Archives Catalogue

UA-36, Box 8, Folders 22 and 23
Item
1979

Item is a catalogue for the 4th Dalhousie drawing exhibition , organized by and presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery from March 1 to April 1, 1979. The exhibition presented the works of Alex Colville, Charlotte Hammond, Graham Metson, Brian Porter, Roger Savage, and Ruth Wainwright.

catalogue contains a forward, introduction by Carol Fraser (acting curator, Dalhousie art Gallery), biographies of each artist and quotations from them on their artworks, images of select artworks, and an exhibition list.

imX Communications Inc. fonds

MS-3-40
Fonds
1985-2009

Fonds consists of records regarding imX’s corporate operations, productions, and other projects between 1985 and 2008. Corporate operations include imX Communications and its subsidiary companies: ImageX, Helix Animation, and North/Northeast Ventures. Film productions include theatrical full-length or short films, including documentaries. Television productions include made-for-television movies and documentaries, stand-alone productions, and series. Animated productions include feature length, television series, and shorts.

This fonds comprises ninety-four series which are arranged alphabetically by the name of the corporate entity, production, and project. Textual files contain a wide range of documents including scripts, call sheets and daily production reports, funding applications, cast and crew employment contracts, notes on location scouting, co-production agreements, marketing plans, budgets, music cue sheets, insurance coverage, and correspondence. Electronic mail (4.57 GB) downloaded from the e-mail server at imX corporate headquarters in Halifax contains 32,134 individual messages in 1,054 folders covering all aspects of corporate operations and business transactions. There are also 23,368 electronic files (15.6GB) that support the activities of imX, imageX, and Helix Animation documents in use between 1990 and 2008. Together with the text files, they represent a complete record of the activities of imX Communications and its affiliates.

Most corporate records have been retained in order to provide a full picture of what it is like to run a film production company in Nova Scotia. In addition, the records for three feature film productions, The Divine Ryans, Margaret’s Museum, and Love and Death on Long Island, have also been fully retained. 134 linear feet of textual material was not retained.

imX Communications.

The reporter, January 19, 1989

MS-2-838, Box 3, Folder 6
File
1989

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains two copies of the Port Hawkesbury centennial insert of the The Reporter, pages B1-B20.

Hand-drawn map of Granville Street, Port Hawkesbury

MS-2-838, Box 3, Folder 8
Item
1989

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Item is a hand-drawn map of Granville Street, Port Hawkesbury, indicating the names and locations of historical businesses.

Postcard of Baddock, Cape Breton

MS-2-315, PB Box 2, Folder 91
Item
[between 1900 and 1916]

Part of Gass Family Postcard Collection

Item is a blank postcard. The image on the front is of Baddock [sic], Cape Breton.

Postcard of British and French warships in the harbour at Sydney, Nova Scotia

MS-2-315, PB Box 2, Folder 84
Item
1906

Part of Gass Family Postcard Collection

Item is a postcard sent from W. Ervin in Sydney, Nova Scotia to Cyril Gass in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. The image on the front of the postcard is of British and French warships in the harbour at Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Correspondence with Claude C. Chappell regarding a favourable decision in the Supreme Court

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 11
File
2 July and 12 July 1963

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

G.V. Douglas's field notebooks and mineral reports

MS-2-20, SF Box 14, Folder 3
File
1929 - 1943

Part of George Vibert Douglas fonds

Chimney Corner coal field, Inverness Co., NS

MS-2-20, SF Box 14, Folder 3, Item 3
Item
1940

Part of George Vibert Douglas fonds

Item is a typed report written by Professor C.V. Douglas and N.R. Goodman from the Department of Geology at Dalhousie University based on field work carried out in 1940.

Atlantic Canada farm and rural life collection

MS-14-9
Collection
1851-2004

Collection consists of material related to farm and rural life in Atlantic Canada. Including historical accounts of farm life and agricultural management in Atlantic Canada. Series include graphic materials, maps, surveys, and sketches of farms in Nova Scotia, and reports and diaries related to farm and rural life in Atlantic Canada. Series are arranged alphabetically and range between 1851-2004.

Shipping records for Amazon

MS-2-518, Box 1, Folder 8, Item 12
Item
1874; 1887; 1889

Part of Irving Deale collection

Carleton Stanley's article submitted for the 1932 Special Edition of the Sydney Post

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 16
Item
1931

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of a typescript of an article submitted by Carleton Stanley for the Special Edition of the Sydney Post over the 1932 holidays, discussing Stanley's first six months as Dalhousie University President. Item also contains related correspondence.

Carleton Stanley's submission to the 1934 New Year Edition of the Sydney Post-Record

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 70
Item
December 1933

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of a typescript copy of Carleton Stanley's submission to the 1934 New Year Edition of the Sydney Post-Record, prepared in December 1933, discussing the importance of taking a "long-sighted view" of Cape Breton's economic future, rather than using "any temporary upturn in business conditions" as an indicator. Item contains related correspondence.

