Fonds contains the personal papers, photographs and sound recordings of Barbara Hinds. The personal papers primarily comprise research material, article drafts, and newspaper clippings related to Hinds' journalism career, but also correspondence, research notes, diaries, maps and manuscripts. Sound recordings were largely created during Hinds' travels in the Canadian Arctic and include several interviews. Photographs include prints, slides, negatives and proof sheets, and were mostly taken in the Canadian Arctic, but also include research and personal photographs.
File contains two newspaper clippings of articles by Barbara Hinds about famine in Ethiopia; a list of members of the Emergency Committee for Ethiopian Relief; and correspondence with Robert L. Stanfield and Alvin Hamilton.
File contains a booklet of information about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Yukon Centennial; correspondence with P. J. Greenlaw and D. Snowden; handwritten notes about Labrador; typed notes from a visit to Stadacona in 1966; a typed draft of an article about fitness and a canoe trip; a photograph MacKenzie Porter at the luxury hunters' camp at Cape Dorset, taken by Rosemary Gilliat; a photograph of a boy learning to write at Frobisher School in 1960, taken by Rosemary Gilliat; and maps of the Yukon.
File contains a map of the resources of northern Quebec. The map indicates the predominant species across the province, sites of mineral resources, sites of hydraulic resources, First Nations and Inuit communities, and airports or other routes for transportation.
File contains mailing information for magazines, schools, associations, and other organizations who requested to be on the mailing list for press releases from the Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine. Most of the information is in the form of correspondence from the organizations about changes of address. The correspondence includes letters from Sharon Acker; the American College of Surgeons; Atlantic Community Newspapers Association; the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; Le Courrier médical; The Daily Gleaner; Dartmouth Free Press Limited; Future Health; IMS Communications Ltd; The Medical Business Journal; The Medical Post; Austin Rand; Reader's Digest Magazines Limited; Saturday Night; Self; Trimel Communications Inc.; Williams & Wilkins; and World Book, Inc.
File contains a letter from J. Aileen Hatherly to the editor of the Halifax Chronicle Herald; a letter from Susanne McGrath to Barabara Hinds; pages from the April 19, 1912 issue of the Daily Echo; and pages from the August 12, 1912 issue of the Recorder. The newspaper pages contains articles about the Titanic and they appear to have been sent to Hinds along with the letter from Hatherly.
File contains correspondence with Derek Mann; J. D. Hatcher; Robbie Shaw; Kingsley Brown; Peter C. Gordon; and Roselle Green. The file also includes a document about the information office at Dalhousie University; a statement of public relation philosophy adopted by Dalhousie University; a document called "The Crisis in Medical Research at Dalhousie University"; a photocopy of "Media Impact: A Quick Look Inside"; and a booklet by Derek Mann called "An ounce of PRevention: universities and public relations." The documents in this file are all related to Barbara Hinds' employment at the Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine
File contains correspondence with Orest E. Ulan from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Frances MacDonald from the Canadian Magazine.The file also includes a photocopy of a parenting advice column that was attached to one of the letters.
File contains correspondence to Barbara Hinds from E. A. (Ted) Smith; Mr. Drabeson; the New England Grenfell Association; McClelland and Stewart Limited; the Department of Fisheries Canada; Hutchinson and Co. Publishers Ltd; The Norther; the Atlantic Advocate; Loue Alicie; and the Department of Citizenship and Immigration. The file also include a statement by the Hon. H. J. Robichaud, Minister of Fisheries, on the Atlantic Seal Fishery; and photographs of Elmer Gustafson, Captain Odin Hansen, Victor O'Brien, Charlie Hoddinott, Mr. Drabeson, Louis Roal, and Mr. and Mrs. Levi Dawe.
Series contains the research notes and diaries of Barbara Hinds. Most of the research notes are written in notebooks and are associated with a particular topic that Hinds wrote newspaper articles about. Some of the research notes are written in shorthand. Most of the diaries are written in notebooks and are logs of Hinds’ travels, especially her trips to the Canadian Arctic. The series also contains three books about shorthand that belonged to Hinds.
File contains one spiral bound stenographer's notebook containing handwritten notes from 1994 and 1997 bird surveys in Trafalgar. Each page contains a tally of birds for a certain area.
File contains a diary kept by Barbara Hinds from September 6, 1965 to an unknown date. The diary is written in a small, six-ring binder with a plastic cover. The diary was kept by Hinds during a trip to Fort Chimo and other places in the eastern Arctic.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds describing a group of children playing in a water hole; sounds of children playing; Barbara Hinds talking about her visit with Keith Crow in George River; Keith Crow playing the guitar; and Barbara Hinds' interview with Keith Crow about shipping fish.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Bob Green from a rehabilitation centre in Frobisher Bay; and Barbara Hinds' interview with George Koneak about a German measles epidemic.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Bob Green, from the rehabilitation centre in Frobisher Bay. Green talks about education and training programs at the rehabilitation centre.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of sounds from an airplane; Barbara Hinds' interview with Jacques Dumas about the challenges of being a pilot in the north; and Barbara Hinds' interview with Gordon Braley about flying in the north.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Mr. Page in Frobisher Bay. Page talks about a laundromat in Frobisher Bay. The beginning of the recording introduces George Crow from George River, but Hinds refers to the interviewee as Mr. Page later in the recording.
