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Education

This series consists of records relating to education reform across Canada, with a focus on Nova Scotia’s school system. Types of records include reports, academic papers, notes, submissions, printed material, correspondence and interview transcripts.

Subseries consist of British Columbia ; Newfoundland ; Nova Scotia ; Ontario ; Quebec ; and Research

Municipal Structures and Finances

This series consists of records relating to the structure of municipalities and their government across Canada that was compiled and created by Higgins for his book Urban Canada: Its Government and Politics (1977) and Local and Urban Politics in Canada (1986). Types of records include interview transcripts with city councillors and mayors, research notes and note from meetings, meeting minutes, reports, printed material, and completed surveys by urban cities across Canada.

Series consist of Alberta ; British Columbia ; Manitoba ; New Brunswick ; Newfoundland ; Northwest Territories and the Yukon ; Nova Scotia ; Ontario ; Prince Edward Island ; Quebec ; Research ; and Saskatchewan.

Lecture Notes

This collection contains notes for lectures both given and attended by James Dinwiddie. The topics range from optics to trigonometry to natural history to agriculture. The notes were recorded between 1783 and 1811.

Novanet committee records

Series includes committee minutes, correspondence between committee members and background material. Novanet is run by committees, and these files provide detailed information on the activities of each committee.

Novanet Members

Series includes files that document the process of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College and the Community College of Cape Breton joining the Novanet consortium.

Manuscripts and Published Work

This series consists of manuscripts of published and unpublished papers, journal articles and research studies by Weil on topics such as spontaneous and habitual abortion, mental health among the Hutterites, hypnosis, and the psychological impacts of disasters, along with other issues in the psychiatry field and on mental health. For published material on the Springhill mine disaster, see the series Springhill Mine Disaster.

Notes and Research

This series consists of research collected by Weil along with notes taken on the subjects of medical and mental health issues in the field of psychiatry, such as abortion, immunology, mental health practices and institutions, the Hutterites, combat psychology, religion and psychology, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the psychological impacts of disasters, disaster training and planning and medical training in disasters.

Subseries consist of Medical and Mental Health ; Religion ; and Disaster Planning.

Legal and Patient Files

This series consists of notes by Weil about patients who were under his care, a subpeona for patient files and correspondence with the Halifax police detailing a psychological profile of a rapist in a series of rape cases in the South End of Halifax during the early 1980s, interviews with two of the victims and police reports of several rapes and sexual assaults.

Springhill Mine Disasters

This series of consists of studies, published work, research and collected data of psychological findings of trapped miners, their families and the town of Springhill after the Springhill Mine Disaster in 1956 and 1958.

Bora Laskin: Bring Law to life

This series consists of research material collected by Girard and used to write his book, Bora Laskin: Bringing Law to Life, such as articles, correspondence, cases, family and friends’ papers and writings by Laskin, as well as original drafts of the manuscript for the book and review drafts, photographs used in the books and correspondence by Girard discussing the book.

Subseries consist of Bora Laskin’s Writings ; Correspondence ; Manuscripts ; Photographs ; and Research and Notes.

Emma Stirling

This series consists of records relating to Emma Stirling and Hillfoot Farm. Stirling cared for orphaned and sick children in Scotland and later brought children from Scotland to Canada to work on farms. In 1890, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia ordered Stirling to produce three children that she had illegally brought to Nova Scotia, as their father had not given Stirling legal authority over his children and wanted them returned to him. Types of records include a manuscript about Stirling, correspondence regarding a film project on the story, photocopies of estate papers and deeds and other research compiled.

Married Women's Property

This series consists of records relating to the Married Women’s Property Act. Types of records include manuscript of an article by Girard on the topic, notes and research. More on this topic can be found in the series Other Research.

Other research

This series consists of research and notes by Girard and various topics relating to legal history and legal figures. Research relating to Bora Laskin, Emma Stirling, and Thomas A. L. Strange can be found in their respected series. Some collected research can be found throughout the fonds in files of the same topic.

Peer reviews

This series consists of comments and assessments done by Girard on papers done by his academic peers. Types of records include papers and articles with comments and revision suggestions.