In black and white : a photo exhibit by Ron E. Merrick and Albert Lee : quotations by Nancy MacDonald

UA-36, Box 6, Folders 18 and 19
Item
[1974?]

Part of Dalhousie Art Gallery fonds

Item is a catalogue for an exhibition of photography, organized and presented by Dalhousie Art Gallery from October 29 to November 17, 1974.

Catalogue contains portraits, biographies, and artist statements of the artists, and lists of each of their photographs in the exhibition.

Notes, minutes and historical newspaper clippings regarding the Port Hawkesbury centennial project

MS-2-838, Box 3, Folder 4
File
1988

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Calendar of centennial events and historical notes about the Town of Port Hawkesbury, 1889 - 1989

MS-2-838, Box 3, Folder 7
Item
1989

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Items is a monthly wall calendar containing historic photographs and marking both historic and centennial events in the Town of Port Hawkesbury.

Chris Heide's working copies of scripts for the Port Hawkesbury centennial project

MS-2-838, Box 3, Folder 5
File
1988

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Annotated manuscript copies from the Port Hawkesbury centennial project

MS-2-838, Box 3, Folder 3
File
1989

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains annotated copies of scripts largely written or co-written by Christopher Heide for Under the Map theatre group's Port Hawkesbury centennial project.

Mulgrave Road Co-op Theatre – Port Hawkesbury Centennial Celebrations Committee joint performance project surveys

MS-2-838, Box 3, Folder 1
File
[1987?]

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains completed surveys gathered from Port Hawkesbury community members to assist in shaping the content of the centennial celebration production. File also contains a survey analysis.

Port Hawkesbury centennial project authors' original manuscripts

MS-2-838, Box 3, Folder 2
File
1989

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains copies of the authors' original manuscripts for the play produced by Under the Map theatre group, a Port Hawkesbury centennial community project. The group performed plays depicting the town's history on four consecutive nights in August 1989 using Granville Street as the setting.

Under the Map : 100 years of Port Hawkesbury and her people — A Centennial Community Performance Project

MS-2-838, Box 2, Folder 11
Item
1989

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Item is the stage book for Port Hawkesbury's centennial community performance project, which became Under the Map Theatre group.

Under the Map administrative and publicity records

MS-2-838, Box 4, Folders 10 & 11
File
1988 - 1989

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File includes meeting agendas and notes, correspondence, budgets, schedules and project reports for the Port Hawkesbury Centennial Community Performance Project. Also enclosed are script development records, production reviews and an article by Christopher Heide published in Integare: Recreational Council on Disability in Nova Scotia's Winter 1990 newsletter.

Student Prince (Kathie), Sydney rotary 1958

MS-5-20, Box 2, Reel 6
Item
1958

Part of Sheila Piercey fonds

Item is a reel-to-reel recording of "The Student Prince" produced by The Rotary Club of Sydney, Cape Breton. Sheila Piercey performed the role of Kathie(niece of Ruder).

Letter from Joseph Howe to D.O.C. Madden of Arichat, Nova Scotia

MS-2-779, SF Box 80, Folder 12
File
August 10, 1849

Part of George Robertson's historical documents collection

File contains a letter from Joseph Howe to D.O.C. Madden of Arichat, Nova Scotia, written on 10 August 1849. The letter discusses a petition from Peter Furrier, Master of the Brig Superb, to have his vessel released from quarantine.

Howe, Joseph

Letter from Rev. D.B. Blair to Mr Farquharson

MS-2-228, SF Box 33, Folder 28
Item
1892

Blair's letter discusses the spread of the Evangelical ministry amongst the Gaelic people of Cape Breton.

Blair, Duncan Black, The Reverend, 182?-1893

The early Scotch settlers of Cape Breton : [manuscript]

MS-2-165, SF Box 25, Folder 37
Item
1931

Item is a manuscript of Daniel Morrison's unpublished article The Early Scotch Settlers of Cape Breton, which he presented to the literary branch of the Guild in Dominion, Nova Scotia. Attached is his letter to Mr. McIntosh, requesting the manuscript's return and the reader's spelling corrections of Gaelic words.

Morrison, Murdoch Daniel

Plan of the city and Harbour of Louisbourg

MS-2-756, OS Folder 4
Item
1745

Part of The Pullen Map Collection

Photographs of the South Side Baddeck, etc. Garden Club Show, 1938, "Club work"

MS-14-8, PB Box 25, Folder 13
File
1938

Part of Canadian agriculture collection

File contains photographs of the 1938 South Side Baddeck, etc. Garden Club Show, 1938, "Club work". People and individuals are depicted in front of tables of fruits and vegetables and plants on exhibit. Also featured are groups of people in a field where they appear to be showing cattle, beef or dairy.

