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Plans for Dalhousie Medical School

Item is a report from the Dean of Medicine discussed at a faculty meeting describing the growth of the medical school and its future building; the need for separate dental school and medical school facilities; and the decision whether to expand the medical school to a very large size or to open a second centre in the Atlantic provinces.

Johnstone, Kenneth

File contains correspondence with or about Kenneth Johnstone. Also includes a manuscript titled "My name is legion, part III: a ten year mental health study in Nova Scotia is completed" by Ken Johnstone.

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

Final Report: Sunnyville, Lincolnville, and Upper Big Tracadie, Guysborough County, N.S. - A Socio-Economic Study & Recommendation

File contains the final report, drafted by the Institute of Public Affairs, titled "Sunnyville, Lincolnville, and Upper Big Tracadie, Guysborough County, N.S. - A Socio-Economic Study & Recommendation", and prepared for the Nova Scotia Department of Public Welfe, and ARDA. File also contains related correspondence between Guy Henson and the Hon. James Harding, Minister of Public Welfare.

"Professors Donald Clairmont and William Benallick, of the Departments of Sociology of Saint Mary's and Dalhousie University, respectively, were engaged as study directors on behalf of the Institute of Public Affairs. Four students were employed as "participant- observers" for seven weeks, two being spent in training and five in the communities, during July-September 1964." -- from p. iii.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College college herd summaries

File contains hand-written summaries of the animal herds at Nova Scotia Agricultural College [ca. 1900] to 1965. Records describe breeds of cattle: Guernsey, Jersey, Ayrshires, Herefords, and Holsteins; breeds of sheep: Scottish Blackface, Shropshire, and Hampshire; and horses: light horses, and Clydesdales. These descriptions include when and how many were purchased, herd book and individual animals name and numbers, and stud book records. The summaries also include details of two disease events that affected herd-wide health including 'Bovine Tuberculosis' and 'contagious abortion'. Mention is made of the conferring of a 'Superior Breeding Certificate' on Farm Superintendent, Archibald MacMillan. The summaries also make mention of the Nova Scotia Animal Breeders Coop Ltd with reference specifically to dairy cattle.

Goldfarb, Allan

File contains correspondence with or about Allan Goldfarb. Also contains a psychiatric study outline, study progress reports and budget outlines, and grant applications.

1965 - 1966 re-abstracting Yoruba manual

File consists of a re-abstracting manual for the Yoruba study data to update the research goal to compare urban and rural mental health and limit bias in analysis. File also includes respondents' answers to health surveys and a memo regarding evaluation of Yoruba abstracts.

Eaton, Joseph W.

File contains correspondence with or about Joseph W. Eaton. Also contains a project summary for "An experiment in comprehensive informal education: the Gadna Program."

Rin - Chinese women cross-cultural comparisons

File contains a copy of the study "Psychophysiological reactions of a rural and suburban population in Taiwan" by Hsien Rin, Hung-Ming Chu, and Tsung-Yi Ling. Also contains correspondence between Hsien Rin and Jane Murphy and notes and data tables on modernization rates and number of children among respondents.

Report of an emergency meeting of the Atlantic Research Centre, June 26, 1967

Item consists of Margaret Dewolfe's report of an emergency meeting of the Atlantic Research Centre (ARCMR), held between I.M. MacKeigan, C.B. Stewart, W.R. Butler, and M.S. DeWolfe, on June 26th, 1967, in response to problems in obtaining funding from the Department of Health and Welfare through the "National Crusade".

Draft chapters from An analysis of foreign aid decision-making: the case of the Marshall Plan

File contains multiple drafts and handwritten notes related to two chapters of Gilbert Winham's PhD thesis "An Analysis of Foreign Aid Decision-Making: The Case of the Marshall Plan". File includes handwritten and typed drafts of the chapter (then-titled) "The Development of the Decision to Aid Europe, May 1947 to April 1948" about the Marshall Plan negotiations, as well as a chapter outlining the construction of the study.
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