Item consists of an offprint containing the text of a speech delivered by President Arthur Stanley Mackenzie at the September 1905 Dalhousie University Convocation ceremonies.
File contains five manuscript drafts of The Truth About Mrs Van Haiden, broadcast by CBC Radio in 1979. File also contains an outline, contract, correspondence and a chronology outlining the evolution of the script and its production.
Item is a poster for Ionesco One-Acts: The Bald Soprano and Jacques or Obedience written by Eugène Ionesco and directed by Jure Gantar for Dalhousie Theatre.
Item is a poster for Through the Looking Glass the 2010-2011 Daltheatre season, featuring Ionesco One-Acts: The Bald Soprano and Jacques or Obedience, Into the Woods, The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Country Wife.
File contains a lightly annotated script and structure notes for Council Matters, a play by Chris Heide that was performed at the 2001 Chester Playhouse Summer Festival.
File contains records primarily documenting the post-event assessment of the 2006 Liverpool International Theatre Festival, including a review of Chris Heide in his role as artistic director.
Item consists of a typed manuscript, likely written in 1973 by Irving Deale, about coming across a painting of the Mary Celeste (originally, the Amazon), at a Halifax antique shop, and discussions with Rhodes Dewis and Niels Jannasch about acquiring it.
Item consists of typed research notes about the Mary Celeste and the Dewis family, written by Robert Dewis, transcribed in 1950 by R.L. Dewis, and collected by Irving Deale. Dewis was the son of Joshua Dewis, owner of the Mary Celeste.
Item consists of a facsimile of handwritten research notes drafted in 1953 by R.L. Dewis (and collected by Irving Deale), about the early history of the Mary Celeste (then known as the Amazon).
Item consists of typed research notes collected by Irving Deale, and written by unknown persons likely in the 1960s, giving a brief outline on the history of the Mary Celeste.
Item consists of a facsimile of a passage from J. Alphonse Deveau's 1968 book "La ville francaise" related to the mystery of the Mary Celeste, with an accompanying English translation (likely undertaken by Irving Deale).
File contains correspondence, reports, meeting minutes and notes created and collected by Chris Heide during his tenure as president of ACTRA Maritime Writers' Branch and, later, as chair of ACTRA Halifax Work Opportunities Committee and as chair of ACTRA Maritime Film Committee.
File contains multiple manuscript drafts of a training video script for the Nova Scotia Co-operative Council, as well as related research materials and correspondence.
File contains three manuscript drafts of The Waiting's Over, which was originally written as a stage play titled Ed & Molly, based on an idea conceived by Barry Stuart. The radio version was broadcast by CBC Radio in 1982. File also contains a manuscript copy of Ed & Molly, an outline for its adaptation to radio, a contract, correspondence and a chronology outlining the evolution of the script and its production.
File contains three drafts copies of The Flood, broadcast by CBC Radio in 1977. File also contains a contract, correspondence and a chronology outlining the evolution of the script and its production.
File contains records created and collected by Christopher Heide in the course of his association with the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, in particular as interim coordinator and as a writer-in-community in 1983. Record types include correspondence, reports, meeting minutes and notes.
File contains correspondence related to exchange of students between Dalhousie University Law School and Peking University, written from 1983 and 1986, between Ronald St. John Macdonald, Qui Mei Bai, H. Leslie O'Brien, Edgar Gold, Qing-Nan Meng, K.T. Leffek, Randle Edwards, Wang Fusum, Zhang Guo-hun, Ni Meng-xung, Zhang Long-xiang, Bai Gui Mei, Peter Hoffman, Bu Zhaomin, Iain Thomson, Gerald Fitzgerald, Evelyne Meltzer, Lawrence R. Raicht, Gary C. Vernon, and W.G. Low. File contains a photocopy of the memorandum of agreement between Dalhousie Law School and the Institute of International Law of the University of Beijing and notes and correspondence regarding Quing-nan Meng's thesis.
File contains seventy-one handwritten letters between poet Molly Beresford and her Song Fishermen colleague Andrew Merkel, between 1922 and 1936 (predominantly late 1920s). File also includes four of Beresford's poems: "The Philosophy of a Would-Be Poet," "Moon Shadows," "To a Fair Lady on returning to her a Pair of Rubber Shoes," and another untitled poem. File also includes three postcards and one Christmas card.
Subseries contains yearbooks of the Dalhousie University School of Education: Spitballs and Chalkdust (1994); and Taking a Bite Out of Time (1995). The yearbook and program both ended in 1995.
File contains four pages of five traditional songs sung to Edward Charles Feltmate during his childhood in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Includes the text to the following songs: "The Cold Winters Night", "The Steam Packet Soverign [sic]", "The Gay Spanish Maid", "The Flying Cloud", and "Sable Island: Graveyard of the Atlantic" (written by an attendant of the [Sable Island] Life Saving Station).
Item is a group photograph of Mrs. Harriette Richardson (translator); Lieutenant Governor Tory; Mrs. Tory, Mrs. Taylor; standing; Mr. L.M. Fortier; Mr. Richardson; Chief Justice Harris; and Colonel Almon.
Item is an essay titled "A Search for Collective Bargaining : The Nova Scotia Government Employees Association Experience," written in 1979 by Kevin Reilly for a course on Canadian working class history taught by Dr. Gregory S. Kealey. The essay documents the history of the Nova Scotia Government Employees Association's collective bargaining experience.
File contains the first volume of Dalhousie Alumni Magazine. The official periodical of the Dalhousie Alumni Association, the magazine eventually became known as Dal Mag.
Item is a print of a sketch of the Barque(bark) Snow Queen. The writing on the back states that the ship (984 tons) was built in Maitland, N.S. in 1872.
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![The famous mystery ship, Mary Celeste : [research notes]](/uploads/r/dalhousie-university-archives/3/4/b/34ba5916e69fdccaf460cf99f4bb99cbc1bca06a64459e8c65173618e7a71a53/d73dfa9c-4fd0-4d2e-aada-bf3c39ad8660-MS-2-518_1_1_4_142.jpg)
![The mystery of the Marie Celeste : [manuscript]](/uploads/r/dalhousie-university-archives/3/4/4/3442403189e7f311e841417d583ba96eaa356fb4b5e5b96db1ac6a890e822b4e/8dc3af35-411b-4351-8964-91996270852b-MS-2-518_1_1_3_142.jpg)
