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Publications and academic writing

Series contains materials written by Freedman and related materials collected by Freedman. Written material includes manuscripts, draft manuscripts, encyclopedic entries, essays, reports, conference and workshop papers, newspaper columns, book reviews and other documents written by Freedman. Related materials include research, annotated articles, notes, correspondence, reviewer comments and other documents.

Proposal for a study on the increased use of wood as an energy source in Nova Scotia : [manuscript and other materials]

File contains the draft proposal written by Freedman and others for ADI Limited, in association with the Institute for Resource and Environmental Studies and Gardner Pinfold, for the Nova Scotia Department of Mines and Energy. File also contains handwritten interview summaries, and relevant cited materials.

Physical and ecological characteristics of Alexandra Fiord, a high arctic oasis on Ellesmere Island, Canada : [manuscript and correspondence]

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman with J. Svoboda, C. Labine, M. Muc, G. Henry, M. Nams, J. Stewart, and E. Woodley, for the Fourth International Conference on Permafrost, July 17-22, 1983, organized by the University of Alaska and National Academy of Sciences. File also contains drafts, correspondence, and reviewer comments.

Photographs of wildlife, rain forests, and people in South America

File contains 222 photographs taken by Bill Freedman during his travels in South America, between 1999 and 2001. The file also contains a small number of photographs taken by World Wildlife Fund members in 1988. Photographs show forestry recovery after controlled burns; pictures toucan, caiman, alpaca, armadillo, owl, and otter; rain forest scenes; and people. Photographs were taken in Peru (Machu Picchu, Guano Isdlands, Manu River, Cuzco), Bolivia (La Paz, Titicaca, Yungas), Costa Rica (Santa Cruz), and Brazil (Pantanal).

Photographs of Voisey's Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador

File contains 58 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Voisey's Bay, Labrador, in 1996. Photographs show river rapids, aerial surveys of the region, Fraser River Canyon, and some ground vegetation, near the site of the nickel mining operation. Late in 1996, Inco acquired rights to mine nickel from the area, and Freedman's visit involved conducting an environmental assessment (which he had done previously for nickel mining sites in Sudbury, Ontario).

Photographs of vegetation in barrens and bogs of Nova Scotia

File contains 22 photographs taken by Bill Freedman between 1989 and 2001. Photographs show vegetation at the Murchyville bog (near Moose River, Nova Scotia), a Christmas tree lot in Lunenburg County, the barrens at Polly Cove (Halifax County), and examples of the endangered Geum peckii on Brier Island (Digby County).

Photographs of vegetation and trees in central Florida

File contains 65 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in central Florida and North Carolina over multiple visits between 1974 and 1978. Photographs show mangrove, palm, sawgrass, orange groves, hammock, and magnolia, predominantly from the Everglades, but also Okeefenokee, Boca Raton, and the Great Smoky Mountains.

Photographs of urban scenes in Halifax, Toronto, and Vancouver

File contains 116 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in Halifax, Toronto, and Vancouver between 1973 and 2002 (though predominantly between 1999 and 2002). Photographs show urban streetscapes and buildings in Toronto, Stanley Park in Vancouver, the Public Gardens and Busker festival in Halifax, as well as Mahone Bay and Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia.

Photographs of tundra scenes, Northwest Territories

File contains 176 photographs taken by Bill Freedman, in the Northwest Territories, on multiple visits from 1973 to 1986. Photographs show tundra scenes (of grave sites, frost polygons, oil spill clean-up sites, and the Native Games), from Tuktoyaktuk, Herschel Island, Cape Bathurst, Inuvik, and Cape Parry.

Photographs of travels in Newfoundland

File contains 56 photographs taken by Bill Freedman during travels in Newfoundland in 1997. Photographs show the Bauda family at Burnt Cape, boreal forest at Gros Morne National Park, derelict factories at Long Harbour, the abandoned military base at Argentia, and scenery and replica Viking huts at L'Anse-aux-Meadows.

