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Consists of records documenting Robertson's activities as a researcher and writer in Shelburne from about 1960 until 1993. Contains primarily correspondence, research material, photographs, and other material relating to Shelburne County history, including the Loyalists, Port Roseway Associates, Ross-Thomson House, ships, and Shelburne County families. Also includes correspondence, research material, diaries, draft chapters, manuscripts, and other material relating to her various publications and research on topics including folklore, the Doane family and Doane Shipyard, the Mi'kmaq, and bird-watching. Also includes records relating to her husband Donald Robertson and the Shelburne County Historical Society, and watercolours of Shelburne scenes painted by Annie P. Bruce in 1893.

Consists of records documenting Dr. John Stewart's family background and medical career, 1925 to 1936. Contains primarily correspondence from Dr. John Stewart to Dr. David Alexander Stewart and David’s uncle Donald Farquharson of Chatham, Ontario, relating to Stewart family and activities, and John Stewart's reminiscences of his life in Scotland. Also included are newspaper clippings relating to John Stewart, an autobiographical sketch, copy of a published article, and greeting cards from John containing prints of Braemar (Scotland) and the Halifax memorial tower.

Consists of minutes of general and executive meetings of the society, 1820-1826; annual reports, 1820-1824; and a list of donors and donations. List arranged by city ward, from ward 1 to ward 17, and includes a listing of non-resident donors.

Consists of records documenting the planning and coordination of civil defence for Halifax during World War Two. Includes correspondence, outlines, lecture notes, speeches and radio talks, personnel lists, charts, procedure booklets, and report forms relating to training and emergency preparedness; scrapbooks covering the establishment of the corp and its activities, and related local and international events; and photographs depicting corps members, special events, fire and rescue demonstrations, fire equipment, and buildings. Also contains pamphlets, certificates, and other material relating to victory loan drives.

Consists of records documenting the association's role in planning and coordinating temporary relief for the poor in Halifax. Includes minutes of advisory board meetings and annual meetings, some together with relevant reports and newspaper clippings, 1923-1992. Also includes annual reports, 1867-1966 (incomplete), financial statements and auditors report 1982-1993, by-laws, act of incorporation, and a copy of the history of the association prepared by Judge R.E. Inglis and R.W. Kane in 1989.

Consists of records documenting the operation of the hotel, including guest registers, 1865-1905; day book, 1874-1875; menus, 1862-1930; scrapbooks containing menus, 1862-1904 and hotel advertisements from Halifax newspapers, 1915-1930.

Fonds consists of records documenting primarily the business activities of three generations of the Akins family in Falmouth and Liverpool. Includes insurance journals (1803-1817) and account book (1787-1791) kept by Thomas Akins; business and family correspondence, (1811-1924); deeds, mortgages, bonds, and other legal material (1764-1906); account books, bills of sale, and correspondence of Charles Akins (1885-1906); Akin genealogy book, assessment roll of Falmouth, (1906); correspondence and reports of the Avon River Power Company (1921-1922); and a copy of Windsor Tribune issued 1 July 1927.

Consists of records documenting Bourinot's career as a government clerk and writer. Includes scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings and letters primarily about Bourinot's publications and awards, with some material added by his son Arthur; published and unpublished articles and essays by Bourinot, some with handwritten revisions and annotations; correspondence relating to personal and political matters; photocopies of editorials and reviews about his publications, speeches and political position from national and international newspapers and journals; notebooks; pamphlets; programmes; and obituaries.

Consists of records accumulated by Burrill in the course of his research and publication of his book, Away: Maritimers in Massachusetts, Ontario, and Alberta. Includes interviews conducted by Burrill of approximately 108 people who had left the Maritimes to take up residence or find employment in Massachusetts, Ontario, or Alberta. The large majority of the interviews were conducted in 1981 in the aforementioned places. The exceptions are interviews with John Johnston and Leo and Marg St. John which took place in 1980 in the Maritimes after they had returned. Most interviewees were selected through personal contacts of the author. Among the topics discussed in the interviews are: family and work history, reasons for leaving the Maritimes, thoughts on returning to the Maritimes, attitudes of the local people towards Maritimers. Textual records include edited and unedited transcripts of interviews, correspondence, research material and notes, and draft manuscript.

