File contains a Pride Week Proclamation for Pictou County; text of an article titled "Gays and Lesbians Marvel at Phenomenal Gains"; and clippings about Veldhoven's marriage to Norman Carter, Carter's death, and Veldhoven's activism.
Fonds consists of Gerard Veldhoven's published writing, correspondence, and speeches. Veldhoven's writings cover subjects including same-sex marriage, LGBT parenting and families, Pride celebrations, and LGBT social issues. Fonds also contains clippings and correspondence related to Veldhoven's experience as part of the first same-sex couple to be married in Nova Scotia, as well as his activism, writing career, and honours.
File contains a poster for a series of three concerts by the Halifax Camerata Singers in collaboration with the First Baptist Girls' Choir at Trinity St. Stephen's Church in Amherst, Nova Scotia (May 4, 2001); St. Andrew's United Church in Halifax Nova Scotia (May 5, 2001); and the First Baptist Church in Truro, Nova Scotia (May 6, 2001).
File includes meeting minutes and correspondence between the United Steelworkers of America Local 4883 and the Plant Safety Committee of the Amherst Plant No. 4 operated by Enamel and Heating Products Limited. Correspondence describes efforts to establish safety protocols after a workplace accident in 1975.
File contains records related to Norman Hebert’s time as a committee member of the United Steelworkers of America Local 4883, Aircraft Division located in Amherst, Nova Scotia. Records include correspondence, grievance reports, and meeting minutes.
File documents negotiations between United Steelworkers of America Local 4883 and Enamel and Heating Products Limited, a heating equipment manufacturing company that operated a factory in Amherst, Nova Scotia. Records include meeting minutes, pension plan proposals, and wage negotiations.
File documents Norman Hebert’s time as President of the Amherst and District Labour Council between 1975 and 1977. Records include notices of meetings and protest actions, correspondence between members of the council and executive officers, and annual reports.
Item is a photograph of a stone curtain in Fort Beausejour that is loopholed to form the southwest curtain covering the powder magazine and parade ground. From the interior shown in the photograph, the firing step and stone drain are visible. The northwest bastion is also visible in the background.
Item is a photograph taken from a flanking trench that was dug by Robert Monckton after the capture of 1755. The trench communicates with a deep fosse that is dug across the ridge, about 400 yards from the moat, on the fort's vulnerable side. The photograph is taken facing southwest.
File contains 28 receipts and one envelope for The Bill Lynch Shows from June - August, 1951. Some of the receipts are for services including "grind shows," "girl shows," and "esquire." The locations include Moncton, Campbellton, Charlottetown, Lunenberg, New Glasgow, Fredericton, Amherst, Woodstock, Halifax, Saint Stephen, and Saint John.
File contains daily reports from The Bill Lynch Shows shows and rides from June to September 1951. The reports are from Halifax, Saint John, Amherst, Chatham, New Glasgow, Saint Stephen, Woodstock, Campbellton, Fredericton, Bridgewater, Charlottetown, Lunenberg, and Sydney. Areas that are filled out include name of attraction, starting number, finish number, tickets, price, gross, and total.
File contains an envelope address to The Bill Lynch Shows from Ethel (no last name specified) dated in Amherst November 18, 1942, and Halifax November 20-30, a blank labor service card with notes on the back, a card requesting name and address on the front of letters and parcels, a letter from Ethel to Bill Lynch dated July 25, 1942 from Amherst, and six photographs of: an unidentified woman in Sydney on July 16 1942, an unidentified woman at Murcer [sic] Lake in Sydney on July 13, 1942, an unidentified man in a parked car, a dog, two unidentified men on a ship plank over the war, three unidentified men in uniform and a dog by a Christmas tree, and three unidentified men, two in uniform and one in a suit, outside. Ethel's letter states she would try to enclose photographs of herself, so she may be the unidentified woman in the photos.
File contains letters and invoices from individuals and businesses including: Oxford Manufacturing Company Ltd. (Oxford, NS); Oxford School (Oxford, NS); Oxford Tripoli Company Ltd. (Oxford, NS); Oyster Pond School (Jeddore, NS).
The fonds consists predominantly of correspondence and vessel papers. The fonds also contains records that document the family's business activity, particularly that of Joseph O’Brien.
Fonds comprises miscellaneous business and personal correspondence, legal documents, deeds and papers regarding property in Halifax and Amherst, Nova Scotia.
Fonds includes a membership dues ledger created by Pioneer Lodge No.1; a contract between the Canada Coal and Railroad Company Ltd and its employees; and receipts from members.
The fonds contains business records of Charman and Grant general store, including invoices and a general ledger. Also included is a VE Day address by William Grant.
Fonds contains minute books (1901-1968); financial statements (1902-1968); general ledgers (1949-1968); reports to shareholders; legal papers (1901-1964); correspondence (1920); catalogues; and other records from Christie Bros. and Co. and Christie Trunk and Bag.
Fonds contains research material and manuscripts created by historian Ian McKay when he resided in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Materials include a student essay on strikes in the Maritimes (1901-1914), a manuscript of McKay's undergraduate honours thesis, "The Working Class of Metropolitan Halifax," and 55 audio cassettes and accompanying notes from interviews with workers in the Springhill and Joggins coal mines.
File comprises a transcript of an interview with F.C. Wightman and notes from George D. Noiles on Leon Trotsky's month at the Amherst Internment Camp during World War One.
File consists of two handwritten letters by Charles Tupper. One letter is an 1887 letter of introduction to Sir Andrew Clark regarding Mr. Freeborn, a Canadian medical student in London. The second letter was written in 1911 to Mrs. J. Ross Smith in Amherst, Nova Scotia thanking her for an earlier correspondence regarding election results.
File consists of thank you letters from the students Carol B. Chapman's class at Spring Hill High School, Springhill, Nova Scotia. Includes a photocopy of a group photograph.