Archives Catalogue

MS-2-615
Fonds
1823 - 2006

Fonds comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his personal, academic, and professional activities as a jurist, judge, and professor. Records include those related to Macdonald's involvement with Osgoode Hall, University of Western Ontario, University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, the European Court of Human Rights, the Hague, Peking University, World Academy of Arts and Science, Canadian Council of International Law, United Nations, Institute of International Law, African Society of International Law, British Institute of International Law, Canadian Institute of International Law, International Law Association, and others. Records types include correspondence; meeting minutes and agendas; research materials; photographs; newsletters; newspaper clippings; manuscripts; and off-prints.

Macdonald, Ronald St. John, 1928-2006

Samuel R. Balcom fonds

MS-2-128
Fonds
1830-1980

Fonds contains records documenting the activities, organizations and associations in which Balcom was involved, including the Red Cap Snowshoe Club and the No. 7 Stationary Hospital. Record types include correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, memorabilia and parliamentary papers.

Balcom, Samuel R., Col.

William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

MS-2-762
Fonds
1831 - 2005

Fonds comprises the records of William Edward Maclellan and his family's records, including those of including William Edward and Margaret Jane (Mackenzie) Maclellan; Edward Kirkpatrick and Helen Stewart (Mackay) Maclellan; Robert (Bob) William and Delphine Caroline (Wallace) Maclellan; Jean Stewart Maclellan; Robert William Maclellan; and David Kirkpatrick Stewart Maclellan. Record types include correspondence, photographs, films, newspaper clippings, poems, certificates, booklets, periodicals, notebooks and genealogical charts.

Maclellan, William Edward

Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

MS-13-86
Fonds
1837-2020, predominant 1904-2008

Fonds contains records created and collected primarily by Alexander H. Leighton, with some by Jane Leighton Murphy. Documents span from Leighton's studies at Princeton, Cambridge, and Johns Hopkins univerities, through his government employment in World War II, and his teaching career at Cornell, Dalhousie, and Harvard. The majority of records are related to the 1961 Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project and the 1963 Study on the Role of Women, both based in Nigeria, and the Stirling County Study, based in Nova Scotia. Record types include correspondence, manuscripts, grant applications, reports, photographs and slides, medical and academic records, method and guidebooks, reviews, offprints and publications, teaching and course materials, and surveys and interview transcripts.

A sous-fonds contains records documenting the migration of Alexander Leighton's parents from Ireland to the United States and their subsequent life in Philadelphia. The sous-fonds contains extensive correspondence between extended family members over the course of a century, as well as photographs, diaries, wills, family trees, memoirs, and Alexander Leighton's personal correspondence.

Murphy, Jane Leighton

Ronald St. John Macdonald’s personal records

Series
1861 - [ca. 2005]

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Series comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his personal life, including memorabilia, biographical notes, awards, and photographs.

Oland family fonds

MS-2-135
Fonds
1870 - 2018

Fonds consists of various personal records, including correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, slides, negatives, an artifact, and legal and financial records. Some business records from Oland and Son Limited and its affiliated companies are also included.

Oland Family

Creelman Family fonds

MS-2-775
Fonds
1887-1999

This accession contains photographs, correspondence, postcards and other memorabilia from various members of the Creelman family.

Creelman Family

Robert A. Logan fonds

MS-2-580
Fonds
Bulk, 1907-1995

Fonds consists of materials related to Logan’s career (1912-1985), fiction and philosophy manuscripts (1925-1983), published articles (1922-1969), his wide-ranging correspondence (1942-1991), his studies concerning Cree and other languages (1932-1969), autobiographical and biographical works (1929-1982), genealogical studies of his family and others (1955-1984), certificates he received throughout his life (1906-1992), the indices he created for his documents (1949-1986), , his diaries (1930-1980), the journals, fieldbooks, and logbooks he wrote (1907-1960), images he took or collected (1909-1992), and other miscellaneous materials(1934-1983). All textual materials relate to his life, his far-reaching research studies, or his writings.

Logan, Robert A., 1892-1992

Henry Davies Hicks fonds

MS-2-511
Fonds
1915 - 1990, predominant 1937-1986

Fonds comprises records documenting Henry Hicks' political career and tenure as president of Dalhousie University, as well as his earlier studies at Oxford University and his military service in World War II. There are also records regarding his stamp collecting hobby, his community service, and his long involvement with associations such as the Rhodes Scholarship Committee. Record types include diaries and appointment books, correspondence, manuscripts, philatelic records, newspaper clippings and photographs.

Hicks, Henry D.

Robert (Bob) William and Delphine Caroline (Wallace) Maclellan's records

Series
1915 - 1995

Part of William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

Series consists of Robert (Bob) William Maclellan and Delphine Caroline (Wallace) Maclellan's correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, birth certificate, and other textual records.

Maclellan, Robert William

Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

MS-2-252
Fonds
1915-1957

Fonds primarily consists of records documenting Roome's military career and research interest. The records span World War One and World War Two and include correspondence (1918-1919 and 1942-1946); war diaries (1915-1918 and 1940-1944); addresses and lectures (1928-1949); ca. 165 black and white photographs, mostly of Mesopotamia during World War I and of training exercises during World War II in Debert and Tracadie, Nova Scotia; photographs and postcards of Dalhousie; maps of England, France, and Mesopotamia from World War I; print materials which include newspaper clippings and copies of Canadian military magazines; research notes on the American Civil War; papers while Deputy Adjutant General (1943-1945) regarding awards, transfers, discharges, etc.; and miscellaneous other papers.

