Archives Catalogue

Environmental impacts associated with increased harvesting and burning of wood for energy purposes in Nova Scotia : [draft manuscripts]

MS-2-789, Box 23, Folder 10
File
[early 1980s]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains two undated draft manuscripts written and annotated by Freedman, for the Institute for Resource and Environmental Studies. File also includes a couple of pages of handwritten revision notes.

Environmental impacts of hardwood forest management in Atlantic Canada : [draft manuscript]

MS-2-789, Box 23, Folder 5
File
1982

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the draft manuscript written by Freedman (with penciled notes and revisions), for the Environment Canada publication "Fuel or fiber? Hardwood utilization and marketing opportunities", edited by J.C. Lees.

Evaluation of loading of sulphate and heavy metals along a S-SE transect centering on Sudbury, Ontario ; Evaluation of sulphate and heavy metal loading rates and total sulphation as affected by forest canopies near Sudbury, Ontario ; Effects of smelter emissions on surrounding forest plant communities near Sudbury, Ontario : [manuscript and correspondence]

MS-2-789, Box 20, Folder 17
File
1977

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

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.

Experimental studies of the effects of acidity and associated water chemistry on amphibians : [manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 20, Folder 3
File
1984-1985

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains draft manuscripts of an article written by Freedman, J. Dale, and J. Kerekes, which appeared in the Proceedings of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science, volume 35, about laboratory bioassays of five species of Nova Scotian amphibians. File also includes correspondence, reviewer comments, and photographs supporting the research.

MS-2-789, Box 17, Folder 7
File
1984

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains a field notebook compiled by Bill Freedman in 1984 during his research on the Riverside region. Includes lists of flora seen at the following Nova Scotia lakes and bogs: Grafton, Snake, McGinty, Big Red, Little Red, Pebbleloggitch, Beaverskin, North Cranberry, Puzzle, Cosiuelle, Little Peskowesk, Mud, Loon, George, Peskowesk, Hilchemakaar, Big Dam East, Big Dam West, Iramy Bog, Mill Bog, Drain, Spectacle, Jordan, and Round Pond.

Final report to Halifax Harbour Cleanup Inc. on vegetation and soil survey :[ draft manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 32, Folder 5
File
1991

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the draft manuscript report compiled by Freedman and others for the consultancy firm Jacques Whitford Environment Ltd. File also contains a large folding facsimile map and annotated tables of flora from sites on McNabs Island.

Food and feeding behavior of sympatric snakes at Amherstburg, Ontario : [manuscript]

MS-2-789, Box 26, Folder 10
File
1980

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman and P.M. Catling, for Canadian Field-Naturalist, volume 94, number 1

Foraging behavior and prey selection by ospreys in coastal habitats in Nova Scotia, Canada : [manuscript]

MS-2-789, Box 26, Folder 1
File
1983

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman with Erick P. Greene and Anne E. Greene, in "Biology and management of Bald eagles and Osprey", edited by D.M. Bird. File also contains the draft manuscript "Information transfer at Osprey colonies, and associated works by Mr Greene.

Forest biomass and nutrient studies in central Nova Scotia : [manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 22, Folder 6
File
1985

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman with P.N. Duinker, H. Barclay, R. Morash, and U. Prager, for ENFOR (Energy from the Forest) and Environment Canada. The manuscript is written in five parts, contained in four volumes: 1. "Biomass and nutrient standing crop equations for ten tree species in central Nova Scotia"; 2. "Standing crops of biomass and nutrients in a variety of forest stands in central Nova Scotia"; 3. "Ambient bulk deposition, throughfall and stemflow in a variety of forest stands"; 4. "Biomass and nutrients in ground vegetation, forest floor, soils, and litterfall in a variety of forest stands"; and 5. "Summary report: Effects of potential nutrient removals with intensively harvested biomass on continued site productivity". File also contains data sets, transparencies, relevant tables, editorial board reports, and negatives of tables.

Forest floor dynamics in a chronosequence of hardwood stands in central Nova Scotia : [manuscript and correspondence]

MS-2-789, Box 23, Folder 1
File
1985

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman and E.S. Wallace, for the Canadian Journal of Forest Research, volume 16. File also includes correspondence and reviewer comments.

