Archives Catalogue

MS-2-496, SF Box 27, Folder 22
Fonds
1902, 1916

Fonds comprises two letters written to William Croft. The first refers to work in the gold mines, while the second is a request for Croft's permission to allow his sixteen-year-old son to go overseas with the Canadian Forces. There is also a note from James Heyson to John Croft containing a medicinal recipe.

Croft, William Stanley, 1867-1944

William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

MS-2-762
Fonds
1831 - 2005

Fonds comprises the records of William Edward Maclellan and his family's records, including those of including William Edward and Margaret Jane (Mackenzie) Maclellan; Edward Kirkpatrick and Helen Stewart (Mackay) Maclellan; Robert (Bob) William and Delphine Caroline (Wallace) Maclellan; Jean Stewart Maclellan; Robert William Maclellan; and David Kirkpatrick Stewart Maclellan. Record types include correspondence, photographs, films, newspaper clippings, poems, certificates, booklets, periodicals, notebooks and genealogical charts.

Maclellan, William Edward

Transcript of John Bell's interview with F.C. Wightman about Leon Trotsky's month at the Amherst Internment Camp during World War One.

Part of John Bell's research regarding Leon Trotsky's internment at Amherst, Nova Scotia, during World War One

Thomas Cantley's report on the attitude of the British people toward the war

MS-2-755, Box 2, Folder 20
Item
1916

Part of Thomas Cantley fonds

Thomas Cantley fonds

MS-2-755
Fonds
1794 - 2005

Fonds consists of Thomas Cantley's materials accumulated and sometimes annotated by Catherine Campbell in the course of her research on Cantley's life, including correspondence regarding his political and professional activities; correspondence with family members; manuscripts and typescripts; speeches; photographs; financial statements; and other textual records. Fonds also contains records originating with Cantley's family, including correspondence between his children Charles L. Cantley and Marian Cantley, and a letter from Donald F. Cantley to E.W. Sutherland.

Cantley, Thomas

Text of an address given by Henry D. Hicks, QC, MLA, to the Bridgetown branch of the Canadian legion

MS-2-511, Box 18, Folder 36
Item
1959

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a Remembrance Day address.

Samuel R. Balcom fonds

MS-2-128
Fonds
1830-1980

Fonds contains records documenting the activities, organizations and associations in which Balcom was involved, including the Red Cap Snowshoe Club and the No. 7 Stationary Hospital. Record types include correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, memorabilia and parliamentary papers.

Balcom, Samuel R., Col.

Ronald St. John Macdonald’s personal records

Series
1861 - [ca. 2005]

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Series comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his personal life, including memorabilia, biographical notes, awards, and photographs.

Ronald St. John Macdonald’s memorabilia

Subseries
1877 - 2004

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Subseries consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's items of interest collected throughout his life, including biographical materials, art pieces, newspaper clippings, periodicals, books, and other materials.

Richard Orme Allen fonds

MS-2-474
Fonds
[c. 1917]-1980

Fonds consists of a manuscript about Allen's experiences with one of his superiors during his service on Sable Island, a Department of Marine Notice from 1919, and 60 photographs of Sable Island and its inhabitants.

Allen, Richard Orme

Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

MS-2-252
Fonds
1915-1957

Fonds primarily consists of records documenting Roome's military career and research interest. The records span World War One and World War Two and include correspondence (1918-1919 and 1942-1946); war diaries (1915-1918 and 1940-1944); addresses and lectures (1928-1949); ca. 165 black and white photographs, mostly of Mesopotamia during World War I and of training exercises during World War II in Debert and Tracadie, Nova Scotia; photographs and postcards of Dalhousie; maps of England, France, and Mesopotamia from World War I; print materials which include newspaper clippings and copies of Canadian military magazines; research notes on the American Civil War; papers while Deputy Adjutant General (1943-1945) regarding awards, transfers, discharges, etc.; and miscellaneous other papers.

Roome, Richard Edward Graham, Brigadier, 1892-1985

Report on the war claim for the reparation for the loss of the fishing trawler "S.T. Triumph"

MS-4-122, SF Box 84, Folder 5
File
1928

Part of National Fish Company Limited

Folder contains correspondence from the lawyers and the report "Decision 1459" regarding the loss of the fishing trawler "S.T. Triumph" when it was captured by enemy submarine 60 miles south west of Cape Canso, Nova Scotia, August 20, 1918.

Prisoners of War from the Internment Camp in Amherst, Nova Scotia with musical instruments

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 12, Item 3
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

The item consists of the group of Prisoners of War with musical instruments.