Correspondence regarding relief efforts for the Halifax explosion

MS-2-82, Box 32, Folder 4
File
1917-1918

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

File contains correspondence regarding relief efforts for the Halifax explosion. File contains letters from Ralph P. Bell, Hervey P. Clark, Ethel Stuart MacKenzie, and other people.

Speech entitled 'Agricultural development of Cape Breton Island'

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 28
File
before 1966

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Colliery and mining maps

MS-2-235, OS Folder 1
File
[ca. 1870s]

Part of John and Robert Rutherford fonds

File contains hand-drawn and printed maps of coal fields and designated areas, including Pictou coal fields; the Mining Association area; Cape Breton Company's areas; Albion Mines; Stellar Mine; Fraser Oil-Coal Mines; Intercolonial Coal Mining Company property; East River Mining Company area; Acadian Coal Company areas; and the Halifax Company Ltd.

Island of Cape Breton

MS-2-836, Box 1, Item 3
Item
1758

Part of George Burden map collection

Item is a hand-coloured engraving of Cape Breton extracted from Atlas minimus, or, A new set of pocket maps of the several empires, kingdoms and states of the known world, published in 1758 by John Gibson and Emmanuel Bowen. The map appeared on page 46 of the book.

Bowen, Emmanuel, 1694-1767

Port de Louisebourg dans l'Isle Royale

MS-2-836, Box 1, Item 2
Item
1764

Part of George Burden map collection

Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772

Map of Cape Breton

MS-2-836, Box 1, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1780]

Part of George Burden map collection

Item is a hand-drawn map of Cape Breton by Captain Charles Randle.

Randle, Charles, 1755-1813

Photograph of a Polytrichum commune, "Reggae" site

MS-2-789, Box 14, Folder 24, Item 48
Item
1983

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Material relating to property in Bridgewater, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia purchased from Charles Duncan Johnson and Jeanette Louise Johnson

MS-4-135, Box 201, Folder 40
File
1983

Part of Oland and Son fonds

File consists of legal documents, correspondence and a title search report regarding property purchased from Charles Duncan Johnson and Jeanette Louise Johnson.

Video recording of the East Coast Music Association awards

MS-5-22, Box 4, Item 10
Item
2000

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a videocassette recording of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir at the East Coast Music Association awards in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Photographs of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir in Sydney

MS-5-22, Box 10, Folder 15
File
1996

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains photographs of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir at Holy Redeemer Church and Whitney Pier in Sydney, Nova Scotia in 1996.

Photographs feature Joe Colley, Jeremiah Sparks, Lela Colley, and other choir members.

Photograph of Lenora Downey with hosts

MS-5-22, Box 10, Folder 17
Item
1996

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

Item is a photograph of Lenora Downey of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir with host family, Claire and Raphael Nyiti in Coxheath, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

MS-5-22, Box 10, Folder 16
File
1996

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains photographs related to the Nova Scotia Mass Choir in 1996. Photographs feature the interior of St. Philip's African Orthodox Church in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Photographs of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir in Sydney

MS-5-22, Box 10, Folder 14
File
October 26-27, 1996

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains photographs of the Nova Scotia Mass Choir on a trip to Sydney, Nova Scotia from October 26, 1996 to October 27, 1996.

Photographs of a Nova Scotia Mass Choir rehearsal

MS-5-22, Box 9, Folder 15
File
July 27, 1994

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains photographs of Nova Scotia Mass Choir rehearsing at Club 55 in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Photographs of a Nova Scotia Mass Choir rehearsal

MS-5-22, Box 9, Folder 8
File
1993

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains photographs of Nova Scotia Mass Choir members rehearsing at Club 55 in Sydney, Nova Scotia in 1993.

Exhibitions 1961-62

UA-36, Box 1, Folder 13-14
File
1961-1962

Part of Dalhousie Art Gallery fonds

File consists of records related to exhibitions held at the Dalhousie Art Gallery from 1961-1962.

Records consist of a clipping of a review titled 'Paintings by Lola Mould'; floor plan and photograph, exhibition text, and bibliography to accompany 'Contemporary Canadian Painting', loaned from the National Gallery of Canada; exhibition texts, lists of artworks, loan agreements, packing lists, itineraries for 'The Campaign in Northwest Europe', 'Sculpture Reproductions', 'Polish Posters', 'Maritime Art Association Exhibition', 'Highlights of American Painting', 'Contemporary Canadian Painting', and 'Kodachrome Slide Project'; handwritten notes; an information booklet; and exhibition entry forms for the 'Dalhousie Atlantic Award Exhibition'.

Articles for the Mail-Star about Eskasoni

MS-2-130, Box 8, Folder 23
File
1974

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

File contains three newspaper clippings of articles written by Barbara Hinds for the Mail-Star about people from Eskasoni First Nation. The articles were published between June 22, 1974 and July 10, 1974.