Archives Catalogue

Surveys of flora and avifauna at the Sydport Industrial Park, Sydney, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 17, Folder 6
File
2012

File contains field notes written by Bill Freedman documenting flora and avifauna seen at a selection of sites near the Sydport industrial complex.

Notes on property exploration for the Nova Scotia Nature Trust

MS-2-789, Box 19, Folder 4
File
2012

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains notes written by Bill Freedman in 2012 while undertaking property explorations for the Nova Scotia Nature Trust. Notes contain a brief survey of each location and potential financial costs involved, for locations at Middle and Outer Pleasant Harbour, Gerard Island, Hemeon's Head, Bougles Isle (?), Pugwash, and a site at Tusket.

Sable Island groundwater analysis : [draft manuscript and data sets]

MS-2-789, Box 30, Folder 5
File
2008

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains Maxxam and Stantec reports relating to water analysis samples taken from several locations on Sable Island. File also includes draft manuscript compiled by Freedman, for Jacques Whitford Stantec Limited.

Documents relating to a site assessment of the Nature Conservancy of Canada at Deep Cove (near Blandford), Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 29, Folder 4
File
2006

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains a site assessment of the Menger property at Deep Cove, near Blandford, Nova Scotia, undertaken by Freedman for the Nature Conservancy of Canada. File includes correspondence and two aerial photographs.

Correspondence related to the Sable Island Preservation Trust

MS-2-789, Box 33, Folder 13
File
2004-2009

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains correspondence to and from Freedman regarding topics related to Sable Island and the Sable Island Preservation Trust.

Photographs of forest regrowth in the Tobeatic Wilderness Area, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 16, Folder 2
File
2003

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contain 58 photographs taken by Bill Freedman in 2003. Photographs show aerial surveys of the forests, understory, and invertebrate species of the Tobeatic Wilderness Area in southwestern Nova Scotia as well as the southwestern coast of Nova Scotia in general.

Photographs of Gaff Point, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 14, Folder 18
File
2001

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 45 photographs taken by Bill Freedman on a hiking trip along the Gaff Point trail in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, in 2001. Photographs show trees in the area, as well as coastal scenes.

Canadian Food Inspection Agency documents relating to the Brown spruce longhorn beetle

MS-2-789, Box 31, Folder 5
File
2000-2008

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains correspondence to and from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, as well as governmental information sheets .

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

MS-2-789, Box 16, Folder 13
File
2000

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

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.

Brown spruce longhorn beetle : an invasive forest pathogen in the Halifax Regional Municipality : [draft manuscript and transparencies]

MS-2-789, Box 31, Folder 1
File
[early-2000s]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains a draft manuscript written by Freedman in the early 2000s. File also contains transparencies of the same report, including some colour photograph facsimiles.

Brown spruce longhorn beetle task force : [draft manuscripts and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 31, Folders 2-3
File
2000-2008

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains minutes and notes from meetings of the Brown Spruce Longhorn Beetle Task Force, managing the response to the infestation of the pest in Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia. File also contains draft presentations, notes, and summaries.

Correspondence relating to the Brown spruce longhorn beetle : [correspondence]

MS-2-789, Box 31, Folder 4
File
2000-2008

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains correspondence from Freedman and others regarding containment of the pest in Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Correspondence is to and from Christopher Majka, Jon Sweeney, Ken Harrison, Stephen King, and others.

Journal and newspaper articles relating to the Brown spruce longhorn beetle : [draft manuscripts and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 32, Folders 2-3
File
2000-2008

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains facsimiles of newspaper articles relating to the containment of the Brown spruce longhorn beetle infestation of Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Otto Wettstein's draft report "On breeding Tetropium fuscum" (for Public Works and Government Services Canada), S. Balazy's draft "The fungus Cephalosporium (Acrostalagmus) lecanii Zimm. as a pathogen of beetle larvae", L.M. Hanks's "Influence of the larval host plant on reproductive strategies of cerambycid beetles", Zenon Capecki's "The occurrence of Tetropium Kirby (Cerambycidae, Coleoptera) and their parasites in Poland", J. Sweeney, L. Humble, and E. Allen's "Assessment of the Bruks chipper for phytosanitary production of chips free of live Tetropium spp. and other insects", Christopher Majka and Jan Klimaszewski's "Phloeocharis subtilissima Mannerheim (Staphylinidae: Phloeocharinae) and Cephennium gallicum Ganglbauer (Scydmaenidae) new to North America: a case study in the introduction of exotic Coleoptera to the port of Halifax, with new records of other species", and other Brown spruce longhorn beetle reports and articles.

