Archives Catalogue

Wot ye what love is? (Being a legend of Port Royal) : [manuscript]

MS-2-326, Box 2, Folder 22, Item 3
Item
[192-?]

Item consists of Molly Beresford's handwritten manuscript of her short story "Wot ye what love is? (being a legend of Port Royal)", written sometime in the 1920s and collected by Andrew Merkel.

Why do disease germs vary in virulence? / A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 35
Item
November 1906

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of an article submitted by A.P. Reid to the November 1906 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol. XVIII, No. 11), titled "Why Do Disease Germs Vary in Virulence?", which was also read at a meeting of the Medical Society of Nova Scotia, held in Lunenburg in early 1906.

Where Do We Go and How Shall We Get There

MS-2-706, Box 7, Folder 21, Item 2
Item
[1977?]

Part of Donald Higgins fonds

Item consists of a brief publication prepared by Alderperson Barbara Hart (likely in 1977) in association with the Nova Scotia Division Community Planning Association of Canada, relating to public transportation in Halifax and Dartmouth.

University materials and university fees

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 1, Item 14
Item
December 1934

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item is an manuscript article about Dalhousie's tuition fees in relation to those elsewhere in Canada for publication in The Sydney Post Record, along with related correspondence.

University material and university fees

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 1, Item 15
Item
December 1934

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item is a manuscript copy of Carleton Stanley's address or article about tuition fees across Canada and at Dalhousie University specifically.

Typed drafts of newspaper articles about the new Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre

MS-2-130, Box 1, Folder 5, Item 5
Item
[1975-1977]

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

Item consists of typed draft manuscript material related to Barbara Hinds articles about the construction and operation of the new Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre, written for the Chronicle Herald and Mail Star between 1975 and 1977.

Treatment of pneumonia sixty years ago / Dr. A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 26
Item
July 6 1910

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of an address by Dr. A.P. Reid, submitted to the September 1910 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol. XXII, No. 9), and read at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Society of Nova Scotia, held in Yarmouth on July 6th, 1910, titled "Treatment of Pneumonia Sixty Years Ago".

Traditional songs from New Glasgow

MS-2-353, SF Box 38, Folder 1
File
[ca. 1975]

File contains four pages of five traditional songs sung to Edward Charles Feltmate during his childhood in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Includes the text to the following songs: "The Cold Winters Night", "The Steam Packet Soverign [sic]", "The Gay Spanish Maid", "The Flying Cloud", and "Sable Island: Graveyard of the Atlantic" (written by an attendant of the [Sable Island] Life Saving Station).

Feltmate, Charles, fl. 1975

Traces of early French in Queens County and adjacent parts of Nova Scotia

MS-2-202, Box 29, Folder 4, item 7
Item

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is an unpublished typed manuscript by Thomas Raddall about the French influence along the eastern coast from Canso to Cape Sable before English settlement.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton was a poor business man

MS-2-202, Box 29, Folder 4, Item 5
Item
[ca. 1955]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is an unpublished typed manuscript by Thomas Raddall about the poor financial acumen of the author of Sam Slick.

There's a run on the fishing banks / Thomas E. Raddall

MS-2-202, Box 29, Folder 4, Item 4
Item
1952

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is an unpublished typed manuscript by Thomas Raddall, with a handwritten note explaining why Maclean's Magazine declined the story despite having commissioned it.

The uses of pus in the animal econony / A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 24
Item
February 6, 1872

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of an "original communications" article submitted to the February 1872 issue of the Canada Medical Journal (Vol. 8, No. 9) by A.P. Reid, previously read before the Halifax Medical Society on February 6th, 1872, titled "The Uses of Pus in the Animal Economy".

The university and the non-Halifax freshmen : a proposal / Allan Currie Dunlop

MS-2-784, Box 1, Folder 16
Item
31 December 1968

Part of Allan Currie Dunlop fonds

Item consists of a manuscript drafted by Allan Dunlop in December 1968 outlining problems faced by non-Halifax-based freshmen at Dalhousie University, particularly in regards to student housing at the time of an [earlier] "growing housing crisis in the city".

The universities and the international outlook : [offprint]

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 76
Item
January 1936

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of an offprint of an article title "The Universities and the International Outlook", written by Carleton Stanley, and reprinted from the University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. V, No. 2, January, 1936. Speech was originally delivered before the American Association of Colleges in May 1934.

The story of the Canadian Legion Branch No. 38, from 1931-1946 : a brief sketch by Thomas H. Raddall

MS-2-202, Box 29, Folder 4, Item 10
Item
June 6, 1981

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is an unpublished typed manuscript.

The smallpox epidemic : persistence of the contagium of smallpox / A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 34
Item
May 1904

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of an article submitted by A.P. Reid to the May 1904 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol. XVI, No. 5; "Original Communications" section), titled "The Smallpox Epidemic: Persistence of the Contagium of Smallpox".

