Archives Catalogue

William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

MS-2-762
Fonds
1831 - 2005

Fonds comprises the records of William Edward Maclellan and his family's records, including those of including William Edward and Margaret Jane (Mackenzie) Maclellan; Edward Kirkpatrick and Helen Stewart (Mackay) Maclellan; Robert (Bob) William and Delphine Caroline (Wallace) Maclellan; Jean Stewart Maclellan; Robert William Maclellan; and David Kirkpatrick Stewart Maclellan. Record types include correspondence, photographs, films, newspaper clippings, poems, certificates, booklets, periodicals, notebooks and genealogical charts.

Maclellan, William Edward

Charles Bruce fonds

MS-2-297
Fonds
1870 - 1974

Fonds consists of the personal papers of Charles Bruce, including a scrapbook, notebooks, personal and professional correspondence, published and unpublished work, and research materials and notes.

Bruce, Charles Tory

In remembrance : a program of commemorative music and readings : [poster]

MS-5-15.2018-027, OS Box 20, Folder 14
File
November 13, 1999

Part of Halifax Camerata Singers fonds

File contains two copies of a poster for a concert by the Halifax Camerata Singers at St. Matthew's United Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The concert accompanied a special exhibition of drawings by prisoners of the Terezin Concentration Camp.

Ronald St. John Macdonald’s personal records

Series
1861 - [ca. 2005]

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Series comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his personal life, including memorabilia, biographical notes, awards, and photographs.

Correspondence between Theodore Lidz and Alexander Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 48, Folder 2
File
1943 - 1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains letters written between friends and colleagues Theodore Lidz and Alexander Leighton, beginning during the Second World War and continuing until 1951.

Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

MS-13-86
Fonds
1837-2020, predominant 1904-2008

Fonds contains records created and collected primarily by Alexander H. Leighton, with some by Jane Leighton Murphy. Documents span from Leighton's studies at Princeton, Cambridge, and Johns Hopkins univerities, through his government employment in World War II, and his teaching career at Cornell, Dalhousie, and Harvard. The majority of records are related to the 1961 Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project and the 1963 Study on the Role of Women, both based in Nigeria, and the Stirling County Study, based in Nova Scotia. Record types include correspondence, manuscripts, grant applications, reports, photographs and slides, medical and academic records, method and guidebooks, reviews, offprints and publications, teaching and course materials, and surveys and interview transcripts.

A sous-fonds contains records documenting the migration of Alexander Leighton's parents from Ireland to the United States and their subsequent life in Philadelphia. The sous-fonds contains extensive correspondence between extended family members over the course of a century, as well as photographs, diaries, wills, family trees, memoirs, and Alexander Leighton's personal correspondence.

Murphy, Jane Leighton

The intangibles in war : [manuscript]

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 65
Item
[194-]

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a set of typed notes for a lecture given at the Halifax Rotary Club sometime during the Second World War.

Convocation address at Mount St. Vincent University

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 71
Item
[194-]

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a typed manuscript copy of a convocation address delivered by MacDonald at Mount Saint Vincent University in the early 1940s.

Photographic negatives of a Bob Chancery cartoon, Thomas Head Raddall in radio interviews, a commemorative scroll dedicated to T.H. Raddall, Sr., the surrender of the German submarine U-889, Thomas Head Raddall receiving the T.H. Raddall prize plaque, and standing with the Cadet Corps and headmaster of King's Collegiate School, and the Highland dancers of Liverpool, Nova Scotia

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 8
Item
[19-]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Items, negatives, are related to material found in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album [between 1940 and 1959], and to MS-2-202, Oversized 8, Folder 13 and MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 12, Item 3 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. Items are duplicate to MS-2-202, Oversized Box 8 Folder 13 and materials found in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph albums 1941-1953 and 1944-1961.

Photograph of members of the 5th Regiment, stationed at Petawawa in August 1940

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 8, Item 4
Item
August 1940

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Those identified from the front row include, left to right, RSM McNeil, Padre R. Sneyd, RQM Hudson, Pay. K. Jenks, Major Steyn, Lt. Col. Roome, Major Hague, Capt. Hooper, an unidentified Lieut., Dr. McDougall, and an unidentified RQMS.

