File contains clippings collected by Ross Boutilier regarding anti-LGBT discrimination, same-sex spousal rights, legal appointments, and other LGBT social issues. Subjects covered by the clippings include acts of anti-LGBT discrimination in Wolfville, Queensland, and Shelburne, Nova Scotia, as well as Atlanta, Georgia; legal protections for same-sex spouses in British Columbia, Ontario, and Nova Scotia; child sexual abuse in Shelbourne; the appointment of Justice Ian Binnie to the Supreme Court of Canada; the appointment of Keith Norton as Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission; domestic abuse within the LGBT community; sex work in Nova Scotia; and other LGBT social issues.
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.
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.
Item is a letter referring to a park named in Balcom's honour by the City of Halifax; a plaque bearing Samuel Balcom's name still marks the small triangle of lawn at the corner of Robie Street and Spring Garden Road.
Item contains one clothbound diary for the year 1967 used by James Morrison in Halifax, Wolfville and Ghana. The diary has a black cover and contains notes related to travel and research in Nova Scotia, and Nigeria. The diary contains notes on expenses and contact information for colleagues and venues. The item contains diary entries on Morrison's personal life and day to day events.
Item is a postcard sent by Dorothy Paine in Wolfville, Nova Scotia to Cyril Gass in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. The image on the front of the postcard is of Chapman Hall, at Acadia College
Item consists of a handwritten addresses delivered by Arthur Stanley MacKenzie at the 75th anniversary celebration of Acadia University, as well as the Alumni Dinner, both on May 28, 1913.
File also contains handwritten notes for talks given at the OSA conference, the Montreal Reading Council, and CCTE [Churches' Council on Theological Education?].
File contains Budge Wilson's handwritten notes, a list of her books, and an excerpt of a Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia newsletter about the "Sharla Project."
File contains correspondence from Janice Kulyk Keefer to Budge Wilson regarding a speech and article that she wrote about Wilson's book "The Leaving." The speech and article were presented at a conference on Maritime Women held at Acadia University in 1995. The file includes two versions of the article.
Fonds consists of Janet M. Eaton's materials regarding her professional involvement with the Canadian Association for Adult Education and the Continuous Learning Association of Nova Scotia. Fonds includes meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, conference programmes, and other textual records.
Collection comprises newspaper articles, programmes, tickets and schedules from sporting events in Truro, Bridgewater, Wolfville and Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, during the 1940s and 1950s.
Fonds consists of records regarding activities of the Atlantic Geoscience Society, including committee meetings and development of educational videos. Fonds contains meeting agendas, reports, correspondence, newsletters, by-laws, and other textual records.
Fonds consists of records regarding a wide range of activities of the Atlantic Geoscience Society, including committee meetings and development of educational videos. Fonds contains meeting agendas, reports, correspondence, newsletters, by-laws, and other textual records.
File contains correspondence between the Atlantic Geoscience Society members and various persons, including Paul Copper, Norman Lyttle, Chris Beaumont, H.G. Miller, Sandra M. Barr, Aubrey Frickers, Laing Ferguson, Nancy A. Van Wagoner, Francis R. Cook, R.C. Draper, Howard V. Donohoe Jr., G.R. Peatfield, Donald W. Hattie, J. Waldron, and others.
File contains one copy of the Wolfcon 007 program book. File also contains five copies of a promotional booklet, three copies of an event registration pamphlet and a list of Wolfcon RPG trivia questions.
File contains one copy of volume 1, issue 1 of Wolfzine, a maritime science fiction and fantasy fanzine published by the Wolfcon Science Fiction and Fantasy Society.
File contains copies of the mid-term and final exams for "Canadian History on Film," a course taught by Sylvia Hamilton at Acadia University. File also includes handwritten notes and exam review handouts.
Fonds contains records created and collected by Christopher Heide in the course of his career as a writer, including his work with arts and cultural associations such as ACTRA and the Dramatists' Co-op of Nova Scotia. Record types include scripts for stage, radio and screen; notes; correspondence; reports; meeting minutes; and photographs.
File includes correspondence, notes, manuscripts, a contract, evaluations forms, reviews and a chronology outlining the project from its conception as "Grandmother's Story" through to Christopher Heide's residency at Mermaid Theatre and the company's workshop production of "I Ain't Dead Yet."
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