Archives Catalogue

Photograph of schoolchildren taught by Harold Edwin Killam

MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 17, Folder 2
File
[1894?]

File contains one mounted photograph of schoolchildren taught by H.E. (Harold Edwin) Killam (1878-1957) when he was 16 years old. Killam is seated in the centre of the photograph. The children of varying ages are posed for a group shot, and the photograph is taken outside.

Programs from the School for the Blind

MS-5-1, Box 4, Folder 4
File
[1900 - 1925]

Part of John Daniel Logan fonds

File contains programs for the following recitals presented at the Halifax School for the Blind: Michel Sciapiro (violin), presented by the Halifax Ladies' Musical Club; Mildred Dilling (harp), with Rose E. Seguin (soprano) and orchestra (conducted by L. Dorothea Webb); and an organ and vocal recital with unknown performers.

School of advanced piano playing : exercises

MS-5-2, Box 8, Folder 22
File
1902

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a piano technique book used and annotated by Ellen Ballon, presumably while studying with Rafael Joseffy.

Joseffy, Rafael

Harmony workbooks

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folders 1-5
File
[1906 - 1913]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains eleven harmony workbooks used by Ellen Ballon, including notes and exercises. Two books are labelled "Mr. Goldmark Harmony Book," in reference to her harmony teacher in New York, Rubin Goldmark. Another book includes an inserted repertoire list of piano compositions, composers, and times, presumably related to her piano lessons with Rafael Joseffy.

Community Development / William Saxby Blair

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 2
File
1912-1938

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a report titled "Community development" by William Saxby Blair. Blair was the first supervisor of the Experimental Farm in Kentville, Nova Scotia from its creation in 1912 until his retirement in 1938.

Photograph of Harry Dean

MS-5-1, Box 1, Folder 37
File
[1915-1927]

Part of John Daniel Logan fonds

File contains a photograph of Harry Dean, a Canadian conductor, pianist, organist, and music educator. He is known for founding the Maritime Academy of Music and the Nova Scotia Registered Music Teachers' Association in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

School of octave-playing for the pianoforte : book three

MS-5-2, Box 8, Folder 23
File
1917

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a piano technique book used and annotated by Ellen Ballon. It is the third book in a set of three, dedicated to Rafael Joseffy. It includes studies by composers from Ludwig van Beethoven until the book's publication.

Philipp, Isidor

Pianoscript book : an invaluable aid to teacher and student in preserving important advice and lesson notes in permanent form

MS-5-2, Box 8, Folder 21
File
1918

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a piano technique book used by Ellen Ballon while she was studying with Alberto Jonas in New York. Each page includes printed technical excercises and blank staff lines with some additions handwritten in pencil, presumably by Jonas or Ballon. The book includes a repertoire list of pieces Ballon performed in 1918-1919.

Jonàs, Alberto

Personal papers of George Frederick Pearson

MS-2-291, SF Box 31, Folder 22
File
1920,1932

File comprises letters from Marshall Saunders, enclosing a sermon, "The Value of Higher Education from a Woman's Point of View," and his own "Report of a committee headed by G. Fred Pearson regarding dissatisfaction with Carleton Stanley, made to the Board of Governors of Dalhousie University, May 21, 1932."

Pearson, George Frederick

Directory of graduates and former students of the University

MS-1-Ref, Box 117, Folder 8
File
1925

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

File contains a directory of graduates and former students of Dalhousie University published in 1925. The volume contains a bookplate for Archibald McKellar MacMechan.

Dalhousie Alumni Association

Attendance registers for Wentworth Centre School

MS-2-198, OS Box 23, Folder 2
File
1928 ; 1941

Part of The Reverend William R. Tratt fonds

Lecture notes regarding mathematics 5 at Dalhousie University

MS-2-521, Box 1, Folder 6
File
1931 - 1933

Part of Charles Walmsley fonds

Public Schools of Nova Scotia teacher's licenses

MS-2-646.2017-044, OS Box 9, Folder 7
File
1932-1933

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains two teaching licenses for Joyce Carman Killam for receiving professional diplomas to teach Grade 11 and Grade 12 classes, respectively.

Lecture notes regarding mathematics 1 at Dalhousie University

MS-2-521, Box 1, Folder 9
File
1932 - 1944; (predominant 1940 - 1944)

Part of Charles Walmsley fonds

Lecture notes regarding mathematics 3 at Dalhousie University

MS-2-521, Box 1, Folder 7
File
1932 - 1953; (predominant 1950 - 1953)

Part of Charles Walmsley fonds

Directory of graduates and former students of the University : corrected to September, 1937

MS-1-Ref, Box 27, Folder 19
File
September 1937

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

File contains 2 copies of a directory of graduates and former students of Dalhousie University published in September 1937. The directory is an update of a similar directory published by the Dalhousie Alumni Association in 1925.

Dalhousie Alumni Association

Notes by John Geoffrey Adshead regarding the The Dalhousie Course of First Year Mathematics

MS-2-521, Box 1, Folder 2
File
1939

Part of Charles Walmsley fonds

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 29
File
Sept. 1940

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Meeting minutes, memorandums, and various records related to agricultural education

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 1
File
1942-1944

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

The curriculum and the rural schools of Nova Scotia / Alexander Laidlaw

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 7
File
1942

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Memorandum by the [Nova Scotia] Interdepartmental Committee on Agricultural Education on adult education in the field of agriculture in 1943

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 3
File
1943

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Meeting minutes from 1943 from the Committee on Co-operation and Co-ordination

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 5
File
1943

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Memorandums and correspondence and various records from 1943 related to the Canadian Legion War Services Inc. Educational Services

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 2
File
1943

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Manual of the first year of the Dalhousie course of mathematics

MS-2-521, SF Box 93, Folder 21
File
1947

Part of Charles Walmsley fonds

File contains a manual written by Charles Walmsley and John Geoffrey Adshead.

Lecture notes regarding mathematics 2 at Dalhousie University

MS-2-521, Box 1, Folder 8
File
1948 - 1953

Part of Charles Walmsley fonds

File contains lecture notes of 1942, 1943, 1948, 1949, 1952 and 1953.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's research materials on the University of Alberta Law School history and the teaching of international law at the university

MS-2-615, Box 93, Folders 6 and 7
File
1951 - 1985, predominant 1973 - 1985

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Letters from Frank Cyril James to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 15
File
1952-1954

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains three letters from Frank Cyril James to Ellen Ballon concerning her performances and the conferral of an honorary degree by McGill to her.

James, Frank Cyril

Report for the Survey Committee on Agriculture courses in Ontario, 1956, includes summary and conclusion

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 10
File
1956

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Pre-legal education and the Osgoode Hall Law School / Ronald St. John Macdonald : [manuscript]

MS-2-615, Box 107, Folder 16
File
1956 - 1956

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Report of the Committee to study the Farm Courses of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College / Mr. C.E. Henry, 1960

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 5
File
1960

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Report of the Committee to study the Farm Courses of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College / Kenneth Cox, and other related records

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 8
File
1960

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a final draft titled "Report of the Committee to study the Farm Courses of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College", by Mr. Kenneth Cox in 1960. Also included are a draft copy, meeting minutes, correspondence, farm class tour survey, recommendations, and other related materials.

Cox, Kenneth

Recording of an interview with Joan Ryan and recordings from the school at George River

MS-2-130, Box 12, Folder 11
File
August 25, 1960

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

File contains a reel-to-reel recording children singing the alphabet and other songs in school; children yelling while playing in a water hole; children singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"'; and Barbara Hinds' interview with Joan Ryan, a school teacher in George River, about what it’s like to teach up North.

Recordings from Cape Dorset and Frobisher Bay

MS-2-130, Box 15, Folder 7
File
[ca. 1960]

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

File contains two reel-to reel tapes containing recordings of Barbara Hinds talking about the history of the church in Cape Dorset; a grade 2 reading lesson at a school in Frobisher Bay; students singing God Save the Queen; and Barbara Hinds interviewing Gordon Goward, a teacher in Frobisher Bay.

Zoology II : Protochordates and vertebrates

MS-2-799, Box 4, Folder 15
File
1961

Part of Brian Hall fonds

File contains documents relating to the Zoology II : Protochordates and vertebrates course taken by Hall. Materials include handwritten class notes and figures.

Zoology II : Part 2

MS-2-799, Box 4, Folder 16
File
1961

Part of Brian Hall fonds

File contains documents relating to the second portion of the Zoology II course taken by Hall. Materials include typed and handwritten class notes and figures.

Zoology III

MS-2-799, Box 4, Folder 17
File
c. 1961 - 1963

Part of Brian Hall fonds

File contains documents relating to the Zoology III course taken by Hall. Materials include a typed syllabus and instructions for the course.

Zoology III : Special project

MS-2-799, Box 4, Folder 18
File
October 1962

Part of Brian Hall fonds

File contains documents relating to the Zoology III special project done by Hall in 1962. The project is a paper titled "The Histology of the Skull Articulations of Notechis acutatus (the Tiger Snake) with a Preliminary Description of the Anatomy of the Skull".

The University of New England

MS-2-799, Box 4, Folder 14
File
1963 - 1978

Part of Brian Hall fonds

File contains documents relating to Hall's education at the University of New England. Materials include correspondence regarding Hall's degrees, including Doctor of Philosophy, and an abstract for and reports on Hall's Doctor of Science dissertation.

Zoology IV : Honours reading list

MS-2-799, Box 4, Folder 19
File
1963 - 1964

Part of Brian Hall fonds

File contains the Zoology IV honours reading list for 1963 - 1964. The list is described as the basis for Hall's paper in the Kovalevsky medal issue of a journal in 2004.

Figures for demonstration at Sydney University

MS-2-799, Box 4, Folder 13
File
1966

Part of Brian Hall fonds

File contains documents relating to a demonstration done by Hall at Sydney University in 1966, while he was in university. Materials include figures with notes.

Florida International University lectures

MS-2-799, Box 4, Folder 3
File
[after 1968]

Part of Brian Hall fonds

File contains documents relating to Hall's lectures for Florida International University. Materials include overviews of each lecture and a reading list.

Dalhousie appointments 1968 - 2016

MS-2-799, Box 1, Folder 4
File
1968 - 2016

Part of Brian Hall fonds

File contains documents relating to Hall's Dalhousie appointments from 1968 - 2016. Materials include correspondence including salary discussions, notices from Dalhousie, reports of Hall's work, applications, narrative account of Hall's career, and applications for sabbatical.

Body plans and homology

MS-2-799, Box 3, Folder 37
File
[after 1968]

Part of Brian Hall fonds

File contains documents relating to Hall's lecture on body plans and homology for Arizona State University. Materials include a typed script, as well as figures.

Evolutionary developmental biology

MS-2-799, Box 4, Folder 2
File
[after 1968]

Part of Brian Hall fonds

File contains documents relating to Hall's lecture on evolutionary developmental biology for the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). Materials include handwritten notes, as well as a schedule of lectures, annotated reading list, and topic list.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's research materials on the University of Windsor history and the teaching of international law at the university