COSEWIC status report on the Thread-leaved sundew, Russulis filiforme (Drosera filiformis) : [draft manuscript and correspondence]

MS-2-789, Box 24, Folder 8
File
1999-2001

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the draft manuscript written by Freedman and Jim Jotcham for the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, about the status of Drosera filiformis, at several bog sites in southwestern Nova Scotia. File also contains correspondence and related articles.

Selected studies of forestry and bird communities in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick : [manuscript and correspondence]

MS-2-789, Box 25, Folder 1
File
1999

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman and Greg Johnson for the monograph "Biology and conservation of forest birds", Society of Cananadian Ornithologists Special Publication no. 1 (edited by A.W. Diamond and D.N. Nettleship). File also contains reviewer-edited drafts, correspondence, and proceedings itinerary.

Airphoto assessment of changes in plant cover on Sable Island, Nova Scotia : [draft manuscripts]

MS-2-789, Box 25, Folder 13
File
1996-2001

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains two draft reports by Freedman, tracking changes of Sable Island vegetation, in 1996 and 2001.

Inventory of ecological values on McNab's Island, Halifax County : [draft manuscript]

MS-2-789, Box 33, Folder 1
File
1996

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the draft manuscript compiled by Freedman and others in the Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, prepared for Parks Canada.

McNab's Island Christmas bird counts

MS-2-789, Box 32, Folder 4
File
1995-2012

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

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.

MS-2-789, Box 33, Folder 6
File
1995

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains raw data notes compiled by Sean Love and Barb O'Neil and collected by Freedman, documenting tree counts at eight sites in Point Pleasant Park and eight sites in Fleming Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia, in early May 1995.

MS-2-789, Box 33, Folder 8
File
[1995]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains handwritten notes regarding biomass equations, and applying the equations to house redesign in Halifax.

Tree biomass and carbon storage in selected urban areas of Halifax, Nova Scotia : [draft manuscript]

MS-2-789, Box 33, Folder 7
File
[1995]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the draft manuscript written by Barbara O'Neil and Sean Love, for Freedman, heavily annotated by Freedman. File also contains a manuscript of a similar study undertaken in Chicago.

Other studies on Point Pleasant Park and the Brown spruce longhorn beetle : [manuscripts and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 32, Folder 1
File
1995-2008

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains manuscript reports dealing with the health of Point Pleasant Park and the containment of the Brown spruce longhorn beetle. File contains the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources "1994/95 Spruce Beetle Damage Survey" (Mike LeBlanc and Bob Guscott), the "Point Pleasant Park Forest Health Survey, June 8-10, 2000" (Guscott), two draft manuscripts of "Brown Spruce Longhorn Beetle" (Plant Health Risk Assessment Unit, Science Division; September 1999 and June 2000), the Halifax Regional Municipality "Point Pleasant Park, Park and Urban Forest Master Plan" (November 18, 1998), and other fact sheets (Friends of Point Pleasant Park and Environment Canada) and presentation drafts.

Aquatic vegetation of Nova Scotian lakes differeing in acidity and trophic status : [manuscript and correspondence]

MS-2-789, Box 25, Folder 4
File
1993-1995

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman, with Diane S. Srivastava and Cynthia A. Staicer, for Aquatic Botany, volume 51. File also contains correspondence and reviewer comments.

Vegetation and soils of the terrestrial watershed of Pine Marten Brook, Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia : [draft manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 27, Folder 7
File
1992

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains draft manuscript reports written by Freedman with W. Maass, regarding consultancy work at the Pine Marten Brook in Kejimkujik National Park. Includes data sets, chemical analysis of water samples, maps, correspondence, and the consultancy contract with Environment Canada.

Vegetation development in a hardwood-forest chronosequence in Nova Scotia : [manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 10, Folder 11
File
1992-1993

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman and M. Crowell, for the Canadian Journal of Forest Research, volume 24. File also includes data sets related to Twinspan and Decorana runs, correspondence, and reviewers comments. Manuscript was originally titled "Vegetation development across a post-disturbance chronosequence of hardwood-forest in Nova Scotia".

Thread-leaved sundew, Drosera filiformis in Nova Scotia : an assessment of risks of a proposal to mine fuel peat from its habitat : [manuscript and correspondence]

MS-2-789, Box 24, Folder 9
File
1992-1993

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman, with W. Maass and P. Parfenov, for the Canadian Field-Naturalist, volume 106, number 4. File also contains correspondence, reviewer comments, and three photographs.

