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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 company's activities, including correspondence of the secretary-treasurer, 1955-1963 relating to the Fisherman's Loan Board, licenses, crews, and marine equipment; financial statements, 1959-1962; and trip sheets detailing the number and variety of fish caught, 1956-1962.

Consists of records documenting the company's activities, including correspondence of the secretary-treasurer, 1954-1967 relating to the Fisherman's Loan Board, licenses, crews, and marine equipment; financial statements, 1958-1968; and trip sheets detailing the number and variety of fish caught, 1955-1963.

Consists of a representative sample of photographic files produced by the Crosby studio as well as selected samples of Crosby's work as a free-lance photographer in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1990s. The bulk of the studio's production consisted of portraits, passport snapshots, wedding photos, advertising copy work, industrial and construction site progress shots, aerial views of urban areas for developers, copy prints of architectural drawings and sketches, theatre and television publicity shots, and photos of notable buildings and street scapes. The files include negatives, copy prints, photographs and transparencies. They depict important contemporary persons and events, such as the famous 1943 Churchill photograph, aerial views of downtown Halifax and Dartmouth in the 1960s when rapid changes in urban development commenced, the early days of CBC Halifax television productions (e.g. Don Messer, Singalong Jubilee), the peak of industrial activity at Halifax Shipyards and Trenton Steel Works, the expanding fishing industry, the construction of the Sedco Oil Rig for Sable Island, 1969-1971, the assembly of Volvo automobiles in its Dartmouth plant, and the reactions of victims' families during the Springhill Mine Disaster of 1958.

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

Consists of records documenting the activities of the society. Includes minutes of the editorial council, board of directors, and editorial board (1981-1996), annual reports (1983-1995), circular letters (1981-1997), the managing editor's correspondence (1981-1996), and photographs used in New Maritimes articles accumulated between 1983 and 1996, organized by subject.

Consists of business and personal correspondence, Taylor's marriage license, an account against Taylor's estate, and a brief account of the pre-Confederation history of railway construction, transportation and coal mining in Nova Scotia by Mrs. C.P. Holden.

Consists of journals, draft manuscripts, correspondence, family records and photographs, and documentation from associations with which Dr. Macdonald was involved. The contents document her professional career in education and community work, her private life, and varied community involvements. The journals document her childhood and young adulthood at Egnaig Farm, Baileys Brook, Pictou County and her life thereafter.

Consists of correspondence, notebooks, legal documents, ephemera and photographs. Although the early material concerns Herbert Clifford Creed, the bulk of the materal concerns Creed and allied families in England, Halifax and Hants County, Nova Scotia. Includes very little material documenting Herbert Creed's life in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Consists of letter-books, 1821-1823; journals, 1822-1853 (incomplete); correspondence, 1820-1848; and ephemera. As clerk of the works Creed was required to visit sites under the responsibility of the Royal Engineers. Some of his letter-books and journals include his trips to western parts of Hants County including Rawdon and Windsor. These records also include his opinions and activities relating to various religious denominations, particularly the Baptist church, and his continuing education through weekly attendance at Mechanics Institute lectures.

Consists of textual records, sound recordings and photographs, created and accumulated by Messer during the course of his career from the 1920s until his death. In addition to documenting Messer's career, the fonds also contains a major music library documenting the musical tradition of rural North America, as Messer actively acquired musical scores and recordings from musicians, composers and folklorists throughout North America and Europe. Also includes one film.

Consists of administrative records including enquiries register, 1927-1931, and correspondence relating to potential acquistions, historical matters and archival holdings, 1922-1931.

Consists of correspondence, 1857-1890; printed reports by Thomas Beamish Akins on the activities of the Commissioner of Public Records, 1857, 1858, 1860, 1864; printed and annotated catalogue of records held by the Commissioner of Public Records, 1859; notebook relating to reference enquiries and the organization of the books and records of the Commissioner of Public Records, 1885 and journals of James Farquahar, 1858-1859 and Thomas B. Akins, 1857-1891.

Consists consists of minutes, reports, financial statements, grant applications, special projects, promotional items and correspondence. The contents of the series document the creation and work of this Society and its predecessor bodies in promoting events and research in the study of folklore in Atlantic Canada.

Consists of five series based on the positions she had held: Mayor of Bedford records, President of the Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women records, Nova Scotia Liberal Association records, Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Bedford-Fall River District records, and Halifax County Councillor records.

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 material of a personal and biographical nature, 1933-1996; correspondence, 1941-1996, which includes Curren's wartime correspondence with his family and his advocacy activities with the Canadian Paraplegic Association (Nova Scotia Branch) and Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission; World War II service documents, correspondence, associated organizations and photographs; scrapbooks; and photographs and photograph albums documenting his life and family activities.

Consists of records documenting MacFarlane's career as a scientist, her involvement with various professional and special interest organizations, and her private life. Includes correspondence received by MacFarlane from family, friends and colleagues, 1928-1996 (also undated), arranged alphabetically; diaries and day books, 1940-1989; field note books, 1948-1969; biographical material; correspondence, working papers, project files, articles, reports, conferences, publications, underwater photographs, and research notes on different types of seaweed complied by MacFarlane as director of the Seaweed Division of the Nova Scotia Research Foundation, 1948-1971. Some of the special projects include the Marine Plants Experiment, Mimineagash on Irish Moss, Fink Cove Experiment, Gulf of St. Lawrence Marine Plants Advisory Committee, and the Northumberland Strait Project. Also contains correspondence, reports, minutes, and working papers accumulated in the course of MacFarlane's involvement with the National Council of Women, Local Council of Women of Halifax, Zonta Club, Canadian Federation of University Women, and Dalhousie Alumni Association. Also includes correspondence and biographical material of Evelyn Campbell and various records relating to Henry and Ida MacFarlane, 1875-1948. Family and other photographs may be found among the textual records.

Consists of several letters and other items accumulated by Jotham McCully as secretary of the Oak Island Association during its attempts to locate treasure on Oak Island from 1862 to 1863. The letters are all written to McCully from engineers and officials at the money pit site, describing problems encountered during the drilling, and also from several shareholders describing potential financial problems. Also includes documents concerning an Oak Island Association meeting in Truro in 1864, and plans and a report from engineers on how to stop the flooding of water in the money pit in 1867.

Consists of records documenting high-level functions of the department. Includes executive records (minister and deputy minister), as well as government-wide and interdepartmental committee records. Files arranged according to a numeric subject classification scheme.

Fonds consists of records documenting Avramovitch's private life and architectural career. His personal papers include a few reminiscences of World War II, correspondence with friends and family, 1940s-1950s (written mostly in French, German, Italian and Serb), correspondence with Canadian government officials regarding his emigration to Canada, and various notes, drafts and typed booklets of poetry he produced from 1979-1995. The records relating to his architectural career are not business records as such but materials accumulated for personal reasons. They include academic papers written as a student, architectural drawings and plans from his early career in Europe and Montreal, and his Halifax firm, 1950s- 1980s. In addition there are reminiscences and notes about his career as an architect and files regarding some of his major projects in Halifax. Most of the latter contain photographs of buildings and sites, sketches, drawings and plans, architect's notes, clippings and similar material. Many files include handwritten explanatory and contextual notes inserted after his death by his widow, Francene Cosman Avramovitch.