Prisoners of War at the Internment Camp in Amherst, Nova Scotia dressed as cooks

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 13, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

Prisoners of War at the Amherst Internment camp, No. 45

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 8, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

The item consists of a group of prisoners of war from the Internment Camp in Amherst, Nova Scotia, posed in a human pyramid. There are three gentlemen in suits included in the photograph.

Prisoners of War at the Amherst Internment camp, No. 43

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 8, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

The item consists of a photograph of a group of prisoners of war at the Internment Camp in Amherst, Nova Scotia lined up next to a sign "Kruft-Heill" (cheers).

Prisoners of War at the Amherst Internment camp, No. 33

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 9, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1914 -1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

The item consists of the fencing club for the group of prisoners of war from the Internment Camp in Amherst, Nova Scotia.

Prisoners of War at the Amherst Internment camp, No. 3

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 7, item 2
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of a group of prisoners of war dressed in costumes for a drama group.

Prisoners of War at the Amherst Internment camp, No. 29

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 12, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

The item consists of the group of Prisoners of War standing with musical instruments.

Prisoners of War at the Amherst Internment camp, No. 28

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 12, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

The item consists of the group of Prisoners of War standing with musical instruments.

Prisoners of War at the Amherst Internment camp, No. 26

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 7, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of a group of prisoners in costumes for a drama group.

Prisoners of War at the Amherst Internment camp, No. 21

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 11, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

Prisoners of War at the Amherst Internment camp, No. 164

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 14, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

The item consists of a group of Prisoners of War standing around a building.

Prisoners of War at experimental farm at Nappan, Nova Scotia - up after clearing the land of forest

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 10, Item 3
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

Prisoners of War at experimental farm at Nappan, Nova Scotia - harvesting corn

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 10, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

Prisoners of War at experimental farm at Nappan, Nova Scotia - clearing the forest

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 10, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1919]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

Postcard photograph of Clyde Blakeney in military uniform

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 10
Item
1917

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a postcard photograph produced by Cox Bros., Halifax, N.S., of Clyde Blakeney (who left Sable Island to enlist in the armed forces in the fall of 1917), dressed in military uniform standing atop Citadel Hill.

Postcard of British and French warships in the harbour at Sydney, Nova Scotia

MS-2-315, PB Box 2, Folder 84
Item
1906

Part of Gass Family Postcard Collection

Item is a postcard sent from W. Ervin in Sydney, Nova Scotia to Cyril Gass in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. The image on the front of the postcard is of British and French warships in the harbour at Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Photograph of the officers, nursing sisters, non-commissioned officers and men of the Dalhousie University No. 7 Stationary Hospital

MS-13-2, Oversize Folder 1
Item
1915

Part of Dalhousie University No. 7 Stationary Hospital collection

File contains two copies of a photograph of the officers, nursing sisters, N.C.Os and men of the No. 7 Stationary Hospital C.E.F., Dalhousie Unit. The photograph shows the soldiers and nursing sisters sitting or standing in four rows with snow on the ground and buildings in the background. Some names are written in pencil on one of the copies.

Photograph of the 185th Overseas Battalion, Nova Scotia Highland Brigade.

MS-2-288, Oversize Folder 1
Item
1916

Part of Frank Parker Day fonds

File contains 2 copies of the photograph of the 185 Overseas Battalion, Nova Scotia Highland Brigade. The photograph shows the battalion standing in a field with white tents in the background. The Officer in charge was Lieutenant Colonel Frank Parker Day. Photographed by H.O. Dodge in Sydney, Nova Scotia in 1916.

Dodge, H. O.

Photograph of Oscar Donovan

MS-13-11, PB Box 4, Folder 31
Item
[after 1912?]

Part of Oscar Glennie Donovan fonds

Item is a photographic portrait of Oscar Donovan in the Canadian Army Medical Corps uniform.

Photograph of medical officers and nurses of the No. 7 Stationary Hospital

MS-13-11, PB Box 4, Folder 30
Item
[after 1914]

Part of Oscar Glennie Donovan fonds

Item is a photograph of the No. 7 Stationary Hospital medical and nursing staff with some family members, which suggests that picture was taken in Halifax some time before they left for France.

