File contains 40 photographs taken by Gene Fortney, Vince Zelazny, Dave Patriquin, David Gautier, and M. Willison (and collected by Bill Freedman), in Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, in 1999. Photographs show agricultural scenes, such as hayfields near Calgary, strip cropping in Saskatchewan, soybean growing in Nova Scotia, and grape growing in southern Ontario.
File contains 12 photographs taken by Bill Freedman and Annette Lutterman in Quebec and Ontario between 1996 and 1999. Photographs show hydroelectric power scenes, including the dams and diversion channels of La Grande River dam, and Niagara Falls.
File contains 13 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Mount Mitchell, North Carolina, between 1978 and 1991. Photographs show evidence of decline and dieback of Abies fraseri due to encroachment by Balsam wooly adelgid beetles.
File contains 11 photographs taken by Bill Freedman, Luc Foisy, Todd Keith, and J. Pleau, between 1990 and 1997. Photographs show forest fire damage at the "Aire G" site at La Mauricie National Park in the Laurentians, Quebec, and near Dawson City, Yukon, as well as burn recovery at Banff National Park and northern New Brunswick.
File contains 6 photographs taken by Roger Belanger (and collected by Bill Freedman), likely in 1970. Photographs show clean-up efforts after the oil spill after the SS Arrow ran aground during a gale, in Chedabucto Bay, February 4, 1970.
File contains 9 photographs taken by J. Vandermeulen (and collected by Bill Freedman), likely in 1978. Photographs show clean-up efforts of the oil spill after the Amoco Cadiz super-tanker ran aground off the Brittany coast (near Portsall, France) on March 16, 1978.
File contains 59 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at sites on Vancouver Island, Vancouver, and in Manning Park (near Hope) between 1999 and 2003. Photographs show forestry scenes, wildlife, buildings in Victoria, and photos of Stanley Park, Vancouver.
File contains 13 photographs taken during an experiment by Bill Freedman in 1973. Photographs show an array of barley plants, each example subject to different levels of osmotic stress.
File contains 6 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in the Great Lakes and at Lake Winnipegosis, Manitoba, in the early-1980s. Photographs show the effects of pollution of Double-crested cormorant chicks, including examples of "addled embryos".
File contains 83 photographs taken by Bill Freedman between 1972 and 2003. Photographs show vegetation, fungi, trees, and wetland scenes from across Canada.
File contains 68 photographs taken largely by Bill Freedman (but also by Sweeney) at Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 2000. Photographs show aerial and up-close examples of the destruction wrought on the urban park by the invasive Brown spruce longhorn beetle, believed to arrive in the city via the nearby port.
File contains 7 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Fundy National Park, New Brunswick, in 1975. Photographs show examples of Iris versicolor, as well as scenes along the shore of the Bay of Fundy.
File contains 5 photographs by Exxon collected by Bill Freedman, between 1989 and 1992. Photographs show before and after scenes of the same Green Island location after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
File contains 16 photographs taken by Bill Freedman, predominantly in 1975. Photographs show birds and plants at two Newfoundland parks: Cape St. Mary's Reserve on the Avalon Peninsula, and Gros Morne on the Great Northern Peninsula.
File contain 58 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in 2003. Photographs show aerial surveys of the forests, understory, and invertebrate species of the Tobeatic Wilderness Area in southwestern Nova Scotia as well as the southwestern coast of Nova Scotia in general.
File contains 28 photographs taken by Bill Freedman near the Tufts Cove Generating Station, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, in August 1989. Photographs show damage to vegetation (Red oak, pumpkin, cucumber, and tomato) potentially caused by the accidental emission of acidic particulates from the generating station.
File contains 21 photographs taken by Bill Freedman between 1976 and 1979. Photographs show Great Grey owls at Ajax, Ontario, Snowy owls at Smoking Hills, Northwest Territories, and Barred owls at Algonquin Park.
File contains 22 photographs taken by Bill Freedman between 1989 and 2001. Photographs show vegetation at the Murchyville bog (near Moose River, Nova Scotia), a Christmas tree lot in Lunenburg County, the barrens at Polly Cove (Halifax County), and examples of the endangered Geum peckii on Brier Island (Digby County).
File contains 40 photographs taken and collected by Bill Freedman between 1982 and 2000. Photographs show the effects of acidification and acid precipitation on ecosystems and wildlife. Photographs show examples of drain lakes, as well as the effects of acidity on the development of amphibian larvae (with pH levels added when available).
File contains 13 photographs taken by Todd Keith (and collected by Bill Freedman) between 1984 and 1990. Photographs show devegetation near smelter plants in Flin Flon, Manitoba and Sturgeon Lake, Ontario (Cu-Zn), Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec (Cu-Zn and SO2), and acidification of quartzite at Killarney, Ontario. Also includes a photograph by Keith of Kilauea Crater (Hawaii) and three photos of New Zealand scenery.
File contains correspondence, proposals, and a publication agreement to write and publish the first edition of "Environmental science: a Canadian perspective", the first such Canada-centric environmental science textbook.
File contains correspondence related to publishing the third edition of "Environmental science: a Canadian perspective", including requests for updated nesting site data.
