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Memoranda from a deed of settlement of the Bank of British North America

  • MS-4-11, SF Box 46, Folder 14
  • File
  • 1836
File contains a seven page handwritten memoranda from a deed of settlement of the Bank of British North America (May 28, 1836). The deed of settlement was negotiated for the purpose of establishing banks in the British colonies of North America. File also contains four blank forms for transferring shares.

Bank of British North America.

Material relating to Colonel Sidney C. Oland's Estate

File consists of correspondence from Stewart MacKeen & Covert to Norman Stanbury; from John Jay, Canadian Plant and Process Engineering Limited to Doug Mathews, Stewart MacKeen & Covert and a copy of part of the Colonel Sidney C. Oland's estate will.

John Will and Marvin Jones

File consists of records related to the planning of a joint exhibition of works by John Will and Marvin Jones, organized and circulated by Glenbow-Alberta Institute and presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery from September 4-28, 1975.

Records consist of correspondence with other galleries, a floor plan, a list of expenses, and a loan agreement form.

Second Canadian artist series exhibition

File consists of records related to the 'Canadian Artist Series' exhibition, loaned from the National Gallery of Canada in November 1959.

Records consist of a loan agreement, exhibition description, packing lists, and biographies of Ghitta Caiserman and Ron Spickett.

George Wood

File consists of records related to the exhibition 'Paintings by George Wood' organized by the Atlantic Provinces Art Circuit and presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery in October 1967.

Records consist of correspondence between Evelyn Holmes Acting Curator, Dalhousie Art Gallery) and James Little (Curator, Confederation Art Gallery), and George Wood (Assistant Curator, Alberta College of Art), a biography of Wood, list of artworks, and exhibition contract agreement between Dalhousie Art Gallery and Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Miserere by Rouault exhibition

The file consists of records related to the exhibition 'Miserere by Rouault' organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada and shown at Dalhousie Art Gallery from January 4-28, 1968.

Records consist mainly of contractual documents between Dalhousie Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada, including packing and mounting instructions, floor plans, packing lists, agreement forms, exhibition text, and a list of accompanying slides (not included in the file).

Tony Urquhart drawings

File consists of records related to an exhibition of sketches and drawings by Tony Urqhart, organized by the National Gallery of Canada. The exhibition was presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery in April 1970.

Records consist of exhibition agreement forms, a condition report and handwritten condition notes, photocopy of an excerpt from Canadian Art, Volume 18, No. 1 titled 'Urqhart', an excerpt from Ontario Library Review, December 1966 containing an entry on Urqhart in 'Who's Who in Ontario Art', a packing list and list of artworks, a biography in English and French, and exhibition descriptive text.

Shiryu Morita exhibition

File consists of records related to the exhibition 'Shiryu Morita' organized by Mr. Tetsuo Yamada, Director of the Yamada Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan, and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada. The Exhibition was presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery from October 13 - November 15, 1970.

Records consist of correspondence between Ernest Smith (Director, Dalhousie Art Gallery) and National Gallery staff, an exhibition agreement contract, a cumulative condition report, shipment invoice, and a packing list.

Massey bequest

File consists of records related to the circulation of the 'Vincent Massey Bequest' exhibition of Canadian Paintings organized by the National Gallery of Canada. The exhibition was presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery from October 15 to December 5, 1971.

records consist of loan and packing lists of artworks being loaned for the exhibition, a condition report, loan agreement forms, and correspondence between the Dalhousie Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada.

William Kohn exhibition

File consists of records related to the planning of an exhibition of works by William Kohn, organized by the Dalhousie art Gallery through Kohn's gallery representative, The Graphics Gallery, san Francisco. The exhibition was presented by the Dalhousie Art Gallery in December 1971.

Records consist primarily of correspondence between The Dalhousie Art Gallery, Kohn, and The Graphics Gallery. Additional records consist of a new release from the Oakland Museum, press about the Graphics Gallery, a loan agreement form, a C.V., biography, and list of artworks for Kohn, a photocopy of a newspaper article titled 'Austere Forms at the Graphics' about Kohn's artwork, and a copy of a review of Kohn's work by Lucian Krukowski.

Stonedgloves - photographs poems Roy Kiyooka

File consists of records related to an exhibition of work by Roy K. Kiyooka (Head of Painting Division, NSCAD University), titled 'StoneDGloves - Photographs, poems by Roy Kiyooka' circulated by the National Gallery of Canada. The exhibition was presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery from January 1-31, 1972. Kiyooka presented a reading event on February 1, 1972 at the Dalhousie Art Gallery as a part of the exhibition.

