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Dalhousie University Archives Series
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Legal matters of Acadian Supplies Company

This series contains insurance policies, legal contracts, court papers, Nova Scotia Company Act and shareholder related records. The insurance policies cover stock, buildings and machinery of Acadian Supplies Company legal contracts include an indenture and use of land. Court papers record major debts owed to Acadian Supplies Company. The shareholder related records include a sample of stock certificates for Acadian Supplies and Vessel Company, shareholder meeting minutes, lists of shareholders and stocks owned by Acadian Supplies.

Technical University of Nova Scotia student files

Series consists of student records created by the Nova Scotia Technical College (NSTC) and its successor, the Technical University of Nova Scotia (TUNS). NTSC created the majority of records between 1920 and 1978. Series also includes student records created by TUNS before the 1997 amalgamation with Dalhousie University.

Records include personal information about students, including names, courses taken, date of graduation, degree awarded, place of birth, and name of parent.

TUNS maintained these records until the 1997 amalgamation with Dalhousie University. When the universities merged, TUNS transferred the records to the Dalhousie University Registrar's Office.

Alumni News

  • MS-1-Ref
  • Series
  • 1920-1984
Series contains 55 volumes of Alumni News, covering the period 1920–1984. Volume and issue numbering varied over time.

Dalhousie Alumni Association

Pharmacy

The records in this subseries all relate to Balcom's career pharmacist whether pertaining to the operations of his pharmacy or the professional pharmacy organisations to which he belonged.

Alan Creighton photographs

Series consists of photographs in black and white, sepia, and colour of various subjects, including the Creighton family and outdoor/nature scenes. Many of the albums of photographs were likely used as inspiration or reference for Alan's paintings. The photographs were taken in Nova Scotia and in Ontario.

Business archives of the Technical Univesity of Nova Scotia Office of the President and Director of Tech Education

Series consists of files created in the office of the College President and Director of Technical Education, primarily from 1911 to 1947, when Dr. F.H. Sexton held the dual President/Director posting. There are some files from the tenure of Dr. A.E. Cameron, and scattered few from Dr. Holbrook's tenure, then more from the 1980s and 1990s. These later records appear to have been selected by the last President and/or the Department of Community Relations as to what should be transferred to the Archives (i.e. very few and very select records remain from what must have been a larger whole). Series documents vocational education through the operation of evening classes and mining schools, including hiring of instructors, inspection reports, and student records. Photographs of technical education classes are found in the Technical Education Photographs series. The College's contribution to the war effort and to the vocational rehabilitation of discharged soldiers is also documented in this series and the Technical Education Photographs series. Series also documents the administration of NSTC, including hiring of faculty, faculty meetings, correspondence with students, curriculum development, scholarship administration and student records. The President's records also include files from Sexton's involvement in other organizations, including the Education Committee of the Halifax YMCA's Red Triangle Hut, the Maritime Board of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy; the Central Advisory Committee of the Carnegie Corporation; the Biological Board of Canada; the Canadian Education Association; the Rotary Club of Canada; Commission on Highway Dust Prevention; and the Halifax Conservatory of Music. Of particular note are files from Sexton's 1924-1927 tenure as President of the Victoria School of Art and Design, which became the Nova Scotia College of Art in 1925, and from the Board of Governors of the Nova Scotia Museum of Science, 1948-1952. Files are arranged in their original order - alphabetical by subject within each year. College files and technical education files were intermingled.

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.

Sketches

Series consists of sketches and art studies by Alan Creighton in various media, including pencil, ink, crayon, charcoal, and watercolour and oil paints. Subjects include people (faces and figures as well as studies of isolated body parts), landscapes (particularly coastal and wooded scenes), and studies of various elements of nature (such as clouds).

Poetry

Series consists of the poetry (published and unpublished) of Alan Creighton. He wrote on a wide variety of topics, but primarily nature (especially Nova Scotia, with works inspired by the places he lived in) and human nature. The records also include some (prose) musings on poetry, poets, and the creative process, as well as documents related to the Cheney-Trent poetry course he took by correspondence.

Miscellaneous personal papers

Series consists of books by MacMechan and Ritchie (1934, 1936); 2 black and white photographs of a local theatre production; miscellaneous instructors' notes and correspondence (1946); poems and offprints (1945).

Resource centre library of the Ecology Action Centre

Series consists of reference material from the Ecology Action Centre's resource centre library. Series includes books, pamphlets, newsletters, fact sheets and similar types of reference material created and collected by the Ecology Action Centre. Materials cover subjects such as parks and green spaces, species at risk, pesticide spraying, climate change, pollution, composting, recycling, and energy sources including nuclear, tidal power, oil, and gas.

