Archives Catalogue

MS-5-22, Box 19, Folders 6-11
File
1998-2020

File contains documents related to the African Nova Scotian Association awards show, Bucky Adams, Shauntay Grant, Gary Beals, hip-hop artist TroBiz, Nadira, African Nova Scotian Music Association president Lou Gannon, Jr., Michael Bailey, Archy Beals, Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, reporter Sherri Borden Colley, and Walter Borden.

Documents include newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, posters, tickets, and programs to the African Nova Scotian Association awards, Rocky Jones’ memorial service in 2013, Natal Day festivals, the Freedom Festival, Halifax public Libraries’ Lift Every Voice, the productions of "Harlem Duet," "I M Possible," and "The Epistle of Tightrope Time," the production of the television series, "The Book of Negroes," based on the novel by Lawrence Hill, performances by Corey Adams, For the Love of God concerts, and Walter Borden’s appointment to Member of the Order of Canada.

MS-5-22, Box 20, Folders 1-20
File
1994-2020

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains documents related to Beulah Brinston, Jeri Brown, Tamar Brown, Measha Brueggergosman, Novelee Buchan, Cyndi Cain, Elaine Cain, Tiyaila Cain-Grant, John Chaisson, Bruce Chapman, Joanne Clancy, George Elliott Clarke, Quenta Clyke, Lela Coles, the Colley Family, Floyd Colley, George Boyd's theatrical production of Consecrated Ground, the musical group Conquerors for Christ, and Thelma Coward-Ince.

Documents include newspaper clippings, programs, posters, and tickets related to East Coast Music Association performances, Canadian Screen Award nominations, Jongleur Group's "Harmony of Souls: A Tribute to Carrie M. Best," Atlantic Film Festival, Consecrated Ground, "A Tribute to Nina Simone" in 2015, and "Vera's Lament: A Jazz Opera by Jeri Brown."

MS-5-22, Box 21, Folders 18-32
File
[ca. 1989]-2020

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains documents related to playwright and poet laureate Shauntay Grant, Elizabeth Guildford, the Hallelujah Praise Choir, Sylvia Hamilton, Wayn Hamilton, Sean Harris, Dave Hillier, bassist Bruce Jacobs, Anne Johnson-McDonald, Sharon Johnson, poet laureate El Jones, Oliver Jones, and Rocky Jones.

MS-5-22, Box 22, Folders 1-13
File
1993-2021

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains documents related to George Jordan, Eileen Joyce, jazz group Ladies in Blue, bassist Steve Lawrence, Owen Lee, Beverly Lewis, Lisa MacDougall, Frank MacKay, Donna MacKenzie, Kim McLeod, Scott MacMillan, Jimmy MacPherson, and Lorraine Klaasen.

Documents include newspaper clippings, posters, programs, and ephemera related to the Halifax Blues Festival, the Atlantic Jazz Festival, the Ladies in Blues' annual breast cancer benefit, the Atlantic Film Festival, the Nova Scotia Mass Choir's annual Martin Luther King concert, album releases, and Neptune Theatre's productions of "Buddy: The Buddy Holly Musical" and "Cats: The Musical."

MS-5-22, Box 24, Folders 1-13
File
1993-2020

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains documents related to Laura Smith, Reeny Smith, Reverend Wallace Smith, Deanna Sparks, Jamie Sparks, Jeremiah Sparks, Richard Sparks, Mavis Staples, Gary Steed, and Symphony Nova Scotia.

Documents include programs, ephemera, magazine clippings, and newspaper clippings related to the Halifax Jazz Festival, the African Nova Scotian Music Association awards, the Prismatic Arts Festival, the annual Martin Luther King "I Have a Dream" concert, and various theatrical productions. Theatrical productions include Neptune Theatre's "Five Guys Named Moe," "Riot," "World Without Shadows," "The Wizard of Oz," as well as Eastern Front Theatre's "The Satchmo Suite."

MS-5-22, Box 25, Folders 1-18
File
1994-2020

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains documents related to Symphony Nova Scotia stage manager Jimmy Tasco, Sue Taylor, Johnny Theodore, Luvina Thomas, musical group Touch of Hope, Up on the Roof, Helen Vaughan, Pat Watson, Angels of Lightning, Gerry White, Cecily Williams, musical group The Williams Sisters, Eastern Front Theatre's production of Whylah Falls, Anne Marie Woods, David Woods, Woody Woods, and Carolann Wright-Parks.