Records consist of invitations to the February 1st reading event, an exhibition loan agreement, correspondence of the Dalhousie Art Gallery, an artist statement, and invoices.

Augustus John November 1972 - National Gallery of Canada

File consists of records related to the Augustus John exhibition organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada. The exhibition was shown at Dalhousie Art Gallery in November 1972.

Records consist mainly of correspondence between Caspar John, son of Augustus John and Ernest Smith (Director, Dalhousie Art Gallery) and between Ernest Smith and Ann Chudleigh (Assistant Director, National Gallery of Canada Extension Service). In addition, records include exhibition loan agreement letters and forms from the National Gallery of Canada, draft letters from Ernest Smith to Danielle Corbeil (Director of National Gallery of Canada Extension Services), lists of proposed works, and xerox copies of John's drawings.

Augustus John exhibition - Edmonton Gallery

File consists of records related to the Augustus John exhibition organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada. The exhibition was shown at Dalhousie Art Gallery in November 1972.

Records consist of a copy of press clippings, attendance reports, loan agreement forms, catalogue orders, lists of artworks, and correspondence between Ernest Smith (Director, Dalhousie Are Gallery), Mark Holton (Curator, Dalhousie Are Gallery) and Ralph Allen (Director, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University). In addition, records also include a photograph of a painting "On the Slopes of Arling Jack."

Chambers' Cartoons exhibition

File consists of records related to the Chambers' Cartoons Exhibition, held at the Dalhousie Art Gallery in May 1973.

Records consist of newspaper clippings, invitation letters, lists of cartoons, a loan agreement from Art Gallery of Ontario, correspondence between Ernest Smith (Director, Dalhousie Art Gallery), Robert W. Chambers, and others.

Montreal museum lends I exhibition

File consists of records related to the Montreal Museum Lends I exhibition, organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada and presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery from September 15 to October 31, 1973.

Records consist of correspondence between Ernest Smith (Director, Dalhousie Art Gallery) and the National Gallery of Canada regarding transferring the exhibition. Records include a loan agreement, newspaper clippings, lists and pricelists of artworks, and packing lists.

"Masks without masquerades" (African masks) exhibition

File consists of records related to the Mask Without Masquerades exhibition held at Dalhousie Art Gallery from February 6 to March 3, 1974. The exhibition planned in conjunction with Dr. Jacqueline Fry (Department of Anthropology of the University of Montreal) and the Dalhousie committee on African studies.

Records consist mainly of correspondence between Ernest Smith (Director, Dalhousie Art Gallery) and Jacqueline Fry (Department of Anthropology, University of Montreal) regarding selecting pieces, catalogues shipments, list of owners, and material descriptions. File also contains insurance documents, invitation lists, interdepartmental memos, packing instructions, letters and loan agreement forms, newspaper clippings, a slide (untitled), and incoming letters from the Royal Ontario Museum, the New Brunswick Museum, and the National Museum of Canada regarding transferring African masks.

Progress in conservation exhibition

File consists of records related to the Progress in Conservation Exhibition, organized by the National Conservation Research Laboratory and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada and presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery in May 1974.

Records consist of correspondence between Ernest Smith (Director, Dalhousie Art Gallery) and George Rogers (National Museum of Canada), newspaper clipping, floor plan, insurance documents, condition report, press release, and event calendar of the exhibition at Rothmans Art Gallery of Stratford in November 1973.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's unsorted correspondence from 1980 to 2006

  • MS-2-615, Box 30, Folders 13 - 15; MS-2-615, Box 53, Folders 5 - 9; MS-2-615, Box 54, Folders 1 - 6; MS-2-615, Box 55, Folders 1 - 15; MS-2-615, Box 56, Folders 1 - 5; MS-2-615, Box 57, Folders 1 - 6; MS-2-615, Box 58, Folders 1 - 5; MS-2-615, Box 59, Folders 1 - 10; and MS-2-615, Box 60, Folders 1 - 8
  • File
  • 1980 - 2006

    • Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains unsorted correspondence with different individuals, including Lyman R. Robinson, Bruce P. Archibald, K.V. Raman, Mark A. Roy, Manfred Lachs, Blair Seaborn, G.V. La Forest, Leon E. Trakman, Jules Deschenes, H. Scott Fairley, Luzius Wildhaber, Horace Krever, Margaret H. Ogilvie, A. Watts, Dawn A. Russell, D.H.N. Johnson, John King Gamble, Choon-ho Park, Lorenne M.G. Clark, John Willis, Gerald-A. Beaudoin, Bin Cheng, Finlay MacDonald, Roma Andrusiak, Irving Abella, Anne Bayefsky, Gerald K. Helleiner, Brian Mulroney, May Lui, Robert D. Watt, Joseph W. Samuels, Douglas Lambert, Eugene Forsey, R.J. Moores, B.S. Chimni, Jimmy Carter, Taslim O. Elias, Joseph Caron, Volodymyr Butkevych, Judith A. LaRocque, Bertha Wilson, Stewart McInnes, William R. Slomanson, Hector Gros Espiell, Rudolph Bernhardt, Timothy Wilson, Murray Fraser, Wang Tieya, Richard L. Evans, Julien S. Mackay, R.K. Dixit, Marie-Helene Boyle, Frank Iacobucci, Nicholas d'Ombrain, Hans Corell, Henry J. Bourguignon, Charles B. Bourne, Luo Haocai, Irene Courage, Frau Ulrike Dorr, Peter Weiss, K. Venkatta Raman, Detlev F. Vagts, Vladimir Semenov, Charlotte Ku, Donat Pharand, Keith B. Jobson, Gabriel Warren, W.Z. Estey, and others, regarding a wide range of topics. File includes the University of Victoria Faculty of Law newsletter vol. 3, 4, and 5 of February 1983, April 1984, and May 1985, the Canadian Council on International Law meeting minutes, Dalhousie University Faculty of Graduate Studies meeting minutes, Dalhousie University Senate meeting minutes, Dalhousie University Executive Committee meeting minutes, Dalhousie University Faculty Council meeting minutes, Dalhousie University Joint Committee on Faculty Salary Data Base report of March 1990, DFA Dialogue vol. III, no. 10, of April 1990, the Canadian Council on International Law bulletin vol. 11, no. 1, of September 1984, the African Society of International and Comparative Law newsletter no. 7 of June 1992, the American Society of International Law newsletter of January and February 2003, Foundation for International Human Rights by-laws, World Academy of Art and Science by-laws of February 1988, two photograph of Ronald St. John Macdonald - in which in one of them his sister Mairi Macdonald is present - in Ottawa during an unidentified ceremony in Ottawa, ON, a photograph of a newspaper article about C.P.R. Chief, the editor's agreement between Koninklijke Brill NV., Douglas M. Johnson, and Ronald St. John Macdonald regarding the book "towards world constitutionalism: issues in the legal ordering of the world community" of 2003, the publication agreement between Ronald St. John Macdonald, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law and Martinus Nijhoff Publisher regarding the work "derogations under the article 15 of the European Convention on Human Rights" of 1997, consulta contract between Ronald St. John Macdonald and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization regarding the framework of the United Nations Development Program "strengthenin training and research in selected key universities in the People's Republic of China", annotated typescripts, handwritten notes, and other materials.

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Project summer retreats 2000-2001

File contains materials relating to Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Project summer retreats from 2000-2001. Materials include registration forms, correspondence, invoices, contracts, travel itineraries, budgets, notes, and news clippings.

Manuscripts, correspondence, and contract for film adaptation of Letter from Matt Arthur's Fishpond

File contains multiple drafts of a teleplay adapted by Chris Heide from the short story published in Canadian Fiction Magazine, as well as correspondence, a contract, and a chronology of events beginning with the submission to CBC Television Drama and ending with a cancelled contract with National Film Board.

With Sirens Wailing — CBC produced

File contains four drafts copies of The Sound of Sirens, broadcast three times by CBC Radio, the first time as "With Sirens Wailing." File also contains a contract, correspondence and a chronology outlining the evolution of the script and its production.

For Independence — CBC produced

File contains six manuscript copies of For Independence, broadcast by CBC Radio in 1982. File also contains a contract, correspondence and a chronology outlining the evolution of the script and its production.

