Archives Catalogue

Photographs of birds, mammals, insects, and amphibians

MS-2-789, Box 11, Folders 1-2
File
1972-1991

File contains 333 photographic slides taken by Bill Freedman in Florida, the Northwest Territories, Newfoundland, and Ontario between 1972 and 1991. Photographs show birds, large Arctic land mammals, insects, snakes and amphibians.

Photographs of Arctic tern at Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island

MS-2-789, Box 11, Folder 3
File
1981-1982

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 70 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island, over successive summers in 1980 and 1981. Photographs show Arctic tern, on the ground, at nesting sites.

Photographs of Parasitic jaeger at Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island

MS-2-789, Box 11, Folder 5
File
1981-1982

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 67 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island, in 1981 and 1982. Photographs show Parasitic jaeger at nesting sites along the fjord.

Photographs of Long-tailed jaeger at Eureka and Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island

MS-2-789, Box 11, Folder 6
File
1980

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 8 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Eureka weather station and Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island, in 1980. Photographs show Long-tailed jaeger in flight and on the ground.

Photographs of the Harrowby Bay spill site

MS-2-789, Box 11, Folder 20
File
1974-1975

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 20 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Harrowby Bay (near Tuktoyaktuk), from 1974 to 1975. Photographs document containment efforts after a small oil spill.

Photographs of the area around Smoking Hills, Northwest Territories

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 6
File
1974-1990

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 74 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in the Smoking Hills region of Cape Bathurst, Northwest Territories, on multiple visits between 1974 and 1990. Photographs show the scenery of the region, including smoke seepage vents, elemental sulfur deposits, and caribou herd.

Transparencies of Tuktoyaktuk spill vegetation recovery

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 7
File
[1974-1986?]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 8 transparencies created by Bill Freedman, likely in the early-1980s. Transparencies provide data related to the effects of an oil spill on vegetation (based on Freedman's 1974 fieldwork near Tuktoyaktuk).

Photographs of the flora, fauna, and buildings on Sable Island, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10
File
1981-1982

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 77 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Sable Island, Nova Scotia, over several visits between 1981 and 1982. Photographs show vegetation, brackish ponds, aerial surveys, wild horses, as well as some of the researchers. File also includes 3 transparencies.

Photographs of Sudbury scenes

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 11
File
1975-1986

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 116 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in the region around Sudbury, Ontario, between 1975 and 1986, as part of his thesis fieldwork. Photographs show slag heaps, roast beds, pollution, plant damage, and mining infrastructure from the Copper Cliff, Coniston, and Falconbridge sites near Sudbury, and flora at the nearby Wanapitei River, Richard Lake, and Burwash sites.

Photographs of acid rain evidence at Killarney, Ontario

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 13
File
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 5 photographs taken by Bill Freedman, near Killarney, Ontario, in 1976. Photographs show an acid lake, Jack pine damage, and some of the researchers.

Photographs of forestry scenes on Vancouver Island, British Columbia

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 14
File
1991

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 40 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at sites on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, in 1991. Photographs show clear-cutting operations on Vancouver Island (predominantly at Port Alberni and Menzies Bay).

Photographs of forest and flora near Thompson, Manitoba

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 16
File
1974

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 13 photographs taken by Bill Freedman near Thompson, Manitoba, in 1974. Photographs show Picea mariana and Picea banksiana at various distances from the factory smokestacks of a nickel processing facility. Also, a beaver dam and regrowth after a forest fire.

Photographs of forestry, biomass, hydrology, and clear-cutting scenes

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 17
File
1980-1992

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 215 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at a variety of locations, including Aylesford Lake, NS, and Halifax County, between 1980 and 1995. Photographs show experimental and conventional clear-cutting examples at Aylesford Lake, Nova Scotia; advanced regeneration after a burn near Herring Cove, Nova Scotia; views of Pebbleloggitch Lake, Kejimkujik National Park; different rates of growth of trees of different ages; felling, bucking and sorting of Acer saccharum, and examples of throughfall and stemflow. Also includes examples of herbicide efforts.

Photographs of alligator in the Everglades, central Florida

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 20
File
1974-1978

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 10 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in the Everglades, central Florida, over multiple visits between 1974 and 1978. Photographs show alligator swimming and basking.

Photographs of glaciers, snow-fields, and semi-deserts at Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island

MS-2-789, Box 13, Folder 2
File
1979-1982

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 135 photographs taken by Bill Freedman between 1979 and 1982, at sites near Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island. Photographs show glaciers, scenes of desert and semi-desert, snowfields and frost heave.

Photographs of the scenery and flora at Fiona Lake, Somerset Island

MS-2-789, Box 13, Folder 5
File
1979

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 15 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in July 1979, at Fiona Lake on Somerset Island in the Northwest Territories. Photographs show lichenometry, flora, snowbeds, and fractured rocks on the island.

Photographs of wildlife, rain forests, and people in South America

MS-2-789, Box 13, Folders 11-12
File
1988, 1999-2001

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 222 photographs taken by Bill Freedman during his travels in South America, between 1999 and 2001. The file also contains a small number of photographs taken by World Wildlife Fund members in 1988. Photographs show forestry recovery after controlled burns; pictures toucan, caiman, alpaca, armadillo, owl, and otter; rain forest scenes; and people. Photographs were taken in Peru (Machu Picchu, Guano Isdlands, Manu River, Cuzco), Bolivia (La Paz, Titicaca, Yungas), Costa Rica (Santa Cruz), and Brazil (Pantanal).

