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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 courses at Dalhousie Law School

MS-2-615, Box 101, Folders 1 - 3; and MS-2-615, Box 102, Folders 1 - 6
File
1943 - 1991

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains materials related to different Ronald St. John Macdonald's courses at Dalhousie Law School, including jurisprudence, conflicts of law, international law, and other topics. File includes materials related to Ronald St. John Macdonald's real property and land law courses at the University of Western Ontario, and Ronald St. John Macdonald's constitutional law course at Osgoode Hall Law School.

Meeting minutes, resumes, clippings and notes regarding the 1998 DFA strike

MS-2-615, Box 101, Folders 9 - 14; and MS-2-615, Box 102, Folders 13 - 15
File
1967 - 1990

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File also includes contact lists, timetables, resumes, two issues of New Directions in Ocean Law, Policy and Management from 1981 and 1982.

Early development of the United Nations University

MS-2-615, Box 107, Folder 24
File
[ca. 1969] - 1973

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Ronald St. John Macdonald's research materials on the United Nations

MS-2-615, Box 108, Folders 9 - 11; and MS-2-615, Box 115, Folder 15
File
[ca. 1965] - [ca. 1976]

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File includes issues of the Journal of the United Nations, United Nations economic and social council reports, United Nations committee on the elimination of racial discrimination reports, handwritten notes, correspondence and other materials related to the subject.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding the Canadian Council on International Law

MS-2-615, Box 120, Folders 5 - 7; and MS-2-615, Box 124, Folders 1 - 9
File
1972 - 2000

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains reports, correspondence, bulletins, handwritten notes, lists, meeting minutes, and other materials related to the subject. File includes three issues of the American Society of International Law newsletter from the period between 1975 to 1978.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's research materials regarding the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights

MS-2-615, Box 122, Folder 12
File
1945 - [198-?]

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains records related to the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights, Dalhousie University, and Canada's constitution revision. File includes photographs of a group of unidentified individuals and letters between Ronald St. John Macdonald and Paul Martin.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's list of publication developed by the Canadian Council on International Law's members

MS-2-615, Box 123, Folder 3
File
1976 - 1976

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding the Canadian Council on International Law conferences

MS-2-615, Box 123, Folders 4 - 8
File
1970 - 1979

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

International Law Association records

MS-2-615, Box 125, Folder 8; and MS-2-615, Box 128, Folder 1
File
1972 - 1974

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Pamphlet for an event held at Dalhousie University to celebrate the publication of Claude Bissel's Ernest Buckler Remembered

MS-2-615, Box 127, Folder 15
File
1989 - 1991

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

International Law Association Committee on Legal Aspects of the Conservation of the Environment

MS-2-615, Box 127, Folders 2 and 3
File
1972 - 1988

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Dalhousie University LLB Class of 1952 contact information

MS-2-615, Box 128, Folder 14
File
[199-?]

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Ronald St. John Macdonald's biographical materials

MS-2-615, Box 130, Folders 3 - 6
File
1965 - 1986

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's biographical materials collected by him during his life. File includes Ronald St. John Macdonald's statutory declaration in the matter of membership in the Law of Society of Upper Canada, materials submitted to the Canadian Who's Who, newspaper clippings, periodicals, typescripts, publications lists, and other materials.

Photographs of the Dalhousie Law School class of 1929

MS-2-615, Box 134, Folder 7
File
1928 - [ca. 1988]

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File includes a photograph of Ronald St. John Macdonald with a group of unidentified individuals taken in the 1970s and a portrait of an unidentified man taken in 1988.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's annotated draft list of Maxwell Cohen's publications

MS-2-615, Box 66, Folder 2
File
1988 - 1988

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding the development of his book "Canadian perspective on international law and organization"

MS-2-615, Box 66, Folders 11 - 13; and MS-2-615, Box 74, Folders 1 - 5
File
1966 - 1989

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File includes records that Ronald St. John Macdonald collected after the book was published.

Research records about Horace Read and Dalhousie Law School

MS-2-615, Box 72, Folder 6
File
1975 - 1988

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding the development of his book "essays in honour of Wang Tieya"

MS-2-615, Box 72, Folders 7 - 10
File
1986 - 2002

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File includes records regarding the Journal of the History of International law issue honouring Wang Tieya, published in 2002.

