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Halifax Regional Municipality (N.S.) File Universities and colleges--Faculty--Research
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McNab's Island Christmas bird counts

File contains handwritten and typed research notes compiled by Freedman and others, documenting bird counts at McNab's Island, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, between the years 1995 and 2012. File also contains correspondence.

Photographs of the destruction caused at Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia, by the Brown Spruce longhorn beetle

File contains 68 photographs taken largely by Bill Freedman (but also by Sweeney) at Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 2000. Photographs show aerial and up-close examples of the destruction wrought on the urban park by the invasive Brown spruce longhorn beetle, believed to arrive in the city via the nearby port.

Relocation Questionnaire 3 - Code #30-39, #41-67 & #133

File contains the questionnaire #3 responses from interviewees #30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, and 133, human subjects who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s.

Research data involving interviewee #121

File contains research data involving interviewee #121, a human subject who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. File includes a questionnaire response from a relocation official about interviewee #121; interview transcripts; and reports about interviewees #90 and #121.

Research data involving interviewee #124

File contains research data involving interviewee #124, a human subject who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. File includes legal and real estate correspondence; the questionnaire response of interviewee #124; interview transcripts; reports related to interviewees #4, #6, #110, #111, #112, #123, #124, #125, and #126; and an acquisition report sent to members of the Sub-Committee of Council on Africville and the Representatives of the Human Rights Advisory Committee.

Research data involving interviewee #125

File contains research data involving interviewee #125, a human subject who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. File includes a response to a questionnaire from the Africville Relocation Study; a transcript of an interview; and reports related to interviewees #125 and #124.

Research data involving interviewee #123

File contains research data involving interviewee #123, a human subject who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. File includes a questionnaire response from a relocation official about interviewee #123; interview transcripts; and reports about interviewees #4, #6, #110, #111, #112, #123, #124, #125, and #126.

Research data involving interviewee #1

File contains research data involving interviewee #1, a human subject who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. File includes the questionnaire response of interviewee #1; an interview transcript; an application from the Housing Authority of Halifax; and a staff report sent to members of the Sub-Committee on Africville and Representatives of the Human Rights Advisory Committee.

Articles on Blacks in Nova Scotia

File contains copies of published articles and drafts of unpublished articles related to African-Canadian life in Nova Scotia and Canada. File includes selections from "Negro Settlement in Canada, 1628-1965", "Negroes in Canada" (by Harold H. Potter), notes from McKerrow's "A Brief History of the Coloured People of Nova Scotia", "Negro Settlement in British Columbia, 1858-1871" (by James William Pilton), "The Canadian Negro: A Historical Assessment", "From Slavery to the Ghetto: The Story of the Negro in the Maritimes" (by H.A.J. Wedderburn", and "Negroes in Nova Scotia: Bibliography".

Research data invoving interviewee #36

File contains research data involving interviewee #36, a human subject who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. File includes the questionnaire response of interviewee #36; an interview transcript; income and rental records; applications from the Halifax Housing Authority; reports about interviewees #30 and #36; and a staff report sent to members of the Sub-Committee of Council on Africville and the Representatives of the Human Rights Advisory Committee.

Central City Data

File contains population tables, newspaper photocopies, development plans, minutes on public housing projects, and redevelopment project reports.

Correspondence and other papers about the Africville relocation study

File contains correspondence between researchers and other people involved in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. Items include correspondence between employees at the Institute of Public Affairs at Dalhousie University (including Dennis Magill and Donald Clairmont) and people from the Halifax Department of Welfare, the Office of the City Manager of Halifax, the family court for the County of Cape Breton, the National Harbours Board, Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the Halifax Herald Limited, the University of Toronto School of Social Work, and the Canadian Special Senate Committee on Poverty. The file also contains memorandums from the Institute of Public Affairs; research diaries and notes about interviews; a letter template; an invitation list and list of attendees for a meeting for the Africville relocation study; classification categories for Africville Typology; and a blank questionnaire for the study.

Correspondence - National Commission on Human Rights

File contains correspondence from the Canadian Labour Congress, National Commission on Human Rights, regarding housing and employment matters, to two residents of Africville who were later human subjects who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. File also contains agenda from Halifax city council meeting and draft of a report.

