Fonds consists of materials created and accumulated by Wilfrid Creighton, including correspondence, articles, manuscripts, financial and legal documents, minutes, photographs and a variety of personal papers and memorabilia. Materials relate to Creighton's education, career and long-time interest in forestry, but also include some materials relating to family history.
Fonds contains the personal and professional records of four generations of the Bigelow family of Nova Scotia. It includes correspondence, legal and financial documents, diaries and memoirs, and photographs that document primarily the family's shipbuilding activities as well as the genealogical interests of John Robert Bigelow.
Fonds contains publications, correspondence, and newsletters pertaining to George H. Morrison's involvement with stock brokers F.B. McCurdy & Co., the Canadian Forestry Corps, and the Maritime School of Social Work.
File contains 83 photographs taken by Bill Freedman between 1972 and 2003. Photographs show vegetation, fungi, trees, and wetland scenes from across Canada.
File contains 13 photographs taken by Bill Freedman near Thompson, Manitoba, in 1974. Photographs show Picea mariana and Picea banksiana at various distances from the factory smokestacks of a nickel processing facility. Also, a beaver dam and regrowth after a forest fire.
File contains 51 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in the Postville area of Labrador, between 1975 and 1977 (predominantly 1977). Photographs show geological formations, bogs, and flora around the Michelin Lake area near Postville. File also contains some photographs of flora taken at Terra Nova National Park
File contains three abstracts written by Freedman for presentations for the Workshop Meeting to Consider Methods Involved in Studies of Acid Precipitation to Forect [sic] Ecosystem. Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 19-23 September 1977. Session titles are: 1B: Evaluation of Atmospheric Inputs; 2. Throughfall and Stemflow; 3. Measurement of Effects. File also includes hand-written data and correspondence.
File contains 16 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at the Minesing Wetlands, near Barrie, Ontario, in 1977 and 1978. Photographs show views of the wetlands, an "elm graveyard", and Acer saccharinum
File contains 13 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Mount Mitchell, North Carolina, between 1978 and 1991. Photographs show evidence of decline and dieback of Abies fraseri due to encroachment by Balsam wooly adelgid beetles.
File contains the manuscript written by Freedman and T.C. Hutchinson for the Canadian Journal of Botany, volume 58, number 19. File also contains correspondence.
File contains three draft manuscript reports compiled by Freedman, with U. Prager, P.N. Duinker, R. Morash, A.J. Hanson, and J.G. Ogden, for the Institute for Resource and Environmental Studies. File includes the annual reports for 1979-80, 1980-81, and 1984. File also contains correspondence, charts, and revision notes.
File contains 215 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at a variety of locations, including Aylesford Lake, NS, and Halifax County, between 1980 and 1995. Photographs show experimental and conventional clear-cutting examples at Aylesford Lake, Nova Scotia; advanced regeneration after a burn near Herring Cove, Nova Scotia; views of Pebbleloggitch Lake, Kejimkujik National Park; different rates of growth of trees of different ages; felling, bucking and sorting of Acer saccharum, and examples of throughfall and stemflow. Also includes examples of herbicide efforts.
Item consists of a slide transparency plotting amount of above-ground biomass growth versus the age of a stand of trees, based on Bill Freedman's forestry field work at various sites in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the 1980s.
