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C.H. Johnson
MG 1 volumes 1469A and 1538D · Fonds · 1845-1960

Consists of poetry, newspaper clippings, articles, bibliographies and research notes. There are also indices for a number of serial religious publications including: The Guardian, The Wesleyan, The Presbyterian Witness, New Brunswick Religious and Literary Journal, The Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Wesleyan Methodist Magazine and British North American Wesleyan Methodist Magazine. There is also significant research on centenarians taken from some of the indexed publications.

Johnson, C.H., [ca. 1878]-1974
M.D. McKenna
Fonds · 1848-1855, 1921

Consists of M.D. McKenna's Journals from 8 November 1848 to 5 September 1855, pertaining information on his time as the superintendent of Sable Island. Also consists of a typescript of the journals, a summary of shipwrecks on Sable Island from 1849-1855, a typescript entitled "Reminiscences of Sable Island", a biography of Maurice Noonan, dated 11 March, 1921, and a newspaper clipping entitled "Sable Island".

McKenna, Matthew D.
Scotian Railroad Society
RG 28 S · Fonds · 1849-1983

Consists of both records of the Scotian Railroad Society and records documenting the history of railway transportation in Nova Scotia, the Maritimes, Canada and the United States. Includes published materials (books and periodicals) as well as graphic materials (documentary photographs), cartographic materials, sound recordings, moving images and artifacts.

Scotian Railroad Society, 1968-1983
MG 3 volumes 1267-1271 · Fonds · 1851-1987

Consists of business records, minutes of directors meetings, statutes and scrapbooks documenting the Nova Scotia Savings and Loan Company’s banking and investment business, the rules it operated under, its communications to shareholders, news coverage it received, public relations activities and social aspects of the banking industry over its 137 year history in Nova Scotia and Canada.

It is arranged by the archivist into nine groupings: annual financial statements and reports (1851-1923, 1941, 1949), minutes of directors and shareholders meetings (1849-1949, missing 1894-1897), registers of shares and shareholders (1850-1964), daily cash books (1850-1921), scrapbooks of clippings and original documents (1918-1987, missing 1940-1949), selected correspondence with customers and lawyers (1860, 1875, 1880-1930, 1939), statutes and by-laws (1854-1950), banking business ephemera (early 20th century) and photographs (189?-1987).

Nova Scotia Savings and Loan Company
Halifax Curling Club
MG 20 volumes 3171-3187 · Fonds · 1852-1987

Consists of a bound volumes of issues of The Curler, 1931-1984; a bound volumes of annual closing charity bonspiel booklets, 1939-1985; minute books, 1900-1984; scrapbooks, 1911-1981 as well as books, magazines and pamphlets, 1890-1987 and miscellaneous records, 1852-1984.

Halifax Curling Club
RG 14 · Fonds · 1852-2000

Consists of records created and accumulated by the Department of Education, including Minister and Deputy Minister's correspondence files, executive correspondence, committee minutes, Education program correspondence and other materials. Consists of general subject correspondence files of the minister and deputy minister of education, senior management general correspondence files (1980-1987) and registers of teachers' licenses (1880-1978)

Nova Scotia. Department of Education
Fonds · 1853-1948, predominant 1924-1940

Fonds consists of tracings and original drawings of property surveys and plot plans for the town of Windsor NS and nearby communities showing gypsum quarries, rail lines and landowners’ plots (1853-1938 and undated); original topographical survey drawings of the Avon and St. Croix Rivers showing low and high tide marks for Windsor-Hantsport-Summerville area (1940-1944); and blueprints and copies on linen of technical plans for barge ships including the DANIEL M. MUNRO, and the MUMFORD, as well as technical plans for a ship’s marine engine from Johnson Iron Co. Ltd. of Yarmouth (1919-1942). Companies represented include Wentworth Gypsum Co., Newport Plaster Mining and Manufacturing Co., the Canadian Gypsum Co., and its parent the United States Gypsum Co.

Fonds also includes a 1922 map of the world showing trade routes between Canadian and Foreign ports published by the Canadian Department of the Interior (1922); black & white photographic copies of geology maps of Avondale, Hantsport, Miller Creek, St. Croix, Upper Falmouth, and Windsor (1948); and undated topographical maps of Windsor area quarries.

The material documents the mining management activities of Canadian Gypsum Company and its parent United States Gypsum Co. as they created topographical survey plans of their quarries and other assets for mining gypsum rock; studied water levels and ships’ drafts to calculate their loading capacities; and built or retrofitted ships to transport the rock to the United States and elsewhere.