Schulich School of Law

This series consists of records relating to courses Girard has taught at Dalhousie’s Schulich School of Law. Types of materials include course notes, lectures and syllabi, student papers, and correspondence regarding master thesis.

Thomas Andrew Lumisdem Strange

Series consists of records related to Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange, former Chief Justice of Nova Scotia in the 18th century who became the first Chief Justice of Madris and is considered an important figure in Indian legal history. Types of records include photocopies of estate papers, research on India’s legal system, manuscript, notes and research on Strange.

Published Works

This series contains original manuscripts of published works including “Birds of Fire” and “Mystery of Things”.

Indices

This series contains the master index of Linehan’s poetry volumes and poetry collections. The series also includes the index of Linehan’s personal library collection, his writings, and published manuscripts.

Poems & Prose

This series contains all of Linehan’s poems and writings that do not belong in any specific category. Much of the content is predominantly poems and fragments of poems. In addition, this series includes diary entries, class notes, essays, a play, and recorded dreams.

Diaries

This series contains Diaries from T. Wilsom Creelman, Annie Mackay Creelman, their son William Mackay Creelman and their daughter in-law Nancy Littlejohns Creelman.

Military Career

This series contains mainly William Mackay Creelman material from his military career. Training manuals, his work with degaussing and also information on the opening of the William Creelman Building at Ferguson's Cove.

Projects and Reports

This series contains materials related to publications by or supervised by Joan E. Cummings, the majority of these reports were from a series by the "Atlantic Social Services Project" sponsored by the Maritime School of Social work and relate to research conducted on social work students and people working in the field. Other topics of research include the needs of individuals requiring social services and disability services.

The project and reports section differs from the Publications series because it contains both rough drafts of materials and final reports, whereas the Publications series contains only finished publications.

Cummings, Joan Elizabeth

Maritime School of Social Work

This series contains materials related to Joan Cummings as an instructor at the Maritime School of Social Work. The material includes course lectures, transparencies, practice questions, tests and answer booklets.

Publications

The majority of the materials in this subseries are publications by Joan E. Cummings. Other materials included are related to the Maritime School of Social Work or additional research being conducted by Cummings.

Cummings, Joan Elizabeth

Reid George Nicholson : [convocation materials]

Subfonds contains materials relating to Reid George Nicholson. Nicholson was nominated for an honorary degree from Dalhousie by Joan Cummings, and she collected biographical information about him, including the contributions he made to the MS Society. A sufferer of MS himself, he went out to do public talks about the disease. The materials include background information, resumes, letters supporting the honorary degree nomination and several of Reid Nicholson's publications.

Joan E. Cummings : thesis

This subseries contains materials related to Joan E. Cummings doctoral work from the University of Toronto, including her final thesis and materials relating to her PhD defense.

Cummings, Joan Elizabeth

Cassette Tape Index

This subseries contains the two paper indexes for the tape series and the traditional index. The index was created for Joan Cummings, but is unclear whether is was edited solely by her.

Cummings, Joan Elizabeth

Cassette Tapes

In several instances there are two tapes with the same number. Rather then re-number the tape collection, the two tapes are labelled under one file and listed as 1 and 2 - although the actual tapes do not have 1 and 2 - the tapes are in order, next to each other in their box, and have front labels with the description of what is on each tape.

Research files and reports

The records in this series include correspondence, working papers, grant applications and administrative papers connected to Toni Laidlaw's research, along with papers, articles or reports connected to these projects. Related papers, presentations and workshop materials may be located in other series.

Correspondence and administrative records

The records in this series include correspondence and papers related to Toni Laidlaw's employment at Dalhousie, such as annual faculty reports and professional correspondence. There are also records of her work as an author, including editorial correspondence, royalty statements and publication agreements.

Presentations and papers

The records in this series include printed copies of powerpoint presentations and papers delivered to various organizations, groups and conferences. Related or duplicate materials may be found in the Workshop presentations series.

Election broadcast material

This series consists of election broadcast coverage material for the CBC. It includes planning the coverage for the election night broadcast, reports of problems with the election night broadcasts, broadcast scripts and viewers' comments.
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