Consists of records documenting the society's role in promoting the profession of occupational therapy in Nova Scotia. Includes minutes of meetings, reports, correspondence, subject files, publications, membership lists, newspaper clippings, act of incorporation, constitution and by-laws, certificates, and citation. Also included are photographs depicting patients and staff of the occupational therapy departments at Camp Hill Hospital and Royal Canadian Naval Hospital in Halifax, the society's 25th anniversary dinner, group photographs of members, an audio cassette and videocassette containing interviews with the Mary Black Award recipients of 1987, and a videocassette entitled Mary Black: A Pioneer in Occupational Therapy. Also contains material relating to the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapy.

Consists of four series: MLA case files; Legislative committee records; Progressive Conservative Party records; and Press releases, speeches and MLA newsletters

Consists of council records (including chairman's correspondence, minutes of council meetings and reports) and articles, newspaper cuttings and scrapbook documenting the council's operations and field of activity.

Consists of one manuscript entitled "Golden Years In Acadie", history of seafaring and shipbuilding from Maitland, Hants County. Parts of the manuscript have been published in different magazines such as Readers' Digest.

Consists of annual reports, 1954-1976, originated from the parent company (e.g. Dosco or Hawker Siddeley Canada Ltd.), but are incomplete. Each includes a separate report on subsidiaries, including the Halifax Shipyards. The board of directors' files contain minutes, correspondence and similar material, while the management committee files include minutes, organizational charts and policy manuals. The contracts and agreements consist both of contract books (which have daily entries of ships built and repaired) and contract documents, which concern major construction projects such as steel fishing trawlers, SEDCO oil rigs, and the Panamax floating dry dock. The financial statements were known by various titles from 1918-1970, such as "consolidated balance sheets and profit and loss accounts", "president's reports", and "financial reports". The reports and studies were those undertaken internally by the shipyard or commissioned by them to review ship-building operations, plan for performance improvement, assess prospects for the company and similar topics. Also includes projects case files, 1943-1985 which concern events, projects and products of the shipyards, and include transactions with parent companies such as DOSCO and Hawker Siddeley, government departments, private organizations, and prominent individuals. Subjects include significant construction projects such as fishing trawlers, SEDCO oil rigs, and floating dry docks, and events such as modernization and reconstruction programs and public relations and promotional campaigns. Technical drawings are a representative sample of ships' plans and drawings considered significant to the yard's production and operations. They represent vessel production and major projects built at the yard including freighters, icebreakers, Argentinian transports built in 1950, ferries, steel trawlers, tugs, and oil rigs. There are also samples of ships repaired and refitted, products other than ships manufactured and built, and plans of the physical layout of the yard (buildings, machinery and equipment). Photographs were commissioned by the shipyard to document major construction and repair projects, actitvities of yard workers and prominent officials, and related subjects. A scrapbook consists of one volume of clippings from mainly Halifax newspapers, depicting activities of the shipyard and other contemporary events in the shipping and marine industries.

Consists of photographs of Guysborough and vicinity and Buckley family and friends, predominantly by William Buckley and his children, Mary, Edith and Walter. Their photographs of Guysborough and vicinity, taken for both personal and commercial purposes, document the growth and development of Guysborough over fifty years. They depict commercial and residential buildings, streets, harbour, general views, shipping, school activities, community events, fires, outdoor hockey and curling, yachting regattas at Guysborough and Canso, building and bridge construction, farms and livestock, mills, Guysborough Railway survey, 193rd Regiment leaving Guysborough, 1916 and visit of Governor-General Byng, 1923. Also includes negatives left by others for printing, such as school field day, 1932, by Mrs. Erdine Harris and Larry's River and Charlos Cove by Rev. A.H. Cormier. Buckley family photographs included informal portraits of them and their friends and reflect their interests, particularly boating, building working model boats, gardening, and other outdoor activities such as sledding and skating.

Consists of records documenting the club's activities, including its constitution, 1923 and 1965; correspondence, 1931-1988; indexes and lists of members, 1920-1988; minutes of executive and annual meetings, 1916-1948; meeting programmes, 1915-1968, 1973, 1988; annual reports, 1921-1929, 1948-1949; scrapbooks, 1917-1988; financial records, 1943-1952; and photographs, ca.1917-1973. Photographs depict the club's executive in 1921, members, luncheon meetings, fund raising events, and recreational activities.

