File contains correspondence with publisher Franz Landshoff, concerning the publication of Klaus Mann's diaries. Also includes forwarded correspondence between Landshoff and a potential editor, Martin Gregor-Dellin.
File contains correspondence with Fred Warner Neal, Patti Hagan, and Rosemarie Noris, some of which concerns the death of Elisabeth Mann Borgese's mother.
File contains correspondence with Rideau Hall, concerning the Order of Canada, and the Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada. Includes correspondence with Rideau Hall staff and Governor General Jeanne Sauvé (informing Mann Borgese of the Order of Canada award), letters of congratulations from Tom Hockin, Alan R. Abraham, Fred Crickard, and Innis Christie, letters of support for other Order of Canada nominees, and correspondence concerning the 125th Anniversary Medal. The file also includes a programme from the November 8, 1988 investiture of the Order of Canada (Elisabeth Mann Borgese was a recipient), a booklet listing Order of Canada members, and a certificate received by Borgese on receipt of the Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada in 1992.
File contains correspondence with Jan Matthews concerning a special feature on Canadian women to be distributed with "Time" magazine, includes a brief biography of Elisabeth Mann Borgese.
File contains a transcription from this conference, which held on February 13th and 14th, 1970. Elisabeth Mann Borgese was a participant. The other part of this transcript is in MS-2-744, Box 114, Folder 17.
File contains a copy of a prospectus from the conference, sent to Elisabeth Mann Borgese by Sidney Holt. The prospectus outlines the conference's background, objectives, organization, documentation, and information about participation and working language. The conference was held in Kyoto, Japan, between May 26 and June 2, 1976.
Item consists of three proof sheets with 76 photographs taken in the Killam Memorial Library. The photographs are interior shots of various rooms in the library. One prof sheet also includes photographs of an unidentified baby. Some photographs have been cut out from the proof sheets and are not included.
Item is an issue of Between the Issues (Volume 30, Number 2), published in 2012 by the Ecology Action Centre. Item contains articles on the National Round Table on Environment and Economy (1988-2013), cycling, storm water management, two-eyed seeing, fisheries, and other topics.
Item consists of a presentation given by Norman D. Lea to the Canadian Transport Research Forum Eighth Annual Meeting, titled "The Efficiency of Urban Transport in Canada", reference material collected to shape public transportation changes in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Item consists of a clipping from the November 1977 issue of Chatelaine, titled "Space Age Ark, Brave New Home", written by Constance Mundell, about a visit to the Ark project in Spry Bay, Prince Edward Island.
Item consists of a clipping from the May 7, 1975 issue of The 4th Estate, titled "Experimental P.E.I. 'Ark' will do it all" about the design and construction of the New Alchemy Institute Ark in Spry Point, Prince Edward Island.
Item consists of a clipping from the September 1979 issue of Atlantic Insight, written by Kennedy Wells, titled "Sermons, but no solutions at Man and Resources Institute" about the struggles of the Ark project, Spry Point, Prince Edward Island.
Item consists of a clipping from a 1981 issue of Harrowsmith, titled "And as the Ark Sinks Slowly in the East...", about the decline of the Ark project in Spry Point, Prince Edward Island.
Item consists of the draft of a lecture delivered by Kenneth T. MacKay at the International Conference on Basic Techniques in Ecological Agriculture, October 1978, titled "Exploration of Self-Sufficiency at the P.E.I. Ark".
Item consists of a facsimile of an Nova Scotia Lands and Forests (Entomological Services) report drafted by T.J. Smith and E. Georgeson titled "Spruce budworm population In Nova Scotia, 1985".
File contains a copy of a resignation letter sent by Jack London to members of the Socialist Party. The letter was written from his ranch in Glen Ellen, California and reveals his dissatisfaction with the trends of socialism in the United States. It also announces the resignation of London's wife, Charmian K. London.
Item is the Implementation Proposal on the Nova Scotia Task Force's Report on the Status of Women. Submitted to Premier Gerald H. Regan, Q.C. by the Cape Breton working Committee on Women's Status on February 12, 1977.
Item is a transcript of the remarks given by the Honourable Bill MacEachern, Minister of Social Services and the Status of Women. Honourable Bill MacEachern gave the remarks at a public meeting with the Nova Scotia Women's Action Committee at the Halifax Regional Vocation School.
FIle contains correspondence with Canadian Member of Parliament Charles Caccia. Correspondence concerns Bill C-27, the Law of the Sea, the United States-Canada fisheries dispute, the International Ocean Institute, and animal rights. Includes a commentary by Caccia that was published in the journal Environment, documents about Caccia's Parliamentary Centre for Environmentally Sustainable Development and copies of House of Commons Debates. Also includes a speech by Caccia ("Political Leadership and the Brundtland Report: What are the Implications for Public Policy?")
Files contains correspondence with individuals with names beginning from D to F. Correspondents include Maltese politican Guido de Marco (on implementing Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLos)), Annick de Marffy-Mantuano; Al Duda (on deep sea-bed mining), and Professor Tsutomu Fuse (sent with attached recommendations for UNCLoS Part XI by Elisabeth Mann Borgese). All correspondence is outgoing only.
File contains correspondence with Ambassador K. K. S. Dadzie, of the Permanent Mission of Ghana to the United Nations. Topics discussed include his attendance at the conference "The New International Economic Order and the Law of the Sea," also included is a provisional agenda for that conference.
