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A short history of the Physics Department [at] Dalhousie University, 1838-1956 / by J.H.L. Johnstone

MS-1-Ref, Box 11, Folder 12
Item
March 1971

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Draft releases on the opening of the School of Physiotherapy at Dalhousie University

MS-1-Ref, Box 97, Folder 13, Item 4
Item
1963-1965

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of two drafts of an announcement about the opening of the School of Physiotherapy at Dalhousie University, beginning September 3, 1963; as well as a handwritten sheet outlining the experience of Arthur Shears, first director of the School.

Camp Hill Hospital : Its History and Development / K.A. Mackenzie, T.E. Kirk, R.E. Lemoine : [manuscript]

MS-13-23, SF Box 64, Folder 3
Item
1957

Part of Kenneth Alexander MacKenzie fonds

Item consists of a 1957 printing of the 1954 pamphlet "Camp Hill Hospital : Its History and Development", written by K.A. Mackenzie, T.E. Kirk, and R.E. Lemoine.

Neoplasm of eyelid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 10
Item
March 1900

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of a "clinical report" submitted to the March 1900 issue of the Maritime Medical News (Vol. XII, No. 3) by Dr. A.P. Reid, titled "Neoplasm of Eyelid", with information on how to treat such an ailment.

Sanitary progress : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 11
Item
August 1899

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of an "original communication" submitted to the August 1899 issue of the Maritime Medical News (Vol. XI, No. 8), by Dr. A.P. Reid, titled "Sanitary Progress".

Hygiene : Chapter I. Definition / A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 12
Item
June 1891

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of a chapter on hygiene written by Dr. A.P. Reid, which appeared in the "original communications" section of the June 1891 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol. III, No. 6)

Hygiene : Chapter II. Surveying the territory / A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 13
Item
July 1891

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of a chapter on hygiene -- "Surveying the Territory" written by Dr. A.P. Reid, which appeared in the "original communications" section of the July 1891 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol. III, No. 7)

Hygiene : Chapter III. Dirt, or matter out of place / A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 14
Item
October 1891

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of a chapter on hygiene -- "Dirt, or Matter Out f Place" -- written by Dr. A.P. Reid, which appeared in the "original communications" section of the October 1891 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol. III, No. 10).

Femoral aneurism successfully treated by digital compression : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 17
Item
September 19 1871

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of a short report submitted to the Canada Medical Journal (Volume 8, 1871) by Dr. A.P. Reid, titled "Femoral Aneurism [sic] successfully treated by Digital Compression".

The uses of pus in the animal econony / A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 24
Item
February 6, 1872

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of an "original communications" article submitted to the February 1872 issue of the Canada Medical Journal (Vol. 8, No. 9) by A.P. Reid, previously read before the Halifax Medical Society on February 6th, 1872, titled "The Uses of Pus in the Animal Economy".

Natural history and the fisheries / A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 25
Item
January 10 1876

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of an article submitted by A.P. Reid to the Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science (Vol. IV, Part II), read before the Institute on January 10th, 1876, titled "Natural History and the Fisheries".

Treatment of pneumonia sixty years ago / Dr. A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 26
Item
July 6 1910

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of an address by Dr. A.P. Reid, submitted to the September 1910 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol. XXII, No. 9), and read at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Society of Nova Scotia, held in Yarmouth on July 6th, 1910, titled "Treatment of Pneumonia Sixty Years Ago".

Stirpiculture, or, The ascent of man / A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 27
Item
January 13 1890

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of an address read by A.P. Reid before the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science on January 13th, 1890, titled "Stirpiculture, or, The Ascent of Man".

Pneumonia sixty years ago : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 28
Item
September 1910

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a short article submitted by A.P. Reid to the September 1910 issue of the Maritime Medical News, titled "Pneumonia Sixty Years Ago".

The Public Health Act of Nova Scotia / A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 29
Item
July 7 1904

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of an article submitted by A.P. Reid to the August 1904 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol, XVI, No. 8; in the Original Communications section), titled "The Public Health Act of Nova Scotia". The article was also read by Reid before a meeting the Maritime Medical Association on July 7th, 1904.

