File contains a bound pamphlet with David L. Johnston's 1995 Killam Lecture, "Research at Canadian Universities and the Knowledge Based Society." The lecture was delivered to an invited audience of over 300 at Hart House, University of Toronto, on Friday, November 3, 1995.
File contains the manuscript written by Freedman and M. Crowell, for the Canadian Journal of Forest Research, volume 24. File also includes data sets related to Twinspan and Decorana runs, correspondence, and reviewers comments. Manuscript was originally titled "Vegetation development across a post-disturbance chronosequence of hardwood-forest in Nova Scotia".
File contains 21 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island, in 1979 and 1980. Photographs show Arctic fox pups, as well as Arctic fox den sites.
File contains 22 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Alexandra Fiord and Sverdrup Pass, Ellesmere Island, taken over two summers in 1979 and 1981. Photographs show Baird's sandpiper nesting sites.
File contains 10 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Smoking Hills (near Cape Bathurst), Northwest Territories, in 1975. Photographs show Rough-legged hawk chicks, Northern pharalope, and Whistling swan, and Arctic loon.
File contains 170 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in 2003, at Alexandra Fiord, Ellesemere Island. The photographs show nesting habits of Parasitic jaeger, eider, bunting, and other species, as well as showing scenery and flora of the area in late-June, early July.
File contains 56 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island, on three occasion, between 1974 and 1981. Photographs show Old squad nesting sites.
File contains 85 photographs (and 1 transparency) taken by Bill Freedman between 1980 and 1982. Photographs show flora of Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories, taken during two separate visits. Photos also include an impromptu volleyball match between researchers.
File contains 28 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Sverdrup Pass, Ellesmere Island, in 1979. Photographs show groups of Musk-ox travelling across the tundra.
File contains 51 photographs taken by Bill Freedman from locations around Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, between 1973 and 1986. Photographs show plants of the region.
File contains 24 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island, from 1979 to 1982. Photographs show the glacial corridor at the head of Alexandra Fiord, as well as evidence of glacial retreat. There are also photographs of some of the researchers on the team.
File contains 73 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at the sites of small, controlled, experimental oil spills near Tuktoyaktuk (Pingo, Point, Meadow, Lupin), predominantly from 1973 and 1974. Also includes some photos from similar experiments at Cape Parry. Photographs document experimentation of regrowth of vegetation in response to small-scale oil spills.
File contains 20 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Harrowby Bay (near Tuktoyaktuk), from 1974 to 1975. Photographs document containment efforts after a small oil spill.
File contains 70 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island, over successive summers in 1980 and 1981. Photographs show Arctic tern, on the ground, at nesting sites.
File contains 67 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island, in 1981 and 1982. Photographs show Parasitic jaeger at nesting sites along the fjord.
File contains 8 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Eureka weather station and Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island, in 1980. Photographs show Long-tailed jaeger in flight and on the ground.
File contains 12 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island, in 1981. Photographs show Collared lemming on the ground near nesting sites, as well as in the hands of researchers.
File contains 37 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Fiona Lake, Somerset Island, in 1979. Photographs showRock ptarmigan perched on rocky outcroppings. One photo also shows the Fiona Lake camp, and another showing researcher Joseph Svoboda examining lichen.
File contains 33 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Cape Bathurst (near Tuktoyaktuk) and Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island. Photographs show Snow bunting nesting sites.
File contains 59 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Norman Wells, NT, between 1973 and 1974. Photographs show views of the Mackenzie River from Norman Wells, of small oil spill sites near Norman Wells, and flora of Norman Wells and nearby Jackfish Lake.
File contains 77 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Sable Island, Nova Scotia, over several visits between 1981 and 1982. Photographs show vegetation, brackish ponds, aerial surveys, wild horses, as well as some of the researchers. File also includes 3 transparencies.
File contains 116 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in the region around Sudbury, Ontario, between 1975 and 1986, as part of his thesis fieldwork. Photographs show slag heaps, roast beds, pollution, plant damage, and mining infrastructure from the Copper Cliff, Coniston, and Falconbridge sites near Sudbury, and flora at the nearby Wanapitei River, Richard Lake, and Burwash sites.
File contains 36 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in the area around Sudbury, Ontario, between 1975 and 1986 (many of which were used as part of his thesis fieldwork). Photographs show tailings ponds, nickel runs, roast beds, and slag pouring at the Coppercliff, Burwash, Coniston, Richard Lake, and Falconbridge sites.
File contains 5 photographs taken by Bill Freedman, near Killarney, Ontario, in 1976. Photographs show an acid lake, Jack pine damage, and some of the researchers.
File contains 40 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at sites on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, in 1991. Photographs show clear-cutting operations on Vancouver Island (predominantly at Port Alberni and Menzies Bay).
File contains 13 photographs taken by Bill Freedman near Thompson, Manitoba, in 1974. Photographs show Picea mariana and Picea banksiana at various distances from the factory smokestacks of a nickel processing facility. Also, a beaver dam and regrowth after a forest fire.
