Archives Catalogue

Phyllis Blakeley with Deputy Minister of the Department of Culture, Recreation and Fitness, Louis Stephen

MS-2-612, Box 62, Folder 31
Item
1981

Part of Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia fonds

Item is a photograph of Phyllis Blakeley with Deputy Minister of the Department of Culture, Recreation and Fitness, Louis Stephen. Blakeley was the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia nominee for the Cultural Life Award.

Le Isole di Terra Nuova e Capo Breton, Di Nuovo Projezione, by Antonio Zatta

2011-006, Oversized Folder 2
Item
1778

Part of David and Marilyn Janigan Map Collection

Pierre Du Gua de Monts, [receipt?]

MS-6, Box 1, Folder 34
File
[1612?]

Part of William Inglis Morse Manuscript Collection

Item is possibly a receipt to Pierre Du Gua de Monts from Pierre Dugua circa 1612. The document was donated after the Catalogue of the William Morse Collection was printed.

Pierre Du Gua de Monts, [receipt?]

MS-6, Box 1, Folder 35
File
1612

Part of William Inglis Morse Manuscript Collection

Item is possibly a receipt to Pierre Du Gua de Monts from Pierre Dugua circa 1612. Document was donated after the Catalogue of the William Morse Collection was printed.

Transcript of an interview with Stanley MacEachern

Item
August 20, 2010

Part of Our Voices Matter Oral History Collection

Item is a transcript of an interview with Stanley MacEachern. The interview was conducted by Anna Quon at the Belmont House on August 20, 2010. This was the first interview conducted as part of the Canadian Mental Health Association Halifax-Dartmouth Branch's Our Voices Matter Project. The interview touches on a wide range of topics, including Stanley's childhood in Oshawa, Ontario, life in Nova Scotia, experiences with depression and medication, work and travels, and other aspects of his personal life.

Correspondence between Joseph O'Brien and John Northrup & Sons

MS-4-242, Box 1, Folder 5
File
1858-1868

Part of O'Brien Family fonds

File contains letters sent from John Northrup and Sons to Joseph O'Brien. John Northrup and Sons was a merchant based in Halifax, Nova Scotia during the nineteenth century. The company sold flour, fish, groceries, liquors, dry goods, and other materials. The correspondence pertains to business matters of various vessels, including the barques "Janet" and "Lucknow."

Voice, no. 2 : [newsletter of the Gay Alliance for Equality]

MS-11-1, Box 20, Folder 26
Item
1977

Part of Movement for Citizens Voice and Action fonds

Item is the second issue of the newsletter Voice, published in April 1977 by the Gay Alliance for Equality. Voice was published by Marni Dowe and organized by the Voice Committee, which consisted of Robin Metcalfe, Deborah Trask, and Anne Fulton. Susan Longard was the typist. This issue addresses media discrimination of gays and provided coverage of other news and events. The issue contains submissions by Jim McSwain, Robin Metcalfe, Mary Ann Mancini, Anne Fulton, and Bob Stout.

Nova Francia et Regiones Adiacentes

MS-2-46, OS Box 2, Folder 3
Item
1633

Part of Edward J. Mullaly Map Collection

Item is a map of Nova Scotia and adjacent regions by Johannes De Laet. It is the first printed map to include an accurate depiction of Prince Edward Island, and the earliest depiction of a north-south orientated Lake Champlain.

Partie Orientale du la Nouvelle France ou du Canada

MS-2-46, Folder 2
Item
1747

Part of Edward J. Mullaly Map Collection

Item is a map of eastern Canada by Jacques Nicolas Bellin.

A new and accurate map of the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, St. John, and Anticosta

MS-2-46, OS Box 1, Folder 2
Item
1747

Part of Edward J. Mullaly Map Collection

Item is a map of the Atlantic Canadian Provinces, by Emanuel Bowen. Scale is approx: 1 cm = 20 English miles.

Map of Bonaparte Lake, New Brunswick

MS-2-46, OS Box 1, Item 1
Item
[after 1864]

Part of Edward J. Mullaly Map Collection

Item is a map of Bonaparte Lake in New Brunswick, Canada. Map was created sometime after 1864 by William Francis Ganong.

Map of Oromocto and Kedron Lake, New Brunswick

MS-2-46, OS Box 1, Folder 4
Item
[after 1864]

Part of Edward J. Mullaly Map Collection

Item is a map of the Oromocto area of New Brunswick, Canada. The map was created sometime after 1864 by W.F. Ganong.

