In late September 2014, Arthur Goldsmith of the Macnamara Field Naturalists Club of Arnprior, Ontario, contacted David Currie, President of the Nova Scotia Bird Society to tell him that a set of “birding and natural history logs, sketches and species lists from the French Shore and South Shore of Nova Scotia” dating from 1898 to 1982 had been found shelved in the Arnprior Public Library.