Archives Catalogue

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 47
File
[19-]

MS-14-7
Collection
1881-1979

Collection contains correspondence and an article, some are from Nova Scotia Agricultural College principals, or faculty, topics cover early education, the Canadian fruit trade, and trotting.

Agricultural archives reference collection

MS-14-REF
Collection
1846-2007

Collection contains materials related to agriculture, which includes related organizations, industries, education, machinery, research, products, livestock, harvesting, management, crops, etc. These were published between 1846-2007.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College archival reference collection

UA-43-REF
Collection
1830-2012

Collection contains Nova Scotia Agricultural College archival reference materials including books, calendars, journals, magazines, DVDs, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings published between 1830-2012.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College

Meeting minutes, memorandums, and various records related to agricultural education

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 1
File
1942-1944

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Report for the Survey Committee on Agriculture courses in Ontario, 1956, includes summary and conclusion

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 10
File
1956

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Memorandums and correspondence and various records from 1943 related to the Canadian Legion War Services Inc. Educational Services

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 2
File
1943

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Nova Scotia Agricultural College Alumni News, vol.9:no.1(Feb. 1985) special edition - Dalhousie/ NSAC sign agreement Bachelor of Science Degree

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 24
File
Feb. 1985

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 29
File
Sept. 1940

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Memorandum by the [Nova Scotia] Interdepartmental Committee on Agricultural Education on adult education in the field of agriculture in 1943

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 3
File
1943

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Report "Recommendations (alternative statement)" re. agricultural education in Nova Scotia

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 4
File
[19-?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Report of the Committee to study the Farm Courses of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College / Mr. C.E. Henry, 1960

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 5
File
1960

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Correspondence to Eric Boulden re. the report of the Nova Scotia Interdepartmental Committee on Agricultural Education

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 6
File
[19-]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Report of the Committee to Consider the teaching of agriculture in rural schools, produced by or for the Nova Scotia Farmers’ Association

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 7
File
[19-?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Report of the Committee to study the Farm Courses of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College / Kenneth Cox, and other related records

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 8
File
1960

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a final draft titled "Report of the Committee to study the Farm Courses of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College", by Mr. Kenneth Cox in 1960. Also included are a draft copy, meeting minutes, correspondence, farm class tour survey, recommendations, and other related materials.

Cox, Kenneth

Report of the Nova Scotia Interdepartmental Committee on Agricultural Education

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 9
File
[19-]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Community Development / William Saxby Blair

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 2
File
1912-1938

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a report titled "Community development" by William Saxby Blair. Blair was the first supervisor of the Experimental Farm in Kentville, Nova Scotia from its creation in 1912 until his retirement in 1938.

Teaching of agriculture in the schools of Nova Scotia : a report

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 3
File
[19–?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

How can we teach so that youth may become more truly rural minded? / D.G. Davis

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 4
File
[19-?]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Meeting minutes from 1943 from the Committee on Co-operation and Co-ordination

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 5
File
1943

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

The curriculum and the rural schools of Nova Scotia / Alexander Laidlaw

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 7
File
1942

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

"Agvotech 1990" : rebound copy of Proceedings of a conference on Vocational and technical training in agriculture for the future, held at Nova Scotia Agricultural College, March 24-25, 1965

UA-43, Box 3, Folder 1
File
1990

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Agricultural education in Nova Scotia by F.E. Scammell, April 1970 report to Nova Scotia Agricultural College Professor Peter Ross

UA-43, Box 3, Folder 2
File
April 1970

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

A history of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College / by Kenneth Cox ; foreword by W.A. Jenkins

UA-43, Box 3, Folder 3
Item
Sept. 1965

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Cox, Kenneth

Education : an address delivered over CBC on Sunday, September 29th, 1946

MS-1-Ref, Box 1, Folder 20, Item 4
Item
1946 September 29

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of an offprint containing the text of an address delivered on C.B.C. by President Alexander Enoch Kerr on Sunday, September 29th, 1946, discussing the importance of making available post-secondary education opportunities for service men and women returning from the Second World War.

The significance of the Reformed Church tradition for modern education

MS-1-Ref, Box 1, Folder 20, Item 5
Item
1948

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of an offprint containing the text of an address delivered by President Alexander Enoch Kerr to the Annual Meeting of the Western Section of the Alliance of Reformed Churches, held in 1948 in Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania, about the integration of Reformed Church/Calvinist principles into modern educational methods.

