Archives Catalogue

Nova Scotia Agricultural College at the corn competition at the Windsor Exhibition

UA-43, PB Box 1, Folder 18, Item 34
Item
[1905-1999]

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a photograph of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College at the corn competition at the Windsor Exhibition in the early to mid- 20th century.

Daniel Finlayson MacInnis fonds

MS-13-1
Fonds
1909-1952

Fonds consists of twelve student notebooks from medical school, Dalhousie registration cards, transcripts, medical books, examinations, photographs, and Provincial Medical Board papers.

MacInnis, Daniel Finlayson

Blackburn family fonds

MS-2-10
Fonds
1837 - 1949

Fonds consists of two farm ledgers (1894-1936 and 1899-1906); one farm inventory (1899); one notebook containing estate inventories and administrative accounts (1837-1875); one notebook containing a weather diary (1949); and minutes from two Master of Rights Lodge meetings held in 1931.

Blackburn Family

Photograph of Edith Raddall with her children beside her husband's car, taken at Summerville

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 7, Item 4
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, includes a 1936 Chevrolet.

Photograph of two men reeling a fish and prepping a net from a canoe on Mersey River near Maitland, below Mill Falls

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 17, Item 18
Item
[ca. 1965]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, has a stamp marking it copyright to the Nova Scotia Film Bureau on the reverse side, though it has been struck through.

Photograph of Thomas Head signing autographs for students

MS-2-202, Oversized Box 8, Folder 12
Item
May 1946

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Photograph of Thomas Head Raddall with officers of the Cadet Corps and Headmaster Waddington at King's Collegiate School

MS-2-202, Oversized Box 8, Folder 13
Item
May 1946

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is related to material in MS-2-202 Box 55, Folder 22, Item 8 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs.

Investment ledger of A.P. Shand

MS-2-248, SF Box 48, Folder 19
Item
1872-1893

Item contains a ledger listing A.P. Shand's investments in sailing vessels and local companies, dividends received (1873-1893), and a list of assets (1883-1893).

Shand, A.P.

Sermons by Reverend William Ellis

MS-2-25, SF Box 16, Folder 3
File
1770-1797

File consists of seven sermons and writings of Reverend William Ellis, written during his years in the Anglican Church of Canada mission in Hants County, Nova Scotia.

Ellis, William

On the reasonableness of religion

MS-2-25, SF Box 16, Folder 3, Item 1
Item
1787

Part of Sermons by Reverend William Ellis

Item is a handwritten sermon.

On gratitude to almighty God

MS-2-25, SF Box 16, Folder 3, Item 2
Item
1796

Part of Sermons by Reverend William Ellis

Item is a handwritten sermon.

On mistaken zeal

MS-2-25, SF Box 16, Folder 3, Item 3
Item
1776

Part of Sermons by Reverend William Ellis

Item is a handwritten sermon.

On the happiness of dying in the Lord

MS-2-25, SF Box 16, Folder 3, Item 4
Item
1778

Part of Sermons by Reverend William Ellis

Item is a handwritten sermon.

On our Saviour's entry into Jersusalem

MS-2-25, SF Box 16, Folder 3, Item 5
Item
1778

Part of Sermons by Reverend William Ellis

Item is a handwritten sermon.

On Christian conversation

MS-2-25, SF Box 16, Folder 3, Item 6
Item
1788

Part of Sermons by Reverend William Ellis

Item is a handwritten sermon.

Discourse no. 1 & 2

MS-2-25, SF Box 16, Folder 3, Item 7
Item
[late 1770s]

Part of Sermons by Reverend William Ellis

Item consists of two discourses written by William Ellis, likely in the late-1770s. The items are bound dos-a-dos, with Discourse no.1 starting at front cover to the middle of the booklet and Discourse no.2 starting at the back cover to the middle of the booklet.

Photograph of the "Avon Queen"

MS-2-266, PB 4, Folder 37
Item
[after 1918]

Part of Everett MacDougall fonds

Item is a photograph of the Avon Queen taken by Isaac Erb and Son, Saint John. Writing on back states that the ship (939 tons) was built at Hantsport, N.S. in 1918. Also says, "a four-masted schooner at Saint John, N.B." and "as the Jessie Louise Farquier"

Photograph of the "Sherwood"

MS-2-266, PB 4, Folder 41
Item
[ca.1878]

Part of Everett MacDougall fonds

Item is a photograph of the Sherwood. The writing on the back states that the ship (898 tons) was built in Maitland, N.S. in 1878.

Print of the "Barque Snow Queen"

MS-2-266, PB 4, Folder 42
Item
[ca. 1872]

Part of Everett MacDougall fonds

Item is a print of a sketch of the Barque(bark) Snow Queen. The writing on the back states that the ship (984 tons) was built in Maitland, N.S. in 1872.

Print of the brig "Europa"

MS-2-266, PB 4, folder 39
Item
1858

Part of Everett MacDougall fonds

Item is a print of a drawing of the brig Europa. Writing on back reads: Brig "Europa" of Maitland, N.S. entering (port of) Leghorn 1858. Alexander MacDougall, master. The above Alex MacDougall was father of Captain Everett MacDougall.

Portrait of Captain Albert Crowe

MS-2-266, PB 5, Folder 64, Item 1
Item
[18-?]

Part of Everett MacDougall fonds

Item is a photograph of Captain Albert Crowe of Maitland. The photograph was taken by De Young's of New York City.

De Young's

Portrait of Captain Jock Douglas

MS-2-266, PB 5, Folder 64, Item 2
Item
[189-?]