Once Around — CBC Morningside

File contains manuscript drafts of episodes 1-5 of Once Around, a radio drama series broadcast by CBC Radio in 1983. File also contains outlines, correspondence, notes and a chronology of events outlining the evolution of the project.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's unsorted correspondence from 1990 to 2006

  • MS-2-615, Box 60, Folders 9 and 10; MS-2-615, Box 61, Folders 1 - 7; MS-2-615, Box 62, Folders 1 - 6; and MS-2-615, Box 63, Folders 1 - 9
  • File
  • 1990 - 2006

    • Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains unsorted correspondence with different individuals, including James A. Gibson, Peter MacKinnon, Frank Iacobucci, James C. MacPherson, Allahyar Mouri, Stephen M. Schwebel, Maxwell Cohen, H.W.Arthurs, Emile K.M. Yakpo, Doug Kirkpatrick, Antonio Cassese, Madeleine Proulx, Rudolf Bernhardt, Mohamed Munavvar, Carl-august Fleischhauer, Suse Schwarzenberg, Anne McLellan, Douglas M. Johnston, John Godfrey, Ted McWhinney, Christian Dominice, Edwin A. Goodman, Bill Graham, Michael Oliver, James Otieno Odek, Hugh Paton, Bruce P. Archibald, Jessica Carroll, Juan Antonio Carrillo Salcedo, Ronald S. Wood, Doug McArthur, Charles B. Bournes, Edgar Gold, J.P. Gardner, and others, regarding a wide range of topics. File includes Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific annual report of 1997, Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific newsletter of January 1997, University of Toronto Law School Faculty Council meeting agendas and meeting minutes, World Academy of Art and Science newsletter of March 1993, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law newsletter of January 1991, the American Society of International Law newsletters, the Group of 78 newsletter of May 1993, the African Society of International and Comparative Law newsletter of January 1990, a Dalhousie University Faculty of Law full-time staff contact list of 1973, a photograph of Ronald St. John Macdonald with Maxwell Bruce and an unidentified man in 1999, a photograph of Ronald St. John Macdonald with James Otieno Odek in 1994, an agreement between Canada Live in trust with Doubleday Canada Limited regarding the book "Canada live: English Canada speaks out", newspaper clippings, handwritten notes, and other materials.

Contracts and agreements

File consists of records for various contracts and agreements for Catherine Banks' plays, including It is Solved By Walking, Bone Cage, The Mountain and The Valley, Miss N Me, and the publication "The Man Who Ate the Last Fish" and the monologue entitled "The Big Money."

Records consist of contracts with Playwrights Canada Press, Sarasvati Productions, White Rooster Theatre/HomeFirst Productions, Theatre Yes, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Broad Minds Productions/Urban Curvz Theatre, letters of agreement for the Banff Playrights Colony, Downstage Performance Society, and Tant per Tant. File also includes agreements for Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Catalan Theatre Festival, the director's and actor's agreement for the Missy and Me workshop at Thorns and Roses Theatre, and rental agreements.

Material concerning the property in Upper Sackville purchased by Culverwell Holdings Limited from Lewis Leroy Maxwell

File consists of a legal description of lands owned by L. Leroy Maxwell prepared by Paul Wendt, consulting engineer; the indenture between Lewis Leroy Maxwell, Anna Mabel Maxwell and Culverwell Holdings Limited; statutory declaration; a memo referring to the transfer of property and correspondence.

Museums - Labrador duck

File contains correspondence and contracts related to the loaning of Labrador duck specimens from the Thomas McCulloch Museum to the National Museum of Canada.

Carceri d'Invenzione of Piranesi exhibition

File consists of records related to the 'Carceri d'Invenzione of Piranesi' exhibition loaned from the National Gallery of Canada in February 1960. Records consist of correspondence from Ruth Henderson (Maritime Arts Association), a loan agreement, packing list, exhibition itinerary, and exhibition text.

Historic buildings of Canada exhibition

File consists of a records related to the exhibition 'Historic Buildings in Canada' organized by the National Gallery of Canada and presented at Dalhousie in March 1966.

Records consist of an exhibition catalogue, correspondence between Evelyn Holmes and the National Gallery of Canada, contractual documents, and a press release from the National Gallery regarding the exhibition.

Traditional landscape painting in Canada

File consists of records related to the exhibition 'Traditional Landscape Painting in Canada' organized and loaned by the National Gallery of Canada. The exhibition showed at Dalhousie Art Gallery in March 1969.

Records consist of exhibition documents including biographies for the included artists, a packing list, exhibition loan agreement, condition report, and list of artworks. Additional records consist of correspondence of Evelyn Holmes (Acting Curator, Dalhousie Art Gallery).

E.S.P. (John K. Esler and Charles Pachter)

File consists of records related to the exhibition 'ESP', organized by the National Gallery of Canada and presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery in June 1971.

Records consist of exhibition contract agreements, correspondence between Ernest Smith (Director, Dalhousie Art Gallery) and the artists, condition reports, a photocopy of a newspaper clipping regarding the exhibition, and a packing list.

French paintings exhibition

File consists of records relating to organization, planning, and preparation for the exhibition 'French Painting 1840-1924' organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada and presented at the Dalhousie Art Gallery in February and March of 1971.

