Fonds consists primarily of correspondence (1970-1974). Other materials include documents regarding American draft laws, Canadian immigration laws and counselling notes on immigrants. Administrative records (1970-1974) include press releases, financial documents and newspaper clippings.
Nova Scotia Committee to Aid American War Objectors
Item consists of a presentation given by Norman D. Lea to the Canadian Transport Research Forum Eighth Annual Meeting, titled "The Efficiency of Urban Transport in Canada", reference material collected to shape public transportation changes in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Item is a paper prepared by Norman Peterson in review of the original assumptions made about the community by Teled Video Services Association that led to the development of the Media Resouces centre along with other services.
Fonds consists of records documenting the history of the Ecology Action Centre, both internal and outreach activities, and include correspondence, annual reports, administrative records, committee files, subject files, and an extensive library of audiovisual materials on a variety of environmental and ecological topics.
Item consists of the Annual Report of the Ecology Action Centre, from 1976. Includes information related to the activities of the organization of the past several years, as well as committees and future plans.
Item consists of the Annual Report of the Ecology Action Centre, covering 1976-1977. Includes information related to recent activities (Spruce Budworm monitoring, car pooling) and future goals (energy improvements and educational outreach).
Item consists of Volume 8, Number of Jusun, a newsletter of the Ecology Action Centre. This issue contains the EAC's 1979-1980 annual report, with Grant MacDonald's outgoing-president report, financial information, a look back at the previous year (by Cathy Frazee), and a look ahead at the next year (by incoming president Bessa Ruiz).
Item is the Ecology Action Centre Annual Report for 1980-1981, which is missing the first two pages. Includes part of Bessa Ruiz's president's report, a look back at the previous ten years of the organization (by Ginny Point), and the organization's annual financial report (by Bill Coffey).
Item consists of a facsimile of the Ecology Action Centre Annual Report for 1987-1988, delivered at the Annual General Meeting at the Nova Scotia Museum, April 30, 1988. Includes information related to fundraising efforts, ongoing projects, outreach, and committee work.
Item consists of a copy of the Ecology Action Centre' annual report for the years 1999-2000. Includes a report of the Chair (by Holly Reid), a list of EAC-adjacent publications released this year, financial statements, as well as project and committee updates from Tony Bowron, Sue Brown, Mark Butler, Tony Charles, Derek Davis, Susanne Fuller, Kermit deGooyer, Susan Gass, Ellen Redden, Sue Watson, and Thea Wilson-Hammond.
Item consists of the annual report of the Ecology Action Centre, covering the years 2000-2001. Includes Peggy Cameron's chair report, committee updates from Tony Bowron, Mark Butler, Susan Gass, Lara Gibson, Jayne Roma, and Heidi Schaefer, an update on the Nova Scotia Coastal Water Trail by Sue Browne, a Transportation Issues Committee update from Alex Fischer, Susanna Fuller, and Rebecca O'Brien, an Urban Issues Committee update by David Aalders, a Wilderness Committee update by Kermit deGooyer, a Harbour Committee update by Rosalee Grette Lydon, a Fundraising Committee update by Wendy MacGregor, and other updates from June Hall, Mark Butler, Emma Boardman, Rochelle Owen, and Mary MacLeod.
Item consists of the annual report of the Ecology Action Centre for the years 2001-2002. Includes the chair report submitted by Susanna Fuller and Peter Austin-Smith, a Marine Issues Committee report by Mark Butler, a Coastal Issues Committee report by Tony Bowron, as well as other reports submitted by David Aalders, John Abati, Cheryl Benjamin, Kevin Blair, Emma Boardman, Janice Brown, Sue Browne, Peggy Cameron, Alex Fischer, Lianne Giswold, June Hall, Mary MacLeod, and Stephanie Sodero.
Item consists of the annual report of the Ecology Action Centre for the years 2002-2003. Includes a chair report submitted by Trudie Richards and Gregor MacAskill, a Marine Issues Committee report submitted by Mark Butler, a Committee on Marine Bioinvasions report submitted by Gretchen Fitzgerald, a Coastal Issues/Salt Marsh Committee report submitted by Tony Bowron and Jennifer Graham, a Halifax Harbour Watershed Restoration Coalition report submitted by Jerry MacKinlay, a Transportation Issues Committee report submitted by Janet Barlow, and other updates by David Aalders, Kevin Blair, Emma Boardman, Alexandra Fischer, Lianne Giswold, June Hall, Mike Milloy, and Robynn Moody.
