Item consists of three proof sheets with 76 photographs taken in the Killam Memorial Library. The photographs are interior shots of various rooms in the library. One prof sheet also includes photographs of an unidentified baby. Some photographs have been cut out from the proof sheets and are not included.
Item consists of the annual report of the Ecology Action Centre for the years 2003-2004. Includes a co-chairs report submitted by Trudie Richards, an internal director's report submitted by Mark Butler, and other reports and updates by Dave Aalders, Janet Barlow, Angela Bischoff, Troy Bowron, Maggy Burns, Peggy Cameron, Susanna Cheng, Penny Doherty, Gretchen Fitzgerald, Susanna Fuller, Jen Graham, June Hall, Judy Lipp, Wendy MacGregor, Nick McLean, Mike Milloy, Jayne Roma, Veronica Sherwood, Troy Swan, and Carla Vandenberg.
Item consists of the annual report for the Ecology Action Centre for 2007-2008. Includes a director's note from Mark Butler and Maggy Burns, a chair update from Simon Melrose, and brief updates of ongoing projects from various committees.
Item consists of a facsimile of an Nova Scotia Lands and Forests (Entomological Services) report drafted by T.J. Smith and E. Georgeson titled "Spruce budworm population In Nova Scotia, 1985".
File includes correspondence with Fisheries and Oceans, Pacific and Freshwater Fisheries Canada, Supply and Services Canada, and Dalhousie University. Correspondents include Roy Cheeseman; Aldo Chircop; Garry Comber (Secretary-Treasurer of ICOD); David Copp; Jeanne-Mance Cote (administrative assistant to the President of ICOD); Heather Creech; Luc Cuyvers; Mary Jo Duncan. File includes a copy of International Ocean Institute (IOI) statutes and lists IOI Board of Trustees. File contains one piece of personal correspondence.
File contains correspondence with International Ocean Institute (IOI) Training Programme, Dalhousie University, Department of Finance and Treasury Board of Canada. Correspondents include Allan MacEachen; Andrew MacKay; Anne Marie MacKinnon; Willa Magee; Robert Maguire; Evelyne Meltzer; Peter Middleton; Chris Milley; Brian Mulroney; Satya Nandan; Arame Ndiaye; A.M. Nikundiwe; Judy Noel; and Roy Norton. File contains a duplicate letter which has not been digitized.
File includes correspondence with the Treasury Board, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (on a shipping seminar), and Finance Minister Michael Wilson (with Robert R. de Cotret).
File contains correspondence from individuals and organizations with names beginning with "A" or "B." Correspondents include Don Aldous (attached is a report from the Forum Fisheries Agency), Carol Amaratunga (including attached documents, including a discussion paper), John Armstrong (attached are government documents), and Christopher Barr.
File contains correspondence with Ambassador Franco, the Colombian ambassador to Finland. Some correspondence concerns the Training Programme, and the need to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS), and the United States opposition to UNCLoS. The file also includes a draft syllabus for a training course, with correspondence, and a budget.
File contains correspondence with various individuals from GEOMAR. The file also includes a website print-out and other documents that provide information about the organization.
File contains correspondence with various employees of the Ocean Resources Management Programme (including Hugh Williamson). Includes a copy of "Report of a Consultancy on a Proposal to Establish a Regional Programme of Courses in Ocean Resource Management" by Caroline "Fox" Vanderbilt.
File contains correspondence for the paper concerning a possible article about Elisabeth Mann Borgese winning the United Nations Association (UNA) in Canada Medal of Honour and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award. Includes a press release about the UNA Medal of Honour, and an announcement from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
File contains correspondence with Fred Warner Neal, Patti Hagan, and Rosemarie Noris, some of which concerns the death of Elisabeth Mann Borgese's mother.
File contains correspondence with Rideau Hall, concerning the Order of Canada, and the Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada. Includes correspondence with Rideau Hall staff and Governor General Jeanne Sauvé (informing Mann Borgese of the Order of Canada award), letters of congratulations from Tom Hockin, Alan R. Abraham, Fred Crickard, and Innis Christie, letters of support for other Order of Canada nominees, and correspondence concerning the 125th Anniversary Medal. The file also includes a programme from the November 8, 1988 investiture of the Order of Canada (Elisabeth Mann Borgese was a recipient), a booklet listing Order of Canada members, and a certificate received by Borgese on receipt of the Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada in 1992.
File contains correspondence with Jan Matthews concerning a special feature on Canadian women to be distributed with "Time" magazine, includes a brief biography of Elisabeth Mann Borgese.
File contains correspondence with Alex Comfort, V. Dedijer, Da Capo Press Inc., Encyclopedia of the Sea, Rita Ettl, Fayard Editions, Peter Fricke, FAO (the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), Donald Gledhill, and Jay Goldburg Cousteau Society.