The Practice of Freedom : Canadian Essays on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms research materials

MS-2-615, Box 73, Folder 5
File
1978 - 1979

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Ronald St. John Macdonald's research materials for the development of the paper "Dalhousie Law School: 1965 - 1990, an oral history"

MS-2-615, Box 79, Folder 2
File
1986 - 1989

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Notes about pensions in municipal police departments

MS-2-681, Box 18, Folder 12
File
1988

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Biographical information for artists featured in the Black Wimmin: When And Where We Enter exhibition

MS-3-35, Box 25, Folder 3, Item 24
Item
1989

Part of Eyelevel Gallery fonds

Item consists of biographical information, curriculum vitae, and canvas information related to the Black Wimmin: When And Where We Enter exhibition at Eye Level Gallery, September 1989.

MS-5-22, Box 1, Folders 1-9
File
1992-2020

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains documents related to the Nova Scotia Mass Choir from 1992 to 2020.

Documents include track listings and timestamps for audiocassette recordings from 1992 to 1993, membership lists, song listings and guest artist names for each episode of the television program, "Hallelujah," from 1996 to 1997, track listings, dates, and names of artists for videocassette recordings

Guest artists include Hart Rouge, Lorraine Klaasen, the Holmes Brothers, Martha Reeves, Joe Sealy, the Gospel Heirs Quartet, and others.

Song titles include "Amazing Grace," "Battle Hymn," "Gospel Train," "Go Tell it on the Mountain," and others.

File includes an official event program for "A Conversation With Barack Obama." The live event took place at Scotiabank Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia on November 13, 2019. The Nova Scotia Mass Choir performed at the close of the event.

MS-5-22, Box 7, Folders 7-12
File
1994

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains documents related to the Nova Scotia Mass Choir in 1994.

Documents include newspaper clippings, correspondence, programs, and ephemera related to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Dallas, Texas, the sixteenth annual Financial Post Business in the Arts Awards ceremony

File also includes membership lists and a report by choir president, Linda Carvery.

Historical lists of Jewish Dalhousie students and women Dalhousie students, graduates and recipients of honourary degrees

UA-32, Box 9, Folder 1
File
1929 - 1944

Part of Dalhousie Alumni Association fonds

File also includes a list of Catholic sisters associated with Mount Saint Vincent University.

List of Catholic sisters typed on Mount Saint Vincent University letterhead

UA-32, Box 9, Folder 1, Item 1
Item
[19--]

Part of Dalhousie Alumni Association fonds

Item is an undated list typed on Mount Saint Vincent University letterhead recording the names and associated convents of Catholic sisters. Some of the names have pencilled numbers or checks beside them.

List of women who received honorary degrees of Doctor of Laws from Dalhousie

UA-32, Box 9, Folder 1, Item 10
Item
1943

Part of Dalhousie Alumni Association fonds

Item is a typed list, dated January 7, 1943, of Dalhousie women who received honorary LLDs: Eliza Ritchie (1927); Jemima MacKenzie (1940); and Edith MacGregor Read (1942). The first page is mistakenly titled "Honorary Degrees of Bachelor of Laws (Women). The second and third pages contain a biographical sketch of each recipient under a title corrected to read Honorary Degrees of Doctor of Laws (L.L.D.).

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.

List of women Dalhousie graduates probably complete to 1917

UA-32, Box 9, Folder 1, Item 12
Item
[1919?]

Part of Dalhousie Alumni Association fonds

Item is a typewritten alphabetical list with the handwritten title "Women Graduates" and a note: "copied from calendars summer of 1919 (probably complete to 1917)." The list includes students' names, home towns, degree earned and date granted.

List of Jewish students in attendance at Dalhousie University from 1926-1941

UA-32, Box 9, Folder 1, Item 2
Item
1941

Part of Dalhousie Alumni Association fonds

Item includes a covering letter from Dalhousie's business manager to Mrs. Heinish of Preston Street, Halifax, explaining that the list is sent at the request of Dr. Lehv.

List of women graduates in the Faculty of Arts and Science up to 1900

UA-32, Box 9, Folder 1, Item 3
Item
1943

Part of Dalhousie Alumni Association fonds

Item is a typed list, created 7 January 1943, of Dalhousie women graduates in the Faculty of Arts and Science. The list is chronological and alphabetical and includes addresses, notes about name changes (i.e., marital status), family connections and academic honours and areas of study, and is annotated by hand to indicate those deceased.

List of women graduates in law

UA-32, Box 9, Folder 1, Item 4
Item
1943

Part of Dalhousie Alumni Association fonds

Item is a typed list of 15 women graduates in law, created on January 6, 1943, beginning with Frances Lilian Fish (1918) and ending with Maureen O'Mullin Allen (1941). The second page contains an identical list, created January 7, 1943, with an expanded title, that includes "from Dalhousie University."

