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Henry Davies Hicks fonds

MS-2-511
Fonds
1915 - 1990, predominant 1937-1986

Fonds comprises records documenting Henry Hicks' political career and tenure as president of Dalhousie University, as well as his earlier studies at Oxford University and his military service in World War II. There are also records regarding his stamp collecting hobby, his community service, and his long involvement with associations such as the Rhodes Scholarship Committee. Record types include diaries and appointment books, correspondence, manuscripts, philatelic records, newspaper clippings and photographs.

Hicks, Henry D.

Program, participant list, correspondence and speaking notes for the Ontario Civil Service Senior Executive Seminar

MS-2-511
File
1980

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Illustrated Canadian postal history : a lecture by Allan L. Stenhart

MS-2-511
Item
1987

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a folder containing an invitation, printed lecture introduction and copy of a book of selected covers from the Allan Steinhart Collection for an event sponsored by the National Postal Museum on 1 May 1987 at the Federal Study Centre, Ottawa.

Premier Henry D. Hicks' daily calendars

MS-2-511, Box 1, Folder 1
File
1956 - 1957

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File contains two daily calendars kept during Hicks during his tenure as Premier of Nova Scotia.

The carpark castle of South St. Joe / by Jim Bennet

MS-2-511, Box 1, Folder 10
Item
1979

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a photocopied poem making reference to Dalhousie's failure to buy a remaining house on South Street in the efforts to purchase property surrounding the Studley campus.

Correspondence between Henry Hicks and Myron L. and Helene Black

MS-2-511, Box 1, Folder 11
File
1961-1976

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Politicians are necessary too / by Robert F. Bradford

MS-2-511, Box 1, Folder 12
Item
Nov.-Dec. 1954

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a reprint of Robert F. Bradford’s article published in the Harvard Business Review (November-December 1954).

Text for an address given at the 1951 laying of the cornerstone of Bridgetown Regional High School ceremony

MS-2-511, Box 1, Folder 13
File
1951-1980

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File also contains correspondence, newspapers clippings, and a program for the Silver Anniversary Graduation Bridgetown Regional High School closing exercises, held June 21, 1976.

President Henry Hicks' daily calendars

MS-2-511, Box 1, Folder 2
Item
1974

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a daily calendar kept by Henry Hicks when he was president of Dalhousie University.

Correspondence between Alan M. Sinclair, Acadia University President, and Henry Hicks

MS-2-511, Box 1, Folder 3
File
1979

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File contains correspondence concerning the honorary degree conferred by Acadia University and newspaper clippings.

Letter from Max Aitkins to W.A. Black regarding a request for alumni donation

MS-2-511, Box 1, Folder 8
Item
1912

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Letter from Henry Hicks to Lady Beaverbrook

MS-2-511, Box 1, Folder 9
Item
1986

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a letter thanking Lady Beaverbrook for her financial contribution to the Dalhousie University Law School restoration after the fire in August 1985.

Canada Council records

MS-2-511, Box 1, Folders 14 and 15
File
1957-1971

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File includes correspondence related to the Canada Council; by-laws; Canada Council Bulletin no. 13; Canada Council membership list ca.1963; Canada Council meeting timetable for August 2-27, 1963; Canada Council Opening Proceedings, Ottawa, May 1957; and photocopies of the Canada Council Act, the Medical Research Act, the National Library Act, the Social Sciences and Humanities Act, the Science Council of Canada Act and the Ministries and Ministers of State Act.

American-Canadian Conference on the Role of the University in the Quest for Peace

MS-2-511, Box 1, Folders 4 and 5
File
1964-1968

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File contains records kept by Hicks regarding his attendance at the Oyster Bay, New York, conference, including correspondence, reports, program, notes, and meeting agenda. There is also the Report of the American Conference on Universities and the Quest for Peace held in Lima, Peru, in 1964.

Annapolis Royal Heritage Foundation meeting minutes

MS-2-511, Box 1, Folders 6-7
File
1980 - 1989

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File also includes financial reports, newsletters, correspondence and brochures.

Correspondence regarding the Nova Scotia Debating Society

MS-2-511, Box 10, Folder 1
File
1980 - 1985

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File contains two letters from Henry Hicks declining invitations to participate as a judge in the Provincial Championships in 1980 and 1985, as well as a letter to Kenneth Mills congratulating him on winning the 1981 Henry D. Hicks trophy at Dalhousie's Invitational Debating Tournament.

Vote Liberal : Hicks stands for progress

MS-2-511, Box 10, Folder 10
File
1956

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File contains Nova Scotia Liberal Party flyers and advertisements.

Dalhousie University correspondence and memos

MS-2-511, Box 10, Folder 11
File
1970 - 1990

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File contains miscellaneous memos and correspondence from different administrative departments.

Correspondence regarding honorary degrees offered by Dalhousie in 1980

MS-2-511, Box 10, Folder 12
File
1980

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File also contains a list of convocation procedures in relation to the President's Office.

