ADM 128. Station Records: North America and West Indies, Correspondence, Etc. [textual record (microform)]
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ADM 128. Station Records: North America and West Indies, Correspondence, Etc. [textual record (microform)]
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Finding aid Textual records (Electronic) Finding Aid 90 is a microfilm shelf list. MSS0090 (90: Open)Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid contains a copy of Flag Officers and Senior Naval Officers Responsible for the Halifax Station, 1755-1959, (Office of the Naval Historian, Naval Headquarters, Ottawa, 1959). MSS0660 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001156.pdfTextual records (Electronic) Finding Aid 669 contains a volume list for ADM 128. MSS0669 (90: Open)
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Record information ADM 128. Station Records: North America and West Indies, Correspondence, Etc. [textual record (microform)]
Date:1810-1913.Reference:MG12-ADM128Type of material:Textual materialFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:105257Date(s):1810-1913.Place of creation:No place, unknown, or undeterminedExtent:57 microfilm reels : negative and positive.Language of material:EnglishScope and content:Admiralty 128 contains 153 volumes and files of correspondence, reports and memoranda relating to the Western Atlantic seaboard, ranging from Labrador to Central America and the West Indies. The North America and West Indies Station was organized into Divisions, including one for Bermuda and Halifax, and others for Barbadoes, Jamaica, and the United States. The National Archives of Canada has acquired microfilm selections of material relating to Canada from 126 volumes of ADM 128. These excerpts concern all aspects of the Royal Navy's activities in British North American waters. This material is located on microfilm reels B-658, B-2347 to B-2366, B-2456 to B-2489, B-2921 and B-2978.
The pre-1867 records have been kept as organized by the contemporary secretaries to the commanders-in-chief; they are arranged according to Divisions and include seven volumes arising from the American Civil War, dated 1860-1867, volumes 28, 56-61. This material is located on microfilm reels B-2347 to B-2365.
The Bermuda-Halifax Division includes correspondence relating to the protection of the Canadian frontier against the Fenians, 1866-1867, volumes 24 and 25, as well as numerous other subjects, such as fisheries, pertaining to Canada. This material is located on microfilm reels B-2353 to B-2360.
From 1867, records of all Divisions are brought together in a "New Series", which includes an accumulation of correspondence, reports, conventions, regulations, etc., relating to the Newfoundland fisheries, 1871 to 1912. Included are copies of letters from the Admiralty circulated to the commodore at Newfoundland, 1898-1903, volumes 105, 110; Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve, 1899-1909, volumes 109, 112; correspondence, Newfoundland, 1907-1909, volume 111; reports on ice movements and currents off the coast of Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 1889, 1891, volume 124; Newfoundland press clippings relating to the fisheries and HM ships, 1906-1907, volume 149; Board of Trade report on the condition and prospects of British trade in Newfoundland, 1908, volume 150; instructions and index to correspondence, senior officer on the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador, 1909, volume 153. On y trouve aussi des documents diplomatiques, 1713-1891, affaires de Terre-Neuve, 1891, volume 125.Additional information:Arrangement note:Within each volume of the entire class, the records are generally arranged chronologically with the exception that in and out letters on a given subject usually follow immediately after one another until the subject is closed. The subjects are arranged in chronological order according to the date of the first correspondence on each subject. Researchers should note that MG 12 ADM 129 provides an index to a portion of the ADM 128 records copied by the National Archives (microfilm reel B-658).Subject heading:- Canada - History - Fenian Invasions, 1866-1870
- Fisheries Newfoundland and Labrador
- Great Britain. Royal Navy - North America, 1810-1913 Great Britain. Admiralty. North America and West Indies Station. Bermuda-Halifax Division, 1810-1913
- Navies - Great Britain, 1810-1913
- Great Britain - Naval history, 1810-1913
- Great Britain. Navy - History, 1810-1913
- United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Participation, British, [1810-1871]
- United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865, [1810-1871]
- Great Britain - Foreign relations - United States, 1810-1871
- United States - Foreign relations - Great Britain, 1810-1871
- Canada - Defences, [1810-1871]
- Newfoundland - History - 1855-1934, 1871-1912
- Navy-yards and naval stations, British, 1810-1913
- Great Britain - Military policy
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