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Gordon Kinsman's berry research records

Series contains papers, correspondence, newspaper clippings, reproductions of articles, photographs, and signs created and collected by Gordon Kinsman during his research of berries, specifically strawberries, the strawberry industry, berry box making, and blueberries in Nova Scotia between 1891 and 1993.

Garden guide radio transcripts

Series contains contains Garden Guide Radio transcripts from 1980-1998. Garden Guide Radio created / hosted by the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Fisheries. It is unclear where it aired on, possibly CBC Radio. Files are arranged chronologically.

Memorabilia

Balcom kept a wide variety of items that indicated his involvement in associations and society generally. This series includes newspaper clippings, association lists that list Balcom on their boards, and keepsakes that do not otherwise fit into the other series.

Technical University of Nova Scotia student files

Series consists of student records created by the Nova Scotia Technical College (NSTC) and its successor, the Technical University of Nova Scotia (TUNS). NTSC created the majority of records between 1920 and 1978. Series also includes student records created by TUNS before the 1997 amalgamation with Dalhousie University.

Records include personal information about students, including names, courses taken, date of graduation, degree awarded, place of birth, and name of parent.

TUNS maintained these records until the 1997 amalgamation with Dalhousie University. When the universities merged, TUNS transferred the records to the Dalhousie University Registrar's Office.

Posters

Series is comprised of posters created for exhibitions and events at Eyelevel Gallery.

Records relating to the Nova Scotia Agricultural College library, the MacRae Library, and to the Agricola Archives, Museum, and Special Collections

Series contains records and artifacts that were created by the College library, from 1905-1983, and the MacRae Library, built on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus, between 1983-2012. Records also pertain to the Agricola Archives, Museum, and Special Collections which is housed in the MacRae Library building. Records include handbooks, archival exhibits held at the MacRae Library, photographs, and newspaper clippings.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College. MacRae Library

Personnel files

Series includes the following types of materials: full- and part-time faculty files; support staff files; part-time academic (non DFA) files; professional staff files; student T.A. files; academic recruiting correspondence, supporting materials and applications; academic job postings; deployment worksheets; work schedule information; employment equity issues; individual faculty biographies and profiles.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College student records

Series contains records, books, photographs, and a time of capsule, of past students and their involvement in a variety of activities at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College as well as updates and autobiographies after graduation. Subseries include athletic sporting events, student councils, and convocation events, employment statistics, etc., between 1905-2012.

Nova Scotia Agricultural College records and photographs relating to special events, celebrations, and workshops from 1928-2005

Series contains photographs, documents, flyers, scripts, and audio recordings of special events, celebrations, and workshops at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. Records relate to Founders day, anniversaries, exhibitions, dramas, open houses, commencements, etc. between 1928-2006.

Historical records relating to the Nova Scotia Agriculture College between 1904 and 2010

Series contains records relating to the history of the Nova Scotia Agriculture College and its relationship with agriculture in Nova Scotia and across the world. This includes early drafts for a university motto and crest, past principal's signatures, and contributions to the provincial government between 1904-2010. Subseries' includes History of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College and agriculture in Nova Scotia. Record types found are textual files, reports, drawings, correspondence, books, and photographs.

Maps, surveys, and sketches of farms in Nova Scotia

Series contains sketches of a farm at Valley Station [Nova Scotia], a woodlot in Truro, N.S., Truro Market and properties in Truro of T.G. McMullen and others, and some coal and iron areas in Kemptown, surveyed by J.K. Eaton, D.C.L.S. Series is arranged chronologically from 1899 to 1911.

In This Light

Series contains records for a play by Catherine Banks adapted from R. Farquharson Sharp's 1911 English translation of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People. The play was commissioned by Two Planks and a Passion Theatre and premiered at Ross Creek Centre for the Arts on 6 July 2019. Records types in include manuscript drafts, correspondence, notes, reviews and a program.

Rilla-my-Rilla

Series contains records for a play manuscript by Catherine Banks based on L.M. Montgomery's Rilla of Ingleside.

Back from Australia

Series contains material related to Catherine Bank's play, Back from Australia. Records types include manuscripts and correspondence.

The Mountain and the Valley

Series consists of records, primarily manuscripts, notes and correspondence, regarding The Mountain and the Valley, a play adapted by Catherine Banks from a novel by Ernest Buckler.

