File contains typescript and handwritten poems by Joyce Barkhouse: "Hostess" (unpublished); "The Happy Clam" (unpublished); "The Chickadee"; "Nostalgia" (rewrite); "Annapolis" (published posthumously in "Whispers of Mermaids and Wonderful Things," 2017); "The Shades of Night" (written at age 15); "Vengeance" (unpublished); "Little Hunter" (unpublished); "Snow" (published); "A Winter Prayer"; "The Frightened Witch" (published); "Little Hunter"; "First Pet"; and "After School." The file also includes a copy of "Obedience" by Isaac Watts (1674-1748).
File contains newspaper clippings about the cancellation of the Pit Pony TV series and efforts to safe the the wharf in Harbourville, Nova Scotia, attached to a letter sent from Joyce Barkhouse to her sister. The file also contains a poster for the Pit Pony audio book, narrated by Richard Donat.
File contains documents related to questions about federal funding for higher education asked by Samuel Balcom in the Canadian House of Parliament in 1955 when Balcom was a member of Parliament. Balcom asked a series of questions about educational grants to Nova Scotia institutions and received information about the distribution of funding across Canada. The file contains published accounts of parliamentary proceedings in March 1955 and associated correspondence between Balcom and other persons, such as J.D., McLean, Dean of the Dalhousie Faculty of Dentistry, and Watson Kirkconnell, President of Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
File is an audio reel containing an episode of Black Cultural Centre Presents, a radio program broadcast on CKDU radio 88.1. This episode is on Reverend Dr. William Pearly (W.P.) Oliver of Wolfville, Nova Scotia, who passed away on May 26, 1989. Rev. Oliver proposed a Cultural Education Centre in 1972, which eventually became the Black Cultural Centre in 1983. The episode aired on June 1, 1989 and was rebroadcasted on June 6, 1989 and May 29, 1990.
File contains two leaves of stationery with the letterheads of two of Kenneth Leslie's periodical publications. The first is the letterhead of The Protestant, from the late-1940s, when The Protestant had moved operations back to Nova Scotia. The letterhead reads The Protestant, with "Cambridge Station, Nova Scotia" beneath the main title. On the left margin is the list of names on the editorial board of The Protestant, with Kenneth Leslie as "editor", Rev. John Tunnicliffe as "associate editor", and 52 others listed as "editorial advisers". The second is the letterhead for Leslie's next publication, "The New Christian", with "Kenneth Leslie, editor, publisher" at the left margin and "Pictou, Nova Scotia" at the right margin.
File is an audio reel containing an episode of Title Waves. This episode features Wolfville-born author Susan Haley on her book Getting Married in Buffalo Jump (1987). It aired September 23, 1987 and was rebroadcast October 1, 1987 and May 19, 1988. It was edited on May 19, 1988 before it was rebroadcast.
File contains a receipt book for travel and communications expenses from May to September. Locations include Kentville, Halifax, Bathurst, New Glasgow, Sydney, Charlottetown, Moncton, and Woodstock. Financial charges include trains, cars, buses, wires, phone calls, and permits.
File contains one copy of the Wolfcon 007 program book. File also contains five copies of a promotional booklet, three copies of an event registration pamphlet and a list of Wolfcon RPG trivia questions.
File contains letters and invoices from individuals and businesses including: Wolfville Schools (Wolfville, NS); Wolfville-St. Andrews United Church (Wolfville, NS); Wolfville, Town of (Wolfville, NS); Wood Bros. (Pugwash Junction, NS); Wood Bros. Company Ltd. (Halifax, NS); Eleanor Wood (Wolfville, NS).
File contains one copy of volume 1, issue 1 of Wolfzine, a maritime science fiction and fantasy fanzine published by the Wolfcon Science Fiction and Fantasy Society.
