Archives Catalogue

Includes handwritten and typed correspondence largely between Ronald St. John Macdonald and Wang Tieya, ranging from 1982-1989, related to the visit of Visit of Wang Tieya, Liu Hunghui, and Chen An to Dalhousie. Also includes correspondence to Innis Christie, W.H. Charles, Dick Evans, and others.

RIDIT and enlightenment for Yoruba men (prepared for Jane Murphy's 1964 orthopsychiatry paper)

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 12
File
[1964?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of datasets of education statistics for male Yoruba study respondents.

Research on schools in Colchester County for Before Green Gables

MS-2-650.2015-036, Box 78, Folder 2
File
[before 2008]

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

Research materials on the teaching of international law at Canadian universities

MS-2-615, Box 92, Folders 5 and 6; MS-2-615, Box 93, Folders 1 and 2
File
1973 - 1987

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Research materials on education and international law in China

MS-2-615, Box 80, Folder 6
File
[1992-1993]

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains book reviews and associated clippings collected by Ronald St. John Macdonald, related to Chinese education and international law.

Requirements for school and library visits

MS-2-650.2004-048, Box 41, Folder 14
File
[before 2004]

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File includes a list of Budge Wilson's "needs" for school and library visits.

Report on visit to Labrador East Integrated School Board for Canadian children's book week

MS-2-650.2000-033, Box 31, Folder 25
File
November 11, 1991

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

Report on Avonport school readings

MS-2-650.2000-033, Box 29, Folder 7
File
April 24, 1990

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File contains Budge Wilson's notes from her readings at the L.E. Shaw School in Avonport, Nova Scotia, and a copy of her report on the visit.

Report for Writers' Union of Canada on readings for students at East Hants Regional Library

MS-2-650.2000-033, Box 30, Folder 20
File
October 18, 1995

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

Remarks at the Canadian Association of Independent Schools first annual dinner

MS-2-511, Box 20, Folder 5
File
1980

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File includes correspondence from David MacDonald, executive assistant to Gerald Regan, whom Hicks replaced as guest speaker at the dinner held at Kings - Edgehill School, in Windsor, Nova Scotia.

Reliability of data on literacy in Yoruba among men

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 9
File
1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a memo from Jane Murphy to Cornell staff regarding an analysis of the reliability of literacy data among male Yoruba study subjects and its effects on future analysis.

Reflexions : letters to kids

MS-2-650.1997-086, Box 20, Folder 24
File
[before 1997]

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File contains two drafts of letters written by Budge Wilson to accompany the "RefleXions Un-Program," a language arts program run by Scholastic Canada Ltd. that distributed books to Canadian classrooms.

Records regarding Budge Wilson's involvement in the Writer's Federation of Nova Scotia

MS-2-650.2014-047, Box 72, Folder 19
File
1993-1999

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File contains copies of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia newsletter (Eastword), programs, clippings, and promotional material for the Writers in the Schools program.

Recordings from Cape Dorset and Frobisher Bay

MS-2-130, Box 15, Folder 7
File
[ca. 1960]

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

File contains two reel-to reel tapes containing recordings of Barbara Hinds talking about the history of the church in Cape Dorset; a grade 2 reading lesson at a school in Frobisher Bay; students singing God Save the Queen; and Barbara Hinds interviewing Gordon Goward, a teacher in Frobisher Bay.

Recording Teaching Accomplishment booklets

MS-3-18, Box 27, Folder 2
File
1992-1995

Part of Robert Doyle fonds

File contains a paperback book called "Recording Teaching Accomplishment: A Dalhousie Guide to the Teaching Dossier," by Carol O'Neil, Alan Wright, and the Office of Instructional Development and Technology. There are some other documents about teaching tucked into the book. The file also contains a spiral bound book called "Recording Teaching Accomplishment Institute," from the Dalhousie University Office of Instructional Development and Technology.

Recording of an interview with Mr. Eccles

MS-2-130, Box 13, Folder 6
File
March 10, 1961

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds interviewing Mr. Eccles (or possibly Elcot) about teaching music to children with special needs. The recording is on two parts.

Recording of an interview with Joan Ryan and recordings from the school at George River

MS-2-130, Box 12, Folder 11
File
August 25, 1960

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

File contains a reel-to-reel recording children singing the alphabet and other songs in school; children yelling while playing in a water hole; children singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"'; and Barbara Hinds' interview with Joan Ryan, a school teacher in George River, about what it’s like to teach up North.

Readings

MS-2-833, Box 2, Folder 24
File
2004

Part of Sylvia Hamilton fonds

File contains educational material related to the course, "Through Her Eyes: Women and Documentary Filmmaking," taught by Sylvia Hamilton at Mount Saint Vincent University.

Documents include notes on guest speakers and required readings for each class of the course.

Reading projects for Budge Wilson by students

MS-2-650.2018-042, Box 93, Folder 10
File
1992

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File contains three sample student reading projects, which were completed for Budge Wilson. The projects are about "Mystery Lights at Blue Harbour," "A House far from Home," "The Best/Worst Christmas Present Ever," "Going Bananas," and "Thirteen Never Changes."