File contains 215 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at a variety of locations, including Aylesford Lake, NS, and Halifax County, between 1980 and 1995. Photographs show experimental and conventional clear-cutting examples at Aylesford Lake, Nova Scotia; advanced regeneration after a burn near Herring Cove, Nova Scotia; views of Pebbleloggitch Lake, Kejimkujik National Park; different rates of growth of trees of different ages; felling, bucking and sorting of Acer saccharum, and examples of throughfall and stemflow. Also includes examples of herbicide efforts.
File contains 37 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in the vicinity of Tuktoyaktuk, NT, in 1986. Photographs document experimentation of regrowth of vegetation in response to small-scale oil spills, at the Split Pingo spray plot and Meadow spill sites.
File contains 176 photographs taken by Bill Freedman, in the Northwest Territories, on multiple visits from 1973 to 1986. Photographs show tundra scenes (of grave sites, frost polygons, oil spill clean-up sites, and the Native Games), from Tuktoyaktuk, Herschel Island, Cape Bathurst, Inuvik, and Cape Parry.
File contains 17 photographs taken by Bill Freedman, around Tuktoyaktuk and Norman Wells, between 1973 and 1974. Photographs show regrowth of Salix glauca, Betula glandulosa, Ledum palustre (among others).
File contains 74 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in the Smoking Hills region of Cape Bathurst, Northwest Territories, on multiple visits between 1974 and 1990. Photographs show the scenery of the region, including smoke seepage vents, elemental sulfur deposits, and caribou herd.
File contains 8 transparencies created by Bill Freedman, likely in the early-1980s. Transparencies provide data related to the effects of an oil spill on vegetation (based on Freedman's 1974 fieldwork near Tuktoyaktuk).
File contains 51 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in the Postville area of Labrador, between 1975 and 1977 (predominantly 1977). Photographs show geological formations, bogs, and flora around the Michelin Lake area near Postville. File also contains some photographs of flora taken at Terra Nova National Park
File contains 45 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in the Smoking Hills region of Northwest Territories, taken between 1973 and 1993. Photographs show vegetation along the banks of the Horton River (near Smoking Hills).
File contains 77 photographs taken by Bill Freedman between 1973 and 1979. Photographs show several species of snake (Fox, Butler's garter, Malaristic garter, Ring-neck, Milk, and Short-headed) at a smelter site in Amherstburg, Ontario, and at sites on the Allegheny Plateau, upstate New York.
File contains 135 photographs taken by Bill Freedman between 1979 and 1982, at sites near Alexandra Fiord, Ellesmere Island. Photographs show glaciers, scenes of desert and semi-desert, snowfields and frost heave.
File contains 44 photographs taken by Bill Freeman in the summer of 1982. Photographs show the equipment and infrastructure being used by the research team at Alexandra Fiord, including energy budgets, greenhouses, watering and fertilizing equipment, and data loggers.
File contains 28 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in 1979 at several locations in the area around the Sverdrup Pass, central Ellesmere Island. Photographs show lowland wet meadows, glacial granite erratics, the glacial divide, and some flora.
File contains 15 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in July 1979, at Fiona Lake on Somerset Island in the Northwest Territories. Photographs show lichenometry, flora, snowbeds, and fractured rocks on the island.
File contains 27 photographs taken by Bill Freedman during two visits to Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, in 1973 and 1974. Photographs show birds in the area around Tuktoyaktuk, including Semipalmated plover, Whimbrel, Stilt sandpipers, Common eider, and Lapland longspur.
File contains photographs taken by Don Brunton (and collected by Bill Freedman), at Fairmont Hot Springs and Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Waterton National Park, Alberta, Kanata, Ontario, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts, between 1982 and 1990. Photographs show Epipactis gigantea, Isoetes bolanderi, Azolla mexicana, Adiantum copillus-veneris, Silphium perfoliatum, Chimaphik maculata, and Sabbatia kennedyana.
File contains 16 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at the Minesing Wetlands, near Barrie, Ontario, in 1977 and 1978. Photographs show views of the wetlands, an "elm graveyard", and Acer saccharinum
File contains 20 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at two national parks in Alberta in 1997. Photographs show semi-desert conditions at Dinosaur National Park, and forest scenes and "wildlife overpasses" in Banff National Park.
File contains 58 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Voisey's Bay, Labrador, in 1996. Photographs show river rapids, aerial surveys of the region, Fraser River Canyon, and some ground vegetation, near the site of the nickel mining operation. Late in 1996, Inco acquired rights to mine nickel from the area, and Freedman's visit involved conducting an environmental assessment (which he had done previously for nickel mining sites in Sudbury, Ontario).
File contains 12 photographs taken by Bill Freedman near Corner Brook, Newfoundland, in 1992. Photographs show forestry operations and equipment (grapple yarders, and skidders), and evidence of deforestation in the area.
File contains 45 photographs taken by Bill Freedman on a hiking trip along the Gaff Point trail in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, in 2001. Photographs show trees in the area, as well as coastal scenes.
File contains 44 photographs taken by Bill Freedman near Jasper and Whistler Mountain, Alberta, between 1973 and 1975. Photographs show mule deer and elk, and many species of plants (occasionally with captions stating the altitude at which they were found). Plants found in this file include Sedum stenopetalum, Rosa acicularism, Silene acaule, Dryas, hookeriana, and Saxifraga bronchialis.
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