File contains Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project meeting materials, administrative materials, financial statements, clippings, and LGBT health pamphlets and reports. Materials include minutes from the meeting of the Executive Committee on July 12, 2006; one copy of the agenda for the 2006 Annual General Meeting; financial statements dated March 31, 2006; one full page Chronicle Herald clipping from March 31, 2006; two news clippings from the Daily News dated March 17, 2006; one package of administrative materials documenting roles, responsibilities, and terms of reference for various Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project committees; notes; LGBT educational resources; four pamphlets from the Shelbourne Sexual Health Centre on various LGBT health subjects; one pamphlet entitled Busting Out: Breast Health for Lesbian and Bisexual Women; and one report entitled Valuing Gay Men's Lives: Reinvigorating HIV prevention in the context of our health and wellness.
File contains materials relating to the advocacy activities of the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project in relation to sexual reassignment surgery. File contains pamphlets mock-ups, Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project meeting agendas, communications plans, correspondence, news clippings, memos, selections from the MSI Physicians manual, report drafts, PowerPoint Slides, and educational resources.
File contains one manuscript of The Nova Scotia Sex Now Survey 2005: Continuity, Change and HIV/AIDS and accompanying correspondence between Bob Fougere and Cliff Arnold, the Gay Men's Health Coordinator for the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia.
File contains the first draft of the Cardiovascular Health Nova Scotia stroke strategy operational plan. File also contains correspondence, briefing notes, notes of operational plan management meetings, and a July 2007 overview of rehabilitation services in Nova Scotia prepared by Corinne Corning, Stroke Consultant for Cardiovascular Health Nova Scotia.
File contains two copies of the report Nova Scotia's Framework for Action on HIV/AIDS, one copy of the 2000 original draft and another of the 2001 revision, as well as accompanying background information.
File contains materials relating to Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's response to Nova Scotia's Strategy on HIV/AIDS and interactions with the Nova Scotia Advisory Commission on AIDS. Materials include meeting notes and agendas, correspondence, draft proposals, and a copy of the Nova Scotia Strategy on HIV/AIDS.
File contains resources relating to the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's involvement with the Halifax Rainbow Health Project as part of work for the Joint Advisory Committee for Improving Access to Primary Care for GLBTI People In Capital Health. Materials include pamphlets relating for the Vancouver-based LGBT Generations project, educational resources relating to healthcare for the LGBTQ community, and notes. File also contains an agenda and slides from the Changing Worlds: Diversity and Health Care meeting on January 31, 2005.
File is a document printed on yellow paper with a photograph of two elderly individuals. The caption reads: "Don't forget your MSI registration card!" saves time and inconvenience when you call at your doctor's office. MSI Nova Scotia Medical Services insurance.
File is a photograph of Dr. Arabelle MacKenzie's pre-school age Dental Clinic. Health Centre No. 1. Picture has the Doctor, a nurse, a mother and a young girl whom is sitting in the dental chair. Accompanying inscription reads: D. Arabelle MacKenzie's pre-school age Dental Clinic, Health Centre No.1. The second ore-school Dental Clinic in the world and the only one in Canada.
File is a photograph of Dr. F.W. Tidmarsh of the Health Centre No. 1 Nutrition Clinic. Picture has one Dr., two nurses, lots of kids and a few parents. Accompanying inscription reads: Dr. F.W. Tidmarsh's Nutrition Clinic, Health Centre Number One.
File is a photograph of Dr. Gordon B. Wiswell's Baby Clinic. Health Centre No. 1. Picture has the Dr. looking at a little baby, with a nurse and the mother looking on. Picture also has two mothers with children in the back ground. Accompanying inscription reads: Dr. Gordon B. Wiswell's Baby Clinic, Health Centre Number One.
File is a photograph of Dr. J.A.M. Hemmeon performing ear exam at Health Centre No. 1 Ear Clinic with nurses nearby. Accompanying inscription reads: [1919] Dr. J.A.M. Hemmeon's Ear Clinic.
File is a photograph of Dr. Hemmeon's Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic and has two nurses, one doctor and a little girl. Accompanying inscription reads: Dr. J.A.M. Hemmeon's E.N. & T. Clinic, Health Centre Number One.
Item consists of a photograph of Nova Scotia Premier Gerald Regan (far left of the picture, wearing a white raincoat and helmet) and eight other unidentified people at the ground-turning for the new Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre, Anderson Square, Halifax, March 1975.
File is a photograph with legend below. Legend reads: "Autumnal round-up of children at Health Centre No. 1 having tonsils and adenoids removed during the summer holiday. The group is taken at the entrance of the health centre."
File is a photograph of Health Centre No. 1, Old Admiralty House, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Picture has a car to the right of the frame and a crowd of people in front of the door. Accompanying inscription reads: Health Centre No. 1, Old Admiralty House, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Item is a photograph of a Health Centre No. 1 nurse measuring a baby. Accompanying inscription reads: [1919]. Measuring the baby, Health Centre Number One.