Part of Everett MacDougall fonds

Item is a photograph of Captain Jock Douglas (or possibly Jack Douglas or Jonathan Douglas) of Maitland. The photograph was taken by Douglass of Brooklyn, New York.

Douglass

Gass Family Postcard Collection

MS-2-315
Collection
1903-1921

Collection contains postcards written and collected by the Gass family of Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. The postcards are primarily of Nova Scotia and some, but not all, have handwritten notes. There are also postcards of Montreal, New York, Washington and Victoria. The majority are written to or from Clare Gass.

Gass Family

Postcard of a post office on the corner of Hollis and George street in Halifax, Nova Scotia

MS-2-315, PB Box 2, Folder 107
Item
[between 1900 and 1916]

Part of Gass Family Postcard Collection

Item is a postcard sent to Athelstan Gass in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia from Rob (no last name provided).

Postcard of a driveway near Chatham, New Brunswick

MS-2-315, PB Box 2, Folder 113
Item
[between 1900 and 1916]

Part of Gass Family Postcard Collection

Item is a postcard sent by Clare Gass to Cyril Gass in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. The image on the front of the postcard is pretty driveway near Chatham, New Brunswick.

Postcard of an old church in Grand Pré, Nova Scotia

MS-2-315, PB Box 2, Folder 143
Item
[between 1900 and 1916]

Part of Gass Family Postcard Collection

Item is a postcard send to Blanchard Gass in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia from a friend in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia. The senders name is illegible. The image on the front of the postcard is of an old church in Grand Pré, Nova Scotia.

Postcard of Childwall Church in Liverpool

MS-2-315, PB Box 2, Folder 146
Item
[between 1900 and 1916]

Part of Gass Family Postcard Collection

Item is a postcard sent to Clare Gass in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. The front image of the postcard is of the Childwall Church in Liverpool, England.

Postcard of a general view of Montreal, Quebec

MS-2-315, PB Box 2, Folder 163
Item
1909

Part of Gass Family Postcard Collection

Item is a postcard sent to Clare Gass in Montreal, Quebec from Athelstan in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. The front image is of a general view of Montreal, Quebec.

Postcard of Chateau de Ramezay in Montreal, Quebec

MS-2-315, PB Box 2, Folder 164
Item
1910

Part of Gass Family Postcard Collection

Item is a postcard sent to R Gass in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia from his daughter Clare Gass in Montreal Quebec. The image on the front is of Chateau de Ramezay in Montreal, Quebec.

Postcard of a school in Truro, Nova Scotia

MS-2-315, PB Box 2, Folder 171
Item
1909

Part of Gass Family Postcard Collection

Item is a postcard sent to Gerald Gass in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia from Bessie[sic] in Truro, Nova Scotia. The image on the front is of a school in Truro, Nova Scotia.

Postcard of a park in Truro, Nova Scotia

MS-2-315, PB Box 2, Folder 180
Item
1908

Part of Gass Family Postcard Collection

Item is a postcard sent to Clare Gass in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia from B. Thomson in Truro, Nova Scotia. The image on the front is of a park in Truro, Nova Scotia.

Postcard of Chapman Hall, Wolfville, Nova Scotia

MS-2-315, PB Box 2, Folder 83
Item
1906

Part of Gass Family Postcard Collection

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

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.

Postcard of Christ Church, Windsor, Nova Scotia

MS-2-315, PB Box 2, Folder 86
Item
1906

Part of Gass Family Postcard Collection

Item is a postcard sent from Clare Gass in Windsor, Nova Scotia to her mother in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. The postcard depicts Christ Church in Windsor, Nova Scotia.

Andrew Merkel's student poetry notebook

MS-2-326, Box 1, Folder 2
File
1906-1907

Part of Andrew Merkel fonds

File contains a notebook probably dating from Merkel's student years at King's College, which features handwritten poems and illustrations or doodles, as well as three inserts of printed poems. There is also a copy of King's College Record, Vol XXVI, No. 224 (Windsor, NS, February 1905). The first page contains "On Joining the Haliburton Club," October 1905.

Minute book of the Sons of Temperance, Rock Division

MS-2-451, SF Box 41, Folder 17
Item
1866-1868

Item is a minute book of the Sons of Temperance, Rock Division, in Maitland, Nova Scotia.

Sons of Temperance, Rock Division.

Press release about Henry D. Hicks' speech at the annual meeting of the Hants West Liberal Association

MS-2-511, Box 18, Folder 22
Item
November 6, 1958

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a typed manuscript reporting on Hicks' address.

Photographs, correspondence and speech text for official openings of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachments in Windsor and New Minas, Nova Scotia

MS-2-511, Box 20, Folder 16
File
1982

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Remarks at the Canadian Association of Independent Schools first annual dinner

MS-2-511, Box 20, Folder 5
File
1980

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File includes correspondence from David MacDonald, executive assistant to Gerald Regan, whom Hicks replaced as guest speaker at the dinner held at Kings - Edgehill School, in Windsor, Nova Scotia.

Program, correspondence and notes for remarks at the official opening of the Senior Citizens Housing Units, Mount Uniacke, Nova Scotia

MS-2-511, Box 20, Folder 9
File
September 2, 1981

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Smallest Rabbit and related documents and photographs

MS-2-646, Box 10, Folder 21
File
1993-1998

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains a copy of "Smallest Rabbit" by Joyce Barkhouse and illustrated by Barbara Martin, published by Lancelot Press, along with correspondence regarding the book and photographs of Barkhouse and Martin with the book. The file also contains a copy of Barkhouse's speech about the book, a partial draft, and order form.

Correspondence from Budge Wilson to publishers