List of women graduates in medicine from Dalhousie University

UA-32, Box 9, Folder 1, Item 5
Item
1942

Part of Dalhousie Alumni Association fonds

Item is a typed list, created on June 13, 1942 for Mrs Bean, of women graduates in medicine from Dalhousie University. The list is chronological and contains 48 names and graduation dates, beginning with Annie Isabella Hamilton (1894) and ending with Mary Wheeler MacIntyre (1939).

List of women graduates in medicine from Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS

UA-32, Box 9, Folder 1, Item 6
Item
[194?]

Part of Dalhousie Alumni Association fonds

Item is an undated typed list of women graduates in medicine from Dalhousie University, beginning with Annie Isabella Hamilton (1894) and ending with Mary Wheeler MacIntyre (1939/1940). The list is chronological and includes 51 names with graduation dates, name changes (i.e., marital status) and addresses, some of which are amended by hand.

List of women graduates in dentistry

UA-32, Box 9, Folder 1, Item 7
Item
1943

Part of Dalhousie Alumni Association fonds

Item is a typed list of women graduates in dentistry, created on January 6, 1943. The list includes four names: Arabel Catherine MacKenzie (1919); Hazel Alice Thompson (1923); Mabel Angela St. John Magee (1924); and Roberta MacKenzie Forbes (1924). The second page contains an identical list, created January 7, 1943, with an expanded title, that includes "from Dalhousie University."

List of women graduates of Dalhousie up to 1900

UA-32, Box 9, Folder 1, Item 8
Item
1943

Part of Dalhousie Alumni Association fonds

Item is a typed list, created on January 7, 1943, of Dalhousie women graduates up to 1900, beginning with Margaret Florence Newcombe (1885) and ending with Elizabeth Helen Stewart (1900). There are 55 names on the list, which is annotated by hand with information about degrees granted, current occupations and addresses, and indicating those deceased. The second page contains handwritten notes about some of the graduates.

List of lady graduates and BA students of Dalhousie University

UA-32, Box 9, Folder 1, Item 9
Item
[194?]

Part of Dalhousie Alumni Association fonds

Item is an undated, typed alphabetical list of Dalhousie women graduates and their addresses. There are 88 names on the list, some with asterisks but no corresponding note.

Canadian watercolours exhibition

UA-36, Box 1, Folder 1
Item
1953

Part of Dalhousie Art Gallery fonds

Item is a list of works and prices for each artist in the exhibition, including details about works selected for purchase by the University.

Exhibitions 1960-61

UA-36, Box 1, Folder 10
File
1960-1961

Part of Dalhousie Art Gallery fonds

File consists of records relating to exhibitions held at Dalhousie University between 1960-1961.

Records relate to 'A Not Always Reverent Journey', 'UNESCO Reproductions of Water Colors', and 'Pastels and Watercolors by Alfred Whitehead'. Records consist of an artist statement and biography for Alfred Whitehead, artwork price lists, memorandums from Dr. Usmiami, exhibition loan agreements, packing lists, schedules, itineraries, newsletters announcing exhibition openings, and correspondence between Dr. Usmiami and Rosamond Campbell, Ruth Henderson, Alfred Whitehead, Grace Keddy, and Joseph Purcell, Esq..

Exhibitions 1961-62

UA-36, Box 1, Folder 13-14
File
1961-1962

Part of Dalhousie Art Gallery fonds

File consists of records related to exhibitions held at the Dalhousie Art Gallery from 1961-1962.

Records consist of a clipping of a review titled 'Paintings by Lola Mould'; floor plan and photograph, exhibition text, and bibliography to accompany 'Contemporary Canadian Painting', loaned from the National Gallery of Canada; exhibition texts, lists of artworks, loan agreements, packing lists, itineraries for 'The Campaign in Northwest Europe', 'Sculpture Reproductions', 'Polish Posters', 'Maritime Art Association Exhibition', 'Highlights of American Painting', 'Contemporary Canadian Painting', and 'Kodachrome Slide Project'; handwritten notes; an information booklet; and exhibition entry forms for the 'Dalhousie Atlantic Award Exhibition'.

Exhibitions 1963-64

UA-36, Box 1, Folder 18
File
1963

Part of Dalhousie Art Gallery fonds

File consists of records related to exhibitions planned for the Dalhousie Art Gallery between 1963-1964.

Records include correspondence between Mirko Usmiami and Jean-René Ostiguy (National Gallery of Canada), cancelling several exhibitions after damage to artworks from the Paul-Emile Borduas exhibition; packing lists; itineraries; lists of available exhibitions from the National Gallery; and an exhibition lending agreement.

