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Andrew Merkel fonds

  • MS-2-326
  • Fonds
  • 1900-1954
Fonds contains records created and collected by Andrew Merkel, including correspondence with friends and associates such as Charles Bruce, Kenneth Leslie, and Robert Norwood; manuscripts; Atlantic Radio and Aviation Magazine papers; newspaper clippings; and copies of The Song Fishermens’ Song Sheet and The Order of Good Cheer.

Merkel, Andrew Doane

University of the Air

  • UA-46
  • Collection
  • 1976 - 1983
Collection comprises digital video files of four teaching series produced for television in Atlantic Canada and hosted by Dalhousie University faculty, including: series one (The Oceans); series two (The Structure of Sound); series three (20th Century Latin America: Why Revolution?); and series four (Textiles: Their Development and Effects).

Dalhousie University. University of the Air

Melville Cumming fonds

  • MS-14-1
  • Fonds
  • 1900-1970
Fonds contains photographs of Melville Cumming, as well as addresses, research articles/manuscripts, and letters related to agriculture in Nova Scotia written by Melville Cumming. Other material consists of records that were created while Dr. Cumming served as the first principal at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College from 1905-27. He was also an instructor animal husbandry, agronomy, bacteriology and public speaking, and also served as the Secretary of Agriculture for the province from 1907-25. Includes records from 1900-1970 comprised of photographs, certificates, articles, and speeches from the passing of Dr. Cumming.

Cumming, Melville

Dal Magazine

  • Series
  • 1984-2023
Series contains an incomplete run of Dal Magazine, formerly titled Dalhousie Magazine and Dalhousie Alumni Magazine.

Peter Sanger fonds

  • MS-14-25
  • Fonds
  • 1853-2009, bulk 1996-2009
Fonds contains materials created and collected by Peter Sanger. Records consists of poetry books, photocopies of news articles, and correspondence. Fonds also contains archival artifacts.

Sanger, Peter

Carleton Stanley fonds

  • MS-2-163
  • Fonds
  • 1915-1962
Fonds comprises records created and collected by Carleton Stanley that document his work, including correspondence, speeches, lectures, article and book manuscripts, and newspaper clippings.

Stanley, Carleton Wellesley

Wendy Lill fonds

  • MS-2-772
  • Fonds
  • 1976 - 2015
Fonds contains records created and collected by Wendy Lill, including correspondence, manuscripts, published play scripts, research material, speeches, reports, publicity material, and personal records.

Lill, Wendy

Donna Morrissey fonds

  • MS-2-753
  • Fonds
  • 1979-2012
Fonds contains records created and collected by Donna Morrissey that document her work as a creative writer. Records types include manuscripts (print and electronic), page proofs, illustrations, digital photographs, and published copies of her novels, scripts and short stories. There is also e-mail and printed correspondence, press material and book reviews, research materials and workshop resources.

School of Library and Information Studies, Associated Alumni fonds

  • UA-55
  • Fonds
  • 1971-2022
Fonds includes information pertaining to the formation of the Alumni Association of Dalhousie University's School of Library Service; minutes of meetings; reports; general correspondence; financial papers; events such as anniversary reunions and retirement receptions; awards such as Outstanding Alumni Award; newsletters; and photographs.

Norman Creighton fonds

  • MS-2-689
  • Fonds
  • Bulk, 1913-1995
Fonds consists of materials created and collected by Norman Creighton, including radio scripts; published and unpublished manuscripts for short stories and articles; correspondence; audio tapes and records; research notes; newspaper and magazine clippings; photographs; financial papers; memorabilia. Materials primarily relate to Creighton's long career as a writer and broadcaster, but also include materials relating to his personal life and family history. Fonds is arranged by type of material and includes the following series: CBC Scripts, Correspondence, Family Estate Documents, Fiction, Financial, Memorabilia, Nonfiction, Notebooks, Photographs, Printed Materials, Radio Talks, Records, Research Files, Subject Files, The Gillans, Titus Smith.

Creighton, Norman, 1909-1995

Traditional songs from New Glasgow

  • MS-2-353, SF Box 38, Folder 1
  • File
  • [ca. 1975]
File contains four pages of five traditional songs sung to Edward Charles Feltmate during his childhood in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Includes the text to the following songs: "The Cold Winters Night", "The Steam Packet Soverign [sic]", "The Gay Spanish Maid", "The Flying Cloud", and "Sable Island: Graveyard of the Atlantic" (written by an attendant of the [Sable Island] Life Saving Station).

