Archives Catalogue

Photograph of the first Sabin vaccine administration in Canada

PC1, Box 64, Folder 4
File
[1961]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is a xerox photocopy of a photograph of first Sabin oral vaccine in Canada. Inscription reads: This photograph, taken in 1961, when the first Sabin oral vaccine in Canada was administered at Wedgeport, was used on the Peoples Tree at Expo 67 last year. It shows Dr. V.K. Rideout, director of western Health Unit, talking with the mother and child who were the first to receive the vaccine. Dr. C.E. VanRooyen, director, division, division of laboratories, and Miss Cecile Amirault, supervisor of nurses, Yarmouth, lock on. (National Film Board, Bob Brooks).

Captain John Crosby fonds

MS-2-525, SF Box 27, Folder 33-34; SF Box 28, Folder 7-11 ;
Fonds
1827-1923

Fonds comprises four land deeds, a letter of administration for Abijah Crosby to execute his father's estate, a statement of purpose for the Church of Chebogue, and a letter to Abijah Crosby regarding the payment and installation of a rural postal delivery box.

Crosby, John B., Captain, 1833-1919

Treatment of pneumonia sixty years ago / Dr. A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 26
Item
July 6 1910

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of an address by Dr. A.P. Reid, submitted to the September 1910 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol. XXII, No. 9), and read at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Society of Nova Scotia, held in Yarmouth on July 6th, 1910, titled "Treatment of Pneumonia Sixty Years Ago".

Photograph of the Yarmouth waterfront taken from the water

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 30, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1933]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Portrait of Captain James Durkee

MS-2-266, PB 5, Folder 64, Item 3
Item
[18--?]

Part of Everett MacDougall fonds

Item is a photograph of Captain James Durkee of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The photograph was taken by Chute & Brooks of Buenos Aires.

Chute & Brooks

Portrait of Captain Fred Ladd

MS-2-266, PB 5, Folder 64, Item 5
Item
[18--?]

Part of Everett MacDougall fonds

Item is a photograph of Captain Fred Ladd of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The photograph was taken by Sze-Ynen-Ming of Shanghai.

Sze-Ynen-Ming

Portrait of Captain Norman Smith

MS-2-266, PB 5, Folder 64, Item 9
Item
[18--?]

Part of Everett MacDougall fonds

Item is a photograph or carte de visite of Captain Norman Smith of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The photograph was taken by J. Urakawa of Nagasaki, Japan.

Urakawa

McIntosh, H. Cameron

PC2, Box 59, Folder 59
File
April 1905

Part of Waldren Studios Photograph Collection

One man wearing high collar, looking to the side, seated; bust

Phyllis Ledbetter

PC2, Box 368, Folder 199
File
[ca. 1940]

Part of Waldren Studios Photograph Collection

Map of Belleville Rural Telephone Company's telephone line

MS-4-180, Box 172, Folder 19
File
1938

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Photograph of a lighthouse on land in the distance during the Purebred Sheep Breeders' Association tour to the Sheep Islands off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in June 1999

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 11, Item 4
Item
1999

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of eggs in a small nest in the grass during the Purebred Sheep Breeders' Association tour to the Sheep Islands off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in June 1999

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 11, Item 8
Item
1999

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of a group of people with a sheep and a dog on Gull Island, in Wedgeport, Nova Scotia

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 14, Item 1
Item
1996

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of a group of sheep standing on the rocks with a dog on Gull Island, in Wedgeport, Nova Scotia

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 14, Item 3
Item
1996

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of a group of people with a group of sheep in a pen on Gull Island, in Wedgeport, Nova Scotia

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 14, Item 4
Item
1996

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of a group of people shearing sheep in a pen on Gull Island, in Wedgeport, Nova Scotia

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 14, Item 5
Item
1996

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Sheep on Gull Island (off Wedgeport, NS)

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 14, Item 6
Item
1996

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Item is a typed description of the sheep on Gull Island, in Wedgeport, Nova Scotia, including information on the breed of sheep, the holding pen, movement on the island, and the work site on Gull Island, from 1996.

Photographs of the Purebred Sheep Breeders' Association tour to the Sheep Islands off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in June 1999

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 15
File
1999

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

File contains 11 photographs and 1 newspaper article related to the Purebred Sheep Breeders' Association tour to the Sheep Islands off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in June 1999, including landscapes and people on the ferry.

