File contains correspondence between researchers and other people involved in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. Items include correspondence between employees at the Institute of Public Affairs at Dalhousie University (including Dennis Magill and Donald Clairmont) and people from the Halifax Department of Welfare, the Office of the City Manager of Halifax, the family court for the County of Cape Breton, the National Harbours Board, Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the Halifax Herald Limited, the University of Toronto School of Social Work, and the Canadian Special Senate Committee on Poverty. The file also contains memorandums from the Institute of Public Affairs; research diaries and notes about interviews; a letter template; an invitation list and list of attendees for a meeting for the Africville relocation study; classification categories for Africville Typology; and a blank questionnaire for the study.
File contains correspondence related to the publication of the Africville Relocation Report, draft tables and contents, and the transcript of a radio interview with Archie Dixon, Don Clairmont, and Gus Wedderburn.
File contains photograph layouts and correspondence regarding the Africville relocation report published in 1971 by the Institute of Public Affairs. File also contains one 8 x 10 in. photograph.
File contains photocopies of correspondence related to the potential acquisition of several properties in Africville, including properties 20, 41, 42, 43, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 63, 64, 110, 111, 127, and 128.
File contains correspondence related to the Africville Relocation Study. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. Correspondence is addressed to and from Clairmont and Magill, from the Institute of Public Affairs, and the Department of Public Welfare.
