Item is a list of items found in the Halifax Infirmary Time Capsule. The list reads: Contents of the Infirmary Time Capsule / Holy Card and Medals / Pope Pius XI (card and medal) / Our Lady of Perpetual Hope (card and medal) / St. Therese (card - back says "Little flower please listen to our prayer" and medal) / Prayer card for the Beatification of Pius X / Mother Elizabeth Seton (card - back says "Mother Seton, pray for us and direct our work") / Saint Vincent DePaul (card - back says "Saint Joseph, be a father and protector to this Institute") / Our Lady (two medals) / Sacred Heart (badge) / Miniature statue of Our Lady in a medal case / Coins from the architect, Sydney P. Dumaresq / Local (on display) and international newspapers.
Item is a photograph of the inscription on the stone laid for the construction of the Halifax Infirmary. This photograph was displayed at the exhibit for the Halifax Infirmary hosted at the W.K. Kellogg Health Science Library. Inscription reads: This Stone was laid by / His Excellency Most-Reverend / Thomas O'Donnell Archibishop / Of Halifax N.S. / June 23 1931 [...]
Item is a quote from the Halifax Herald from 1931 about the construction of the Halifax Infirmary. Quote says: Halifax Herald. January 1, 1931 / "new Million Dollar Hospital for Halifax". The above is / the new Million Dollar Fireproof Hospital to be erected in / Halifax in 1931 by the Sisters of Charity, which when / finished will be one of the most modern and best / equipped hospitals on the continent... The hospital will / be erected on Queen Street and S.P. Dumaresq, who / designed i will supervise its construction told The / Herald yesterday, that the Hospital will contain features / never before attempted in Hospital construction on this / continent."
Item is a list of quotes from contemporary newspaper articles about the construction of the Halifax Infirmary in 1931. Quotes are as follows: Newspaper headlines from June, 1931 / The Halifax Mail, June 25, 1931 / "hurl Constable From Side of Fleeing Auto: Bullets Fail to Halt Car in "Get-Away. Constable / Pitts, of Nova Scotia Police, Struck Over Head With Crank as He Clung to Side of Alleged / Rum-Laden Car." / The Halifax Chronicle, June 25, 1931 / "Plane Reaches Germany; One for Denmark / "Miners Seeking Six-Hour to Relieve Jobless: Will consider Resolution at Today's Session of / District Conference in Sydney." / "Hurry Round the World" Post and Gatty Greeted By Huge Throngs in Berlin" / Halifax Herald, June 24, 1931 / "Globe Flyers Span Atlantic Ocean: Danes Now Over Ocean" / "Alderman Scores Street Repairs: Likens Robie St. To Tooth".
File is a photograph of W.K. Kellogg staff members and guests attending Bill Owen's retirement party. Individuals identified in photograph are Bill Owen, Morris Laycock, Elizabeth Craig, Elaine Boychuck, Choong Foong, and Mary MacDonald.
File is a photograph of W.K. Kellogg staff members and guests at Bill Owen's retirement party. Individuals identified in photograph are Dr. Ron Carr, unknown, Rosemary Mackenzie, and Bill Owen.
File is a photograph of guests at Bill Owen's W.K. Kellogg Library retirement party. Individuals identified as follows: Joan Walker, Shirley Dean, Geoff Rowden, and Elizabeth Craig.
Individuals present in photographs are Dick Nevil, Carol (Webb) Pottie, Cindy Miller, Betty Sutherland, Linda Rose Nauss, Patrick Ellis, Ann Barrett, Penn David, Gail Fraser, Shelley McKibbon, Larry Covey, Tim Ruggles, Joe Wickens, Vicky Lines, Mary MacDonald, Nadina Day Boutilier, Linda Young, Judith Coughlan-Lambly. Individuals missing from photograph are Kathy Eisan, and Jessica Scott.
File is a photograph of the W.K. Kellogg Staff of 2003 standing on the staircase in the library. Present in the photo: (Front row from Left to Right) Joe Wickens; Betty Sutherland; Karen Neves; Patricia Gillam; Nadine Day Boutilier; Larry Covey. (Second row) Linda Rose Nauss; Vicky Lines; Chris Powell; Gail Fraser; Colleen Mahoney. (Third row) Dick Nevill; Patrick Ellis; Ann Barrett; Charles Maina; Linda Young; Judith Coughlan-Lambly. (missing) Penny David; Kathy Eisan; Liz Foy; Mary macDonald; Shelley McKibbon; Cindy Miller; Tim Ruggles; Jessica Scott; and Carol Webb.
File is a photograph of the Medical-Dental Library reference collection when it was housed at 5963 College Street. This was a temporary location for the library during the construction of the Tupper Building and the W.K. Kellogg Health Science Library.
Item consists of an annotated typescript of Carleton Stanley's submission to the Dalhousie Gazette, dated November 29, 1932, praising students for their increased and sustained use of library facilities in response to forthcoming funding from the Carnegie Corporation. Also includes discussions around the use of the new gymnasium.
Item consists of a typescript of an article written by Carleton Stanley on November 30, 1932 about the benefactors to Dalhousie University; particularly, Dougald Macgillivray, who had recently donated a bust of George Ramsay, Ninth Earl of Dalhousie (created by Massey Rhind), for the lobby of the Macdonald Memorial Library Building. Item was submitted to the Halifax Herald and the Halifax Chronicle.
Item consists of Carleton Stanley's typescript copy of an article by Eirene M. Walker (written at the behest of C.L. Bennet) about a donation of "an interesting and valuable collection of books and maps" by William Inglis Morse, making up the basis of the "William Inglis Morse Collection". Article was submitted to the Halifax Herald, dated January 23, 1933.
Item consists of a typescript copy of a press release prepared by Carleton Stanley and submitted to all Halifax newspapers, about a notable gift of books inscribed by Queen Victoria by Mr. George Matthew Adams.
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.
Fonds comprises employment trends questionnaires created by Richard Apostle and Boris Raymond to generate research data for their book Librarianship and the Information Paradigm (1997).
File contains photographs of Killam Memorial Library staff at Charles A. Armour's retirement party. In 1970 Charles A. Armour was appointed Dalhousie University’s first University Archivist, a position he held until his retirement in 1999.