Records consist of correspondence, condition reports from Dalhousie Art Gallery and others, accompanying texts for the exhibition including a bibliography, recommended film screenings, readings, and descriptive texts; an exhibition loan agreement, docent agreements, lists of artworks and biographical information, and a newspaper clipping.

Andre Bieler

File consists of records related to the planning of the exhibition 'André Biéler 50 years' organized by the Agnes Etherington Centre and presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery in March and April of 1971.

Records consist of correspondence between Ernest Smith (Director, Dalhousie Art Gallery) and staff of the Agnes Etherington Centre, a newspaper clipping, exhibition loan agreements, list of artworks, artwork condition notes, handwritten condition notes, and a letter from Smith to Biéler regarding the purchase of one of his artworks.

The photograph as object

File consists of records related to the planning of the exhibition ' The Photograph as Object', organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada. The Exhibition was presented at Dalhousie from April 15 to May 14, 1971.

Records consist of packing and artwork lists, loan agreements, a newspaper clipping titled 'The Photograph as Object, next Killam exhibition', a condition report, handwritten condition notes written on index cards, and correspondence between Dalhousie Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada Extension Service.

Exhibition - Douglas Duncan bequest

File consists of records related to the exhibition 'Duncan: Gift from the Douglas M. Duncan Collection and the Milne-Duncan Bequest', organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada. The exhibition was presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery from August 1-31, 1971.

Records consist of artwork lists, a condition report, exhibition agreement contracts, insurance records, correspondence of the Dalhousie Art Gallery, descriptive exhibition text, and a newspaper clipping,

Massey medals 1970

File consists of records relating to the exhibition 'Massey Medals for Architecture 1970', organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada. The exhibition was presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery from November 1-30, 1971.

Records consist of a condition report, exhibition agreement contract, descriptive exhibition text and packing lists, correspondence with the National Gallery, handwritten notes, and a press release from the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada (RAIC) regarding the finalists and winning entries for the Massey Medals Awards Competition.

Joseph Sleep

File consists of records related to the exhibition of paintings by Joseph Sleep, held at Dalhousie Art Gallery from September 16 to October 2, 1975.

Records consist of a loan agreement, a biography, a list of expenses, a price list of artworks, a newspaper clipping, interdepartmental memo, a floor plan, and draft letter-size poster and poster order form.

Lawren P. Harris exhibition

File consists of records related to the exhibition 'Lawren Phillips Harris Retrospective', organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada. The exhibition was presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery in December 1972.

Records consist mainly items of correspondence between Ernest Smith (Director, Dalhousie Art Gallery) and others. Including loan agreement forms, condition reports, insurance files, and others. Correspondents include: staff at the National Gallery of Canada, Lawren P. Harris, Christopher Gabriel-Lacki (Curator, Sir George Williams University Art Gallery) and other galleries. File additionally contains four photographs of paintings.

Joe Plaskett and his Paris - a search for time past exhibition

File consists of records related to the Joe Plaskett and His Paris - A Search for Time Past Exhibition, held at the Dalhousie Art Gallery from February 15 to March 15, 1973.

Records consist of contractual documents between Dalhousie Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada, including agreement forms and sales policy.

"What they're up to in Chicago" Chicago painting in the 60's exhibition

File consists of records related to the Chicago painting of the 1960s exhibition organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada and presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery from July 15 to Aug 15, 1973.

Records consist of displaying and hanging instructions, packing and unpacking instructions, a loan agreement from the National Gallery of Canada, a list of artworks, and a condition report. Records also include two photographic prints of paintings Cave Park 1971 by Roger Brown and Pairadancycle 1971 by Gladys Nilsson.

Anthony Law oil paintings

File consists of records related to the Anthony Law Exhibition held at Dalhousie Art Gallery from February 12 to March 3, 1974.

Records consist of guest lists, exhibition invitation, list of artworks, a biography of Law, insurance form, correspondence from Simpson-Hurst Insurance Ltd, and two opening invitations.

Claude Tousignant exhibition

File consists of records related to the Claude Tousignant exhibition organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada and presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery from March 1 to March 31, 1974.

Records consist mainly of correspondence between Ernest Smith (Director, Dalhousie Art Gallery) and staff of the National Gallery of Canada, a letter from Claude, a newspaper regarding the exhibition at the Van Guard Vancouver art gallery in July 1973, postcard invitation, press releases, a condition report, a list of artworks, and packing and unpacking instructions.

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