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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 the financial secretary's ledger documenting daily initiation, enrollment, and registration fees, and a roll book on insured members of the Bridgetown Court including name, address, occupation, and beneficiary.

Consists of correspondence, account and record books, financial statements, deeds, agreements, reports, notices and minutes of meetings, programmes, and by-laws relating to the Nova Scotia Provincial Exhibition Commission and the organization of the provincial exhibition in Halifax.

Consists of records created and accumulated by Jefferson, including memorandums and letters regarding wartime censorship rulings while he was press censor; business and personal correspondence beginning ca. 1911 when Jefferson began his newspaper career in Moncton; scrapbooks containing mostly newspaper clippings and ephemera relating to the First and Second World Wars, naval activities, local and international events, as well as loose newspaper clippings pertaining to the war, Jefferson's career and his articles; notebooks containing descriptions and lists of convoy and other ships arriving at Halifax harbour during the 1940s; some notes and printed material on Nova Scotia railroads; a few letters written by servicemen in Europe, 1915-1916; and assorted maps. Also contains photographs (negatives and prints) taken by Jefferson and professional photographers between ca. 1898 and the 1950s, depicting army and navy personnel; navy vessels, including those damaged by torpedos; war brides; Sydney citizens and businesses; and a small number of family photographs. Photographs are found both separately and among the textual records.

Consists of negatives taken by Georgia H. Cunningham for clients who patronized her commercial studio. The geographic area represented is almost exclusively Bridgetown and surrounding area. Cunningham's work is primarily portraiture although from 1942 onwards there are a number of photographs of school classes and societies as well as the Bridgetown Salvation Army Citadel. Approximately five percent of the photographs include views of shopfronts, buildings, churches, streets, scenery and special events such as the visit of the Bishop of Nova Scotia to St. James Anglican Church in 1946. Also includes a few glass plate negatives which may have been taken by previous commercial studio owners Joseph Rice or Edith Crosskill, as well as negatives and prints left with her by clients for processing or given to her by others. Also contains a photograph and three letters concerning Dr. Otto Srasser (1898-1974) a Nazi exile who lived in Paradise, Nova Scotia for fifteen years.

Fonds consists of two pieces of wall paper that were used to write out sections of music that could be used to teach singing. They provide examples of how Andrew MacKay taught his students sacred music.

Consists of records documenting the functions of the Department of Health and its predecessor, the Provincial Board of Health. Includes case files and other material, 1901-1976; Inspector of Anatomy registers, 1923-1940; and Atlantic Health Unit associate director's correspondence and other material, 1971.

Fonds consists of handwritten and typewritten manuscripts of Jones' works including, "A Well Dressed Woman," "From the North-West" and "Jamaica." Also includes her handwritten diary (1902-1904), compiled while she resided at Government House, Halifax, and two scrapbooks containing greeting cards and other ephemera, with some items in the second scrapbook addressed to Eva Clark.

Consists of documenting Clara Dennis' career as a reporter and author. Includes notebooks relating to her research of the Mi'kmaq, mainland Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and other subjects, 1923-1940s; business and personal correspondence, 1905-1942; newspaper clippings pertaining to Halifax and Dalhousie College and medical school, 1924-1947; research notes; addresses; published and unpublished articles; and booklets. Also includes photographs taken on her travels through Nova Scotia, as well as Sable Island, New Brunswick, and the Gaspe Peninsula between 1930 and 1940.

Consists of records documenting Sherwood's activities as a writer and broadcaster in Nova Scotia, and his community interests. Contains draft manuscripts and articles, radio scripts, correspondence, newspaper clippings, programmes, brochures, and other miscellaneous items. Also includes photographs, postcards, and slides collected by or taken by Sherwood depicting the Pictou area, buildings, monuments, marine activities, and events such as the Pictou Lobster Carnival. Contains sound recordings of Sherwood's stories used in articles and radio broadcasts, programmes performed by the Pictou County Centrettes, songs performed for the Hector Bicentenary in Pictou, and film footage of the Pictou County Centrettes and the Chignecto Marine Railway.

Consists of three series based on the research for Parker's three books: Guides of the North Woods: hunting and fishing tales of Nova Scotia 1860-1960 (published 1990), Woodchips & Beans: life in the early lumber woods of Nova Scotia (published 1992), and Running the Gauntlet: an oral history of Canadian Merchant Seaman in WWII (published 1994). The former two series includes oral histories, copies of newspaper clippings, minute books, relating to guiding and lumbering. Subjects include lumbering and sawmills, hunting, fishing, camping and the various hunting lodges established throughout Nova Scotia. The third series contains oral histories, notices, shipping safety manuals, photographs, partial transcripts and clippings. Subjects include: merchant seamen in WWII, convoys, wartime shipping and cargo, survival at sea and capture.

Consists of records documenting the provincial chapter's activities. Includes minutes of annual and executive meetings (1931-1980), scrapbooks (1920-1989), histories of the local and provincial chapters (1981-1991), briefs and submissions to government bodies (1968-1975), membership records (1956-1976), subject files (1918-1981), financial records (1947-1974), and reports of the citizenship secretary (1974-1977). Also contains records of the Dartmouth Municipal Chapter and numerous primary chapters within Nova Scotia.