Correspondence regarding honorary degrees offered and accepted in 1970

MS-2-511, Box 10, Folder 13
File
1970

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Letter from Sir Laurence Olivier to Henry Davies Hicks thanking and refusing the offer of an honorary degree

MS-2-511, Box 10, Folder 14
Item
March 10, 1971

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Correspondence congratulating Gene Hicks on receiving an honorary degree from Dalhousie University

MS-2-511, Box 10, Folder 16
File
1980

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Programs and correspondence regrading the 1980 convocation at which Henry and Gene Hicks were honoured

MS-2-511, Box 10, Folder 16
File
1980

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Order of Canada selection committee minutes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, programs and correspondence

MS-2-511, Box 10, Folder 2
File
1970 - 1987

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Correspondence with Dean Charles regarding Dr. L. Kos-Rabcewicz-Zubowski

MS-2-511, Box 10, Folder 3
File
1983

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Correspondence with the OED and others regarding the pronunciation of the word "ambivalent"

MS-2-511, Box 10, Folder 4
File
1977

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Correspondence between R.L.G. Gilbert and Henry Hicks regarding the 1967 Boat Race Dinner

MS-2-511, Box 10, Folder 5
File
1967, 1975

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File also contains a 1975 list of Oxford and Cambridge graduates living in the Maritimes.

Correspondence regarding fundraising for the Pearson Institute

MS-2-511, Box 10, Folder 6
File
1980 - 1989

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Files also contains correspondence regarding Pearson College of the Pacific.

Dalhousie University 1980 convocation program, newspaper clippings and photographs

MS-2-511, Box 10, Folder 9
File
1980

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Correspondence and advertisements regarding stamp purchases and sales

MS-2-511, Box 10, Folders 7 and 8
File
1980 - 1989

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Dalhousie Physical Education, Recreation and Athletic Complex impact on the community

MS-2-511, Box 11, Folder 1
Item
1980

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a report produced by the Dalhousie Fund Council.

Letter from Borden Clarke to Henry Hicks

MS-2-511, Box 11, Folder 10
File
December 10, 1954

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Henson College of Public Affairs and Continuing Education meeting minutes and correspondence

MS-2-511, Box 11, Folder 2
File
1981-1985

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File includes Kell Antoft's Notes for Remarks at the Opening of the Henson Centre.

Henry Hicks' payroll information records

MS-2-511, Box 11, Folder 3
File
1982

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Correspondence on the occasion of Henry Davies Hicks' retirement from Dalhousie University

MS-2-511, Box 11, Folder 4
File
1978-1981

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Correspondence regarding the Task Force on The Dalhousie Review

MS-2-511, Box 11, Folder 5
File
1987

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Dalhousie University : a tradition of expanding service

MS-2-511, Box 11, Folder 6
Item
[1962?]

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a report published ca. 1962 on the need for expansion.

Correspondence and newspaper clipping regarding Dalhousie University students' activities

MS-2-511, Box 11, Folder 7
File
1980-1985

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File includes a letter in which Hicks refuse to fund a campus visit and speech by Jesse Jackson.

Correspondence and other records regarding Dr. Verendra P. Varma

MS-2-511, Box 11, Folder 8
File
1958-1981

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File includes Devendra P. Varma's curriculum vitae, a newspaper clipping and publishing catalogues.

Correspondence between Henry Davies Hicks and Syed Hassan Mahmud

MS-2-511, Box 11, Folder 9
File
1953

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Letters of congratulations on Henry Hicks becoming premier of Nova Scotia

MS-2-511, Box 11, Folders 11 - 14
File
1954

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File contains letters organized in alphabetical order across four folders.

The Lord Dalhousie Collection (1800-1828) Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board form and correspondence

MS-2-511, Box 12, Folder 1
File
1984-1985

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Newspaper clipping and addresses sent to Senator Henry Hicks regarding national defence

MS-2-511, Box 12, Folder 10
File
1989

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Meeting of First Ministers on the Constitution : 1987 constitutional accord

MS-2-511, Box 12, Folder 11
File
1987

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File also includes a copy of the Minutes of the Proceedings of the Senate, no. 65.

Proposals, reports and newspaper clippings regarding the 1945 Dominion-Provincial Conference on Reconstruction

MS-2-511, Box 12, Folder 12
File
1945

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Reports, correspondence and press releases regarding the 1976 Conference of Federal and Provincial Finance Ministers

MS-2-511, Box 12, Folder 13
File
1976

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Dalhousie University staff lists and other material

MS-2-511, Box 12, Folder 2
File
1975-1980

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File consists of staff lists, organizational charts, brochures, campus map, correspondence memos and timetable.

Correspondence and newspaper clippings regarding Dalhousie University staff

MS-2-511, Box 12, Folder 3
File
1980-1988

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Directions for computing at Dalhousie : the report of the President's Advisory Committee on Computing

MS-2-511, Box 12, Folder 4
Item

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

News release announcing Henry D. Hicks' appointment as Dalhousie Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

MS-2-511, Box 12, Folder 5
Item
1960

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

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