File contains one complete annotated draft manuscript, dated November 1998, and another partial manuscript with Bonnie McCay's edits, made in October 1999.
File contains letters sent to Alan Ruffman by various correspondents, including J.M. Bewers, R.L.G. Gilbert, Robert W. Morse, Graham Doyle, L.M. Lauzier, Paul E. Vandall Jr. and J.D. Keys. Some of the letters contain handwritten notes possibly written by Alan Ruffman.
File contains a 1000 word article by Andrew Merkel about the Digby scallop industry as well as am enclosure letter to R.J. Rankin at The Herald newspaper, for which the piece was written.
Files contain correspondence with the Department of External Affairs of Canada, a memorandum of agreement between Ronald St. John Macdonald and the Department of External Affairs of Canada, and other materials related to the subject.
File contains a programme of a conference co-sponsored by the Public Services Committee of the Faculty of Law and the Centre for International Business Studies of the School of Business Administration, both at Dalhousie University.
File contains a Canadian special publication of fisheries and aquatic sciences, number 57, of the Canadian Committee on Oceanography. File also contains a membership application form for the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society.