Archives Catalogue

Members of the Canadian Labour Congress convention in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia

PC 9, PB Box 4, Folder 1
File
1960

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1928 fonds

MS-9-52
Fonds
1937-2015, predominant 1955-2015

Fonds includes financial, legal, administrative and human resources materials dating from the local's founding in 1955, providing insight into the development of the organization's policies and procedures, and also illustrating the broader labour movement and role of unions in shaping the political and social landscape in Nova Scotia. The records provide evidence of the union's administrative and operational functions and activities, including contract negotiation, grievance administration, dues remittance, pension fund administration, membership and labour advocacy, workers' training and education and strike coordination. The records were created by the local's office staff, business managers, executive board, elected officials, Board of Trustees, membership and business associates. Earlier records (pre-1955) became part of the IBEW Local 1928 archive when other IBEW Locals were amalgamated with 1928.

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1928

MS-9-51, Box 1, Folder 6
File
1971-1977

Part of Norman Hebert fonds

File contains records related to Norman Hebert’s time as a committee member of the United Steelworkers of America Local 4883, Aircraft Division located in Amherst, Nova Scotia. Records include correspondence, grievance reports, and meeting minutes.

MS-9-51, Box 1, Folder 5
File
1974-1976

Part of Norman Hebert fonds

File includes meeting minutes and correspondence between the United Steelworkers of America Local 4883 and the Plant Safety Committee of the Amherst Plant No. 4 operated by Enamel and Heating Products Limited. Correspondence describes efforts to establish safety protocols after a workplace accident in 1975.

MS-9-51, Box 1, Folder 4
File
1973-1974

Part of Norman Hebert fonds

File documents negotiations between United Steelworkers of America Local 4883 and Enamel and Heating Products Limited, a heating equipment manufacturing company that operated a factory in Amherst, Nova Scotia. Records include meeting minutes, pension plan proposals, and wage negotiations.

MS-9-51, Box 1, Folder 3
File
1982-1984, 1988

Part of Norman Hebert fonds

File includes meeting notices and minutes of the Dalhousie Labour University Committee. Norman Hebert served as a representative of the Nova Scotia Government Employee Union. Meetings took place at the Henson Centre, Dalhousie University.

MS-9-51, Box 1, Folder 2
File
1982-1985

Part of Norman Hebert fonds

File documents Norman Hebert’s time as a representative of the Nova Scotia Government Employee Union in the Dalhousie Labour University Committee from 1982 to 1985. Meetings took place at the Henson Centre, Dalhousie University. Records include meeting minutes by Donald Maclean, a list of labour courses offered by Dalhousie University, and memoranda notifying committee members of meeting dates.

MS-9-51, Box 1, Folder 1
File
1975-1977

Part of Norman Hebert fonds

File documents Norman Hebert’s time as President of the Amherst and District Labour Council between 1975 and 1977. Records include notices of meetings and protest actions, correspondence between members of the council and executive officers, and annual reports.

Norman Hebert fonds

MS-9-51
Fonds
1971-1988

Fonds consists of documents from Norman Hebert’s membership of the United Steelworkers of America, Local 4883, the Amherst and District Labour Council, the Nova Scotia Government Employee Union, the Dalhousie University Labour Committee, and the Dalhousie Education Committee. Documents include meeting minutes, union membership negotiations, and correspondence between union members and executive officers.

Hebert, Norman

United Textile Workers of America Local 152 fonds

MS-9-2
Fonds
1950-1952

Fonds includes correspondence, contract documents, district council documents, annual conference proceedings/documents, information about the conference on trade union rights in 1951-1952, press releases issued by the United Textile Workers of America, and miscellaneous reference material including, a sheet outlining the, "commonplace precaution against war" with a diagram about the potential damages of an atom bomb blast. The reference material contains blank due deduction slips for the United Textile Workers of America Local 152, newsletters issued by the Canadian Textile Council, a pamphlet issued by the Trade Union Research Bureau titled, "Wages and the Cost of Living", and amendments submitted by the "Local 100 United Textile Workers of America for negotiations with the Montreal Cottons Limited."

Files are listed alphabetically by title.