File is a photograph of Health Centre No. 1, Gottingen Street entrance. Picture has the car going in through the gates with a mother and carriage standing by and another mother and daughter standing off to the right hand side. Accompanying inscription reads: Gottingen Street entrance to Health Centre No. 1, Halifax, N.S.
File is a photograph of the Health Centre No. 1: Open Air Camp. Accompanying inscription reads: Part of an open air day camp at Health Centre No. 1, there under-nourished children in contact with tuberculosis were re-claimed during the summer of 1921 by the Anti-Tuberculosis League of Halifax.
File is a photograph with legend below. Legend reads: "The general waiting-room with patients assembled for medical and nursing advice. In the rear, Dr. Wiswell, Miss Fenton, Supervisor, and Miss Ross, Chief Nurse. Miss Small in the entrance doorway."
File is a photograph of the Massachusetts-Halifax Health Commission nurse weighing a baby with mother besides. Accompanying inscription reads: Weighing the baby: Health Centre Number One.
File is a photograph of the Massachusetts-Halifax Health Commission. Accompanying inscription reads: Nurses at the entrance of Health Centre No. 1. Front Row: Miss. Fenton; Miss. Ross; Miss. MacDonald; Miss. Merlin. Second Row: Miss Small, Miss Keatinge; Miss. Godard: Miss Hubley. Back Row: Miss. Graham.
File is a photograph of the gates of the Massachusetts-Halifax Health Commission's Health Centre No. 1 with building obscured by trees in the background. The photo has two children holding hands near the gate.
File is a photograph Massachusetts-Halifax Health Commission public health nurses. Accompanying inscription reads: Public Health Nurses on the lawn Health Centre No. 1, Front Row, left to right, Miss. Godard; Miss. Fenton, Supervisor; Miss Ross, Chief Nurse; Massachusetts-Halifax Health Commission: Misses Graham and Keatinge. Rear Row: Misses Small; Merlin; MacDonald; and Hubley.
File is a photograph of the staff of Health Centre No. 2, at the entrance door. Picture has three men and three women. Accompanying inscription reads: The staff of Health Centre No. 2 at entrance door.
Item consists of a black & white photograph (processed by Wamboldt-Waterfield), of the March 1975 ground turning ceremony undertaken by Premier Gerald Regan for the construction of the new Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre. People identified in the photograph include Tom Risley (in the wheelchair on the left-side of the picture), Don Curren (in the wheelchair in the middle of the picture), and Dr. Arthur Shears (director of the new Rehabilitation centre, standing at the far right of the picture).
File is a photograph of Dr. Sieniewicz examining a little boy with a nurse at a desk nearby. Photograph is associated with the Massachusetts-Halifax Health Commission and Health Centre No. 1.
File is a photograph of visitors to the Visitors Health Centre No. 1. Legend below photograph lists visitors. Legend reads: "Distinguished Visitors Health Centre No. 1, Decemeber 20, 1920. Front row: His Excellency the Duke of Devonshire - Governor General of Canada. To his left, His Honour, Lieutenant-Governor MacCallum Grant. To his right, Mr. G. Fred Pearson, Chairman Massachusetts-Halifax Health Commission. In the doorway, right side: Dr. W.H. Hattie, Provincial Health Officer. Left side: Edwin N. Gunsaulus, American Consul General at Halifax, Nova Scotia."
File contains four posters produced by AIDS Calgary and the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia encouraging safe sex, two posters advertising events connected to the AIDS Vigil, and one copy of the 1995 Kumbaya Festival calendar featuring photographs by Andrew McNaughton.
Item consists of a report created by Norman A. Brady & Associates (consultants in health facilities planning) about the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre, dated November 21, 1968.
File contains two copies of project proposal for the Halifax Rainbow Health Project, entitled The Halifax Rainbow Health Project: Improving Access to Primary Health Care Services for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Two-Spirited, Transgender and Queer People, published April, 2004. File also contains excerpts from the proposal; two coordinator's reports, dated July and August, 2004; one interim financial report, dated October 31, 2004; one copy of the Halifax Rainbow Health Project work plan for 2004-2005; Steering Committee terms of reference; one copy of the partnership agreement between the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition and the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project; letters of support; two copies of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Project Director's Resolution in support of the creation of the Halifax Rainbow Health Project; and notes.
File contains a copy of the proposal to expand the stroke program at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre. The proposal was developed by the Stroke Program Development Committee and submitted in June 1996. File also contains a September 24, 1996 letter from Maura Davies, Vice-President Planning and Quality Management, to Lynn Wallace, Chair of the Stroke Program Development Committee.
Subseries contains materials collected for reference and educational use by GayLine volunteers. Subjects covered include homosexuality and coming out, sexual heath and AIDS prevention, alcoholism and substance abuse, abuse in LGBT relationships, parenting, discrimination, legal rights, and women's issues. Materials include pamphlets, flyers, newsletters, essays, and correspondence.