Showing 1309 results

Launched in 1978 by Bob Atkinson, John Bell, and Alain Chabot as an outgrowth of the Dalhousie University School of Library Service's Halycon I, the Halcon Science Fiction Society was a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of Science Fiction and Fantasy in the Atlantic Canada region. The Society held yearly conferences in Halifax, Nova Scotia, during the 1970s-1980s.

After laying dormant for a number of years, it was revived in 2010 and renamed Hal-Con. The convention is now being held at the World Trade and Convention Centre and Scotiabank Centre in downtown Halifax. Notable Guests of Honour and Toastmasters included A.E. Van Vogt, Spider and Jeanne Robinson, Robert Sheckley, Gordon R. Dickson, Galad Elfandsson and Ben Bova.

The Halifax Camerata Singers is a not-for-profit society and chamber choir based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Jeff Joudrey founded the choir in 1986 and is its Artistic Director. The society is managed by a volunteer board of directors and funded through performances, donations, and grants from the Canada Council for the Arts; Nova Scotia Communities, Culture and Heritage; and the Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation.

The choir performs a wide variety of repertoire with a special focus on Canadian compositions, and they actively commission new choral music from Canadian and international composers. The choir often collaborates with other Atlantic Canadian music ensembles, including Symphony Nova Scotia. The group has been a core part of the Symphony Nova Scotia Chorus since 2001. They perform regularly at regional concert series, including Music at the Three Churches (Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia), Musique Royale (Lunenburg, Nova Scotia), Music at Trinity (Amherst, Nova Scotia), Dartmouth Community Concert Series, and Indian River Festival, P.E.I.

The choir also actively supports emerging choristers and composers through their Youth Mentoring Program, bursaries for the Nova Scotia Youth Choir, and a Young Composer’s Competition. In 2008, Xara, a choral theatre ensemble for women aged 18-30, was founded as a youth initiative of the Halifax Camerata Singers.

The choir won the Wealy Willan Grand Prize in the 2010 National Competition for Canadian Amateur Choirs.

The Halifax Graving Dock Company was incorporated in 1885 by English investors for the purpose of constructing and running a dry dock in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The company was subsidized $10,000 annually for 20 years by each the British Admiralty, the Dominion government and the City of Halifax.The dock opened in 1889 on the western shore of Halifax Harbour in the community of Richmond. The following year the company purchased the Chebucto Marine Railway in Dartmouth Cove, at the mouth of the former Shubenacadie Canal.

Initially unprofitable, under the management of Samuel Manners Brookfield, and later his son, John Waites Brookfield, the company had paid off its arrears by 1918. On December 6, 1917 the graving dock facilities on the Halifax side of the harbour were badly damaged by the Halifax Explosion, which occurred 300 metres north of the graving dock.

Although Samuel Brookfield had the graving dock back in operation within two months of the explosion, the government used the situation to expropriate the company's properties in order to build an integrated building and repair facility for steel-hulled ships. The Halifax Graving Dock Company was compensated $1,250,000. Brookfield and the other shareholders unsuccessfully contested the expropriation before the Exchequer Court of Canada, which resulted in only a slight increase in compensation when the judgement was received in 1920.

The new shipyard facility was first leased and then sold to the newly formed Halifax Shipyards Limited. In 1920 the British Empire Steel Corporation acquired control of the shipyard's stock, which was subsequently purchased in 1930 by Dominion Coal and Steel Corporation. Over the next sixty years the shipyard was owned by various interests; in 1994 it was purchased by the Irving-owned Saint John Shipbuilding Limited and renamed Halifax Shipyard Limited.

Beginning in 1988 with Halifax's first Pride March, members of the city's gay and lesbian community organized Pride Week without the benefit of legal protections. Amidst growing unrest about rampant prejudice and discrimination, the first Pride March was primarily a protest over the lack of legal protection from discrimination, and the all-too-common threat of homophobic violence.

Approximately 75 people marched through Halifax's North End that first year. A handful wore paper bags over their heads out of fear for their livelihoods and their safety. Since then, the Halifax Pride Festival has grown into a celebration that includes numerous events that highlight the unique character of a diverse community, and welcomes 120,000 participants each summer.

The Halifax Visiting Dispensary (HVD) was established in 1856 in response to the need for free and subsidized medical services for low-income individuals and families. Regarded as a "red feather" agency—a privately sponsored charitable organization—it was financed by private donations, endowment funds, Halifax and Dartmouth city grants, and the community chest. The dispensary operated out of a clinic on Brunswick Street, with the city morgue situated in the building's basement, and provided specialized services for the treatment of women and children, as well as daily medical and surgical clinics and weekly dental, eye, ear, nose and throat clinics. The dispensary also provided medical services and drugs for diseases such as diabetes, arthritis, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, diphtheria, small pox and consumption. A rotating staff of physicians offered home visits.

In 1924 the dispensary moved into the newly built Dalhousie University Public Health Clinic, which took over the medical and surgical work, while the dispensary continued to distribute prescriptions and surgical supplies. The dispensary remained a separate organization, with its own board of directors and a staff of two—a registered druggist and a certified clerk. Visiting physicians were reimbursed for their work through the dispensary's funds.

The Harza Engineering Company was founded by Leroy F. Harza in 1920 with its main office in Chicago, Illinois. An independent engineering and consulting firm, it specialized in the development and use of water, power, and land resources. Among its areas of expertise were regional planning, specifically water control, power, irrigation flood control, agricultural production, and transportation. It worked extensively in both the energy and environmental sectors of the engineering industry, and the company is perhaps best known for its work on hydroelectric power development.

During the period covered by the records in this collection, Calvin V. Davis served as the chairman of the company. E. Montford Fucik became the President of Harza and Arthur P. Gauss the Executive Vice President in 1963. Charles MacLennan, donor of these papers, served as a Vice President as well. From the 1950s to 1970s Harza employed over 400 people, most of whom were graduate engineers, scientists, and registered professional engineers.

On October 6, 2000, Harza Engineering and Montgomery Watson announced their intent to merge. The company is now called MWH, and based in Pasadena, California.