Archives Catalogue

Photographs of the Arrow oil spill, Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 8
File
[1970]

File contains 6 photographs taken by Roger Belanger (and collected by Bill Freedman), likely in 1970. Photographs show clean-up efforts after the oil spill after the SS Arrow ran aground during a gale, in Chedabucto Bay, February 4, 1970.

Photographs of recovery from Spruce budworm in Cape Breton Highlands National Park

MS-2-789, Box 14, Folder 24
File
1983-1990

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 59 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Cape Breton Highlands National Park between 1983 and 1990. Photographs show the aftermath of an infestation of Spruce budworm, efforts at salvage cuts to halt its spread, stored pulpwood, and enlarged photos of the beetle.

Photographs of leaf damage cause by accidental emission of acidic particulates from the Tufts Cove generating station, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 16, Folder 4
File
1989

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 28 photographs taken by Bill Freedman near the Tufts Cove Generating Station, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, in August 1989. Photographs show damage to vegetation (Red oak, pumpkin, cucumber, and tomato) potentially caused by the accidental emission of acidic particulates from the generating station.

Photographs of glyphosate spraying at Brier Island, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 14, Folder 8
File
1984

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 40 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Brier Island, Digby County, Nova Scotia, in 1984. Photographs show glyphosate herbicide spraying of forests by helicopter. There are also several photographs of researchers at Northern Light.

Photographs of glyphosate and rhodamine spraying and recovery at Antrim, Riverside, and Little River Lake, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 14, Folder 21
File
1983-1990

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 108 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at three sites in Nova Scotia between 1983 and 1990. Photographs show glyphosate herbicide spraying at Antrim, Halifax County, the "Riverside" site (possibly along the Shubenacadie River, Hants County), and Little RIver Lake, Kings County.

Photographs of Gaff Point, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 14, Folder 18
File
2001

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 45 photographs taken by Bill Freedman on a hiking trip along the Gaff Point trail in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, in 2001. Photographs show trees in the area, as well as coastal scenes.

Photographs of forestry, biomass, hydrology, and clear-cutting scenes

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 17
File
1980-1992

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 215 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at a variety of locations, including Aylesford Lake, NS, and Halifax County, between 1980 and 1995. Photographs show experimental and conventional clear-cutting examples at Aylesford Lake, Nova Scotia; advanced regeneration after a burn near Herring Cove, Nova Scotia; views of Pebbleloggitch Lake, Kejimkujik National Park; different rates of growth of trees of different ages; felling, bucking and sorting of Acer saccharum, and examples of throughfall and stemflow. Also includes examples of herbicide efforts.

Photographs of forest regrowth in the Tobeatic Wilderness Area, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 16, Folder 2
File
2003

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contain 58 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in 2003. Photographs show aerial surveys of the forests, understory, and invertebrate species of the Tobeatic Wilderness Area in southwestern Nova Scotia as well as the southwestern coast of Nova Scotia in general.

Photographs of family and holidays

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 11
File
1986-1998

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 42 photographs largely taken by Bill Freedman between 1986 and 1998. Photographs show family outings in Halifax (including the Public Gardens) in 1986, and with family at home during the winter holidays in late-1998 and early-1999.

Photographs of endangered flora and persistent coastal litter at Bon Portage Island, Baccaro and Swaine's Road bogs, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 14, Folder 22
File
1991

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 25 photographs taken by Bill Freedman near Barrington, Nova Scotia, in 1991. Photographs show litter on the coast of Bon Portage Island, as well as vegetation (primarily the rare, insectivorous Drosera filiformis) at Baccaro bog and Swaine's Road bog. Photographs show the endangered plants that would be threatened should a peat-mining operation be opened in the area.