Digby (N.S. : County)

138 Stirling women master list (prepared by Marcia Kahn)

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 8
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains datasets specific to female study respondents. Also contains master list of female Stirling study respondents.

A newspaper clipping regarding a visit to Digby

MS-2-646, Box 9, Folder 71
File
1983

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Address by the Hon. Paul Martin, Minister of National Health and Welfare, to the electors of Digby - Annapolis - Kings

MS-2-511, Box 26, Folder 12
Item
December 8, 1948

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a manuscript copy of an address given in Digby, Nova Scotia, on December 8, 1948.

Aerial photograph of Pebbleloggitch Lake, Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 17, Item 126
Item
[198-]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Aerial photograph of Pebbleloggitch Lake, Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia, from a northwestern perspective

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 17, Item 128
Item
[198-]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Age and sex distribution for Yoruba-Stirling comparisons

MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 5
File
[1964?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of two copies of a chart comparing age and sex data for Yoruba villages and Stirling County.

Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

MS-13-86
Fonds
1837-2020, predominant 1904-2008

Fonds contains records created and collected primarily by Alexander H. Leighton, with some by Jane Leighton Murphy. Documents span from Leighton's studies at Princeton, Cambridge, and Johns Hopkins univerities, through his government employment in World War II, and his teaching career at Cornell, Dalhousie, and Harvard. The majority of records are related to the 1961 Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project and the 1963 Study on the Role of Women, both based in Nigeria, and the Stirling County Study, based in Nova Scotia. Record types include correspondence, manuscripts, grant applications, reports, photographs and slides, medical and academic records, method and guidebooks, reviews, offprints and publications, teaching and course materials, and surveys and interview transcripts.

A sous-fonds contains records documenting the migration of Alexander Leighton's parents from Ireland to the United States and their subsequent life in Philadelphia. The sous-fonds contains extensive correspondence between extended family members over the course of a century, as well as photographs, diaries, wills, family trees, memoirs, and Alexander Leighton's personal correspondence.

Murphy, Jane Leighton

Analysis card and codebook 99PX (n=138)

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 2
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains computer printout datasets of Stirling County statistics for female respondents. Also includes analysis card for Stirling county female psychiatric and social data.

Augustine Melanson, ledger

MS-4-203, SF Box 46, Folder 8
Item
1848-1857

Ledger 1848-1857 including accounts of the Schooner (later brigantine) Samuel Campbell

Melanson, [Augustine?]

Barton, McDonald, Dr.

PC2, Box 144, Folder 134
File
August 1905

Part of Waldren Studios Photograph Collection

One man standing with his hands behind his back, looking to the side; 3/4 pose

Barton, McDonald, Dr.

PC2, Box 144, Folder 133
File
September 1905

Part of Waldren Studios Photograph Collection

One man standing with his hands in his pockets, facing to the side; 3/4 pose

Bill of sale for the Lilla Dale

MS-2-542, SF Box 41, Folder 19
Item
1864

Item is an original bill of sale of the Lilla Dale ship to Milton Outhouse by John Collins.

Outhouse, Milton

Brier Island : Land's end in the Bay of Fundy : [manuscript and correspondence]

MS-4-254, Box 8, Folder 4
File
1990

Part of Pottersfield Press fonds

File contains a facsimile of Shea's draft manuscript, then under the title "Land's End Nova Scotia: Brier Island in the Bay of Fundy."

Campbell, Tyler - child of

PC2, Box 204, Folder 70
File
September 1913

Part of Waldren Studios Photograph Collection

One young child standing beside a small table, facing to the side, playing with toy blocks; full pose

Campbell, Tyler - child of

PC2, Box 204, Folder 71
File
September 1913

Part of Waldren Studios Photograph Collection

One young child seated at a small table holding a photographic booklet, facing to the side; full pose

Certificate from the Honourable Joseph Andrew Chisholm appointing Hector Joseph Pothier the coroner in and for the County of Digby

MS-13-166, SF Box 80, Folder 1
Item
1928

Part of Hector Pothier fonds

Codebook and analysis deck for comparison of Stirling women and urban and rural Yoruba women, 55 PJ (n=369)

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 6
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains computer dataset printouts and codebooks for female respondents from Stirling County and Yoruba villages.

