Fonds contains the personal papers, photographs and sound recordings of Barbara Hinds. The personal papers primarily comprise research material, article drafts, and newspaper clippings related to Hinds' journalism career, but also correspondence, research notes, diaries, maps and manuscripts. Sound recordings were largely created during Hinds' travels in the Canadian Arctic and include several interviews. Photographs include prints, slides, negatives and proof sheets, and were mostly taken in the Canadian Arctic, but also include research and personal photographs.
File contains 11 proof sheets of 116 photographs taken during a trip to northern Quebec taken by Barbara Hinds in 1965. The photographs were taken in Fort Chimo, Povungnituk, Sugluk, and Wakeham Bay. Most of the photographs are of residents of those towns. The photographs also show houses, churches, other buildings, construction sites, boats, and cars. Each proof sheet has a sheet of paper attached to it with descriptions of each photograph.
Item is a photograph taken from on board a ship in Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador. The ship is next to wharf that has some cars on it. There is an unidentified man in uniform on the deck of the ship.
Item is a photograph of a woman named Lipitia who is wearing a traditional white parka with embroidery. Lipitia is holding a sealskin stretched on a wooden frame. The photograph was taken on Baffin Island in the Northwest Territories.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Abraham Okpik about the problems facing Inuit people after being relocated to Frobisher Bay.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interviews with Mrs. Sam Dodds and her daughter, Marion Dodds in Fort Chimo, Quebec. Mrs. Dodds talks about about her wedding in the Arctic. Marion Dodds talks about her school.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of a meeting of the Brownies and Girl Guides Frobisher Bay pack; Brownies and Girl Guides singing and playing games; Barbara Hinds' interview with Mrs. Delouite, the commissioner of the Brownies and Girl Guides; Barbara Hinds interviewing Mr. Belleville about waste disposal; Barbara Hinds interviewing Mr. Sacré from Carter Construction Company about runway construction at the airport; Barbara Hinds talking to children; and children singing.
Item is a recording from a meeting of the Brownies and Girl Guides Frobisher Bay pack. The recording includes Brownies and Girl Guides singing in English and Inuktitut; Mrs. Delouite talking; Brownies playing games; girls reciting the Brownie motto; girls being enrolled as Girl Guides; and Barbara Hinds talking to Annie and Lucy, who were selected to go to a Guide camp down south.
Item is a recording of some rumbling sounds, probably from the airport; Barbara Hinds' interview with Phil Sacré from the Carter Construction Company about the construction of the new runway at the Frobisher Bay airport; men talking over a radio asking for permission to blast in a hill; and sounds from the blasting.
Item is a recording of children singing in English, French, and Inuktitut. The recording is probably from Mrs. Delouite's Brownies and Girl Guides meeting in Frobisher Bay.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Panee (or possibly Pina) Elisapee, a 13-year-old girl from Cape Dorset. Panee was helping to carry bags of sugar from a barge in Apex Hill, near Frobisher Bay, Northwest Territories.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Alma (or possibly Allie or Ellie) Houston in Cape Dorset. The interview is about Houston's life in the Arctic.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds telling a story about a man named Kilabuk Pik in Pangnirtung; Hinds talking to an unidentified man in Pangnirtung; Hinds talking about the journey to Pangnirtung on the Rupertsland; sounds from the Rupertsland; and Hinds talking to an unidentified man on the Rupertsland.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds describing a group of children playing in a water hole; sounds of children playing; Barbara Hinds talking about her visit with Keith Crow in George River; Keith Crow playing the guitar; and Barbara Hinds' interview with Keith Crow about shipping fish.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Bob Green from a rehabilitation centre in Frobisher Bay; and Barbara Hinds' interview with George Koneak about a German measles epidemic.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Bob Green, from the rehabilitation centre in Frobisher Bay. Green talks about education and training programs at the rehabilitation centre.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of sounds from an airplane; Barbara Hinds' interview with Jacques Dumas about the challenges of being a pilot in the north; and Barbara Hinds' interview with Gordon Braley about flying in the north.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Mr. Page in Frobisher Bay. Page talks about a laundromat in Frobisher Bay. The beginning of the recording introduces George Crow from George River, but Hinds refers to the interviewee as Mr. Page later in the recording.
