Showing 761 results

Consists of photographs and film productions created by the Nova Scotia Information Service. Includes black-and-white negatives from publicity and promotional events depicting Nova Scotia landscapes, communities, government activities, people, industries, and events. Also includes promotional film and documentary productions relating to many aspects of life in the province as well as original footage of various special events. Original master soundtracks available for some productions.

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 minutes of the council's executive, annual, and general meetings, treasurer's account books, financial statements, correspondence, annual and committee reports, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, programmes, booklets, membership lists and record book, attendance registers, essays, historical notes, constitution and by-laws, resolutions, and ephemera. Also contains photographic prints depicting members, conventions and social events, and slides taken at Expo '67. Fonds also includes publications and other material relating to the National Council of Women of Canada and International Council of Women.

Consists of political and business correspondence of D.C. Sinclair. Letters discuss the organization and administration of the Nova Scotia Liberal Association, political news and events, and also include mention of Sinclair's legal practice and his involvement with J.W. Carmichael and Co. Ltd. Individual correspondents include Minister of National Defense Hon. J.L. Ralston, Major Calum I.N. MacLeod, and Angus L. Macdonald.

Consists of records created and accumulated by Uniacke, most of which includes correspondence, accounts, wills and other legal documents concerning the estate of his father-in-law, Hon. John Black. Also includes personal accounts and receipts; record book kept by Uniacke for the Turf Club established at Halifax, 1825-1827, containing lists of members and resolutions; journal and typed transcript of his trip to Boston in 1823; and passport document issued to Uniacke.

Consists of records created and accumulated by Richardson relating to her literary career and personal activities, including correspondence with family, publishers and readers of her books; drafts of her books and short stories; notebooks; research notes on natural history; biographical material; newspaper clippings; speeches; scripts of interviews; guest books; diaries, ephemera, and photographs. Some of the material relates to her interest in bird watching and includes field books, bird study reports, draft article for Mainland Bird Watching Society Newsletter; and correspondence to the editor of the Shelburne Coastguard concerning the disregard of laws involving game and protected birds. Also includes some letters and sympathy cards written to Richardson's daughter Elizabeth Smith after Richardson's death.

Consists of indentures and account statements regarding Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres and property holdings in Falmouth; personal and business correspondence between family members including Joseph Frederick Wallet, Amelia DesBarres, and Mary Cannon; certificates and warrants concerning professional appointments of William Frederick and his son Lewis Wilkins DesBarres; poem; and copy of the will of Augusta Sophia DesBarres Hole. Also included are maps depicting property in Falmouth including Castle Frederick, and the counties of Guysborough and Cumberland.

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 records and photographs documenting the history of this Halifax men's clothing and furnishings business. The contents of the fonds include ledgers, account books, payroll books, photographs, newspaper clippings, stationery samples, promotional materials and documentation for the Wartime Prices and Trade Board and the Canadian Department of Labour.

Consists of correspondence, financial reports (audited and unaudited), promotional materials, agendas, minutes and related documentation. Document the history and development of the association.

Consists of personal documents, photographs and film footage created by Murray. The contents document his work as an amateur film maker along with his military and legal careers. Also includes biographical information compiled by Joan Payzant, a family member.

Fonds consists of records documenting the operation of the school from its inception to 1987, including the role of the home and school association. Includes house and attendance registers, record books, academic records, teachers' reports, courses of study, minutes, by-laws, correspondence, subject files, financial statements, ledgers, cashbooks, payroll record books, programmes, photographs, and scrapbooks.

Consists of correspondence, promotional materials, and publications along with photographs and moving images. The contents document Mr. Buchta's involvement with dancing in Nova Scotia and specifically with the Buchta Dancers who regularly performed on the Don Messer Show. There is also documentation relating to his tenure with Dance Nova Scotia and his involvement with organizations like the Cort's Club and the Halifax Stroke Club.

Consists of operational records created by the NS Steel and Coal Company Ltd.'s New Glasgow and Sydney Mines offices. The most extensive section concerns the Old Sydney Collieries operations at Sydney Mines, containing letter books and correspondence files of the stores department (1905-1917), which detail the ordering and purchasing of supplies and equipment for the mines. In addition there are financial records such as cash books (1905-1913), general ledgers (1895-1915) and a very early workmen's book (1861-1864). Other records originate from the New Glasgow office and include general correspondence (1935-1941), corporate records such as printed annual reports and financial statements of NS Steel and Coal and its parent companies (BESCO and DOSCO), by-laws and articles of association, prospectuses and charters, and internal publications such as promotional booklets and agreements with labour unions. There are also a few files believed to have been created by former chairman Thomas Cantley, including two case files on the coal tariff issue (1912-1927) and a mine fire inquiry (1929), blueprints of mine sites in Sydney and schematic details of mining equipment used, and coal and steel production and sales figures (1898-1918). Finally there are later correspondence files and reports on mine performance and production at the Florence and Princess Collieries, 1953-1966.