Similar material in this series can be found in the series Subject Files. Audiovisual material from the resource library can be found in the series Audiovisual Library.

Subseries include Changes in the Biosphere (BI) ; Energy (EN) ; Human Habitat and Society (HH) ; Pollution (PO) ; Resources and resource industries (RS) ; Responses to Environmental Issues (IN).

Administrative and operational records of the Dalhousie University Institute of Public Affairs

Series consists of documents accumulated by the administration of the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA). The majority of materials are minutes, memorandums, correspondence, and reports created by, or related to, several committees within the IPA. These committees were designed to develop policies, facilitate decision-making, manage projects, and maintain positive relationships with Dalhousie University administration. Series also contains several news and press releases issued by the IPA to generate publicity for important events hosted by the Institute or achievements of its staff. Series also contains academic plans and program guides produced by the IPA which offer insight into the curriculum at Henson College.

Pauline E. Hillis' records

Series consists of materials regarding the Pauline E. Hillis' student life, including notebooks, books, and others textual records. Series also contains negatives and photographs of Pauline E. Hillis with friends, and of Eric Stanley Hillis, son of James Stanley and Pauline E. Hillis, at the age of 5.

Charles Bruce's professional correspondence

Series comprises Charles Bruce's professional correspondence, organized by subject. The bulk of the correspondence relates to his professional life and writing, but there are some files containing letters and notes of a more personal nature. Many files contain notes and newspaper clippings.

Prose

Series consists of various prose works by Alan Creighton, including literary criticism, histories of various towns/locations (primarily Nova Scotian), short stories, and reminisces of locations, events, and people. The short stories are on a variety of topics and tend to include an element of morality and appreciation of beauty in different forms.

Research material for Peter B. Waite's "Lives of Dalhousie University, Vol.1 & 2"

Series consists of the research material for Peter B. Waite's "Lives of Dalhousie University, Vol.1. Includes notes from the Dalhousie Gazette, President's reports, yearbooks, President's Office and departmental files and the private manuscripts of professors and administrators. Also includes a 1906 Dalhousie College dance card and a Dalhousie University Concert and Sterroptican Views Card.

Henry Hicks' philately records

Series comprises records created and collected by Henry Hicks in the course of his stamp collecting hobby. Records types include correspondence, notes, reports, catalogues, books and brochures.

The Bill Lynch Shows financial records

Series contains documents related to the Bill Lynch Shows’ finances and the monetary purchases. Materials include daily reports from shows, daily cash statement forms (blank), invoices, receipts and receipt books, and cash books.

The Bill Lynch Shows administrative records

Series contains various administrative documents used to run the Bill Lynch Shows. Materials include letterhead, Greater Exposition Shows contract forms (blank), railway passes, commercial scripts, blueprints, and photographs.

Charles Beecher Weld's textual records

Series contains various textual records created or accumulated by Charles Beecher Weld, including manuscripts, off-prints, personal correspondence, and records of community organizations with which Weld was involved.

Correspondence of Horace E. Read

This series contains correspondence predominantly from colleagues. This series also includes correspondence from students as well correspondence pertaining to Horace Read’s appointment to the Order of Canada.

Courses and Course Material

This series contains correspondence and material on Read’s courses that he taught at both the University of Minnesota and Dalhousie University.

Meeting minutes

Series consists of meeting minutes of the Dalhousie-King’s Reading Club. It also contains related materials including correspondence, programmes of meetings, and newspaper clippings.

Membership lists

Series consists of membership and attendance lists of the Reading Club. It also contains lists of officers of the club from 1925-1941 and lists of hostesses and co-hostesses from 1971-1972.

Photographs

Series consists of photographs related to the Nova Scotia Mass Choir from 1925 to 2021.

Professional correspondence

Series consists of professional correspondence (including letters, telegrams, emails, memoranda, etc) between Alexander Leighton, Dorothea Leighton, and Jane Leighton Murphy and various contacts regarding studies, academic placements, publications, and research.

Peter B. Waite's personal diaries collection

Series consists of Peter B. Waite's daily personal diaries collection covering the period 1925/1926, 1929, 1931-1933, 1938-1950, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1962-1963. The diaries may have been kept by his mother, Mary (Craig) Waite with descriptions about European trips and recipes.

Charle Bruce's notebooks

Series consists of nine notebooks that include class notes, personal entries and notes taken by Charles Bruce during his time as a student at Mount Allison University and as a young writer.
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