Fonds consists of materials regarding Captain Robert N. Anderson's activities as a shipmaster, including a ship's logbook, a bill of sale for the schooner Corona and receipts of goods freighted by the Corona. Records also include correspondence sent to Anderson by his family.
Fonds consists of materials regarding Russell B. Zinck's poetry, including poetry manuscripts and newspaper clippings; his notes about politics; and his involvement with the local press. Record types include correspondence, a scrapbook and a notebook containing poem drafts. The fonds also contains a picture by W.M. Schaffuer.
Fonds consists of correspondence (1943-1975), publications (1946-1970), addresses and forewords (1944-1977), unpublished documents (1952-1978), material collected for reference and other purposes, newspaper cuttings, memorabilia (1934-1977), and black and white photographs (1946-1975), written or collected by Guy Henson. Reference and other materials pertain to a wide variety of topics, including golf, education in Nova Scotia, political movements and current affairs, social causes, labour, management, and the activities of many local, provincial and national societies.
Item is a copy of issue number nine of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by Ethel H. Butler, Bob Leslie, Noel H. Wilcox, Alexander Louis Fraser, Charles Bruce, "Willie," "A.C.H.," King Hazen, Grace and Joe Wallace, and Stuart McCauley, and notes from and about readers and contributors.
Item is a copy of issue number eight of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by John Daniel Logan, Annie Campbell Huestis, Noel H. Wilcox, Molly Beresford, Charles Bruce, Donald Cameron MacKay, Jerry Murphy, Virginia Clay Hamilton and Martha Ann Leslie; an obituary for John D. Logan; and various notes from and about other readers and contributors.
Item is a copy of issue number six of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by Martha Ann, Mollie Beresford, W.K. Carew, Nathanial A. Benson, Stuart McCawley, Charles Bruce, Bob Leslie and Joe Wallace, and notes about the whereabouts and doings of some members.
Item is a copy of issue number five of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by Annie Campbell Huestis, Charles Bruce, Ellen Hemmeon, Ethel H. Butler, A.L. Fraser and Stuart McCawley, and comments from Jerry Murphy, Joe Wallace, and C.D.G.R.
Item is a copy of issue number four of the Song Fishermens' Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by Kenneth Leslie, R.V. Bannon, J.P.P. Llwyd, and Molly Beresford.
Item is a copy of issue number two of the Song Fishermens' Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by Virginia Lynne Tunstall, Evelyn Tufts, Noel Wilcox and Molly Beresford, as well as notes from Bliss Carmen and Stuart McCawley.
Item is a copy of issue number two of the Song Fishermens' Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by Bob Leslie and Jerry Murphy, an announcement of poetry recitals by Bliss Carman, and a list of those receiving the song sheet.
Item is a copy of issue number 16 of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains a letter from J.D. Gillis recounting his first visit to Halifax since 1916 in order to attend the Song Fishermen's picnic, and poems by R.V. Bannon, E. Chesley Allen, John Mosher, and Stuart McCawley.
Item is a copy of issue number 15 of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains an announcement of the song sheet's upcoming first year anniversary, an essay on the rewards of living in Nova Scotia and having the leisure to think and write, and poems by Robert Leslie and Joe Wallace.
Item is a copy of issue number 14 of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains an announcement of the winner of the MacAskill-inspired poetry contest and remarks by James Gillis on each entry, which included poems by Robert Leslie, Stuart McCawley (the winner), Joe Wallace, Andrew Merkel, Ethel H. Butler, Michael D, Currie, M. Campbell, Effie MacD Barnes, Katherine F. MacDonald, and Mollie Beresford.
Item is a copy of issue number 11 of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by Seumas O'Brien, "Mike," Kenneth Leslie, Estelle Fox, Constance L. Coleman, C. MacRae, Nathaniel A. Benson, H.G. McGrath, Alexander Louis Fraser, Pauline B. Barrington, Frank Graham, Ethel Butler, and Bliss Carman; letters from Stuart McCawley and Ross Macaulay; and an announcement regarding the call for poems celebrating Angus McAskill.
