Africville (Halifax, N.S.)

Photograph of the foundation of a demolished building

PC1, Box 44, Folder 7, Item 8
Item
1969

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph taken on the former location of Halifax's Africville neighborhood. The photograph shows the foundation of a demolished building. The partially completed MacKay Bridge is visible in the background.

Photograph of the foundation of a demolished building

PC1, Box 44, Folder 7, Item 14
Item
1969

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph taken on the former location of Halifax's Africville neighborhood. The photograph shows the foundation of a demolished building. The partially completed MacKay Bridge is visible in the background.

Photograph of the Halifax Harbour and Africville

PC1, Box 42, Folder 8
File
[between 1950 and 1959]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains two copies of a photograph of Halifax Harbour as seen from Halifax's Africville neighborhood. The photograph also shows an electrical tower and rail lines. The photograph was used in Donald Clairmont's "Africville Relocation Report" ("The View from Africville" pg. 3-28).

Bob Brooks Illustrative Photography

Photograph of the MacKay Bridge during construction

PC1, Box 44, Folder 7, Items 1 & 13
Item
1969

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains two copies of a photograph of the former location of Halifax's Africville neighborhood. The photograph shows an empty lot and the partially completed MacKay Bridge.

Photograph of the MacKay Bridge during construction

PC1, Box 44, Folder 7, Item 7
Item
1969

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of the former location of Halifax's Africville neighborhood. The photograph shows the partially completed MacKay Bridge and the ruins of a building.

Photograph of the MacKay Bridge during construction

PC1, Box 44, Folder 7, Item 11
Item
1969

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of the former location of Halifax's Africville neighborhood. The photograph shows the partially completed MacKay Bridge and a dirt road passing through an empty lot.

Photograph of the MacKay Bridge during construction

PC1, Box 44, Folder 7, Item 12
Item
1969

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of the former location of Halifax's Africville neighborhood. The photograph shows the partially completed MacKay Bridge and a dirt road passing through an empty lot.

Photograph of the ruins of a building

PC1, Box 44, Folder 7, Item 2
Item
1969

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph taken on the former location of Halifax's Africville neighborhood. The photograph shows the ruins of a demolished building.

Photograph of the ruins of a building

PC1, Box 44, Folder 7, Item 5
Item
1969

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph taken on the former location of Halifax's Africville neighborhood. The photograph shows the ruins of a demolished building and an abandoned car.

Photograph of the Seaview African Baptist Church

PC1, Box 42, Folder 9
File
[between 1950 and 1959]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains a photograph of the Seaview African Baptist Church in Halifax's Africville neighborhood. The photograph shows a group of children running across the rain tracks behind the church. The photograph was used in Donald Clairmont's "Africville Relocation Report" ("The Seaview African Baptist Church" pg. 4-22).

Bob Brooks Illustrative Photography

Photograph of the Seaview African Baptist Church

PC1, Box 44, Folder 13
File
[between 1950 and 1959]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of the Seaview African Baptist Church in Halifax's Africville neighborhood.

Photograph of train tracks and the MacKay Bridge on-ramp under construction

PC1, Box 44, Folder 7, Item 10
Item
1969

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph taken on the former location of Halifax's Africville neighborhood. The photograph shows train tracks and the partially completed MacKay Bridge on-ramp.

Photograph of train tracks and the MacKay Bridge on-ramp under construction

PC1, Box 44, Folder 7, Item 9
Item
1969

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph taken on the former location of Halifax's Africville neighborhood. The photograph shows train tracks and the partially completed MacKay Bridge on-ramp.

Photograph of train tracks on the former location of Africville

PC1, Box 44, Folder 7, Item 4
Item
1969

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph taken on the former location of Halifax's Africville neighborhood. The photograph shows train tracks running through an empty lot.

Photograph of two people at a well in Africville

PC1, Box 42, Folder 5, Item 1
Item
[between 1950 and 1959]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of two people lifting the cover on a well in Halifax's Africville neighborhood. The well has a sign that says "Please boil this water before drinking and cooking." The photograph was used in Donald Clairmont's "Africville Relocation Report" ("The Wells" pg. 3-24).

Photographs of children picking blueberries near Africville

PC1, Box 44, Folder 12
File
[between 1950 and 1959]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains photographs of children picking blueberries in a field near Halifax's Africville neighborhood.