Housing authority applications and real estate inspection reports

File contains facsimiles of Halifax Housing Authority documentation related to several of the interviewees of the Africville Relocation Study, conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. File also includes real estate inspection reports. File includes information regarding interviewees #37, 73, 121, 124, and 129.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewees #98 and #99

File contains the questionnaire #1 responses from interviewees #98 and 99, two human subjects who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. File also contains interview summaries, the transcript of an interview between Dennis Magill and Peter MacDonald, and facsimiles of Halifax Housing Authority documents.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewees #28 and #139

File contains the questionnaire #1 responses for interviewees #28 and 139, two human subjects who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. File also contains the transcript of an interview between Dennis Magill and Peter MacDonald, as well as facsimiles of Halifax Housing Authority documents.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewees #54 and 55

File contains the questionnaire #1 responses of interviewees #54 and 55, two human subjects who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. FIle also contains the transcript of an interview, and Sub-committee on Africville documents relating to the acquisition of property 71.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewees #94 and #95

File contains the questionnaire #1 responses from interviewees #94 and 95, two human subjects who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. File also contains the transcript of an interview between Dennis Magill and Peter MacDonald, as well as facsimile Halifax Housing Authority documents.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #91

File contains the questionnaire #1 responses from interviewee #91, a human subject who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. File also contains the transcript of an interview between Dennis Magill and Peter MacDonald, as well as facsimiles of Halifax Housing Authority documents.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewee #5

File contains the questionnaire #1 for interviewee #5, a human subject who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. File also contains facsimile documents and correspondence from the Halifax Housing Authority, regarding the interviewee's premises.

Interview outlines

File contains a 4 page typescript of Political-Administrative Questions (page 4 is dedicated to questions for Alderman Connolly, Alderman Sullivan and Alderman Doyle); a 2 page typescript of questions intended for a city administrator identifies as P.J.M. (likely Peter J. MacDonald); a 2 page typescript of questions intended for H.B. Jones, Welfare Officer, City of Halifax; a 2 page typescript for interview with activist (George Davis?); and a 2 page typescript for interview by Denis Magill with Alexa [McDonough].

Research data involving interviewees #92 and #93

File contains research data involving interviewees #92 and #93, two human subjects who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. File includes reports about interviewees #27, #92, #93, #128, and #140; the questionnaire responses of interviewee #92 and #93; notes about interviews; interview transcripts; staff reports and acquisition reports sent to members of the Sub-Committee on Africville and Representatives of the Human Rights Advisory Committee; appraisal reports; and legal and real estate correspondence

Manuscript - Last days of Jacob Street

File contains a draft manuscript written likely in the early-1970s (definitely after 1967) by William F. Dawson, about the area around Jacob Street in downtown Halifax, bulldozed to make way for the Scotia Square project (the Jacob Street area was deemed a waterfront slum). The manuscript discusses the parallels between the demolition of Jacob Street and that of Africville.

Research data involving interviewee #150

File contains research data involving interviewee #150, a human subject who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. File includes the questionnaire response of interviewee #150; reports related to interviewee #150; income and rental records; and applications for accommodation from the Housing Authority of Halifax.

Population Data

File contains compiled demographic data about African Nova Scotians living in Africville and elsewhere in Haifax. The data is presented in the form of handwritten tables and maps. The data is from a study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewees #43 and #44

File contains the questionnaire #1 responses from interviewees #43 and 44, two human subjects who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. File also contains interview transcripts and summaries, correspondence, and facsimile Halifax Housing Authority documents.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewees #46 and #47

File contains the questionnaire #1 responses from interviewees #46 and 47, two human subjects who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. File also contains the transcript of an interview between Dennis Magill and Peter MacDonald, as well as other research materials.

Questionnaire 1 responses from interviewees #48 and #49

File contains the questionnaire #1 responses from interviewees #48 and 49, two human subjects who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. File also contains the transcript of an interview, as well as facsimiles of Halifax Housing Authority documents.

Relocation Questionnaire 2 - Code #004

File contains questionnaire number 2 of interviewee #004, a human subject who participated in a study on the forced migration of residents of Africville. The study was conducted by Don Clairmont and Dennis Magill in the late 1960s. Interviewer: left blank.
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