Atmospheric humidity in relation to health / A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 31
Item
August 1905

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of an article submitted by A.P. Reid to the April 1906 issue of the Maritime Medical News (Vol. XVIII, No. 4), titled "Atmospheric Humidity in Relation to Health". Item was also read at a meeting of the Canadian Medical Association in Halifax in August 1905.

The smallpox epidemic : persistence of the contagium of smallpox / A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 34
Item
May 1904

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of an article submitted by A.P. Reid to the May 1904 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol. XVI, No. 5; "Original Communications" section), titled "The Smallpox Epidemic: Persistence of the Contagium of Smallpox".

Why do disease germs vary in virulence? / A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 35
Item
November 1906

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of an article submitted by A.P. Reid to the November 1906 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol. XVIII, No. 11), titled "Why Do Disease Germs Vary in Virulence?", which was also read at a meeting of the Medical Society of Nova Scotia, held in Lunenburg in early 1906.

Recent legislation in reference to the public health and sanitoria / A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 36
Item
July 6 1900

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of an article submitted by A.P. Reid to the November 1900 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol. XII, No. 11; the "Original Communications" section), titled "Recent Legislation in Reference to the Public Health and Sanatoria". The article was also read before a meeting of the Medical Society of Nova Scotia, held in Amherst on July 6th, 1900.

The dairy of the future, or, Theory and practice combined : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 4
Item
March 18 1890

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of Dr. A.P. Reid's address before the Nova Scotia Dairyman's Association meeting, held in Halifax on March 18th, 1890, titled "The Dairy of the Future, or, Theory and Practice Combined", copied from the T.C. Allen-published pamphlet of the same year.

Poverty superseded : a new political economy. A paper of economic science : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 5
Item
January 19 1891

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of Dr. A.P. Reid's address before the Nova Scotian Institute of Science on January 19th, 1891, titled "Poverty Superseded: A New Political Economy", reproduced from the Gladwin Stationer and Bookmaker pamphlet of the same year.

The germ theory and sero-therapy : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 7
Item
July 3 1895

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of Dr. A.P. Reid's presidential address before the Nova Scotia Medical Society con-joint meeting with the Maritime Medical Association, held in Halifax on July 3rd, 1895, titled "The Germ Theory and Sero-Therapy". Item was reproduced from the August 1895 issue of the Maritime Medical News, pages 165-169.

New test for carbon monoxide blood : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 8
Item
December 1897

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimlie of an "original communication" submitted to the December 1897 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol. IX, No. 12) by Dr. A.P. Reid, titled "New Test for Carbon Monoxide Blood".

Report of a case of labour complicated by a polypus : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 9
Item
June 1898

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of a "clinical report" submitted to the June 1898 issue of the Maritime Medical News (Vol. X, No. 6) by Dr. A.P. Reid, titled "Report of a Case of Labour Complicated by a Polypus".

Porpoise oil / by Alexander H. Leighton, MD : [manuscript]

MS-13-86, Box 96, Folder 9, Item 1
Item
[after 1937]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a typed manuscript by Alexander Leighton describing his 1936 summer project filming a recreation of a traditional Digby County Mi'kmaq porpoise hunt and the subsequent rendering of the blubber into oil. The manuscript was commissioned by the magazine Movie Makers.

Typed drafts of newspaper articles about the new Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre

MS-2-130, Box 1, Folder 5, Item 5
Item
[1975-1977]

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

Item consists of typed draft manuscript material related to Barbara Hinds articles about the construction and operation of the new Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre, written for the Chronicle Herald and Mail Star between 1975 and 1977.

The Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre

MS-2-130, Box 1, Folder 5, Item 6
Item
[195-]

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

Item consists of a promotional pamphlet created by the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Council (M.A. Wilson, President at the time) titled "The Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre", about the opening of and services provided by the original rehabilitation centre, opened in the late-1950s under the leadership of Arthur Shears.

The early Scotch settlers of Cape Breton : [manuscript]

MS-2-165, SF Box 25, Folder 37
Item
1931

Item is a manuscript of Daniel Morrison's unpublished article The Early Scotch Settlers of Cape Breton, which he presented to the literary branch of the Guild in Dominion, Nova Scotia. Attached is his letter to Mr. McIntosh, requesting the manuscript's return and the reader's spelling corrections of Gaelic words.

