- MS-2-442, Boxes 1-3
- Fonds
- 1899-1974
Myers, A.J. Williams
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Myers, A.J. Williams
Fonds includes Alan Creighton's diaries, which cover many of the years from 1920 to 2000. Writings from the period 1920 to 1954 (many undated) are mainly short stories and poems. These writings include handwritten and typed, complete and incomplete, and published and unpublished works. There is also some correspondence throughout as well as copies of his two books of poetry. The fonds includes writings with titles such as "About Poetry," "Poetry Courses," "Thoughts," "Music & Art," and "Bedford Basin." His notebooks include evidence of a variety of courses taken, including French and Greek, music, poetry, and art (both practice and history, including Chinese art). There is also a record of his art sales from 1964 to 1999. Personal and family documents are included in the fonds.
Alan Creighton's artwork is extensive and primarily in the form of sketches and watercolours, with a few oil paintings. Many of his sketches are in albums, many of which are used exclusively for one particular aspect of his studies. For example, album labels include "People," "Trees," "Skies," "Rock Formations," "Buildings," "Railway Sketches" (scenes from train journeys), and "Outdoors." Others identify a place and time and include such labels as "At the Zoo," "Nova Scotian Sketches 1951," "South Shore 1982," and "Toronto 1996." Still others contain a mixture of styles and themes. There are also numerous loose sketches and watercolours which have been loosely arranged into similar groupings such as "Clouds," "Boats," "Flowers," and so forth. Photograph albums include photos of family and of scenes taken by Alan as a reference for future paintings.
Included with Alan Creighton’s personal items are papers, writings, art, and memorabilia belonging to his friend and roommate Christine Eyles, who died without heirs. Some relate to her employment as a violinist in England and in Toronto, Ontario and some contain her poetry, plays, and artwork (in sketchbooks and on loose paper). Published and handwritten music scores, mostly for the violin, are also included. A photograph album contains many formal portraits of family and friends taken in England in the early 20th century. Records also include papers by and about her father, Charles Eyles, a famous violin-maker. Such materials include advertisements, brochures, and letters attesting to the high quality of his craftsmanship.
Creighton, Alan
Kerr, Alexander Enoch
This fonds consists of records which document the personal and business activities and interests of Alfred Dickie and, to a lesser extent, those of his immediate family and employees. Although the records span Dickie’s lifetime, few relate to his childhood, education, or final two years of life. Some items, in particular those concerning his export lumber business or his travels, derive from various places in North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and South Africa, though by far the majority are found to be located within Nova Scotia.
The fonds includes correspondence, business and administrative records, speeches, photographs, legal documents, and plans, among other materials. Records are chiefly in English, although a very small portion are in French, Norwegian, Finnish, Spanish, and Italian.
Dickie, Alfred
Dunlop, Allan Currie
Armand Therrien Photograph Collection
Therrien, Armand
Catalogue of Henry Orenstein's prints and paintings
Part of Joan and Henry Orenstein fonds
Banks, Catherine, 1957-
Catherine Creighton and family fonds
Fonds consists of papers created and/or accumulated by Catherine Creighton and her family, including those of her husband Graham and children Edith, Anna, Lois, Frieda, and Howard. While the fonds includes correspondence from Wilfred Creighton to his siblings and parents, Wilfred's papers are not included as a sous-fonds within the fonds.
The bulk of the fonds consists of correspondence from family and friends, but also includes diaries, photographs, financial papers, personal papers, memorabilia, print materials, scrapbooks, articles, and artwork. Records in the fonds provide a well-rounded depiction of the family's daily activities and lives - from their relationships with each other, their extended family, and their community, to their financial status, values, education, and careers.
Creighton Family
Stewart, Chester B.
Bennet, C.L.
Contact sheet from John Paterson's album # 1
Part of John Paterson fonds
Creelman Family
Dalhousie Student Council election campaign posters
Part of Allan Currie Dunlop fonds
David Kirkpatrick Stewart Maclellan's records
Maclellan, David Kirkpatrick Stewart
Part of Patricia Monk fonds
Part of Kenneth Leslie fonds
File contains an undated [1971 or 1972] typed letter sent to Kenneth Leslie from his daughter, Rosaleen. File contains discussion about sending a selection of typed copies of poems to Mr. [Patrick] Crean at McClelland and Stewart -- the other requested poems stored in boxes at the Dickson farmhouse in Shawville, Quebec -- and also mentions that Sean Haldane, who had previously published the ill-received (by Leslie) "Collected Poems of Kenneth Leslie", had not been informed of the efforts to publish an alternate collection of Leslie's works, and would not be "until it has all been settled".
File also contains a facsimile family photograph of the Dickson children, Jennifer, Elizabeth, Marjorie, Ross, and Charles, likely from 1958, serving as a "Seasons Greetings" card signed "from the Dicksons".
Morrissey, Donna, 1956-
Dorothy and John Dobson's research notes about the O'Brien family
Dobson, Dorothy Garrett
Dorothy and Samuel Shields fonds
Shields, Dorothy and Samuel
Dorothy and Samuel Shields' incoming correspondence
Part of Dorothy and Samuel Shields fonds
Edith Archibald (MacMechan) Dobson fonds
Dobson, Edith Archibald
Lynch, Edith (Nichols), fl. 1903-1958
Edward Kirkpatrick and Helen Stewart (Mackay) Maclellan's records
Maclellan, Edward Kirkpatrick
Edward Kirkpatrick Maclellan's records
MacLatchy, Edward Symons
Ernest W. Guptill's personal scrapbooks
Part of Ernest Wilmot Guptill fonds
Guptill, Ernest
Murray, Florence Jessie
Florence Jessie Murray's photographic negatives
Part of Florence Jessie Murray fonds
Florence Jessie Murray's photographs of family members and friends
Part of Florence Jessie Murray fonds
Florence Jessie Murray's photographs of patients with leprosy in Korea
Part of Florence Jessie Murray fonds
Florence Jessie Murray's photographs of trips around the world
Part of Florence Jessie Murray fonds
Florence Jessie Murray's photographs regarding the Korean mission of the United Church of Canada
Part of Florence Jessie Murray fonds
Florence Jessie Murray's records
Part of Florence Jessie Murray fonds
Frank and Cecilia De Mille's wedding photograph
Part of Patricia Monk fonds
Brodie, Fred
Nicholls, George
Henson, Guy
Bruce, Harry
Hicks, Henry D.
Part of Joan and Henry Orenstein fonds
Orenstein, Henry
Henry Orenstein's Sudbury industrial landscape mural project negatives
Part of Joan and Henry Orenstein fonds
Henry Orenstein's Sudbury industrial landscape mural project photographs
Part of Joan and Henry Orenstein fonds
Henry Orenstein's Sudbury industrial landscape mural project slides
Part of Joan and Henry Orenstein fonds
Read, Horace Emerson
Duff, J. Gordon
Baxter, James, 1844
Gray, James