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Townsend Coffin Muncey collection
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CA PCA Acc2561
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1886-1903 (Creation)
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- Muncey, Townsend Coffin
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.035 m of textual records
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Muncey, Townsend Coffin
(1847-1904)
Biographical history
Townsend Coffin Muncey, youngest child of John Frances and Ann (Madden) Muncey was born on 2 January 1847, on the Magdalene Islands, Quebec. In 1865, Townsend moved with his family to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, where his father opened a store. Townsend and his brother Singleton were employed by a telegraph company in Charlottetown before Townsend moved to Cape Traverse to work as a linesman. He learned telegraphy at the cable hut in Cape Traverse on the farm of Captain Lewis Muttart, married Muttart's daughter Anne, and became the third telegraphic operator at Cape Traverse. Townsend and Anne had five children: Susan M. (1875-?), Frank E. (1878-?), Singleton W. (1880-?), Leigh (1885-?), and Nancy (1888-?). Townsend moved his family moved to Kensington in 1875 when the PEI Railway opened its first office there. They moved back to Cape Traverse in 1877, when the office of the Anglo American Telegraph Co. was moved to Carleton. This telegraph office was located within the Muncey home. Townsend died of pneumonia in 1904. The Anglo American Office at Carleton was sold by Anne Muncey in October of 1921, to Charles Doull.
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The collection consists of a journal (1886-1895), and a letter book (1897-1903), which was collected at the Cape Traverse boat house and telegraph office by Townsend Muncey. The journal documents the winter mail service from Cape Traverse, PEI, to Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick. The weather, ice conditions, and the time of the ice boats arrival and departure with the mail were recorded by the individuals making the crossings and were kept at the boathouse by Townsend Muncey. The letter book contains copies of letters sent to the Marine and Fisheries Department in Charlottetown, lists of boatmen and their respective positions, statements of tickets, and financial statements of the boathouse and telegraph office.
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- English
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NO RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS
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PERMISSION FOR USE AND REPRODUCTION IS REQUIRED FROM THE PUBLIC ARCHIVES AND RECORDS OFFICE; QUESTIONS REGARDING COPYRIGHT ARE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE USER
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See also: Acc2859; Acc4211
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- Muncey, Townsend Coffin (Creator)
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- English