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Archibald MacMechan fonds Series
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Archibald MacMechan's diaries

Series contains Archibald MacMechan's private journals as well as one journal kept by his mother, Mary Jean MacMechan. There are also a number of memos and an address book.

Archibald MacMechan's Research material

This series contains research material, research notes, cue cards, correspondence, illustrations, books and newspaper clippings gathered by MacMechan while he was doing research on different subjects for his lectures and his publications.

Archibald MacMechan's scrapbooks

Series comprises scrapbooks created and maintained by Archibald MacMechan containing magazine and newspaper clippings of his own and others' work, including book reviews and copies of his weekly column, "The Dean's Window," published in Montreal's The Standard. The scrapbooks are organized chronologically and titled A-Z, after which they are named by date. The first (A) contains its own index; the rest are indexed in the record found in Box

Archibald MacMechan's teaching records

Series contains records created or collected by Archibald MacMechan during the course of his 40-year employment at Dalhousie University, as well as at Harvard summer school and the Royal Naval College. Records include research notes, examination papers, student marks, and lecture manuscripts.

Halifax Disaster records

Series contains research materials, manuscript drafts and a typescript of a Archibald MacMechan's official report about the Halifax Explosion, which he was asked by authorities to write.