Archives Catalogue

Letter from Joseph Howe to D.O.C. Madden of Arichat, Nova Scotia

MS-2-779, SF Box 80, Folder 12
File
August 10, 1849

Part of George Robertson's historical documents collection

File contains a letter from Joseph Howe to D.O.C. Madden of Arichat, Nova Scotia, written on 10 August 1849. The letter discusses a petition from Peter Furrier, Master of the Brig Superb, to have his vessel released from quarantine.

Howe, Joseph

Letter from James Baxter to Dalhousie's President MacKenzie

MS-2-7, SF Box 13, Folder 4, Item 15
Item
November 2, 1917

Part of James Baxter fonds

Item is a letter written by James Baxter to President McKenzie (Arthur Stanley), written in Chatham on 2 November 1917 on letterhead from the Dominion of Canada Quarantine Station of the Public Health Branch of the Department of Agriculture. The letter refers to Baxter's attendance at both the Presbyterian seminary in Truro and Dalhousie College in Halifax in the 1850s and 1860s, and mentions enclosed course tickets and notebooks.

Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan

MS-2-82, Box 9, Folder 85, Item 1
Item
[1915?]

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence sent from Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, likely in the spring of 1915, about apologies for not meeting up before Jones's overseas departure.

Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, September 16, 1915

MS-2-82, Box 9, Folder 85, Item 3
Item
September 16, 1915

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence sent from Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, dated September 16, 1915, at Valcartier Camp (Quebec City), thanking MacMechan for further outfitting of the Camp's library, general anxiousness around Camp, and the hopes of the Battalion soon being deployed to England.

Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, August 1, 1921

MS-2-82, Box 9, Folder 85, Item 10
Item
August 1, 1921

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, dated August 1, 1921 from Windsor, Nova Scotia.

Letter from Lord Dalhousie to W. Smith

MS-2-69, SF Box 18, Folder 22
Item
1823

Item is a letter (1823) from Lord Dalhousie to W. Smith, requesting that two barrels of Pictou oatmeal be shipped to Quebec on the next available vessel as a sample of Smith's produce.

Smith, W., fl. 1823

Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, May 15, 1904

MS-2-82, Box 15, Folder 14, Item 3
Item
May 15, 1904

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence written by Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to the MacMechans, dated May 15, 1904 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, thanking them for past correspondence, and about catching up with friends and former classmates.

Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, November 18, 1915

MS-2-82, Box 15, Folder 14, Item 8
Item
November 18, 1915

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence written by Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, dated November 18, 1915, in Montreal, Quebec, discussing the difficult decision to enlist in the war effort, and his training for the Canadian Grenadier Guards Overseas Battalion. He then discusses military exploits of mutual friends.

Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, October 11, 1916

MS-2-82, Box 15, Folder 14, Item 9
Item
October 11, 1916

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence written by Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, dated October 11, 1916, in Montreal, Quebec, discussing training and work with his battalion, chiefly at Bramshott Camp near London.

Letter from Katherine Creelman to Annie Creelman concerning the Halifax Explosion

MS-2-775, Box 1, Folder 1
Item
December 17, 1917

Part of Creelman Family fonds

Correspondence - Central Medical Supplies

MS-2-128, Box 2, Folder 20
File
1942

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

File contains correspondence from Balcom's time as Officer Commanding, Medical Stores, and Chief Medical Stores Inspection Officer during World War II. Original file split between files 2-19 and 2-20.

Correspondence from Thomas Head Raddall, Liverpool, Nova Scotia, to Eleanor C. Armstrong

MS-2-202, Box 31, Folder 2, Item 1
Item
January 20, 1947

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of correspondence between Mrs. Armstrong and Thomas H. Raddall about the history of Irish people in Queens County.

Correspondence from Earl R. Lewis, Jr., of West Hartford, Connecticut, to Thomas Head Raddall

MS-2-202, Box 31, Folder 2, Item 10
Item
August 15, 1961

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a letter sent to Thomas Raddall discussing the family name of "Poquetanuck" and its use in Connecticut.

Correspondence between Thomas Head Raddall and the Liverpool Library Association

MS-2-202, Box 43, Folder 15
File
1954-1955

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

File contains fourteen pages of correspondence between Thomas H. Raddall and Liverpool Library Association dating from 1954 to 1955, relating to the DeWolfe Library.

Correspondence between Thomas Head Raddall and A. R. Lock

MS-2-202, Box 43, Folder 18
File
1972

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

File contains three pages of correspondence between Thomas H. Raddall and A. R. Lock dating from 1972 regarding research on a gull on Sable Island.

Correspondence between Thomas Head Raddall and C. J. MacGillivray

MS-2-202, Box 43, Folder 38
File
1945-1946

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

File contains correspondence sent by C.J. MacGillivray (published of The Casket in Antigonish) to Thomas H. Raddall, between 1945 and 1946, discussing Thomas Hierlihy, a British officer deemed the "founder of Antigonish".

