Fonds consists of reports, press clippings, information about individual and society delegates, and administration and planning records for the 1981 Learned Societies Conference held at Dalhousie University.
File contains one booklet on affirmative action published by the Canadian Rights and Liberties Foundation in 1982, one pamphlet for the 1985 Smashing Borders Opening Spaces conference in Toronto, and one pamphlet from the Dartmouth Regional Library detailing books on the subject of patients' rights.
Fonds contains materials collected by Al Stewart as part of his involvement in the Maritime leather community, his LGBT advocacy work at Saint John's United Church in Halifax, and his involvement in the broader LGBT community in Nova Scotia. Leather community records document the activities of the TightRope leather brotherhood, Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [MACLeather] contests, and other leather groups across Canada and the United States. Materials include administrative records, photographs, promotional materials, correspondence, newsletters, and catalogues. United Church materials primarily relate to Stewart's efforts to attain Affirmed status for St. John's United Church, and include reference materials, correspondence, and newsletters. Fonds also contains objects and ephemera related to the leather community, Affirm, and Stewart's membership in the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union [NSGEU], as well as personal photographs, correspondence, and LGBT publications.
File contains a copy of Budge Wilson's "Ann Connor Brimer Talk," the keynote address at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, which launched Canadian Children's Book Week in 1999. The speech addresses the state of children's literature in Nova Scotia. The file also includes a copy of a fax sent to Budge Wilson from regarding the schedule for the Canadian Children's Book Week Gala.
File contains Gilbert Winham's international travel grant approval from the Dalhousie Research Development Fund Committee for an appearance at the Annual Meeting of International Studies Association in London, UK in the spring of 1989, while employed at Dalhousie University. The funding corresponds with an agreement with Westview Press to publish a book of the same name.
Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee, Arctic Ocean Diversity (ArcOD). The Arctic Ocean Diversity project was designed to catalogue animal species and microbes found in the Arctic region—on, in and under the sea ice, in deep basins and along the continental shelves. The project was led by American scientists Bodil Bluhm, Rolf Gradinger and Russ Hopcroft, who sought to document the northward extensions of ranges of Arctic fish and invertebrates.
Series contains Kevin Crombie's records related to Atlantic Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual conferences. Materials include pamphlets, posters, programs, articles, flyers, notes, meeting minutes, and correspondence.
File contains 5 AudioMagnetics XHE 90 audio cassette tapes from the 1st Atlantic Oral History Association (AOHA) Meeting in Truro, Nova Scotia. The recordings are from September 1979 and feature a Lead up interview.
Fonds contains materials collected by LGBTQ+ activist Bob Fougere pertaining to his activism in Halifax. Records in fonds document Fougere's work as coordinator of the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project [NSRAP], including NSRAP's participation in the Halifax Rainbow Health Project and its health care advocacy work on behalf of transgender Nova Scotians. Materials also document Fougere's roles as board member at Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church, and facilitator the Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Youth Project support group. Materials in fonds include correspondence, pamphlets, essays, studies, clippings, reports, meeting minutes, conference materials, and ephemera.
Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee, Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML). The Census of Antarctic Marine Life project was designed to monitor changes in marine fish and invertebrate populations as a result of depletion in the ice shelves. The project was led by Australian scientists Michael Stoddart and Victoria Wadley, who documented more than 16,000 species, of which several hundred were previously unknown.
File contains Gilbert Winham's conference materials for the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies Third Spring Foreign Policy Workshop, held May 14-16, 1979, at Dalhousie University. The general theme of the workshop was "Canada and Europe". File includes handwritten notes, agendas, and materials related to the Winham-led "Canada-Europe Simulation" session.
File contains conference materials for the one-day conference of the Halifax Branch of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs (CIIA) and the Halifax Dialogues Committee at Saint Mary's University on February 1, 2003, with the theme "Canada Looks Abroad: The Atlantic Canadian Perspective". Winham appeared as a panelist in the third plenary session on International Trade and Development. File includes research notes and correspondence.
File contains the text of a speech delivered by Gilbert Winham at the Progressive Conservative National Caucus, at St. John's, Newfoundland, on September 9, 2003. The title of Winham's speech was "Canada's Access to U.S. Markets". File also includes meeting materials and correspondence between Winham and Gillian Rokosh, Marian Fernet, The Hon. J. Trevor Eyton, and Bill Robson.
File contains materials related to the Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology, such as correspondence, meeting minutes, conference materials, brochures, and schedules.
File contains one package of Canadian AIDS Society consensus building pre-workshop materials, including bylaws, terms of reference, membership criteria, travel guidelines, and workshop overview; one package of workshop materials, including schedule, agenda, objectives, and worksheets; one summary report for the workshop dated Feb 10-12, 1989; and one small Ziploc bag filled with safe-sex materials.
