This fonds consists of publications and broadsides from Abraxas and Peppermint Press.
Peppermint and Abraxas PressFile consists of Prof. John Wadland’s subject file on periodicals and magazines. This file is comprised of newspaper clippings and academic student articles. Topics include Maclean’s strike, Canadian magazines and their unsuccessfulness, and Canadian nationalism.
File includes correspondence from Rev. A.J. Parker and Rev. Gas. J. Gilbert. Topics covered include missionary matters in Lower Canada; problem with collecting subscriptions; difficulty in finding a minister, looking in the US for minister to come to Canada; and anti-Catholicism, efforts to convert people in Lower Canada.
Includes wills, correspondence, newspaper articles, estate documents, and other materials documenting David Burns, Elizabeth Burns, Mrs. Janet Weston or Burns, David Burns Stirling (grocer and merchant), Isa Stirling, Neil McMillan, David Stirling Macmillan, and other family members.
Series consists of various personal records, including government records verifying birth date and family information, a family tree, income tax returns (1936, 1942), and records relating to awards such as the Indian Achievement Award and honorary life membership of the Ottawa Branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (1966).