Musique royale : a festival of music in historic settings

MS-5-15.2006-018, Box 2, Folder 2
File
August 1993

Part of Halifax Camerata Singers fonds

File contains a program and newspaper clippings from a Nova Scotian concert tour by the Halifax Camerata Singers, which included performances in Truro, River Denys Mountain, Annapolis Royal, Amherst, New Glasgow, Liverpool, and Yarmouth.

V.S. Sweeny Ltd. fonds

MS-4-16
Fonds
1867 - 1960

Fonds contains invoices (1906-1913); business ledgers (1867-1874); undertaking ledgers (1891-1960); and ledger indexes from V. S. Sweeny Ltd., furniture dealers and undertakers in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Undertaking ledgers and indexes after 1918 are transcriptions by George and Ann Sorensen.

V.S. Sweeny Ltd.

Correspondence with the Yarmouth County Historical Society

MS-2-646, Box 9, Folder 41
File
1977-1978

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Photographs with family and friends, including 75th birthday and vacations

MS-2-646.2015-026, Box 15, Folder 11
File
1987-1988

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains various photographs belonging to Joyce Barkhouse depicting her family, friends, and travels. These include trips to Barbados, Florida, Ontario, Toronto, Lunenberg, Yarmouth, Harbourville, and the Prince George Hotel in Halifax, as well as Barkhouse's 75th birthday party.

Correspondence from Augusto Vauanni

MS-5-1, Box 3, Folder 50
File
1924

Part of John Daniel Logan fonds

File contains a letter from Augusto Vauanni(?) concerning his recent concerts in Halifax.

Correspondence, itinerary, and budgets for Upstream's fall tour

MS-5-16, Box 7, Folder 30
File
1992

Part of Upstream Music Association fonds

File includes records relating to Upstream's fall tour in 1992, which included performances in Nova Scotia (Yarmouth, Halifax, Wolfville); Moncton, New Brunswick; Montreal, Quebec; and Ontario (Toronto, Ottawa, Peterborough, and Kitchener).

Radio scripts for commercials advertising The Bill Lynch Shows

MS-4-218, Box 2, Folder 3
File
[after 1924]

Part of The Bill Lynch Shows fonds

File contains 36 scripts and one press release. All of the scripts are for CHSJ Radio and advertise shows in Fredericton, Saint John, and Yarmouth. The press release is directed to Halifax, Cape Breton, and Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Railway passes documenting travel for members of The Bill Lynch Shows

MS-4-218, Box 1, Folder 6
File
September 28, 1942 - September 17, 1951, predominant July 25, 1943 - October 4, 1943

Part of The Bill Lynch Shows fonds

File contains twenty-six railway passes from 1942 and 1943 documenting travel for members of the Bill Lynch Shows. Destinations and departure points include Halifax, Saint John, Toronto, Bridgewater, Yarmouth, Lawrencetown, Newcastle, Moncton, New Glasgow, and Sydney. All the tickets are first class, except for the three in 1951, which are coach. There are three tickets each for: July 25, 1943, September 4, 1943, September 25, 1943, October 4, 1943, and September 17, 1951. There are two tickets for August 12, 1943. There is one ticket each for September 8, 1942, and September 16, 1943.

Killam Brothers fonds

MS-4-17
Fonds
1877-[19--]

Fonds contains shareholder records and a list of ships owned or managed by members of the Killam family.

Killam Brothers.

United Textile Workers of America Local 152 fonds

MS-9-2
Fonds
1950-1952

Fonds includes correspondence, contract documents, district council documents, annual conference proceedings/documents, information about the conference on trade union rights in 1951-1952, press releases issued by the United Textile Workers of America, and miscellaneous reference material including, a sheet outlining the, "commonplace precaution against war" with a diagram about the potential damages of an atom bomb blast. The reference material contains blank due deduction slips for the United Textile Workers of America Local 152, newsletters issued by the Canadian Textile Council, a pamphlet issued by the Trade Union Research Bureau titled, "Wages and the Cost of Living", and amendments submitted by the "Local 100 United Textile Workers of America for negotiations with the Montreal Cottons Limited."

Files are listed alphabetically by title.

United Textile Workers of America. Local 152.

Business and legal correspondence of Corning and Chipman, Barristers and Solicitors

MS-4-67, SF Box 46, Folder 23
File
1879 - 1923

File contains correspondence from Yarmouth law firm Corning and Chipman.