Canadian Gypsum Company (Windsor, NS)
Nova Scotia Teachers College
1998-049 · Fonds · 1854-1997, predominant 1953-1997

Consists of four series: Continuing Education Department correspondence and other material, Program development records, Student Services meeting minutes and other material, and Student Teaching Department correspondence and other material

Nova Scotia Teachers College
Colin Campbell and Company
Fonds · 1856-1918, predominant 1911-1914

Consists of business records of Colin Campbell and Company (later called G.D. Campbell & Sons). Located in Weymouth, Digby County, they were lumber merchants, storekeepers and shipowners. Contains an accounts ledger, 1861-1866; daybooks, 1856-1858, 1862-1864, 1874; and letter books, 1873-1874, 1911-1914. The latter includes the correspondence of Campbell Lumber Co., a subsidiary. Also contains minute books of the company, 1913-1918, in a microfilm-only format.

Colin Campbell and Company
William Hall, VC
MG 1 volume 1499 · Collection · 1857-1967

Consists of material documenting the life of William Hall, VC and his memorial ceremony in Hantsport, Nova Scotia, 1966-1967. Includes correspondence, research notes, newspaper clippings, copies of articles and certificates, and minutes of the William Hall Victoria Cross memorial steering committee.

Hall, William, VC
Nova Scotia Hospital
RG 25 Series NS · Fonds · 1859-1958

Consists of five series: Admission records, Case books, Medical Superintendent's correspondence, Commissioner's report books and Hospital photographs.

Nova Scotia Hospital
Garth Vaughan
2008-053 · Fonds · 1860-2004, predominant 1925-2004

Consists of correspondence, subject files, and a collection of team and player information and photographs, along with scrapbooks. The contents of the fonds provide information about hockey in Nova Scotia with specific focus on Windsor and vicinity. It also documents Nova Scotians that have played hockey elsewhere and includes his research and drafts for his publication, The Puck Starts Here.

Vaughan, Garth, 1928-2012
Gwendolyn V. Shand
MG 1 volumes 2376-2392 · Fonds · 1861-1982, predominant 1960-1980

Consists of notes, newspaper clippings, copies of articles, pamphlets, correspondence, and other items created and accumulated by Shand in the course of her research. Under the general subject of the early history of Hants County, topics include industry, ships and ship builders, families, churches, and recreation. Family names include Cunningham, Ellerhausen, Harris, Monk, Vaughn, and several others. Also contains an index to shipping registers and ship captains in Hants and Kings counties; certificates, estate records, and other personal documents relating to Shand, her family; and legal and financial records relating to Sarah and Thomas Aylward, 1861-1880s.

Shand, Gwendolyn V., 1891-1982
MG 20 volume 624 · Fonds · 1864-1983

Consists of minutes of annual meetings, minutes of general meetings, amendments, memorandums, admissions and annual reports. As well as, accounts, preliminary law examination, regulations, resolutions, correspondence, notes, receipts, invoices and letters.

Nova Scotia Barristers' Society
2015-030 · Fonds · 1865-1995

Consists of correspondence, diaries, photograph albums and loose photographs, and scrapbooks. The records document Helen Jones Roome’s time spent overseas as a nursing sister during the First World War, including correspondence related to the Halifax Explosion when Helen was granted leave to return to Halifax to assist her family. Also included are records related to Karl Van Allen's work as Principal of the School for the Deaf.

Jones family
MG 20 volumes 465-466 · Fonds · 1865-1970

Consists of annual programs and reports, along with the association's constitution and by-laws. Documents the structure of the organization and provide information about its early history, membership and prize winners.

Nova Scotia Rifle Association
RG 19 and 61 · Fonds · 1866-2000

Consists of 5 series: Collective Agreements (1930-1970); Industrial inquiry commissions and conciliation boards reports (1957-1965); Certification of mine workers registers (1882-1962); Mine injuries and fatalities records (1866-1988); and Occupational Health and Safety General Safety Regulation records (1996-2000).

Nova Scotia. Department of Labour
George Edward Buckley
2014-037 · Fonds · 1867-1936

Consists of business records in daybooks and ledgers and photographs of family members, including himself. The financial records document his 69 year medical practice as a family doctor for Guysborough and surrounding areas (Intervale, Riverside, Manchester, Glenkeen, Canso, Salmon River, Boylston). The daybooks (1867-1936) record daily activities of Dr. Buckley including date of doctor visit, patient’s name, community name, medicine prescribed, the doctor’s fees, and any immediate payments made. This information was then transcribed into the ledgers of patients’ accounts (1867-1936), organized by patient’s last name, to track payments and methods of payment over time. Daybooks for 1908 to 1929 also have a separate section entitled “Indian Accounts”, referring to members of first nations communities, that list a specific health condition, doctor’s fee, and patient’s name. While the ledgers have indexes (either as part of the book or as a separate small book numbered with the ledger), the daybooks are generally not indexed except for included or small separate books which only record patients who paid and were consequently not entered in the ledger at that time.

