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A YMCA for Halifax

File contains a set of presentation drawings on board created by Drew Sperry as his Bachelor of Architecture terminal design project
at the Nova Scotia Technical College. Drawings include an urban context map; site plan; mechanical plan, floor plans; elevations; section perspective; and street views.

Atlantic Canada co-operatives collection

  • MS-14-18
  • Collection
  • 1900-2002, predominant 1950-1999
Collection consists of records with information about individual co-operatives and credit unions in Atlantic Canada, as well as documents from larger region-wide co-operative organizations. There is also a large section of general co-op literature about co-operation as a social movement, in Canada and around the world. There are published books, serials, brochures, reports, photographs and slides, maps, audio and visual material, and artifacts. The age of the materials ranges from the early 1900s up to 2002, the majority spans from the 1950s to the 1990s.

Colliery and mining maps

File contains hand-drawn and printed maps of coal fields and designated areas, including Pictou coal fields; the Mining Association area; Cape Breton Company's areas; Albion Mines; Stellar Mine; Fraser Oil-Coal Mines; Intercolonial Coal Mining Company property; East River Mining Company area; Acadian Coal Company areas; and the Halifax Company Ltd.

Dalhousie University grounds and buildings : erected and proposed

Item is map drawn by H.R. Theakston, University Engineer, showing Dalhousie and other associated buildings on and near both Studley Campus and Carleton Campus. The drawing includes a key indicating the names of both existing and proposed buildings. It was originally made on May 14, 1924 and revised on June 30, 1925.

Drew Sperry fonds

  • MS-2-835
  • Fonds
  • 1966 - 2004
Fonds contains architectural drawings created by Drew Sperry as a student at Nova Scotia Technical College and later as a certified architect. His student work comprises presentation drawings, while the designs for his own home in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and two other residential commissions include both presentation and construction drawings. There are two folders of textual records, which comprise a transcript of an interview with Drew and Sheila Sperry, real estate appraisals of their Dartmouth residence, and early budget breakdowns from Sperry's architectural practice.

Sperry, Henry Drew

George Burden map collection

  • MS-2-836
  • Collection
  • 1758-[ca. 1780]
Collection contains three historic maps collected by George Burden. The maps depict Cape Breton and Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. Burden acquired the maps from Zwicker's Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Gulf of Maine case

Subseries consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his involvement with the Gulf of Maine case. Subseries contains correspondence, a memorandum of agreement, newspaper clippings, reports, and other materials.

Island of Cape Breton

Item is a hand-coloured engraving of Cape Breton extracted from Atlas minimus, or, A new set of pocket maps of the several empires, kingdoms and states of the known world, published in 1758 by John Gibson and Emmanuel Bowen. The map appeared on page 46 of the book.

Bowen, Emmanuel, 1694-1767

Map of Africville

Item is a map of the Africville Area Land Ownership and Buildings, drawn by P.E.J. on July 26, 1962, for the Halifax City Planning Office, at a scale of 1" = 100'. Verso map also contains an inked list of property numbers, some crossed out and others checked off.

Records from the Joint Review Panel for the Whites Point Quarry and Marine Terminal Project

Series contains Jill Grant's records from the Joint Review Panel for the Whites Point Quarry and Marine Terminal Project. Materials include the project's environmental impact statement, transcripts from scoping meetings and public hearings, records of the Joint Review Panel, reference and research materials, correspondence, maps and photographs, and other records. The series provides a comprehensive record of the activities of the Joint Review Panel, which was made up by Jill Grant, Robert Fournier and Gunter Muecke.
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