Cornell-Digby Development Project

MS-13-86, Box 67, Folder 12
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains two drafts of a report or proposal for the Cornell-Digby Development Project.

Data analysis

Subseries
1960 - 1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Subseries includes data for and analyses of socioeconomic aspects of Yoruba women's lives (education, migration, social class, health, children, husbands, religion, family, etc.). The 1963 data seems to be part of another study, referred to in several files as "The 1963 study on the role of Yoruba women," that either piggybacked off the Cornell-Aro study or was somehow included as a sub-project.

David Reid Photograph Collection

PG-2-202, PB 5, Folders 1-13
Collection
1931

Collection includes aerial photographs of Halifax, Parrsboro, Amherst, Annapolis Royal, Kentville, Clarence, and Weymouth area. Variant title: Richard McCully Aerial Photograph Collection.

Reid, David

Definition of typology for Yoruba-Stirling comparisons

MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 20
File
[1967?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on case classification definitions and criteria and computer dataset printouts of case typology statistics for Yoruba villages and Stirling County.

Digby County public school study

MS-13-86, Box 67, Folder 16
File
1967

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a proposal draft for a study of the public school population of Digby County.

Digby Library and Historical Association

MS-13-86, Box 68, Folder 16
File
1976 - 1980

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains meeting minutes from the Admiral Digby Library and Historical Society.

Digby-Annapolis Mental Health Service Board

MS-13-86, Box 68, Folder 17
File
1974 - 1978

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence, meeting minutes, and agendas for meetings of the Digby-Annapolis Mental Health Service Board.

Dorothy and John Dobson's research notes about the O'Brien family

MS-2-679, SF Box 31, Folder 31; SF Box 99, Folder 3
File
1938 ; 1997

File comprises Dorothy and John Dobson's research records and notes about the O'Briens, a family of Nova Scotia master mariners. There are also photographs of the schooner Lilian E. Kerr.

Dobson, Dorothy Garrett

Edith (Nichols) Lynch fonds

MS-2-374, SF Box 38, Folders 2-6
Fonds
1903-1952

Fonds contains scrapbooks with diary entries, newspaper clippings, cards and some photos and letters. Contents are frequently out of chronological order. There are also two school notebooks of Richard Lynch, ca. 1930.

Lynch, Edith (Nichols), fl. 1903-1958

Education and psychiatric disorders

Subseries
1960 - 1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Subseries consists of various statistical analyses done of data from the Yoruba studies, particularly in relation to education and male respondents. Memos, reports, publications, dataset printouts, and analysis manuals present.

Episode 6, George Elliott Clarke

MS-5-19, Box 1, Cassette 22
File
October 27, 1989

Part of Rock Meets Bone fonds

File contains one digital recording of the Rock Meets Bone episode titled "Black life in Digby County" with George Elliott Clarke, which aired on October 27, 1989.

Eskimo, Yoruba, and Stirling comparisons

Subseries
1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Subseries consists of datasets, research notes, and statistical analyses comparing psychiatric data from the Cornell-Aro Nigerian study to that from Stirling County and the Inuit communities of St. Lawrence Island in Alaska.

Eskimo, Yoruba, and Stirling comparisons (east west centre analysis)

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 12
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains charts and datasets of age and sex characteristics for cross-cultural comparisons.

Eskimo, Yoruba, and Stirling comparisons (types I and II)

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 11
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains computer dataset printouts and statistical charts from the Stirling County, Eskimo, and Yoruba studies.

Eskimo, Yoruba, and Stirling comparisons (under 30 HOS analysis)

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 14
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains computer printouts and note on statistical analysis of data from the Nigerian, Stirling County, and Alaskan studies.

Eskimo, Yoruba, and Stirling comparisons (under 30 notes)

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 13
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on demographic, psychiatric, and social data for study respondents under 30.

