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Series · 1773 - 1841
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of mainly of records relating to the government of Cape Breton as a colony separate from Nova Scotia, 1784-1820. Includes dispatches from the secretary of state to the lieutenant governor of Cape Breton; minutes of HM Council; duplicate or draft minutes of Council, minutes of the English Privy Council, royal warrants, petitions and memorials; correspondence of Lieutenant Governors DesBarres, Macarmick and others, copies of Council minutes (October 1787-October 1788), and a description of the Island of Cape Breton and its dependencies [1787?]; imperial orders in Council, royal instructions, parliamentary estimates and grants for the civil establishment, census returns and acts of parliament relating to Cape Breton; petitions, memorials, addresses, letters, depositions as to complaints, judicial proceedings, drafts of acts, lists of ordinances, records of escheat, road appropriations and tickets of location for land; and letter-book copies of letters from the provincial secretary (Sir Rupert D. George) to officials and others in Cape Breton, chiefly relating to land grants.

Bills
RG 5 Series B · Series · 1776-1996
Part of Nova Scotia House of Assembly

Forms part of Nova Scotia House of Assembly and consists of copies of Bills introduced to the House for debate, and registers recording the titles and the dates on which the Bills were debated. Bills become Acts when passed by a majority of the House. Acts are also known as Laws or Statutes.

Moody family
MG 1 volume 2684 · Fonds · 1777-1986

Consists of business and personal correspondence with James Moody (1744-1809), and his second wife Jane Moody, grandson Elisha William Budd Moody (1799-1863) and great grandson John Wentworth Moody (1826-1894); business letters of John Wentworth Moody (1826-1894) and John W.’s son Elisha William Budd Moody (1863-1942); Philip Moody’s (1890-1975) childhood letters to his mother in 1890s; commissions to militias; certificates; memorials and testimonies in support of James Moody’s military actions; property deeds (including one for the purchase of an enslaved girl named Sylva 1807), wills, powers of attorney and other legal documents; two original land grants 1787 and 1816; an inventory of John W.’s possessions 1892; and family photographs and coat of arms. Also includes invitations, family genealogical records, and transcripts of some letters. The records document James Moody’s activities as a loyalist and immigrant to Nova Scotia, and the activities of his descendants in Nova Scotia.

Moody family
Series · 1779 - 1873
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records relating to the Church of England (Anglican) in Nova Scotia, the Church of Scotland, school lands and glebes and the University of King's College. Includes register of lieutenant governor's inductions of Church of England clergy into parishes in Nova Scotia, 1852-1873 and contemporaneous copies of government correspondence and other printed and manuscript documents relating to the Church of England in the colonies, 1855-1865.

RG 4 · Fonds · 1789-1928

Consists of records documenting the functions of the Legislative Council (1838-1928) and the legislative functions of His Majesty's Council to 1837. Includes three series: Journals and proceedings, Bill books, and Petitions and other material.

Nova Scotia. Council
Journals and proceedings
RG 4 Series J · Series · 1789-1928
Part of Nova Scotia Legislative Council

Forms part of Nova Scotia Legislative Council and consists of journals and minutes of legislative proceedings. Includes corrected drafts and primary copies.

Series · 1789 - 1917
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records of firewards and fire protection companies in Halifax. Includes minutes of meetings of firewards (fire wardens), 1804-1853; minute-books and other records of the Union [Fire] Engine Company, 1789-1807, 1826-1861; and the Union Fire Protection Company, 1861-1917; records of the Hand-in-Hand Fire Company, 1802-1821; and records of the Axe Fire Company, 1813-1861.

School Records
RG 14 · Collection · 1789-1985

Consists of warrants for payments to trustees, general correspondence about schools in the county, statistical returns and reports, petitions, grants, abstracts, some minutes of the school boards, teacher contracts, attendance records, financial account books, home and school association minutes, Halifax Commercial College finances (1887-1892), and in the 1820's and 1830's there are some general returns giving the names and ages of pupils and names of parents or guardians, and lists of schools in the county. Also includes Annual School Directories of NS (1952-1954) and material on school boundaries.

2013-017 · Fonds · 1790-1981

Consists of correspondence, research files, reports, minutes of meetings and conferences, statistics, press clippings, subject files and publications pertaining to the history of the medical profession in Nova Scotia, especially of doctors. Society collected records, journals, etc. from other jurisdictions and created its own records.