Canadian Society of Graphic Art travelling exhibition

UA-36, Box 1, Folder 2
File
1954

Part of Dalhousie Art Gallery fonds

File consists of one record related to the 'Canadian Society of Graphic Art' travelling exhibition, loaned by Dalhousie University from the National Gallery of Canada in 1954.

Record consists of a pricelist for artworks included in the exhibition.

Works by Sarah Jackson, Carol Fraser, and Aileen Meagher exhibition files

UA-36, Box 1, Folder 20
File
1963-1964

Part of Dalhousie Art Gallery fonds

File consists of records relating to the planned group exhibition of artworks by Sarah Jackson, Carol Fraser, and Aileen Meagher for 1964 which did not occur.

Records include price lists for artworks; and artist biographies and curriculum vitae for Jackson, Fraser, and Meagher.

Exhibitions 1964-65

UA-36, Box 1, Folder 22
File
1964-1965

Part of Dalhousie Art Gallery fonds

File consists of exhibition records of the Dalhousie Art Gallery for 1964-1965.

Records include correspondence from Dr. Usmiami (Curator); lists; exhibition text for 'Four Masters – Pellan, Borduas, Riopelle, Dumouchel', 'Norwegian Stave Churches', 'Building a Nation', and 'Romanesque Paintings from Spain', loaned from the National Gallery of Canada; an artist biography of Goodrich Robert for the exhibition 'Goodrich Robert's War Sketches'; and an exhibition schedule.

Non-figurative paintings 1961-1964 by Lawren P. Harris exhibition

UA-36, Box 1, Folder 28
File
1964

Part of Dalhousie Art Gallery fonds

File consists of records related to the exhibition ‘Non-figurative Paintings 1961-1964 by Lawren P. Harris’, held at the Dalhousie Art Gallery in January 1965.

Records consist of a list of artworks, artist biography, and correspondence between Mirko Usmiami and Lawren P. Harris.

Paintings and drawings by Miller Brittain exhibition

UA-36, Box 1, Folder 29
File
1964-1965

Part of Dalhousie Art Gallery fonds

File consists of records related to the exhibition 'Paintings and Drawings by Miller Brittain' held at the Dalhousie Art Gallery in February 1965.

Records consist of one newspaper clipping titled ‘Connoisseur [Daniel O’Keefe] Praises Works of Miller Brittain’; correspondence between Mirko Usmiami and Stuart Smith (Curator, Beaverbrook Art Gallery), Mrs. Paul (Celia) Toomik (Assistant to Mr. Brittain), Lawren Harris (Head, Department of Fine Arts, Mount Allison University), Miller Brittain, Dr. Charles Comfort (Director, National Gallery of Canada), and R. F. Wodehouse (Curator, War Collection, National Gallery of Canada); a loan agreement between Dalhousie Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada; an biography and artist statement of Miller G. Brittain; exhibition notes; a list of artworks; an invitation list; exhibition reviews; and draft press release and publicity texts.

Exhibition files 1958

UA-36, Box 1, Folder 3-4
File
1958

Part of Dalhousie Art Gallery fonds

File consists of records relating to exhibitions held at the Dalhousie Art Gallery in 1958.

Records include a memo from Alex S. Mowat (Chairman of the Dalhousie Art Committee) calling for submissions for the fifth annual showcase of artworks by students, staff, and alumni of Dalhousie University, held in April 1958; and a list of names and prices of artworks shown in the Canadian Medical Association Annual Convention's 'Exhibition of Paintings by Nova Scotian Artists', hosted by Dalhousie University in June 1958.

Paintings by Jeffrey E. Poklen exhibition

UA-36, Box 1, Folder 33
File
1965-1968

Part of Dalhousie Art Gallery fonds

File consists of records pertaining to the exhibition 'Paintings 1965 by Jeffrey E. Poklen' presented at the Dalhousie Art Gallery in December 1965.

Records consist of a biography of Poklen, artwork price list, newspaper clipping of an exhibition announcement, correspondence between Evelyn Holmes (Acting Curator, Dalhousie art Gallery) and Poklen, and two Dalhousie University newsletters discussing Poklen's show.

Children's art exhibition

UA-36, Box 1, Folder 40
File
1966

Part of Dalhousie Art Gallery fonds

File consists of records related to an exhibition of artworks by children from Halifax schools, held at Dalhousie Art Gallery in February 1966.

Records consist of newspaper clippings, a list of artworks, a Dalhousie newsletter, and a press release draft.

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