Septentrionalium Partium Nova Tabula

MS-2-46, OS Box 2, Folder 1
Item
1572

Part of Edward J. Mullaly Map Collection

R. St. Iehan

MS-2-46, OS Box 2, Folder 2
Item
1613

Part of Edward J. Mullaly Map Collection

Item is a chart of a harbour showing a point of land with a cross. The chart was published on page thirty of Les voyages du sieur de Champlain Xaintongeois, capitaine ordinaire pour le roy en la marine (Paris: Jean Berjon, 1613). In this volume, Champlain describes the country around Port des mines or present-day Basin of Mines or Minas Basin, Nova Scotia, Canada. The river at the head of the bay is Shubenacadie River, but the location of the cross, which proves, according to the author, that Christians once lived there, is unknown. Champlain drew the original from which the engraving was made. Cartographic elements include soundings, shoals, compass rose, and ship. Chart also includes a waterfall or rapids, a dwelling, a group of First Nations people, and some topographical details. Items in image are lettered for identification in key below.

Press release regarding picket in front of the Carleton Hotel on Argyle Street

MS-11-1, Box 22, Folder 12
File
1977

Part of Movement for Citizens Voice and Action fonds

File contains a press release that announces a picket to protest the management of the Jury Room Lounge, which had been refusing service to the gay and lesbian community. File also contains a letter to members of the Gay Alliance for Equality regarding a 1975 citation to recognize exceptional service by the Movement for Citizens' Voice and Action to promote the equality of lesbians and
gay men.

Carte Reduite Du Golphe De St. Laurent, Contenant l'Isle de Terre-Neuve et Partie de la Coste des Esquimaux, l'Isle Royale, l'Isle St. Jean et Celle d'Anticosti et ca.

2011-006, Oversized Folder 1
Item
1754

Part of David and Marilyn Janigan Map Collection

Breaking barriers : report of the task force on access for Black and Native People

UA-22, Box 406, Folder 10
File
1989

Part of Maritime School of Social Work fonds

File contains a report presented to H.C. Clark. The report led to the formation of the Indigenous Blacks & Mi'kmaq (IB&M) Initiative at the Schulich School of Law in 1989. The initiative was launched to increase representation of Indigenous Blacks and Mi'kmaq in the legal profession in order to reduce discrimination.

Perspective view of the harbour, coasts and town of Porto Bello

MS-2-756, OS Folder 2
Item
[17--]

Part of The Pullen Map Collection

Item is an illustration of the town of Porto Bello, Scotland. Illustration is in the style of the eighteenth century British School.

Plan of the city and Harbour of Louisbourg

MS-2-756, OS Folder 4
Item
1745

Part of The Pullen Map Collection

Plan de la Baye de Chibouctou

MS-2-756, OS Folder 5
Item
1764

Part of The Pullen Map Collection

Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772

Chart of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence

MS-2-756, OS Folder 6
Item
1775

Part of The Pullen Map Collection

Chart of the Island of Newfoundland

MS-2-756, OS Folder 7
Item
1775

Part of The Pullen Map Collection

Chart of the harbour of Halifax in Nova Scotia

MS-2-756, OS Folder 8
Item
1775

Part of The Pullen Map Collection

Chart of the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, surveyed in 1765

MS-2-756, OS Folder 12
Item
[1799?]

Part of The Pullen Map Collection

Item is a chart of the Magdalen Islands created by Thomas Jefferys. The chart was published in A Collection of Charts of the coasts
of Newfoundland and Labrador (London 1765-1768). Item is entry 604 in Kershaw's Early printed maps of Canada.

Plan du port de Chibouctou à la côte de l'Acadie avec les côtes voisines

MS-2-756, OS Folder 11
Item
1779

Part of The Pullen Map Collection

Item is a map of the harbour of present-day Halifax, Nova Scotia created in 1779 by Joseph-Bernard de Chabert. The map was commissioned by Antoine de Sartine. Depths shown by soundings.

How to be a dictator : some helpful ideas from Stenocord to save you time and make your job easier

MS-2-Ref, Box 14, Folder 10
File
1960

Part of Reference Files

File contains a booklet on dictating letters using a Stenocord dictaphone. The booklet sold for ten cents in the early 1960s.

Photograph of the coke ovens in Sydney, Nova Scotia

MS-2-1, Box 2, Folder 7, Item 2
Item
[188-?]