Bob Brooks Illustrative Photography

Photographs of children playing near homes in Africville

PC1, Box 42, Folder 6
File
[between 1950 and 1959]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains photographs of children playing outside near homes in Halifax's Africville neighborhood. The photographs were used in Donald Clairmont's "Africville Relocation Report" ("Africville Homes" pg. 3-26).

Bob Brooks Illustrative Photography

Photographs of demolished or boarded-up buildings in Africville

PC1, Box 44, Folder 14
File
[between 1950 and 1959]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains photographs of a demolished building and a boarded-up house in Halifax's Africville neighborhood.

Bob Brooks Illustrative Photography

Photographs of Linda Carvery at the declaration of Africville as a historic site

MS-5-22, Box 16, Folder 63
File
July 5, 2002

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains photographs of Linda Carvery at the declaration of Africville as a national historic site on July 5, 2002.

Photographs feature Linda Carvery with Honourable Sheila Copps and others.

Photographs of the former location of Africville

PC1, Box 44, Folder 7
File
1969

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains photographs of the former location of Halifax's Africville neighborhood, including the partially completed MacKay Bridge.

Photographs of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir recording Up on the Roof

MS-5-22, Box 9, Folder 26
File
May 1, 1995

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains photographs of Nova Scotia Mass Choir recording a music video for the song, "Siyahumba," for "Up on the Roof" on May 1, 1995.

Photographs of train tracks through Africville

PC1, Box 42, Folder 11
File
[between 1950 and 1959]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains photographs of the train tracks running Halifax's Africville neighborhood. The photographs were used in Donald Clairmont's "Africville Relocation Report" ("Trains and Africville" pg. 5-6a).

Bob Brooks Illustrative Photography

Photographs of wells in Africville

PC1, Box 42, Folder 5
File
[between 1950 and 1959]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains photographs of wells in Halifax's Africville neighborhood. The photographs were used in Donald Clairmont's "Africville Relocation Report" ("The Wells" pg. 3-24).

Bob Brooks Illustrative Photography

Population Data

UA-26, Box 10, Folder 2
File
1958

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains compiled demographic data about African Nova Scotians living in Africville and elsewhere in Haifax. The data is presented in the form of handwritten tables and maps. The data is from a study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s.

Progress reports and other material from the Africville relocation study

UA-26, Box 15, Folder 10
File
1968-1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains a position paper from the Africville Action Committee; a summary of progress and plan for completion from the Africville relocation study; a research diary from Dennis W. Magill; a memorandum from the Dalhousie Institute of Public Affairs; a page of handwritten notes; and a list of political and administrative questions.

Progress reports regarding the Africville Relocation Program

UA-26, Box 102, Folder 13
File
1954-1968

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains correspondence and reports of the Housing Policy Review Committee, as well as reports to members of the Sub-Committee of Council on Africville and the Representatives of the Human Rights Advisory Committee about the progress of the Africville Relocation Program.

Questionnaire - Blank Africville relocation questionnaire for relocation official

UA-26, Box 38, Folder 6
File
1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains a blank "Questionnaire 1: For Relocation Official" form, used during the Africville Relocation Study, used to interview human subjects who participated 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. The questionnaire was used to make up the coding manual.

Questionnaire - Code numbers for Africville Relocation Study and coding sheets

UA-26, Box 38, Folder 11
File
1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains code numbers for the Africville Relocation Study, as well as code data for interviewees.

Questionnaire - coding sheets

UA-26, Box 38, Folder 7
File
1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains a handwritten key for coding the data gathered through the questionnaires filled out by human subjects of the Africville Relocation Study, documenting the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #10

UA-26, Box 75, Folder 10
File
1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains the questionnaire #1 results of a survey of interviewee #10, a human subject who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. File also contains the transcript of a short interview, and correspondence.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #100

UA-26, Box 93, Folder 5
File
1964-1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains the questionnaire #1 responses from interviewee #100, a human subject who participated 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. File also contains the transcript of an interview between Dennis Magill and Peter MacDonald, as well as facsimile Halifax Housing Authority and real estate appraisal documents.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #107

UA-26, Box 93, Folder 16
File
1967-1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains the questionnaire #1 responses from interviewee #107, a human subject who participated 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. File also contains facsimile health and property acquisition documents, and typed research notes.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #108