The Public Health Act of Nova Scotia / A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 29
Item
July 7 1904

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of an article submitted by A.P. Reid to the August 1904 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol, XVI, No. 8; in the Original Communications section), titled "The Public Health Act of Nova Scotia". The article was also read by Reid before a meeting the Maritime Medical Association on July 7th, 1904.

The president's address to the freshman class, session 1931-32, Dalhousie University

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 2
Item
24 September 1931

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item is a manuscript copy of Carleton Stanley's inaugural address to the freshman class of Dalhousie University on September 24, 1931.

"The old Dexter Tavern at Liverpool, N.S.", revised

MS-2-202, Box 31, Folder 2, Item 7
Item
1966

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of a revised manuscript (from 1966) outlining a brief history of Dexter Tavern in Liverpool, Nova Scotia.

"The old Dexter Tavern at Liverpool, N.S."

MS-2-202, Box 31, Folder 2, Item 6
Item
July 1961

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of a brief history of the Liverpool tavern; includes a timeline of events at the tavern from the American Revolutionary War.

The Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre

MS-2-130, Box 1, Folder 5, Item 6
Item
[195-]

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

Item consists of a promotional pamphlet created by the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Council (M.A. Wilson, President at the time) titled "The Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre", about the opening of and services provided by the original rehabilitation centre, opened in the late-1950s under the leadership of Arthur Shears.

The mystery of the Marie Celeste : [manuscript]

MS-2-518, Box 1, Folder 1, Item 3
Item
1968

Part of Irving Deale collection

Item consists of a facsimile of a passage from J. Alphonse Deveau's 1968 book "La ville francaise" related to the mystery of the Mary Celeste, with an accompanying English translation (likely undertaken by Irving Deale).

The islanders / by Frank Parker Day : [manuscript]

MS-2-288, Box 9, Folder 1; Box 9, Folder 2
Item
[ca. 1927]

Part of Frank Parker Day fonds

Item is a typed manuscript with handwritten amendments called "The Islanders," which later became the novel Rockbound, published in 1928.

The germ theory and sero-therapy : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 7
Item
July 3 1895

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of Dr. A.P. Reid's presidential address before the Nova Scotia Medical Society con-joint meeting with the Maritime Medical Association, held in Halifax on July 3rd, 1895, titled "The Germ Theory and Sero-Therapy". Item was reproduced from the August 1895 issue of the Maritime Medical News, pages 165-169.

The famous mystery ship, Mary Celeste : [research notes]

MS-2-518, Box 1, Folder 1, Item 4
Item
[196-]

Part of Irving Deale collection

Item consists of typed research notes collected by Irving Deale, and written by unknown persons likely in the 1960s, giving a brief outline on the history of the Mary Celeste.

The early Scotch settlers of Cape Breton : [manuscript]

MS-2-165, SF Box 25, Folder 37
Item
1931

Item is a manuscript of Daniel Morrison's unpublished article The Early Scotch Settlers of Cape Breton, which he presented to the literary branch of the Guild in Dominion, Nova Scotia. Attached is his letter to Mr. McIntosh, requesting the manuscript's return and the reader's spelling corrections of Gaelic words.

Morrison, Murdoch Daniel

The dairy of the future, or, Theory and practice combined : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 4
Item
March 18 1890

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of Dr. A.P. Reid's address before the Nova Scotia Dairyman's Association meeting, held in Halifax on March 18th, 1890, titled "The Dairy of the Future, or, Theory and Practice Combined", copied from the T.C. Allen-published pamphlet of the same year.

The bank of Acadia at Liverpool, NS, 1872-1873

MS-2-202, Box 29, Folder 4, Item 8
Item
1965

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a sheaf of multiple drafts and notes, typed and handwritten, of a manuscript by Thomas Raddall that was never published.

Supplemental material on New France related to Wot ye what love is? : [manuscript]

MS-2-326, Box 2, Folder 22, Item 4
Item
[192->]

Part of Andrew Merkel fonds

Item consists of supplemental handwritten manuscript material on New France related to Molly Beresford's short story "Wot ye what love is? (being a legend of Port Royal)", written sometime in the 1920s and collected by Andrew Merkel.

Submission to form a constitutional committee of Dalhousie University men's residences : [draft manuscript]

MS-2-784, Box 1, Folder 15, Item 2
Item
1966

Part of Allan Currie Dunlop fonds

Item consists of a later typed version of a manuscript on student residences at Dalhousie drafted by Allan Dunlop.

Submission to form a constitutional committee of Dalhousie University men's residences : [draft annotated manuscript]

MS-2-784, Box 1, Folder 15, Item 1
Item
1966

Part of Allan Currie Dunlop fonds

Item consists of an annotated draft manuscript on student residences at Dalhousie drafted by Allan Dunlop.