Forestry management practices and populations of breeding birds in a hardwood forest in Nova Scotia : [manuscript and correspondence]

MS-2-789, Box 25, Folder 11
File
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman with C. Beauchamp, I.A. McLaren, and S.I. Tingley, for Canadian Field-Naturalist, volume 95, number 3. File also contains correspondence and reviewer comments.

Initial impacts of silvicultural herbicide spraying on the vegetation of regenerating cleracuts in central Nova Scotia : [draft manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 22, Folder 2
File
[1985]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains draft manuscripts of the paper written by Freedman, R. Morash, and C. Stewart, and includes data sets and correspondence.

Intense, natural pollution affects Arctic tundra vegetation at the Smoking Hills, Canada : [manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 26, Folder 17
File
1975-1980

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman, with V. Zobens, T.C. Hutchinson, and W.I. Gizyn, for Ecology, volume 71, number 2. File also contains negatives for figures used in text, handwritten data, correspondence, and similar unannotated articles written by some of the contributors.

Inventory of ecological values on McNab's Island, Halifax County : [draft manuscript]

MS-2-789, Box 33, Folder 1
File
1996

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the draft manuscript compiled by Freedman and others in the Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, prepared for Parks Canada.

Ion mass balances and seasonal fluxes from four acidic brown water streams in Nova Scotia : [manuscript and correspondence]

MS-2-789, Box 10, Folder 10
File
1985-1987

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript of the article written by Freedman, correspondence about requested revisions, data sets and figures.

Journal and newspaper articles relating to the Brown spruce longhorn beetle : [draft manuscripts and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 32, Folders 2-3
File
2000-2008

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains facsimiles of newspaper articles relating to the containment of the Brown spruce longhorn beetle infestation of Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Otto Wettstein's draft report "On breeding Tetropium fuscum" (for Public Works and Government Services Canada), S. Balazy's draft "The fungus Cephalosporium (Acrostalagmus) lecanii Zimm. as a pathogen of beetle larvae", L.M. Hanks's "Influence of the larval host plant on reproductive strategies of cerambycid beetles", Zenon Capecki's "The occurrence of Tetropium Kirby (Cerambycidae, Coleoptera) and their parasites in Poland", J. Sweeney, L. Humble, and E. Allen's "Assessment of the Bruks chipper for phytosanitary production of chips free of live Tetropium spp. and other insects", Christopher Majka and Jan Klimaszewski's "Phloeocharis subtilissima Mannerheim (Staphylinidae: Phloeocharinae) and Cephennium gallicum Ganglbauer (Scydmaenidae) new to North America: a case study in the introduction of exotic Coleoptera to the port of Halifax, with new records of other species", and other Brown spruce longhorn beetle reports and articles.

Lead and zinc contamination of roadside soil and vegetation in Halifax, Nova Scotia : [manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 20, Folder 7
File
1982

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript of an article written by Freedman and J.M. Dale for the Proceedings of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science, volume 32. File also includes two hand-drawn charts and correspondence.

List of bryophytes of Alexandra Fiord : [draft manuscript]

MS-2-789, Box 28, Folder 12
File
[1985?]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the draft manuscripts written by W. Maas, B. Hoisington, and M. Nams, for the Freedman-edited "Ecology of a Polar Oasis", with many additions and edits by Freedman.

Long-term effects of smelter pollution at Sudbury, Ontario, on forest community composition : [manuscript and correspondence]

MS-2-789, Box 20, Folder 15
File
1979-1980

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman and T.C. Hutchinson for the Canadian Journal of Botany, volume 58, number 19. File also contains correspondence.

Macrophyte communities in three lakes in Kejimkujik National Park : [draft manuscripts]

MS-2-789, Box 26, Folder 8
File
1981-1982

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains twp draft manuscripts (one typed and one handwritten with many revisions) by Freedman and Colin C. Stewart, for the Kejimkujuk Calibrated Catchments Program, the Aquatic and Terrestrial Effects of the Long-Range Transport of Air Pollutants, Report of the Proceedings, November 18, 1981, edited by J. Kerekes, June 1982, sponsored by Atlantic Region LRTAP Monitering and Effects Working Group. File also contains the manuscript of the proceedings. Manuscript covers Pebbleloggitch, Beaverskin, and Kejimkujik lakes.

