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10th anniversary preparatory materials

File contains materials relating to 10th anniversary of Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church in 2001. Materials include planning notes; memos; one program for Safe Harbour church service, held January 27, 2002; one printed copy of the web article Halifax church's mission: offer a safe place for gays by Alan McAvoy, published November 6, 2001; news clipping from the Daily News and the Chronicle Herald relating to the anniversary; one copy of the Safe Harbour press list; Eastlink Community Television coverage application forms; correspondence; three copies of a press release entitled Celebrating Our First Decade of Ministry, published October 16, 2001; and two advertisements for Singing God's Praises? An Evening with Rev. Delores Barry.

Administrative, reference, and promotional materials for Affirm United and St John's United Church

Series contains materials collected as part of Stewart's LGBT advocacy at St John's United Church in Halifax, and his subsequent involvement with Affirm United, an advocacy organization founded in 1982 that supports LGBTQ members of the United Church of Canada. Stewart was involved in the process of achieving Affirmed status for St John's United Church through the Affirming Ministries Program. Series contains articles, essays, and pamphlets regarding homosexuality and religion; informational documents associated with Affirm United and the Affirmation Congregation Program; manuals and other reference materials relating to the operation of Affirmed congregations; correspondence; issues of Consensus, the Affirm United newsletter; and issues of Open Hands, a journal published by Affirmations: United Methodists for Lesbian/Gay Concerns.

Affirm United flyers and reference materials

File contains flyers for Affirm United; one poster for Jesus for the Non-Religious, a lecture with the Right Reverend Bishop John Shelby Spong; pamphlets on homosexuality and the churchs; one cartoon about gay bashing; one pamphlet for St John;'s United Church; and one copy of the essay Supporting Our Gay Loved Ones : A Parents FLAG Perspective.

AIDS-Link records

Series contains materials related to AIDS-LINK, a volunteer-based project operated by CARAS to institute interfaith pastoral services for persons living with HIV/AIDS. The project was launched in 1996 and ceased operations in the early 2000s.

Alan (Al) Roy Stewart fonds

  • MS-15-21
  • Fonds
  • 1980-2019
Fonds contains materials collected by Al Stewart as part of his involvement in the Maritime leather community, his LGBT advocacy work at Saint John's United Church in Halifax, and his involvement in the broader LGBT community in Nova Scotia. Leather community records document the activities of the TightRope leather brotherhood, Mr. Atlantic Canada Leather [MACLeather] contests, and other leather groups across Canada and the United States. Materials include administrative records, photographs, promotional materials, correspondence, newsletters, and catalogues. United Church materials primarily relate to Stewart's efforts to attain Affirmed status for St. John's United Church, and include reference materials, correspondence, and newsletters. Fonds also contains objects and ephemera related to the leather community, Affirm, and Stewart's membership in the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union [NSGEU], as well as personal photographs, correspondence, and LGBT publications.

Stewart, Alan Roy

Anniversaries in Geneva, 1959

Item consists of an offprint from the Summer 1959 issue of the Dalhousie Review (pages [208]-218), containing the text of an address delivered by President Alexander Enoch Kerr about the the recent celebration of three different anniversaries related to the life and activities of John Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland in the sixteenth century.

Audio recordings by Marvin Burke on Negro Music in Nova Scotia

File contains two audio reels (0.7 cm tape), recorded by Marvin Burke, documenting black music in Nova Scotia. Tapes include recordings of The New Road Community Group (March 21, 1967), The Easter Sunday Sunrise Service at Seaview Baptist Church (March 26, 1967), and Seaview Baptist Church, Africville (May 21, 1967).

A.W. Shatford fonds

  • MS-2-67
  • Fonds
  • 1918-1948, predominant 1936-1948
Fonds consists of material related to A.W. Shatford, a proprietor from Hubbards, Nova Scotia. Material mostly relates to A. W. Shatford's commentary on religion, including his "Declaration of Principles."

Shatford, A.W.

Bible study materials

File contains one copy of What the Bible Does and Doesn't Say About Homosexuality: Bible Study Course Material for Safe Harbour; one program for Safe Harbour Church service dated January 21, 2001; and notes.

Bob Fougere fonds

  • MS-15-18
  • Fonds
  • 1990-2017
Fonds contains materials collected by LGBTQ+ activist Bob Fougere pertaining to his activism in Halifax. Records in fonds document Fougere's work as coordinator of the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project [NSRAP], including NSRAP's participation in the Halifax Rainbow Health Project and its health care advocacy work on behalf of transgender Nova Scotians. Materials also document Fougere's roles as board member at Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church, and facilitator the Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Youth Project support group. Materials in fonds include correspondence, pamphlets, essays, studies, clippings, reports, meeting minutes, conference materials, and ephemera.

Fougere, Bob

Byron Ulric Hatfield Photograph Collection

  • MS-2-781
  • Collection
  • [before 1949]
Collection contains seventy-seven glass plate lantern slides created by Byron Ulric Hatfield in Nova Scotia during the early twentieth century. Hatfield took photographs of coastal landscapes, churches and other buildings, and people working and in social settings. He also photographed published illustrations of Acadian life, including several illustrations of scenes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem "Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie." Hatfield developed his own photographs and created "magic lantern" slides to use in an illustrated lecture titled "The Land of Evangeline: The Land of Romance, Legend, and Picturesque Beauty." He gave lectures in various locations throughout the eastern United States.

