1858
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MG 12, Great Britain, Admiralty 37, Ship’s Muster II, Accessioned
1994-10-07
Microfilm 1757-1818, 11 reels
B-5977-B-5987
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MG 12, Great Britain, Admiralty 49, Accounting Department:
Miscellanea, Various, Accessioned 1994-10-18
Microfilm 1756-1825, 4 reels
B-2313-B-2316
Transcript, 1814
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MG 12, Great Britain, Admiralty 50, Admirals Journals, Accessioned
1994-10-18
Microfilm 1757-1759, 1810-1812, 1843-1854, 6 reels
B-19
B-2119-B-2120
B-1462-B-1464
Photocopies 1758-1759
Transcript, 1755, 1758-1759
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MG 12, Great Britain, Admiralty 51, Captains’ Logs, Accessioned
1994-10-18
Microfilm 1815-1818, 2 reels
B-465
B-2525
Photocopies, 1759-1760
Transcript, 1745, 1756-1760, 1813-1815
[Note: Transcripts and photocopies are on C-12892]
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MG 11, Great Britain, Colonial Office CO 5, America and West Indies,
Originals Correspondence, etc. Accessioned 1997-06-02
Microfilm 14 reels
B-6171-B-6184
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MG 11, Great Britain, Colonial Office CO 5, America and West
Indies, Originals Correspondence, etc. Accessioned 1996-07-22
Microfilm 1787-1819 142 reels
B-220-B-221
B-1586
B-2111-B-2113
B-2171-B-2175
B-2785
B-2963-B-2975
B-2996-B-2997
B-3775-B-3819
B-3897-B-3910
B-3921-B-3930
B-3935-B-3939
B-4027-B-4041
B-4050-B-4054
B-6111-B-6131
Photocopies 1690-1769
Transcript, 1787-1819
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MG 40, D5, Great Britain, High Court of the Admiralty [HCA] 32,
Prize Papers. Accessioned 1994-11-08 [Microfilmed 1990]
Microfilm 1739-1763, 38 reels
B-5716-B-5753
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MG 18, F 40, Louisbourg Restoration Project, 1978/0053, Accessioned
1997-02-10
Microfilm, 1650-1870, 160 reels [Note: NAC came to Louisbourg in the
1970s and microfilmed the existing archival card finding aids, etc..
This series of microfilm should be examined against the copies which the
Fortress may have/may not have obtained to ensure completeness and that
this series does not contain additional items. They are on a restricted
use list, which means permission to use this series is required]
A-694-A-704
B-3428-B-3432
B-3473-B-3492
F-737-F-763
B-3267-B-3331
F-709-F-714
M-1001-M-1004
M-1189-M-1203
M-1230-M-1236
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ASSORTED
CORRESPONDENCE
NAC
- CHARENTE MARITIME
NOTE
SENT TO NAC VIA THEIR ON-LINE MAIL SYSTEM
Hi:
The Fortress of Louisbourg has a copy of all the microfilm for the
series
Fonds des Archives départementales de la Charente-Maritime, Série B-
Cours
et juridictions, MG6-A2 ? Amirauté de Louisbourg à La Rochelle
(Sub-series) that was described in 1971 [INSTRUMENT DE RECHERCHE n°
457]-
Amirauté de Louisbourg, à La Rochelle: Transcriptions, 1718-1778, 4
pieds,
5 pouces. Microfilms, 1718-1778, 24 bobines AND which seems to be the
same
number of reels as described in ArchiviaNet 1718-1778 [24 bobines de
microfilm. 1,18 m de documents textuels : transcriptions]
At any rate, Pauline Arsenault who had worked for the National
Archives of
Canada in La Rochelle, France, from 1985 to 1997 or thereabouts, has
over the past 5 years been an archivist for Archives Charente-Maritimes
in La Rochelle. In her capacity, she has informed the Fortress that
she had discovered numerous documents in France relating to Louisbourg
and these were sent to the NAC on microfilm as part of a larger
package of French documents relating to New France.
Possibly, the new documents on Louisbourg she sent on microfilm were
not
from Charente-Maritime, Série B- Cours et juridictions, but no
matter, the
Fortress would like to purchase the said microfilm which Pauline sent
to
you.
I would appreciate it if you could examine your accession list for the
last
number of years, to identify the material that Pauline sent on
microfilm,
and provide me with a reference and the cost for this microfilm or
microfilms.
Thanks
Eric
Eric Krause (Parks Canada Historian/Archivist (1969-1997 - retired)
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From:
"Gadoury, Lorraine"
lgadoury@archives.ca
To: krausehouse@krausehouse.ca
Subject: Microfilms from La Rochelle
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 09:06:23 -0400
Mr. Eric
Krause,
To reply to
your e-mail received September 6 about new documents that have been copied
in France by National Archives of Canada, particularly in Archives of
Charente-Maritime at La Rochelle, the most recent accession that NA
received from that archives consists of 26 reels of notarial records of
Canadian interest. You will find a description of that series on the NA
website - ArchiviaNet - General Inventory, under: Fonds des Archives départementales
de la Charente-Maritime [La Rochelle; France] (MG6-A2); Série E- Titres
de famille, état civil, notaires; sous-série Notaires .
There is no
specific mention to Louisbourg in the description of this sub-series which
consists of: "contrats d'affrètement et de charte-partie,
engagements, associations de commerce, procurations et arrêts de comptes,
obligations à la grosse aventure, avitaillements de navires, ventes de
marchandises, de poissons, de fourrures, d'huiles, etc., accords de
familles, mariages, testaments. On y retrouve les noms de la plupart des
personnages intéresséés à la pêche et au commerce avec les colonies
françaises d'Amérique, aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, et également de
ceux qui ont joué au Canada un rôle de premier plan dans des domaines
autres que celui de l'activité commerciale."
Considering
that all the documents are described at the item level in the database
"Colonial Archives" on our website, you may want to do some more
investigation online on the content of them before you decide to order the
reels.
In any
case, here is a list of the notaries and the reel numbers (there are also
some transcripts that I do not list here): -Bagard (étude Bonniot,
1683-1705, reel F-2298); - Bréard (étude Filhastre, 1707-1734, reels
F-2234 à F-2236); -Cherbonnier (1642-1666, reel F-492); -Chesneau
(1616-1623, reel F-480); -Desbarres (étude Bonniot, 1713-1748, reels
F-2202 à F-2206 et 1714-1757, reels F-2232 et F-2233); -Guillemot père
et fils (étude Menon, 1688-1758, reels F-2296 et F-2297); -Masset
(1617-1624, reel F-480); -Rivière et Soullard (étude Menon, 1668-1741,
reels F-1830 à F-1834); -Savin (1651-1667, reel F-491); -Tardy (étude
Menon, 1742-1760, reel F-2299); -Teuleron (1636-1679, reels F-479, F-487
à F-490).
Do not
hesitate to contact me if you want to get more information or if you want
to order copies of the microfilms.
Lorraine
Gadoury
Archivist
Canadian
Archives Branch
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Phone: (613)
996-7328
FAX: (613)
943-8112
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