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Recording of an interview with Ken

Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Ken, a pigeon racer in Liverpool, England. Ken talks about what it's like to keep pigeons, training pigeons, and how pigeons find their way home.

Recording of an interview with Beatles fans before a concert

File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds interviewing several different people in the United Kingdom about the Beatles. Hinds interviews two unidentified men, and a third man named Mr. Taylor about the success of the Beatles. Hinds also interviews a group of young women who are waiting before a Beatles concert.

Anniversaries in Geneva, 1959

Item consists of an offprint from the Summer 1959 issue of the Dalhousie Review (pages [208]-218), containing the text of an address delivered by President Alexander Enoch Kerr about the the recent celebration of three different anniversaries related to the life and activities of John Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland in the sixteenth century.

"Irish Settlers in Queens County"

Item consists of Thomas H. Raddall's typed research notes (with handwritten annotations) related to Irish emigration to Queens County, likely compiled in the early-1950s.

Photograph of a touring group, including Edith and Thomas Head Raddall, at the Marienlyst Hotel Elsinore, near Copenhagen, Denmark

Item, a photograph, is related to material in MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 43, Items 1-23, and to MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 12 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. Raddall is on the far left, and Edith Raddall third from the left in the middle row of the group.

Photograph of Angelo the courier, Thomas Head and Edith Raddall, and Bleach at the Staat Keller restaurant in Lucerne, Switzerland printed on a postcard

Item, a photograph, is related to MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 11, Item 5 and MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 12 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. A note on the reverse side indicates that the restaurant featured a 'sing-song'. The gentleman on the right is identified as Bleach, from South Africa.

Photograph of the white cliffs of Dover

Item, a photograph, is related to MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 11, Item 5, and duplicate to materials in MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 12 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photograph.

Photograph of a panel on the World War I memorial beside the old military canal in Hythe, Kent, England

Item, a photograph, is related to MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 11, Item 5 and MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 12 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The memorial bears T.H. Raddall, Sr.'s name on the lower left side. Raddall, Sr. was a former instructor in the School of Musketry at Hythe, and was killed while commanding the Winnipeg Rifles, Canadian Expeditionary Force at Amiens France on August 9, 1918.

Photograph of Thomas Head and Edith Raddall riding a gondola in Venice, Italy printed on a postcard

Item, a photograph, is related to MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 11, Item 5 and MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 12 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The photograph was taken at dusk when the Raddalls were on their way to their hotel. The Raddalls can be found on the left side of the boat.

Glyndebourne Festival Opera : [program]

  • MS-2-26, Box 5, Folder 8
  • File
  • June 11, 1957 - August 13, 1957
  • Part of Anthony Pugh fonds

File contains the programme book from the 1957 Glyndebourne Festival Opera season, which Anthony Pugh attended. He likely kept the program for future reference and research.

Research and program notes pertaining to Walton

File contains research notes and drafts of program notes by Anthony Pugh pertaining to the music of William Walton. The file also contains programs used in his research from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society.

Letters from Alice Mary, Princess of Albany, to Ellen Ballon

File contains letters concerning Ellen Ballon's performance of music by Heitor Villa-Lobos and the receipt of flowers. File also contains a letter to Ballon from Mary Goldie, Private Secretary to Princess Alice, concerning a letter from the latter and Lord Athlone to Dr. James (presumably Frank Cyril James) at the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the McGill Conservatorium of Music.

Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone

Charles Walmsley fonds

  • MS-2-521
  • Fonds
  • 1910 - 1955
Fonds consists of materials regarding the Charles Walmsley's academic life and his activities as a faculty member of Dalhousie University, including notebooks, lectures notes and a manual of the first year of the Dalhousie course of mathematics. The fonds also contains correspondence sent to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walmsley and others textual records.

Walmsley, Charles

Research and program notes pertaining to Bach

File contains drafts of program notes, research notes, and programs for concerts containing music by Johann Sebastian Bach. The file is organized by type of music, including choral, instrumental, piano, solo violin and cello, concertos, and suites. Most of the program notes were written for concerts in Fredericton, with the exception of some notes from when Pugh was at Pembroke College in Cambridge, England. The file includes programs for performances at Christ Church Cathedral (Fredericton Chamber Players and Chamber Choir, directed by David Adams and Jeffrey Campbell); Wilmot United Church (Fredericton Choral Society and Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Douglas Hodgkinson); Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama (used for research, program notes not written by Pugh); and Memorial Hall, University of New Brunswick (Fredericton Chamber Orchestra conducted by Harrison Roper). The file also includes longer essays on the Saint Matthew Passion by Pugh.