Mine-boggling decision : Nova Scotia's government said no to development, to save an endangered plant : [manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 24, Folder 10
File
1992

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman for Nature Canada, Spring 1992. File also contains drafts, correspondence, and colour photographs of the endangered plant.

Effects of silvicultural use of the herbicide glyphosate on breeding birds of regenerating clearcuts in Nova Scotia, Canada : [manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 25, Folder 2
File
1992-1993

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman and D.S. MacKinnon, for the Journal of Applied Ecology, volume 30. File also contains correspondence, data sets, and reviewer comments.

Aquatic effects of restoration of a water-control structure on the outflow of Webber Lake, Halifax County, Nova Scotia : [manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 27, Folder 2
File
1992-1993

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the draft report written by Freedman with Paul Mandell, prepared for Sackville Hydro Power Inc., care of L.E. Powell and Company, Ltd., Engineers and Builders. File also includes correspondence, data and maps.

Short-term changes in vegetation after the silvicultural spraying of glyphosate herbicide onto regenerating clearcuts in Nova Scotia, Canada : [draft manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 22, Folder 1
File
1991-1993

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains a draft manuscript written by Freedman, R. Morash, and D. MacKinnon, for the Canadian Journal of Forest Research, volume 23. File also contains correspondence and reviewer comments. The article covers spraying at the Antrim, Little River Lake, and Riverside sites.

Assessment of the likely effects of peat extraction from Swaines Road (Barrington) bog, Shelburne County, on Drosera filiformis and its habitat : [draft manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 24, Folder 7
File
1991-1992

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the draft manuscript written by Freedman, with W. Maass and P. Parfenov, for COSEWIC (the Committe on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada", relating to the protection of the endangered thread-leaved sundew (Drosera filiformis) form bog sites being surveyed as potential peat extraction locations. File includes manuscripts, correspondence, data sets, and relevant statutes.

Photographs of endangered flora and persistent coastal litter at Bon Portage Island, Baccaro and Swaine's Road bogs, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 14, Folder 22
File
1991

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 25 photographs taken by Bill Freedman near Barrington, Nova Scotia, in 1991. Photographs show litter on the coast of Bon Portage Island, as well as vegetation (primarily the rare, insectivorous Drosera filiformis) at Baccaro bog and Swaine's Road bog. Photographs show the endangered plants that would be threatened should a peat-mining operation be opened in the area.

Use of lakes by black duck broods in relation to biological, chemical, and physical features : [manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 25, Folder 5
File
1991-1994

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript and two draft manuscripts written by Freedman, with Cynthia A. Staicer, Diane Srivastava, Nancy Dowd, Jennifer Kilgar, Jill Hayden, Fred Payne, and Tom Pollock, for Hydrobiologia, volumes 279-280. File also contains reviewer comments, Previous drafts were titled "Characteristics of Nova Scotian lakes in relation to their use by black duck broods". The report surveys the characteristics of duck populations at 32 freshwater lakes in central and western Nova Scotia.

Final report to Halifax Harbour Cleanup Inc. on vegetation and soil survey :[ draft manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 32, Folder 5
File
1991

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the draft manuscript report compiled by Freedman and others for the consultancy firm Jacques Whitford Environment Ltd. File also contains a large folding facsimile map and annotated tables of flora from sites on McNabs Island.

Research notes related to tree counts at locations in Fairview and South End Halifax

MS-2-789, Box 33, Folder 9
File
[1990s?]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains handwritten research notes of tree counts at select street locations throughout South End Halifax and Fairview, Nova Scotia.

Notes for a presentation to the Commission of Inquiry on Canadian University Education : [speech]

UA-3, Box 506, Folder 11, Item 7
Item
October 25, 1990

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of the text of a presentation to the Commission of Inquiry on Canadian University Education, delivered by Howard Clark and Denis Stairs on October 25, 1990.

Controversy over the use of herbicides in forestry, with particular reference to glyphosate usage : [manuscript and correspondence]

MS-2-789, Box 21, Folder 6
File
1990-1991

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman for the Environmental Carcinogenic Reviews (Journal of Environment Science and Health, volume C8, number 2). File also includes correspondence, referee revision comments, and discussions on travel.

Photographs of leaf damage cause by accidental emission of acidic particulates from the Tufts Cove generating station, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 16, Folder 4
File
1989

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 28 photographs taken by Bill Freedman near the Tufts Cove Generating Station, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, in August 1989. Photographs show damage to vegetation (Red oak, pumpkin, cucumber, and tomato) potentially caused by the accidental emission of acidic particulates from the generating station.

