Fonds contains materials collected by LGBTQ+ activist Bob Fougere pertaining to his activism in Halifax. Records in fonds document Fougere's work as coordinator of the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project [NSRAP], including NSRAP's participation in the Halifax Rainbow Health Project and its health care advocacy work on behalf of transgender Nova Scotians. Materials also document Fougere's roles as board member at Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church, and facilitator the Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Youth Project support group. Materials in fonds include correspondence, pamphlets, essays, studies, clippings, reports, meeting minutes, conference materials, and ephemera.
Series contains materials documenting the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project administrative activities, research and advocacy work. Records pertain to NSRAP's advocacy work for transgender Nova Scotians, participation in the Halifax Rainbow Health Project, and research and advocacy work related to gay men's health and HIV/AIDS. Record types include meeting minutes and agendas, job postings, reports, reference and research materials, planning materials, workshop and lobbying materials, correspondence, and notes.
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.
Subseries contains materials relating to NSRAP's participation in the Halifax Rainbow Health Project. Operating between 2004-2006, the Halifax Rainbow Health Project was formed by Capital Health to research ways of increasing access to primary care services for members of Nova Scotia's LGBTQ community. It was a joint effort between the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project, the the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia, and the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth Project. Materials in subseries include meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, project proposals, reference and planning materials, job postings, notes, and reports.
File contains two draft copies of the report Halifax Rainbow Health Project: Improving Access to Primary Health Care for the Rainbow Community with revisions, as well as one report summary, dated March, 2005; one set of copies of slides for a presentation entitled Inclusion Program In-service, printed on computer paper; and a copy of the Halifax Rainbow Health Project Inclusion Program Assessment Tool.
File contains materials relating to Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's involvement in the Syphilis Network health initiative via its participation in the Halifax Rainbow Health Project. Materials include one pamphlet published by Capital Health entitled Syphilis: A Primer for Physicians, meeting agendas, correspondence, notes; and one copy of the proposed action plan.
File documents Norman Hebert’s time as President of the Amherst and District Labour Council between 1975 and 1977. Records include notices of meetings and protest actions, correspondence between members of the council and executive officers, and annual reports.
Series consists of Judge Peter O'Hearn's records regarding his professional activities and studies on the practice and procedure of law, including regarding the Judicature Act, the rules of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, and other topics. Series contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, typescripts, and other textual records.
Series consists of Janet M. Eaton's material regarding her involvement with the Continuous Learning Association of Nova Scotia. Series includes correspondence, programmes, pamphlets, meeting minutes, reports, and other textual records.
File includes the Continuous Learning Association of Nova Scotia board of directors' meeting minutes, the Nominating Committee's report, and the president's report.
Subseries contains records created and collected by Gil Winham during his service on the Macdonald Royal Commission, which resulted in a recommendation that Canada enter into a free trade agreement with the United States. Record types include symposium and meeting agendas, minutes and notes; discussion papers; correspondence and memoranda; media releases and bulletins. Of note is a study on Canada-US sectoral trade written by Gil Winham, along with related records.
File contains correspondence regarding the development of the acute stroke program at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre. File also includes a draft proposal for the cerebrovascular unit at the Victoria General Hospital.
File contains a presentation titled Setting the Context : Stroke Care in Nova Scotia. The presentation was given by the Nova Scotia Integrated Stroke Strategy Committee to District Health Authorities during a consultation process that took place between June and September 2003. File includes correspondence, planning documents, and other material related to the consultation. File also contains a March 2002 committee report on re-organizing stroke care in Nova Scotia. The report was published by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Nova Scotia.
File consists of materials for SIM orientation week complied by the 2006 orientation committee, including a schedule of events, volunteer list, promotion flyer for a book swap, acronym list, scavenger hunt planning materials, and an email buddy (cyber-pal initiative) list. Also includes a list of names and email addresses of the 2008-2009 orientation committee members and the orientation schedule for fall 2008.
File contains 14 photographs, most of them featuring Christopher Heide with other people. The photographs were in an envelope sent to him by Nicola Lipman.
