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Consists of 12 series: Interim and annual reports (1957-1964); Office Services Division correspondence and other material (1958-1971); Maintenance ledgers and other material (1952-1972); Accounting Office Branch correspondence and other material (1947-1969); Construction of Nova Scotia Government buildings photograph albums (1919-1970, predominant 1950-1970); Tenders and Specifications (1963-1968); Minister's Correspondence and other material (1970-1980); Deputy Minister's Correspondence and other material (1951-1989); Finance and Administrative Division budget reports and other material (1981-1989); Design and Construction Services Division correspondence and other material (dates?); Event planning correspondence and other material (dates?); and Systems and Computer Services Division reports and studies (1958-1979).

Consists of six series: Provincial Secretary Correspondence (1783-1953); Deputy Provincial Secretary Correspondence and other material (ca.1937-1966); Municipal Officers Appointment Registers and other material (1854-1949); Petitions and Memorials (1867-1970); Financial Records and other material (1866-1919); and Registrar of Deeds Returns of Documents Registered and related materials (1787-1892).

Consists of 12 series.

Consists of 18 series: Land Services Division Crown Land index sheets (no date); Land Services Division topographical maps (1969); Land Grant registration books (1730-1958, microfilmed 1957-1982); Land Petition registration books (ca.1840-1975); Minister's Correspondence and other material (1933-1989); Deputy Minister's Correspondence and other material (1933-1983); Chief Forester's Correspondence and other material (1926-1931); Operations Branch Correspondence and other material (1980-1982); Program Planning Branch Correspondence and other material (1958-1988); Land Services Division Crown Land Forestry Series maps (circa 1940s to circa 1960s?); Crown Lands Division Correspondence and Registers of Leases (1899-1946); Extension Forestry Division Correspondence and other material (1947-1952); Administrative Branch Correspondence and other material (1938-1989); Provincial Foresters' Correspondence and other material (1935-1953); Commissioner of Forests and Game's correspondence and other material (1921-1926); Inspector of Lands and Forests Correspondence and other material (1935-1950); Land Tax correspondence and returns (1931-1950); Escheat and Forfeiture records (1770-1839).

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).

Consists of applications from new or existing organizations for one of the two main fund-matching grants managed by the Department of Inclusive and Economic Growth. These two grants were the Nova Scotia Business Development Program (NSBDP) and the Manufacturing and Processing Credit (MPIC). The bulk of this material are the applications themselves, correspondence with the department, photocopies of receipts and cheques issued and a final timeline report if applicant was successful. The NSBDP was a grant that usually did not exceed more then ten thousand dollars in funding, the majority of these were requested for website development, auditing purposes, feasibility studies and succession planning. The funds had to be matched by the applicant, and funds were dispersed over a period provided applicants submitted staggered updates. The MPIC grants were much larger, most exceeding several hundred thousand dollars, with a cap of no more then one million dollars. The purpose of the grant was to allow business access to funds to make one-time purchases of newer equipment. The companies had to provide paperwork proving how the purchase would create better work processes or hire more people. Because of the repetitive nature of the grant requests only a selection was retained that was representative of the various counties, industries and requests. Also includes meeting minutes of committees on employment and sustainability, some Minister and Deputy Minister’s correspondence, and a few other examples less prominent grants. There are also some materials from the early 2000’s when the department was still known as the Department of Business.

Consists of 16 Series: Community Planning Division research records (1950-1986); Minister's correspondence and other material (1956-1960); Woodside-Imperoyal amalgamation records (1946-1948); By-law administration correspondence (1880-1985); Municipality estimates (1941-1956); Lists and returns (1937-1956); Treasurers' and clerks' returns (1936-1962); Shelburne-Queens Regional Assessment Office operational records (1967-1975); Planning Act Review Committee public hearing briefs and other material (1979-1983); Metropolitan Area Planning Commission reports and other material (1969-1976); Administrative and operational records (1959-1984); Deputy minister's correspondence and other material (1975-1986); Nova Scotia Municipal Board assessment appeal records (1984-1985); Municipality financial reports (1971-1972); Assessment Division files (1940-1981); Provincially prepared assessment rolls (1979-2006).

Consists of nine series.

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.

Consists of Fisheries Minister's correspondence files with the Premier, other provincial and federal ministers, the Fishermen’s Loan Board, department staff and the public as well as planning and budget files (1960-1973); Deputy Minister's correspondence files (1942-1993); the Director of Fisheries Division files when it was part of the Department of Trade and Industry (1943-1964); “Deputy Minister’s Library” containing minutes of the Federal-Provincial Atlantic Fisheries Committee and its Sections (1959-1975); Director of Industrial Development Division files managing projects to improve vessels, gear and harbour facilities as well as negotiating funding agreements with the federal government (1961-1991); Product Development Officers’ files containing scientific research reports and experiments’ results, correspondence, proposals, and photographs (1973-1992); and Funding Programs Case Files from several cost-shared funding programs run by the Department alone or in partnership with the federal government (1972-1998). Fonds also includes meeting minutes, agendas, and loan agreements with the NS Resources Development Board (1980-1986), previously known as the NS Fishermen’s Loan Board.

Some major subjects represented in the records include experimenting with fish waste to make fertilizer (silage) for agricultural use; bringing new products to market such as snails and shark; and improving fish preservation, among other subjects. Some major projects of the Department include building the Fraser Mills hatchery and research centre near Antigonish NS (1987-1990), the Billfish experimental fishery (1995-1996), and the construction of 3 steel-hulled fishing vessels (1977-1979).

