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Atlantic Canada co-operatives collection

  • MS-14-18
  • Collection
  • 1900-2002, predominant 1950-1999
Collection consists of records with information about individual co-operatives and credit unions in Atlantic Canada, as well as documents from larger region-wide co-operative organizations. There is also a large section of general co-op literature about co-operation as a social movement, in Canada and around the world. There are published books, serials, brochures, reports, photographs and slides, maps, audio and visual material, and artifacts. The age of the materials ranges from the early 1900s up to 2002, the majority spans from the 1950s to the 1990s.

Susan Horne's home economists in agriculture collection

  • MS-14-20
  • Collection
  • 1928-1989
Collection contains research materials gathered by Susan Horne who was head of the Home Economics / 4-H Branch of the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing. The records were used while she was writing "Home Economists in Agriculture 1913-1985."

Horne, Susan

Nova Scotia Grain and Forage Commission fonds

  • MS-14-15
  • Fonds
  • 1976-1995
Fonds contains records created by the Nova Scotia Grain and Forage Commission. Records include the Nova Scotia Grain and Forage Commission Forage Centre Background and Specifics (1984-1994), "Start-up", an operational policy, financial records, meeting minutes, membership information, grain and grain industry development records, and correspondence, created between 1976-1995. The Commission underwent several name changes from 1977-1994: Provincial Grain Commission / Nova Scotia Grains Commission / Nova Scotia Grain Marketing Board / Grain and Forage Commission / Forage Council.

Nova Scotia Grain and Forage Commission

National Farm Radio Forum fonds

  • MS-14-34
  • Fonds
  • 1937-1965

Fonds contains records about the National Radio Farm Forum, a national rural listening-discussion group project. Records relate to the operations of the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick regions and consist of pamphlets, scripts, correspondence, memos, newsletters, guides, National Secretaries report, annual reports from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick regions, and minutes from the regional and national meetings and conferences from 1937-1965. Also included is an account of the activity of the Earltown, Nova Scotia Farm Forum Radio Group from the period of 1961-1962.

National Radio Farm Forum sponsored by the Canadian Association for Adult Education, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and CBC. Initially, this program was a dramatized discussion of farm problems in wartime, arranged in cooperation with the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, and the Canadian Association for Adult Education. Eventually, it evolved into discussions by individuals from various communities across the country. The program was developed by Orville Shugg and Neil Morrison.

Farm Radio Forum

Nova Scotia Blueberry Institute fonds

  • MS-14-35
  • Fonds
  • 1982-1998
Fonds contains records that were created by the Nova Scotia Blueberry Institute from 1982-1998. They include meeting minutes and proceedings of the annual and general meetings, annual reports, correspondence, and photographs.

Nova Scotia Blueberry Institute

Henry Davies Hicks fonds

  • MS-2-511
  • Fonds
  • 1915 - 1990, predominant 1937-1986
Fonds comprises records documenting Henry Hicks' political career and tenure as president of Dalhousie University, as well as his earlier studies at Oxford University and his military service in World War II. There are also records regarding his stamp collecting hobby, his community service, and his long involvement with associations such as the Rhodes Scholarship Committee. Record types include diaries and appointment books, correspondence, manuscripts, philatelic records, newspaper clippings and photographs.

Hicks, Henry D.

Richard Apostle fonds

  • MS-2-681
  • Fonds
  • 1966-2006, predominant 1981-2004

Fonds comprises records created and collected by Richard Apostle in the course of his research activities between 1966-2006, which informed their arrangement into the following series: AquaNet (Network of Centres of Excellence in Aquaculture); Community, State and Market on the North Atlantic Rim; Individual Transferable Fish Quotas; Information Services Employment Trends Survey; Marginal Work World Research Program; Public Policing in Nova Scotia; and Center for Local and Regional Development, Klaksvik, Faroe Islands.

Record types include manuscripts; published reports, papers and monographs; committee records, including minutes, agendas and reports; surveys; interview transcripts and notes; annual reports; operations manuals; datasets; secondary readings and newspaper clippings.

Apostle, Richard A.

AquaNet

Series consists of records created and collected by Richard Apostle in the course of his aquaculture research conducted under the auspices of AquaNet: Network of Centres of Excellence in Aquaculture, which was an NSERC-funded grant of 10.9 million dollars for which Richard Apostle was a co-investigator through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The two projects on which he worked were “The Institutional and Social Structure of Aquaculture: A Comparative Study,” with Gene Barrett and John Phyne, and “The Social Construction of Environmental Risk and Benefits: Risk to Whom? Benefits to Whom?”, with Ralph Matthews, Susan Elliot, Brian Elliot and John Phyne.

Record types in this series include grant-related correspondence, applications, budgets and reports; research correspondence; presentations and papers in manuscript and published form; and secondary research materials.

Community, State and Market on the North Atlantic Rim

Series comprises created and collected by Richard Apostle in the course of his study of the crisis in the fishing industries in Northern Norway and Atlantic Canada, which was funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and resulted in the publication of Richard Apostle et al., Community, State and Market on the North Atlantic Rim: Challenges to Modernity in the Fisheries. Record types include grant applications, reports and correspondence; publishing and editorial correspondence; secondary research materials; taped research interviews; manuscripts; and a copy of the published book.

Individual Transferable Fish Quotas

Series comprises records created and collected by Richard Apostle in the course of his study of the impact of individual quotas on the fishing industry in the Maritimes. Record types include transcripts of interviews with fishermen, completed surveys, draft manuscripts, notes, and secondary research materials.

Marginal Work World Research Program

Series comprises records created and collected by Richard Apostle documenting his work in the Marginal Work World Research Program, an interdisciplinary and long-term examination of employment and work settings in the Maritime provinces carried out through the Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousie University. Richard Apostle's research focused on two projects: the General Segmentation Survey, which involved the collection and analysis of private sector employment data across the Maritimes; and the longitudinal Morphology Survey, which sampled low-wage establishments across Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, and included managerial personnel and employee interviews. Record types include secondary readings and notes; datasets; agreements; recorded interview and transcripts; manuscripts and published papers; meeting records; and correspondence and memoranda.

Halifax Police Department survey, interviews and reports

File includes interview notes; Don Clairmont, "Work Innovations in a Public Sector Organization: A Case Study"; excerpts from "Halifax Commission on City Government Special Report"; Don Clairmont, "Squad Visits: An Overview"; and an excerpt of an introduction to community policing written by the Chief of Police.

Promotional process for the police forces of the Province of Nova Scotia

File also includes memos to Sydney police officers; an agreement between the Board of Police Commissioners and the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 758 (Police Department); newspaper clippings; a memorandum summarizing Richard Apostle's report on the Sydney Police Force, 1971; and research notes.
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