Ensign Armorial for the Medical Society of Nova Scotia

File is the incorporation certificate for the Medical Society of Nova Scotia.
Text: To all and sundry whom these presents
Do or may concern, we, Sir Thomas Innes of Learney, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Baron of Learny, Kinnairdy and Yeochrie, Advocate, Lord Lyon King of Arms, send greetings: Whereas the President and Secretary of The Medical Society of Nova Scotia, with offices at the Public Health Clinic, University Avenue, Halifax in the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada, having by petition unto Us of date 17th March 1954 shewn: that the Society was, y an Act of the General Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1861, cap. 69, of date 28th March 1861, incorporated in the name of "The Medical Society of Nova Scotia", and that the said Society was empowered to hold real estate: that the present Officers of the said Society are as follows; President; Myles Gregory Tompkins, Doctor of Medicine, Master of Surgery, Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, residing at Glace Bay; 1st Vice-President; Hugh Fraser McKay, Lieutenant-Colonel (Supplement Reserve, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps), holder of the Efficiency Decoration, Doctor of medicine, Master of Surgery, residing at New Glasgow; 2nd Vice-President; Dara Mason Cochrane, Doctor of Medicine, Master of Surgery, residing at River Hebert; all in the Province of Nova Scotia; Treasurer Robert Orville Jones, Bachelor of Science, Doctor of Medicine, Master of Surgery, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Dean of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifex aforesaid: that the said Medical Society of Nova Scotia is desirous of bearing and using such Ensigns Armorial as might be found suitable and according to the Laws of Arms of Scotland, know ya therefore that We have devised, and do by these presents assign, ratify and confirm unto the said The Medical Society of Nova Scotia the following Ensigns Armorial, as depicted upon the margin hereof, and matriculated of even date with these present upon the 157th page of the thirty-ninth volume of our Public Register of all Arms and Bearing in Scotland, videliced: - Murrey, a pallet or, environed of a serpent Argent, langued of the second, on a chief of the third a saltire Azure, and in an Escrol below the same this motto "Health and Humanity", by demonstration of which Ensigns Armorial, Insignia of Nobility, the said Society is, amongst all Nobles and in all places of honour, to be taken, numbered, accounted and received as an Incorporation-Noble in the Noblesse of Scotland; IN testimony whereof we have subscribed these presents and the Seal of Our Office is affixed hereto at Edinburgh, this twenty-seventh day of April in the third year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Queen, Defender of the Faith, etc., and in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty four.

Signed Thomas Innes of Learney.

Letters from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

File contains letters to Ellen Ballon from William Somerset Maugham concerning gifts, performances, visits, friends, and books. Some of the letters are also addressed to Sally "Tammie" Ryan and Ralph Gustafson.

Somerset Maugham, William

Research and program notes pertaining to Vaughan Williams

File contains drafts of program notes by Anthony Pugh pertaining to the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams. The file also includes Pugh's analytical notes on the London Symphony and programs used in his research from the Liverpool Philharmonic Society, Cambridge University Musical Society, and "His Master's Voice" gramophone record. The file also includes two newspaper clippings about Vaughan Williams' performances.

Offprints of geology articles and reports written by George Vibert Douglas

File includes "Origin of the Rhodesian copper deposits"; "Origin of the Roan Antelope copper deposit of Northern Rhodesia"; "Department of Mines and Technical Surveys: notes on localities visited on the Labrador coast in 1946 and 1947," by G. Vibert Douglas; "On the structural relationships and genesis of the pyritic ore-bodies of Huelva," by G. Vibert Douglas; "Some observations on syngenetic ores," by George Vibert Douglas, A. Carlisle Gourley and Ralph D. Mathieson; "The deposition of the Halifax series; Barasois and Indian Brook area," by G. Vibert Douglas and C.O. Campbell; "Copper deposit at Cap d'Or," by G.V. Douglas; "Black granite at Shelburne" / by G.V. Douglas; "The new Campbellton dolomite deposit," by G.V. Douglas; "Notes on the interpretation of the Wegener frequency curve," by G. Vibert Douglas and A.V. Douglas; "A solution of fault problems," by G. Vibert Douglas and A. Vibert Douglas; "Observations of the geology and mines of the Belgian Congo," by G. Vibert Douglas; "Iron ore, Erinville," by G. Vibert Douglas; and "Spectroscopy applied to mineral determination."
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