Eskimo, Yoruba, and Stirling notes and tests of significance

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 19
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains data tables and research notes on statistical analysis findings from respondent psychiatric data.

E.W. Nichols fonds

MS-2-811
Fonds
1901 - 1935

Fonds consists of student notebooks, essays and articles written by Edward Wilber Nichols, former Dalhousie student and professor.

Nichols, Edward Wilber

Extra copies of crucial tables (C - A analysis)

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 3
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on and tables of psychiatric rating and impairment statistics. There is much comparison between Yoruba villages, Abeokuta, and Stirling County and analysis of respective physical and mental health symptoms and patterns.

MS-2-789, Box 17, Folder 7
File
1984

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains a field notebook compiled by Bill Freedman in 1984 during his research on the Riverside region. Includes lists of flora seen at the following Nova Scotia lakes and bogs: Grafton, Snake, McGinty, Big Red, Little Red, Pebbleloggitch, Beaverskin, North Cranberry, Puzzle, Cosiuelle, Little Peskowesk, Mud, Loon, George, Peskowesk, Hilchemakaar, Big Dam East, Big Dam West, Iramy Bog, Mill Bog, Drain, Spectacle, Jordan, and Round Pond.

Fraser, Miss

PC2, Box 10, Folder 11
File
January 1897

Part of Waldren Studios Photograph Collection

One young woman seated; 3/4 pose

G. D. Campbell and Sons fonds

MS-4-1
Fonds
1859-1935

The fonds consists of records routine operational transactions through daybooks, cashbooks, ledgers, letter books, mill books, invoice books, time books, cash and book sales, receipts, financial records, invoices and statements. Also represented in the fonds are Campbell Lumber Company correspondence, general papers and correspondence, store quotations, legal documents, lumber schedules, wills and estate papers, the personal Papers of Glidden Campbell, and materials relating to the Weymouth Marine Insurance Co.

G.D. Campbell and Sons. G.D. Campbell and Company.

George Elliott Clarke : Black life in Digby County

MS-5-19, Box 1, Cassette 8
File
October 1989

Part of Rock Meets Bone fonds

File contains one digital recording of the raw source audio used to create the Rock Meets Bone episode titled "Black life in Digby County" with George Elliott Clarke, which aired on October 27, 1989.

George Elliott Clarke : Black life in Digby County

MS-5-19, Box 1, Folder 7
File
April - October, 1989

Part of Rock Meets Bone fonds

File contains documents regarding the creation of the Rock Meets Bone episode titled "Black life in Digby County" with George Elliott Clarke, which aired on October 27, 1989. The episode features Clarke's poetry and passion stemming from growing up around black Nova Scotians. Materials include handwritten production notes, an introduction, correspondence, and a collection of Clarke's poetry including some analysis.

Grant, J. A.

PC2, Box 344, Folder 81
File
December 1939

Part of Waldren Studios Photograph Collection

One man; bust

Hector Pothier fonds

MS-13-66
Fonds
1866-1973

Fonds consists of a Hector Pothier's medical school diploma, a Dalhousie song book (ca. 1912-1913), photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, election paraphernalia, invoices, and speeches made to the Nova Scotia Legislature.

Pothier, Hector

Images of Whites Point, Digby Neck

MS-2-88, BD Box 1, Item 3
File
October 12, 2004

Part of Jill Grant fonds

File contains 36 digital photographs of Whites Point, Digby Neck, Nova Scotia. The photographs show different views of the point.

Length of residence in integrated and disintegrated communities

MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 17
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains computer printout datasets, research notes, and statistical charts comparing information for male and female respondents in integrated and disintegrated communities.

Light morning of the body : semaja : [manuscript]

UA-36, Box 6, Folder 3
Item
1974

Part of Dalhousie Art Gallery fonds

File consists of a publication to accompany the exhibition of work by semaja, titled 'light morning of the body'. The exhibition was organized by and presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery in 1974.

Item contains poetry and prose by the artist.