Mannequins, display cases, diaries, and health care tools. Texts biographies, speeches and dissertations, include materials in both French and English. Records of New Brunswick photographers and architects, oral history recordings particularly with senior civil servants and women and related to labour. Microfilmed records of the British Colonial office, 19th century Canadian Prime Ministers, Irish Land holdings, and the New Brunswick Census. Formats of records include textual, photographic, cartographic - both published and manuscript, architectural drawings, film, audio, video and microfilm.
Records relate to all aspects of New Brunswick history.
Areas of concentration include education, forest industries, settlement, immigration, transportation, genealogy, religion, land holding, and politics. Most records in the holdings were created since 1784 when New Brunswick was divided from Nova Scotia. However, some materiel relating to Acadien and pre-loyalist periods have also been acquired. Interlibrary loan service of microfilmed holdings is available. Things relating the the history of the Saint John Jewish Community - synagogues, organizations, general community involvement in Saint John, genealogy, oral interviews with community members, photographs, information on Holocaust.