Morrison, Murdoch Daniel

Address to graduates [on] Commencement day, St. Francis Xavier University : [manuscript]

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 48
Item
10 May 1939

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is an annotated typed manuscript.

"Old Sailor's Ballads, Collected by the Late Capt. Fenwick Hatt of Liverpool, N.S."

MS-2-202, Box 31, Folder 11, Item 5
Item
1973

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

File contains a transcription of ballads. Includes: "The Frozen Girl," "On the Banks of Newfoundland," "The Worn-Out Sailor," "The Rose of Britons Isle," "The Banks of Brandywine," "The Pride of Glenco," "Sweet Jinny on the Moor," [Untitled], "The Blind Sailor," "The Ship Lady Sherbrooke," "The Cabin Boy," "The Braes of Balquhidder," "The Ramblin' Irishman," "The Desolate Widow," "The Bounty Jumper," "Our Fifer Boy," "The Ghostly Sailors," "The Cumberland," and "Bold Jack Donahue." Includes handwritten annotations by Raddall

"Chanties and Other Songs of the Sea" : [manuscript]

MS-2-202, Box 31, Folder 2, Item 11
Item
1940

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a collection of transcribed sea chanties, as sung aboard vessels out of Liverpool, Nova Scotia in the 1870's, 1880's, and 1890's, and recalled in whole or part by William H. Smith, of Liverpool, N.S. (born 1867). The words were taken down and prepared in typescript by his son T. Brenton Smith, in the year 1940. Includes the following chanties: "The Loss of the Emma-Jane," "Lay Out, Tack Sheets and Haul," "Bound to Rio," "Blow the Man Down," "Old Hoss," "Screwing in Song," "Way Down in Tennessee," "The City of Baltimore," "Around the World and Home Again," "Old Mother Head's," "Sauer Kraut," "Arriving back at Liverpool," "The Mary," "Brigantine Scrocco," "The Big Five Gallon Jar," "Shiloh Brown," "Shanadore [Shenandoah]," "What You Going to do with a Drunken Sailor," "Goodbye, Fare Ye Well," "Say Old Man," "Harbour Grace," "Liverpool Packet," "Fire in the Foretop," "Sailor's Burial at Sea," "On the Banks of the Sacremento," "Rolling Home to Merry England," "Then Turn out You Jolly Tars," "Whiskey for my Johnnie," "The Banks of Newfoundland," "Hangman Johnnie," "On the Plains of Mexico," "We'll Pay Paddy Doyle for his Boots," "Isle of Fugi," "Old England's Gained the Day," and "Walking in de Middle of de Road." Includes annotations about the chanties, some of which are handwritten and by Thomas H. Raddall.

"The old Dexter Tavern at Liverpool, N.S."

MS-2-202, Box 31, Folder 2, Item 6
Item
July 1961

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of a brief history of the Liverpool tavern; includes a timeline of events at the tavern from the American Revolutionary War.

"The old Dexter Tavern at Liverpool, N.S.", revised

MS-2-202, Box 31, Folder 2, Item 7
Item
1966

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of a revised manuscript (from 1966) outlining a brief history of Dexter Tavern in Liverpool, Nova Scotia.

"A Ghost in the Old Dexter Tavern?" : [manuscript]

MS-2-202, Box 31, Folder 2, Item 8
Item
[197-]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of a typewritten account of a ghost story as told to Thomas Raddall by David and Amber Jones. Written in the early 1970s.

On the reasonableness of religion

MS-2-25, SF Box 16, Folder 3, Item 1
Item
1787

Part of Sermons by Reverend William Ellis

Item is a handwritten sermon.

On gratitude to almighty God

MS-2-25, SF Box 16, Folder 3, Item 2
Item
1796

Part of Sermons by Reverend William Ellis

Item is a handwritten sermon.

On mistaken zeal

MS-2-25, SF Box 16, Folder 3, Item 3
Item
1776

Part of Sermons by Reverend William Ellis

Item is a handwritten sermon.

On the happiness of dying in the Lord

MS-2-25, SF Box 16, Folder 3, Item 4
Item
1778

Part of Sermons by Reverend William Ellis

Item is a handwritten sermon.

On our Saviour's entry into Jersusalem

MS-2-25, SF Box 16, Folder 3, Item 5
Item
1778

Part of Sermons by Reverend William Ellis

Item is a handwritten sermon.