Photographs of flora and fauna near Jasper, Alberta

MS-2-789, Box 14, Folder 2
File
1973-1975

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 44 photographs taken by Bill Freedman near Jasper and Whistler Mountain, Alberta, between 1973 and 1975. Photographs show mule deer and elk, and many species of plants (occasionally with captions stating the altitude at which they were found). Plants found in this file include Sedum stenopetalum, Rosa acicularism, Silene acaule, Dryas, hookeriana, and Saxifraga bronchialis.

Photographs of flora at Crawford Lake, Burlington, Ontario

MS-2-789, Box 14, Folder 6
File
1973-1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 20 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Crawford Lake and Crawford Bog (near Burlington, Ontario), between 1973 and 1976. Photographs are predominantly of Cypripedium reginae.

Photographs of flora and scenery at Tuktoyaktuk

MS-2-789, Box 14, Folder 7
File
1990-1991

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 72 photographs taken by Bill Freedman on a trip to Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, in late 1990. Photographs show ground vegetation and forest scenes.

Photographs of travels in Newfoundland

MS-2-789, Box 14, Folder 16
File
1997

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 56 photographs taken by Bill Freedman during travels in Newfoundland in 1997. Photographs show the Bauda family at Burnt Cape, boreal forest at Gros Morne National Park, derelict factories at Long Harbour, the abandoned military base at Argentia, and scenery and replica Viking huts at L'Anse-aux-Meadows.

Photographs of a forestry clearcutting operation near Corner Brook, Newfoundland

MS-2-789, Box 14, Folder 17
File
1992

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 12 photographs taken by Bill Freedman near Corner Brook, Newfoundland, in 1992. Photographs show forestry operations and equipment (grapple yarders, and skidders), and evidence of deforestation in the area.

Photographs of Gaff Point, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 14, Folder 18
File
2001

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 45 photographs taken by Bill Freedman on a hiking trip along the Gaff Point trail in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, in 2001. Photographs show trees in the area, as well as coastal scenes.

Photographs of urban scenes in Halifax, Toronto, and Vancouver

MS-2-789, Box 14, Folder 19
File
1973-2002

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 116 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in Halifax, Toronto, and Vancouver between 1973 and 2002 (though predominantly between 1999 and 2002). Photographs show urban streetscapes and buildings in Toronto, Stanley Park in Vancouver, the Public Gardens and Busker festival in Halifax, as well as Mahone Bay and Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia.

Photographs of endangered flora and persistent coastal litter at Bon Portage Island, Baccaro and Swaine's Road bogs, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 14, Folder 22
File
1991

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 25 photographs taken by Bill Freedman near Barrington, Nova Scotia, in 1991. Photographs show litter on the coast of Bon Portage Island, as well as vegetation (primarily the rare, insectivorous Drosera filiformis) at Baccaro bog and Swaine's Road bog. Photographs show the endangered plants that would be threatened should a peat-mining operation be opened in the area.

Photographs of flora at Cape Bathurst and Cape Parry, Northwest Territories

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 1
File
1973-1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 40 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at sites around Cape Bathurst and Cape Parry, near Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories. Photographs show examples of Saxifraga oppostifolia, Phlox sibirica, Primula borealis, Caloplaca elegans, among others. Also includes photographs from nearby sites Blackfly Lake and Malloch Hill.

Photographs of surveys at Gros Morne National Park and the Churchill River, Labrador

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 3
File
1998-2002

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 25 photographs taken, largely by Bill Freedman, in Gros Morne National Park and along the Churchill River, Labrador, between 1998 and 2001. There are also photos by fellow researchers Annette Lutterman and Todd Keith. Photographs depict plants in Gros Morne and the Churchill River area, dried riverbeds above Churchill Falls, and three photos of Innu residents of the area.

Photographs of agricultural scenes in Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 4
File
1999

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 40 photographs taken by Gene Fortney, Vince Zelazny, Dave Patriquin, David Gautier, and M. Willison (and collected by Bill Freedman), in Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, in 1999. Photographs show agricultural scenes, such as hayfields near Calgary, strip cropping in Saskatchewan, soybean growing in Nova Scotia, and grape growing in southern Ontario.

Photographs of family and holidays

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 11
File
1986-1998

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 42 photographs largely taken by Bill Freedman between 1986 and 1998. Photographs show family outings in Halifax (including the Public Gardens) in 1986, and with family at home during the winter holidays in late-1998 and early-1999.

Photographs of birds at the Headland site, Toronto

MS_2-789, Box 15, Folder 12
File
1977

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 24 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at the Headland site, Leslie Street spit, Toronto, in 1977. Photographs show nesting terns (Caspian and Common) and gulls (Ring-billed and Herring).

Photographs of protesters during the Summit of the Americas, Quebec City

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 18
File
2001

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 11 photographs taken by Bill Freedman during protests at the Summit of the Americas conference in Quebec City in April 2001. Photographs show crowds of protesters carrying signs, as well as two photos of the Raging Grannies.