Item is a copy of issue number ten of the Song Fishermens' Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by Charles Bruce, Alexander Louis Fraser, E.H.B., Andrew Merkel, Kenneth Leslie, Joe Wallace and Stewart McCawley, and letters from James D. Gillis, Robert Norwood, Bliss Carman, Martha Ann, J.A. MacGlashen and Seamus O'Brien.
Item is a copy of issue number one of the Song Fishermens' Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains an appeal for submissions and a poem by Charles T. Bruce.
File contains 15 issues of a periodical "issued every so often," edited and published by Andrew Merkel out of his Halifax office of the Canadian Press. In addition to publishing the poems of The Song Fishermen, a Halifax literary group that included Andrew Merkel, Kenneth Leslie, Charles G.D. Roberts, Molly Beresford, Bliss Carman, Charles Bruce, and Robert Norwood, it became a vehicle for members to keep in touch with each other, especially those who lived outside of Halifax. Issue numbers 1-4 and 10 were published as "The Song Fishermens' Song Book"; the possessive apostrophe was corrected in the remaining numbers. Number 12 is missing and number 13 took the form of a short book of poems published by Abenaki Press in tribute to Bliss Carman after this death.
Item is a copy of issue number six of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by W.B., Charles D.G. Roberts, Ellen Hemmeon, Ethel H. Butler and W.J. Carew, and a page of editorial notes and readers comments.
Fonds contains records created and collected by Andrew Merkel, including correspondence with friends and associates such as Charles Bruce, Kenneth Leslie, and Robert Norwood; manuscripts; newspaper clippings; and copies of The Song Fishermens’ Song Sheet and The Order of Good Cheer.
File contains an assortment of invoices, correspondence, and change of address notices that James Morrison sent and received from 1973-1974 in Nigeria and in Colchester County, Nova Scotia. The file holds publication invoices from Blackwell's and Cambridge University Press, hand written correspondence from James Morrison to his wife Sheila Morrison, and bank statements from several Nigerian banks.
Fonds contains materials collected by Al Stewart as part of his involvement in the Maritime leather community, his LGBT advocacy work at Saint John's United Church in Halifax, and his involvement in the broader LGBT community in Nova Scotia. Leather community records document the activities of the TightRope leather brotherhood, Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [MACLeather] contests, and other leather groups across Canada and the United States. Materials include administrative records, photographs, promotional materials, correspondence, newsletters, and catalogues. United Church materials primarily relate to Stewart's efforts to attain Affirmed status for St. John's United Church, and include reference materials, correspondence, and newsletters. Fonds also contains objects and ephemera related to the leather community, Affirm, and Stewart's membership in the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union [NSGEU], as well as personal photographs, correspondence, and LGBT publications.
Series includes photographs and textual materials related to gay pride marches and events in Nova Scotia as well as documentation from the 1987 March on Washington.
File contains one facsimile of the Memorandum of Association of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Project society sent May 31, 2005; one pamphlet for the LGB Youth Project; one invoice for the purchase and set-up of a new server; one copy of the April/May 2005 issue of Young Gay America; 1 clipping from the Chronicle Herald dated June 29, 2005; one promotional flyer for various Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Project events over the summer of 2005; meeting minutes and agendas from May, 2005; one copy of terms of reference for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Project Youth Board; one flyer for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Project's Queer Prom '05; one copy of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Project Policy and Procedure Manual, approved June 2004.
File contains materials relating to the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's transgender advocacy efforts. Materials include one copy of a pamphlet entitled Hiding its Face: Homophobia; one copy of the November 2005 issue of Wayves; preparatory notes for the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project and LGBTI Initiative meeting on June 14, 2006; one copy of Boys Will Be Girls: Reasons to Provide MSI Coverage for Sexual Reassignment Surgery, published by the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project on June 14, 2004; and one copy of the May 26, 2003 issue of Maclean's magazine.
File contains copies of Gaezette, a periodical which was originally published as the newsletter for the Gay Alliance for Equality. It existed to inform lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people across Atlantic Canada of activities in their communities, and to promote those activities and support their aims and objectives. Issues in this file were published in 1994.
