Archives Catalogue

Preliminary survey of the natural history of McNab's Island, Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia : [draft manuscript]

MS-2-789, Box 22, Folder 10
File
1966

File contains the draft manuscript compiled staff of the Nova Scotia Museum, the Nova Scotia Bird Society, the Dalhousie Biology Club, and the Nova Scotia Research Foundation, and used by Freedman.

Photographs of the Arrow oil spill, Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 8
File
[1970]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 6 photographs taken by Roger Belanger (and collected by Bill Freedman), likely in 1970. Photographs show clean-up efforts after the oil spill after the SS Arrow ran aground during a gale, in Chedabucto Bay, February 4, 1970.

Photographs of the flora of southern Ontario

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 10
File
1972-2001

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 86 photographs largely taken by Bill Freedman (although a few were taken by J.L. Riley and R. Vinebrooke), at several southern Ontario sites between 1972 and 2001. Photographs show plants along the Oakville River, in Algonquin and Point Pelee Parks, the Alvar marsh site (near Orillia), the Windsor prairie, and another site west of London.

Photographs of Canadian wilderness and wetland scenes

MS-2-789, Box 16, Folder 12
File
1972-2003

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 83 photographs taken by Bill Freedman between 1972 and 2003. Photographs show vegetation, fungi, trees, and wetland scenes from across Canada.

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 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 birds around Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories

MS-2-789, Box 13, Folder 7
File
1973-1974

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 27 photographs taken by Bill Freedman during two visits to Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, in 1973 and 1974. Photographs show birds in the area around Tuktoyaktuk, including Semipalmated plover, Whimbrel, Stilt sandpipers, Common eider, and Lapland longspur.

Photographs of a barley osmotic stress array

MS-2-789, Box 16, Folder 10
File
1973

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 13 photographs taken during an experiment by Bill Freedman in 1973. Photographs show an array of barley plants, each example subject to different levels of osmotic stress.

Photographs of vegetation and scenery at Smoking Hills and Horton River, Northwest Territories

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 9
File
1973-1993

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 45 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in the Smoking Hills region of Northwest Territories, taken between 1973 and 1993. Photographs show vegetation along the banks of the Horton River (near Smoking Hills).

Photographs of small experimental oil spills sites around Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories

MS-2-789, Box 11, Folder 19
File
1973-1974, 1986

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 73 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at the sites of small, controlled, experimental oil spills near Tuktoyaktuk (Pingo, Point, Meadow, Lupin), predominantly from 1973 and 1974. Also includes some photos from similar experiments at Cape Parry. Photographs document experimentation of regrowth of vegetation in response to small-scale oil spills.

Photographs of tundra scenes, Northwest Territories

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 3
File
1973-1986

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 176 photographs taken by Bill Freedman, in the Northwest Territories, on multiple visits from 1973 to 1986. Photographs show tundra scenes (of grave sites, frost polygons, oil spill clean-up sites, and the Native Games), from Tuktoyaktuk, Herschel Island, Cape Bathurst, Inuvik, and Cape Parry.

Photographs of snakes at Amherstburg, Ontario, and the Allegheny Plateau, New York

MS-2-789, Box 13, Folder 1
File
1973-1979

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 77 photographs taken by Bill Freedman between 1973 and 1979. Photographs show several species of snake (Fox, Butler's garter, Malaristic garter, Ring-neck, Milk, and Short-headed) at a smelter site in Amherstburg, Ontario, and at sites on the Allegheny Plateau, upstate New York.

Photographs of flora at Camp Naivelt, Brampton, Ontario

MS-2-789, Box 14, Folder 4
File
1973-1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 18 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Camp Naivelt (near Brampton, Ontario), between 1973 and 1976. Photographs show plant species of the area, including Erigeron philadelphicus, Erythronium americana, Hesperis matronalis, Anenome canadensis, and Arisaema triphyllum.

Photographs of flora and fungi along the Magnetawan River, Ontario

MS-2-789, Box 14, Folder 5
File
1973

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 17 photographs taken by Bill Freedman along the Magnetawan River (which empties into Georgian Bay), in May 1973. Photographs show several species of flora and fungi of the area, including Trillium undulatum, Trillium erectum, and Caltha palustris. There are also two photographs of a beaver dam.

Photographs of flora at Lake Joseph and Parry Sound, Ontario

MS-2-789, Box 14, Folder 3
File
1973-1977

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 50 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at locations near Parry Sound, Ontario, and specifically, Lake Joseph, between 1974 and 1977. Photographs show plants of the region, such as Hepatica americana, Iris versicolor, Lotus corniculatus, and Hieracium aurantiacum. Photographs also show defoliated hillsides caused by the encroachment of forest tent caterpillar into the area.

Photographs of plants around Tuktoyaktuk

MS-2-789, Box 11, Folder 17
File
1973-1986

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 51 photographs taken by Bill Freedman from locations around Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, between 1973 and 1986. Photographs show plants of the region.