Directory of graduates and former students of the University

MS-1-Ref, Box 117, Folder 8
File
1925

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

File contains a directory of graduates and former students of Dalhousie University published in 1925. The volume contains a bookplate for Archibald McKellar MacMechan.

Dalhousie Alumni Association

College trained over 1,300 men for ministry

MS-1-Ref, Box 131, Folder 6, Page 15
Item
September 6, 1955

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item is a clipping of an article written by C.M. Nicholson published in the Halifax Chronicle Herald on September 5, 1955.

Nicholson, Rt. Rev. Clarence McK.

Brief to the Royal Commission on Post Secondary Education / W. Andrew MacKay

MS-1-Ref, Box 14, Folder 18, Item 1
Item
November 1983

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of Dalhousie University's "Brief to the Royal Commission on Post Secondary Education", submitted in NOvember 1983 by W. Andrew MacKay.

A Discussion Paper on the Report on the Royal Commission on Post-Secondary Education

MS-1-Ref, Box 14, Folder 18, Item 2
Item
23 April 1986

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of a paper drafted by Dalhousie University responding to the findings of the Royal Commission on Post Secondary Education, drafted in April 1986

Directory of graduates and former students of the University : corrected to September, 1937

MS-1-Ref, Box 27, Folder 19
File
September 1937

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

File contains 2 copies of a directory of graduates and former students of Dalhousie University published in September 1937. The directory is an update of a similar directory published by the Dalhousie Alumni Association in 1925.

Dalhousie Alumni Association

Faculty of Health Professions Newsletter, Volume 12, Number 1, Fall 2002

MS-1-Ref, Box 96, Folder 14
Item
2002

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of the Fall 2002 issue of the Faculty of Health Professions newsletter, updating developments within the faculty over the previous several months. Includes a message from the Dean, obituaries for Dr. Margaret Clagg and Dr. Robert Weil, and other regular departmental updates.

Faculty of Health Professions Newsletter, Volume 11, Number 2, Fall 2001

MS-1-Ref, Box 96, Folder 15
Item
2001

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of the Fall 2001 issue of the Faculty of Health Professions newsletter, updating developments within the faculty over the previous several months. Includes an editorial by Jutta Dayle titled "What To Be Or What Not To Be: The Future of the Health Professions in the Faculty of Health Professions", among other regular departmental updates.

Faculty of Health Professions Newsletter, Volume 13, Number 1, Spring 2003

MS-1-Ref, Box 96, Folder 16, Item 1
Item
2003

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of the Spring 2003 issue of the Faculty of Health Professions newsletter, updating developments within the faculty over the previous several months. Includes a message from the Dean, Lynn McIntyre, a piece by George Turnbull titled "Moving Towards A Research Intensive Faculty", a piece of Louise Ghiz titled "The Challenge of Sustaining Canada's Most Successful Social Work Continuing Education Program", a memorial of Rosemary Brown, and other regular departmental updates.

Faculty of Health Professions Newsletter, Volume 13, Number 2, Fall 2003

MS-1-Ref, Box 96, Folder 16, Item 2
Item
2003

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of the Fall 2003 issue of the Faculty of Health Professions newsletter, updating developments within the faculty over the previous several months. Includes an update from Dean Lynn McIntyre, a piece by George Turnbull titled "Reality Following A Successful Grant Application", a piece by Josephine Etowa titled "Increasing Racial Diversity in the Health Professions: A Call for a Comprehensive Minority Recruitment and Retention Program", a memorial for Prof. Mary Lou Ellerton, an other regular departmental updates.

Faculty of Health Professions Newsletter, Volume 14, Number 1, Spring 2004

MS-1-Ref, Box 96, Folder 17
Item
2004

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of the Spring 2004 issue of the Faculty of Health Professions newsletter, updating developments within the faculty over the previous several months. Includes an update from Dean Lynn McIntyre, a message from George Turnbull, a piece by David Divine titled "Relevance, Resonance, Credibility and Results", among other regular departmental updates.

As per page 39, "this will be the last edition of the newsletter in this format."

