Archives Catalogue

Correspondence, questionnaire and press release regarding gay political action campaign

MS-11-1, Box 9, Folder 20
File
1974

Part of Movement for Citizens Voice and Action fonds

File also contains articles of association for the Gay Alliance for Equality and a letter to Movement for Citizens Voice and Action enquiring about the possibility of GAE becoming a member agency.

Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church

MS-15-1
Series
1988 - 1992, 2008

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

Series comprises records documenting the evolution and history of the Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church, including meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, newsletters, financial records, and programming and workshop materials.

Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church

Ross Boutilier fonds

MS-15-1
Fonds
1984 - 2015

Fonds contains records documenting Ross Boutilier's legal challenges over same-sex benefits and equal treatment in Nova Scotia and provincial and federal legislation to gain access to same-sex marriage. Other series include production and administrative records of Wayves magazine, committee records of Halifax Pride, and newspaper clippings about the LGBTQ community in Nova Scotia and elsewhere in Canada.

Boutilier, Ross

Pride Guide mock-ups 1996, 1998

MS-15-1.2010-061, OS Box 20, Folder 1
File
1996, 1998

Part of Lynn Murphy fonds

File contains oversized mock-ups of the 1996 and 1998 Halifax Pride Guides, including draft text, schedules, and advertisements.

Clippings regarding anti-LGBT discrimination, same-sex spousal rights, legal appointments, LGBT social issues

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 1, Folder 10
File
1993 - 1997

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains clippings collected by Ross Boutilier regarding anti-LGBT discrimination, same-sex spousal rights, legal appointments, and other LGBT social issues. Subjects covered by the clippings include acts of anti-LGBT discrimination in Wolfville, Queensland, and Shelburne, Nova Scotia, as well as Atlanta, Georgia; legal protections for same-sex spouses in British Columbia, Ontario, and Nova Scotia; child sexual abuse in Shelbourne; the appointment of Justice Ian Binnie to the Supreme Court of Canada; the appointment of Keith Norton as Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission; domestic abuse within the LGBT community; sex work in Nova Scotia; and other LGBT social issues.

Clippings regarding the LGBT community and the local arts community

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 1, Folder 14
File
1996 - 1997

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains clippings collected by Ross Boutilier relating to intersections between the LGBT and arts communities in Halifax. File consists of reviews on the theatre productions of the "Hanging garden"; "Angels among us" and "Lion in the winter". Also included are articles on female impersonator Laura Smith and musician Ashley MacIsaac.

Clippings regarding the LGBT community

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 1, Folder 18
File
1996 - 1997

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains clippings collected by Ross Boutilier relating to LGBT issues. Subjects covered include the deportation of Alla Pitcherskaia, LGBT inclusion efforts at Xerox, homophobia, LGBT terminology, the closure of the Red Herring Co-operative Book Store in Halifax, LGBT toys, and organ donations.

Halifax Pride 1995 committee records

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 1, Folder 20
File
1995

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File consists of reports, letterhead stationary, Pride logo contest submissions, notes, correspondence, draft schedules for Pride Week, proposed Pride workshops, Pride Guide planning materials, and press releases.

Halifax Pride 1995 program records

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 1, Folder 21
File
1995

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File consists of program mock-ups, advertisements, and correspondence.

Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church worship programs

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 10, Folder 1
File
1992 - 1996

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains programs, sheet music, and other worship materials from Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church services held between 1992 and 1996.

Brian Mombourquette's certificate of membership to Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 10, Folder 10
File
1993

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains Brian Mombourquette's certificate of membership to Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church.

Outline for a Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church workshop delivered by Brent Hawkins — "Dynamics of Exciting Church Development"

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 10, Folder 11
File
[ca. 1994]

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains an outline for a Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church workshop delivered by Brent Hawkins entitled "Dynamics of Exciting Church Development".

Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church 1994 annual report

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 10, Folder 12
File
1994

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains one copy of the 1994 annual report for the Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church.

Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church 1996 annual report

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 10, Folder 13
File
1996

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains one copy of the 1996 annual report for the Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church.

Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches bylaws and lay delegate manual

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 10, Folder 16
File
1993

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains three booklets from the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, including bylaws revised in 1993, one lay delegate manual, and one copy of the five year strategic plan for the Eastern Canadian district.

An orientation guide to the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 10, Folder 17
File
1993

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains one copy of the Orientation Guide to The Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, prepared by Safe Harbour MCC Reverend Darlene Young.

Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church 1995 annual report

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 10, Folder 18
File
1995

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains one copy of the 1995 annual report for the Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church.

Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church standard operating procedure manual

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 10, Folder 2
File
1989 - 1994

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains one copy of the Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church standard operating procedure manual.

Safe Harbour MCC district commission on the laity

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 10, Folder 23
File
1993 - 1997

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File includes descriptions of different types of lay personnel, correspondence, list of lay members, and minutes.

Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church youth ministry materials

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 10, Folder 24
File
1993 - 1997

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File includes activity sheets and ministry of children programs.

Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church 1993 calendar of events

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 10, Folder 26
File
1993

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains monthly calendars of events held at Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church from July to December 1993.

Workshops materials from Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church programs

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 10, Folder 27
File
1993

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains materials relating to workshops and group discussions held by Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church. Materials include agendas, scripture and external readings, notes, and discussion questions.

Clergy Credentials and Concerns Committee, Eastern Canadian District general council records

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 10, Folder 28
File
1992 - 1995

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains one draft of the proposed credentialling process process for the Clergy Credentials and Concerns Committee and associated correspondence. File also includes newsletters, notes, and correspondence from the Eastern Canadian District of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches.

Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church annual meeting report

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 10, Folder 3
File
1993

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains one booklet of reports provided to attendees of the Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church's annual general meeting, held on 1993-02-07.

Harbour lights newsletter, volume 1, number 1

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 10, Folder 30
File
1997

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains the August, 1997 issue of Harbour lights : a newsletter of Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church.

Obituaries for Reverend Darlene Young

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 10, Folder 33
File
2008

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains two obituaries for Safe Harbour MCC Reverend Darlene Young; 1 printed out from Walker Funeral Home's website, and one photocopy of Jon Tattrie's article "Rainbow church moves on after beloved minister's death" for the Chronicle Herald.

Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church annual congregational business meeting notes

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 10, Folder 4
File
1994

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains materials relating to the annual congressional business meeting of the Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church, held on 1994-02-06. Materials include meeting minutes, correspondence from Reverend Darlene Young to Safe Harbour congregants, and a seventeen page booklet of agendas, reports, and membership lists.

Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church congregational meeting notes

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 10, Folder 5
File
1994

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains notes from Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church congregational meetings held between March and August, 1994.

Metropolitan Community Church board meeting minutes

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 10, Folder 6
File
1994

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains minutes from Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church board meetings held between Feburary and August, 1994.

The Queer Bible : a workshop on homosexuality and the bible by Brian Mombourquette

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 10, Folder 7
File
1994

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains five pages of notes and correspondence related to Brian Mombourquette's facilitation of The Queer Bible: A Workshop on Homosexuality and the Bible.

Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church music committee minutes

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 10, Folder 9
File
1995 - 1996

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains materials relating to the operation and disbanding of the music committee for Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church. Materials include sheet music, correspondence and notes.

Halifax Pride 1997 committee records

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 2, Folder 1
File
1997

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains committee records for Halifax Pride 1997. Materials include Pride schedules, clippings featuring stories about the parade and plans for television advertisements during Pride Week, Pride logo mock-ups, notes, correspondence, agendas, contact lists, advertisements, and correspondence.

Halifax Pride week financial records

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 2, Folder 11
File
1998 - 2001

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains financial records relating to Halifax Pride.

Wayves Magazine production meeting minutes

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 2, Folder 12
File
1996

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains Wayves production meeting minutes from March-May 1996.

Wayves Magazine production notes

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 2, Folder 13
File
1996

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains clippings, notes, web print-outs, illustrations, article drafts, advertisement mock-ups, sample logos, photos printed on office paper, correspondence, and contact lists collected for the purpose of creating content for Wayves Magazine.

Leather pigeon illustrations for Wayves Magazine

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 2, Folder 14
File
1996

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains seven illustrations of the character Leather Pigeon, drawn by Andrea Spun.

Advertisement mock-ups for Wayves Magazine

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 2, Folder 16
File
1995

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains mock-ups of advertisements to be published in Wayves Magazine.

Articles and correspondence for Punoqun : a Wayves literary supplement

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 2, Folder 17
File
1996

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains draft articles and writing submissions, notes, correspondence, and graphic material used in the production of the Wayves literary supplement Punaqun.

Financial statements for Wayves

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 2, Folder 18
File
1990 - 1995

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains financial statements for bank accounts associated with Wayves.

Halifax Pride 1998 committee records

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 2, Folder 2
File
1998

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains committee record for Halifax Pride 1998. Materials include financial records, notes, correspondence, schedules and other planning materials, invoices, logo mock-ups, advertisements, and advertisement submission forms.

CKDU 97.5 FM 10-year Pride pin