Fonds comprises records related to Terrence Gordon's biography of Marshall McLuhan published in 1997 and includes correspondence with publishers and reviewers; a curriculum vitae; a manuscript draft; newspaper clippings and copies of reviews; and secondary research materials. Other records include the working papers from three books edited by Gordon: McLuhan Unbound, Understanding Media (Critical Edition) and The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of his Time.
Records include research materials and notes relating to Judith Fingard's work on mariners in nineteenth-century Eastern Canada, the Halifax retail liquor trade in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, James Robinson Johnston, George Liston and Isaac Sallis. Also included is one folder of professional correspondence and Fingard's MPhil and PhD diplomas from the University of London.
The accession contains index cards originally stored in 10 small plastic boxes and 1 long cardboard box. The cards were created by Trevor Bebb and contain entries from various shipping registers. The cards describe vessels, captains, and sailors. The accession also contains two oversized ledgers from the nineteenth century and several manuscript sheets of poetry. One plastic box was empty when it entered the archives.
File contains the questionnaire #3 responses from interviewees #30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, and 133, human subjects 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 contains research data involving interviewee #121, 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 a questionnaire response from a relocation official about interviewee #121; interview transcripts; and reports about interviewees #90 and #121.
File contains research data involving interviewee #124, 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 legal and real estate correspondence; the questionnaire response of interviewee #124; interview transcripts; reports related to interviewees #4, #6, #110, #111, #112, #123, #124, #125, and #126; and an acquisition report sent to members of the Sub-Committee of Council on Africville and the Representatives of the Human Rights Advisory Committee.
File contains research data involving interviewee #125, 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 a response to a questionnaire from the Africville Relocation Study; a transcript of an interview; and reports related to interviewees #125 and #124.
File contains research data involving interviewee #123, 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 a questionnaire response from a relocation official about interviewee #123; interview transcripts; and reports about interviewees #4, #6, #110, #111, #112, #123, #124, #125, and #126.
File contains brief summaries with notes about working lives of residents of Africville. Notes have been annotated and numbered by hand. Numbers do not match code numbers.
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".
File contains research data involving interviewee #36, 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 #36; an interview transcript; income and rental records; applications from the Halifax Housing Authority; reports about interviewees #30 and #36; and a staff report sent to members of the Sub-Committee of Council on Africville and the Representatives of the Human Rights Advisory Committee.
File contains correspondence related to the Africville Relocation Study. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. Correspondence is addressed to and from Clairmont and Magill, from the Institute of Public Affairs, and the Department of Public Welfare.
File contains correspondence between researchers and other people involved 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. Items include correspondence between employees at the Institute of Public Affairs at Dalhousie University (including Dennis Magill and Donald Clairmont) and people from the Halifax Department of Welfare, the Office of the City Manager of Halifax, the family court for the County of Cape Breton, the National Harbours Board, Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the Halifax Herald Limited, the University of Toronto School of Social Work, and the Canadian Special Senate Committee on Poverty. The file also contains memorandums from the Institute of Public Affairs; research diaries and notes about interviews; a letter template; an invitation list and list of attendees for a meeting for the Africville relocation study; classification categories for Africville Typology; and a blank questionnaire for the study.
File contains correspondence from the Canadian Labour Congress, National Commission on Human Rights, regarding housing and employment matters, to two residents of Africville who were later human subjects 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 also contains agenda from Halifax city council meeting and draft of a report.
File contains facsimiles of Halifax Housing Authority documentation related to several of the interviewees of the Africville Relocation Study, conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. File also includes real estate inspection reports. File includes information regarding interviewees #37, 73, 121, 124, and 129.
File contains the transcript of an interview conducted by Dennis Magill with Alexa McDonough on September 24, 1969, regarding the Africville Relocation Study. File also includes city manager S.A. Ward's "Africville Follow-up Proposal".
File contains research materials and notes related to the Africville Relocation Study, including facsimiles of reports by W.P. Oliver, newspaper clippings, and handwritten mid-19th century genealogical information.
File contains interview summaries and field notes taken related to the Africville Relocation Study. File includes: memorandum, notes, research diary, correspondence, field notes (many of which are handwritten) and research materials.
File contains the questionnaire #1 responses from interviewees #98 and 99, two human subjects 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 also contains interview summaries, the transcript of an interview between Dennis Magill and Peter MacDonald, and facsimiles of Halifax Housing Authority documents.