Documents include programs, ephemera, magazine clippings, and newspaper clippings related to Halifax Comedy Festival, Theatre Art Guild's "Accidental Death of an Anarchist," various Nova Scotia Mass Choir performances and concerts, Natal Day festivals, the Atlantic Fringe Festival, Halifax Public Libraries' African Heritage Month, Eastern Front Theatre's "Whylah Falls," the Prismatic Arts Festival, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia's exhibit "Mary Lee Blendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts and Beyond," and Black Artists Network of Nova Scotia's exhibit "The Secret Codes: Contemporary African Nova Scotian Narrative and Picture Quilts."

MS-5-22, Box 21, Folders 1-17
File
1993-2021

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains documents related to Karl Falkenham, Jim Faraday, Shelley Fashan, Four the Moment musical group, Four Walls of Blue, Carolyn Fowler, Isaac Fraser, Rosie Fraser, Freedom Festival , Suzy Gangoo Hansen, Marsha Gannon, Neptune Theatre, the Gospel Heirs musical group, Adrien Gough, Judith Virginia Grace, Belinda Grant, and Glen Grant.

Documents include newspaper clippings, posters, programs, and ephemera related to the art exhibit "Mommay's Patches: Traditions and Superstitions" by Letitia Fraser, Four the Moment's final performance, the Gospel Heirs performances, Neptune Theatre's productions of "The Gospel at Colonus" and "To Kill a Mockingbird," and others.

MS-5-22, Box 23, Folders 1-32
File
1988-2021

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains documents related to Pam Marsh, Donna Marshall, Doris Mason, Dutch Mason, Garrett Mason, One Heart Broken, Odetta Holmes, activist Rosa Parks, Sylvia Parris-Drummond, Larry Patterson, Stephen Pedersen, the People's Gospel Choir of Montreal, Juanita Peters, the Polokwane Choral Society, the Preston Cultural Festival, Jackie Richardson, Mark Riley, Dutch Robinson, Lucille Robinson, Viki Samuels-Stewart, musical group The Sanctified Brothers, Deborah Sangster, Sankofa Songs, writer Charles Saunders, Joe Sealy, Wendy Shea, the Shining Lights Choir, Shy Luv, Marko Simmonds, Verona Singer, Dee Dee Slye, and Sandra Slawter.

Documents include programs, ephemera, and newspaper clippings related to the Ladies In Blue tour, Juanita Peters' plays, including "I M Possible," "Settling Africville," "The Green Book," and other productions, various Natal Day performances, the African Nova Scotian Music Association awards, Joe Sealy's series "Africville Stories," the Atlantic Jazz Festival, and others.

Documents relating to Nova Scotia Mass Choir

MS-5-22, Box 13, Folders 8-9
File
1998

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains documents related to the Nova Scotia Mass Choir in 1998.

Documents include newspaper clippings, ephemera, and programs related to the Martin Luther King concert with Symphony Nova Scotia, "Celebrating the Spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr.," the East Coast Music Association awards, Neptune Theatre's "The Gospel at Colonus," Dutch Mason's sixtieth birthday, and other performances.

Documents relating to Nova Scotia Mass Choir

MS-5-22, Box 8, Folders 4-5
File
1996

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains documents related to the Nova Scotia Mass Choir in 1996.

Documents include newspaper clippings, programs, performance schedules, and ephemera related to the choir's television program, "Hallelujah," the eightieth anniversary celebration of the No.2 Construction Battalion, postcards from Prince Edward Island, the United Church of Canada's Berwick camp, and the AIDS benefit concert, "Ribbon of Dreams."

Don Murchy collection

MS-15-10
Collection
1987 - 2014

Collection is comprised of materials collected by Don Murchy as part of his involvement with the TightRope Leather Brotherhood, a men's leather and denim club that operated in Nova Scotia from the early 1990s to 2007. Materials document TightRope operations, as well as the involvement of TightRope members in Mr. Atlantic Canada [M.A.C.] Leather contests and Halifax Fetish Ball events. Materials in this collection include administrative records, by-laws and guiding documents, membership lists, posters and other promotional materials, and photographs.

Murchy, Don

Donald Alexander Campbell fonds

MS-13-6
Fonds
1870-1955

Fonds consists of registration cards and student tickets from Dalhousie Medical School, published articles about Dr. Campbell (including obituaries), papers regarding his medical practice, correspondence, medical notes with sketches, personal notes and patient records.

