Archives Catalogue

UA-60, SF Box 112 , Folder 1
File
1946 - 1963

File contains five notebooks containing meeting minutes and financial records of the Dalhousie Co-vettes. A sixth is labeled "Refreshment Book" and doubled as an address book, containing members' contact information as well a spreadsheet indicating the names of those who provided sweets, sandwiches, squares, cookies etc. each month in 1957 and 1958.

Dalhousie Co-vettes

Military notebook kept by Henry D. Hicks during World War II

MS-2-511, Box 31, Folder 13
Item
1944

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a course syllabus and notebook containing Hicks' notes on gunnery, etc. taken during his training at SAA, Manorbier.

Military lists, notes, and correspondence

MS-13-25, SF Box 63, Folder 1
File
1941-1945

Part of Lloyd Macpherson fonds

Material relating to Robert A. Logan's work during the Lindbergh expedition to Greenland and Iceland on board the S.S. Jelling : [reports, correspondence and newspaper clippings]

MS-2-580, Box 9, Folder 9
File
1933 - 1938

Part of Robert A. Logan fonds

Material relating to Robert A. Logan's military service mapping an arctic route during World War II : [reports, correspondence and an address]

MS-2-580, Box 9, Folder 8
File
1920 - 1964

Part of Robert A. Logan fonds

Included in the folder material relating to his arctic trip in 1922.

Manuscript drafts and notes for In the Silence Before Sleep, by Christopher Heide with the writings of Mary Heide

MS-2-838, Box 9, Folder 6
File
[1997?]

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Manual of anti-aircraft defence (Army Units), vol.1 (part 1 - gunnery)

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 14
Item
1937

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a manual issued by the British War Office with Hicks' initials on the inside cover along with the handwritten words "SAAD (wireless wing), copy 16."

Lot 1540 : photographs of a Side dump-ballast car for United States War Department, Newfoundland Railway

MS-4-106, Box 2, Folder 31
File
May 1942

Part of Trenton Works Ltd. Fonds

File contains 13 photographs of a Side dump-ballast car for United States War Department, Newfoundland Railway manufactured by the Canadian Car and Foundry Company

Lloyd Macpherson fonds

MS-13-25
Fonds
[ca. 1941] - 1967

Fonds consists of correspondence, military documentation and memorabilia, clippings, and two photographs of Lloyd Macpherson.

MacPherson, Lloyd

Letter written by Kenneth Leslie regarding the threat posed by fascism and antisemitism in the United States

MS-2-232, Box 1, Folder 8
Item
1942

Part of Kenneth Leslie fonds

Item is a two-page typed letter written by Kenneth Leslie on December 17, 1942. The letter addresses the threat posed by the fascist movement and antisemitism in the United States, both at present during the war, as well as the threats posed "after the war is over", where "this Fascistic movement will let loose with its first barrage, to consist of a wave of terror against the Jew". The letter, which an accompanying index card suggests should be sent "first to Presidents of colleges and then to professors of education, philosophy, psychology, historical and sociological sciences", urges educators join the "Protestant Digest"-supported Textbook Commission to eliminate anti-Semitic statements in American textbooks as a means of warding off fascism and antisemitism "not in the name of any church but in the name of democracy".

Letter from Hop to Charles Bruce concerning a friend who went to fight in the war

MS-2-297, Box 2, Folder 2
File
1941

Part of Charles Bruce fonds

Lecture notes for first paper, part 1 examination

MS-2-511, Box 36, Folder 1
Item
1940

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is Henry Hicks' copy of a supplementary training manual.

Itinerary and notes for Brigadier G.C. Gray, CBE, Director of Radar, The War Office, London, on his visit to North America

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 13
File
June 1945

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a printed pamphlet with pages at the beginning containing Hicks' notes.

Ink drawing by Donald Cameron Mackay of sailors carrying duffel bags down a gangway of a docked ship

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 33
Item
November 1939

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of an ink drawing signed by D.C. Mackay dated "Nov 1939" showing several sailors carrying duffel bags down a covered gangway of a docked ship.

In remembrance : a program of commemorative music and readings : [poster]

MS-5-15.2018-027, OS Box 20, Folder 14
File
November 13, 1999

Part of Halifax Camerata Singers fonds

File contains two copies of a poster for a concert by the Halifax Camerata Singers at St. Matthew's United Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The concert accompanied a special exhibition of drawings by prisoners of the Terezin Concentration Camp.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing interviews

MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 10
File
1943 - 1946

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of interview transcriptions. Subjects are Japanese civilians recounting their experience of the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

Herbert Leslie Stewart fonds

MS-2-45
Fonds
1860-1953

Fonds consists of records primarily originating from Herbert L. Stewart's work as a philosopher, professor, and political commentator. Records include manuscripts and typescripts, notes, scrapbooks, diaries, offprints, reports, and correspondence. One series comprises Stewart's collection of his father's sermons, notes, and correspondence.