Item consists of the annual report of the Ecology Action Centre for the years 2003-2004. Includes a co-chairs report submitted by Trudie Richards, an internal director's report submitted by Mark Butler, and other reports and updates by Dave Aalders, Janet Barlow, Angela Bischoff, Troy Bowron, Maggy Burns, Peggy Cameron, Susanna Cheng, Penny Doherty, Gretchen Fitzgerald, Susanna Fuller, Jen Graham, June Hall, Judy Lipp, Wendy MacGregor, Nick McLean, Mike Milloy, Jayne Roma, Veronica Sherwood, Troy Swan, and Carla Vandenberg.
Item consists of the annual report of the Ecology Action Centre for the years 2004-2005, as well as an update of financial statements for the year. Includes reports submitted by Dave Aalders, Brian Aird, Kevin Blair, Tony Bowron, Maggy Burns, Mark Butler, Jennifer Graham, Gregor MacAskill, Sean Weseloh McKeane, Sylvia Mangalam, Maida Murray, Minga O'Brien, Raymond Plourde, Daniel Rainham, Clare Robinson, Carla Vandenberg, and Anne Warburton,
Item is the annual report of the Ecology Action Centre for the years 2005-2006, including appended financial statement information. Includes reports submitted by Lachlan Barber, John Brazner, Jeff Brown, Maggy Burns, Mark Butler, Joanne Cook, Judy Cookey, Susanna Fuller, Mike Furlong, Jennifer Graham, Becca Green, Brendan Haley, Sean Wesleoh McKeane, Heather McKibbon, Marla MacLeod, Raymond Plourde, Daniel Rainham, Clare Robinson, Jayne Roma, and Tarah Wright.
Item consists of the annual report of the Ecology Action Centre for 2006-2007. Includes brief updates from committees, as well as ongoing projects and current financial information.
Item consists of the annual report for the Ecology Action Centre for 2007-2008. Includes a director's note from Mark Butler and Maggy Burns, a chair update from Simon Melrose, and brief updates of ongoing projects from various committees.
Fonds comprises reports, publications, meeting notes and minutes, correspondence and general documentation illustrating the activities of the Community Planning Association of Canada, Nova Scotia Division.
Community Planning Association of Canada, Nova Scotia Division
Fonds consists of records documenting the council's role in coordinating health, welfare, and recreation services and programs, and includes newsletters and memoranda, reports and correspondence.
Fonds consists of correspondence with the Canadian Medical Association and its professional journal; manuscripts of papers and addresses; off prints; obituaries of Dr. Hattie; a letter from Secretary of Graduates of McGill University H.C. Pruell (1897); and a letter from Sir J.W. Dawson (1897).
Fonds comprises records documenting Dr. Jones' woek as a clinical psychiatrist and faculty member. Materials include patient records, manuscripts, lecture notes, course materials, correspondence, published articles, speeches, photographs, and subject files. The bulk of this collection consists of meeting minutes and correspondence related to professional associations to which he belonged.
Fonds comprises several drafts of Health Care in Nova Scotia: A New Direction for the Seventies (1972) and includes related briefs, submissions, statistics, and articles.
File contains 11 reports, papers and proposals regarding child welfare and group homes in Nova Scotia, drafted between 1969-1974 by committees of the Atlantic Child Guidance Centre and the Children's Aid Society of Halifax.
Item consists of the fourth draft of an Atlantic Child Guidance Centre position paper, dated August 31, 1972, prepared by the Atlantic Child Guidance Centre Policy Committtee (Dr. Alexander Murchison, Dr. G. Gordon, Norris Turner, Paul Norton, Dr. S. Bijoor, and Everett Harris). The item is addressed to "all Atlantic Child Guidance Centre staff for comment" before final submission, and has the goal of ensuring that "adolescents [...] not be forgotten either in terms of bureaucratic strucutre or in terms of submergence in adult designed and orientated programs," and that they "require advocates" to ensure that any public health legislation does not overlook the needs of those who are "underage [... in a] largely adult orientated society."