Hatfield, Byron Ulric

Clergy Credentials and Concerns Committee, Eastern Canadian District general council records

File contains one draft of the proposed credentialling process process for the Clergy Credentials and Concerns Committee and associated correspondence. File also includes newsletters, notes, and correspondence from the Eastern Canadian District of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches.

Closure materials

File contains materials relating to the decision to close Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church. Materials include financial reports from 2010-2011; letters of interest from other community groups dated 2011; correspondence dated 2011; news clippings dated 2011; Board of Directors meeting minutes dated 2011; and notes.

Declaration of principles : [notebook no. 2]

Item is a loose leaf notebook of A.W. Shatford's "Declaration of Principles" dated to June 1948. Item is the second of three notebooks and includes notes, quotations, and clippings related to A.W. Shatford's commentary on religion.

Declaration of principles : [notebook no. 3]

Item is a loose leaf notebook of A.W. Shatford's "Declaration of Principles" dated to June 1948. Item is the third of three notebooks, and includes notes, quotations, and clippings related to A.W. Shatford's commentary on religion.

Essays, articles, glossaries, correspondence, and notes

File contains one copy of the essay The Intersexed? by Jennifer L. Paty, dated April 6, 2005; one copy of the essay Why Don't You Tell Them I'm a Boy? Raising a Gender-Nonconforming Child by Florence Dillon; one photocopy of the article A Boy's Life by Hanna Rosin, published in the November, 2008 issue of The Atlantic; one glossary of LGBT terminology; one transcript of the sermon Celebrating the T in LGBTQ: One Family's Sacred Journey, presented by Joan WIley to the First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto on January 21, 2007; one copy of the essay Darn Those Names and Pronouns by Mary Boenke, dated July, 2003; one copy of the article Metro Transition by Brendan Dunbar, originally published in July 20, 2006 issue of The Coast; Bob Fougere's correspondence regarding transgender activism, dated 2009-2010; eight business cards for Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church; one business card for Staci Montgomery, Employment Counsellor with LakeCity Employment Services Association; and notes.

Herbert Leslie Stewart fonds

  • MS-2-45
  • Fonds
  • 1860-1953
Fonds consists of records primarily originating from Herbert L. Stewart's work as a philosopher, professor, and political commentator. Records include manuscripts and typescripts, notes, scrapbooks, diaries, offprints, reports, and correspondence. One series comprises Stewart's collection of his father's sermons, notes, and correspondence.

Stewart, Herbert Leslie

Leslie E. Haley's records regarding the Gambia project

Series consists of Leslie E. Haley's materials regarding his involvement in the Gambia project, Dalhousie University's Gambia College Development Program. Series includes a financial statement, legal release forms, event programmes, correspondence, and other textual records.

LGBT Duplicate Materials collection

  • MS-15-12
  • Fonds
  • 1980-2018
Collection contains duplicate materials from fonds in the Nova Scotia LGBT Seniors Archive. Materials in collection include posters; programs, flyers, and promotional materials; pamphlets and outreach materials; and wearable ephemera including buttons and pins, badges, medals, clothing, and other regalia. Materials in series relate to Halifax Pride and other pride celebrations, political demonstrations, Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia [LGRNS] operations and events, Halifax Fetish Ball and Mr. Atlantic Canada [M.A.C.] Leather events, Gay and Lesbian Association [GALA] meetings and operations, events held at Rumours bar, LGBT films, and other LGBT causes and events.

Meeting minutes, agendas, financial records, correspondence, notes, and training materials

File contains administrative records relating to the operations of the Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church. Materials include invitation and program from the wedding of Norma Christine Cameron and Margot Whynot on February 17, 2001; meeting minutes and agendas dated 2010-2011; financial report and budgets dated 2010-2011; correspondence dated 2011; and 1 copy Board of Directors Training Manual for Churches Under 75.

Obituaries for Reverend Darlene Young

File contains two obituaries for Safe Harbour MCC Reverend Darlene Young; 1 printed out from Walker Funeral Home's website, and one photocopy of Jon Tattrie's article "Rainbow church moves on after beloved minister's death" for the Chronicle Herald.

Post-closure materials

File contains materials relating to the closure of Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church. This includes correspondence dated 2012-2013; inventory lists documenting the church's materials as of the time of its closure in 2011; lists of members; minutes from the annual congregational meeting held August 31, 2011; pamphets; programs; and notes.

Records regarding CARAS survey of churches and faith groups

File contains materials regarding a CARAS survey of churches and religious groups to identify attitudes towards individuals with HIV/AIDS and faith groups' involvement with CARAS or other HIV/AIDS support programs. Materials include the survey report, correspondence, memos, minutes, and notes.

Religious flyer

File contains one copy of a flyer describing religious gifts of the spirit.

Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church

Series contains materials related to the operations of Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church, a Halifax-based church for LGBTQ+ Christians that operated from 1991-2011. Materials in series include meeting minutes, correspondence, workshop materials, church programs, speaking notes, clippings, and promotional materials.

Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church

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