Item is a recording made by Barbara Hinds while on board the Rupertsland, near Savage Island. The recording includes Hinds describing the voyage, Hinds talking to an unidentified man, and sounds of the wind.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Captain Doug Creaser, the area superintendent in charge of the department of transportation's sea lift. Creaser is from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Creaser talks about shipping in the north.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Keith Crow at George River. During the interview, Crow talks about a co-operative, plays his guitar, and talks about the difficulties with the freezer at the plant when the diesel engine failed.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Victor Marmin, a lecturer at a college in England. Marmin talks about his theories about how pigeons find their way home.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Mr. Blanchard, a seal fisher somewhere in the eastern Canadian Arctic. Blanchard talks about what it's like to be a seal hunter and how they kill the seals.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Mike Bamblett, a bartender in Dawson City, Yukon. Bamblett talks about how he came to Dawson City, his past jobs, and drinking habits in Dawson City.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Albert Bentham, a theatre door keeper in Dawson City, Yukon. Bentham talks about how he came to Dawson City, and his past jobs.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Red Peterson, the trading manager at the Hudson's Bay Company in Cape Dorset. The interview is about fur trading and walrus hunting in Frobisher Bay.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Mr. Graves, the principal of the school in Frobisher Bay. Graves talks about woodworking and other vocational training at the rehabilitation centre in Apex Hill. The recording includes sounds of students working in the wood shop.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds commenting on the British as animal lovers. She talks about how British people are concerned about animal welfare and how they love their pets. The recording is preceded by a short clip of people applauding.
Item is a series of short recordings which all appear to have been recorded in England. The recordings include and unidentified man talking about the life span of earthworms; sounds from a train station; sounds from a sporting event, possibly a horse race; and a brass band playing God Save the Queen.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Mrs. Dodds talking to her daughter Marion over a two-way radio; and Barbara Hinds' interview with Mrs. Sam Dodds in Fort Chimo about about teaching Inuit women to cook with new foods and make handicrafts.
File contains a reel-to-reel recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Father Pieters, an Oblate missionary in Davis Inlet. Father Pieters talks about the population of Naskapi and others who live at Davis Inlet. He talks about babies, clan water, tents, and other topics. The label on the reel says that it is an interview with Mr. Phelps but the interview is a continuation of the one in MS-2-130, Box 11, Folder 6, which is with Father Pieters.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Noah Groves. Groves talks about his trip to Montreal and compares it to North West River, Labrador, where he lives. He also talks about the economy in North West River. The interview is interrupted by a horn blowing.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Ross King, who works for Northern Labrador Affairs. King talks about what his work entails and Inuit people living in Labrador.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Pierre Williamson, the chief air traffic controller at the Frobisher Bay airport. Williamson talks about the runway at the airport, emergencies, power failures, and his work week. The interview is followed by the sound of a helicopter from an icebreaker called the John A. MacDonald, which is in Frobisher Bay.
File contains a series of short recordings about folk dancing. The recordings include music from a folk dancing competition; the Betty Jones Town Band; the U.N. choir rehearsing; Alpine horns; Swiss yodeling; the sound of Morris dancers from Lancashire performing; and Barbara Hinds interviewing two unidentified men about Morris dancing.
File contains a cassette tape recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Dr. Alexander Leighton, a psychiatrist. The interview is about an investigation into the incidence of mental illness in western Nova Scotia. This is the fourth in a series of four interviews. The file also contains two typed scripts of intros and outros for two interviews with Dr. Leighton.
Item is a recording of a grade 2 reading lesson at a school in Frobisher Bay; students singing God Save the Queen; Barbara Hinds interviewing Gordon Goward, a teacher in Frobisher Bay; Barbara Hinds talking about end of term reports at the school; and a woman translating a report in Inuktitut.
File contains two reel-to reel tapes containing recordings of people singing hymns; huskies barking and whining; and Barbara Hinds' interview with George Koneak about a period of time when his family didn't have enough food and a measles epidemic in the 1950's.
Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with George Koneak. Koneak talks about a period of time when his family was going hungry and about a measles epidemic in the 1950s.
File contains a paper written by Hinds for the Antiquarians called "Waverly, Its Gold and Its People"; images the Waverly Gold District that are mounted on numbered sheets of paper; photocopied research material; correspondence with T. Jock Murray; a paper called "Oscar Wilde - Wit, Poet, Playwright"; a document titled "Marble's Immigration Notes"; a booklet titled "Waverly Gold District" by the Nova Scotia Department of Public Works and Mines; a paper called "18th Century in N.S."; a clipping of a newspaper article called "Gold glitters amid dismal markets" by Wendy Stueck; handwritten notes; and printouts of library search results.
File contains two photographs from the groundbreaking of the rehabilitation hospital in Halifax; typed cutlines that accompany the photographs; correspondence with the Canadian Paraplegic Association and Arthur H. Shears; an article called "A Concept of Rehabilitation" by Herbert S. Talbot; several typed drafts of newspaper articles about the rehabilitation centre; a pamphlet about the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre; and a document called "Preliminary Report on Planning for Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Center and Faculty of Allied Health Professions Dalhousie University." The file also includes newspaper clippings from the Chronicle-Herald and Mail-Star of articles written by Barbara Hinds about the rehabilitation centre.
Item consists of a photograph of Nova Scotia Premier Gerald Regan (far left of the picture, wearing a white raincoat and helmet) and eight other unidentified people at the ground-turning for the new Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre, Anderson Square, Halifax, March 1975.
Item consists of a copy of the article "A concept of rehabilitation", written in 1962 for Paraplegia News by Herbert S. Talbot, sent by Don Curren to Barbara Hinds. Item also includes correspondence between Curren and Hinds from 1977, related to the included article.