File contains the questionnaire #1 results for interviewees # 52 and 53, two human subject who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. File also contains an interview transcript, and information regarding the property acquisition.
File contains the questionnaire #1 responses for interviewees #28 and 139, two human subjects 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 also contains the transcript of an interview between Dennis Magill and Peter MacDonald, as well as facsimiles of Halifax Housing Authority documents.
File contains the questionnaire #1 responses of interviewees #54 and 55, two human subjects 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 also contains the transcript of an interview, and Sub-committee on Africville documents relating to the acquisition of property 71.
File contains the questionnaire #1 responses from interviewees #94 and 95, two human subjects 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 also contains the transcript of an interview between Dennis Magill and Peter MacDonald, as well as facsimile Halifax Housing Authority documents.
File contains the questionnaire #1 responses from interviewee #91, 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 also contains the transcript of an interview between Dennis Magill and Peter MacDonald, as well as facsimiles of Halifax Housing Authority documents.
File contains the questionnaire #1 for interviewee #5, a human subject who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. File also contains facsimile documents and correspondence from the Halifax Housing Authority, regarding the interviewee's premises.
File contains the transcript of an interview (over two tapes) conducted by John de Roche with Peter MacDonald, on June 26, 1969, regarding the history and social structure of Africville. The transcript of the first tape is included twice (with annotations).
File contains a 4 page typescript of Political-Administrative Questions (page 4 is dedicated to questions for Alderman Connolly, Alderman Sullivan and Alderman Doyle); a 2 page typescript of questions intended for a city administrator identifies as P.J.M. (likely Peter J. MacDonald); a 2 page typescript of questions intended for H.B. Jones, Welfare Officer, City of Halifax; a 2 page typescript for interview with activist (George Davis?); and a 2 page typescript for interview by Denis Magill with Alexa [McDonough].
File contains research data involving interviewees #92 and #93, two human subjects 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 reports about interviewees #27, #92, #93, #128, and #140; the questionnaire responses of interviewee #92 and #93; notes about interviews; interview transcripts; staff reports and acquisition reports sent to members of the Sub-Committee on Africville and Representatives of the Human Rights Advisory Committee; appraisal reports; and legal and real estate correspondence
File contains a draft manuscript written likely in the early-1970s (definitely after 1967) by William F. Dawson, about the area around Jacob Street in downtown Halifax, bulldozed to make way for the Scotia Square project (the Jacob Street area was deemed a waterfront slum). The manuscript discusses the parallels between the demolition of Jacob Street and that of Africville.
File contains research data involving interviewee #150, 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 #150; reports related to interviewee #150; income and rental records; and applications for accommodation from the Housing Authority of Halifax.
File contains compiled demographic data about African Nova Scotians living in Africville and elsewhere in Haifax. The data is presented in the form of handwritten tables and maps. The data is from a study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s.
File contains the questionnaire #1 responses from interviewees #43 and 44, two human subjects 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 also contains interview transcripts and summaries, correspondence, and facsimile Halifax Housing Authority documents.
File contains the questionnaire #1 responses from interviewees #46 and 47, two human subjects 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 also contains the transcript of an interview between Dennis Magill and Peter MacDonald, as well as other research materials.
File contains the questionnaire #1 responses from interviewees #48 and 49, two human subjects 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 also contains the transcript of an interview, as well as facsimiles of Halifax Housing Authority documents.
File contains questionnaire number 2 of interviewee #004, 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. Interviewer: left blank.
File contains the Africville Relocation Questionnaire response of interviewee #45, 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. The interviewer was Frank Hartigan.
File contains questionnaire number 2 involving interviewee #52, 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. Interviewer: J. Guth
File contains the questionnaire #3 responses from interviewees #113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 136, 137, 140, 141, 142, 143, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, human subjects 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.
Series consists of correspondence, secondary materials, manuscripts, published articles, newspaper clippings and notes compiled and created by Charles Bruce related to his research for writing and other projects. There are also notes and clippings related World War II and the occasion of Charles Bruce's plane being shot down.
Fonds consists of reports and studies on Nova Scotia farming and marketing between 1924-1990. Series are comprised of papers, reports, correspondence, photographs, newspaper articles, and signs created and collected by Gordon Kinsman during his Nova Scotia berry research. Materials focus on blueberries, strawberries, the strawberry industry, berry box making, berry shipping, general agriculture, the history of agriculture, dairy, creameries, direct marketing of blueberries and apples, exhibitions in Nova Scotia, the Maritimes, and Canada between 1924-1993.