Student Union meeting, Monday, April 13, Noon, S.U.B. Lobby, to deal with the Campus Police and Other Issues

MS-2-784, Box 1, Folder 2, Item 3
Item
13 April [1970]

Part of Allan Currie Dunlop fonds

Item consists of a brief released by the Dalhousie Student Union early on April 13, 1970, outlining the Dalhousie New Democratic Youth (DNDY) position on the powers and responsibilities of the Dalhousie Campus Police, released on the afternoon prior to a sit-in o President Henry Hicks's office undertaken by 75 Dalhousie students later that evening.

Stirpiculture, or, The ascent of man / A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 27
Item
January 13 1890

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of an address read by A.P. Reid before the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science on January 13th, 1890, titled "Stirpiculture, or, The Ascent of Man".

Statement of the April 13 Committee

MS-2-784, Box 1, Folder 2, Item 2
Item
[1970]

Part of Allan Currie Dunlop fonds

Item consists of a statement released by Dalhousie New Democratic Youth (DNDY) about 75 students taking control of President Henry Hicks's office in response to the desire to table the George Report (on university government structure) until September 1970, "so that all interested members of the university community could express their views".

Seen any buses lately? : a Dartmouth handbook on public transit

MS-2-706, Box 7, Folder 21, Item 1
Item
[1975]

Part of Donald Higgins fonds

Item consists of a copy of the mid-1970s Dartmouth Citizens' Transit Committee/Ecology Action Centre transportation handbook "Seen any buses lately? : a Dartmouth handbook on public transit"

Sanitary progress : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 11
Item
August 1899

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of an "original communication" submitted to the August 1899 issue of the Maritime Medical News (Vol. XI, No. 8), by Dr. A.P. Reid, titled "Sanitary Progress".

Robert Dewis's research notes related to the Mary Celeste and the Dewis family

MS-2-518, Box 1, Folder 1, Item 1
Item
December 12, 1950

Part of Irving Deale collection

Item consists of typed research notes about the Mary Celeste and the Dewis family, written by Robert Dewis, transcribed in 1950 by R.L. Dewis, and collected by Irving Deale. Dewis was the son of Joshua Dewis, owner of the Mary Celeste.

Report of a case of labour complicated by a polypus : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 9
Item
June 1898

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of a "clinical report" submitted to the June 1898 issue of the Maritime Medical News (Vol. X, No. 6) by Dr. A.P. Reid, titled "Report of a Case of Labour Complicated by a Polypus".

Repairing the deep-sea cables

MS-2-202, Box 29, Folder 4, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1927]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is an unpublished manuscript written by Thomas Raddall on the Rapid Falls pulp mill office typewriter ca. 1927.

Recent legislation in reference to the public health and sanitoria / A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 36
Item
July 6 1900

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of an article submitted by A.P. Reid to the November 1900 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol. XII, No. 11; the "Original Communications" section), titled "Recent Legislation in Reference to the Public Health and Sanatoria". The article was also read before a meeting of the Medical Society of Nova Scotia, held in Amherst on July 6th, 1900.

President's remarks at meeting of the NS Union of Municipalities

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 1, Item 62
Item
1936

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item is a manuscript copy of a speech given by Carleton Stanley in Digby, Nova Scotia, on September 2, 1936. His address focuses on the intersection between municipal government and the universities, including the need for professional education.

President's address to Halifax teachers

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 1, Item 19
Item
1935

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item is a manuscript copy of address by Carleton Stanley given at the Lord Nelson Hotel on January 21, 1935 in which he speaks about the importance of teaching poetry to children.

President's address prepared for alumni dinner, Lord Nelson Hotel, May 13, 1935

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 1, item 31
Item
1935

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item is a manuscript copy of an address with a note that it was not used.

President's address at King's encaenia, May 9, 1935

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 1, Item 30
Item
May 9, 1935

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item is a manuscript copy of Carleton Stanley's address at King's College Encaenia on May 9, 1935.

Poverty superseded : a new political economy. A paper of economic science : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 5
Item
January 19 1891

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of Dr. A.P. Reid's address before the Nova Scotian Institute of Science on January 19th, 1891, titled "Poverty Superseded: A New Political Economy", reproduced from the Gladwin Stationer and Bookmaker pamphlet of the same year.

Porpoise oil / by Alexander H. Leighton, MD : [manuscript]

MS-13-86, Box 96, Folder 9, Item 1
Item
[after 1937]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a typed manuscript by Alexander Leighton describing his 1936 summer project filming a recreation of a traditional Digby County Mi'kmaq porpoise hunt and the subsequent rendering of the blubber into oil. The manuscript was commissioned by the magazine Movie Makers.