Subseries contains yearbooks published by Dalhousie University students between 1927 and 1998. From 1929 until the 1990s, the yearbooks were largely printed under the title Pharos, a reference to the destroyed lighthouse in ancient Alexandria.
Subseries contains an incomplete run of Dalhousie University School of Physiotherapy yearbooks, including 1982, 1984-1988, 1991-1996, 2000-2004, 2007-2009, and 2011.
Subseries contains manuscripts and correspondence for Donna Morrissey's Pluck: A Memoir of a Newfoundland Childhood and the Raucous, Terrible, Amazing Journey to Becoming a Novelist, which was published in 2021 by Penguin/Random House Canada.
Subseries contains manuscripts, notes, correspondence and secondary research materials related to Rage the Night, a novel written by Donna Morrissey and published by Penguin Canada in 2023.
Subseries contains yearbooks of the Dalhousie University School of Education: Spitballs and Chalkdust (1994); and Taking a Bite Out of Time (1995). The yearbook and program both ended in 1995.
Subseries contains records created and collected by Christopher Heide regarding his play Pogie, with music by Al Macdonald, which was published in New Canadian Drama: Volume 2 (Borealis, 1981). It was first performed as a cabaret production at a supper theatre called Stages at the Holiday Inn, Halifax, and featured Sharon Timmins as the female lead. The touring production featured Crystal Fralick. In both versions, the four actors played all additional roles, aided by hand puppets created by Tom Miller. Both productions were directed by Rosemary Gilbert.
Subseries contains records documenting the progression of the play My Place or Yours? written by Chris Heide for Mermaid Theatre for junior and senior high schools throughout Nova Scotia from October 22-December 7, 1990.
Subseries comprises records created or collected by Christopher Heide in the course of writing I Ain't Dead Yet, which premiered at Mermaid Theatre before being mounted in Edmonton, Lunenburg, Ottawa and London, Ontario.
Subseries contains records documenting the progression of the play "On the Lee Shore," which began life as "Plans for the Marriage" and then "The Family Album." The script was developed during Christopher Heide's writers-in-residence tenure at Tarragon Theatre, Toronto, with workshop performances on May 8 and 9, 1977 directed by Lewis Baumander and dramaturge Bena Shuster.
Subseries contains records created and collected by Christopher Heide related to his play Home at Last, which included working with war brides in Nova Scotia and teaching a workshop at Lancaster University.
Subseries contains records created and collected by Christopher Heide in his work with the Liverpool International Theatre Festival, for which he served as artistic director in 2006.
Subseries contains records created or collected by Christopher Heide in the course of writing No More Gasoline, a play that he started in 1980 and workshopped with the Dramatists' Co-op in 1982; it was the inaugural script for the New Play Workshop.
Subseries contains records created and collected by Christopher Heide in the course of writing Road Reviews, which was funded by Nova Scotia Department of Culture, Recreation and Fitness in cooperation with the Old Home Summer Commission, a 1982 revival of a festival incorporated by the province in 1920 to encourage tourism. The revue was directed by Don Allison and featured Nicola Lipman, Barrie Dunn, Gay Haliser and Robbie O'Neill, with musicians Sandy Moore and Nathan Currie.
Subseries contains records created and collected by Christopher Heide in the course of writing a play for Port Hawkesbury's centennial community performance project, which evolved into Under the Map Theatre group.
Subseries contains records created or collected by Christopher Heide in the course of writing Bring Back Don Messer!, which was produced by Mulgrave Road Co-Op Theatre and toured four provinces in three months.
Subseries contains records created or collected by Christopher Heide in the course of writing The Coady Co-Op Show, which was created, produced and performed by members of the Mulgrave Road Co-Operative Theatre Company.
Subseries contains records created or collected by Christopher Heide in the course of his writing the play "The Promised Land," which was produced by Mulgrave Theatre in 1988.
Subseries contains records created and collected by Christopher Heide pertaining to Mulgrave Theatre's Working Theatre Project, which used theatre structures and methodologies with an adult education approach to literacy upgrading.
Subseries contains letters and cards written to Alex Leighton from his mother, father and sister, as well as from uncles, aunts and cousins. There are also some copies of Alex Leighton's responses, including a file of letters between him and Dorothea (Dot).
Subseries contains primarily correspondence written to Archie in America from his father John Leighton, his brothers and sisters, and various cousins and in-laws. There are also letters written between his brother Bob, his father and his sisters.
Subseries contains letters and cards written to their mother by Alex and Gertrude (Gussie) Leighton. The bulk of Gertrude's letters were written from boarding school in Kent while her mother lived in hotels nearby or with her family in Ireland. Alex wrote to his mother throughout her life; by the late 1940s he appears to treat his correspondence to her as a weekly journal. Letters to their dather are filed under
Subseries contains letters and cards written to Gertrude from her husband, Archie, starting a few years prior to their marriage and continuing until the mid-1950s. The greatest volume of letters date from those periods when Gertrude returned to Ireland for extended family visits when the children were young, and again when she accompanied them for several years to the UK where Alex attended Cambridge University and Gussie went to boarding school in Kent.
Subseries contains correspondence sent to Gertrude Hamilton Leighton from her family, primarily her parents, siblings, cousins and in-laws in Ireland. There are also letters between family members that ended up in her possession, including correspondence written to her sister Ethel Jean (Ettie).
Subseries contains manuscript materials, correspondence, research notes, and reviews regarding the publication of Alexander Leighton's novel "Come Near."
