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Personal papers and memorabilia

Series consists of minutes, correspondence and financial/legal documents related to the estate of cousin Florence Murray, academic grade books from Creighton's studies in Germany, newspaper clippings, poetry, post cards and family history records. Files are arranged alphabetically by title. Some materials are in German.

Wilfred Creighton photographs

Series consists of photographs created or collected by Creighton. Most photographs are related to logging and forestry in Nova Scotia between 1934-1944, but there are also photographs of Creighton and other forestry students in Europe; Creighton presenting a copy of his book to Gerry Andrews; and a photograph of the Dalhousie class of 1926 reunion in 1976. Photographs in this series have been removed to PC-2.

Will R. Bird's scrapbooks

This series contains 56 large format scrapbooks compiled by Bird. Dates of material contained within the scrapbooks are wide ranging and the organization, idiosyncratic and haphazard. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, programmes, playbills, invitations, correspondence, magazine clippings, photographs, birthday cards, obituaries, advertisements, published writings from pamphlets. Dates of materials within the scrapbooks (as far as can be discerned) are provided. When photographs or other salient features appear, they are noted. Also included in this series are two small boxes of index cards created by Bird to give more information about materials included in the scrapbooks.

Books and manuscripts

Series contains a published book inscribed by McCulloch and a manuscript of a paper written by McCulloch and submitted to the Geological Society.

Herbert Leslie Stewart's published and unpublished manuscripts

Series contains six sub-series based on the different genres and media for which Stewart wrote. There are some multiple copies of typescripts, but these contain distinct hand-written or typed amendments. The radio broadcast typescripts are largely bound and ordered chronologically. Those radio broadcast typescripts for the CBC's Coast-to-Coast program are also indexed alphabetically by subject matter on 3x5-inch cards.

Dalhousie Review correspondence and related material

series contains incoming and outgoing correspondence, including submissions and letters of acceptance and rejection dating from 1972-1980 written by Allan Bevan as editor of the Dalhousie Review. The series also includes documents relating to Canada Council Grant applications for learned journals funding and records of general operations of the journal.

Family records

Some pages in this series were photocopied from the Smith family Bible and contain birth and death information. Also included are three radio operation licenses belonging to Louise and Clauda Smith.

Microform

Series consists of microform records of papers prepared for several conferences, including the UN and the Club of Rome.

Ten Seconds After Closing

Series includes records created and collected by Mary Vingoe related to her play Ten Seconds After Closing, which premiered at Nightwood Theatre in 1980 under the direction of Cynthia Grant.

Correspondence and administrative records

The records in this series include correspondence and papers related to Toni Laidlaw's employment at Dalhousie, such as annual faculty reports and professional correspondence. There are also records of her work as an author, including editorial correspondence, royalty statements and publication agreements.

Presentations and papers

The records in this series include printed copies of powerpoint presentations and papers delivered to various organizations, groups and conferences. Related or duplicate materials may be found in the Workshop presentations series.

Projects and Reports

This series contains materials related to publications by or supervised by Joan E. Cummings, the majority of these reports were from a series by the "Atlantic Social Services Project" sponsored by the Maritime School of Social work and relate to research conducted on social work students and people working in the field. Other topics of research include the needs of individuals requiring social services and disability services.

The project and reports section differs from the Publications series because it contains both rough drafts of materials and final reports, whereas the Publications series contains only finished publications.

Cummings, Joan Elizabeth

Reid George Nicholson : [convocation materials]

Subfonds contains materials relating to Reid George Nicholson. Nicholson was nominated for an honorary degree from Dalhousie by Joan Cummings, and she collected biographical information about him, including the contributions he made to the MS Society. A sufferer of MS himself, he went out to do public talks about the disease. The materials include background information, resumes, letters supporting the honorary degree nomination and several of Reid Nicholson's publications.

Eula's Offer

Series contains typescripts of Eula's Offer and a letter announcing honourable mention for the play in a Canadian playwriting competition. Eula's Offer is an early play by Catherin Banks about teen parenting. The main character is Eula, a teenager who just had a baby. Her boyfriend does not want to know about the baby and she has trouble looking after it. Eula's childless brother wants to care for the child.

The play received honourable mention at the Little Ottawa Theatre Competition in 1984.

Units

This series, the largest in the fonds, documents the main purpose of the Local: representation of union members at their places of employment. This aspect of the Local's work is multi-faceted and is represented by documents related to contract negotiations, strikes, walk-outs, grievances, complaints, correspondence, certification, cease and desist orders, disciplinary hearings, arbitration, and pay disputes. Files are organized by bargaining or geographical unit. The Local's larger bargaining units are represented in separate sub-series, such as Surrette Battery. Small contractor companies which were affiliated with the Construction Association Management Labour Bureau (CAMLB) are arranged under the CAMLB sub-series, as is correspondence with the Bureau itself, while all other smaller bargaining units without such an affiliation are arranged under the Other Units sub-series. The sub-series devoted to geographical units contain documents related to the administration of the associated region and not to any particular jobsite in said region.

Office of the Vice President

This series includes the following types of materials: administrative accounting files; trust fund information; payroll ledgers and official documentation; budget information; fund-raising campaigns and correspondence; honorarium information.

VP Academic and Research

This series includes the following types of materials: administrative accounting files; trust fund information; payroll ledgers and official documentation; budget information; fund-raising campaigns and correspondence; honorarium information.

Objects

Series contains objects and realia deaccessioned from archival fonds and retained for teaching and training purposes.
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