Feltmate, Charles, fl. 1975

Notebook of George Renny Young

  • MS-2-212, SF Box 32, Folder 4
  • Item
  • 1838
Item is a notebook belonging to George Young containing a report on emigration from Germany and personal journal entries.

Young, George Renny, 1802-1853

A Search for Collective Bargaining : The Nova Scotia Government Employees Association Experience

  • MS-9-39, SF Box 52, Folder 2
  • Item
  • April 6, 1979
Item is an essay titled "A Search for Collective Bargaining : The Nova Scotia Government Employees Association Experience," written in 1979 by Kevin Reilly for a course on Canadian working class history taught by Dr. Gregory S. Kealey. The essay documents the history of the Nova Scotia Government Employees Association's collective bargaining experience.

Reilly, Kevin

Robert A Murray fonds

  • MS-14-26
  • Fonds
  • 1868-2000
Fonds contains records created and collected by Robert Murray relating to the history of the berry varieties grown in Nova Scotia, primarily cranberries and strawberries. Series also include agricultural artifacts.

Murray, Robert

Everett MacDougall fonds

  • MS-2-266, SF Box 31, Folder 14-15; SF Box 35, Folder 3-5
  • Fonds
  • 1877-1937
Fonds comprises photocopies of MacDougall’s diary, reference letters, correspondence from the author Frederick William Wallace and MacDougall’s sister Alice, miscellaneous business papers, and photographs of MacDougall, other mariners, and shipping vessels.

MacDougall, Everett, 1858-1938

Christopher Heide fonds

  • MS-2-838
  • Fonds
  • 1975 - 2010
Fonds contains records created and collected by Christopher Heide in the course of his career as a writer, including his work with arts and cultural associations such as ACTRA and the Dramatists' Co-op of Nova Scotia. Record types include scripts for stage, radio and screen; notes; correspondence; reports; meeting minutes; and photographs.

Heide, Christopher

Drew Sperry fonds

  • MS-2-835
  • Fonds
  • 1966 - 2004
Fonds contains architectural drawings created by Drew Sperry as a student at Nova Scotia Technical College and later as a certified architect. His student work comprises presentation drawings, while the designs for his own home in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and two other residential commissions include both presentation and construction drawings. There are two folders of textual records, which comprise a transcript of an interview with Drew and Sheila Sperry, real estate appraisals of their Dartmouth residence, and early budget breakdowns from Sperry's architectural practice.

Sperry, Henry Drew

Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

  • MS-13-86
  • Fonds
  • 1837-2020, predominant 1904-2008

Fonds contains records created and collected primarily by Alexander H. Leighton, with some by Jane Leighton Murphy. Documents span from Leighton's studies at Princeton, Cambridge, and Johns Hopkins univerities, through his government employment in World War II, and his teaching career at Cornell, Dalhousie, and Harvard. The majority of records are related to the 1961 Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project and the 1963 Study on the Role of Women, both based in Nigeria, and the Stirling County Study, based in Nova Scotia. Record types include correspondence, manuscripts, grant applications, reports, photographs and slides, medical and academic records, method and guidebooks, reviews, offprints and publications, teaching and course materials, and surveys and interview transcripts.

A sous-fonds contains records documenting the migration of Alexander Leighton's parents from Ireland to the United States and their subsequent life in Philadelphia. The sous-fonds contains extensive correspondence between extended family members over the course of a century, as well as photographs, diaries, wills, family trees, memoirs, and Alexander Leighton's personal correspondence.

Murphy, Jane Leighton

Information Science Student Association fonds

  • UA-57
  • Fonds
  • 1970-2019, predominant 2001-2019
Fonds consists of records pertaining to the formation of the Information Science Student Association of Dalhousie University's School of Information Management, constitutions, meeting minutes, agendas, annual reports, correspondence, committee records, IWB conference records, event materials, event photographs, and financial records. The majority of the records were created between 2001-2019 when the organization was known as SIMSA.