Photograph of battery commanders and sergeants from the 5th regiment, stationed at Petawawa in May, 1940

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 8, Item 8
Item
May 1940

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of Richard Roome and three unidentified officers of the No. 7 Operational Training Unit, Debert

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 9, Item 3
Item
[1943 or 1944]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of Colonel Halle, 7th Division Artillery, Tracadie, 1943

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 9, Item 14
Item
1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Winter training in Debert, Nova Scotia

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 11
File
1942-1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of three unidentified soldiers conducting sledge training at Debert

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 11, Item 1
Item
1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of Corporal G.F. Morton engaging in winter infantry training at Debert

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 11, Item 3
Item
1942 or 1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of two unidentified soldiers sheltering in a small cabin during winter infantry training at Debert

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 11, Item 6
Item
1942 or 1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of four unidentified soldiers sleeping rough during winter infantry training at Debert

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 11, Item 8
Item
1942 or 1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of four unidentified soldiers cooking during winter infantry training at Debert

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 11, Item 9
Item
1942

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of four unidentified soldiers cooking during winter infantry training at Debert

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 11, Item 10
Item
1942

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of four unidentified Canadian Seaforth Highlanders cooking during winter infantry training at Debert

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 11, Item 11
Item
1942 or 1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of Richard Roome as Deputy Adjutant General

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 20, Item 1
Item
1945

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

1613 Christian Ministers Demand an All-Out Anti-Fascist Peace : [poster]

MS-2-232, OS Box 22, Folder 13, Item 4
Item
February 13, 1945

Part of Kenneth Leslie fonds

Item consists of a broadside produced by The Protestant (edited by Kenneth Leslie), as it appeared in the February 13, 1945 edition of the New York Post, containing a declaration from Leslie and the editorship directed to Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, urging resistance against what Leslie deems the anti-Semitic influence of a "overtly political" Papacy.

Oland family fonds

MS-2-135
Fonds
1870 - 2018

Fonds consists of various personal records, including correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, slides, negatives, an artifact, and legal and financial records. Some business records from Oland and Son Limited and its affiliated companies are also included.

Oland Family

Charcoal and pencil sketch by Donald Cameron Mackay of a wartime downtown Halifax street scene

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 9
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a charcoal and pencil drawing by D.C. Mackay in the early 1940s depicting a downtown Halifax street scene. Possibly looking from near Province House, corner of Prince and Granville Streets.

Charcoal and pencil drawing by Donald Cameron Mackay of a sailor on sentry duty on the Halifax waterfront

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 63
Item
December 15, 1943

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a pencil and charcoal drawing by D.C. Mackay dated December 15, 1943, showing a Canadian sailor performing sentry duty on Jetty #4 on the Halifax waterfront.

Photographs of VE-Day in Halifax, Nova Scotia

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22
File
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains 38 photographs taken in downtown Halifax during and after riots that took place on VE Day in 1945. Photographs show servicemen and women as well as civilians, street celebrations and ransacked stores. Item 25 was taken by Roy Tidman and Item 37 is a Royal Canadian Navy photograph.

Photograph of looters carting cases of beer outside of Keith's Brewery on Lower Water Street during the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 6
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of sailors looting beer through a broken window at Keith's Brewery during the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 7
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of a naval reserve lieutenant drinking from a bottle in downtown Halifax in the aftermath of the VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 11
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of servicemen and women celebrating VE-Day with looted Keith's beer in a downtown Halifax park

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 15
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of two women carrying looted goods, while others watch events on the street during the VE-Day riots in Halifax

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 19
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of servicemen drinking looted Keith's beer in front of Government House during the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 22
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of a ransacked shop interior in the aftermath of the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 28
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of sailors with beer and looted good outside the Carleton Hotel during the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 31
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of a naval officer and two men in civilian dress walking up a set of outside stairs

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 37
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

MS-2-615
Fonds
1823 - 2006

Fonds comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his personal, academic, and professional activities as a jurist, judge, and professor. Records include those related to Macdonald's involvement with Osgoode Hall, University of Western Ontario, University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, the European Court of Human Rights, the Hague, Peking University, World Academy of Arts and Science, Canadian Council of International Law, United Nations, Institute of International Law, African Society of International Law, British Institute of International Law, Canadian Institute of International Law, International Law Association, and others. Records types include correspondence; meeting minutes and agendas; research materials; photographs; newsletters; newspaper clippings; manuscripts; and off-prints.

Macdonald, Ronald St. John, 1928-2006

Robert (Bob) William Maclellan's records