Reading and screening list

MS-2-833, Box 2, Folder 17
File
2004

Part of Sylvia Hamilton fonds

File contains educational material related to the course, "Through Her Eyes: Women and Documentary Filmmaking," taught by Sylvia Hamilton at Mount Saint Vincent University.

Documents include a reading and screening list as well as a library reserve list.

Questions from children from unidentified school visit

MS-2-650.2000-033, Box 32, Folder 17
File
[before 2000]

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

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.

Public Schools of Nova Scotia teacher's licenses

MS-2-646.2017-044, OS Box 9, Folder 7
File
1932-1933

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains two teaching licenses for Joyce Carman Killam for receiving professional diplomas to teach Grade 11 and Grade 12 classes, respectively.

Programs from the School for the Blind

MS-5-1, Box 4, Folder 4
File
[1900 - 1925]

Part of John Daniel Logan fonds

File contains programs for the following recitals presented at the Halifax School for the Blind: Michel Sciapiro (violin), presented by the Halifax Ladies' Musical Club; Mildred Dilling (harp), with Rose E. Seguin (soprano) and orchestra (conducted by L. Dorothea Webb); and an organ and vocal recital with unknown performers.

Professors in profile : Ronald St. J. Macdonald / Art McDonald

MS-2-615, Box 130, Folder 8
File
1975 - 1975

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Print-outs on education

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 7
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of computer printouts of education datasets and code.

Primordial germ plasm

MS-2-799, Box 3, Folder 33
File
[after 1968], 1974

Part of Brian Hall fonds

File contains documents relating to Hall's lectures on primordial germ plasm. Materials include handwritten notes, as well as an annotated article and hand-drawn figures.

Primary teaching units on First Nations, the night, the sea, and clothing

MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 17, Folder 14
File
[1933-1941]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains teaching exercises and instructions for primary school class units on various topics. The lesson plans were written by Joyce Barkhouse, presumably during her teaching career (1933-1941), and later given to her niece Suzanne Cogswell for her use.

Preparation material

MS-2-833, Box 2, Folder 9
File
2015

Part of Sylvia Hamilton fonds

File contains preparation material related to "The Journalist as Documentarian," a course taught by Sylvia Hamilton at the University of King's College.

Documents include class announcements, a documentary list for the case study analysis assignment, a copy of the course syllabus, and a calendar of events.

Pre-legal education and the Osgoode Hall Law School / Ronald St. John Macdonald : [manuscript]

MS-2-615, Box 107, Folder 16
File
1956 - 1956

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Poems by grade three and four students at Hillsborough Elementary School

MS-2-650.1997-086, Box 20, Folder 6
File
June 7, 1995

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File contains poems by students at Hillsborough Elementary School and a copy of Budge Wilson's letter in response.

Plant development

MS-2-799, Box 3, Folder 32
File
[after 1968]

Part of Brian Hall fonds

File contains documents relating to Hall's lectures on plant development. Materials include typed and handwritten notes, as well as hand-drawn figures.

Pianoscript book : an invaluable aid to teacher and student in preserving important advice and lesson notes in permanent form

MS-5-2, Box 8, Folder 21
File
1918

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a piano technique book used by Ellen Ballon while she was studying with Alberto Jonas in New York. Each page includes printed technical excercises and blank staff lines with some additions handwritten in pencil, presumably by Jonas or Ballon. The book includes a repertoire list of pieces Ballon performed in 1918-1919.

Jonàs, Alberto

Photographs of the Technical University of Nova Scotia 1982 convocation

MS-4-250, Box 5, Folder 1
File
10 May 1982

Part of Wamboldt-Waterfield Photographic Collection

File contains 74 photographic negatives of the Technical University of Nova Scotia's convocation ceremony held at the Halifax Metro Center on May 10, 1982.

Photographs of Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission

PC1, Box 9, Folder 8
File
[between 1971 and 1983]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains six photographs related to the Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission.

Photograph of schoolchildren taught by Harold Edwin Killam

MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 17, Folder 2
File
[1894?]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains one mounted photograph of schoolchildren taught by H.E. (Harold Edwin) Killam (1878-1957) when he was 16 years old. Killam is seated in the centre of the photograph. The children of varying ages are posed for a group shot, and the photograph is taken outside.

Photograph of Harry Dean

MS-5-1, Box 1, Folder 37
File
[1915-1927]

Part of John Daniel Logan fonds

File contains a photograph of Harry Dean, a Canadian conductor, pianist, organist, and music educator. He is known for founding the Maritime Academy of Music and the Nova Scotia Registered Music Teachers' Association in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Photocopies of school attendance registers

UA-26, Box 43, Folder 4
File
1890-1951

Part of Institute of Public Affairs fonds

File contains facsimiles of Africville students' register of attendance, general register, and summary statistics, containing data between 1890 and 1951.

Personal papers of George Frederick Pearson

MS-2-291, SF Box 31, Folder 22
File
1920,1932

File comprises letters from Marshall Saunders, enclosing a sermon, "The Value of Higher Education from a Woman's Point of View," and his own "Report of a committee headed by G. Fred Pearson regarding dissatisfaction with Carleton Stanley, made to the Board of Governors of Dalhousie University, May 21, 1932."

Pearson, George Frederick

Percentage tables for Jane Murphy's ethos paper