Photographs of the flora and scenery around Norman Wells and Jackfish Lake, Northwest Territories

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 1
File
1973-1974

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 59 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Norman Wells, NT, between 1973 and 1974. Photographs show views of the Mackenzie River from Norman Wells, of small oil spill sites near Norman Wells, and flora of Norman Wells and nearby Jackfish Lake.

Photographs of plant regrowth morphology in the Northwest Territories

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 4
File
1973-1974

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 17 photographs taken by Bill Freedman, around Tuktoyaktuk and Norman Wells, between 1973 and 1974. Photographs show regrowth of Salix glauca, Betula glandulosa, Ledum palustre (among others).

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 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 Old squaw at Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island

MS-2-789, Box 11, Folder 14
File
1974-1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 56 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island, on three occasion, between 1974 and 1981. Photographs show Old squad nesting sites.

Photographs of Great Grey, Snowy, and Barred owls

MS-2-789, Box 16, Folder 5
File
1974-1979

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 21 photographs taken by Bill Freedman between 1976 and 1979. Photographs show Great Grey owls at Ajax, Ontario, Snowy owls at Smoking Hills, Northwest Territories, and Barred owls at Algonquin Park.

Photographs of Snow bunting at Cape Bathurst and Alexandra Fiord

MS-2-789, Box 11, Folder 9
File
1974-1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 33 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Cape Bathurst (near Tuktoyaktuk) and Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island. Photographs show Snow bunting nesting sites.

Effects of experimental crude oil spills on Taiga and tundra vegetation of the Canadian Arctic : [manuscript]

MS-2-789, Box 21, Folder 5
File
1975

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman (as W. Freedman) and T.C. Hutchinson, for the Conference on Prevention and Control of Oil Pollution; San Francisco, 1975.

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 the flora of Fundy National Park

MS-2-789, Box 16, Folder 14
File
1975

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 7 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Fundy National Park, New Brunswick, in 1975. Photographs show examples of Iris versicolor, as well as scenes along the shore of the Bay of Fundy.

Photographs of the Postville and Michelin Lake areas of Labrador

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 8
File
1975-1977

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 51 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in the Postville area of Labrador, between 1975 and 1977 (predominantly 1977). Photographs show geological formations, bogs, and flora around the Michelin Lake area near Postville. File also contains some photographs of flora taken at Terra Nova National Park

Photographs of tailings sites around Sudbury

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

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 36 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in the area around Sudbury, Ontario, between 1975 and 1986 (many of which were used as part of his thesis fieldwork). Photographs show tailings ponds, nickel runs, roast beds, and slag pouring at the Coppercliff, Burwash, Coniston, Richard Lake, and Falconbridge sites.

Photographs of the flora and fauna of Gros Morne National Park and Cape St. Mary's Park Reserve, Newfoundland

MS-2-789, Box 16, Folder 16
File
1975, 2002

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 16 photographs taken by Bill Freedman, predominantly in 1975. Photographs show birds and plants at two Newfoundland parks: Cape St. Mary's Reserve on the Avalon Peninsula, and Gros Morne on the Great Northern Peninsula.

Photographs of flora and scenery at Death Valley, California

MS-2-789, Box 14, Folder 9
File
1975

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 35 photographs taken by Bill Freedman on in Death Valley, California, in 1975. Photographs show the flora and scenery of the region, as well as views of smog over Los Angeles.

Impact of crude oil spills on Arctic and Sub-Arctic vegetation : [manuscript]

MS-2-789, Box 21, Folder 4
File
1975

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman (as W. Freedman) and T.C. Hutchinson, for the Circumpolar Conference on Northern Ecology, Ottawa, 1975.

Intense, natural pollution affects Arctic tundra vegetation at the Smoking Hills, Canada : [manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 26, Folder 17
File
1975-1980

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman, with V. Zobens, T.C. Hutchinson, and W.I. Gizyn, for Ecology, volume 71, number 2. File also contains negatives for figures used in text, handwritten data, correspondence, and similar unannotated articles written by some of the contributors.

Photographs of birds at Smoking Hills, Northwest Territories

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

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 10 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Smoking Hills (near Cape Bathurst), Northwest Territories, in 1975. Photographs show Rough-legged hawk chicks, Northern pharalope, and Whistling swan, and Arctic loon.

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.

Photograph of an oiled embayment at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 2
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph shows an oiled embayment at Alexandria Bay, New York, with henna preventing the further spread of the oil.

Photograph of a docked "slick licker" at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 10
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph shows a docked oil clean-up vessel.

Photograph of weathered crude oil affecting Corex at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 12
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of oil and cladophora along the shore at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 5
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph shows oil and a development of cladophora algae along the shore at Alexandria Bay, with a small houseboat in the background.

Photograph of an oil pollution control tanker truck at Alexandria Bay, New York

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 5, Item 6
Item
1976

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph shows a Coastal Services Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) pollution control tanker truck at Alexandria Bay, New York, with one unidentified worker sitting atop the tanker.