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LGBT Duplicate Materials collection

  • MS-15-12
  • Fonds
  • 1980-2018
Collection contains duplicate materials from fonds in the Nova Scotia LGBT Seniors Archive. Materials in collection include posters; programs, flyers, and promotional materials; pamphlets and outreach materials; and wearable ephemera including buttons and pins, badges, medals, clothing, and other regalia. Materials in series relate to Halifax Pride and other pride celebrations, political demonstrations, Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia [LGRNS] operations and events, Halifax Fetish Ball and Mr. Atlantic Canada [M.A.C.] Leather events, Gay and Lesbian Association [GALA] meetings and operations, events held at Rumours bar, LGBT films, and other LGBT causes and events.

Notes, clippings, and medical authorizations

File contains notes, medical authorizations, and clippings from the Chronicle Herald containing articles relating to the 2009 and 2013 provincial elections in Nova Scotia.

Faroe Islands municipal amalgamation book project

Subseries comprises records created and collected by Richard Apostle documenting the development of a book about the amalgamation of municipalities in the Faroe Islands. Records types include correspondence and annotated manuscript drafts of individual chapters.

Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

  • MS-2-615
  • Fonds
  • 1823 - 2006
Fonds comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his personal, academic, and professional activities as a jurist, judge, and professor. Records include those related to Macdonald's involvement with Osgoode Hall, University of Western Ontario, University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, the European Court of Human Rights, the Hague, Peking University, World Academy of Arts and Science, Canadian Council of International Law, United Nations, Institute of International Law, African Society of International Law, British Institute of International Law, Canadian Institute of International Law, International Law Association, and others. Records types include correspondence; meeting minutes and agendas; research materials; photographs; newsletters; newspaper clippings; manuscripts; and off-prints.

Macdonald, Ronald St. John, 1928-2006

Ronald St. John Macdonald’s professional records

Series comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his professional activities, including his involvement with different organizations, such as the Council of Europe, the European Court of Human Rights, the Hague, World Academy of Arts and Science, Canadian Council of International Law, United Nations, Institute of International Law, African Society of International Law, British Institute of International Law, Canadian Institute of International Law, International Law Association, and others. Series contains meeting agendas, meeting minutes, newsletters, reports, and other records.

Henry Hicks' correspondence

Series comprises personal , professional and political correspondence of Henry Davies Hicks. Correspondence also appears in other series, including that regarding his stamp collecting activities, which is located in the series "Philately."

René de Villiers fonds

  • MS-2-746, Boxes 1-35
  • Fonds
  • 1881-1989

Fonds contains material created and accumulated by René de Villiers during his time as an editor and politician. The fonds contains records on associations and clubs, press and media, historical publications, urban problems, Marquard family papers, manuscripts, correspondence, biographical materials, speeches & editorials, politics, publications, photographs, and miscellaneous materials.

The fonds includes ca. 123 photographs, almost all black and white, 7 posters, 2 audio reels, 2 maps, and 1 painting.

de Villiers, René

Henry Hicks' addresses and press releases

Series comprises records created and collected by Henry Hicks that document his activities as a public speaker across his political career and as an educator and university president. Record types include speaking notes, scripts, press releases reporting on his addresses, and transcriptions of speeches. Series also contains related briefings, correspondence, news clippings and programs.

University of the Air

  • UA-46
  • Collection
  • 1976 - 1983
Collection comprises digital video files of four teaching series produced for television in Atlantic Canada and hosted by Dalhousie University faculty, including: series one (The Oceans); series two (The Structure of Sound); series three (20th Century Latin America: Why Revolution?); and series four (Textiles: Their Development and Effects).

Dalhousie University. University of the Air

Revolution in Mexico and Cuba / University of the Air

Revolution in Mexico and Cuba / University of the Air

Item is lecture three of University of the Air's "20th Century Latin America: Why Revolution?" series, recorded on July 24, 1981 and broadcast on CJCH-TV. The episode was presented by Dr. John M. Kirk, assistant professor of Spanish at Dalhousie University. Production staff included: Jon Jay, technical director; John Silver, technical producer; Charles Doucet, producer and director; Nancy Fraser, national coordinator; and Debi Forsythe-Smith and Evangeline Sadler, production assistants.
Human rights in the Southern Cone / University of the Air

Human rights in the Southern Cone / University of the Air

Item is lecture four of University of the Air's "20th Century Latin America: Why Revolution?" series, recorded on July 24, 1981 and broadcast on CJCH-TV. The episode was presented by Dr. John M. Kirk, assistant professor of Spanish at Dalhousie University. Production staff included: Jon Jay, technical director; John Silver, technical producer; Charles Doucet, producer and director; Nancy Fraser, national coordinator; and Debi Forsythe-Smith and Evangeline Sadler, production assistants.
Central America today : life under the volcano / University of the Air

Central America today : life under the volcano / University of the Air

Item is lecture five of University of the Air's "20th Century Latin America: Why Revolution?" series, recorded on July 23, 1981 and broadcast on CJCH-TV. The episode was presented by Dr. John M. Kirk, assistant professor of Spanish at Dalhousie University. Production staff included: Jon Jay, technical director; John Silver, technical producer; Charles Doucet, producer and director; Nancy Fraser, national coordinator; and Debi Forsythe-Smith and Evangeline Sadler, production assistants.

