Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Lower Water Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia
In September of 2024 arrangements were concluded with the Public Archives of Nova Scotia to transfer fifty years of accumulated Cunard research materials from the CSS Chairman’s personal collection into what now will form ‘the Langley fond’ at PANS. During the past number of years steps have been taken to preserve the different elements of the Chairman’s personal Cunard collection in perpetuity. To that end, three repositories were chosen – the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia which received 3-D or physical pieces of Cunard ephemera; the Cunard Archives at the University of Liverpool, UK which received a large volume of papers, documents and related materials and finally the Public Archives in Halifax, Nova Scotia which now holds a large collection of the donor’s Cunard research files.
Now there are three inter-connected sources of Cunard heritage materials which when indexing is completed may be cross-referenced and accessed via the internet. It is appropriate and fitting that this accumulation of Cunard heritage material has found its way to Liverpool, England- Cunard’s ‘spiritual home’ …and Halifax, Nova Scotia – Cunard’s ‘ancestral home’ where it shall be preserved for future generations. History has repeated itself. Cunard’s two original homeports of Liverpool and Halifax are joined once …where it all began 185 years ago.
 Sydney Jones Library (Cunard Archives), University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England. |
 Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, University Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia. |