Item is a letter from James Ross, principal of Dalhousie College (1863-1885), regarding the recovery of John, the son of Hugh Campbell, from an unspecified illness.
Item is the division's minute book from 1848 to 1862, which include a letter dated 1864 regarding a charge against Jasper Journeay for violating the Sons of Temperance constitution.
Item is a manuscript of Daniel Morrison's unpublished article The Early Scotch Settlers of Cape Breton, which he presented to the literary branch of the Guild in Dominion, Nova Scotia.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.
Item is a photograph of a stone curtain in Fort Beausejour that is loopholed to form the southwest curtain covering the powder magazine and parade ground. From the interior shown in the photograph, the firing step and stone drain are visible. The northwest bastion is also visible in the background.
Item, a photograph, is taken from the roof of a casement in King's Bastion. The foundation of the fort's barracks are visible in the foreground, the ruins of more casements are visible in the right foreground, and beyond the casements are the roofs of the museum and caretaker's house.
Item, a photograph, has a stamp marking it copyright to the National Film Board on the reverse side. The tomahawk and stone arrowhead artifacts were found by Thomas Head Raddall at Indian Gardens, Mersey River in the 1930's. The tomahawks were originally made by the French and sold to the Mi'kmaq. The knife was crafted at Broad River, Queen's County, in the 1930's.
Item, a photograph, is related to material found in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1944-1961. The photograph has a stamp marking it copyright to the National Film Board on the reverse side.
Item, a photograph, has development damage with discoloration. The interview was for television and took place in the Simeon Perkins house in Liverpool, Nova Scotia.
Item is a photograph of a ship relic recovered near Rockingham by scuba divers in 1970. It is possible that the timber and bolt came from the French ships of the D'Anville fleet after they were found unseaworthy in 1746 and burned in the Bedford Basin.
Item is a photograph of Arthur White dressed as a 19th-century militiaman. The costume he wears belonged to the P.C. Historical Society; the rifle is a Snider-Enfield that belonged to Thomas Head Raddall.
Item is a photograph of Arthur White dressed in period uniform, though the gold braid on his shoulder straps should be plain red cloth in order to correctly portray a private ranking. He is holding an Enfield musket that has been converted by Snider's patent, as used by the character, "Kirby Stevens," in Raddall's story.
Item, a photograph, depicts a facsimile of an 1865 period Nova Scotia militia private's uniform, though the shoulder straps should be plain red cloth, the trousers should be dark blue with a red stripe on the seam, and the uniform should be worn with heavy, black boots with thick soles such as that made by a country cobbler. The rifle is an authentic musket with an attached bayonet that was used by the Nova Scotia militia between 1865-67.
Item is a glass plate of a drawing of Rev. Thomas McCulloch, D.D. The drawing by Arthur Lismer itself is based on a painting of McCulloch by Daniel Munro. The drawing was commissioned and used for history books on Dalhousie University, like One hundred years of Dalhousie 1818-1918 (1920), and Daniel Cobb Harvey's, An introduction to the history of Dalhousie (1938).
Item is three sheets of paper. The first sheet is folded to make two additional pages. The letter is Archibald MacMechan's recommendation to Edwin Laftus, that Daniel Harvey should receive the position of lecturer in History at Dalhousie University. A P.S. note by MacMechan also recommends an article that Harvey wrote for the Rhodes Foundation.
Item is one 1763 receipt to John Michie for £5992.19 interest or share in the capital or joint stock of consolidated four per cent annuities charged on the sinking fund.
Item is a hand-coloured engraving of Cape Breton extracted from Atlas minimus, or, A new set of pocket maps of the several empires, kingdoms and states of the known world, published in 1758 by John Gibson and Emmanuel Bowen. The map appeared on page 46 of the book.
Item is a photograph taken from a flanking trench that was dug by Robert Monckton after the capture of 1755. The trench communicates with a deep fosse that is dug across the ridge, about 400 yards from the moat, on the fort's vulnerable side. The photograph is taken facing southwest.
Item, a photograph, has a stamp marking it copyright to the National Film Board on the reverse side. The El Hercules was captured in the Caribbean by a Liverpool privateer around 1799. The flintlock pistol was found behind the wainscot in the house of Dr. Farish. Farish arrived in Liverpool around 1840, the same time when many of the privateermen from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 were still living. Dr. Farish's house was later occupied by Dr. John Wickwire between the 1930's to the 1970's. A duplicate copy of the photograph can be found in MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 10.
Item, a photograph, has development damage with discoloration. The interview was to be aired on television, and Raddall wore dark glasses to ease the glare of the Klieg lights.
Item, a photograph, is a negative of a piece of art that was used in Thomas Head Raddall's book, "Halifax: Warden of the North." The photograph looks north towards Bedford Basin, with the town of Halifax and Citadel Hill is visible on the left.
Item, a photograph, is a negative of a piece of art that was used in Thomas Head Raddall's book, "Halifax: Warden of the North." Citadel Hill is visible in the middle background. St. Paul's Church is on the middle right, and St. Matthew's Church is on the middle left along the shoreline.
Item is an album with 206 photographs taken between 1929 and 1941 by Raddall and others. Subjects include Raddall and friends and family; Raddall and Edith's vacation to Bermuda; Raddall and friends boating, and taking camping, hunting and fishing trips across Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island; historical artifacts including a -pound canon; images from a 1933 performance of "Three Live Ghosts" put on in Liverpool, Nova Scotia and in which Raddall acted; and Edith Raddall with her children, Tommy and Frances.
Item is an undated plane and elevation map of Fort Anne at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. The map is drawn on linen in black ink on the verso, with various elevation and features watercoloured in blue, yellow, and rose washes on the recto. The map is signed by E Cates. The map is featured in C.W. Vernon's book Bicentenary Sketches and Early Days of The Church in Nova Scotia, Chronicle Printing Company, Halifax, 1910.
Item is a poetry copybook in which Colin Campbell and other family members and friends entered verses. Many entries are dated (1840-1842) and signed with place names, including those of Weymouth, Liverpool, and Horton.
Item is a tribute of sympathy and affection written by officials at Halifax's Charles Street Church to Mrs. James Harris on the death of her husband in 1902.
Item is one sheet of paper. Sheet is folded to make two additional pages. The letter, sent from Halifax, is Archibald McKellar MacMechan's congratulating Dr. Daniel Cobb Harvey for his recent successes and completion of his apprenticeship.
Item is one sheet of paper. The letter is from George W. Robinson (representing the Committee on Fellowships, and Dean Haskins of Harvard University), who thanks Archibald McKellar MacMechan for his praise of Daniel Cobb Harvey. Robinson says his qualifications are great enough to bestow upon Harvey the Bayard Cutting Fellowship, even though Harvey hadn't completed a period of residence at Harvard.
Item is a petition from the residents of Berthier County, Québec to the Parliament of the province of Canada concerning seigneurial salaries and land tax assessments.
Item is a land deed registering the 1831 sale of property in Granville, Nova Scotia from Ann Hughes to Abel Sands. The document was registered in Annapolis in 1833.
Item is a letter (1823) from Lord Dalhousie to W. Smith, requesting that two barrels of Pictou oatmeal be shipped to Quebec on the next available vessel as a sample of Smith's produce.
Item is a parchment certificate admitting and enrolling James Thomson as an attorney and barrister of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, sealed and signed by Brenton Halliburton, Chief Justice of Nova Scotia.
Item is an 1806 receipt to Frederick Booth for five shillings interest paid on the capital or joint stock of reduced £3 per cent annuities, charged on the sinking fund.
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