Stewart, Herbert Leslie

Henry Hicks' military records

Series
1939 - 1984, predominant 1939-1945

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Series comprises records created and collected by Henry Hicks during his World War Two service in the Royal Canadian Artillery as a radar specialist. The bulk of the records are training and service manuals and confidential reports about radar trials.

Henry Hicks' Canadian Army officer's record of service pamphlet

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 2
File
1941-1945

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File also contains pamphlets: Message Writing and RT (1944), Voluntary Blood Donor Service Enrolment Book, and Veterans' Booklet, No. 6 District Depot, CA; a receipt from the Quartermaster's Store for a pistol; and a poem: "Psalm of the Zombies."

Henry Davies Hicks' Royal Canadian Artillery insignia and buttons

MS-2-511, Box 37, Folder 15
File
[ca. 1941-1945]

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File includes two West Nova Scotia Regiment Canada flashes (badges); two West Nova Scotia Regiment bronze collar dogs; one Royal Canadian Artillery cap badge; two rank epaulet sleeves (slip-ons) with felt rank badges for captain; six loose felt rank badges, enough for the rank of captain; six loose metal rank badges, enough for the rank of captain; nine 2.5 cm (1 inch) Royal Canadian Artillery buttons; two 1.75 cm (3/4 inch) Royal Canadian Artillery buttons; ten 1.5 cm (5/8 inch) Royal Canadian Artillery buttons; 1 bronze flaming grenade pin; two ribbons for medals (War medal, 1939-1945, and the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with bar); two 1 cm maple leaves for Canadian Volunteer Service Medal augmentation; three red felt patches used as pads for cap badges; two Canada flashes (badges); two black RCA flashes (badges); four blue RCA flashes (badges): and, one 9 x 18 cm cotton bag used to hold all of the military insignia.

Henry Davies Hicks fonds

MS-2-511
Fonds
1915 - 1990, predominant 1937-1986

Fonds comprises records documenting Henry Hicks' political career and tenure as president of Dalhousie University, as well as his earlier studies at Oxford University and his military service in World War II. There are also records regarding his stamp collecting hobby, his community service, and his long involvement with associations such as the Rhodes Scholarship Committee. Record types include diaries and appointment books, correspondence, manuscripts, philatelic records, newspaper clippings and photographs.

Hicks, Henry D.

George Douglas Elphinstone Anderson fonds

MS-2-768
Fonds
1945-1947

Fonds contains radio scripts, correspondence and published materials related to the radio program, "Now It Can Be Told". Anderson wrote the radio scripts and most of the correspondence, while working as a Staff Engineer for Nova Scotia Light and Power.

Anderson, George Douglas Elphinstone, 1902-

Gene Sogioka's paintings of the Poston Japanese Internment Camp

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 1
File
[1942 - 1945?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains reproductions of Gene Sogioka's paintings of life in the Poston Japanese Internment Camp during the Second World War. Also includes a list of titles for the paintings.

Four compilations of Canadian Press dispatches from World War Two

MS-2-297, Box 4, Folder 11
File
[19-]

Part of Charles Bruce fonds

Four charcoal study sketches by Donald Cameron Mackay of naval ships in port

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 124
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of four small charcoal study sketches by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s, showing naval ships in port. The larger of the four sketches also includes a host of sailors standing on a dock in front of three ships.

Five charcoal and pencil study sketches by Donald Cameron Mackay

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 121
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of five small pencil and charcoal sketches by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s. The first three sketches show equipment on the deck of an unidentified Canadian naval ship in convoy formation; the middle sketch shows a focus of legs in motion; the sketch on the right-hand side shows a Canadian sailor walking.

Facsimile of correspondence sent to Richard Roome regarding his promotion

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 8, Item 2
Item
April 4 1942

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item consists of Canadian Army Overseas correspondence, reproduced from microfilm, dated April 4, 1942, sent by "Austin" to Richard Roome, giving a "very hearty congratulations on [his] recent 'upping'."

Facsimile of correspondence sent to Richard Roome from former colleagues stationed in Halifax

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 8, Item 3
Item
November 24 1941

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item consists of correspondence, reproduced from microfilm, sent to Richard Roome on November 24, 1941, from members of the "Roome Group" stationed in Halifax, sending "Season's Greetings" and mentioning shenanigans on the home front.

Facsimile of a pencil sketch by Donald Cameron Mackay of an officer angered by a sailor

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 39
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of a pencil sketch by D.C. Mackay from the early 1940s of an officer dressing down an insubordinate sailor. The perspective appears to be from the corner of George Street and Brunswick Street in Halifax. An accompanying caption reads: "Like he said -- / 'Never salute an officer / with a cig in your mouth"

Eulogy for Georges P. Vanier written by Hugh Kemp

MS-2-615, Box 130, Folder 19
File
1967

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Elrid Gordon Young fonds

MS-13-4
Fonds
1940-1950

Fonds consists of Eldrid Young's records regarding his chemical warfare research, including correspondence, reports, notebooks, articles, and manuals. There is also his unpublished manuscript "Adventures of a Chemist in Search of Poisons," in which he recount his 25-year career as a forensic chemist.

