Archives Catalogue

Question to House - Government Income and Expenses

MS-2-128, Box 2, Folder 10
File
1955

File contains the text of a question posted by Samuel Balcom (when he was a member of Parliament) regarding Government Income and Expenses, as well as Parliamentary minutes.

Question to House - Family Allowances to Nova Scotians

MS-2-128, Box 2, Folder 7
File
1955

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

File contains a copy of a question submitted to the House of Commons by Samuel Balcom, M.P., in May 1955, regarding family allowances to Nova Scotians. File also contains Parliamentary debates.

Question to House - Educational Grants to Nova Scotia

MS-2-128, Box 2, Folder 17
File
1955

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

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.

Pre-war negatives

MS-2-128, PB Box 21, Folder 27
File
ca. 1914

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Scenes of rural Nova Scotia, battleship, and Dunloe Castle - Oban Only Dunloe Castle is identified on the negative, written in the hand of Louise Hubley.

Port Dufferin Wharf

MS-2-128, Box 2, Folder 18
File
1956-1957

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

File contains the original petition for new wharf in Port Dufferin, and correspondence on the project.

Photographs of unidentified people

MS-2-128, PB Box 21, Folder 36
File
ca. 1917-1918

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

File contains five photographs of unidentified people most taken during world war one.

Photographs of soldiers and nurses from the No. 7 Hospital Unit

MS-2-128, PB Box 21, Folder 3
File
[ca. 1914]-1918

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

File contains four photographs of soldiers and nurses who served at Number 7 Stationary Hospital.

Photographs of Samuel Balcom's trip to the United Kingdom

MS-2-128, PB Box 5, Folder 67
File
1925

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Photographs of Samuel Balcom's trip to Europe

MS-2-128, PB Box 5, Folder 66
File
1925

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Photograph of Capt. S.J. MacLennan in front of St. Martin's Church

MS-2-128, PB Box 21, Folder 16
File
ca. 1914-1918

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

On back of print: "Canadian tents in distance"

Photograph of Capt. James A. Murray and his batman

MS-2-128, PB Box 21, Folder 21
File
1917

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Pharmacy Log Book

MS-2-128, Box 3, Folder 4
File
1959-1961

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Record of customer orders and payments.

Pennan School Register

MS-2-128, Box 5, Folder 11
File
1898

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Pennan School, District 23, West Halifax District. Register of student attendance. Includes curriculum outline.

Patients at Granville Canadian Hospital, Ramsgate

MS-2-128, PB Box 21, Folder 8
File
ca. 1914-1918

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

1 b/w print, 3"x5"

Parliamentary Seating Plans

MS-2-128, Box 5, Folder 13
File
1950-1951

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

21st parliament, 3rd and 4th sessions.

Parliamentary Memorabilia

MS-2-128, Box 5, Folder 21
File
1956

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Christmas card, poem in homage to Balcom, public letter to voters.

Parish of Port Dufferin

MS-2-128, Box 6, Folder 6
File
1974-1977

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Newsletter and financial report.

Page from "family bible'

MS-2-128, Box 5, Folder 22
File
1830s

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Cut out frontpiece (presumably) from a family bible listing deaths of John Saunders (1828) and Mary Saunders (1838). Originally housed with contents of file 3-5.

On the boat to Europe

MS-2-128, PB Box 5, Folder 69
File
1925

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Officers, Variously identified

MS-2-128, PB Box 21, Folder 34
File
ca. 1916

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

It is thought that the officers were: Capt. Karl F. Woodbury; Capt. Dan. Angus MacLeod; Col. John Stewart; Father MacQuillian; Major Col. E. V. Hogan; Lt. S. R. Balcom; Capt. Jason Murray.

Officers outside tents at Arles, France

MS-2-128, PB Box 21, Folder 28
File
ca. 1914-1918

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Nursing Sisters, Reunion

MS-2-128, PB Box 21, Folder 25
File
ca. 1920s

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Also included in the file is a Christmas card from 1918.

MS - History of the Council of Social Agencies (Halifax) - Section

MS-2-128, Box 5, Folder 3
File
1962

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Portion of ms. Includes letter from Gwendolyn Shand requesting input on content from Balcom.

