Fonds 630 - Jessop Nott fonds

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Jessop Nott fonds

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CA MED 630

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  • [ca. 1913] - 1954; predominant 1913-1919 (Creation)
    Creator
    Nott, Jessop

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1 album (117 photographs)
96 photographs.

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([ca. 1885] – 1955-01-28)

Biographical history

Jessop Nott was first involved in the funeral business in Toronto for 3 years before coming to Medicine Hat to carry on his profession. He was the manager of the Patterson and Company funeral home in 1908. In 1910, Jessop Nott began his own business called Nott's Funeral Home. The location of his original building is unknown. In 1913, he opened his new establishment, made of red pressed brick on Ottawa Street (now 5th Street). This building, modern for the time, provided a waiting parlor, chapel with a gothic interior and stained glass windows and semi-detached morgue. This establishment served the community until 1945, when a former employee, Thomas Cook, took over the business upon the death of Mr. Nott. It was renamed Cook's Funeral Chapel until the retirement of Mr. Cook, but the original establishment continues today as Cook Southland. Jessop Nott was very involved in the community, helping to establish the local Boy Scouts.

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Scope and content

The fonds consists of 1 photograph album containing images of many of Medicine Hat commercial, industrial and civic buildings, schools, churches, parks and bridges, and interior and exterior views of Nott's Funeral Home; 45 postcards and prints of Jessop Nott and family and WWI material; 23 photographs are duplicates or unidentified and have been placed in the Unidentified Photographs box.

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Gift of Scugog Shores Historical Museum, Port Perry, Ontario, January 12, 1981. Portrait of Cst. Archibald Fisher, a gift of Jessop Nott, unknown date. P 0899 gift of Mrs. John May (May 7, 1975) via Jack Barrie, gift of Jack Barrie's family [ca. 2000].

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HOLDINGS D/B-Medicine Hat District Council, Boy Scouts of Canada.

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Record No. PB 0350;P 0323, P 0899, P 0996

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