The photographs include formal family portraits and informal groups, mostly of men and children, taken by several professional photographers including William Notman, W.G. Hadley, The People’s Gallery, W.D. O’Donnell, and Gauvin & Gentzel. Few are identified and dated, most are not. Photographs of houses, scenery and landscape are also included.

Buckley, George Edward
Henry Youle Hind
MG 1 volumes 470-471 · Fonds · 1870-1905

Consists of draft chapters of a manuscript entitled Fisheries of British North America, 1877, including some related correspondence and research notes. Also includes two files of notes concerning the early townships of Falmouth, Horton, Cornwallis and Newport, and Indians of Nova Scotia; scrapbook of newspaper clippings compiled by Hind which include several printed letters he wrote to Nova Scotian newspapers, 1870-1871, mostly regarding King's College, Windsor. There are also some printed letters on the same subject from professors Henry How, F.C. Sumichrast, and others, and a few clippings pertaining to Hind's investigation of the Laurentian system of rocks in Nova Scotia; seven miscellaneous letters to and from Hind, 1877-1905, which include mention of his works, geological theories, early land grants in Windsor, and the proposed railway in Nova Scotia, 1870s; and two letters from his brother, painter William G.R. Hind, 1870.

Hind, Henry Youle, 1823-1908
Piercey family
2023-008 · Fonds · ca. 1870-2004

Consists of business, personal and family records for the Piercey family and Piercey Supplies Ltd. related to W.D. Piercey and Reginald Piercey. The business records include the day planners for both WD Piercey (1935-42; 1945-1949) and Reginald Piercey (1934-1996) that span almost the entirety of their careers with Piercey Supplies Ltd. There are photographs of the hardware supply store and real estate holdings, including the development of the Glen Heath properties. Also includes newspaper clippings related to various Piercey family holdings as well as brochures and advertisements.

Also included are family records and the genealogy of the extended Piercey family. These include annotated scrapbooks and photo albums, along with many loose photos that have been mostly identified and dated. Reginald’s materials relate mostly to his time at Dalhousie and his athletic interests, while Lillian Piercey’s material mostly relates to the arts and music community in Halifax. Barbara and Shelia’s materials include their education achievements and involvement in musical performances in Halifax.

Piercey family
Views of Halifax photographs
Collection · 1870-1890

The collection consists of one photograph album which was compiled by Thomas Mower Martin, an English-born Canadian painter. Most of the photographs depict scenes in Halifax and Cape Breton, including the Public Gardens, the Citadel, Melville Island, and Point Pleasant Park. Each photograph has a caption indicating the location of the scene. Many of the photographs are inscribed with the name of the photographer on the front, including William Notman, Umlah, and J.M. Margeson. Some photographs taken by William Notman also have a number assigned by the photographer.
At the end of the album, there are six contrived studio portraits of unidentified African Nova Scotian men and women. Using props and costumes they are not authentic representations of the past but examples of anti-Black racism. There is no information about the photographer of these portraits.

Thomas Mower Martin
MG 3 volumes 1728-1740 · Fonds · 1870-1968

Consists of land records and other documents relating to the Cumberland Railway and Coal Company's land ownership. Includes correspondence, title abstracts, deeds, land grants, leases, financial records, blueprints, reports and related documents. Also includes a printed pamphlet containing by-laws, rules and regulations of the company, 1886.

Cumberland Railway and Coal Company
MacKeen family
2023-025 · Fonds · 1874-1973

Fonds consists of business, personal, and family records for the MacKeen family. Contents includes correspondence between H.P. MacKeen and Alice Tilley prior to their marriage, correspondence between the family members and correspondence related to H.P. employment as a barrister. Does include some legal briefs with annotations, newspaper articles and genealogical notes. Fonds also includes financial, probate and estate documents with annotations. There are multiple photographs of the family homes, including the Maplewood estate from different decades. Family photos in the fonds are mainly of H.P. MacKeen and his siblings (Marjorie Primrose, David Whitney and John Crerar) throughout his childhood.

Fonds also contains the visitor book used by David MacKeen during his time as Lieutenant Governor (1915-1916). There were two bound newspapers, the Nova Scotian (1837) and the Times (1837), these have been transferred to the library with other original newspapers. There is a bound copy of the Dalhousie Gazette from 1948 that includes newspaper articles about the banned satirical edition of the newspaper from October of that year. Included is a 19x15 black and white portrait of Charles Tupper, March 1898, that was presented to H.P. MacKeen from Leonard O’Brien.

MacKeen, Alice, 1904-1996
Joseph N. Rice
2005-007 · Fonds · 1880s-1900s

Consists of photographs by J.N. Rice. Includes individual studio portraits, family groups, streetscapes, houses, stores, train stations, locomotives, sailing ships and wharves, in what appears to be the Bridgetown, Annapolis County, area. Most images are unidentified, but a few are labelled with "Joseph N. Rice, Photographer".

Rice, Joseph N., 1857-[190-?]