Photograph of Lieutenant John Stewart and officers of the No. 7 Stationary Hospital (Dalhousie Unit)

PC1, Box 23, Folder 31
File
1915

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of Lieutenant Colonel John Stewart and Officers of the Dalhousie No. 7 Stationary Hospital (Dalhousie Unit)

PC1, Box 63, Folder 52
File
1915

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File is a photograph of Lt. Col. J. Stewart and Officers of No. 7 Stationery Hospital (Dalhousie Unit). Officers named in legend below photograph. Back Row: Capt. F.V. Woodbury; Capt. J. Rankin; Capt. S.J. MacLennan; Capt. D.A. MacLeod; Lieut. Taylor(Quartermaster); Capt. K.A. MacKenzie; Lieut. K.F. Woodbury; Capt. E.K. MacLellan; Capt. J.A. Murray; Major E.V. Hogan; Lt-Col. J. Stewart, O.C.; Major L.M. Murray; Capt. V.N. MacKay.

Photograph of Hugh Campbell Frame

PC1, Box 13, Folder 13
File
[ca. 1917]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of Hugh Campbell Frame, B.A. 1917. The photograph is a military portrait of Frame.

Gauvin & Gentzel

Photograph of Howard C. Dawson

PC1, Box 13, Folder 11
File
1916

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of Howard C. Dawson. The photograph is a military portrait of Dawson. There is a crest of the 106th Overseas Battalion (Nova Scotia Rifles) under the photograph.

J. E. Sponagle

Photograph of damage from the Halifax Explosion in a residential area

PC1, Box 35, Folder 18, Item 8
Item
December 1917

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photographs taken by NY Underwood & Underwood.

Underwood & Underwood, NY

Photograph of an unidentified Canadian Army Medical Corps nurse

MS-13-11, PB Box 4, Folder 32
Item
[after 1912?]

Part of Oscar Glennie Donovan fonds

Item is a photographic portrait of an unidentified woman (possibly Lela Donovan) in a Canadian Army Medical Corps uniform. The photograph was taken by Harry J. Moss, Halifax, and is mounted on card in a folding cardboard frame.

Photograph of a memorial in honour of engineers who died in WWI

PC1, Box 36, Folder 8
File
[after 1918]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of a memorial in honour of engineers from the Nova Scotia Technical College who gave their lives in World War I. The memorial is a metal plaque engraved with the names of all of the causalities. The memorial was erected by the school's alumni association.

Oscar Glennie Donovan fonds

MS-13-11
Fonds
1805-1972

Fonds consists of Oscar Donovan's photographs, newspaper clippings, mementos, and correspondence from World War One and World War Two, including records related to Dalhousie No. 7 Overseas Stationary Hospital, with which his wife served.

Donovan, Oscar Glennie

Naval Prisoners of War at the Internment Camp, Amherst, Nova Scotia

MS-2-839, PB Box 31, Folder 11, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1914 - 1918]

Part of G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection

Letter to John Bell from George D. Noiles regarding Leon Trotsky's month at the Amherst Internment Camp during World War One. regarding Leon Trotsky's internment at Amherst, Nova Scotia, during World War One

Part of John Bell's research regarding Leon Trotsky's internment at Amherst, Nova Scotia, during World War One

John Stewart fonds

MS-13-39
Fonds
1812 - 1943

Fonds consists of notebooks, correspondence, books, articles, a photograph, and artifacts.

Stewart, John, Lt. Col. Dr.

John Bell's research regarding Leon Trotsky's internment at Amherst, Nova Scotia, during World War One

MS-2-306
File
1974, 1976

File comprises a transcript of an interview with F.C. Wightman and notes from George D. Noiles on Leon Trotsky's month at the Amherst Internment Camp during World War One.

Insulters of death and other poems of the great departure : a book of solace

MS-5-1, Box 1, Folder 7
File
1916

Part of John Daniel Logan fonds

File contains a book of poems, published by John Daniel Logan of the 85th Overseas Battalion, C.E.F., Nova Scotia Highland Brigade. The book was published by L. Clyde Davidson & Co. of Halifax, Nova Scotia and contains the following poems: "Invocation," "Insulters of Death," "Timor Mortis," "Sursum Corda," "Renouncement," "A Requiem," "The Greater Love," "For an only Son," "Poe of Princeton," "Flame of God (Rupert Brooke)," "The Soul's Supreme Adventure," and "Gone on Ahead Awhile." The book also includes a prose preachment entitled "The Fatal Paradox and Sin of Sorrow for the Dead."

In Flanders Fields : [manuscript vocal score]

MS-5-1, Box 2, Folder 5
Item
1917

Part of John Daniel Logan fonds

Item is a manuscript of "In Flanders Fields" by Edith J. Archibald, which sets the words of the poem of the same name by Colonel John McCrae. The piece is for solo voice and piano in F Major and was written at Archibald's home on Inglis Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The piece is 5 pages long with extra blank pages.

Archibald, Edith Jessie

G.P. Hennesey Photograph Collection