Information Science Student Association (ISSA)

James H. Morrison fonds

  • MS-2-27
  • Fonds
  • 1918-1979, predominant 1970-1976
Fonds comprises records created and collected by James Morrison primarily documenting his oral history research of northern Nigerian communities between 1970-1976, including the Heipang, Riyom, Bachit, Ropp, Kuru and Irrigwe peoples. Record types include field notes; research notebooks; essays; manuscript drafts and a bound copy of Morrison's doctoral thesis; bibliographic files; correspondence; secondary published materials and reports; cassette recordings of oral interviews, speeches, singing and music; photographs related to the Jos Plateau; and a small number of maps.

Morrison, James H.

Norman H. Morse fonds

  • MS-2-560
  • Fonds
  • 1967 - 1973
Fonds consists of Norman Morse's correspondence, memos and secondary research materials related to a report by T.J. Kauffeld produced for the Halifax Port Commission regarding the development of container facilities.

Morse, Norman Harding, 1920-2007

G. Cecil Day fonds

  • MS-2-355, SF Box 41, Folders 2-4
  • Fonds
  • 1895; 1929-1954
Fonds comprises letters to Day in his capacity as newspaper editor, two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings related to Ireland, and an unsigned typescript article about the Halifax & South Western Railway Company.

Day, G. Cecil, 1898-1976

Sheila Piercey fonds

  • MS-5-20
  • Fonds
  • 1950-2010
Fonds consists of records of Sheila Piercey's opera performance activities and music teaching. Record types include primarily sound recordings of recitals, concerts, auditions, practices, rehearsals, radio broadcasts and textual records, including teaching records and various programs from the Dalhousie Glee and Dramatic Society, Dalhousie Tigers, graduation recitals, noon-hour recitals, festivals, opera workshops, and other performances produced by the Dalhousie Department of Music and a small number of documents Sheila collected when she was a student at Dalhousie University.

Piercey, Sheila Kathleen

Class photograph for the Scotsburn School, 1898-1899

  • MS-2-Ref, PB Box 31, Folder 5
  • Item
  • 1898 - 1899
Photograph includes several members of the MacLeod family including : John W. MacLeod; James D. MacLeod; Anna MacLeod; Elizabeth MacLeod and Christina Dey MacLeod.

Armand Therrien Photograph Collection

  • MS-2-304, Box 8-10
  • Collection
  • 1804-1945
Collection consists of over 500 photographs of ships. Collection also contains French-language clippings: Liste des newspages dans le Monde d'Apres Le Journal Courrier De Londres et Gazette de la Grand Bretagne 1804-1807; Registre des Navires Canadienne et Etrangers Coules Derrand La Guerre 1939-1945; Registre notes des Croisieres des U Boot Allemandes Guerre 1939-1945.

Therrien, Armand

Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

  • UA-43
  • Fonds
  • 1885-2012
Fonds contains textual material, photos, artifacts, slides, paintings, and a video cassette created by the School of Agriculture, the College of Agriculture, and the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, between 1892 and 2012. Series include records of an administrative nature, departments on campus, buildings, photographs, student and faculty records, events, curriculum, and the institutions history.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College

William Rhoades fonds

  • MS-2-598, SF Boxes 80-82
  • Fonds
  • 1898-1954

Fonds consists of diaries and notebooks; printed programmes, books, and newspaper clippings regarding Col. William Rhoades or the regiments with which he served, including the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles. Fonds also contains miscellaneous papers related to his career.

The diaries and notebooks document Rhoades’ activities while posted in the Yukon, South Africa, and Europe during World War I. Some of the notebooks also contain hand drawn maps of battle fields.

Rhoades, William, 1874-1955

Jessica Scott Kerrin fonds

  • MS-2-821
  • Fonds
  • 1996-2019, predominantely 2001-2019
Fonds comprises records regarding Jessica Scott Kerrin's work as a children's author, including printed and electronic manuscripts; editorial correspondence; book reviews; style and writing guides; learning resource materials; digital photographs; and correspondence from readers, primarily school children.

Kerrin, Jessica Scott

Hector Pothier fonds

  • MS-13-66
  • Fonds
  • 1866-1973
Fonds consists of a Hector Pothier's medical school diploma, a Dalhousie song book (ca. 1912-1913), photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, election paraphernalia, invoices, and speeches made to the Nova Scotia Legislature.

