Item is a photograph of an elephant named Balakrishnan standing on a pile of straw by some trees. The elephant was brought to East River, Nova Scotia by the Anil Canada Ltd. hardboard plant.
Item is a photograph of Sankunni sitting on a pile of straw between some trees in East River, Nova Scotia. Sankunni is the mahout, or keeper, of an elephant named Balakrishnan.
Item is a cutline written by Barbara Hinds to accompany a photograph of Sankunni, an Indian mahout or elephant keeper. There are two copies of the cutline, one on yellow paper with corrections written in pencil.
Item is a contact sheet with proofs of 12 photographs taken on McNab's Island. The photographs show Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Arthur Farrant, other unidentified people, cannons, the landscape, and other scenery from the island.
Item is a photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Arthur Farrant, two inhabitants of McNab's Island. They are standing between rows of plants in a garden in front of a large wooden house.
Item is a contact sheet with proofs of two photographs taken on McNab's Island. One photograph shows three women and two men sitting on a bench or a dock. The other photograph shows an unidentified woman bending over a bag on a rocky shoreline.
Item is a contact sheet with proofs of two photographs on an unidentified girl with braids and a floral dress. She is sitting on the back of a truck .The photographs may have been taken on or near McNab's Island.
Item is a photograph of an unidentified woman looking through binoculars at a wooden pier on McNab's Island. There are trees around the shore and another shore with a house visible in the distance.
Item is a booklet titled "A Preliminary Survey of the Natural History of McNab's Island, Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia." The survey was prepared by the staff of the Nova Scotia Museum with the cooperation of the Nova Scotia Bird Society, the Dalhousie Biology Club, and the Nova Scotia Research Foundation. The survey outlines the geology, vegetation, and animal life on McNab's Island, with accompanying maps of the island. The booklet contains some handwritten notes.
Item is a newspaper article entitled "Barbara Hinds Reports From McNab--An Island Caught In The Crossfire," published over two pages in the March 2, 1967 issue of the Mail-Star. The article is about the history of McNab's Island, its inhabitants, and its potential future. The article includes photographs of old cannons, as well as Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Arthur Farrant, who are two inhabitants of the island. The photographs were taken by Barbara Hinds.
Item consists of three typed cutlines for photographs taken on McNab's Island. The cutlines describe a pier on McNab's Island and Mrs. Farrant, an inhabitant of the island. Two of the cutlines are the same. The cutlines are typed on thin paper with corrections written in pencil.
Item is a map of McNab's Island and Lawlor Island in the Halifax Harbour. The map is photocopied with some details that were possibly penciled in. The map shows which areas of the islands are owned by the Navy or are privately owned.
Item is a photocopied man of McNab's Island and Lawlor Island in the Halifax Harbour. The map indicates property lines, place names, and the location of houses and farms on the island. The photocopy is spread over two pieces of paper.
Item is the Autumn 1993 issue of The Rucksack: Newsletter of the Friends of McNabs Island Society. The newsletter is edited by Anne Marie Feetham. The newsletter includes some photographs taken on the island and information about membership and meetings.
File contains two newspaper clippings of articles written by Barbara Hinds for the Chronicle-Herald about sewage disposal in Cole Harbour. The articles were published on December 3, 1970 and January 12, 1971.
File contains three newspaper clippings of articles written by Barbara Hinds for the Mail-Star about people from Eskasoni First Nation. The articles were published between June 22, 1974 and July 10, 1974.
File contains a booklet of information about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Yukon Centennial; correspondence with P. J. Greenlaw and D. Snowden; handwritten notes about Labrador; typed notes from a visit to Stadacona in 1966; a typed draft of an article about fitness and a canoe trip; a photograph MacKenzie Porter at the luxury hunters' camp at Cape Dorset, taken by Rosemary Gilliat; a photograph of a boy learning to write at Frobisher School in 1960, taken by Rosemary Gilliat; and maps of the Yukon.
File contains a map of the resources of northern Quebec. The map indicates the predominant species across the province, sites of mineral resources, sites of hydraulic resources, First Nations and Inuit communities, and airports or other routes for transportation.
File contains correspondence with Derek Mann; J. D. Hatcher; Robbie Shaw; Kingsley Brown; Peter C. Gordon; and Roselle Green. The file also includes a document about the information office at Dalhousie University; a statement of public relation philosophy adopted by Dalhousie University; a document called "The Crisis in Medical Research at Dalhousie University"; a photocopy of "Media Impact: A Quick Look Inside"; and a booklet by Derek Mann called "An ounce of PRevention: universities and public relations." The documents in this file are all related to Barbara Hinds' employment at the Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine
File contains one spiral bound stenographer's notebook containing handwritten notes from 1994 and 1997 bird surveys in Trafalgar. Each page contains a tally of birds for a certain area.
File contains a diary kept by Barbara Hinds from September 6, 1965 to an unknown date. The diary is written in a small, six-ring binder with a plastic cover. The diary was kept by Hinds during a trip to Fort Chimo and other places in the eastern Arctic.
Item is a photograph of Barbara Hinds and an unidentified man standing in a gravel pit and using shovels. The photograph was taken near Dawson City, Yukon.
Item is a photograph taken near Dawson City, Yukon. The photograph is a double exposure photograph showing some equipment with a sign that says "Government Property" that is near a body of water, and a truck with crates loaded on it. One image is upside-down.
Item is a photograph of an unidentified man standing in the doorway of a building in Dawson City, Yukon. The building has an artificial brick design on the outside walls. The man is holding a small box.
Item is a photograph showing an elderly man wearing a suit, hat and glasses. The man is holding a cane and sitting at a table with an empty beer glass. The photograph was taken in Dawson City, Yukon.
Item is a photograph of an elderly man and woman sitting on the front stoop of a building in Dawson City, Yukon. The man is wearing a fedora and embroidered boots and is smoking. The woman is wearing a head scarf and a dress. There is a poster for a movie called "Yellowstone Kelly" behind them.
Item is a photograph of a man lighting another man's cigarette. A woman is standing next to them. The photograph is a double exposure but the other exposure is not clear.
Item is a photograph of two road signs in the Yukon. One sign says "Prevent Forest Fires / It Pays" and the other sign provides directions to Alaska, the Alaska Highway, Walker's Fork, and Sixty-Mile District.
File contains a negative and a print of a photograph of and actor named Ralph Dunn standing with Black Mike, a man from Sarajevo, Serbia who claimed to be the oldest man in Dawson City. The two men are facing each other and Black Mike's hand is on Dunn's shoulder. Dunn was in Dawson City to act in a production called "Foxy."
Item is a photograph of a police graveyard in Dawson City, Yukon. The graveyard contains several white tombstones and is enclosed by a chain link fence. The tombstones are for police from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the North-West Mounted Police, and the Royal North-West Mounted Police.
Item is a double exposure photograph showing a pile of gravel or some other rock formation and two men. Neither exposure is very clear. The photograph was taken somewhere in the Yukon.
File contains a negative and a print of a photograph of Roy MacPhail, a bank manager for the Bank of Montreal in Dawson City, Yukon. MacPhail has a bread and a curled moustache and is wearing a white shirt, black sleeves, and a black bowtie. He is standing with his arms crossed.
Item is a photograph of a gravel road somewhere in the Yukon. There is a car on the road and there is some sort of agricultural or industrial area on the other side of the road.
File contains a photograph of Frank Rivers, Blackie McGowan the Clown, and Black Douglas Jackson sitting by the front door of their house near Dawson City, Yukon. One of the men is sitting on a post and the other two are crouching on each side of him.