Major macrophyte communities and limiting factors for three lakes in Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia : [draft manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 26, Folder 5
File
1983

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the draft manuscript written by Freedman and Colin Stewart, for the Kejimkujik Calibrated Catchments Program workshop proceedings on the Aquatic and Terrestrial Effects of the Long-Range Transport of Air Pollutants, Life Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, April 26, 1983, edited by J. Kerekes. File also contains the manuscript of the proceedings, as well as other drafts.

McNab's Island Christmas bird counts

MS-2-789, Box 32, Folder 4
File
1995-2012

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains handwritten and typed research notes compiled by Freedman and others, documenting bird counts at McNab's Island, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, between the years 1995 and 2012. File also contains correspondence.

Melanistic Butler's garter snakes (Thamnophis butleri) at Amherstburg, Ontario : [manuscript]

MS-2-789, Box 26, Folder 13
File
1977

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman (as W. Freedman) with P.M. Catling for Canadian Field-Naturalist, volume 91, number 4.

Mine-boggling decision : Nova Scotia's government said no to development, to save an endangered plant : [manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 24, Folder 10
File
1992

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman for Nature Canada, Spring 1992. File also contains drafts, correspondence, and colour photographs of the endangered plant.

Movements of sympatric species of snakes at Amherstburg, Ontario : [manuscript]

MS-2-789, Box 26, Folder 11
File
1979

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman with P.M. Catling, for Canadian Field-Naturalist, volume 93, number 4.

Notes on property exploration for the Nova Scotia Nature Trust

MS-2-789, Box 19, Folder 4
File
2012

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains notes written by Bill Freedman in 2012 while undertaking property explorations for the Nova Scotia Nature Trust. Notes contain a brief survey of each location and potential financial costs involved, for locations at Middle and Outer Pleasant Harbour, Gerard Island, Hemeon's Head, Bougles Isle (?), Pugwash, and a site at Tusket.

MS-2-789, Box 33, Folder 8
File
[1995]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains handwritten notes regarding biomass equations, and applying the equations to house redesign in Halifax.

Other studies on Point Pleasant Park and the Brown spruce longhorn beetle : [manuscripts and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 32, Folder 1
File
1995-2008

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains manuscript reports dealing with the health of Point Pleasant Park and the containment of the Brown spruce longhorn beetle. File contains the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources "1994/95 Spruce Beetle Damage Survey" (Mike LeBlanc and Bob Guscott), the "Point Pleasant Park Forest Health Survey, June 8-10, 2000" (Guscott), two draft manuscripts of "Brown Spruce Longhorn Beetle" (Plant Health Risk Assessment Unit, Science Division; September 1999 and June 2000), the Halifax Regional Municipality "Point Pleasant Park, Park and Urban Forest Master Plan" (November 18, 1998), and other fact sheets (Friends of Point Pleasant Park and Environment Canada) and presentation drafts.

Overview of the environmental impacts of forestry, with particular reference to the Atlantic Provinces : [manuscript and correspondence]

MS-2-789, Box 23, Folder 9
File
1982

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript of the report written by Freedman, by the Institute for Resource and Environmental Studies under a contract from Environment Canada, Atlantic Region, and Fisheries and Oceans Canands [I.R.E.S. Research Report 82-02]. File also contains correspondence and reviewer comments.

Patterns and importance of dissolved organic carbon in four acidic brownwater streams in Nova Scotia, Canada

MS_2-789, Box 19, Folder 8
File
1985-1987

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains a copy of the manuscript written by Freedman, with T.A. Clair, for Environment Canada, as well as correspondence, data, and funding information. Written and presented for the Muskoka Brownwater proceedings.

Patterns of water chemistry of four drainage basins in central Nova Scotia : [manuscript]

MS-2-789, Box 19, Folder 7
File
1985

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman with C. Stewart and U. Prager for the Inland Waters Directorate, studying the watersheds of Rogers Book, Whiteburn Brook, Moose Pit Brook, and Mersey River.

Phenology and resource allocation in a high arctic evergreen dwarf shrub, Cassiope tetragona : [manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 27, Folder 5
File
1983-1987

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman with M.L.N. Nams, for Holarctic Ecology, volume 10. FIle also contains correspondence, handwritten notes, reviewer comments, and negatives of figures used in the manuscript.