File contains a letter from Elisabeth Mann Borgese to Vice President Elect Al Gore, asking him to reconsider American opposition to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
File contains correspondence with Nobuhiro Habuto, the Deputy Director of the Foreign News Department, NHK (on Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and ocean-mining), correspondence with and Guyana Ambassador to the United Nations Samuel R. Insanally (also on Part XI). All correspondence is outgoing only.
File contains correspondence and documents relating to the debate about UNCLoS (the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) and the Law of the Sea, hosted by the International Club, and at which Elisabeth Mann Borgese delievered the keynote address.
File contains correspondence with Ambassador Jose Luis Jesus, Permament Mission of Cape Verde to the United Nations. Correspondence concerns Pacem in Maribus (PIM) XVII, XVIII and XIX, the eighth session of the Preparatory Commission for the International Sea-Bed Authority (PrepCom) (and includes an agenda and time-table), and copies of correspondence from Mann Borgese to the Government of Finland and the need to obtain additional ratifications of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. File also includes a statement by Ambassador Jesus on the work of the Preparatory Commission
File contains correspondence with Lee Kimball, executive director of the Council on Ocean Law (COL). Correspondence concerns his work with the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the World Resources Insitute (WRI) on the Antarctica Program, various COL workshops (including ones held in advance of the 1986 Preparatory Commission meeting), Pacem in Maribus conferences, and ratification of UNCLoS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea). File includes two papers by Kimball: "International Institutions and Legal Issues," and "Whither International Institutional Arrangements to Support Ocean Law." See MS-2-744, Box 274, Folder 3 for more correspondence from COL.
File contains correspondence with Ruud Lubbers (on the United Nations Oceans Assembly proposal), Senator Allan J. MacEachen, Francois Napoleon Bailet and Canadian Finance Minister Paul Martin (on the notion of a Tobin Tax).
File contains a letter by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, sent to those attempting to rewrite Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, encouraging adoption of the PrepCom regime agreed on in the mid 1980s.
File contains correspondence. Correspondents include the Permanent Ambassador of Jamaica to the United Nations Lucille Mair (attached is a copy of the G-77 Draft Paper); Ambassador Don Mills; Claude Morel (Ministry of the Environment, Economic Planning and External Relations for Seychelles) ; Satya Nandan (attached is a statement by Elisabeth Mann Borgese to the United Nation's Commission for Sustainable Development), Professor Kaldone Nweihed (sent with a list of countries that have ratified the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea); Chinese Premier Li Peng; M.C.W. (Chris) Pinto; Steve Polansky; Senator Claiborne Pell (sent with the non-paper: "Agreement on the Implementation of Part XI and Annexes III and IV of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea"); and Jan Pronk.
File contains correspondence with Legal Scholar and Judge, Ronald St. John Macdonald. Topics of discussion include attendance at Pacem in Maribus (PIM) conferences, Elisabeth Mann Borgese's contribution to a book honouring Professor Wang Tieya (includes a brief biography blurb of Mann Borgese), Mann Borgese's support for a nomination of Macdonald for promotion within the Order of Canada, and correspondence with Macdonald about joining the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO). File Includes a copy of "UNCLoS, UNCED, and the Restructuring of the United Nations System" by Mann Borgese; a copy of "The United Nations Decade of International Law" by Macdonald; and a copy of an article by René Jean Dupuy ("Humanity and the Environment").
File includes documents sent by Annena (Nena) McKnight, on behalf of Maxwell S. McKnight (a counsel and petroleum advisor to the United States delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea). Documents sent include testimony of American Ambassador at Large and Special Representative of the President for the Law of the Sea Elliot L. Richardson given before the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, an opening statment from that committee meeting, and a transcript of remarks given at a joint meeting of the American Oceanic Organization and the Center for Oceans Law and Policy at the University of Virginia.
File contains correspondence with Philip R.L. Somerville, the Vice-Consul of the Canadian Consulate General, San Francisco (with a Pacem in Maribus invitation and a report on the Canadian position on UNCLoS III), John Blair of Shell Canada (on Pacem in Maribus), correspondence with Carleton Smith (with newspaper clippings) of the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize (and Arvid Pardo's nomination), and Sondra Sellars, asking for a list of articles/speeches by Pardo.
File contains correspondence with Austrian Ambassador and judge Helmut Turk. Topics of discussion include JEFERAD (Joint Enterprise For Exploration, Research And Development), and the boat paper of 1993. File contains duplicate copies which have not been digitized.
File contains correspondence with Austrian Ambassador to the United Nations, Karl Wolf. Also includes a report from the Geneva conference and a report from the Export Council of Norway. See also MS-2-744, Box 114, Folder 8 and MS-2-744, Box 355, Folder 24 for more correspondence with Ambassador Wolf on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
File contains a memo is from the Federal Republic of Germany, Singapore, Nepal, and Zambia to Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, the Chairman of the Second Committee of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS III) on the concept of an economic zone. The file also contains handwritten notes by Elisabeth Mann Borgese.
File contains a memorandum to the Independent Commission on International Development Issues, encouraging discussion of marine resources, ocean management, and the new Law of the Sea on their agenda.
File contains a paper by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, detailing the history of the "marine revolution" which lead to the Law of the Sea Convention. This version contains handwritten annotations by Mann Borgese.