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Personal papers

Series documents research and writing done by Lawrence Johnston Burpee on James De Mille. Research include biographical information on James De Mille, such as published biographies, newspaper clippings, genealogical information and bibliographic indexes. Writings include a lecture script and a biographical manuscript with numerous extracts from James De Mille's work.

Ronald St. John Macdonald’s correspondence

Series comprises correspondence regarding Macdonald's professional and academic involvement with institutions including 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. Series also contains correspondence between Ronald St. John Macdonald and individuals including Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, Paul E. Martin, Jean Chrétien, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Wang Tieya, A. Donat Pharand, and others.

Records regarding Ronald St. John Macdonald’s academic work

Series comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his academic activities, including his involvement as a faculty member of York University Osgoode Hall, University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, and other institutions. Series also includes records and research materials regarding the development of Macdonald's publications, unpublished papers, and other materials.

Ronald St. John Macdonald’s professional records

Series comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his professional activities, including his involvement with different organizations, such as the Council of Europe, the European Court of Human Rights, the Hague, 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. Series contains meeting agendas, meeting minutes, newsletters, reports, and other records.

Correspondence

Series contains correspondence related to Lawrence Johnstone Burpee's research on James De Mille. Letters sent to and from Burpee between 1901 and 1946.

Community Planning Association of Canada, Nova Scotia Division committee records and reports

Series contains minutes and agendas for meetings of the CPAC NS Executive Committee as well as program proposals, requests for funding and program budget documents produced by the Program Committee for submission to CPAC national office, the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and the Minister of State for Urban Affairs (MSUA).

Production documents

These production documents detail many aspects of theatre production. Notes on the opening night performances, lighting cues, props lists and set drawings comprise this series.

Correspondence

Series contains personal and professional correspondence, mostly incoming letters regarding Banks' writing and research, publishing, play production, and other activities. Correspondence related to specific productions or plays is listed in subseries under play title series as well as filed by the donor with related manuscripts. Other correspondence is found in the series "readings, festivals and workshops" and "grant and fundraising records."

Readings, festivals, workshops and awards

Series contains records related to readings, awards, workshops and literary festivals where Banks' plays have been performed or workshopped. Records include applications forms, programs, newsletters, and correspondence.

Hockey Sisters

Series contains complete and partial scripts of Hockey Sisters, lyrics used in the play, and research material. Hockey Sisters is an early unfinished play by Catherine Banks. In a 2009 interview with One Big Umbrella, a theatre blog, Banks commented that she couldn't finish the play because she "couldn’t find that hook that made me want to finish it enough to dig down and do it."

Eula's Offer

Series contains typescripts of Eula's Offer and a letter announcing honourable mention for the play in a Canadian playwriting competition. Eula's Offer is an early play by Catherin Banks about teen parenting. The main character is Eula, a teenager who just had a baby. Her boyfriend does not want to know about the baby and she has trouble looking after it. Eula's childless brother wants to care for the child.

The play received honourable mention at the Little Ottawa Theatre Competition in 1984.

It is Solved by Walking

Series contains records related to the development, production and publication of It is Solved by Walking, a play by Catherine Banks. The world premier was produced in 2011 by Urban Curvz Theatre in Calgary, Alberta, and named one of the eleven best productions of 2011 by the Calgary Herald. The play was published by the Canadian Playwrights' Press and won the 2012 Governor General's Award Literary Award for (English) Drama. Records include manuscripts, publicity materials and notes.

Love Bytes

Series contains records from a 1999 production of Love Bytes mounted at Jest in Time Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Love Bytes is a one-scene play by Catherine Banks.

Bone Cage

Series contains materials related to the development, publication, and production of Bone Cage, including notes and research material, sketches, partial and complete manuscripts and typescripts, production records, and other material.

Bone Cage is a portrayal of life in rural Nova Scotia. The main character is Jamie, a 22 year old forestry worker doing 12-hour shifts operating a wood processor, clear-cutting for pulp. At the end of each shift, he walks through the destruction he has created looking for injured birds and animals and rescues those he can. Jamie's desire to escape this world is thwarted by his fear of leaving the place where he has some status. Bone Cage examines how young people in rural communities, employed in the destruction of the environment they love, treat the people they love at the end of their shift.

The play was written with financial support from a 1996 Canada Council grant. It was initially meant to deal with systematic violence in rural communities. While writing the play, a new character began to emerge and Banks took time to develop this one-woman show that became Bitter Rose.

Bone Cage was published by Playwrights' Canada Press. It won a national competition run by Theatre British Columbia and won the 2008 Governor General's Literary Award (English) for Drama. In October 2007, it was co-produced by Forerunner Playwrights Theatre and Ship’s Company Theatre and performed at Neptune Theatre’s Studio Stage in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was also produced by Mulgrave Road Theatre in Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Downstream Theatre in Calgary, Alberta (2009-2010 ), and Matchstick Theatre Productions in Halifax (2017).

Match Love

Series contains six typescripts and one manuscript of Match Love, a play by Catherine Banks.

Miss n Me / Missy and Me

Series contains partial and complete manuscripts of Missy and Me (later Miss n Me) along with related research, production and publicity materials. Missy and Me is the sixth play written by Catherine Banks. Inspired by the music of American rapper Missy Elliott, the play tells the story of a Nova Scotia housewife leaving for New York to pursue Missy Elliott, the object of her obsession. The play was shortlisted for the 2013 Stage West Pechet Family Comedy Award and was later produced by Sarasvati Productions and performed from 21-31 May 2015 at the University of Winnipeg Asper Centre for Theatre and Film and by Eastern Front Theatre in Halifax, NS, from 14-24 March 2019.

Summer of the Piping Plover

Series contains materials relating to the development, publication and production of Summer of the Piping Plover, Catherine Banks' first published play, produced by UpStart Theatre in 1991. Materials include scripts and a proposal.

Three Storey, Ocean View

Series contains records that document the development and production of Three Storey, Ocean View, a play by Catherine Banks. First produced in 2000 by Mulgrave Road Theatre in Guysborough, Nova Scotia, the play was a silver medalist in du Maurier National Play Competition and was published in 2003 by the Playwrights' Guild of Canada.

The Mountain and the Valley

Series consists of records, primarily manuscripts, notes and correspondence, regarding The Mountain and the Valley, a play adapted by Catherine Banks from a novel by Ernest Buckler.

Rilla-my-Rilla

Series contains records for a play manuscript by Catherine Banks based on L.M. Montgomery's Rilla of Ingleside.

Back from Australia

Series contains material related to Catherine Bank's play, Back from Australia. Records types include manuscripts and correspondence.

In This Light

Series contains records for a play by Catherine Banks adapted from R. Farquharson Sharp's 1911 English translation of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People. The play was commissioned by Two Planks and a Passion Theatre and premiered at Ross Creek Centre for the Arts on 6 July 2019. Records types in include manuscript drafts, correspondence, notes, reviews and a program.

Historical records relating to the Nova Scotia Agriculture College between 1904 and 2010

Series contains records relating to the history of the Nova Scotia Agriculture College and its relationship with agriculture in Nova Scotia and across the world. This includes early drafts for a university motto and crest, past principal's signatures, and contributions to the provincial government between 1904-2010. Subseries' includes History of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College and agriculture in Nova Scotia. Record types found are textual files, reports, drawings, correspondence, books, and photographs.
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