Sable Island (N.S.)

Photograph of a dory approaching Sable Island from an unidentified fishing boat

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 7
Item
[ca. 1920]

Item consists of a photograph of a dory containing four people, approaching Sable Island from a distant unidentified fishing boat, likely around 1920.

Photograph of a dense patch of Juniperus communis (common juniper) on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 58
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of a brick hearth found on Sable Island by Donald Patterson

MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 25, Item 2
Item
March 1963

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Photograph of a brackish pond near Lifesaving Station Number 3 on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 49
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of a brackish pond near Lifesaving Station Number 3 on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 26
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of a brackish pond located near Lifesaving Station Number 3 on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 4
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Oddball : [manuscript regarding Sable Island Coastal Station experience]

MS-2-474, SF Box 43, Folder 9
Item
[197-?]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a short typed manuscript drafted by Richard Orme Allen, likely in the 1970s, about experiences at the Sable Island Coastal Station.

Notes for a book on Sable Island

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folder 4
File
[2002?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains an annotated 20-page manuscript, a chapter breakdown and handwritten notes.

Marq de Villiers fonds

MS-2-825
Fonds
1943 - 2016

Fonds comprises records documenting Marq de Villiers' work as a journalist and writer of non-fiction. Record types include manuscripts and published work—including collaborations with his wife, Sheila Hirtle; correspondence; publicity and reviews; and a small series of personal photographs and photographs taken in the course of his research.

de Villiers, Marq

Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, Camperdown Station fonds

MS-4-141
Fonds
1905-1912

Fonds contains four logbooks from Camperdown Station spanning the years 1905-1908; one letter book, containing carbon copies of letter transcriptions; and several telegram carbon copies.

Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada

Interview with Zoe Lucas about plastics and marine debris

UA-47, Box 56, Reel 1960
File
May 18, 1989

Part of CKDU Radio fonds

File is an audio reel containing an interview with Zoe Lucas, a researcher of marine debris on Sable Island. Lucas was a guest speaker at a public meeting held at the Nova Scotia Museum in conjunction with a Workshop on Plastics Debris and Lost and Abandoned Fishing Gear in the Aquatic Environment (May 17-18, 1989). Lucas spoke with CKDU's Frank Fawson at the public meeting. The interview aired May 18, 1989 and was rebroadcast May 22, 1989 on Title Waves; May 22, 1989 on The Evening Affair; and July 25, 1989.

Farewell to Sable Island / The operator's lament

MS-2-202, Box 29, Folder 6, Item 2
Item
1922

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a manuscript copy of two poems, with a handwritten note indicating that they were written on the occasion of Raddall's departure from Sable Island in April 1922.

Dominion of Canada, Notice to Mariners #4 of 1919 (Atlantic No. 4)

MS-2-474, SF Box 43, Folder 10
Item
1919

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a portion of a Dominion of Canada Notice to Mariners from 1919 related to contacting the Chebucto Head; Canso; and Cape Race-Radiotelegraph Direction Finding Stations.

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.

Correspondence regarding Sable Island by Sheila Hirtle and Marq de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folder 3
File
2001 - 2003

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Correspondence regarding a research trip to Sable Island by Sheila Hirtle and Marq de Villiers

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 9
File
2002

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Correspondence from Joyce Barkhouse to Zoe Lucas

MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 17, Folder 23
File
2001-2011

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Correspondence between Thomas Head Raddall and Zoe Lucas

MS-2-202, Box 43, Folder 28
Item
1988

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of a letter sent by Zoe Lucas to Thomas H. Raddall in 1988 thanking Raddall for a copy of an autobiography gifted to Lucas on Sable Island.

Correspondence between Thomas Head Raddall and A. R. Lock

MS-2-202, Box 43, Folder 18
File
1972

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

File contains three pages of correspondence between Thomas H. Raddall and A. R. Lock dating from 1972 regarding research on a gull on Sable Island.

Composite photograph of engine components inside the Sable Island Main Station

MS-2-474, PB Box 25, Folder 23, Item 3
Item
1918

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a composite of three photographs depicting engine equipment inside Main Station, Sable Island, ca. 1918.

Committee meeting minutes and agenda materials relating to the Sable Island Preservation Trust

MS-2-789, Box 8, Folder 3.1
File
2003 - 2010

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains committee meeting minutes and agenda materials.

Committee meeting minutes and agenda materials relating to the Sable Island Preservation Trust

MS-2-789, Box 8, Folder 3.2
File
2003 - 2010

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains committee meeting minutes and agenda materials.

Biology ocean - a recording tire guage, just before lowering to the ocean floor near Sable Island

PC1, Box 31, Folder 33, Item 35
Item
[19--]

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Biographical and bibliographical information from the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia and Sable Island Green Horse Society

MS-2-646.2014-020, Box 12, Folder 22
File
2004-2010

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Between the issues, volume 15, number 2

MS-11-13.2018-026, Box 69, Folder 1, Item 33
Item
Spring 1997

Part of Ecology Action Centre fonds

Item also includes a special insert, "Sable Gas: Is it a Good Deal for You?" printed in April 1997 by the Ecology Action Centre.

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.

Aerial photograph of the station building at the new west lighthouse on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 11
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the station located at the new western lighthouse on Sable Island, taken from atop that lighthouse, likely in early 1918.