Item is a paper by John Fobes outlining his thoughts on the Club's current and future orientation, potential themes and projects, and practical arrangements.
Item is a brief presented to the Minister's Committee to Re-write the Child Welfare Act by the Children and Youth Action Council drafted on May 15, 1974. The report contains recommendations from the Council regarding amendments to the Child Welfare Act. Other members of the committee include Mrs. Susan Burchell (Social worker), Mrs. Betty Curran (Student social worker, Maritime School of Social Work), Mr. Terry Donahoe (Barrister), Miss Emily Duffy (Student social worker, Maritime School of Social Work), Dr. Murchison (then of the Dartmouth Branch of the Atlantic Child Guidance Centre), Miss Cathy Neilson (Student, Dalhousie Legal Aid), Miss Ann Preyde (Girl's Residence Centre), and Mrs. Mary Zinck (Halifax Children's Aid Society), as well as co-chairpersons Dr. Joan Cummings (Maritime School of Social Work) and Mrs. Marilyn Peers (Dartmouth Branch, Atlantic Child Guidance Centre).
Item consists of a report drafted in August 1974 by Peter Barnard Associates for the Ministry of State, Urban Affairs Canada, titled "Public Transit and the Needs of Disadvantaqed Groups", used as reference material for developing improved public transportation services in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, in the mid-1970s.
Item is a proposal submitted to the Halifax Children's Foundation by the Children and Youth Action Council dated August 2, 1974. The item outlines CAYAC's mission as a "grassroots response to perceived shortcomings in services and programs for young people in Nova Scotia," discusses the organization's objectives and activities (assessing and contributing to legislation, addressing services it provides, pushing for individual case representation, increasing public awareness, and engaging youth involvement). The proposal outlines a request that the Halifax Children's Foundation provide CAYAC with a "three-year demonstration grant" to employ a full-time coordinator and a secretary to achieve the organization's objectives.
Item is an early draft proposal written by Alexander Murchison and others in 1972 or 1973, regarding funding for a health grant to improve the delivery of health services to children and youth in Nova Scotia. The proposal accompanies a report entitled "A Time to Act."
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.
Item consists of the plot plan for the Olands Brewery Limited in Lancaster, New Brunswick; the architects for this project were from Ross Fish, Duschenes and Barrett and the consulting processing engineers were from Kappele, Wright and MacLeod Limited.
Item is a report from the Dean of Medicine discussed at a faculty meeting describing the growth of the medical school and its future building; the need for separate dental school and medical school facilities; and the decision whether to expand the medical school to a very large size or to open a second centre in the Atlantic provinces.
Item is a bound facsimile copy of James H. Morrison's graduate thesis "Jos Plateau Societies: Internal Change and External Influences, 1800-1935", a thesis in the Department of History, submitted to the Faculty of Arts in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Ibadan.
Item is a draft manuscript by Murray brown, Sarah Kirby, Chris Skedgel, John D. Fisk, Donna MacKinnon-Cameron, T. Jock Murray, Virender Bhan and Ingrida S. Sketris.
Item is a report on the Nova Scotia Hospital for the Insane by Alexa Bagnell. Dr. TJ. Murray was Alexa's Supervisor on the report. Alexa Bagnell was the Hannah Institute Summer studentship in 1994.
Item consists of an early draft of a "Group home development proposal" compiled by the Alexander Murchison (and others) for the Group Home Advisory Committee, Children's Aid Society of Halifax, dated March 5, 1973. The committee consisted of Dr. Murchison (chairman), Ron Smith, Pat Corkery, T. Daley, Mrs. Cleveland, and Father O'Neil. The purpose of the document is "to recommend proposals relative to the development of group homes by the Children's Aid Society of Halifax". Item also contains handwritten inked marginal notes and corrections.
Item consists of an outline of general information related to the original Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre, drafted by Arthur Shears in the late-1950s.
Item is a hardbound volume of course material for CHEM 1042B, written by Dr. Aue, Department of Chemistry faculty, Dalhousie University. It is subtitled, "A collection of lecture notes, correct/incorrect statements, typical exam questions with/without answers, and practice questions — all as used in earlier renditions of CHEM 1040."
Item consists of the full text of the Archives & Special Collections external review undertaken in late-1999 by David McKnight, Apollonia Steele and Charlotte Stewart.
Item consists of the fourth draft of an Atlantic Child Guidance Centre position paper, dated August 31, 1972, prepared by the Atlantic Child Guidance Centre Policy Committtee (Dr. Alexander Murchison, Dr. G. Gordon, Norris Turner, Paul Norton, Dr. S. Bijoor, and Everett Harris). The item is addressed to "all Atlantic Child Guidance Centre staff for comment" before final submission, and has the goal of ensuring that "adolescents [...] not be forgotten either in terms of bureaucratic strucutre or in terms of submergence in adult designed and orientated programs," and that they "require advocates" to ensure that any public health legislation does not overlook the needs of those who are "underage [... in a] largely adult orientated society."
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