Samuel R. Balcom fonds

  • MS-2-128
  • Fonds
  • 1830-1980
Fonds contains records documenting the activities, organizations and associations in which Balcom was involved, including the Red Cap Snowshoe Club and the No. 7 Stationary Hospital. Record types include correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, memorabilia and parliamentary papers.

Balcom, Samuel R., Col.

Unweighted cross-tabulations of non-electoral activity items with education and federal and provincial party ID

File contains a computer print out of contingency tables from a 1977 Ontario election study sent to Richard Apostle from R.J. Drummond at York University. There is also a photocopy of John Wilson, "The Canadian Political Cultures: Towards a Redefinition of the Nature of the Canadian Political System," Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique, Volume 7, Issue 3 (September 1974 ) 438-83.

Newspaper clippings related to the Vietnam War and the 1972 presidential election

File contains newspaper clippings collected by Kenneth Leslie in 1972 and 1973, largely related to the 1972 United States presidential election. File contains clippings and facsimiles of articles written by Leslie's associates Hugh Hester and Morris Kominsky, among others. Articles tangentially related to the role of both religion and the Vietnam War in American political affairs during the run-up to the election. A few of the clippings contain notes and marginalia in Leslie's hand.

Hester, Hugh B.

File contains fourteen draft typed manuscripts columns and handwritten letters, written by Brigadier-General Hugh B. Hester, a noted critic of American foreign policy, written in 1972 and 1973, submitted to numerous newspapers with copies (as well as a couple of personal handwritten letters) sent to Kenneth Leslie. The topics of the letters include the ongoing "disastrous mistake" of the Vietnam War, the "most ballyhooed" nuclear agreements between Nixon and Brezhnev, the 1972 Presidential Election (declaring that Americans "could not psychologically bring themselves to vote for McGovern because his election would have proven true all those crimes committed by Washington [against the Vietnamese people]" and the developing Watergate scandal.

File contains correspondence sent to the Charlotte Observer, the New York Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Senator Michael Mansfield (D-MT), The Nation Magazine, the Asheville Citizen, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Greenville News, and Meyer Robert Field.

The letter written to Leslie, dated July 4, 1973, expresses regret at not yet discussing Hester's recent trip to China, as well as demanding that Nixon should "be dismissed and tried" for his actions regarding the escalating Watergate scandal. The file also includes a draft manuscript of a letter "to the Editor" of Leslie's "New Man Magazine", dated November 27, 1972, responding to newspaper magnate John S. Knight proclamation that the "two-party system will continue to be strong and stable" being incorrect following McGovern's defeat, suggesting that "there were no 1972 presidential elections in any meaningful sense".

New-Man records

File contains textual records pertaining to Kenneth Leslie's religio-political publication New-Man.

Bass, Harold

File contains the typed draft of a letter written by Harold J. Bass (of Tacoma, WA), post-marked November 18, 1972, and submitted to Kenneth Leslie for consideration for inclusion in the publication The New Man. The piece, entitled "Whose mistake?", addresses the horrors and "tragedy of Vietnam", suggesting that George McGovern was barely listened to on the campaign trail "because he declared openly that we have done wrong and we ought to acknowledge and correct that wrong", while Nixon appears to merely want to "cover the wrong and make it seem like a right" with his "peace with honor" promises.

Soviet Union and foreign policy — USA

File contains English- and Russian-language newspaper articles; 1971 and 1972 issues of Institute for the Study of the USSR's Analysis of Current Developments in the Soviet Union; and a copy of "In Russia," by Arthur Miller, published in Harpers Magazine (September 1969).

Jospeh Stalin

File contains notes and translations of Russian-language articles as well as English-language news clippings.

Notes, articles and clippings related to fluoridation

File contains research notes and articles collected by Kenneth Leslie in the mid-1960s related to fluoridation. File contains correspondence written by Miss Jean M. Ross submitted to The Rt. Hon. L[ester] B. Pearson and The Hon. Judy LaMarch, as well as Dr. G.D.W. Cameron [Deputy Minister of National Health], a copy of Miss Ross's 12-page publication 'The fluoridation fraud', as well as pamphlets and articles from the the Fraser Burgh Herald, the New York Times, Pure Water Association of Santa Clara County, and the Greater Milwaukee Committee Against Fluoridation.

Stationery from The Protestant and The New Christian

File contains two leaves of stationery with the letterheads of two of Kenneth Leslie's periodical publications. The first is the letterhead of The Protestant, from the late-1940s, when The Protestant had moved operations back to Nova Scotia. The letterhead reads The Protestant, with "Cambridge Station, Nova Scotia" beneath the main title. On the left margin is the list of names on the editorial board of The Protestant, with Kenneth Leslie as "editor", Rev. John Tunnicliffe as "associate editor", and 52 others listed as "editorial advisers". The second is the letterhead for Leslie's next publication, "The New Christian", with "Kenneth Leslie, editor, publisher" at the left margin and "Pictou, Nova Scotia" at the right margin.
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