Draft releases on the opening of the School of Physiotherapy at Dalhousie University

MS-1-Ref, Box 97, Folder 13, Item 4
Item
1963-1965

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of two drafts of an announcement about the opening of the School of Physiotherapy at Dalhousie University, beginning September 3, 1963; as well as a handwritten sheet outlining the experience of Arthur Shears, first director of the School.

Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

MS-13-86
Fonds
1837-2020, predominant 1904-2008

Fonds contains records created and collected primarily by Alexander H. Leighton, with some by Jane Leighton Murphy. Documents span from Leighton's studies at Princeton, Cambridge, and Johns Hopkins univerities, through his government employment in World War II, and his teaching career at Cornell, Dalhousie, and Harvard. The majority of records are related to the 1961 Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project and the 1963 Study on the Role of Women, both based in Nigeria, and the Stirling County Study, based in Nova Scotia. Record types include correspondence, manuscripts, grant applications, reports, photographs and slides, medical and academic records, method and guidebooks, reviews, offprints and publications, teaching and course materials, and surveys and interview transcripts.

A sous-fonds contains records documenting the migration of Alexander Leighton's parents from Ireland to the United States and their subsequent life in Philadelphia. The sous-fonds contains extensive correspondence between extended family members over the course of a century, as well as photographs, diaries, wills, family trees, memoirs, and Alexander Leighton's personal correspondence.

Murphy, Jane Leighton

Clippings regarding sex education

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 1, Folder 17
File
1996

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains articles collected by Ross Boutilier relating to sexual education stategies and their intersection with gender.

Acadia University speaking engagements

MS-15-18.2020-017, Box 5, Folder 1
File
2004-2007

Part of Bob Fougere fonds

File contains materials relating to Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project speaking engagements at Acadia University. Materials include cue cards and speaking notes, two copies of the syllabus for Sociology 380X1 Lesbian and Gay Studies from the Winter 2004 and Winter 2006 semesters, related correspondence dated 2007, and notes.

Address on Thomas McCulloch given by Harvey Veniot on the opening of Pictou Academy's new auditorium and gymnasium

MS-2-100, SF Box 27, Folder 3
Item
1961

Veniot, Harvey Alfred, Hon.

Question to House - Educational Grants to Nova Scotia

MS-2-128, Box 2, Folder 17
File
1955

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

File contains documents related to questions about federal funding for higher education asked by Samuel Balcom in the Canadian House of Parliament in 1955 when Balcom was a member of Parliament. Balcom asked a series of questions about educational grants to Nova Scotia institutions and received information about the distribution of funding across Canada. The file contains published accounts of parliamentary proceedings in March 1955 and associated correspondence between Balcom and other persons, such as J.D., McLean, Dean of the Dalhousie Faculty of Dentistry, and Watson Kirkconnell, President of Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

Recording of an interview with Joan Ryan and recordings from the school at George River

MS-2-130, Box 12, Folder 11
File
August 25, 1960

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

File contains a reel-to-reel recording children singing the alphabet and other songs in school; children yelling while playing in a water hole; children singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"'; and Barbara Hinds' interview with Joan Ryan, a school teacher in George River, about what it’s like to teach up North.

Recording of an interview with Mr. Graves

MS-2-130, Box 12, Folder 2, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1960]

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

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.

Recording of an interview with Marion Dodds

MS-2-130, Box 12, Folder 7, Item 3
Item
[ca.1961]

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

Item is a recording of Barbara Hinds' interview with Marion Dodds, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Dodds. Marion tells Hinds about her school in George River.

Recordings from Cape Dorset and Frobisher Bay

MS-2-130, Box 15, Folder 7
File
[ca. 1960]

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

File contains two reel-to reel tapes containing recordings of Barbara Hinds talking about the history of the church in Cape Dorset; a grade 2 reading lesson at a school in Frobisher Bay; students singing God Save the Queen; and Barbara Hinds interviewing Gordon Goward, a teacher in Frobisher Bay.

Recordings from a school in Frobisher Bay, Northwest Territories

MS-2-130, Box 15, Folder 7, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1960]

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

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.

Photograph of a class being held outdoors in Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories

MS-2-130, Box 16, Folder 9, Item 1
Item
[1960]

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

Item is a photograph of a group of children sitting with their teacher outdoors near their school. The photograph was taken in Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories.