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Personal archives of Harry Thurston

  • MS-2-691
  • Fonds
  • 1972-2021
Fonds contains Harry Thurston's book manuscripts, copies of speeches and interviews, correspondence and research materials.

Thurston, Harry, 1950-

Ron O'Dor fonds

  • MS-2-778
  • Fonds
  • 1965-2019
Fonds contains records created and collected by Ronald O'Dor in the course of his work as a marine biologist based at Dalhousie University, predominantly materials generated by the two major research projects: Census of Marine Life (CoML) and Ocean Tracking Network (OTN). Record types include research data, teaching materials, publications, manuscripts, correspondence, and committee and meeting minutes.

O'Dor, Ronald

Consultancy work

Series contains documents related to Freedman’s work as an environmental consultant. The organizations represented in this series include P. Lane and Associates Ltd., Gardner Pinfold Consulting Economists Ltd., the School for Resource and Environmental Studies and the Department of Biology at Dalhousie University. Series includes private and government reports, draft reports, correspondence, datasets, annotated reference articles and other documents.

Bill Freedman fonds

  • MS-2-789
  • Fonds
  • 1970 - 2015
Fonds contains material relating to the personal life and professional career of Bill Freedman (1950-2015), an environmental scientist based at Dalhousie University. Fonds includes research data, teaching materials, publications, manuscripts and draft manuscripts, correspondence, committee and meeting minutes, electronic records, analogue and digital photographs, thousands of 35 mm slides, video cassettes, and appointments and awards.

Freedman, Bill

Societies and organizations

Series contains documents related to Freedman’s involvement with organizations outside of his employment. The organizations represented in the series are the National Conservancy of Canada, Sustainable Forestry Initiative, the Centre for International Security and Cooperation and others. Documents include meeting minutes, agenda items, correspondence, and other reference material.

Appointments and awards

Series contains records related to Freedman's reception of appointments and awards based on his research and academic achievement. Material includes appointments from Dalhousie University and the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

Publications and academic writing

Series contains materials written by Freedman and related materials collected by Freedman. Written material includes manuscripts, draft manuscripts, encyclopedic entries, essays, reports, conference and workshop papers, newspaper columns, book reviews and other documents written by Freedman. Related materials include research, annotated articles, notes, correspondence, reviewer comments and other documents.

Scientific research

Series contains general research not directly related to his publications or reports. Research includes data sets and figures created or collected by Freedman, field notes recorded by Freedman, grants for research projects and related paperwork, and correspondence between researchers.

Teaching material

Series contains slides, lecture notes, presentation PowerPoints and transparencies used by Freedman in the classes he taught at Dalhousie University and external lectures. Series also contains exams, assignments, and course outlines.

Global environmental change : [manuscript]

File contains the Freedman-edited volume "Global environmental change". Includes two articles contributed by Freedman: "Population growth and global change" (pp. 571-758); and "Maintaining and enhancing ecological carbon sequestration" (pp. 783-802).

Personal archives of Harry Thurston

  • MS-2-691.2013-065
  • Accession
  • 1977-2012

Accession contains records that largely document Harry Thurston's journalistic and non-fiction writing during the 1980s. Materials include editorial correspondence, research notes and secondary materials, annotated drafts and printer's proofs, and press releases and reviews for articles published in such magazines as Atlantic Insight, Audubon, Equinox, Harrowsmith and National Geographic. There are similar materials documenting Thurston's work on Tidal Life : A Natural History of the Bay of Fundy, as well as correspondence and administrative records documenting his work with the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia and various professional activities such as attending or organizing workshops and conferences.

Accession also contains a small volume of materials from the late 1970s related to Thurston's activities as a poet, including some correspondence and administrative records related to the poetry journal, Germination, as well as his involvement with the Dirge Poets and their Merry Men, a performance group of poets and musicians.

Thurston, Harry, 1950-

McNab's Island Christmas bird counts

File contains handwritten and typed research notes compiled by Freedman and others, documenting bird counts at McNab's Island, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, between the years 1995 and 2012. File also contains correspondence.

Notes on property exploration for the Nova Scotia Nature Trust

File contains notes written by Bill Freedman in 2012 while undertaking property explorations for the Nova Scotia Nature Trust. Notes contain a brief survey of each location and potential financial costs involved, for locations at Middle and Outer Pleasant Harbour, Gerard Island, Hemeon's Head, Bougles Isle (?), Pugwash, and a site at Tusket.

Notes from a conference of the Nature Conservancy of Canada

File contains notes taken by Bill Freedman during paper presentations at a late-2000s meeting of the Nature Conservancy of Canada. Notes relate to papers presented by Judy Loo, Allan White, Graham Forbes, Sean Basquill, [E.] Ponomarenko, M Aubé, D rossland, C Bourque, John Sweeney, Matthew Betts, and Bob Seymour.

Journal and newspaper articles relating to the Brown spruce longhorn beetle : [draft manuscripts and other materials]

File contains facsimiles of newspaper articles relating to the containment of the Brown spruce longhorn beetle infestation of Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Otto Wettstein's draft report "On breeding Tetropium fuscum" (for Public Works and Government Services Canada), S. Balazy's draft "The fungus Cephalosporium (Acrostalagmus) lecanii Zimm. as a pathogen of beetle larvae", L.M. Hanks's "Influence of the larval host plant on reproductive strategies of cerambycid beetles", Zenon Capecki's "The occurrence of Tetropium Kirby (Cerambycidae, Coleoptera) and their parasites in Poland", J. Sweeney, L. Humble, and E. Allen's "Assessment of the Bruks chipper for phytosanitary production of chips free of live Tetropium spp. and other insects", Christopher Majka and Jan Klimaszewski's "Phloeocharis subtilissima Mannerheim (Staphylinidae: Phloeocharinae) and Cephennium gallicum Ganglbauer (Scydmaenidae) new to North America: a case study in the introduction of exotic Coleoptera to the port of Halifax, with new records of other species", and other Brown spruce longhorn beetle reports and articles.

Other studies on Point Pleasant Park and the Brown spruce longhorn beetle : [manuscripts and other materials]

File contains manuscript reports dealing with the health of Point Pleasant Park and the containment of the Brown spruce longhorn beetle. File contains the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources "1994/95 Spruce Beetle Damage Survey" (Mike LeBlanc and Bob Guscott), the "Point Pleasant Park Forest Health Survey, June 8-10, 2000" (Guscott), two draft manuscripts of "Brown Spruce Longhorn Beetle" (Plant Health Risk Assessment Unit, Science Division; September 1999 and June 2000), the Halifax Regional Municipality "Point Pleasant Park, Park and Urban Forest Master Plan" (November 18, 1998), and other fact sheets (Friends of Point Pleasant Park and Environment Canada) and presentation drafts.

Recent observation of a proliferation of ranunculus trichophyllus chaix in high-altitude lakes of the Mount Everest region : [draft manuscripts and other material]

File contains manuscript, draft manuscripts, correspondence and an agreement to transfer ownership of copyright between Paresh Lacoul and Bill Freedman relating to the article Physical and Chemical Limnology of 34 Lentic Waterbodies along a Tropical-to-Alpine Altitudinal Gradient in Nepal.
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