Consists of audio cassettes and tape reels containing interviews, folklore, and music compiled by Ronald Caplan in the course of research for articles appearing in Cape Breton's Magazine. Most recordings are conversations with older citizens of Cape Breton, many of whom are now deceased. Under the general subject of Cape Breton history and culture, the topics include industrial history, trains and train wrecks, Mi'kmaq life, traditional songs, Sydney Steel, coal mining, musicians, community histories, Acadian culture, fisheries, labour history, supernatural tales, coal miners, hockey and other sports, shipwrecks, Gaelic traditions, reminiscences of immigrants, environmentalists, and the Canso Causeway.

Consists of records documenting Crouse's political career and private life. Contains correspondence, articles, reports, and other material relating to national political issues, Crouse's South Shore constituency (1958-1988), and fisheries issues (1950-1988), arranged by subject. Includes personal correspondence, printed material, and photographs depicting Crouse's activities as an MP. Also includes records of parliamentary committees (1960-1987), the Canadian branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (1957-1994), and the PC Party Association of Canada (1964-1988).

Consists of records documenting the company's activities, including correspondence of the secretary-treasurer, 1945-1964 relating to the Fisherman's Loan Board, licenses, crews, and marine equipment; financial statements, 1947-1966; and trip sheets describing the number and varieties of fish caught, 1947-1965.

Consists of records documenting the activities of the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture and its member associations. Contains minutes of meetings of the federation executive, board of directors and annual meetings, correspondence, reports, press releases, and subject files. Also included are minutes, correspondence and related documents of various member associations, ca. 1960s-ca.1995: Beef Producers' Association, Blueberry Growers' Association, Chicken Producers' Association, the Cream & Industrial Milk Producers' Association, Egg & Pullet Producers' Association, Greenhouse Growers' Association, Hog Producers' Association, Nova Scotia Cattlemen's Association, Nova Scotia Fox Breeders' Association, Nova Scotia Milk Producers' Association, Nova Scotia Mink Breeders' Association, Nova Scotia Rural Beautification Committee, Nova Scotia Sheep Breeders' Association, Nova Scotia Tobacco Growers Association, Strawberry Growers' Association, and the Vegetable and Potato Producers' Association.

Consists of records documenting Buchanan's political career and private life. Contains correspondence, reports, articles, newspaper clippings, surveys, statistics, and press releases accumulated by Buchanan as MLA and leader of the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party. Also includes personal correspondence (1963-1990), scrapbooks (1948-1993), and photographs (1932-1990). The photographs depict John M. Buchanan's early life, Buchanan family members, various Canadian federal and provincial politicians, foreign politicians, the British and Dutch royal families, entertainers, athletes, and social and political events.

Fonds consists of material documenting Chambers' career as an artist and newspaper cartoonist, including original drawings of political cartoons, correspondence, newspaper clippings, certificates, photographs, and other material.

Consists of material documenting the activities of the commission and accumulated by the executive director. Arranged into five series: minutes of the commission, 1980-1994; correspondence of the executive director, 1980-1994; proposals and submissions to government, 1982-1993; case files, 1980-1994; and newspaper clippings, 1984-1989. The clippings are a photocopied chronological compilation of news events concerning the Eastern Shore, particularly concerning political and economic developments. Most are taken from the Halifax dailies, and include the occasional Eastern Shore publication.

Consists of records documenting the research and publication of Atlantic Hearth: Early Homes and Families of Nova Scotia, including photocopies of articles and newspaper clippings, drafts of chapters, manuscripts, page proofs, photographs of buildings, and sound recordings of interviews by Mary Byers and Margaret McBurney.

Consists of material documenting Kent's geneaological research, including a directory of Kent family descendants containing charts, family register sheets, copies of correspondence and excerpts of Truro Township records. Includes the following Nova Scotia family names: Currie, Dale, Gibbon, Glazebrook, Hardie, Hopkins, Johnston, Loughead, MacLeod, Matheson, Miller, Mitchell, Moore, Nelson, O'Neil, Phillips, Pollock, Rogers, Stewart, Todd, and York.