Hardbound rectangular pharmacy ledger (a) with detached cardboard front cover (b); heavy with hand written prescriptions attached to both sides of thick manila pages; thick cardboard back cover and black fabric spine cover; paper clippings with illustrations attached to interior side of front cover.
Hardbound rectangular pharmacy ledger (a) with detached cardboard front cover (b); heavy with hand written prescriptions attached to both sides of thick manila pages; thick cardboard back cover and black fabric spine cover; paper clippings with illustrations attached to interior side of front cover.
Number Of Parts
2
Part Names
a - ledger
b - front cover
Provenance
Transferred from the Parks Canada Agency, via Gail Cariou of the Curatorial and Collections Branch.
Dates
1881
1884
circa 1881 - 1884
Date Remarks
Dates hand written on the prescriptions
Material
paper: tan, brown
fabric: black
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-1-6
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Condition Remarks
Unstable; detached front cover with large areas of loss; large area of loss to bottom of spine; previous insect damage to front pages; major soiling all over covers and pages; yellowing of pages; covers and pages distorted
Copy Type
original
Reference Types
Website
Reference Comments
“Fraser, James Daniel Bain,” Dictionary of Canadian Biography website. 1976. Accessed 14 May 2019.
Research Facts
The ledger is from the James Daniel Bain Fraser Pharmacy (J. D. B. Fraser & Sons) in Pictou, Nova Scotia; James Daniel Bain was a prominent pharmacist during the nineteenth century in Pictou, N.S. and is recognized as the first to manufacture and use chloroform in a medical setting in Canada; the ledger was compiled at the pharmacy after Fraser’s death in 1869.