UA-26, Box 93, Folder 2
File
1966-1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains the questionnaire #1 responses from interviewee #108, a human subject who participated 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. File also contains the transcript of an interview between Dennis Magill and Peter MacDonald, as well as facsimiles of Halifax Housing Authority documents.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #109

UA-26, Box 93, Folder 4
File
1966-1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains the questionnaire #1 responses from interviewee #109, a human subjects who participated 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. File also contains the transcript of an interview between Dennis Magill and Peter MacDonald, an interview summary, and Sub-Committee Council on Africville and the Human Rights Advisory Committee correspondence.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #110

UA-26, Box 93, Folder 3
File
1967-1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains the questionnaire #1 responses of interviewee #110, a human subject who participated 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. File also contains the transcript of an interview between Dennis Magill and Peter MacDonald, summaries of meetings with the interviewee, and facsimile Halifax Housing Authority documents.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #113

UA-26, Box 77, Folder 11
File
1964-1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains the questionnaire #1 responses of interviewee #113, a human subject who participated 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. File also contains the transcript of an interview, and correspondence regarding the acquisition of dwelling #73.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #114

UA-26, Box 77, Folder 10
File
1967-1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains the questionnaire #1 responses of interviewee #114, a Numbered file 114, a human subject who participated 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. File contains the questionnaire, correspondence regarding the acquisition of property #25, and the transcript of an interview about the case.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #129

UA-26, Box 102, Folder 6
File
1965-1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains the questionnaire #1 responses from interviewee #129, a human subject who participated 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. File also contains the transcript of an interview conducted by Dennis Magill with Peter MacDonald, facsimile Halifax Housing Authority documents, and other research materials.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #13

UA-26, Box 81, Folder 16
File
1964-1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains the questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #13, a human subject who participated 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. File also contains interview transcript, Sub-Committee on Africville documents, and facsimile documents related to the potential acquisition of buildings 110 and 111.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #26

UA-26, Box 81, Folder 17
File
1969-1970

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains the questionnaire #1 response from interviewee #26, a human subject who participated 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. File also contains correspondence, news clippings, a facsimile the indenture of lease, and interview transcripts.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #3

UA-26, Box 85, Folder 22
File
1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains the questionnaire #1 responses from interviewee #3, a human subject who participated 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. File also contains the transcript of an interview and research notes.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #30

UA-26, Box 77, Folder 16
File
1938-1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains the questionnaire #1 responses from interviewee #30, a human subject who participated 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. File also contains an interview transcript and correspondence.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #33

UA-26, Box 81, Folder 18
File
1966-1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains the questionnaire #1 responses from interviewee #33, a human subject who participated 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. File also contains correspondence, interview transcripts, and facsimile Halifax Housing Authority documents.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #4

UA-26, Box 75, Folder 11
File
1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains the survey results of questionnaire #1 with interviewee #4, a human subject who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. File also contains the transcript of a short interview with the same person. There is also one piece of correspondence related to case #124 in this file.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #45

UA-26, Box 93, Folder 20
File
1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains the questionnaire #1 responses from interviewee #45, a human subject who participated 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. File also contains the transcript of an interview between Dennis Magill and Peter MacDonald, as well as other research materials.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #5

UA-26, Box 77, Folder 3
File
1966-1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains the questionnaire #1 for interviewee #5, a human subject who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. File also contains facsimile documents and correspondence from the Halifax Housing Authority, regarding the interviewee's premises.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #50

UA-26, Box 77, Folder 9
File
1964-1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains the results of questionnaire #1 completed by interviewee #50, a human subject who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. File also interview transcript, notes and research materials

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #51

UA-26, Box 77, Folder 8
File
1966-1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains the questionnaire #1 response of interviewee #51, a human subject who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. File also contains an interview transcript, correspondence, and facsimiles of Halifax Housing Authority documents.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #59

UA-26, Box 77, Folder 13
File
1967-1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains the questionnaire #1 responses from interviewee #59, a human subject who participated 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. File also contains an interview transcript and facsimiles of Halifax Housing Authority documents.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #6

UA-26, Box 75, Folder 12
File
1969

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains the survey results of questionnaire 1, completed by interviewee #6, a human subject who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. File also contains the short transcript of an interview about the meeting with interviewee #6.

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