Letter from Sam Cunard to Thomas McCulloch

MS-2-40, SF Box 16, Folder 11
Item
September 7, 1815

Part of Thomas McCulloch collection

Item is a typed copy of a letter from Sam Cunard to Thomas McCulloch concerning students, likely Cunard's sons, John, Henry and Thomas, which Cunard sent to McCulloch in Pictou, Nova Scotia.

Letter from Edith MacMechan to Dr. Daniel Cobb Harvey

MS-2-30, SF Box 16, Folder 4, Item 3
Item
[191--?]

Part of Correspondence of Daniel C. Harvey

Item is one sheet of paper. The item is folded to create two additional pages, with only the right page having any text. The letter is from Edith MacMechan, Archibald MacMechan's wife, to Dr. Daniel Cobb Harvey.

International graduate education and international development : the role of Canadian universities : [speech]

UA-3, Box 306, Folder 3, Item 4
Item
January 9, 1990

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of a draft of an address delivered by Barry Lesser at the ANnual General Meeting of the Canadian Association of Graduate Schools, in Winnipeg, November 3, 1989, that was collected by Howard Clark. Also includes a note of appreciation from Clark to Lesser, dated January 9, 1990.

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 12, Item 2
Item
March 18, 1910

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 12, Item 5
Item
November 21, 1911

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 12, Item 11
Item
November 26, 1914

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 4
Item
November 19, 1944

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 5
Item
December 28, 1944

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon and Sally Ryan

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 9
Item
October 16, 1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 11
Item
November 25, 1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Correspondence between Helen Balcom, Dalhousie Alumni Secretary, and Bertha G. Oxner, Director of Women's Work at University of Saskatchewan

UA-32, Box 9, Folder 1, Item 11
Item
1943

Part of Dalhousie Alumni Association fonds

Item is a letter from Dalhousie Alumni Secretary, Helen Balcom, to Bertha Oxner at the University of Saskatchewan regarding the latter's written query about the history of early women graduates of Dalhousie University. Her letter makes reference to recently made lists, which are likely those listed elsewhere in this file (UA-32, Box 9, Folder 1, Items 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9). Bertha Oxner's letter of response is also included.

Correspondence between A. Stanley MacKenzie, Leonard Sanford, and others, regarding Labrador duck specimens held at the Thomas McCulloch Museum

UA-3, Box 163, Folder 8, Item 2
Item
1916

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of correspondence between Dalhousie President A. Stanley MacKenzie, Dr Leonard Sanford, C.J. Burchell, and Henry Fairfield Osborn, regarding Dalhousie's holding of extinct Labrador duck specimens in the Thomas McCulloch Museum.

Press release for the long-term loan acquisition of Labrador duck specimens by the National Museum of Natural History

UA-3, Box 163, Folder 8, Item 8
Item
1968

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of a press release issued by the National Museum of Canada regarding the long-term loan acquisition of extinct Labrador duck specimens from the Thomas McCulloch Museum at Dalhousie University to the National Museum of Natural History in Ottawa. Also includes correspondence between A.W.F. Banfield and Eric Mercer.

Correspondence to and from Ronald St. John MacDonald regarding the development of his book of essays in honour of Wang Tieya

MS-2-615, Box 17, Folder 1
File
1983-2002

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains correspondence between Ronald St. John MacDonald and Geping Rao, Song Ying, Bruce Archibald, Henry R. Zheng, Luo Haocai, and Robert S. Prichard.

Newspaper clippings re. Take Back the Night and International Women's Day

MS-15-2.2019-062, Box 3, Folder 11
File
1991

Part of Anita Martinez fonds

File contains one brochure for International Women's Day 1991, various newspaper clippings about Take Back the Night March, opening of a women's centre, and letters to the editor.

News release for the amendment to the Human Rights Code Chapter 214, clippings, correspondence, and ephemera

MS-15-13.2020-007, Box 1, Folder 10
File
1988 - 1991

Part of Kevin Crombie fonds

File contains an amendment to chapter 214 news release; clippings; memos; press release in support of including LGBT individuals in the Human Rights Legislation; pink triangle armband; correspondence; calls for donations; a list of individuals and organizations who wrote to MLA's with sending a copy to LGRNS; draft copy of an opinion article for the Halifax Herald; transcripts of an assembly debate; and a submission in respect of the Human Rights Act Bill 136.

Telegram from Isidore Ballon to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 19
File
[19--?]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a telegram sent to Ellen Ballon concerning money.

Letter from Yehudi Menuhin to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 9
File
December 2, 1957

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a letter from Yehudi Menuhin to Ellon Ballon written on December 2, 1957. The letter concerns a performance by Ellen Ballon in Montreal. Item is accompanied by the Ritz Carlton Montreal envelope in which Ballon received the letter.

Menuhin, Yehudi, 1916-1999

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding Qing-nan Meng's studies at Dalhousie Law School

MS-2-615, Box 11, Folder 7
File
1981-1986

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains correspondence and clippings from 1981 to 1986 related to Quing-nan Meng's studies at Dalhousie University, with correspondence between Ronald St. John Macdonald, Meng Qing-nan, Wang Fusun, Edgar Gold, Sachiko Kuwabara, Joseph C. Wheeler, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, John Vandermeulen, J.D. Kingham, David A. Golden, H.L. O'Brien, Peter Hoffman, S.P. Jagota, Michael Waldichuk, Sergio Gonzalez Galves, Kenneth Leffek, Danford Middlemiss, W.H. Charles, and W.A. Mackay.