Pothier, Hector

Ken Clare fonds

  • MS-10-12
  • Fonds
  • 1973-1981
Fonds contains material collected by Ken Clare relating to his interest in Nova Scotia Unions. Material includes photographs of the Halifax Lab Tech Strike in 1975; material relating to the Dalhousie Cleaners strike in the winter of 1978-1979; material from the Nova Scotia Labour Research and Support Centre; and material relating to the attempts to organize the workers at the Michelin plant at Granton by the United Rubber workers.

Ronald Justin Inness fonds

  • MS-2-600
  • Fonds
  • [19--]
Fonds consists of materials collected by Ronald Justin Inness about ships and shipping companies, including pamphlets, manuscripts, clippings, and correspondence. Fonds also contains manuscripts written by Ronald Justin Inness about the Innes' genealogy.

Inness, Ronald Justin

Reginald Eyre Watters fonds

  • MS-2-369, SF Box 41, Folder 13 ; SF Box 39, Folder 2
  • Fonds
  • 1972-1977
Fonds comprises 73 leaves of correspondence and a typescript essay by Wayne Kime called "The American Antecedents of James De Mille's A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder."

Watters, Reginald Eyre, 1912-1979

Joseph Simpson Harris fonds

  • MS-2-147
  • Fonds
  • 1865-1928
Fonds comprises writs of execution, auction registers, papers regarding the barque Redento (1895), and correspondence (primarily postcards) reflecting Harris's work as High Sheriff for Pictou County.

Harris, Joseph Simpson

Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists biography collection

  • MS-14-19
  • Collection
  • 1971
Collection contains materials created and collected by the Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists. Series include biographies and photographs of notable Nova Scotia agrologists, many of whom were associated with the Nova Scotia Agricultural College or the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture.

Nova Scotia Institute of Agrologists

Errol E.I. Hancock fonds

  • MS-14-44
  • Fonds
  • 1924-2002
Fonds contains records and artifacts that belonged to, or were created by, Errol E.I. Hancock.

Hancock, Errol E.I.

Nova Scotia artificial insemination industry collection

  • MS-14-17
  • Collection
  • 1846-1966
Collection contains records created by the early Artificial insemination industry in Nova Scotia, including original notebooks used by the first technician; also included were books on farming, shepherding, and the life of W.E. Gladstone.

John Edward McIntyre fonds

  • MS-14-38
  • Fonds
  • 1920-1974
Fonds consists of letters, journals, business records, photographs, and artifacts created and collected by John Edward McIntyre during his career as an agriculturalist between 1920 and 1974. He worked for the New Brunswick Department of Agriculture, the Potash Company of Canada, Canadian National Railways and for many years was Secretary / Treasurer of the Maritime Fertilizer Council.

McIntyre, John Edward

Jamaican Agricultural Society fonds

  • MS-14-67
  • Fonds
  • 1957-1987
Fonds consists of records created and collected by the Jamaica Agricultural Society. Records include publications, program outlines, meeting descriptions, serials, and booklets. Materials are related to JAS operations, bylaws, finances, proceedings of seminars, the history of agriculture in Jamaica, and development of better agricultural practices.

Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

  • MS-14-22
  • Collection
  • 1811-2005
Collection contains records created or collected by Edith Zillig related to sheep, the sheep breeding industry, and wool between 1811-2005. Records types include published and unpublished papers, correspondence, reports, pamphlets, booklets, monographs, magazines, newsletters, photographs, filmstrips, recipes, and artifacts.

Zillig, Edith

Albert E. Gale

  • MS-2-363
  • Fonds
  • 1907 - 1910
The collection contains tests from the short plumbing course offered by International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pennsylvania, a photograph of Nova Scotian workers in Jerome, Arizona and a photograph of the Yachtsmen.

Sue Campbell fonds

  • MS-2-770
  • Fonds
  • 1970-2010
Fonds contains records created and collected by Sue Campbell in the course of her work as a scholar and educator in philosophy and women's and gender studies, beginning with her MA thesis research. Record types include research and lecture notes; grant applications; conference materials; newsletters; teaching and course materials; correspondence; and manuscripts.

Campbell, Sue

Agricultural archives reference collection

  • MS-14-REF
  • Collection
  • 1846-2007
Collection contains materials related to agriculture, which includes related organizations, industries, education, machinery, research, products, livestock, harvesting, management, crops, etc. These were published between 1846-2007.
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