File contains a field notebook compiled by Bill Freedman in 1984 during his research on the Riverside region. Includes lists of flora seen at the following Nova Scotia lakes and bogs: Grafton, Snake, McGinty, Big Red, Little Red, Pebbleloggitch, Beaverskin, North Cranberry, Puzzle, Cosiuelle, Little Peskowesk, Mud, Loon, George, Peskowesk, Hilchemakaar, Big Dam East, Big Dam West, Iramy Bog, Mill Bog, Drain, Spectacle, Jordan, and Round Pond.
File contains textual records related to the publication of the fourth edition of "Environmental science: a Canadian perspective", including correspondence, data used for revisions, and annotated passages from previous editions
File contains the third edition of the Freedman-co-edited (listed as William) "Environmental encyclopedia". The volume contains dozens of contributions written by Freedman (listed as Bill).
File contains the Freedman-edited volume "Global environmental change". Includes two articles contributed by Freedman: "Population growth and global change" (pp. 571-758); and "Maintaining and enhancing ecological carbon sequestration" (pp. 783-802).
File contains the manuscript (co-edited with Josef Svoboda; containing 31 articles, of which 15 were co-authored by Freedman), as well as correspondence and records related to funding the project.
File contains notes written by Bill Freedman in 2012 while undertaking property explorations for the Nova Scotia Nature Trust. Notes contain a brief survey of each location and potential financial costs involved, for locations at Middle and Outer Pleasant Harbour, Gerard Island, Hemeon's Head, Bougles Isle (?), Pugwash, and a site at Tusket.
File contains correspondence between Bill Freedman and Exxon, regarding requesting updated information on the Exxon Valdez oil spill for the second edition of "Environmental ecology". File also includes annotated, related articles.
File contains an offprint of the article written by Freedman and J. Kerekes, in Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 18(1): 183-200. File also includes correspondence with Kerekes and the publisher.
File contains the manuscript written by Freedman with C. Stewart and U. Prager for the Inland Waters Directorate, studying the watersheds of Rogers Book, Whiteburn Brook, Moose Pit Brook, and Mersey River.
File includes a draft manuscript of a paper written by Freedman and T.C. Hutchinson, for the National Research Council publication "Aluminum in the Canadian Environment" (edited by Magda Havas and J.F. Jaworski). Also includes the minutes of a meeting of the Heavy Metals Sub-committee of the NRC, November 9, 1984 at the University of Toronto, chaired by Hutchnson, at which Freedman appeared.
File contains the manuscript of the article written by Freedman, R.R. Brooks, J.E. Fergusson, J. Holzbecher, D.E. Ryan, H.F. Zhang, and J.M. Dale, for Environmental Pollution: an International Journal, Series B, volume 4.
File contains the manuscript by Freedman, published in "Coal: phoenix of the 1980s: the 64th Canadian Institute of Chemistry Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 31 - June 3, 1981". File also includes correspondence containing comments about the article by P.J. LeBlanc of Nova Scotia Power.
File contains the manuscript written by Freedman with J.G. Ogden III, prepared for the Nova Scotia Resources Council with the assistance of the Nova Scotia Environmental Control Council.
File contains the manuscript written by Freedman and T.C. Hutchinson for the Canadian Journal of Botany, volume 58, number 1. File also contains correspondence.
File contains the offprint written by Freedman and T.C. Hutchinson, for the Canadian Journal of Botany, volume 58, number 15. Also contains correspondence and referee notes.
File contains the manuscript written by Freedman and T.C. Hutchinson for the Canadian Journal of Botany, volume 58, number 19. File also contains correspondence.
File contains the manuscript written by Freedman and T.C. Hutchinson for the Plenum Press publication "Effects of acid precipitation on terrestrial ecosystems", for their NATO Conference series. File also includes correspondence and promotional material.
File contains three abstracts written by Freedman for presentations for the Workshop Meeting to Consider Methods Involved in Studies of Acid Precipitation to Forect [sic] Ecosystem. Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 19-23 September 1977. Session titles are: 1B: Evaluation of Atmospheric Inputs; 2. Throughfall and Stemflow; 3. Measurement of Effects. File also includes hand-written data and correspondence.
File contains the a manuscript co-written by Freedman with Odilia Maessen and Ross McCurdy, which originally appeared in the June 1985 issue of American Water Works Association Journal. File also includes correspondence, and slides and photographs of figures which appeared in the article.
File contains draft manuscripts of an article written by Freedman, J. Dale, and J. Kerekes, which appeared in the Proceedings of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science, volume 35, about laboratory bioassays of five species of Nova Scotian amphibians. File also includes correspondence, reviewer comments, and photographs supporting the research.
File contains the manuscript of an article written by Freedman, J.M. Dale, and J. Kerekes, for the Canadian Journal of Zoology, number 63, surveying amphibian larve at more than 150 ditches, bogs, marshes and ponds in Nova Scotia. File also contains reviewer comments and correspondence.
File contains the draft manuscript co-authored by Freedman and J.Dale, for the Canadian Wildlife Service. File also contains a few pages of hand-written field notes.
File contains the draft of a manuscript written by Freedman, which appeared the "Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Technical Meeting, Atlantic Canada Chapter, Air Pollution Control Association, September 29-30, 1982, Saint John, N.B.". File also includes correspondence from the Nova Scotia Power Corporation, to Freedman.
File contains the manuscript of an article written by Freedman and J.M. Dale for the Proceedings of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science, volume 32. File also includes two hand-drawn charts and correspondence.
