The records in this subseries all relate to Balcom's career pharmacist whether pertaining to the operations of his pharmacy or the professional pharmacy organisations to which he belonged.
Item is a photograph of two women standing in front of the Chateau d'Arques in Pas de Calais, France. Left to right: Josie Cameron and [illegible] MacKinnon.
Item is a photograph of three soldiers standing in front of the Chateau d'Arques in Pas de Calais, France. Left to right: Dan MacLeod, Major Frank Woodbury, and Col. John Stewart.
Item is a photograph of the Dalhousie University Class of 1911. The photograph shows class members, including M. MacLeod, sitting or standing in six rows.
Item is a photograph of the 1899 Dalhousie Football Team. The photograph shows J. McKenzie; E. H. Faulkner; A. M. Lindsay; E. B. Roach; J. L. Cock; L. H. Cumming; T. C. Hebb; H. Hawboldt; J. Malcolm; D. Jardine; A. H. S. Murray; J. L. Potter; L. B. McKenzie; W. L. Hall; J. H. Crocker; N. J. Lockhart; A. G. Young; and R. T. Mcllreith sitting or standing in three rows with a football, a stool, and a baby doll.
Item is a photograph of the 1903 Dalhousie Football Team. Photograph shows members of the team, including Jack Campbell, sitting or standing in three rows.
Item is a hand coloured black and white photograph of a garden and greenhouse in Arques, France, ca. 1917. Photograph was taken and tinted by Ned Clay.
Item is a photograph of the Red Cap Snow Shoe Club. The photograph shows C. C. Morton; Jack Symonds; Hub King; Will Leverman; A. MacKinlay; Jack MacLeod; Hen Pugh; Bob McLearn; Tom Sadlier; I. H. Crowell; A. Brown; Steve Sircom; Bob Murray; Fred Kaizer; Frank West; Billie Brown; Charlie MacKinlay; J. Allen; Wall Symonds; Bucky Northop; Low MacDonald; Tup Anderson; Will Lithgow; Mac Patterson; H. B. Clarke; Ned Twining; and Fred Freeman standing or sitting in front of a house, a fence, and trees.
Item is a photograph of the tent hospital at Arques, France, ca. 1917. A canal is in the background and officer tents can be seen through the trees. The hospital was later replaced by nissen huts.
Scenes of rural Nova Scotia, battleship, and Dunloe Castle - Oban Only Dunloe Castle is identified on the negative, written in the hand of Louise Hubley.
File contains documents related to questions about federal funding for higher education asked by Samuel Balcom in the Canadian House of Parliament in 1955 when Balcom was a member of Parliament. Balcom asked a series of questions about educational grants to Nova Scotia institutions and received information about the distribution of funding across Canada. The file contains published accounts of parliamentary proceedings in March 1955 and associated correspondence between Balcom and other persons, such as J.D., McLean, Dean of the Dalhousie Faculty of Dentistry, and Watson Kirkconnell, President of Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
File contains a copy of a question submitted to the House of Commons by Samuel Balcom, M.P., in May 1955, regarding family allowances to Nova Scotians. File also contains Parliamentary debates.
File contains the text of a question posted by Samuel Balcom (when he was a member of Parliament) regarding Government Income and Expenses, as well as Parliamentary minutes.
File contains the text of a question posted by Samuel Balcom (when he was a member of Parliament) regarding the contributions to Vocational Training in the fiscal year 1953-54 by the Federal Government, as well as a reply to the question from the Honorable Milton F. Gregg.
File contains the text of a question posted by Samuel Balcom (when he was a member of Parliament) regarding Hospital Grants to Nova Scotia, as well as Parliamentary minutes.
File contains the text of a question posted by Samuel Balcom (when he was a member of Parliament) regarding the number of Immigrants entering Canada in 1954 and from what countries. Also in the file is a list of Immigrants and countries of origin for 1954, provided by the Department of Citizenship and Immigration.
File contains the text of a question posted by Samuel Balcom (when he was a member of Parliament) regarding the total lobster catch for the four Atlantic Provinces, as well as the House of Commons Notice of Motion with the reply.
File contains the text of a question posted by Samuel Balcom (when he was a member of Parliament) regarding Mackerel and Herring Catches in1954, as well as Parliamentary minutes.
File contains the text of a question posted by Samuel Balcom (when he was a member of Parliament) regarding expenditures associated with the National Harbours Board Act, as well as Parliamentary minutes.
File contains the text of a question posted by Samuel Balcom (when he was a member of Parliament) regarding Nova Scotia coal used in Ontario Government Buildings, as well as Parliamentary minutes.
File contains the text of a question posted by Samuel Balcom (when he was a member of Parliament) regarding Payments to Nova Scotia by the Federal Government, as well as Parliamentary minutes.
File contains the text of a question posted by Samuel Balcom (when he was a member of Parliament) regarding Traffic Through the Port of Halifax, as well as Parliamentary minutes.
In 1874 the Red Cap Snowshoe club was founded in Halifax, making it the oldest local sports organization. Balcom was an active member until the club was disbanded in 1974 after its centenary.
