File contains the transcript of an interview conducted by Dennis Magill with Marvin Burke, November 23, 1971, on the subject of the Easter Sunrise Service in Africville. File also contains a partial interview transcript between Magill and Bob Grant, as well as a question sheet.
File contains one audio reel ( ¼ in. tape), possibly containing interviews with or by social worker Marvin Burke, regarding the Africville relocation.
File contains correspondence among Dennis Magill, Donalt Clairmont, Guy Henson, Donald Maclean, Kell Antoft, and others, regarding the Africville Relocation Study.
File contains 13 photographs taken during an experiment by Bill Freedman in 1973. Photographs show an array of barley plants, each example subject to different levels of osmotic stress.
File contains 17 photographs taken by Bill Freedman along the Magnetawan River (which empties into Georgian Bay), in May 1973. Photographs show several species of flora and fungi of the area, including Trillium undulatum, Trillium erectum, and Caltha palustris. There are also two photographs of a beaver dam.
File contains 13 photographs taken by Bill Freedman near Thompson, Manitoba, in 1974. Photographs show Picea mariana and Picea banksiana at various distances from the factory smokestacks of a nickel processing facility. Also, a beaver dam and regrowth after a forest fire.
File contains 27 photographs taken by Bill Freedman during two visits to Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, in 1973 and 1974. Photographs show birds in the area around Tuktoyaktuk, including Semipalmated plover, Whimbrel, Stilt sandpipers, Common eider, and Lapland longspur.
File contains 59 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Norman Wells, NT, between 1973 and 1974. Photographs show views of the Mackenzie River from Norman Wells, of small oil spill sites near Norman Wells, and flora of Norman Wells and nearby Jackfish Lake.
File contains 17 photographs taken by Bill Freedman, around Tuktoyaktuk and Norman Wells, between 1973 and 1974. Photographs show regrowth of Salix glauca, Betula glandulosa, Ledum palustre (among others).
File contains 20 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Harrowby Bay (near Tuktoyaktuk), from 1974 to 1975. Photographs document containment efforts after a small oil spill.
File contains 44 photographs taken by Bill Freedman near Jasper and Whistler Mountain, Alberta, between 1973 and 1975. Photographs show mule deer and elk, and many species of plants (occasionally with captions stating the altitude at which they were found). Plants found in this file include Sedum stenopetalum, Rosa acicularism, Silene acaule, Dryas, hookeriana, and Saxifraga bronchialis.
File contains the manuscript written by Freedman (as W. Freedman) and T.C. Hutchinson, for the Conference on Prevention and Control of Oil Pollution; San Francisco, 1975.
File contains 7 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Fundy National Park, New Brunswick, in 1975. Photographs show examples of Iris versicolor, as well as scenes along the shore of the Bay of Fundy.
File contains the manuscript written by Freedman (as W. Freedman) and T.C. Hutchinson, for the Circumpolar Conference on Northern Ecology, Ottawa, 1975.
File contains 35 photographs taken by Bill Freedman on in Death Valley, California, in 1975. Photographs show the flora and scenery of the region, as well as views of smog over Los Angeles.
File contains 10 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Smoking Hills (near Cape Bathurst), Northwest Territories, in 1975. Photographs show Rough-legged hawk chicks, Northern pharalope, and Whistling swan, and Arctic loon.
File contains 5 photographs taken by Bill Freedman, near Killarney, Ontario, in 1976. Photographs show an acid lake, Jack pine damage, and some of the researchers.
File contains 20 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Crawford Lake and Crawford Bog (near Burlington, Ontario), between 1973 and 1976. Photographs are predominantly of Cypripedium reginae.
File contains 40 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at sites around Cape Bathurst and Cape Parry, near Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories. Photographs show examples of Saxifraga oppostifolia, Phlox sibirica, Primula borealis, Caloplaca elegans, among others. Also includes photographs from nearby sites Blackfly Lake and Malloch Hill.
Photograph shows a Coastal Services Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts) pollution control tanker truck at Alexandria Bay, New York, with one unidentified worker sitting atop the tanker.
File contains 18 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Camp Naivelt (near Brampton, Ontario), between 1973 and 1976. Photographs show plant species of the area, including Erigeron philadelphicus, Erythronium americana, Hesperis matronalis, Anenome canadensis, and Arisaema triphyllum.
File contains 24 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at the Headland site, Leslie Street spit, Toronto, in 1977. Photographs show nesting terns (Caspian and Common) and gulls (Ring-billed and Herring).
File contains three abstracts written by Freedman for presentations for the Workshop Meeting to Consider Methods Involved in Studies of Acid Precipitation to Forect [sic] Ecosystem. Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 19-23 September 1977. Session titles are: 1B: Evaluation of Atmospheric Inputs; 2. Throughfall and Stemflow; 3. Measurement of Effects. File also includes hand-written data and correspondence.
File contains the publication with the manuscript written by Freedman with C.E. Goodwin and S.M. McKay, for The Ontario Field Biologist, volume 31, number 2.
Subseries contains records created during a study of the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was sponsored by the Nova Scotia Department of Public Welfare, in association with the Department of National Heath and Welfare, and conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill for the Institute of Public Affairs (project number 552-21-2). Records in this subseries primarily document the research activities of Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill that led to the publication of the 1971 Africville relocation report. Materials include genealogical information on former residents of Africville, responses to a questionnaire run by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill , interview files, newspaper clippings, sound recordings, correspondence, and other material.
File contains 51 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in the Postville area of Labrador, between 1975 and 1977 (predominantly 1977). Photographs show geological formations, bogs, and flora around the Michelin Lake area near Postville. File also contains some photographs of flora taken at Terra Nova National Park
File contains 50 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at locations near Parry Sound, Ontario, and specifically, Lake Joseph, between 1974 and 1977. Photographs show plants of the region, such as Hepatica americana, Iris versicolor, Lotus corniculatus, and Hieracium aurantiacum. Photographs also show defoliated hillsides caused by the encroachment of forest tent caterpillar into the area.
File contains 16 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at the Minesing Wetlands, near Barrie, Ontario, in 1977 and 1978. Photographs show views of the wetlands, an "elm graveyard", and Acer saccharinum
File contains 9 photographs taken by J. Vandermeulen (and collected by Bill Freedman), likely in 1978. Photographs show clean-up efforts of the oil spill after the Amoco Cadiz super-tanker ran aground off the Brittany coast (near Portsall, France) on March 16, 1978.
Fonds comprises records created and collected by James Morrison primarily documenting his oral history research of northern Nigerian communities between 1970-1976, including the Heipang, Riyom, Bachit, Ropp, Kuru and Irrigwe peoples. Record types include field notes; research notebooks; essays; manuscript drafts and a bound copy of Morrison's doctoral thesis; bibliographic files; correspondence; secondary published materials and reports; cassette recordings of oral interviews, speeches, singing and music; photographs related to the Jos Plateau; and a small number of maps.