File contains correspondence with or about Victor Cardoza. Also includes a conference booklet titled "What's happening here? Partnership action for troubled people" and other conference materials.
Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee, Census of the Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life (CeDAMar). The Census of the Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life examined the feeding patterns and distribution ranges of life in the abyssal plains and larger oceanic basins in the Southern Atlantic and Southern Pacific oceans, ranging from single-celled organisms to larger cephalopods. The project, led by scientists Pedro Martinez Arbizu and Craig Smith, catalogued more than 500 new species and examined the causes of change to abyssal life far removed from the ocean floor (in the form of climate change, pollution and mining efforts).
Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee Global Census of Marine Life on Seamounts (CenSeam). The Global Census of Marine Life on Seamounts project examined life on more than 100,000 seamounts that rose more than 1000 metres from the ocean floor, discovering new species and ecosystems similar to those on neighbouring slopes. The project, led by New Zealanders Malcolm Clark, Mireille Consalvey and Ashley Rowden, and American Karen Stocks, examined the perilous nature of these isolated communities when subject to changes such as damage caused by nearby fishing.
Series contains research files, correspondence, conference meeting minutes and notes compiled by Ron O'Dor and other members of the Census of Marine Life steering committee and subcommittees.
File contains Gilbert Winham's conference materials for the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies Foreign Policy Workshop, held May 15-17, 1978. File includes handwritten notes, agendas, participant lists, and a copy of the Centre publication "Simulation of Canada-US Boundary Water Negotiation".
File contains Gilbert Winham's conference materials for the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies Foreign Policy Workshop, held May 16-18, 1977. File includes handwritten notes, agendas, participant lists, and materials related to the Winham-led "Delphi Exercise" session.
Item consists of handwritten notes, agendas, participant lists, and clippings, related to the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies Foreign Policy Workshop, held May 15-17, 1978.
Series consists of material regarding the Cephalopod International Advisory Council (CIAC). The CIAC was founded in 1983 and consists of nine executive members and nine alternate members. The advisory council was designed to ensure a progressive evolution of membership to reflect trends in living cephalopod research. Record types include meeting minutes, symposium materials and manuscripts.
Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee Biogeography of Deep Water Chemosynthetic Ecosystems (ChESS). The Biogeography of Deep Water Chemosynthetic Ecosystems project explored life in the hostile, acidic, oftentimes hot and corrosive deep-sea seeps and hydrothermal vents, where life thrives away from any sunlight. The project, led by British scientists Paul Tyler and Maria Baker, American scientist Chris German, and Spanish scientist Eva Ramirez-Llodr, examined more than 1000 species and expanded ranges further north, south, and deeper than had previously been explored.
File contains a copy of the article "Closed Doors and Bridge Crossing : Spatial Connections in Catherine Banks' Bone Cage" presented by Dr. Reina Green (Associate Professor of English, Mount Saint Vincent University) at the 2012 Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR/ACRT) conference in Waterloo, ON, 26-29 May 2012.
Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ). The Census of Marine Zooplankton project examined the diversity and distribution of ocean current-residing invertebrates. The project, led by American scientist Ann Bucklin, Japanese scientist Shuhei Nishida and German scientist Sigrid Schiels, collected more than 10,000 samples from locations around the world’s oceans, discovering nearly 100 new species.
File includes the complete transcript of the 1995 Conference on the "Multilateral Trade Regime in the Twenty-first Century: Structural Issues", including papers and comments, of which Gilbert Winham attended and presented at, at Columbia University, New York. File includes Winham's speaking notes on the role of the World Trade Organization as it relates to Chapter 19 of the North American Free Trade Agreement. File also includes correspondence between Winham, Sylvia Ostry, and David Leebron.
Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee Continental Margin Ecosystems on a Worldwide Scale (COMARGE). The Continental Margin Ecosystem on a Worldwide Scale project examined life on the continental slopes, over the course of 60 expeditions. The project, led by French scientists Myrian Sibuet and Lenaick Menot and American scientist Robert Carney, discovered stretches of life flourishing on these marginal spaces (including heretofore unknown coral reefs off Africa). The project also examined the threat posed by oil and gas drilling on these sensitive stretches of seafloor.
File includes a 1957 CPAC brochure; CPAC 1960 and 1962 National Planning Conference brochure; and a CPAC booklet titled "What can one man do?" (undated).
Fonds comprises reports, publications, meeting notes and minutes, correspondence and general documentation illustrating the activities of the Community Planning Association of Canada, Nova Scotia Division.
Community Planning Association of Canada, Nova Scotia Division
File contains sets of notes from conferences and meetings in 1937. Also contains a book of course material for Wendell Muncie's psychiatry class in 1941 - 1942.