United Textile Workers of America. Local 152.

Marine Workers Federation fonds

MS-9-17
Fonds
[1943]-1999

This fonds includes a variety of photographic material relating to the Marine Workers Federation. As well this fonds contains a copy of the newspaper "The Nova Scotia Worker" Issued by the Nova Scotia Federation of Labour.

Marine Workers Federation.

Strikes in the Maritimes, 1901-1914

MS-9-16, SF Box 52, Folder 28
File
November 1980

Part of Ian McKay fonds

File contains a copy of Ian McKay's paper titled Strikes in the Maritimes, 1901-1914. The paper was delivered in the North American History Seminar coordinated by Bruce Tucker.

McKay, Ian

Ian McKay fonds

MS-9-16
Fonds
1975 - 1980

Fonds contains research material and manuscripts created by historian Ian McKay when he resided in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Materials include a student essay on strikes in the Maritimes (1901-1914), a manuscript of McKay's undergraduate honours thesis, "The Working Class of Metropolitan Halifax," and 55 audio cassettes and accompanying notes from interviews with workers in the Springhill and Joggins coal mines.

McKay, Ian

Nova Scotia Federation of Labour fonds

MS-9-11
Fonds
1919 - 1996

Nova Scotia Federation of Labour.

Statement of employee losses after the Halifax Explosion

MS-4-180, Box 94, Folder 1
File
1917-1918

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

File contains forms detailing MT&T employees' name, position, address, and damages sustained from the Halifax Explosion. Forms document personal injury and loss of life as well as damage to personal property.

Photograph of cable foreman J.A. Caldwell and Jack Mutton checking gas pressure

MS-4-180, Box 16, Folder 11, Item 1
Item
[between 1950 and 1969]

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

Item is a photograph of foreman J.A. Caldwell and cable splicer Jack Mutton checking the gas pressure up the submarine cable. which was placed in July and ran across the North West Arm of Sydney Harbour. The huge reel weighed 38 tons and contained 6010 feet of cable.

"Lockeport Lockout" articles on Lockeport

MS-4-177, Box 10, Folder 3
File
1997

Part of Lockeport Historical Collection

File contains photocopies of newspaper clippings and a full copy of "The Coast Guard: The Voice of Shelburne County," a local newspaper published on Tuesday, September 16, 1997. The issue has an article on the Lockeport Lockout by Lewis M. Jackson.

Poster for Workers Sold Out, an event featuring video art by Nancy Nicol

MS-3-46, OS Box 3, Folder 35
Item
[ca. 1984]

Part of Centre for Art Tapes fonds

Item is a poster for Workers Sold Out a screening of video works by Nancy Nicol. The event featured Nicol's works, Mini Skool Pays Mini Wages and Selling Out.

Photographic still from video Selling Out by Nancy Nicol

MS-3-46, Box 54, Folder 13, Item 3
Item
1980

Part of Centre for Art Tapes fonds

Item is a photographic still from video Selling Out. Image is of Public Service Alliance of Canada rally in Ottawa, Canada.

Photographic still from video Selling Out by Nancy Nicol

MS-3-46, Box 54, Folder 13, Item 2
Item
1980

Part of Centre for Art Tapes fonds

Item is a photographic still from video Selling Out. Image shows Public Service Alliance of Canada clerical staff picketing at the Halifax Post office.

Photographic still from video Selling Out by Nancy Nicol

MS-3-46, Box 54, Folder 13, Item 1
Item
1980

Part of Centre for Art Tapes fonds

Item is a photographic still from video Selling Out. Image is of a person demonstrating at a Public Service Alliance rally.

Press release for Women Willing To Work report

MS-2-801, Box 3, Folder 3, Item 2
Item
1993

Part of Joan Elizabeth Cummings fonds

Item consists of a press release from The Task Force On The Economic Integration of Women With Disabilities in Nova Scotia for the publication of the "Women Willing To Work" report from May 1993.