Consists of correspondence files of the minister and deputy minister and reports on environmental matters prepared by the department or submitted to it. Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, arranged by subject, 2000-2002, and correspondence files grouped by correspondent and arranged by date covering the period January to February 2001 and January to March 2002. Some correspondence files by subject also contain briefing notes on that subject. There is also one file of correspondence relating to the Nova Scotia Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, 1999-2000. The reports cover the time period 1970 to 2002 and include a number of reports on air quality in the Sydney and Westville areas as well as other reports on environmental matters in Nova Scotia.

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)

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.

Consists of records documenting the founding and activities of the Nova Scotia Dental Association, particularly meeting minutes, bylaws and assorted newsletters and bulletins. Also included are annual reports, fee schedules, and conference papers.

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 files accumulated by Eric Dennis between 1972 and 1977 as Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Communications and Information Centre and include records related to the Centre’s budget (1972-1977), the province’s hosting of the 1973 Premiers’ Conference, speeches of Premier Gerald Regan, Royal Visits (Primarily 1973), and the Centre’s production of promotional movies as well as materials related to industrial and tourism promotion including events such as the Tournament of Roses Parade (California), the Boston Tea Party (1976 and 1977), Lobster Luncheons (1974), and Expo ’75 in Osaka, Japan.

The records include correspondence, memoranda, reports, briefs, newsletters, brochures, news clippings, invitations, financial forecasts, estimates and budgets, and photographs of Royal visits and are loosely arranged, alphabetically, by file titles.

Consists of eleven series: Crown Land grants plans, surveys and other records, 1753-1864, predominant 1784-1830, Indexes to grant books and other material, [ca. 1750]-[ca. 1880], Land grant maps, Land petitions and other material, 1765-1914, Applications for Purchase and Ungranted Petitions, 1781-1910, Cape Breton land petitions and other material, 1787-1864, predominant 1787-1843, Commissioners' correspondence and other material, 1765-1905, Commissioners' letterbooks, Financial records, 1791-1925, Township records, 1759-[ca. 1847], and Journal of Titus Smith, 1801-1833.

Consists of minutes, correspondence, press releases and promotional items, papers, briefs, and reports along with related documentation. The contents document the goals and work of the organization.

Consists of minutes of board of directors meetings, submissions to the government's Law Amendments Committee, newsletters, report, and constitution of the Nova Scotia Civil Liberties Association.

Consists of two series: Census returns, 1951 and Census abstracts, 1961.

Consists of minutes, correspondence, newsletters, registers of members, and newspaper clippings and related documentation about the Nova Scotia Association of Architects. The contents document the work of the Association in support of its mandate.

Consists of the records of the Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women, detailing the principle actions and responsibilities of the Council, and documenting the administration of the Status of Women Act, as well as other aspects of the Council's mandate. The Council was created to educate the public on women's issues in Nova Scotia and to advise the provincial government (particularly the Minister in charge of the Act) on issues of interest and concern to women in the province. These actions are documented principally through minutes, correspondence, briefing materials, and specific project files.

In forwarding its mandate, the Council often worked closely with other bodies to tackle women’s issues and promote solutions more broadly and on a larger scale. Fonds contain meeting minutes and proceedings from Federal-Provincial-Territorial Ministers' meetings and conferences for issues on a national scale, and with Atlantic Ministers Responsible for the Status of Women for regional issues.

It should be mentioned that during the early years of the Council, its functions often overlapped with those of other government advisory bodies, particularly those of Interdepartmental Committee on Women’s Issues and the Women’s Directorate. Occasionally records of both of these bodies appear.

As a whole, the records explore the founding, activities, decisions, and development of the Council. These records offer excellent insight into the Nova Scotia Government's strategies in building and strengthening women's roles in the province.

Consists of case files of the Nova Scotia Admiralty District of the Exchequer Court of Canada. Causes of action relate to salvage claims, suits for seamen's and masters' wages, claims for damages arising from marine collisions, and infractions of the Inland Revenue Act and the Customs Act. Case files contain warrants, bail bonds, notices, affidavits, replies, writs of summons, orders, motions, accounts, bills of costs, reports of surveyors, petitions, decisions, transcripts of hearings, minutes of filing, and correspondence. Arranged mostly alphabetically by vessel name, and also includes a register of causes heard by the court between 1920 and 1940.

Item is a handwritten and illustrated memoir by Simone Stehelin, describing her experiences of travelling from France to Nova Scotia in 1895 at the age of ten and settling in her new home in the woods outside Weymouth where she lived with her parents, 7 brothers and 4 sisters until 1910. The memoir is in French and includes 2 printed and hand-coloured maps of the area as well as 35 pen and ink drawings, some in colour. The memoir was written in 1962 in Paris, France.

Consists of photographs taken by Notman Studio of Halifax, Nova Scotia and consists mainly of individual and group portraits of residents of, and visitors to, Halifax. Also includes naval ships and personnel, and buildings, streets and views of Halifax, as well as other Nova Scotian communities, including Antigonish, Canso, Dartmouth, Grand Pré, Musquodoboit Harbour, Sheet Harbour, Truro and Whitehead. Predominantly proof prints; also includes glass negatives, both wet- and dry-plate. Photographs organized by format, and within each format by original negative/proof print number.