The Chestico Archives has a large archival records collection. The following list is an overview of our holdings:
Hart Family fonds (1870-1935)
- Business ledgers
- Day books
- Hart and Ingraham shipping ledger, 1870-1874
- Handcopied poetry by Mary Wood Smith, 1840-1850
Town of Port Hood fonds (1903-1965)
- Receipts book, 1904-1913
- Minute book, 1910-1941
- Port Hood development correspondence, 1957-1965
Port Hood School District School Board fonds
- Port Hood Academy notes, 1911-1961
- Minute book, South Inverness School District, 1899-1936
- Various local school registers for Port Hood district
A.D. MacLellan fonds
- Surveyors records, maps and plans for Inverness County
- Personal family correspondence
- Date range: 1880’s-1959
Daniel MacLennan fonds (1885-1940)
- Daybooks and praecipe books
- Legal proceedings and court cases
- Personal correspondence
Peter Smyth fonds (1834-1880)
- Land records and deeds
- Personal correspondence
- Contracts for work on St. Peter’s Church and the Stone House
William Sutherland fonds (1810-1852)
- Family correspondence between William Sutherland and brothers in Scotland and England
- Letters to Donald Sutherland, his son, from uncle Francis Sutherland in England
D.W. Jones fonds (1921-1947)
- Account book, 1921-1926
- Subscribers list, 1927-1947
Newspapers:
- Port Hood Referee 1882 – 1 copy
- Port Hood Greetings, 1904-1922 – several copies
- The Inverness News and Mining and Shipping Gazette, 1907, 1911 – 2 copies
- The Inverness County Guardian, 1927 – 2 copies
- The Hawkesbury Bulletin, 1880’s – 2 copies
- Victoria-Inverness Bulletin, 1938