Three Storey, Ocean View

Series contains records that document the development and production of Three Storey, Ocean View, a play by Catherine Banks. First produced in 2000 by Mulgrave Road Theatre in Guysborough, Nova Scotia, the play was a silver medalist in du Maurier National Play Competition and was published in 2003 by the Playwrights' Guild of Canada.

Summer of the Piping Plover

Series contains materials relating to the development, publication and production of Summer of the Piping Plover, Catherine Banks' first published play, produced by UpStart Theatre in 1991. Materials include scripts and a proposal.

Miss n Me / Missy and Me

Series contains partial and complete manuscripts of Missy and Me (later Miss n Me) along with related research, production and publicity materials. Missy and Me is the sixth play written by Catherine Banks. Inspired by the music of American rapper Missy Elliott, the play tells the story of a Nova Scotia housewife leaving for New York to pursue Missy Elliott, the object of her obsession. The play was shortlisted for the 2013 Stage West Pechet Family Comedy Award and was later produced by Sarasvati Productions and performed from 21-31 May 2015 at the University of Winnipeg Asper Centre for Theatre and Film and by Eastern Front Theatre in Halifax, NS, from 14-24 March 2019.

Match Love

Series contains six typescripts and one manuscript of Match Love, a play by Catherine Banks.

Bone Cage

Series contains materials related to the development, publication, and production of Bone Cage, including notes and research material, sketches, partial and complete manuscripts and typescripts, production records, and other material.

Bone Cage is a portrayal of life in rural Nova Scotia. The main character is Jamie, a 22 year old forestry worker doing 12-hour shifts operating a wood processor, clear-cutting for pulp. At the end of each shift, he walks through the destruction he has created looking for injured birds and animals and rescues those he can. Jamie's desire to escape this world is thwarted by his fear of leaving the place where he has some status. Bone Cage examines how young people in rural communities, employed in the destruction of the environment they love, treat the people they love at the end of their shift.

The play was written with financial support from a 1996 Canada Council grant. It was initially meant to deal with systematic violence in rural communities. While writing the play, a new character began to emerge and Banks took time to develop this one-woman show that became Bitter Rose.

Bone Cage was published by Playwrights' Canada Press. It won a national competition run by Theatre British Columbia and won the 2008 Governor General's Literary Award (English) for Drama. In October 2007, it was co-produced by Forerunner Playwrights Theatre and Ship’s Company Theatre and performed at Neptune Theatre’s Studio Stage in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was also produced by Mulgrave Road Theatre in Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Downstream Theatre in Calgary, Alberta (2009-2010 ), and Matchstick Theatre Productions in Halifax (2017).

It is Solved by Walking

Series contains records related to the development, production and publication of It is Solved by Walking, a play by Catherine Banks. The world premier was produced in 2011 by Urban Curvz Theatre in Calgary, Alberta, and named one of the eleven best productions of 2011 by the Calgary Herald. The play was published by the Canadian Playwrights' Press and won the 2012 Governor General's Award Literary Award for (English) Drama. Records include manuscripts, publicity materials and notes.

Love Bytes

Series contains records from a 1999 production of Love Bytes mounted at Jest in Time Theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Love Bytes is a one-scene play by Catherine Banks.

Hockey Sisters

Series contains complete and partial scripts of Hockey Sisters, lyrics used in the play, and research material. Hockey Sisters is an early unfinished play by Catherine Banks. In a 2009 interview with One Big Umbrella, a theatre blog, Banks commented that she couldn't finish the play because she "couldn’t find that hook that made me want to finish it enough to dig down and do it."

Eula's Offer

Series contains typescripts of Eula's Offer and a letter announcing honourable mention for the play in a Canadian playwriting competition. Eula's Offer is an early play by Catherin Banks about teen parenting. The main character is Eula, a teenager who just had a baby. Her boyfriend does not want to know about the baby and she has trouble looking after it. Eula's childless brother wants to care for the child.

The play received honourable mention at the Little Ottawa Theatre Competition in 1984.

Catherine Banks' miscellaneous manuscripts, essays and notes

Series contains other play manuscripts, poems and essays, and notes for plays and projects, including Smoking, The New Sex, The Love of Dance, The Morningside Caper, Seasons, The Boy that Cannot Be Contained, Willpower Play, The Dinner Party, and other projects. Series also contains script notes for This Hour Has 22 Minutes and materials written for Downstage Theatre.
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