Women Willing To Work : An Exploratory Investigation of the Economic Integration of Women with Disabilities in Nova Scotia / researched and written by Elizabeth Doull

MS-2-801, Box 3, Folder 3, Item 1
Item
May 1993

Part of Joan Elizabeth Cummings fonds

Item consists of a copy of the May 1993 report "Women Willing To Work : An Exploratory Investigation of the Economic Integration of Women with Disabilities in Nova Scotia", researched and written by Elizabeth Doull and edited by Brenda L. Beagan.

Employment trends questionnaires created by Richard Apostle and Boris Raymond to generate research data for their book Librarianship and the information paradigm

MS-2-712, Box 1, Folders 2-6; Box 2, Folders 1-5; Box 3, Folders 1-5; Box 4 , Folders 1-5; and SF Box 104, Folders 18-19
File

Part of Richard Apostle and Boris Raymond fonds

Librarianship and the information paradigm / Richard Apostle and Boris Raymond

MS-2-712, Box 1, Folder 1
File
1997

Part of Richard Apostle and Boris Raymond fonds

Richard Apostle and Boris Raymond fonds

MS-2-712
Fonds
1994 - 1997

Fonds comprises employment trends questionnaires created by Richard Apostle and Boris Raymond to generate research data for their book Librarianship and the Information Paradigm (1997).

Apostle, Richard A.

Richard Apostle fonds

MS-2-681
Fonds
1966-2006, predominant 1981-2004

Fonds comprises records created and collected by Richard Apostle in the course of his research activities between 1966-2006, which informed their arrangement into the following series: AquaNet (Network of Centres of Excellence in Aquaculture); Community, State and Market on the North Atlantic Rim; Individual Transferable Fish Quotas; Information Services Employment Trends Survey; Marginal Work World Research Program; Public Policing in Nova Scotia; and Center for Local and Regional Development, Klaksvik, Faroe Islands.

Record types include manuscripts; published reports, papers and monographs; committee records, including minutes, agendas and reports; surveys; interview transcripts and notes; annual reports; operations manuals; datasets; secondary readings and newspaper clippings.

Apostle, Richard A.

Hope McPhee's notebook from the first Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-9, SF Box 5, Folder 1
Item
1978

Item is a 56-page Hilroy scribbler with an illustration of a camp site and "CAMP SITE" written on the cover. The notebook contains Hope McPhee's recollections of meeting Roscoe Fillmore and stories about his life and career as a horticulturalist and political activist. Notes are written in pencil.

McPhee, Hope

Letters written by Fred Thompson to John Bell

MS-10-2, SF Box 1, Folders 1-4
File
1976

File comprises four letters sent from Fred Thompson to John Bell between July and October, 1976. The letters provide a recounting of Thompson's time in Halifax as a labourer and labour activist and reveal an ongoing discussion between Bell and Thompson regarding labour issues and labour history.

Bell, John A.

Guest book from the inaugural Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, SF Box 6, Folder 5
Item
1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item is a three-page photocopy of a guestbook from the inaugural Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic, held 8 July 1978.

Invitation to the inaugural Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, SF Box 6, Folder 4
Item
1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item is an open invitation to "socialists from across Nova Scotia" to mark the occasion of would have been Roscoe Fillmore's 91st birthday.

Photograph of two unidentified attendees of the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, PB Box 2, Folder 39, Item 9
Item
July 1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken by Susan Perly, of two unidentified people conversing at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic, Sackville, Nova Scotia, July 1978.

Photograph of several unidentified people at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, PB Box 2, Folder 39, Item 8
Item
July 1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken by Susan Perly, of five unidentified attendees of the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic, Sackville, Nova Scotia, July 1978.

Photograph of three unidentified people standing outside Charlie and Kaye Murray's home at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, PB Box 2, Folder 39, Item 7
Item
July 1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken by Susan Perly, of three unidentified people conversing outside of Charlie and Kaye Murray's home during the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic, Sackville, Nova Scotia, July 1978.

Photograph of Charlie Murray at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, PB Box 2, Folder 39, Item 6
Item
July 1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken by Susan Perly, of a closeup of Charlie Murray standing and smiling at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic, Sackville, Nova Scotia, July 1978.