File contains correspondence with the Commission of the European Communities, Rallph Collier, Consumers Union of US Inc., Centre d'Architecture de la Mer, Jerrgen Claus, Mae Cullin, Rafael Castello-Valdis, Ray Canterbury, Jonathan Charney, CBS, Nigel Calder (on "The Blue Revolution"), Michelle Canterella, and "Conjunctions."
File contains correspondence with M.J. Anstee (Department of Technical Co-operation for Development) and K. Mushakoji (UN University - with "The United Nations University's Next Stage: Statement before the Sixteenth Session of the Council of the UN University on 1 December 1980"). File also includes handwritten notes by Elisabeth Mann Borgese for a United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) talk (on the new industrial revolution and the oceans).
File includes correspondence between Elisabeth Mann Borgese and Jan Pronk, A. Behnam, M.J. Shah and UNCTAD, mainly regarding Pacem in Maribus (PIM) XI and the International Ocean Institute (IOI)'s Training Programme.
Item is a notebook used by James Baxter to take notes during lectures on logic delivered by Professor Ross. The lectures took place at the theological seminary in Truro, Nova Scotia between October 15, 1860 and April 10, 1861. The back of the notebook contains the signatures of people who attended the seminary and notes about them added by Baxter.
Item consists of correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, dated June 20, 1921 from Windsor, Nova Scotia, discussing the difficult transition from a military life to legal life: the "realization that I was studying law and not deciphering code messages from Prime Minister [Viktor] Pepelaev."
Item is a photocopy of an unpublished typed manuscript, containing the following hand-printed text on the extant front page, beneath the table of contents: "AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF / HERBERT LESLIE STEWART / MA (Oxon), PhD, FRSC, FRSA / FIRST DRAFT / – INCOMPLETE and UNPOLISHED / at the time of his death in 1953."
File contains three letters from Reverend James Rosborough to Mrs. Pearson, in which he describes the death of his daughter, identifies plant specimens sent to him by her, and discusses matters related to the Presbyterian Church.
File contains handwritten copies of various sea chanties collected by Frank Parker Day. Includes "Yankee Ship," "A la Claire Fontaine" (accompanied by musical notation), "Storm Along," "Shenandoah," and other untitled chanties.
Item is three sheets of paper. The first sheet is folded to make two additional pages. The letter is Archibald MacMechan's recommendation to Edwin Laftus, that Daniel Harvey should receive the position of lecturer in History at Dalhousie University. A P.S. note by MacMechan also recommends an article that Harvey wrote for the Rhodes Foundation.
Item is a letter concerning Thomas McCulloch's donation of a North American insect specimen (from Nova Scotia) to the University of Edinburgh, via Professor Jameson, for the university's museum. The letter discusses Nova Scotia's Scottish connections, Presbyterian religion, the Pictou Academy, and the advocates for the conference of honorary degrees on the Honourable Sampson Salter Blowers, the Chief Justice of Nova Scotia; the Honourable James Stewart; and the Honourable Brenton Halyburton.
Item consists of a handwritten address delivered by Arthur Stanley MacKenzie at the closing exercises for the graduates of the Halifax School for the Blind, June 9, 1913.
Item is a copy of issue number two of the Song Fishermens' Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by Virginia Lynne Tunstall, Evelyn Tufts, Noel Wilcox and Molly Beresford, as well as notes from Bliss Carmen and Stuart McCawley.
Item is a copy of issue number eight of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by John Daniel Logan, Annie Campbell Huestis, Noel H. Wilcox, Molly Beresford, Charles Bruce, Donald Cameron MacKay, Jerry Murphy, Virginia Clay Hamilton and Martha Ann Leslie; an obituary for John D. Logan; and various notes from and about other readers and contributors.
Item is a copy of issue number 14 of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains an announcement of the winner of the MacAskill-inspired poetry contest and remarks by James Gillis on each entry, which included poems by Robert Leslie, Stuart McCawley (the winner), Joe Wallace, Andrew Merkel, Ethel H. Butler, Michael D, Currie, M. Campbell, Effie MacD Barnes, Katherine F. MacDonald, and Mollie Beresford.
File contains set designs by Robert Doyle for a Shaw Festival production of "The Devil's Disciple." File includes original drawings and annotated copies.
File contains set designs for the Neptune Theatre production of "Butterflies are Free," directed by A. McKim with designs by Robert Doyle. The file includes Doyle's original pencil drawings as well as annotated copies.
File contains set designs for Neptune Theatre's production of "The Four Poster," directed by John Neville with designs by Arturo Penson. File also contains templates for the construction of a cupboard and bureau as part of the set.
File contains the set designs for Neptune Theatre's production of "Step Dance" by Tom Gallant, directed by John Neville, with set designs by Lesley Preston.
File contains set designs for Neptune Theatre's production of "Guys and Dolls," directed by B. Ainslie and John Neville with set designs by Robert Doyle. The file includes Doyle's original drawings and annotated copies.
File contains set designs for Neptune Theatre's production of "Special Occasions," directed by Ron Ulrich with designs by Arthur Penson. File includes original drawings and annotated copies.