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RG 89 Vol. 9; 1992-460; 1993-275; and 1994-179. · Series · 1979-1993
Part of Women's Directorate fonds

Series forms part of Women's Directorate fonds and consists of newspaper clippings and copies of articles relating to women's issues, the Advisory Council on the Status of Women and Women's Advisory Council on the Directorate. Clippings and articles originate from the Mail-Star, Chronicle-Herald, Daily News, and Globe and Mail. Series also includes press releases sent to the directorate. Series is arranged chronologically by month.

RG 89 Vol. 8 · Series · 1986-1987
Part of Women's Directorate fonds

Series forms part of Women's Directorate fonds and consists of records relating to the Planning for Tomorrow Today conference. Series includes correspondence, memoranda, budgets, and planning schedules. Conference dealt with career guidance for young women. Series also includes plans for workshops, photographs taken during sessions, and lists of participants in the conference.

RG 89 Vol. 3 File 5 to 10; Vol. 5 File 10 to 16; Vol 7 File 1 to 8, and 12; and Vol. 8 File 2. · Series · 1977-1988
Part of Women's Directorate fonds

Series forms part of Women's Directorate fonds and consists of reports from meetings of ministers responsible for the status of women. Series includes correspondence, memoranda, agendas, and speeches from such meetings. Series also includes records of national meetings of status of women senior officials' working groups on family violence, child care, health issues, and counselling and guidance. Series also includes records relevant to women's issues from First Ministers' conferences.

Research material
RG 89 Vol. 1 File 21; Vol. 2; Vol. 5 File 1 to 9; Vol. 7 File 9 to 10. · Series · 1980-1988
Part of Women's Directorate fonds

Series forms part of Women's Directorate fonds and consists of research material. Series includes reports, articles, copies of presentations, and statistics on topics such as women and non-traditional professions, treatment of sexes in research, women and technology, and child care.

RG 89 Vol. 1 File 1 to 20, Vol 3 File 1 to 4, 11 to 15, Vol. 4, Vol. 7 File 11, Vol. 8 File 1, 3 to 9; and 1995-228 /006. · Series · 1976-1991
Part of Women's Directorate fonds

Series forms part of Women's Directorate fonds and consists of agendas and minutes of meetings of the Interdepartmental Committee on the Status of Women. Series also includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, and membership lists. There are also agendas, minutes, and attendance sheets. Sub-committees include Pay Equity, Plan of Action, Wife Battering, Contract Compliance, Pornography, Planning, Membership, Needs Assessment, and Communications. Series is arranged by file number.

Nova Scotia. Interdepartmental Committee on the Status of Women
Operational Records
RG 85 volumes 1-3 · Series · 1964-2005
Part of Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission

Forms part of Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission and consists of documents relating to the work of the Commissioners, Human Rights Officers and Commission staff. The bulk of the material in this series reflects the work of the Human Rights Officers, as well as public education and community relations staff.

Consists of studies and reports prepared by or for the NSHRC on topics such as minority communities in Nova Scotia, racism concerns, trends in human rights issues, investigation statistics and information on community and related interest groups. Some Commission newsletters are included, as well as speeches given by Commissioners and Officers, organizational review records, internal and external memoranda and correspondence with community groups and conference and workshop planning and delivery material.

Ethnic Services and Race Relations records include reports and general information on these areas, as well as providing materials on many Nova Scotia community organizations such as the Black United Front, the MicMac Friendship Centre, Black Educators Association and the Native Council of Nova Scotia, among others.

Many of the records reflect the advisory role of the Commission, both internally within government, externally in the larger community and with the public.

Board of Inquiry Records
RG 85 volume 2 numbers 1-23 · Series · 1969-2006
Part of Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission

Forms part of Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission and consists of records created during official Boards of Inquiry, the final in the processing of a human rights complaint. The Commission may, at any stage after the filing of a complaint by a member of the public, call for a Board of Inquiry to investigate and settle said complaint. Once appointed by the Chief Judge of the Provincial Court, Boards act independently from the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission as public hearings, as defined under the Public Inquiries Act, and decisions are legally binding.

Consists of records created during the Inquiry process, through all stages of investigation, hearing, settlement and occasionally appeal. These include correspondence, reports, legal documentation, appeal and settlement information, transcripts and other documents relating to the legal process.

Affirmative Action records
RG 85 volume 2 number 11 · Series · 1975-1986
Part of Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission

Forms part of Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission and consists of records documenting Affirmative Action programs facilitated by the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission. These programs are a cooperative effort between the Commission and major employers in the province, to ensure the workforce represents and reflects the community. The first affirmative action agreement in Canada was signed in 1972 in Nova Scotia with Maritime Telegraph & Telegram Company Limited.