Roome, Richard Edward Graham, Brigadier, 1892-1985

Robert (Bob) William Maclellan's records

Subseries
1915 - 1941

Part of William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

Subseries consists of Robert (Bob) William Maclellan's correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, birth certificate and death notice.

David Kirkpatrick Stewart Maclellan's records

Series
[ca. 1939] - 1995

Part of William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

Series consists of David Kirkpatrick Stewart Maclellan's correspondence, certificates, newspaper clippings, photograph and other textual records.

Maclellan, David Kirkpatrick Stewart

Photograph of the Princess Louise Fusiliers

MS-2-762, Box 2, Folder 9
File
ca. 1940s

Part of William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

Lloyd Macpherson fonds

MS-13-25
Fonds
[ca. 1941] - 1967

Fonds consists of correspondence, military documentation and memorabilia, clippings, and two photographs of Lloyd Macpherson.

MacPherson, Lloyd

Photograph of the corvette Hepatica

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 2, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1941]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, has a stamp marking it passed by a censor on the reverse side. The photograph was taken from the stern of the Windflower, which was directed by Lieutenant-Commander J.H.S. MacDonald, R.C.N.C.R. The Hepatica was directed by Lieutenant-Commander C.W. Copelin, R.C.N.V.R., and was on patrol in the Western Approaches.

Photograph of Ellen Ballon helping with the American Red Cross Blood Donor Service

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 24
Item
[c. 1942 - 1945]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Photograph of R.A. Delahaye, Adhemar Raynault, Rosalie Phillips, Isidore Ballon, and David H. Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 22
Item
[c. 1942 - 1945]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a photograph of Ellen Ballon's brother, Dr. David H. Ballon, speaking at the Montreal ceremony where he turned over the Ballon family home to the Canadian Jewish Congress for the duration of World War II to be used as a servicemen's hostel. Also included in the photograph are Group Captain R.A. Delahaye of the Royal Canadian Air Force; Mayor Adhemar Raynault of Montreal; Mrs. Rosalie (Lazarus) Phillips, the head of the Canadian Jewish Contress Women's Division; and Isidore Ballon, K.C.

Photograph of Thomas Head Raddall in uniform as an orderly officer standing in front of pitched tents

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 8, Item 2
Item
[1942?]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Lot 1540 : photographs of a Side dump-ballast car for United States War Department, Newfoundland Railway

MS-4-106, Box 2, Folder 31
File
May 1942

Part of Trenton Works Ltd. Fonds

File contains 13 photographs of a Side dump-ballast car for United States War Department, Newfoundland Railway manufactured by the Canadian Car and Foundry Company

Photograph of Ellen Ballon, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, and unidentified man in uniform

MS-5-2, Box 5, Folder 8, Item 21
Item
[c. 1942 -1945]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a photograph of Fiorello H. Laguardia, the Mayor of New York (1934-1945) , signing a scroll of greetings from the "Men in New York at the Stage Door Canteen" to the "Men of Canada." The "Men of Canada" refers to the Canadian service-men's center that opened in Ellen Ballon's family home in Montreal.

Photograph of Helen Wilson Beveridge in Royal Canadian Air Force (Women's Division) uniform

MS-2-831.2022-016, PB Box 29, Folder 33
Item
[ca. 1943]

Part of Helen Wilson Beveridge fonds

Photograph of looters and bystanders outside Offman's Jewellers on Barrington Street during the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 2
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of crowds outside of Keith's Brewery on Lower Water Street during the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 3
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of dispersing crowds and detritus on Hollis Street after the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 8
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of a serviceman and an older women with military decorations on her lapel dancing on Barrington Street during VE-Day in Halifax

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 12
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of a ransacked shop after the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 27
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph showing a man picking up a broken drawer from a looted shop.

Photograph of civilian looters carrying stacks of clothing past the smashed shop windows during the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 29
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of crowds behind Keith's Brewery during the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 30
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of serviceman and civilians walking past looted shops on Barrington Street in the aftermath of the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 36
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of a parade of Canadian Armed Forces marching down a street in Holland

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 4, Item 4
Item
1945

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Photos of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 4
File
1945

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photographs of Hiroshima after the 1945 bombing.

Photographs of Japan

MS-13-86, Box 129, Folders 4 and 5
File
1945

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photographs of Japan taken in 1945.

Photograph of a police van set afire and nearly run off the waterfront dock during the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 10
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of a sailor and a Wren drinking beer on the grass in downtown Halifax during the VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 13
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of a fire-scorched hotplate underneath a sink

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 16
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains a photograph possibly taken as evidence of attempted incendiarism during the Halifax VE-Day riots.

Photograph of men carrying looted shoes on the corner of Blowers Street and Granville Street during the VE-Day riots in Halifax

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 18
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of civilian looters outside the smashed windows of Kay's Department Store on Barrington Street during the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 20
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of two sailors carrying armfuls of looted clothes during the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 23
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of RCAF men drinking beer and browsing though a ransacked shop during the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 34
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of two sailors examining looted goods, including a feather duster and fur vest, on VE-Day in Halifax

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 35
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of a parade of Canadian Armed Forces and a military band marching down a street in Holland

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 4, Item 5
Item
1945

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Photograph of the German submarine U-889 shortly after its surrender to Canadian naval forces near Shelburne, Nova Scotia

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 5, Item 3
Item
13 May 1945

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is related to material found in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album [between 1940 and 1959] and to MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 8 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The photograph has a stamp marking it copyright to the Royal Canadian Navy on the reverse side.

Photos from the Strategic Bombing Survey