Item is a recording made by Barbara Hinds while on board the Rupertsland, near Savage Island. The recording includes Hinds describing the voyage, Hinds talking to an unidentified man, and sounds of the wind.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Keith Crow at George River. During the interview, Crow talks about a co-operative, plays his guitar, and talks about the difficulties with the freezer at the plant when the diesel engine failed.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Mike Bamblett, a bartender in Dawson City, Yukon. Bamblett talks about how he came to Dawson City, his past jobs, and drinking habits in Dawson City.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Albert Bentham, a theatre door keeper in Dawson City, Yukon. Bentham talks about how he came to Dawson City, and his past jobs.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Red Peterson, the trading manager at the Hudson's Bay Company in Cape Dorset. The interview is about fur trading and walrus hunting in Frobisher Bay.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Mr. Graves, the principal of the school in Frobisher Bay. Graves talks about woodworking and other vocational training at the rehabilitation centre in Apex Hill. The recording includes sounds of students working in the wood shop.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Mrs. Dodds talking to her daughter Marion over a two-way radio; and Barbara Hinds' interview with Mrs. Sam Dodds in Fort Chimo about about teaching Inuit women to cook with new foods and make handicrafts.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Father Pieters, an Oblate missionary in Davis Inlet. Father Pieters talks about the population of Naskapi and others who live at Davis Inlet. He talks about babies, clan water, tents, and other topics. The label on the reel says that it is an interview with Mr. Phelps but the interview is a continuation of the one in MS-2-130, Box 11, Folder 6, which is with Father Pieters.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Noah Groves. Groves talks about his trip to Montreal and compares it to North West River, Labrador, where he lives. He also talks about the economy in North West River. The interview is interrupted by a horn blowing.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Ross King, who works for Northern Labrador Affairs. King talks about what his work entails and Inuit people living in Labrador.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Pierre Williamson, the chief air traffic controller at the Frobisher Bay airport. Williamson talks about the runway at the airport, emergencies, power failures, and his work week. The interview is followed by the sound of a helicopter from an icebreaker called the John A. MacDonald, which is in Frobisher Bay.
File contains a cassette tape recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Dr. Alexander Leighton, a psychiatrist. The interview is about an investigation into the incidence of mental illness in western Nova Scotia. This is the fourth in a series of four interviews. The file also contains two typed scripts of intros and outros for two interviews with Dr. Leighton.
Item is a recording of a grade 2 reading lesson at a school in Frobisher Bay; students singing God Save the Queen; Barbara Hinds interviewing Gordon Goward, a teacher in Frobisher Bay; Barbara Hinds talking about end of term reports at the school; and a woman translating a report in Inuktitut.
File contains two reel-to reel tapes containing recordings of people singing hymns; huskies barking and whining; and Barbara Hinds' interview with George Koneak about a period of time when his family didn't have enough food and a measles epidemic in the 1950's.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with George Koneak. Koneak talks about a period of time when his family was going hungry and about a measles epidemic in the 1950s.
File contains two photographs from the groundbreaking of the rehabilitation hospital in Halifax; typed cutlines that accompany the photographs; correspondence with the Canadian Paraplegic Association and Arthur H. Shears; an article called "A Concept of Rehabilitation" by Herbert S. Talbot; several typed drafts of newspaper articles about the rehabilitation centre; a pamphlet about the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre; and a document called "Preliminary Report on Planning for Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Center and Faculty of Allied Health Professions Dalhousie University." The file also includes newspaper clippings from the Chronicle-Herald and Mail-Star of articles written by Barbara Hinds about the rehabilitation centre.
Item consists of a photograph of Nova Scotia Premier Gerald Regan (far left of the picture, wearing a white raincoat and helmet) and eight other unidentified people at the ground-turning for the new Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre, Anderson Square, Halifax, March 1975.
Item consists of clippings of articles written in 1969 by Barbara Hinds for the Chronicle Herald and Mail Star about wait times and overcrowding issues at the original Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre.
File contains three copies of a news release from the office of the dean of the Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine. The news release is titled "The Tragedy of Huntington's Disease." The file also contains four pages of rough handwritten notes.
Item is a photograph of a plaque that was erected in the Halifax Public Gardens in memory of Inspector Francis J. Fitzgerald. The plaque was erected by the Gardens Commission and is mounted on a stone railing. The plaque has been outlined with white-out or white paint. The photograph is covered by an attached piece of translucent paper.
Item consists of three request slips and a researcher registration form from the Public Archives of Nova Scotia. The forms are accompanied by a piece of paper with a few rough handwritten notes on it.