Photograph of Kaye Murray, Nolan Reilly, Charlie Murray, and Sharon Reilly chatting at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, PB Box 2, Folder 39, Item 5
Item
July 1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken by Susan Perly, of Charlie and Kaye Murray and Nolan and Sharon Reilly, chatting at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic, Sackville, Nova Scotia, July 1978.

Photograph of Charlie Murray at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, PB Box 2, Folder 39, Item 4
Item
July 1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken by Susan Perly, of Charlie Murray standing and smiling at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic, Sackville, Nova Scotia, July 1978.

Photograph of Charlie Murray addressing attendees of the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, PB Box 2, Folder 39, Item 31
Item
July 1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken by Susan Perly, of Charlie Murray addressing a crowd (out of camera shot) at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic, Sackville, Nova Scotia, July 1978.

Photograph of Charlie Murray addressing a crowd at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, PB Box 2, Folder 39, Item 3
Item
July 1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken by Susan Perly, showing Charlie Murray addressing a crowd at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic, Sackville, Nova Scotia, July 1978. Four unidentified people stand in the foreground.

Photograph of Charlie Murray and two unidentified people talking at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, PB Box 2, Folder 39, Item 29
Item
July 1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken by Susan Perly, of Charlie Murray (blue shirt) speaking with two unidentified attendees at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic, Sackville, Nova Scotia, July 1978.

Photograph of Charlie Murray at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, PB Box 2, Folder 39, Item 29
Item
July 1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken by Susan Perly, of Charlie Murray standing and smiling at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic, Sackville, Nova Scotia, July 1978.

Photograph of two unidentifed children sitting on an upturned canoe at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, PB Box 2, Folder 39, Item 28
Item
July 1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken by Susan Perly, of two unidentified children sitting on an overturned canoe in Charlie and Kaye Murray's yard at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic, Sackville, Nova Scotia, July 1978.

Photograph of an unidentified person at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, PB Box 2, Folder 39, Item 27
Item
July 1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken by Susan Perly, of an unidentified person holding a bottle at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic, Sackville, Nova Scotia, July 1978.

Photograph of an unidentified person wearing sunglasses at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, PB Box 2, Folder 39, Item 26
Item
July 1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken by Susan Perly, of one unidentified person walking at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic, Sackville, Nova Scotia, July 1978.

Photograph of several unidentified people sitting under trees at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, PB Box 2, Folder 39, Item 24
Item
July 1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken by Susan Perly, of several unidentified attendees gathered under trees at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic, Sackville, Nova Scotia, July 1978.

Photograph of Kaye Murray, Nolan Reilly, Charlie Murray, and Sharon Reilly chatting at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, PB Box 2, Folder 39, Item 23
Item
July 1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken by Susan Perly, of Charlie and Kaye Murray and Nolan and Sharon Reilly, and one other unidentified person, chatting at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic, Sackville, Nova Scotia, July 1978.

Photograph of two unidentified attendees of the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, PB Box 2, Folder 39, Item 22
Item
July 1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken by Susan Perly, of two unidentified attendees standing under tree cover at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic, Sackville, Nova Scotia, July 1978.

Photograph of Kaye Murray, Nolan Reilly, Charlie Murray, and Sharon Reilly chatting at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, PB Box 2, Folder 39, Item 21
Item
July 1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken by Susan Perly, of Charlie and Kaye Murray and Nolan and Sharon Reilly, and several other unidentified person, chatting at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic, Sackville, Nova Scotia, July 1978.

Photograph of a group of unidentified people gathered outside Charlie and Kaye Murray's home, First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, PB Box 2, Folder 39, Item 20
Item
July 1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken by Susan Perly, showing a group of unidentified people standing outside Charlie and Kaye Murray's home during the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic, Sackville, Nova Scotia, July 1978.

Photograph of Kaye Murray and Dane Parker seated under trees at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, PB Box 2, Folder 39, Item 2
Item
July 1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken by Susan Perly, showing Kaye Murray (activist and host of the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic) and Dane Parker (member of the Communist Party of Canada who made the first attempt to unionize fish plants under Nova Scotia's 1937 Trade Union Act), seated under trees at the Picnic, Sackville, Nova Scotia, July 1978.

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