File contains a receipt book for travel and communications expenses from May to September. Locations include Kentville, Halifax, Bathurst, New Glasgow, Sydney, Charlottetown, Moncton, and Woodstock. Financial charges include trains, cars, buses, wires, phone calls, and permits.
Item is a microform copy of Thomas McCulloch's book "Popery condemned by the scripture and the fathers : being a refutation of the principal popish doctrines and assertions maintained in the remarks on the Rev. Mr. Stanser's examination of the Rev. Mr. Burke's letters of instruction to the Catholic missionaries of Nova Scotia and in the reply to Rev. Mr. Cochran's fifth and last letter to Mr. Burke, etc."
Item is a microform copy of Thomas McCulloch's book, "Popery again condemned by scripture and the fathers : being a reply to a part of the popish doctrines and assertions contained on the refutation, and in the review of Dr. Cochran's letters, by the Rev. Edmund Burke, V.G. Que."
Item is a typed copy of a letter from Sam Cunard to Thomas McCulloch concerning students, likely Cunard's sons, John, Henry and Thomas, which Cunard sent to McCulloch in Pictou, Nova Scotia.
Item is a letter (1823) from Lord Dalhousie to W. Smith, requesting that two barrels of Pictou oatmeal be shipped to Quebec on the next available vessel as a sample of Smith's produce.
Steam Ship "East Riding" with Carmichael Shipyards in background, with wooden houses and a church on the hill behind. Print copy is available: PC-2-334-8
File consists of an account statement and letter from the Pictou Probate Office dated 1842 relating to fees owed on the estate of James MacIntosh, who died in the 1820s.
Item is a glass plate of a drawing of Rev. Thomas McCulloch, D.D. The drawing by Arthur Lismer itself is based on a painting of McCulloch by Daniel Munro. The drawing was commissioned and used for history books on Dalhousie University, like One hundred years of Dalhousie 1818-1918 (1920), and Daniel Cobb Harvey's, An introduction to the history of Dalhousie (1938).
Item is a letter concerning Thomas McCulloch's donation of a North American insect specimen (from Nova Scotia) to the University of Edinburgh, via Professor Jameson, for the university's museum. The letter discusses Nova Scotia's Scottish connections, Presbyterian religion, the Pictou Academy, and the advocates for the conference of honorary degrees on the Honourable Sampson Salter Blowers, the Chief Justice of Nova Scotia; the Honourable James Stewart; and the Honourable Brenton Halyburton.
This file consists of a witness account of the election day in the town of Pictou, Nova Scotia in 1844 where voters were attacked and stopped from voting at the polls.
Item is a copy of a photograph annotated: "(Skutching Flax) Pictou Co. 1847". The photograph shows three individuals, full pose. One individual is wearing a hat and pressing flax on a wooden machine, and two individuals are wearing scarves on their heads and working with flax inside a wooden building. Print copy is available: PC-2-333-69.
Item is a letter from A.C. MacDonald to Robert Murray. MacDonald was Secretary to the Liberal Party Committee in Pictou County and Township. The letter refers to the benefits of candidates attending constituency meetings prior to the 1847 election.
Item is a reproduction of a pastel drawing of Thomas McCulloch, the first president of Dalhousie University. The drawing was produced by Munro of Pictou, Nova Scotia. The original drawing was created by Daniel Munro in 1850, after an older drawing hanging in Wellington Presbyterian Church in Glasgow, Scotland. The drawing was given to Dalhousie as a centennial gift by Isabella McCulloch in 1939.
Item is a memoir of the Rev. James MacGregor published in 1859 by George Patterson. Item includes corrections, annotations and loose notes made by Patterson.
Fonds consists of materials related to the Pictou Literary and Scientific Society and includes four volumes of documents containing the society’s rules, minutes, and journal.
Item is a letter from John Crevar to William Henry Harris, dated March 15, 1864, regarding escorting "Miss Maggie" (probably Harris' young daughter, Margaret) on her journey home.
View across the harbour of the town of Pictou, taken from Pictou Landing where a sailing ship is partially visible at a wharf. Print copy is included. Safety negative and print copy also filed as: PC-2-335-6. Larger print copy is available: PC-2-334-14
File contains hand-drawn and printed maps of coal fields and designated areas, including Pictou coal fields; the Mining Association area; Cape Breton Company's areas; Albion Mines; Stellar Mine; Fraser Oil-Coal Mines; Intercolonial Coal Mining Company property; East River Mining Company area; Acadian Coal Company areas; and the Halifax Company Ltd.
Item is a photograph of buildings and equipment at the Dalhousie Pit in Stellarton. Acadia Coal Company opened the Dalhousie Pit on the Foord Seam in 1850. The mine was destroyed by fire in 1870. A negative is available: PC-2-318-66.
View across the harbour of the town of Pictou, taken from Pictou Landing where a sailing ship is partially visible at a wharf. Print copy is included. Negative is available: PC-2-315-7. Safety negative and smaller print copy also available: PC-2-335-6.
View across the harbour of the town of Pictou, taken from Pictou Landing where a sailing ship is partially visible at a wharf. Print copy is included. Dry plate negative and print also filed as: PC-2-315-7. Large print copy is available: PC-2-334-14
Steam Ship "East Riding" with Carmichael Shipyards in background, with wooden houses and a church on the hill behind. Negative is available: PC-2-301-22
View of a mine site after an explosion. Damaged mine buildings and a pile of coal are in the background. Tree stumps and logs litter the area in front. A safety negative is also included. Wet plate negative and safety negative also filed as: PC-2-300-115
View of a mine site after an explosion. Damaged mine buildings and a pile of coal are in the background. Tree stumps and logs litter the area in front. A safety negative is also included. Small print copy and safety negative filed as: PC-2-335-7
View of New Glasgow after the fire of April 19, 1874. One complete block has been destroyed down to the foundations, along with portions of two others. Several firemen and a few other men are surveying the destruction. A factory chimney stands at one edge. One a fence three advertisements are visible, two of which read: "Use Brown's Bronchial …", "Use household panacea …"
View of New Glasgow after the fire of April 19, 1874. One complete block has been destroyed down to the foundations, along with portions of two others. Negative also available: PC-2-317-16
View of New Glasgow from the surrounding countryside, prior to the fire of April 19, 1874. A church visible at one edge. Negative is also available: PC-2-317-15
View of New Glasgow from the surrounding countryside, prior to the fire of April 19, 1874. A church visible at one edge. Print copy is also available: PC-2-334-13
Item is a photograph of a group of men and boys standing in the foreground of the area destroyed by the fire of April 19, 1874, in New Glasgow. Two horse-drawn carriages are visible at the edge of the group. Negative also available: PC-2-317-19
View of New Glasgow after the fire of April 19, 1874. One complete block has been destroyed down to the foundations, along with portions of two others. Print copy also available: PC-2-334-5
A group of men, women and children, wearing hats and caps, standing in the foreground in front of the area destroyed in New Glasgow by the fire of April 19, 1874. A fire-carriage is in the centre of the group
A group of men and boys, wearing hats and caps, standing in the foreground in front of the area destroyed in New Glasgow by the fire of April 19, 1874. Two horse-drawn carriages are visible at the edge of the group. Print copy also available: PC-2-334-6