Medical Society of Nova Scotia
Black Refugees
Series · 1790 - 1839
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of Commissioner of Public Records collection and consists of records relating to Black immigration and settlement in Nova Scotia from the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783 to the final emancipation of slaves in 1838.

Almon family
MG 1 volumes 10-17A · Fonds · 1793-1989

Fonds consists of records documenting five generations of the Almon family and related families. Includes microfilm reels containing correspondence, financial accounts, legal and probate records, and letterbooks of WJ Almon and Son. Fonds also includes original and typescript copies of correspondence, short-hand diaries of Susanna Almon, literary manuscripts, legal records, newspaper clippings, articles, certificates, ephemera, Dr. Bruce Almon's register of infectious diseases and medical case histories, meterological readings taken by Cotton Mather Almon, and a scrapbook originally compiled by Senator W.J. Almon and later continued by his granddaughter Susanna. The scrapbook primarily covers the early 1700s to ca. 1954 and contains photographs, lithographs, newspaper clippings and other original material and reproductions concerning the Almon family and other early New England and Nova Scotian families such as Ritchie, Johnstone, Dodd, Byles, Cotton, and Mather, many of which were related to the Almons. Scrapbook also includes mention of "Rosebank", the Almon estate in Halifax, and local and international events. Fonds also includes records relating to Mary and Catherine Byles, daughters of Rev. Dr. Mather Byles, and original letters written to Philip Dodd, seizing officer in command of provincial schooners, from Joseph Howe, Hugh Bell, and James B. Uniacke. Some duplication in the fonds exists in transcripts found in MG 1 vol 163 and microfilm reels 810-811.

Almon (family)
Circuit records at Amherst
RG 39 (Cumberland) Series "C" Vol. 1 to 15; 1995-291/001; 1995-355/001. · Series · 1793-1970
Part of Supreme Court of Nova Scotia fonds

Series forms part of Supreme Court on county circuit sous-fonds and consists of case files that contain summonses, subpoenas, affidavits, briefs, exhibits (documentary evidence), pleadings, informations (charges), indictments, motions, orders, transcripts of testimony, appeals, motion orders, rulings, verdicts, and other material relating to civil actions and matters, as well as criminal prosecutions.

Nova Scotia. Supreme Court (Cumberland County)
Petitions and other material
RG 4 Series R volumes 1-9, 17-20 · Series · 1799-1921
Part of Nova Scotia Legislative Council

Forms part of Nova Scotia Legislative Council and consists of petitions, committee reports, draft resolutions, correspondence (of the president of the Council), memorials, speech drafts, addresses to the lieutenant governor and replies, Orders in Council, proposed amendments and bills. Aso includes housekeeping records.

Mines and minerals
Series · 1800 - 1868
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records relating to mines (coal, gold, iron) and minerals (gold). Includes claims for mining leases, 1861-1865 and plans and surveys of mining areas in Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, surveyed or granted between 1859 and 1863.

John Clarkson
MG 1 volume 219 · Fonds · 1800s

Consists of transcripts of John Clarkson's journal documenting his trip from London to Halifax, his activities in Halifax, and the trip to Sierra Leone from 6 August 1791 to 18 March 1792.

Clarkson, John, 1764-1828
King's College, Windsor
Series · 1806 - 1881
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Series forms part of the Commissioner of Public Records collection collection and consists of records relating to the University of King's College, especially its establishment, incorporation and proposed union with Dalhousie University in 1823-1824 and 1829-1836.

Case files
RG 39 (Lunenburg) Series "C" Vol. 1 to 115; 1992-498/001 to 016; 1994-022/001; 1995-003/001 to 002; 1995-330/001; 1995-356/001; 1997-012/001 to 005. · Subseries · 1806-1989
Part of Supreme Court of Nova Scotia fonds

Subseries forms part of Lunenburg County circuit records series and consists of case files that contain summonses, subpoenas, affidavits, briefs, exhibits (documentary evidence), pleadings, informations (charges), indictments, motions, orders, transcripts of testimony, appeals, motion orders, rulings, verdicts, and other material relating to civil actions and matters, as well as criminal prosecutions.