Series contains records created or collected by Mary Vingoe related to her play Refuge, which was first read at Nightwood Theatre's New Groundswell Festival in Toronto in March 2013. It premiered in Halifax with Eastern Front Theatre and HomeFirst Productions in October 2013 and was staged by Nightwood Theatre in 2016. In 2014, Refuge was nominated for a Merrit Award for Outstanding Play by a Nova Scotian Playwright. Refuge was also finalist for the 2014 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Astounding Art Awards, then nominated for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama in 2016.
Series comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his academic activities, including his involvement as a faculty member of York University Osgoode Hall, University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, and other institutions. Series also includes records and research materials regarding the development of Macdonald's publications, unpublished papers, and other materials.
File contains draft and final speeches and addresses delivered by Carleton Stanley between 1931 and 1934, early in his tenure as Dalhousie President. File also contains related correspondence.
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.
File contains a 1000 word article by Andrew Merkel about the history of schooner racing in Nova Scotia prior to the Bluenose, as well as a letter from Merkel to C.B. Cochrane, editor of King's College Record, offering the article for publication.
File contains notes and manuscript drafts for "Naturalistic Individualism: Quebec Independence and an Independent Canada," in Eugene Coombs, ed., Modernity and Responsibility: Essays for George Grant (Toronto, UTP, 1983).
File includes a publishing agreement and editorial correspondence with University of Toronto Press, and a manuscript copy of the preface by Ottar Brox.
File contains production draft for Stages cabaret performance 10 April to 3 May 1980; a final touring and publication script; and a photocopy of the published script.
File contains manuscripts, reports, and clippings collected by the Ecology Action Centre, related to the Solsearch Architects the New Alchemy Institute Ark project, constructed and operated in the late 1970s in Spry Point, Prince Edward Island, testing organic agricultural and environmental monitoring techniques.
Series contains materials related to the development of Alexander Leighton's book on the prevention of mental illness. Documents include manuscripts, correspondence, research notes, and copies of past publications.
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.
Subseries contains correspondence, research data, and conference minutes and notes related to the Census of Marine Life subcommittee Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project (POST). The Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking project provided the first continent-wide research to acoustically track the migratory patterns of 18 species of marine life familiar to the Pacific coast. The project, led by American-Canadian scientist James Bolger, examined the migratory patterns of salmon, jumbo squid, sturgeon, and other coastal marine life, gathering data on roughly 16,000 individuals. The project served as a smaller-scale precursor of the Ocean Tracking Network.
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.
File contains Gilbert Winham's final productivity report to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for his long-term research project titled "Political History of Uruguay Round Trade Negotiation", submitted in fall 1994 and completed in 2001, while employed at Dalhousie University.
File includes the following poems: Little grey mouse; Our Mr. Chipmunk; A Black cat o r...?; To a Robin, who wouldn't go south; A Christmas letter; The Cow bird; The Silver birch in a silver frost; Baby spring; The Kind squirrels; Little red cap; Dusky nicodemus; The Birthday pie; The Return of cotton tail; Peggy; and Why queen boo hoo would not go to bed.
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