Photographs of vegetation in barrens and bogs of Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 16, Folder 6
File
1989-2002

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 22 photographs taken by Bill Freedman between 1989 and 2001. Photographs show vegetation at the Murchyville bog (near Moose River, Nova Scotia), a Christmas tree lot in Lunenburg County, the barrens at Polly Cove (Halifax County), and examples of the endangered Geum peckii on Brier Island (Digby County).

Biological survey of Conrad Island, N.S. : [manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 25, Folder 7
File
[1988?]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the draft manuscripts written by Freedman and J. Stewart for the Nova Scotia Bird Society. File also contains supplemental articles, correspondence, photographs and negatives. Conrad Island is near Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Benefits evaluation of wood energy projects in Nova Scotia : a methodology and case study assessment : [manuscript and correspondence]

MS-2-789, Box 21, Folder 11
File
1987-1989

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the draft report prepared by Freedman with The DPA Group Inc., in association with Inform Consulting Services, Monenco Maritimes Ltd, and P. Lane and Associates Ltd., for the Nova Scotia Department of Mines and Energy. File also includes correspondence.

Characteristics of three acidic lakes in Kejimkujik National Park : [manuscript and correspondence]

MS-2-789, Box 19, Folder 6
File
1987-1989

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains an offprint of the article written by Freedman and J. Kerekes, in Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 18(1): 183-200. File also includes correspondence with Kerekes and the publisher.

Changes in the vegetation of regenerating clearcuts in central Nova Scotia after spraying with glyphosate : [draft manuscripts and correspondence]

MS-2-789, Box 21, Folder 10
File
1987

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains draft manuscripts of the paper written by Freedman and R. Morash, and submitted to the Canadain Forestry Service as an information report. File also includes correspondence. Article references Antrim, Little River Lake, and Riverside research.

Initial impacts of silvicultural herbicide spraying on the vegetation of regenerating cleracuts in central Nova Scotia : [draft manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 22, Folder 2
File
[1985]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains draft manuscripts of the paper written by Freedman, R. Morash, and C. Stewart, and includes data sets and correspondence.

Ion mass balances and seasonal fluxes from four acidic brown water streams in Nova Scotia : [manuscript and correspondence]

MS-2-789, Box 10, Folder 10
File
1985-1987

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript of the article written by Freedman, correspondence about requested revisions, data sets and figures.

Biomass and nutrients in Nova Scotian forests, and implications of intensive harvesting for future site productivity : [manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 23, Folder 2
File
1985-1986

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman with R. Morash and P.N. Duinker, for Forest Ecology and Management, volume 15. File also contains draft manuscripts and correspondence.

Forest biomass and nutrient studies in central Nova Scotia : [manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 22, Folder 6
File
1985

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman with P.N. Duinker, H. Barclay, R. Morash, and U. Prager, for ENFOR (Energy from the Forest) and Environment Canada. The manuscript is written in five parts, contained in four volumes: 1. "Biomass and nutrient standing crop equations for ten tree species in central Nova Scotia"; 2. "Standing crops of biomass and nutrients in a variety of forest stands in central Nova Scotia"; 3. "Ambient bulk deposition, throughfall and stemflow in a variety of forest stands"; 4. "Biomass and nutrients in ground vegetation, forest floor, soils, and litterfall in a variety of forest stands"; and 5. "Summary report: Effects of potential nutrient removals with intensively harvested biomass on continued site productivity". File also contains data sets, transparencies, relevant tables, editorial board reports, and negatives of tables.

Patterns of water chemistry of four drainage basins in central Nova Scotia : [manuscript]

MS-2-789, Box 19, Folder 7
File
1985

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman with C. Stewart and U. Prager for the Inland Waters Directorate, studying the watersheds of Rogers Book, Whiteburn Brook, Moose Pit Brook, and Mersey River.

Forest floor dynamics in a chronosequence of hardwood stands in central Nova Scotia : [manuscript and correspondence]

MS-2-789, Box 23, Folder 1
File
1985

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman and E.S. Wallace, for the Canadian Journal of Forest Research, volume 16. File also includes correspondence and reviewer comments.

Ambient bulk deposition, throughfall, and stemflow in a variety of forest stands in Nova Scotia : [manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 22, Folder 4
File
1985-1986

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman and U. Prager, for the Canadian Journal of Forest Research, volume 16. File also contains correspondence, draft manuscript, and reviewer comments.

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