Fonds consists of photographs taken by Anita Martinez at pride events and women's events in Nova Scotia between 1987 - 1999. There are also clippings, event programs, brochures, posters and promotional materials related to various women's and pride events.
Series contains documentation of women's events such as Wild Women's Weekend (1989-1990, 1995), Take Back the Night March (1990 - 1991), Women's Health Educational Network (1989, 1992), and International Women's Day (1990-1991, 1993-1994).
Sub-series consists of materials from the Women's Health Education Network Conference [WHEN] 1989, 1992, 1993, and materials from the WHEN 11th annual conference.
File contains 102 colour and black and white photographs from Wild Women's [Womyn's/ Womin's/ Wimmin's] Weekend 1995. Organizers included Alex Kier and Bernadette MacDonald.
File contains one cassette tape recording of performances the Halifax-based choral group The Secret Furies. Cassettes features recording of The Secret Furies performance at Truro Women's and Children's Dance on October 25, 1991. Songs performed are You Can Forbid Nearly Everything ; December 6 : Russian Learning Lullaby ; Living Flame ; Hippopotamus Song ; Look to the Women ; Women All Around the World. Cassette also features a recording of the song Burning Times from a performance at the Stepping Stone Benefit on October 30, 1991. Cassette also includes recordings with no specified performance date. These recordings are of the songs We All Come From the Mother ; Round and Round the Earth is Turning ; Women All Around the World.
File contains one cassette tape recording of performances the Halifax-based choral group The Secret Furies. Cassettes features recording of The Secret Furies performance at an International Women's Day event on March 8, 1991. Recording features a warm up or equipment test and the songs Come Justice Come ; Russian Learning Lullaby ; Mothers Teach Your Sons ; The Spelling Songs ; There Comes a Time. Cassette also features recording of a performance at the Women's Health Education Network Conference in Truro on May 4, 1991. Songs performed are Temagami Song ; Mothers Teach Your Sons ; Period Piece ; Best Woman ; We Always Had Sense ; There Comes a Time.
File consists of genealogical notes on the Rettie family of Truro, Nova Scotia, with a particular focus on Captain Alexander Rose Rettie and the wreck of his vessel "Forest Chief." Also included are a family tree, photocopies of research correspondence, and historical newspaper accounts.
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.
File includes black and white photographs depicting training and camp activities of the 7th Division Artillery (RCA) at Tracadie, New Brunswick in 1943. One photo is of training at Debert, Nova Scotia. File also contains newspaper clippings.
Item consists of two black and white photographs trimmed from a cutsheet showing two perspectives of the Lewis Mill in Stewiacke, Colchester County, likely taken in the mid-1930s.
File contains an assortment of invoices, correspondence, and change of address notices that James Morrison sent and received from 1973-1974 in Nigeria and in Colchester County, Nova Scotia. The file holds publication invoices from Blackwell's and Cambridge University Press, hand written correspondence from James Morrison to his wife Sheila Morrison, and bank statements from several Nigerian banks.
File contains a record of correspondence that detail James and Sheila Morrison's life in Nigeria from 1969 to 1975. The file consists of correspondence mainly concerning James Morrison's academic life at University of Ibadan. The correspondence includes applications for employment positions and articles, as well as personal letters. The file contains over 100 letters with different correspondents, including many from universities across Canada.
Item is a newspaper clipping from the Chronicle Herald entitled Living his heritage and written by Leslie Smith in 1988 about James Morrison's time in Nigeria. The article details Morrison's personal and professional life and contains several photographs of Morrison in Nigeria. The item is pages three to six of Volume 7, Number 6 of the Chronicle Herald.
Item consists of a bound compilation of the papers from the first Atlantic Oral History Conference hosted in Truro, Nova Scotia from October 19-21, 1979. The Conference featured papers by James Morrison, Doris Saunders, Joleen Gordon, Ron LaBelle, John Hennigar-Shue, Kathy Kuusisto, Tony McKenzie, Robert Morgan, Jim Hornby, Bertin Webster, Hugh Taylor, and Gary Hughes.
File contains 5 AudioMagnetics XHE 90 audio cassette tapes from the 1st Atlantic Oral History Association (AOHA) Meeting in Truro, Nova Scotia. The recordings are from September 1979 and feature a Lead up interview.
Item consists of a black-and-white carte de visite portrait photograph of Rev. John Geddie. The verso is stamped with T. Mayo, Photographer, Truro, N.S.
Item is a postcard sent to Gerald Gass in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia from Bessie[sic] in Truro, Nova Scotia. The image on the front is of a school in Truro, Nova Scotia.
Item is a postcard sent to Clare Gass in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia from B. Thomson in Truro, Nova Scotia. The image on the front is of a park in Truro, Nova Scotia.
Fonds consists of newsletters and poetry publications from 1971-1979. Most of the publications feature poetry written by Velma Brown, but a number of other authors are also featured, including Sidney M. Parker, known as the blind poet of Truro, Nova Scotia.
Item consists of an annotated address delivered by Arthur Stanley MacKenzie to the Truro Canadian Club on March 21, 1912, discussing the role of universities in Canada.
Fonds consists of Marsh's account book with the barque Vibilia and her owners (1869-1882) as well as pilot and customs papers. Also included is a charter contract for the Ellerslie (1886).