Corning and Chipman, Barristers and Solicitors

Photograph of docks, boats, and buildings in the distance during the Purebred Sheep Breeders' Association tour to the Sheep Islands off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in June 1999

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 11, Item 1
Item
1999

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of a group of people on a ferry during the Purebred Sheep Breeders' Association tour to the Sheep Islands off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in June 1999

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 15, Item 1
Item
1999

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of a group of people on a ferry during the Purebred Sheep Breeders' Association tour to the Sheep Islands off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in June 1999

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 15, Item 3
Item
1999

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

The fourth Dalhousie drawing exhibition

UA-36, Box 8, Folders 22 and 23
Item
1979

Part of Dalhousie Art Gallery fonds

Item is a catalogue for the 4th Dalhousie drawing exhibition , organized by and presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery from March 1 to April 1, 1979. The exhibition presented the works of Alex Colville, Charlotte Hammond, Graham Metson, Brian Porter, Roger Savage, and Ruth Wainwright.

catalogue contains a forward, introduction by Carol Fraser (acting curator, Dalhousie art Gallery), biographies of each artist and quotations from them on their artworks, images of select artworks, and an exhibition list.

Photographs of the Purebred Sheep Breeders' Association Tour to the Sheep Islands off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in June 1999

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 11
File
1999

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

File contains 10 photographs of the Purebred Sheep Breeders' Association Tour to the sheep islands in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in June 1999.

Photographs of the Ladies in Blues in Yarmouth

MS-5-22, Box 17, Folder 58
File
October 2, 2010

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains photographs of the jazz group, Ladies in Blues, performing in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia on October 2, 2010.

Photographs feature Linda Carvery, Eileen Joyce, Lela Coles, and others.

John Alexander Webster fonds

MS-13-43
Fonds
1963

Fonds contains correspondence, a pamphlet on Dartmouth Academy, and postcards.

Webster, John Alexander

The Secrets behind the Old Remedies of West Pubnico

MS-13-82, Box 24, Folder 7
File
March 16, 1979

Part of J. Gordon Duff fonds

File contains a student paper presented to Dr. Gordon Duff as part of the requirements for the course Pharmacy 170.

Everett MacDougall's photographs

Series
[18-]

Part of Everett MacDougall fonds

Series contains photographs, portraits, prints, and postcards of sea captains and ships. Most of the material has notes by Everett Macdougall on the verso. These notes contain information about the origins and builders of the ships as well as biographical information about the sea captains in the portraits.

Correspondence between Katherine Starr Kay and Thomas Raddall

MS-2-308, SF Box 36, Folder 28
File
14 November 1958

Part of Vickery family fonds

File contains letter in which Thomas Raddall declines invitation to attend Yarmouth Historical Society event. Envelope is addressed to "The Starr House".

Correspondence and notes regarding school presentations at the Western Counties Regional Library

MS-2-650.2000-033, Box 30, Folder 18
File
January 18, 1994 - April 28, 1994

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

"XYZ" correspondence

MS-4-118, Box 23, Folder 1
File
1951-1964

Part of Himmelman Supply Company fonds

File contains an alphabetical file of correspondence between Himmelman Supply Company and correspondents with names beginning with X, Y, or Z. Correspondents include the Yarmouth-Boston Freight Service, James. N. Young, Young's Marine Electronic Service, and Zwicker and Company.

Photograph of land in the distance during the Purebred Sheep Breeders' Association tour to the Sheep Islands off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in June 1999

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 11, Item 3
Item
1999

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of docks and buildings during the Purebred Sheep Breeders' Association tour to the Sheep Islands off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in June 1999

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 11, Item 6
Item
1999

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of grass and sand with an island in the distance during the Purebred Sheep Breeders' Association tour to the Sheep Islands off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in June 1999

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 11, Item 7
Item
1999

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photograph of a plaque and yellow flowers during the Purebred Sheep Breeders' Association tour to the Sheep Islands off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in June 1999

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 11, Item 6
Item
1999

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Photographs of sheep on Gull Island, in Wedgeport, Nova Scotia

MS-14-22, PB Box 3, Folder 14
File
1996

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

File contains 5 photographs of the sheep and related activities on Gull Island in Wedgeport, Nova Scotia, along with 1 textual record describing the sheep and activities.

Miller, Miss