Campbell, Donald Alexander

Egale Canada rainbow bracelet

MS-15-12.2021-016, Box 3, Folder 33
Item
[200-?]

Part of Alan (Al) Roy Stewart fonds

File contains one rubber rainbow coloured bracelet produced by Egale Canada.

Ephemera and newsletters related to the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies

MS-2-702, Box 5, Folder 5
File
1976-1981

Part of Gilbert R. Winham fonds

File contains a selection of newsletters and brochures related to the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, collected by Gilbert Winham between 1976 and 1981.

Evans Estabrooks fonds

MS-14-49
Fonds
1960-1962, 1999-2012

Fonds consists of photographs, campus publications, newspaper clippings, patches and a class ring collected by Evans Estabrooks while attending the Nova Scotia Agricultural College from 1960-1962. There is also correspondence, photographs, and a copy of “Memories, Then and Now: Autobiographies of the Class of 1962,” which was created by Alumni Relations for the 40th and 50th year class reunions.

Etsabrooks, Evans

Farnworth and Jardine's Wood Circular

MS-4-19, SF Box 21, Folder 21
Item
May 30, 1872

Item is a wood circular from Liverpool, Nova Scotia, dated May 30, 1872. The circular reports on recent timber imports and sales and includes wholesale prices for American and Baltic timber products as of May 30, 1872.

Farnworth and Jardine.

Flyers distributed by the Atlantic Opera Society

MS-5-6, SF Box 15, Folder 6
File
1973-1975

Part of Atlantic Opera Society fonds

"Forbidden love" pin

MS-15-5.2020-008, Box 6, Folder 17
Item
[198-?]

Part of Anne Bishop fonds

Item is one round, yellow pin that reads "Forbidden Love".

Founders' Day, March 9, 1928, Dalhousie University

MS-2-43, Box 1, Folder 3, Item 14
Item
March 9, 1928

Part of Arthur Stanley Mackenzie fonds

Item consists of a broadside collected by Arthur Stanley MacKenzie containing songs and poems to be delivered at the Founders' Day (misspelled Fouders' Day) on March 9, 1928. Includes "Dalhousie,", "Oh Won't You Come Up to Dalhousie?," "Glory for Dalhousie," "The Med," "S.C.A.," and "My Girl's A Crackerjack."

Frank McMahon's registration card and class certification tickets from the Halifax Medical College

MS-2-224, SF Box 33, Folder 1
File
1887 - 1888

Files contains Frank McMahon's registration tickets for the Halifax Medical College (Dalhousie College and University Medical Faculty) and his attendance/examination cards for Anatomy, Materia Medica, Practical Anatomy, Histology, Physiology, Botany, and Chemistry. The cards are printed on coloured heavy card and are held in a small black leather-bound folder. Cards are variously signed by John Forrest, A.W.H. Lindsay, D.A. Campbell, Arthur Morrow, John Somers, George L. Sinclair, and others. The back of one card contains a note from A.W.H. Lindsay about dissections.

McMahon, J. Frank

Fundraising letter from Harriet Taber Richardson and circular regarding the reconstruction of the Habitation of Port Royal

MS-2-462, SF Box 43, Folder 28
File
1930

File contains a letter and circular sent from Harriet Taber Richardson, Secretary of the Associates of Port Royal, to the Essex Institute in 1930. The letter requests the Institute's support of the reconstruction of the Habitation.

Richardson, Harriet Taber, fl. 1930-

"Gay and gray" pin

MS-15-5.2020-008, Box 6, Folder 14
Item
[198-?]

Part of Anne Bishop fonds

Item is one round, pink pin that reads "Gay & Gray".

Gay and Lesbian Association [GALA] banner

MS-15-3.2019-065, OS Box 14, Folder 7
File
[between 1988-1994]

Part of Lynn Murphy fonds

File contains one banner produced by the Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia. Banner is made of a white bedsheet, and features the words "GALA N.S." painted in large black letters above the words "Gay and Lesbian Association" painted in purple, over a background of coloured paint splatters.

Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia

Gay and Lesbian Association [GALA] posters, banners and flags

MS-15-3
Series
[198? - 199?]

Part of Lynn Murphy fonds

Series includes posters, banners and flags created or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) for various events. Series is divided into two subseries; one subseries of posters and negatives of posters for events held at Rumours, a bar owned and operated by GALA; and one subseries of banners and flags used during Pride marches, demonstrations, and GALA meetings.

Gay and Lesbian Association [GALA] pride banner

MS-15-3.2019-062, OS Box 15, Folder 6
File
[between 1988 and 1994]

Part of Lynn Murphy fonds

File contains one white canvas banner with black text that read "Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia". Banner was produced by GALA for use in a Halifax Pride parade.

Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia

Gay voices — lesbian visions — affirm General Council 33 pin

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 2, Folder 24
Item
1989

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains one green pin printed with text that reads "Gay VOICES Lesbian VISIONS : AFFIRM General Council 33".

German shepherd pin

MS-15-21.2021-006, Box 3, Folder 1
Item
[198-?]

Part of Alan (Al) Roy Stewart fonds

File contains one pin featuring a picture of a German shepherd.

Halifax Pride 1988 pin

MS-15-5.2020-008, Box 6, Folder 3
Item
1988

Part of Anne Bishop fonds

Item is one round, blue pin with a graphic of waves and a pink triangle that reads "HFX. PRIDE '88".

Halifax Pride 1988 pin

MS-15-21.2021-016, Box 3, Folder 2
Item
1988

Part of Alan (Al) Roy Stewart fonds

File contains one pin produced for Halifax Pride 1988. Pin is printed with a background of light blue sky and darker blue waves, with an inverted pink triangle dipping into the waves, and small purple text reading "HFX. PRIDE 88".

Halifax Pride 1992 banner

MS-15-3.2019-062, OS Box 15, Folder 3
File
1992

Part of Lynn Murphy fonds

File contains one printed banner produced or collected by the Gay and Lesbian Association for Halifax Pride Week 1992. Banner is a piece of white fabric printed with black text that read "WE ARE FAMILY—HALIFAX PRIDE WEEK 1992", featuring a large image of a pink triangle overlaid by four interlocked venus and mars symbols.

Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia

Halifax Pride 1995 pin

MS-15-21.2021-016, Box 3, Folder 28
Item
1995

Part of Alan (Al) Roy Stewart fonds

File contains one pin printed with the logo for Halifax Pride 1995.

Halifax Pride 1995 pins

MS-15-12.2019-061, Box 1, Folder 20
File
1995

Part of LGBT Duplicate Materials collection

File contains two pins printed with the logo for Halifax Pride 1996.

Halifax Pride 1996 pin

MS-15-5.2020-008, Box 6, Folder 21
Item
1996

Part of Anne Bishop fonds

Item is one round pin that reads "Halifax Pride 1996".

Halifax Pride 1996 pin

MS-15-21.2021-016, Box 3, Folder 29
Item
1996

Part of Alan (Al) Roy Stewart fonds

File contains one pin for Halifax Pride 1996. Pin has a white background with a border of pink and black triangles, and features two overlapping black and pink triangles in the centre, with text printed above and below that reads "Pride—96".

Halifax Pride 1996 pins

MS-15-12.2019-061, Box 1, Folder 22
File
1996

Part of LGBT Duplicate Materials collection

File contains one pin printed with the logo for Halifax Pride 1996.

Halifax Pride 1997 pin

MS-15-21.2021-016, Box 3, Folder 30
Item
1997

Part of Alan (Al) Roy Stewart fonds

File contains one pin from Halifax Pride 1997. Pin has a white background with a border of small triangles in rainbow colours, with a blue cross and pink triangle in the centre with text above and below that reads "Pride—1997".

Halifax Pride 1997 pin

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 2, Folder 28
Item
1997

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains one white pin with a rainbow triangle border, featuring the logo for Halifax Pride Week 1997.

Halifax Pride 1997 pins

MS-15-12.2019-061, Box 1, Folder 24
File
1997

Part of LGBT Duplicate Materials collection

File contains three pins with a rainbow triangle border, featuring the logo for Halifax Pride Week 1997.

Halifax Pride 1998 pin

MS-15-5.2020-008, Box 6, Folder 24
Item
1998

Part of Anne Bishop fonds

Item is one round pin that reads "Pride Halifax 1998".

Halifax Pride 1998 pin

MS-15-21.2021-016, Box 3, Folder 31
Item
1998

Part of Alan (Al) Roy Stewart fonds

File contains one pin from Halifax Pride 1998. Pin features overlapping rainbow triangles on a black and white background and the words "PRiDE Halifax 1998".

Halifax Pride 1998 pins [large]