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 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.

Consists of six photographic albums and Maritime Boys' Camp booklets. Three of the albums depict scenes of Halifax and vicinity and other Nova Scotian communities and locations, including Bear River, Clementsport, Granville Ferry, Smiths Cove, Fall River, Purcell Cove, and Waverley. Subjects include boating, regattas, Halifax Natal Day road races, Provincial Exhibition building and exhibits, sports activities on the Polo Grounds at Halifax, Halifax Citadel garrison, buildings, street scenes, scenic views, picnics and other outdoor activities, shipping, railways, farm scenes, and informal portraits including family, friends and members of the Mi'kmaq and African Nova Scotian communities. A fourth album contains photographs and booklets of the YMCA Maritime Boys' Camps at various locations in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick from 1898 to 1904. Also includes an album of postcards, some of them with published versions of Irvine's photographs, and an album of unidentified portraits.

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 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.

Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by Eaton in the course of his genealogical and historical research of Colchester, Halifax, Hants, and Kings counties, and New England. Includes notes, copies of articles, pamphlets, leaflets, draft manuscripts, chapter outlines, and bound volumes containing extracts of reports from the Society for the Progagation of the Gospel relating to early Nova Scotia. Fonds also contains personal correspondence; sermons; biographical material; auction catalogues; sheet music; and published and unpublished articles and poems, many of which were compiled in bound volumes together with correspondence, notices, reviews, and ephemera. There are also two volumes of personal letters from fellow poet and clergyman, Rev. Robert Norwood, as well as photograph portraits of Eaton and family members, reproductive prints of colonial administrators, royal dignitaries, coat of arms, and postcards depicting churches, buildings, and scenes of Nova Scotian cities and towns.

Consists of legal and financial records, correspondence, and resolutions, mostly relating to property transactions of Moirs Limited and Moir family members as well as Supreme Court suits involving the company; periodicals relating to Moirs and the candy industry; scrapbooks of advertisements; reports, correspondence, press clippings, broadcast scripts, and notices relating to marketing and advertising; journals and daily sales figures; newspaper clippings and essays on the history and activities of Moirs; printed ephemera; photographs of the Moirs plant, personnel, social events, and exhibitions; painting by R.H. Ellis in the 1880s and watercolour by John L. Darby, both depicting Moirs mill and box factory in Bedford; and map of Moirs property in downtown Halifax, 1927.

Consists of daily journals kept by Harry Piers, 1907-1938, which contain notes, newspaper clippings, poems, sketches, programs and other ephemera documenting his activities and interests. Fonds also includes correspondence, research notes, notebooks, and newspaper clippings and articles, relating to Pier's research on topics such as Robert Field, William Chearnley, rowing, and horse racing. Also contains some personal correspondence and incoming and outgoing letters relating to Public Records of Nova Scotia affairs as well as his presidency of organizations including the Overseas League of Halifax; manuscripts of a few of his published and unpublished works including The Evolution of the Halifax Fortress, and A Historical and Genealogical Account of the Piers family; files relating to the Geographic Board of Canada for which Piers was the Nova Scotia representative; a photograph album of his wife's family, the Fairbanks; and some letters and other items received by his wife and son Edward Piers. Graphic and cartographic material also found among textual records.

Consists of scrapbooks about the Ajax Club, North End Services Canteen, and the Women's Voluntary Services Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, likely compiled by Edith Girouard. The scrapbooks contain photographs and newspaper clippings about the work of these wartime organizations. Fonds also includes an annual report of the Ajax Club, and a booklet entitled The Case of the Ajax Club.

Consists of a bound volume containing carbon copies of typed letters and a diary written by Gavin L. Stairs, Jr. while with the 14th Royal Montreal Regiment, 1st Canadian Division, C.E.F., from 23 July 1914 to 2 September 1916. The letters are addressed to members of his family and describe Stairs's activities both during the period leading up to his departure for England (October 1914) and his experiences at the war front in Northern France. The last of his letters is dated 2 September 1916, a few days before his death. In total there are 108 letters, and at the end of the volume is a copy of Stairs's diary, in which he listed his activities from 1 January to 31 December 1915.

Consists of governance and promotional records of the Knights of Columbus in Nova Scotia. The contents document the activities of the fraternal society and provide evidence of the work that it has undertaken to fulfill its mandate.