Young, Elrid Gordon

Eight small charcoal sketches by Donald Cameron Mackay of naval deck maintenance duties

Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of eight small charcoal drawings by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s, showing sailors engaging in deck and equipment maintenance duties on board an unidentified Canadian naval ship.

Directory, notes, handwritten and typed manuscript drafts of Home at Last

MS-2-838, Box 9, Folder 5
File
1996 - 1997

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

David Kirkpatrick Stewart Maclellan's written account of his overseas experiences in World War Two

MS-2-762, SF Box 39, Folder 6
File
1943 - 1945

Part of William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

File also contains the story of an unnamed soldier.

David Kirkpatrick Stewart Maclellan's World War Two newspaper clipping

MS-2-762, Box 2, Folder 8
File
1942 - 1944

Part of William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

File also contains two 1943 issues of a weekly magazine and two brochures about Italy.

David Kirkpatrick Stewart Maclellan's records

Series
[ca. 1939] - 1995

Part of William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

Series consists of David Kirkpatrick Stewart Maclellan's correspondence, certificates, newspaper clippings, photograph and other textual records.

Maclellan, David Kirkpatrick Stewart

David Kirkpatrick Stewart Maclellan's manuscript describing his trajectory experience in the Canadian army

MS-2-762, Box 2, Folder 10
File
1940 - 1945

Part of William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

File also included official army documentation.

Data on German guns and artillery

MS-13-25, SF Box 65, Folder 7
File
[ca. 1941-1945]

Part of Lloyd Macpherson fonds

Creelman Family fonds

MS-2-775
Fonds
1887-1999

This accession contains photographs, correspondence, postcards and other memorabilia from various members of the Creelman family.

Creelman Family

Correspondence between Theodore Lidz and Alexander Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 48, Folder 2
File
1943 - 1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains letters written between friends and colleagues Theodore Lidz and Alexander Leighton, beginning during the Second World War and continuing until 1951.

Correspondence between Charles Bruce and Norman A.M. MacKenzie regarding the possibility of Bruce working at UBC

MS-2-297, Box 2, Folder 41
File
1962

Part of Charles Bruce fonds

File includes a list of Canadian correspondents killed overseas during World War Two.

Correspondence and notes about Charles Bruce's World War Two London-Arnhem flight

MS-2-297, Box 3, Folder 33
File
1944-1969

Part of Charles Bruce fonds

File consists of correspondence pertaining to Bruce's experiences during World War Two with the Royal Air Force and getting shot down, newspaper clippings about the event, and notes from friends about his survival.

Copytalk, newspaper and magazine articles written and/or collected by Charles Bruce

Subseries
1939-1971

Part of Charles Bruce fonds

Subseries consists of copies of The Canadian Press Copytalk series as well as other newspaper and magazine articles written and/or collected by Charles Bruce.

Convocation address at Mount St. Vincent University

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 71
Item
[194-]

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a typed manuscript copy of a convocation address delivered by MacDonald at Mount Saint Vincent University in the early 1940s.

Confidential CAFE AA trials up to September 1944

MS-2-511, Box 34, Folder 3
Item
31 December 1944

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is Captain Henry Hicks' copy of a vinyl bound report.

Charlie Murray being interviewed on March 2, 1979

MS-10-13, Box 1, Item 9
Item
1979

Part of Robert Charles (Charlie) Murray Interview Collection

Item consists of a sound recording of Charlie Murray being interviewed on March 2, 1979. He talks about being sent to the internment camp in Petawawa, Ontario, people he met there and World War II. This is side A of the original audio cassette.

Charlie Murray being interviewed on March 1, 1979

MS-10-13, Box 1, Item 7
Item
1979

Part of Robert Charles (Charlie) Murray Interview Collection

Item consists of a sound recording of Charlie Murray being interviewed on March 1, 1979. He talks about his time at the internment camp in Petawawa, Ontario and World War II. This is side A of the original audio cassette.

Charlie Murray being interviewed on March 1, 1979

MS-10-13, Box 1, Item 8
Item
1979

Part of Robert Charles (Charlie) Murray Interview Collection

Item consists of a sound recording of Charlie Murray being interviewed on March 1, 1979. He talks about being arrested, his time at the internment camp in Petawawa, Ontario, organizing unions and World War II. This is side B of the original audio cassette.

Charles Bruce fonds

MS-2-297
Fonds
1870 - 1974

Fonds consists of the personal papers of Charles Bruce, including a scrapbook, notebooks, personal and professional correspondence, published and unpublished work, and research materials and notes.

Bruce, Charles Tory

Charcoal study sketch by Donald Cameron Mackay showing a street scene

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 45
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a charcoal and pencil study sketch by D.C. Mackay in the early 1940s depicting the beginnings of a street scene, with two completed buildings and the outlines of several others. Possibly a wartime Halifax street scene.

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