This fonds consists of material created and collected by Robert Weil during his career as a psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at Dalhousie University. Types of records include correspondence, original manuscripts and published work, research and notes, photographs, patient files, and studies and collected data on the psychological results of the surviving miners of the Springhill Mine Disasters in 1956 and 1958.
Item is a diary kept by Alexander Leighton between October 1935 and March 1936 describing the behaviour and feeding habits of a pair of beavers kept by Alex and James (Jimmy Hutchins?) for observation.
File contains correspondence with or about Laila Shukry El Hamamsy. Also includes academic records, study participant information, a pamphlet on the American University at Cairo's Social Research Center, a curriculum vitae for Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Aziz El-Meligi.
File contains evaluation abstracts for some female respondents. Respondents' answers to health and background questions are listed, followed by interviewers' comments. File also includes notes on randomizing questionnaires and evaluations, and a memorandum report of the summarizing process.
Subseries includes data for and analyses of socioeconomic aspects of Yoruba women's lives (education, migration, social class, health, children, husbands, religion, family, etc.). The 1963 data seems to be part of another study, referred to in several files as "The 1963 study on the role of Yoruba women," that either piggybacked off the Cornell-Aro study or was somehow included as a sub-project.
File contains notes, charts, and datasets tracking the occupations and education levels of the husbands of female study respondents. File also includes correspondence between researchers and Aro Hospital regarding education and migration statistics.
File contains notes and lists of Cornell-Aro study respondents' occupations. Also includes memoranda and notes on coding categories for occupational data and relevant ethnographic background information.
File contains memoranda on psychiatric statistics and analyses and a guidebook for symptom evaluation information card coding. File also includes notes on psychiatric findings.
File consists of notes on psychiatric conditions and symptoms found in Cornell-Aro study respondents. Data tables and analytical explanations accompany datasets and evaluations.
File contains notes on data processing and coding, medical findings, and psychiatric social data. Also includes correspondence between Dorothea Leighton and Alice Longaker regarding coding process and classification procedures.
Subseries contains datasets, computer printouts, notes, and analysis guidelines comparing psychiatric and social statistics from the Nigerian and Stirling County studies.
File contains notes on RIDIT values and typology analysis for comparing Yoruba and Stirling data. Also contains computer printout datasets and statistical charts.
File contains research notes, respondent master lists, computer dataset printouts, and tables of statistics relating to respondent psychiatric data and symptoms.
Subseries contains records created and collected by Gil Winham during his work as the research consultant for the Sub-committee on the Review of the Special Import Measures Act of the Standing Committee on Finance, for which he was responsible for drafting the Sub-committee report. Records include background papers; government reports; notes; correspondence; manuscript drafts; and a copy of the final report.
File contains correspondence with or about James S. Tyhurst. Also contains course materials, project outlines and proposals, curricula vitae, research notes, and meeting transcriptions.
File contains a list of follow-up tasks related to community respondent information. Also contains a bundle of small notecards with similar follow-up questions and notes.
File contains information on 14 villages to aid researchers in determining whether they should be considered integrated or disintegrated and modern or traditional. Information is based on population, education, religion, industry, and family structure.
Subseries contains files of information for each village in the study. Includes social and historical research notes and population medical survey results. Also contains hand-drawn maps and lists of respondents' names.
File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Joko. File includes two hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village traditional.
File contains research data involving interviewee #1, a human subject who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. File includes the questionnaire response of interviewee #1; an interview transcript; an application from the Housing Authority of Halifax; and a staff report sent to members of the Sub-Committee on Africville and Representatives of the Human Rights Advisory Committee.
File contains copies of published articles and drafts of unpublished articles related to African-Canadian life in Nova Scotia and Canada. File includes selections from "Negro Settlement in Canada, 1628-1965", "Negroes in Canada" (by Harold H. Potter), notes from McKerrow's "A Brief History of the Coloured People of Nova Scotia", "Negro Settlement in British Columbia, 1858-1871" (by James William Pilton), "The Canadian Negro: A Historical Assessment", "From Slavery to the Ghetto: The Story of the Negro in the Maritimes" (by H.A.J. Wedderburn", and "Negroes in Nova Scotia: Bibliography".