Collection partially documents the business and personal lives of Albert Lee’s parents Shew Chuck Lee and Sui Fa Lee, and the families of Charlie Wing Lee and Nellie Lee, Dow Fong, and Mary (Ling) Mohammad. Collection contains wedding, school and family photographs (1910?-2011); restaurant menus and similar ephemeral documents (ca.1940s-ca.1950s); audio recordings of interviews with Dow Fong, Chuck Lee, Annett Ling, George Ling, William Ling, Dr. Larry Shyu and Dr. William Wong (1988, 2011-2012); memoir on childhood in China, business licenses and card from Chuck Lee (1980s, ca.1920s, 1946) as well as his engineering diploma from Dalhousie University (1939). Also includes a memoir of life at a Halifax Chinese laundry by Linda Lee Oland (1997); historical essays written by Albert Lee (1999-2014) and promotional items for the Nova Scotia Museum exhibit “Growing Up Chinese in Halifax” (1997).

The collection was assembled by Albert Lee for this 1997 museum exhibit. 40 items, including 4 audio interview recordings, were subsequently digitized for use by University of British Columbia Library for their digital exhibit “Early Chinese History in the Maritimes” in 2011-2012. Items are arranged by family creator/owner, with those items used in the digital exhibit filed separately.

Consists primarily of letters that Maude Gates, of Middleton, received from her two sons, Lewis and Starratt, while they were serving in the Canadian Army in Europe during the First World War. There are also letters from other family members writing from New England and Halifax during the same time period as well as a few letters addressed to her husband, Willet. Some letters were written from Halifax in the days following the Halifax Explosion. Contains over 100 handwritten letters, photographs as well as newspaper clippings related to the Gates brothers and the 85th Highlanders battalion. Photographs include formal portraits of Starratt, Lewis, and other family members. Some photographs depict other servicemen and friends of Lewis and Starratt.

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 the letters that Douglas George Buckley sent home during the war, the majority of which were addressed to his mother and his sister Hilda (who is referred to as “Billy”) in Guysborough. There are also a few letters between Dr. Buckley and John Tory regarding Douglas’ injury during the war. Also includes photographs of Douglas and friends in Toronto, most of which have been identified and dated. Includes postcards from Douglas to his family, some newspaper clippings and some other textual documents related to Douglas’s return to Guysborough.

Item is a hand-written version in 4/4 time of music and lyrics of the hymn “Christ is mine, my own heart knows it” created in 1915 by Jessie H. Brown Pounds (1861-1921). The creator of the wallpaper is not known but it features a red, green and brown pattern. There is some folding and tearing of this item and the single piece that has broken off has been placed in an acid-free envelope.

Consists of annual reporting and minutes of the Nova Scotia Dairy Commission and its predecessor or related organizations the Superintendent of Dairying, and the Dairy Division of the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture. Additionally, there are newsletters of the Commission (almost complete 1980 to 2001, and addresses of the President of the Dairymen's Association of Nova Scotia to the organization's annual conventions between 1919 and 1940. Included are Annual Reports of the Dairy Superintendents W.A. McKay (1918-1926) and W.J. Bird (1929-1940), the Dairy Services Division (1946-1967), and the Nova Scotia Dairy Commission (1968-1984). Also includes various industry related reports, brief runs of committee minutes, and pamphlets that had been accumulated by the Commission on topics such as co-operative organizations or actions against margarine.

Consists of a typed inventory of the possessions, furniture, décor, and food supplies lost by the Hillis family in the Halifax Explosion (31 December 1917), a letter to Clara from her eldest son Gordon (23 February 1918), and three photographs taken circa 1940s of George, Clara, and their niece Eva McPhail. Oartially document the economic status of the Hillis family and their standard of living in early 20th century Halifax.

Consists of two images of ships burning in Halifax Harbour after the explosion of 1917. They are unusual in that they are taken from the water.

Consists of two letters written to members of Mr. Brown's family in the United States describing the situation in Halifax in the aftermath of the Halifax Harbour Explosion of 1917.

Consists of a pass for access for the devastated area issued by the City of Halifax and a sixteen page hand-written letter by Ethel Jean Bond to her uncle, Murray Kellough, of Winnipeg, Manitoba. In her letter she describes the devastation of the Halifax Explosion, the death of her father, and the injuries that her sister Bertha sustained, and discusses the impact on various neighbours in the vicinity of Kaye Street in Halifax, including the Swetnams, Killams, and Theakstons, among others.

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 146 scrapbook albums (ca1919-1974) assembled by David E. Lewis, containing his personal and business correspondence; clippings of articles written by or about him; book reviews; personal, family and work-related photographs; legal documents such as teaching contracts; and memorabilia including plane tickets and pay stubs from stories sold. These are interspersed among clippings of newspaper and magazine articles, printed jokes, comic nude cartoons, and images of entertainers, selected for their relevance to Lewis’ life experiences and/or emotional state at the time.

Arrangement is roughly chronological, with some albums covering 1 month in a year and others cover a range from the 1940s to 1970s.

Also includes a diary of his trip to McClelland and Stewart publishers in Toronto (1972), a sketchbook of portraits (1948?), a cash book of personal and bookstore expenses in Montreal (1956-1961), a file of teaching aids for high school English Literature (1950s?), and his university degrees (1940, 1951).

Includes a notebook of proverbs and lists of books read and movies seen (with annotations) belonging to David E. Lewis’ mother Isabelle Jean (Laing) Lewis (1939-1947) and a typescript of a thesis about David E. Lewis written by Andrea Robbins (2000).

Item is a hand-written version of music with lyrics in E major of Psalm 67 that Andrew MacKay used as a teaching aid in his “Singing Schools.” The item was written on wallpaper with a rose patten with metallic traces that was produced by the Watson, Foster Company between 1897 and 1927. There is some tearing of this item.