On Christian conversation

MS-2-25, SF Box 16, Folder 3, Item 6
Item
1788

Part of Sermons by Reverend William Ellis

Item is a handwritten sermon.

Discourse no. 1 & 2

MS-2-25, SF Box 16, Folder 3, Item 7
Item
[late 1770s]

Part of Sermons by Reverend William Ellis

Item consists of two discourses written by William Ellis, likely in the late-1770s. The items are bound dos-a-dos, with Discourse no.1 starting at front cover to the middle of the booklet and Discourse no.2 starting at the back cover to the middle of the booklet.

Chanties by various authors

MS-2-288, Box 22, Folder 18
Item
[19--]

Part of Frank Parker Day fonds

File contains handwritten copies of various sea chanties collected by Frank Parker Day. Includes "Yankee Ship," "A la Claire Fontaine" (accompanied by musical notation), "Storm Along," "Shenandoah," and other untitled chanties.

The islanders / by Frank Parker Day : [manuscript]

MS-2-288, Box 9, Folder 1; Box 9, Folder 2
Item
[ca. 1927]

Part of Frank Parker Day fonds

Item is a typed manuscript with handwritten amendments called "The Islanders," which later became the novel Rockbound, published in 1928.

Letters and poems of Molly Beresford sent to Andrew Merkel

MS-2-326, Box 2, Folder 36
File
1922-1936

Part of Andrew Merkel fonds

File contains 71 handwritten letters sent from poet Molly Beresford to Andrew Merkel between 1922 and 1936; three postcards; one Christmas card; and four poems, including "The Philosophy of a Would-Be Poet," "Moon Shadows," "To a Fair Lady on returning to her a Pair of Rubber Shoes."

Traditional songs from New Glasgow

MS-2-353, SF Box 38, Folder 1
File
[ca. 1975]

File contains four pages of five traditional songs sung to Edward Charles Feltmate during his childhood in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Includes the text to the following songs: "The Cold Winters Night", "The Steam Packet Soverign [sic]", "The Gay Spanish Maid", "The Flying Cloud", and "Sable Island: Graveyard of the Atlantic" (written by an attendant of the [Sable Island] Life Saving Station).

Feltmate, Charles, fl. 1975

Autobiography of Herbert Leslie Stewart, MA (Oxon) PhD, FRSC, FRSA

MS-2-45, Box 43, Folder 25
Item
1953

Part of Herbert Leslie Stewart fonds

Item is a photocopy of an unpublished typed manuscript, containing the following hand-printed text on the extant front page, beneath the table of contents: "AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF / HERBERT LESLIE STEWART / MA (Oxon), PhD, FRSC, FRSA / FIRST DRAFT / – INCOMPLETE and UNPOLISHED / at the time of his death in 1953."

Dominion of Canada, Notice to Mariners #4 of 1919 (Atlantic No. 4)

MS-2-474, SF Box 43, Folder 10
Item
1919

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a portion of a Dominion of Canada Notice to Mariners from 1919 related to contacting the Chebucto Head; Canso; and Cape Race-Radiotelegraph Direction Finding Stations.

Oddball : [manuscript regarding Sable Island Coastal Station experience]

MS-2-474, SF Box 43, Folder 9
Item
[197-?]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a short typed manuscript drafted by Richard Orme Allen, likely in the 1970s, about experiences at the Sable Island Coastal Station.

Robert Dewis's research notes related to the Mary Celeste and the Dewis family

MS-2-518, Box 1, Folder 1, Item 1
Item
December 12, 1950

Part of Irving Deale collection

Item consists of typed research notes about the Mary Celeste and the Dewis family, written by Robert Dewis, transcribed in 1950 by R.L. Dewis, and collected by Irving Deale. Dewis was the son of Joshua Dewis, owner of the Mary Celeste.

The mystery of the Marie Celeste : [manuscript]

MS-2-518, Box 1, Folder 1, Item 3
Item
1968

Part of Irving Deale collection

Item consists of a facsimile of a passage from J. Alphonse Deveau's 1968 book "La ville francaise" related to the mystery of the Mary Celeste, with an accompanying English translation (likely undertaken by Irving Deale).

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