Photographs of the Postville and Michelin Lake areas of Labrador

File contains 51 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in the Postville area of Labrador, between 1975 and 1977 (predominantly 1977). Photographs show geological formations, bogs, and flora around the Michelin Lake area near Postville. File also contains some photographs of flora taken at Terra Nova National Park

Photographs of the oil spill at Alexandria Bay, New York

File contains 12 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Alexandria Bay, New York in 1976. Photographs show clean-up efforts after the oil Barge Nepco ran aground on June 23, 1976 and spilled 250,000 gallons of crude oil in the St. Lawrence Seaway. The barge was owned by the Oswego Barge Company of Wilmington, Delaware and held oil owned by the New England Petroleum Company.

Photographs of the Harrowby Bay spill site

File contains 20 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Harrowby Bay (near Tuktoyaktuk), from 1974 to 1975. Photographs document containment efforts after a small oil spill.

Photographs of the flora of southern Ontario

File contains 86 photographs largely taken by Bill Freedman (although a few were taken by J.L. Riley and R. Vinebrooke), at several southern Ontario sites between 1972 and 2001. Photographs show plants along the Oakville River, in Algonquin and Point Pelee Parks, the Alvar marsh site (near Orillia), the Windsor prairie, and another site west of London.

Photographs of the flora of Fundy National Park

File contains 7 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Fundy National Park, New Brunswick, in 1975. Photographs show examples of Iris versicolor, as well as scenes along the shore of the Bay of Fundy.

Photographs of the destruction caused at Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia, by the Brown Spruce longhorn beetle

File contains 68 photographs taken largely by Bill Freedman (but also by Sweeney) at Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 2000. Photographs show aerial and up-close examples of the destruction wrought on the urban park by the invasive Brown spruce longhorn beetle, believed to arrive in the city via the nearby port.

Photographs of the birds of central Florida

File contains 172 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in central Florida over multiple visits, primarily between 1973 and 1977, but also in 1994. Photographs show various species of heron, crane, spoonbill, hawk, vulture, gull, egret, ibis, grebe, anhinga, pelican, and owl. Photographs are taken predominantly in the Everglades, however a few are from Pigeon Key, Bahia Honda, and Flamingo.

Photographs of the area around Smoking Hills, Northwest Territories

File contains 74 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in the Smoking Hills region of Cape Bathurst, Northwest Territories, on multiple visits between 1974 and 1990. Photographs show the scenery of the region, including smoke seepage vents, elemental sulfur deposits, and caribou herd.

Photographs of tailings sites around Sudbury

File contains 36 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in the area around Sudbury, Ontario, between 1975 and 1986 (many of which were used as part of his thesis fieldwork). Photographs show tailings ponds, nickel runs, roast beds, and slag pouring at the Coppercliff, Burwash, Coniston, Richard Lake, and Falconbridge sites.

Photographs of surveys at Gros Morne National Park and the Churchill River, Labrador

File contains 25 photographs taken, largely by Bill Freedman, in Gros Morne National Park and along the Churchill River, Labrador, between 1998 and 2001. There are also photos by fellow researchers Annette Lutterman and Todd Keith. Photographs depict plants in Gros Morne and the Churchill River area, dried riverbeds above Churchill Falls, and three photos of Innu residents of the area.

Photographs of Sudbury scenes

File contains 116 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in the region around Sudbury, Ontario, between 1975 and 1986, as part of his thesis fieldwork. Photographs show slag heaps, roast beds, pollution, plant damage, and mining infrastructure from the Copper Cliff, Coniston, and Falconbridge sites near Sudbury, and flora at the nearby Wanapitei River, Richard Lake, and Burwash sites.

Photographs of spill clean-up sites around Tuktoyaktuk

File contains 37 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in the vicinity of Tuktoyaktuk, NT, in 1986. Photographs document experimentation of regrowth of vegetation in response to small-scale oil spills, at the Split Pingo spray plot and Meadow spill sites.
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