Part of Frank Dawson Adams fonds

Photograph of the coke ovens in Sydney, Nova Scotia

MS-2-1, Box 2, Folder 7, Item 1
Item
[188-?]

Part of Frank Dawson Adams fonds

Order of passage issued to the Eliza Oulton by the Ottoman Empire

MS-4-242, Box 2, Folder 3, Item 1
Item
[186-?]

Part of O'Brien Family fonds

Item is an order of passage issued to the Eliza Oulton by the Ottoman Empire. The order was presumably requested from the British embassy on behalf of the vessel. A piece of the document is missing. This particular document is written in the Divani script, an ornate Ottoman Turkish script that is extremely difficult to read and write. Divani was popular for writing court documents because it was difficult to forge.

An autograph letter of Saccardy, describing in detail his voyage round Acadie, and including in the document a coloured map of the Basin of Annapolis.

MS-6, MS-6-24
File
[1690?]

Part of William Inglis Morse Manuscript Collection

For meagre details concerning this engineer, as also concerning Gargas, compare the records found in the Introduction. The date of this record differs slightly from that of the official copy of his report in Paris. A later comparison may prove of interest to the reader.

Estat de la Conduitte que j'ay teneue pendant mon sejour au pays de l'Acadie

MS-6, MS-6-13
Item
1687-1688

Part of William Inglis Morse Manuscript Collection

The manuscript is written on fourteen folio pages and is signed at the end by Gargas, who was Chief Assistant to the Intendant. In this second doument he mentions each place visited and described the country in a most interesting manner.

Letter from Captain W. Tonge to Major-General George Stracey Smyth, referencing a system of telegraph used in Nova Scotia

MS-6, Box 1, Folder 20
File
February 28, 1802

Part of William Inglis Morse Manuscript Collection

Also known as MS-6-25.

Letter from Edmund Burke to unnamed correspondent

MS-6, Box 1, Folder 1
File
February 17, 1776

Part of William Inglis Morse Manuscript Collection

Also known as MS-6-3.

Letter from J.F.W. DesBarres to Lord George Germaine, London, furnishing plans with estimates submitted on the 'Utility of Nova Scotia,' and a scheme relating to forestry, shipping, etc., to include Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence

MS-6, Box 2, Folder 1 (MS-6-7)
File
October 1, 1779

Part of William Inglis Morse Manuscript Collection

The title 'Utility of Nova Scotia' is written on the back of the document.

Letter from Louise Auguste de Bourbon, Duke of Maine, to M. LeCouturier asking that everything be done to enable the payment of the pension for two years due to Sieur Collet, Attorney General of the Supreme Council of Québec, who must travel to Canada shortly and is in need of this money just to get out

MS-6, Box 2, Folder 4
File
May 17, 1719

Part of William Inglis Morse Manuscript Collection

Also known as MS-6-19.

Letters from Giacomo Meyerbeer to unidentified recipients

MS-6, Box 1, Folder 8
File
[c. 1857]

Part of William Inglis Morse Manuscript Collection

The Delabat documents : Letter to Monsieur de Villermont concerning Acadie, dated at Port Royal, November 20th, 1703.

MS-6, MS-6-9
File
1703

Part of William Inglis Morse Manuscript Collection

Possibly a copy. These manuscripts came from the west coast of France, and represent originals, not existing in any of the great libraries of either Europe or America. The original manuscripts comprise ten pages.

The Marquis de la Roche document

MS-6, MS-6-14
File
1598

Part of William Inglis Morse Manuscript Collection

Recensement général du pays de la Cadie = General census of the country of Cadie

MS-6, (MS-6-13)
File
1685-1686

Part of William Inglis Morse Manuscript Collection

Relation du voyage de Jacques de Meulles à l'Acadie = Account of the voyage of Jacques de Meulle to Acadia

MS-6, Box 2, Folder 6 (MS-6-22)
File
1685-1686

Part of William Inglis Morse Manuscript Collection

Document from Richard Phillips, Governor of Nova Scotia. To the Right Honorable, the Lord Visct. Townshend His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State. The Situation and State of His Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia.

MS-6, MS-6-26
Item
c.1719

Part of William Inglis Morse Manuscript Collection

This manuscript is principally concerned with the problem of the French who remained in the province after its cession to England at the Treaty of Utrecht...A considerable amount of space is also occupied in setting forth the natural advantages of Nova Scotia, as an inducement to the authorities in England to take action. (From typed note accompanying letter.)