Also includes the text of a memorandum agreement between Dalhousie Law School and the Institute of International Law at the University of Beijing and Procedures for the Approval of Institutional Cooperation Programmes between Canadian and Chinese Institutions.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence and materials related to the teaching of international law at Universite de Laval

MS-2-615, Box 26, Folder 3
File
1973-1985

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains correspondence and other documents collected by Ronald St. John Macdonald related to the teaching of international law at Canadian universities. This file deals predominantly with further materials around the teaching law at the Universite de Laval.

Includes correspondence between Ronald St. John Macdonald and Maurice Arbour, Ivan Bernier, Pierre Charpentier, Andre Dufour, Jean Fournier, Jean-Yves Grenon, Chantal Houdet, Annemarie Jacomy-Millette, Jacques-Yvan Morin, Andre Patry, Charles Stein, and William Tetley.

Also includes interview questions for Maurice Arbour and Andre Patry, an introduction to the teaching of law at Universite de Laval, and clippings.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence and materials related to the teaching of international law at several universities

MS-2-615, Box 26, Folder 4
File
1980-1989

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains correspondence and other documents collected by Ronald St. John Macdonald related to the teaching of international law at Canadian universities. This file deals predominantly with teaching law at York University, University of Manitoba, and Berkeley University.

File includes correspondence between Ronald St. John Macdonald and Thomas Barnes, Kathy Fisher, Edgar Gold, John Quinn, C.N. Sargent, Bryan Schwartz, Sharon Williams, and others.

Also includes a list of courses and seminars in international law at Osgoode Hall in 1984-85, and an outline of the Conference on Canadian-United States Strategic Concerns in the Arctic.

Correspondence related to the Marine and Environmental Law Programme at Dalhousie University

MS-2-615, Box 25, Folder 18
File
1991-1997

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File includes documents and correspondence related to the teaching of Marine and Environmental Law, between Ronald St. John Macdonald and Hugh Kindred, Ted McDorman, Dawn Russell, David VanderZwaag, and John A. Yogis.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding Ti-Chiang Chen's visit to Dalhousie University Law School

MS-2-615, Box 26, Folder 8
File
1980-1982

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains correspondence between Ronald St. John Macdonald and Mary Sun, Pegi Dover, Mary Boyd, Ti-Chiang Chen, Hugh M. Kindred, among others. File includes other materials related to Ti-Chiang Chen's visit.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding the student exchange program between Dalhousie Law School and Peking University

MS-2-615, Box 12, Folder 1
File
1983-1986

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains correspondence related to exchange of students between Dalhousie University Law School and Peking University, written from 1983 and 1986, between Ronald St. John Macdonald, Qui Mei Bai, H. Leslie O'Brien, Edgar Gold, Qing-Nan Meng, K.T. Leffek, Randle Edwards, Wang Fusum, Zhang Guo-hun, Ni Meng-xung, Zhang Long-xiang, Bai Gui Mei, Peter Hoffman, Bu Zhaomin, Iain Thomson, Gerald Fitzgerald, Evelyne Meltzer, Lawrence R. Raicht, Gary C. Vernon, and W.G. Low. File contains a photocopy of the memorandum of agreement between Dalhousie Law School and the Institute of International Law of the University of Beijing and notes and correspondence regarding Quing-nan Meng's thesis.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding James Li's thesis

MS-2-615, Box 22, Folder 15
File
1992-1996

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains correspondence with James Li, as well as annotated chapters from his thesis.

Correspondence 1939-1940

MS-2-128, Box 1, Folder 18
File
1939-1940

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

File contains correspondence to and from Samuel Balcom in 1939 and 1940. Correspondence is to Rebecca Cohn, Angus L. Macdonald, Carleton Stanley, Gordon B. Isnor, Colonel J.D.G. Campbell, Captain G.R. Forbes, Major L.L. Henshaw, Captain Carl Trask, Captain A.D. Grayson, Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Maxwell, and A.S. MacMillan, among others.

Letter from Samuel Balcom to A.M. Savage, Managing Editor of The Halifax Herald, thanking him for their coverage of the 1972 Balcom family reunion at Port Dufferin

MS-2-128, Box 1, Folder 17, Item 1
Item
1978

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Item is a letter from Samuel Balcom to A.M. Savage.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence with Bai Gui-mei

MS-2-615, Box 36, Folder 17
File
1981-1988

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence with Bing Ho

MS-2-615, Box 36, Folder 20
File
1985-1987

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

"Origin of the Irwin and Bartling Families in Queens County, N.S."

MS-2-202, Box 31, Folder 2, Item 5
Item
March 1941

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of a transcribed copy of a letter from Janet Mullins to Thomas H. Raddall on the history of the Irwin and Bartling families of Queens County, Nova Scotia.