CAIN No. 148653

TITLE:
William and Mary Cartwright fonds : 1869-1904

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
2 cm of textual records

DATES:
[Photocopied 1991]

ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
William Cartwright was from Worcestershire, England and emigrated to Nanaimo in 1862. Mary Findlay Cartwright was born in Nanaimo, her father being Christopher Findlay, an accountant with the Hudson's Bay Company in Nanaimo. She married William in Victoria in 1869, but returned to Nanaimo to live. In 1872, the Cartwrights decided to take up farming on the southern end of Vancouver Island at Sooke, where they lived for 46 years.

SCOPE AND CONTENT:
The fonds consists of a volume in which are recorded the accounts (1872-1904) of William Cartwright and the personal diary of daily activities (1882-1883) of Mary Cartwright. Volume also includes some poems and recipes. The original use of the volume appears to be the 1869 accounts of a general store, possibly the Horne Store. The accounts record many purchases by Chinese and Indians. Newsclippings (1913-1941) have been pasted over parts of the early 1869 accounts.

REPOSITORY:
Nanaimo Community Archives

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Title based on the contents of the fonds.

PROVENANCE:
Cartwright, William
Cartwright, Mary, 1853-1927

SUBJECTS:
Cartwright, William
Cartwright, Mary, 1853-1927