Folder contains correspondence from the lawyers and the report "Decision 1459" regarding the loss of the fishing trawler "S.T. Triumph" when it was captured by enemy submarine 60 miles south west of Cape Canso, Nova Scotia, August 20, 1918.
Item consists of the fourth draft of an Atlantic Child Guidance Centre position paper, dated August 31, 1972, prepared by the Atlantic Child Guidance Centre Policy Committtee (Dr. Alexander Murchison, Dr. G. Gordon, Norris Turner, Paul Norton, Dr. S. Bijoor, and Everett Harris). The item is addressed to "all Atlantic Child Guidance Centre staff for comment" before final submission, and has the goal of ensuring that "adolescents [...] not be forgotten either in terms of bureaucratic strucutre or in terms of submergence in adult designed and orientated programs," and that they "require advocates" to ensure that any public health legislation does not overlook the needs of those who are "underage [... in a] largely adult orientated society."
Item consists of an early draft of a "Group home development proposal" compiled by the Alexander Murchison (and others) for the Group Home Advisory Committee, Children's Aid Society of Halifax, dated March 5, 1973. The committee consisted of Dr. Murchison (chairman), Ron Smith, Pat Corkery, T. Daley, Mrs. Cleveland, and Father O'Neil. The purpose of the document is "to recommend proposals relative to the development of group homes by the Children's Aid Society of Halifax". Item also contains handwritten inked marginal notes and corrections.
Item is a draft brief compiled by Alexander Murchison and others in 1973 or 1974, regarding the opening of a Child Guidance Centre. Item reviews reports and speeches (Clyde Marshall's 1969 working paper, a 1970 address by the Honourable R.A. Donahoe to the Conference of Mental Health Centre Boards, the Hastings Report, and the Government of Ontario's White Paper), as a means of determining that the functioning of the Centre would be "impaired" if the Centre was to be located in the Abbie Lane Psychiatric Hospital. The item addresses concerns with the proposal arising from the schism between prevention (which the Centre would encourage) versus treatment (which the hospital engages in), as well as the stigma associated with the hospital, affecting negatively potential work with at-risk youth and their families.
Item is a draft funding proposal compiled by Alexander Murchison and others, submitted to the Atlantic Regional Office, Non-Medical Use of Drugs Directorate, Health Protection Branch, Department of National Health & Welfare, in February 1973, encouraging the funding and development of an adolescent health care program in Nova Scotia. The item addresses what was achieved from a similar proposal in 1972, and outline aims "to animate interested health care workers [in the province] to initiate changes within their own community and profession." The item contains a three-page budget appendix.
Item is an early draft proposal written by Alexander Murchison and others ca. 1973 regarding funding for a grant to improve the delivery of health services to children and youth in Nova Scotia. The proposal aims to implement several programs in Halifax County to assist the province's youth in moving "toward optimum health" by implementing the following programs: Life Development program (emphasizing proper nutrition, emotional and physical development); Day Care and Pre-School program; Teacher Training program; Community Health Nurse program; Environmental Control program (environmental effects on human growth and development); and General Training program (for professionals involved with children and adolescent care).
Item is a report written by Alexander Murchison, dated January 9, 1975, and presented to the Dartmouth Branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association, regarding improving group home facilities not only for adolescents and older individuals in Nova Scotia.
Fonds comprises reports, publications, meeting notes and minutes, correspondence and general documentation illustrating the activities of the Community Planning Association of Canada, Nova Scotia Division.
Community Planning Association of Canada, Nova Scotia Division
Fonds consists of correspondence with the Canadian Medical Association and its professional journal; manuscripts of papers and addresses; off prints; obituaries of Dr. Hattie; a letter from Secretary of Graduates of McGill University H.C. Pruell (1897); and a letter from Sir J.W. Dawson (1897).
Fonds consists of Harold Scammell's correspondence associated with both the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia and the Provincial Medical Board. Other papers include financial records, miscellaneous publications, personal notes and records from his years at Dalhousie University.
File includes "Origin of the Rhodesian copper deposits"; "Origin of the Roan Antelope copper deposit of Northern Rhodesia"; "Department of Mines and Technical Surveys: notes on localities visited on the Labrador coast in 1946 and 1947," by G. Vibert Douglas; "On the structural relationships and genesis of the pyritic ore-bodies of Huelva," by G. Vibert Douglas; "Some observations on syngenetic ores," by George Vibert Douglas, A. Carlisle Gourley and Ralph D. Mathieson; "The deposition of the Halifax series; Barasois and Indian Brook area," by G. Vibert Douglas and C.O. Campbell; "Copper deposit at Cap d'Or," by G.V. Douglas; "Black granite at Shelburne" / by G.V. Douglas; "The new Campbellton dolomite deposit," by G.V. Douglas; "Notes on the interpretation of the Wegener frequency curve," by G. Vibert Douglas and A.V. Douglas; "A solution of fault problems," by G. Vibert Douglas and A. Vibert Douglas; "Observations of the geology and mines of the Belgian Congo," by G. Vibert Douglas; "Iron ore, Erinville," by G. Vibert Douglas; and "Spectroscopy applied to mineral determination."
Item consists of the Annual Report of the Ecology Action Centre, from 1976. Includes information related to the activities of the organization of the past several years, as well as committees and future plans.
Item is the Ecology Action Centre Annual Report for 1980-1981, which is missing the first two pages. Includes part of Bessa Ruiz's president's report, a look back at the previous ten years of the organization (by Ginny Point), and the organization's annual financial report (by Bill Coffey).
Item consists of a facsimile of the Ecology Action Centre Annual Report for 1987-1988, delivered at the Annual General Meeting at the Nova Scotia Museum, April 30, 1988. Includes information related to fundraising efforts, ongoing projects, outreach, and committee work.
Item consists of the annual report of the Ecology Action Centre, covering the years 2000-2001. Includes Peggy Cameron's chair report, committee updates from Tony Bowron, Mark Butler, Susan Gass, Lara Gibson, Jayne Roma, and Heidi Schaefer, an update on the Nova Scotia Coastal Water Trail by Sue Browne, a Transportation Issues Committee update from Alex Fischer, Susanna Fuller, and Rebecca O'Brien, an Urban Issues Committee update by David Aalders, a Wilderness Committee update by Kermit deGooyer, a Harbour Committee update by Rosalee Grette Lydon, a Fundraising Committee update by Wendy MacGregor, and other updates from June Hall, Mark Butler, Emma Boardman, Rochelle Owen, and Mary MacLeod.
Item consists of the annual report of the Ecology Action Centre for the years 2004-2005, as well as an update of financial statements for the year. Includes reports submitted by Dave Aalders, Brian Aird, Kevin Blair, Tony Bowron, Maggy Burns, Mark Butler, Jennifer Graham, Gregor MacAskill, Sean Weseloh McKeane, Sylvia Mangalam, Maida Murray, Minga O'Brien, Raymond Plourde, Daniel Rainham, Clare Robinson, Carla Vandenberg, and Anne Warburton,
Item is the annual report of the Ecology Action Centre for the years 2005-2006, including appended financial statement information. Includes reports submitted by Lachlan Barber, John Brazner, Jeff Brown, Maggy Burns, Mark Butler, Joanne Cook, Judy Cookey, Susanna Fuller, Mike Furlong, Jennifer Graham, Becca Green, Brendan Haley, Sean Wesleoh McKeane, Heather McKibbon, Marla MacLeod, Raymond Plourde, Daniel Rainham, Clare Robinson, Jayne Roma, and Tarah Wright.
Item consists of the annual report of the Ecology Action Centre for 2006-2007. Includes brief updates from committees, as well as ongoing projects and current financial information.
File contains manuscripts, reports, and clippings collected by the Ecology Action Centre, related to the Solsearch Architects the New Alchemy Institute Ark project, constructed and operated in the late 1970s in Spry Point, Prince Edward Island, testing organic agricultural and environmental monitoring techniques.