Item is a proposal submitted to the Halifax Children's Foundation by the Children and Youth Action Council dated August 2, 1974. The item outlines CAYAC's mission as a "grassroots response to perceived shortcomings in services and programs for young people in Nova Scotia," discusses the organization's objectives and activities (assessing and contributing to legislation, addressing services it provides, pushing for individual case representation, increasing public awareness, and engaging youth involvement). The proposal outlines a request that the Halifax Children's Foundation provide CAYAC with a "three-year demonstration grant" to employ a full-time coordinator and a secretary to achieve the organization's objectives.
Item consists of an early draft of a "Group home development proposal" compiled by the Alexander Murchison (and others) for the Group Home Advisory Committee, Children's Aid Society of Halifax, dated March 5, 1973. The committee consisted of Dr. Murchison (chairman), Ron Smith, Pat Corkery, T. Daley, Mrs. Cleveland, and Father O'Neil. The purpose of the document is "to recommend proposals relative to the development of group homes by the Children's Aid Society of Halifax". Item also contains handwritten inked marginal notes and corrections.
Item consists of a draft brief submitted to the Commission of Special Protection Services compiled by Dr. Alexander Murchison and others for the Children's Aid Society of Halifax, presented on May 29, 1972. The report was compiled for the purpose of stressing the importance of examining the "very fine line [...] between delinquent behavior resulting in direct Court Action under the Juvenile Delinquents Act and the behavior exhibited by a child in need of protection as defined in the Child Welfare Act" and making best practice recommendations, when determining foster home placements resulting from Family Court cases regarding child welfare and juvenile delinquency. Item also contains an appendix of three anonymous case studies from the Shelburne region.
Item is a brief presented to the Minister's Committee to Re-write the Child Welfare Act by the Children and Youth Action Council drafted on May 15, 1974. The report contains recommendations from the Council regarding amendments to the Child Welfare Act. Other members of the committee include Mrs. Susan Burchell (Social worker), Mrs. Betty Curran (Student social worker, Maritime School of Social Work), Mr. Terry Donahoe (Barrister), Miss Emily Duffy (Student social worker, Maritime School of Social Work), Dr. Murchison (then of the Dartmouth Branch of the Atlantic Child Guidance Centre), Miss Cathy Neilson (Student, Dalhousie Legal Aid), Miss Ann Preyde (Girl's Residence Centre), and Mrs. Mary Zinck (Halifax Children's Aid Society), as well as co-chairpersons Dr. Joan Cummings (Maritime School of Social Work) and Mrs. Marilyn Peers (Dartmouth Branch, Atlantic Child Guidance Centre).
Item is a draft brief compiled by Alexander Murchison and others in 1973 or 1974, regarding the opening of a Child Guidance Centre. Item reviews reports and speeches (Clyde Marshall's 1969 working paper, a 1970 address by the Honourable R.A. Donahoe to the Conference of Mental Health Centre Boards, the Hastings Report, and the Government of Ontario's White Paper), as a means of determining that the functioning of the Centre would be "impaired" if the Centre was to be located in the Abbie Lane Psychiatric Hospital. The item addresses concerns with the proposal arising from the schism between prevention (which the Centre would encourage) versus treatment (which the hospital engages in), as well as the stigma associated with the hospital, affecting negatively potential work with at-risk youth and their families.
Item is a draft funding proposal compiled by Alexander Murchison and others, submitted to the Atlantic Regional Office, Non-Medical Use of Drugs Directorate, Health Protection Branch, Department of National Health & Welfare, in February 1973, encouraging the funding and development of an adolescent health care program in Nova Scotia. The item addresses what was achieved from a similar proposal in 1972, and outline aims "to animate interested health care workers [in the province] to initiate changes within their own community and profession." The item contains a three-page budget appendix.
File contains six reports, papers and proposals regarding child health, child welfare, and group homes in Nova Scotia, drafted between 1970-1975 by Alexander John Murchison and others.
Item is a paper written by Alexander Murchison in December 1970, outlining the "acute psychiatric emergency" of school phobia, suggesting that it is more complicated than being simply "separation anxiety." He defines the phobia, outlines the clinical features and symptoms, discusses the role of separation in the condition, and addresses potential treatments.
Item is an early draft proposal written by Alexander Murchison and others in 1972 or 1973, regarding funding for a health grant to improve the delivery of health services to children and youth in Nova Scotia. The proposal accompanies a report entitled "A Time to Act."
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