Monarchist League

MS-2-128, Box 6, Folder 3
File
1971

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Receipt of membership payment, and pamphlets from org.

Membership Lists

MS-2-128, Box 5, Folder 8
File
1919-1977

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

File contains membership lists from Priory of Canada (1977), Halifax Rotary Club (1969) and Commercial Club of Halifax (1919).

Maritime School of Social Work Expansion Fund Appeal

MS-2-128, Box 5, Folder 23
File
n.d.

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Appeal letter from chairman (Balcom) and brochure.

Log Book

MS-2-128, Box 3, Folder 1
File
1916-1918

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Register of Nursing Sisters.

Locations around France

MS-2-128, PB Box 21, Folder 5
File
ca. 1914-1918

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Building in France, mostly near Arles. Beech tree planted by Wellington after battle of Waterloo

List of Members, Potential Members

MS-2-128, Box 2, Folder 1
File
1959

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

File contains membership lists and mailing addresses for members of the Red Cap Snow Shoe Club, 1959.

Liberal Government Achievements 1968-1971

MS-2-128, Box 3, Folder 6
File
1971

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Liberal Party of Canada report

Letter from Herbert G. Smith

MS-2-128, Box 5, Folder 9
File
1935

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Requesting assistance with Smith's claim for injuries sustained during the war.

Laura May Hubley

MS-2-128, PB Box 21, Folder 22
File
ca. 1914-1918

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

On back of print: "Sitting at my table in my tent office quite Indian like. Will always want to live in a tent after this. I am trying to work the Quarter Master - so I can get this one to take home with me. Lovely sleeping out a hot night." On back of print: "To the Mission Stewart - South Street. In front of my tent office having one morning lunch I am cutting the bread. Sister Mitchell is just in the act of taking a piece of bread when snapped."

Last meeting of the Red Cap Snowshoe Club, 1974. 100th anniversary

MS-2-128, PB Box 21, Folder 43
File
1974

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Invoices, Receipts - Dalhousie #7 Stationary Hospital

MS-2-128, Box 1, Folder 15
File
1916

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

File contains receipts and confirmation of dispersion of funds statements relating to the Dalhousie No. 7 Canadian Stationary Hospital, First World War.

HRH Prince Edward VIII visits Stationary Hospital #7

MS-2-128, PB Box 21, Folder 30
File
ca. 1918

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Hospital - Christmas

MS-2-128, PB Box 21, Folder 17
File
ca. 1914-1918

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Halifax Visiting Dispensary President's Report

MS-2-128, Box 5, Folder 25
File
1962

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Working draft (partial) with edits.

Halifax Images

MS-2-128, PB Box 21, Folder 37
File
ca. 1965

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

On back of one image "Halifax Harbour from Citadel Inn. June 1965" other images are from Halifax Public Gardens

Halifax County Anti-Tuberculosis League - Financial Statements

MS-2-128, Box 5, Folder 16
File
1975

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Ground views of Arques, France during the first world war

MS-2-128, PB Box 21, Folder 2
File
1916-1917

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

File contains thirteen photographs with various views of Argues, France during the first world war.

German Prisoners of War - Argues, France

MS-2-128, PB Box 21, Folder 14
File
1917

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

On back of print: "German Prisoners of War - Argues, France"

Free Mason Membership Certificate

MS-2-128, Box 5, Folder 7
File
1913

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Forms and Stationery, Red Hat Snow Shoe Club

MS-2-128, Box 1, Folder 9
File
[19--?]

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

File contains blank forms associated with the Red Cap Snow Shoe Club.

Dr. S.G. Ritchie, dentist with patient

MS-2-128, PC2 Box 8, Folder 2.7
File
1918

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

b/w image, 9"x7"

Dr. Hugh MacKinnon?

MS-2-128, PB Box 21, Folder 13
File
ca. 1914-1918

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Photograph is of two soldiers in front of the tents.

Dinner Invitations

MS-2-128, Box 1, Folder 8
File
1909-1963

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

File contains a selection of dinner invitations for events hosted by the Red Hat Snow Shoe Club. Includes the 35th, 37th, 75th, 80th, and 88th anniversaries.

"Dead of #7" unidentified soldiers