Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Scott MacNeil fonds
General material designation
- Textual record
- Graphic material
- Object
Parallel title
Other title information
Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
Reference code
MS-15-19
Edition area
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
Physical description area
Physical description
1 cm of textual records and other materials
1 shirt : cotton, yellow
1 shirt : cotton, yellow
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
Parallel titles of publisher's series
Other title information of publisher's series
Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series
Numbering within publisher's series
Note on publisher's series
Archival description area
Name of creator
(September 5, 1953 - October 2, 2019)
Biographical history
Scott MacNeil was a business manager and LGBT+ activist based in Halifax. MacNeil was born in 1953 in New Glasgow and raised in Plymouth. He attended a business program at the Eastern Institute of Technology in Sydney from 1971 - 1972 before moving to Dartmouth in 1974. He was manager of The Metropolitan Store in Dartmouth, and later worked at the Dartmouth Holiday Inn and The Barrington Inn in Halifax. He moved to Halifax in the early 1980s, where he managed Rumours, a bar owned and operated by the Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia [GALA] from 1985 - 1991. Following his time at Rumours, MacNeil worked in the catering department at Events East from 1991 - 2018, when illness forced his retirement.
MacNeil was an empathetic activist who participated in many LGBT- and AIDS-related causes. He was co-founder of the Gay Health Association [later called MACAIDS/AIDS Nova Scotia] along with Dr. Bob Fredrickson, John Hurlbert, Arthur Carter and Darrell Martin in 1984, spurred by the death of his close friend Graeme Ellis. He sat on the management board for GAE/GALA during the 1980s, and on the Nova Scotia Task Force on AIDS from 1987 - 1988. MacNeil's commitment to his community is most accurately reflected in amount of time he dedicated to supporting persons with HIV/AIDS during their end of life stages. He published his memoir “Reflections In A Mirror Ball” in 2008.
MacNeil was an empathetic activist who participated in many LGBT- and AIDS-related causes. He was co-founder of the Gay Health Association [later called MACAIDS/AIDS Nova Scotia] along with Dr. Bob Fredrickson, John Hurlbert, Arthur Carter and Darrell Martin in 1984, spurred by the death of his close friend Graeme Ellis. He sat on the management board for GAE/GALA during the 1980s, and on the Nova Scotia Task Force on AIDS from 1987 - 1988. MacNeil's commitment to his community is most accurately reflected in amount of time he dedicated to supporting persons with HIV/AIDS during their end of life stages. He published his memoir “Reflections In A Mirror Ball” in 2008.
Custodial history
Materials were in the possession of Scott MacNeil until his death. Following his death, materials were in the possession of his sister, Doreen MacNeil, who donated materials to Dalhousie University Archives as part of the NS LGBT Senior Archives. Research Assistant Dan MacKay took possession of materials on September 27th 2020. They were held in his home until they were transported to Rachel Moore on January 13, 2021 for accessioning.
Scope and content
Fonds contains materials related to the activities of community organizer and activist Scott MacNeil in Halifax, NS. Materials include event posters and brochures, notes, a newpaper clipping, a report draft, and a t-shirt.
Notes area
Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Accession 2021-001
Arrangement
Language of material
Script of material
Location of originals
Availability of other formats
Restrictions on access
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Finding aids
Associated materials
Accruals
Alternative identifier(s)
Standard number area
Standard number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Nova Scotia LGBT Seniors Archive (Collector)