Records in this series are mostly of two types: Agreements and Reports. Affirmative Action Agreement files contain the Memoranda of Understanding, which is a standard letter outlining the standards and policy being agreed upon, signed by the employer and the NSHRC. Files may also include correspondence and associated press materials.

Affirmative Action Reports track the success of Affirmative Action programs after the Memoranda of Understanding has been signed by monitoring the number of employees protected under the Agreement and the types of positions they hold. Some reports record placements of employees made through the program, including names of participants and their employers.

Executive Records
RG 85 volume 1-3 · Series · 1969-2008
Part of Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission

Forms part of Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission and consists of materials created by the executive offices of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, principally those of the Chief Executive Officer and the Minister in Charge of Human Rights. These records include correspondence, briefing materials, organizational review papers, reports, speeches, press releases and other records documenting Executives' participation in decisions, activities and government committees. Records in this series document and support executive decisions and actions.

Minister's Briefing Books contain materials compiled for the Minister's reference in House of Assembly and include information on policy changes, business planning, updates on cases and complaints, and other high level activities of the Commission.

RG 85 · Fonds · 1962-2008

Consists of records documenting the administration of the Human Rights Act by the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, as well as other aspects of the Commission's mandate including the development of public information programs, encouraging research into the field of human rights, advising and assisting government departments and outside bodies in human rights matters, and the investigation of violations to the Act. Explores the founding, activities, decisions, and development of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission and its related legislation.

These records offer excellent insight into the development of Human Rights legislation and practice in Nova Scotia, the relationship between government and minority communities in the province, and how the Commission works to engage and inform Nova Scotians.

Consists of five series:
• Operational Records;
• Executive Records;
• Commissioners' Meeting Packages and Minutes;
• Board of Inquiry Records;
• Affirmative Action Records

Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission
Fishermen's Loan Board
RG 84 · Fonds · 1945-1973

Consists of case files of loan board applicants. Files include correspondence, legal agreements, accounts, loan applications and agreements, and boat specifications. Arranged alphabetically by name of applicant.

Fisherman's Loan Board
Reports
RG 83 Vol. 2 File 8 to 21, and 59. · Series · 1901-1915
Part of Provincial Medical Board of Nova Scotia

Series forms part of Provincial Medical Board of Nova Scotia fonds and consists of reports of the board's registrar, Education Committee, Auditing Committee, Discipline Committee, and treasurer. Series is arranged chronologically.

RG 83 Vol. 2 File 52 to 54. · Series · 1912-1922
Part of Provincial Medical Board of Nova Scotia

Series forms part of Provincial Medical Board of Nova Scotia fonds and consists of correspondence between the registrar of the Provincial Medical Board and the registrar of the Medical Council of Canada. Series also includes draft resolutions and minutes, rules and regulations, and copies of examination questions posed by the Medical Council of Canada, which was organized in 1912. A.W.H. Lindsay, registrar of the Provincial Medical Board, was one of Nova Scotia's representatives. Further to the Canada Medical Act, the national council examined medical practitioners (already registered in a province) for inclusion in the Dominion Medical Register.

Financial records
RG 83 Vol. 2 File 48 to 50 and Vol. 4 File 8. · Series · 1872-1966
Part of Provincial Medical Board of Nova Scotia

Series forms part of Provincial Medical Board of Nova Scotia fonds and consists of account books, invoices, orders, bonds, and correspondence relating to board finances. Series also includes some rough minutes and notes of the Committee on Enabling Certificates, which were written in one of the account books.

RG 81 volumes 3-9 · Series · 1964-1984
Part of Nova Scotia Provincial Forest Practices Improvement Board

Forms part of Nova Scotia Provinical Forest Practices Improvement Board and consists of correspondence between district boards and the Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests relating to the Forest Improvement Act. Also includes minutes of district and provincial board meetings, as well as memoranda, reports and correspondence relating to the amendment, proclamation and implementation of the Forest Improvement Act. There are also forest operators' certificates issued by the district boards, studies and reports on forest practices from within Nova Scotia and elsewhere, press clippings, correspondence of the secretary of the board, and some minutes, correspondence and budgets of the Timber Loan Board, which was administered under the Forest Improvement Act. The Forest Practices Improvement Board was chaired in its early years by the Minister of Lands and Forest, with department foresters acting as secretaries and advisers for the local boards. The boards received administrative support from the department, which is why many of the records in this series originate from the Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests.