File contains a manuscript for an article, and related correspondence. An attached note says that the handwritten version of the article was titled "Boadecia the bold."
File contains a collection of family history accounts and journal entries. Also contains a script for Alexander Leighton's keynote address titled "Social science and psychiatric epidemiology: a difficult relationship," and a script for Dorothea Leighton's address titled "Anthropologist by accident."
File contains pages 1 - 200 of a transcription of Alexander Leighton and Dorothea Leighton's interview with Bill Sage, edited and annotated by Joyce Griffen.
File contains pages 201 - 471 of a transcription of Alexander Leighton and Dorothea Leighton's interview with Bill Sage, edited and annotated by Joyce Griffen.
File contains research notes and manuscript drafts. Also includes some of Alexander Leighton's other articles on illness prevention and community development and rehabilitation.
File contains letters concerning the book "The Navaho Door" by Alexander Leighton and Dorothea Leighton, a 1945 copy of the New York Times Book Review covering Leighton's book "The Governing of Men," a bundle of abstracts from the American Philosophical Society's AGM in 1952, a bulletin on teaching English to the Navajo, and a proposal for a retirement commemoration conference for Alexander Leighton. Also includes some of Alexander Leighton's reports and articles: "Pilot study of cultural items in medical diagnosis," "Mental health in Canada: working toward a better future," "Cornell southwestern program: a summary report on five years 1948-1953," and "Interview with the editor of a small town paper."
File contains manuscripts for two papers written by Alexander and Dorothea Leighton: "Illustrative examples of applied social science" and "A program for utilizing social science in the development of foreign policy."
File contains manuscripts of Isaiah Wilson stories, with titles "Fragments of Years," "The Cherry Carnival," "Into thy Hands," "The Russian," and "The Third Cardinal Virtue."
File contains a manuscript titled "The Cherry Carnival" submitted to a competition at Princeton, which later became part of the Isaiah Wilson stories. Also contains correspondence regarding the manuscripts and notes on Hezekiah Williams.
Item is a typed manuscript by Alexander Leighton describing his 1936 summer project filming a recreation of a traditional Digby County Mi'kmaq porpoise hunt and the subsequent rendering of the blubber into oil. The manuscript was commissioned by the magazine Movie Makers.
Fonds consists of Gerard Veldhoven's published writing, correspondence, and speeches. Veldhoven's writings cover subjects including same-sex marriage, LGBT parenting and families, Pride celebrations, and LGBT social issues. Fonds also contains clippings and correspondence related to Veldhoven's experience as part of the first same-sex couple to be married in Nova Scotia, as well as his activism, writing career, and honours.
Item consists of a copy of the article "A concept of rehabilitation", written in 1962 for Paraplegia News by Herbert S. Talbot, sent by Don Curren to Barbara Hinds. Item also includes correspondence between Curren and Hinds from 1977, related to the included article.
Item consists of typed draft manuscript material related to Barbara Hinds articles about the construction and operation of the new Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre, written for the Chronicle Herald and Mail Star between 1975 and 1977.
Item consists of a promotional pamphlet created by the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Council (M.A. Wilson, President at the time) titled "The Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre", about the opening of and services provided by the original rehabilitation centre, opened in the late-1950s under the leadership of Arthur Shears.
This file consists research notes, a manuscript and correspondence with Harley Carter. Mr. Carter's Culverwell family history also includes the connection with the Woodhouse and Oland families.
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