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C. Bruce Fergusson
MG 1 volumes 1800-1915 · Fonds · 1840-1978, predominant 1947-1977

Fonds consists of records documenting Fergusson's career, including his activities as an archivist, his research and publications, teaching, and involvement with various professional and special interest organizations. Fonds contains research material including clippings, notes, typed transcripts and photocopies of documents, proof texts of his published books and rough copies of his articles and pamphlets, particularly dealing with Nova Scotia history, including the Acadians, Halifax, Lunenburg, Cape Breton, Confederation, and aboriginal affairs, and prominent persons. Also contains addresses given by Fergusson; incoming and outgoing correspondence concerning archives business and his publications; correspondence and other material relating to Fergusson's involvement with the Historic Sites and Monuments Board, Canadian Authors Association, and other organizations. Also contains a small number of original and copied documents and correspondence regarding the Fergusson family and its genealogy.

Fergusson, C. Bruce, 1911-1978
C.A. Webster
MG 1 volumes 2446, 2449 · Fonds · 1858-1942

Consists of ledgers and account books documenting Dr. Webster's medical practice in Yarmouth, N.S. and surrounding communities. Includes account book (1897-1901); record book of admittance for the Marine Hospital at Bunkers Island (1910-1942) which contain name of vessel, where from, name of seamen admitted, disease, dates of admission and discharge; and two journals (1909), kept while Webster was health officer for Yarmouth, describing small pox occurrences and patients and actions taken.

Also includes day books, ledgers and account books of his father Dr. John L.R. Webster, dating from 1858, whose practice he took over in 1887. Day books list the names of patients or head of households in Yarmouth and surrounding communities, treatments and prescriptions given, and charge for the visit. For some patients, their residence, occupation, and family information is also provided and illnesses such as diptheria, typhoid, and small pox are indicated.

Also includes scrapbook of invoices for medical supplies purchased by Dr. John L.R. Webster (1870-1882); memo book entitled 'Obstetrics memorandum' (1857-1891) which contains dates and names of women who delivered (after 1880, only the father's name included), the sex of the child, infant deaths, birth abnormalities, and positions; notebook kept while at Randalls Island Infant Hospital which also contains newspaper clippings concerning medical practice and profession; newspaper clippings, pamphlets, speeches, negatives, and other items pertaining to horse breeding, shows, and sales (1900-1937); and log book entitled 'U.S.A Hospital Department' concerning patients of the U.S. Army General Hospital at Camp Frederick, Maryland (1862).

Webster, C.A., 1864-1941
Camilla G. Goldie
MG 1 volumes 2857 and 3240 · Fonds · 1930-1987

Consists of correspondence, photocopies of clippings and certificates, research notes, and family charts documenting Camilla Goldie's genealogical research on Cumberland County families.

Goldie, Camilla G., 1916-1991
Campbell family
MG 1 volume 3509 · Fonds · 1843-1921

Consists of records documenting the activities of John Campbell, Samuel Cunard Campbell, and John Malcolm Campbell as lighthouse keepers on St. Paul Island and Sable Island. Includes superintendent's journals for the lighthouse and "humane establishment" on St. Paul Island, 1843-1859, 1874-1893, 1902-1920, and Sable Island, 1921. Also includes an inventory of property on St. Paul Island, 1905 (revised in 1916 after a fire which demolished the south lighthouse).

Campbell (family)
1999-020 and 2011-058 · Fonds · 1960-1995

Consists of correspondence, governance documents and subject files, as well as information about training and annual conferences, workshops and seminars. The contents of the fonds document the work of the association and reflect its goals and objectives.

Camping Association of Nova Scotia
Fonds · 1983

Fonds consists of written briefs and correspondence submitted by federal and provincial stakeholders and citizens, organized in numerical order by the Review Panel (1983); typed transcripts of 5 of the 11 public information sessions (May 9-14, 1983); typed transcripts of 4 of the 6 public hearings held in Sydney, New Glasgow, and Dartmouth (Sep 29-Oct 7, 1983); and terms of reference, list of information sessions, list of submissions, public notices with list of public hearings, and procedures document (1983).

Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Oil and Gas Board. Socio-Economic Review Panel
Fonds · 1937-1979

Fonds consists of of various minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, constitutions, reports. correspondence, financial statements, and memorandums.

Canadian Association of University Teachers
Fonds · 1815 - 1993

Consists of annual and executive meeting minutes for Halifax, Amherst, Cape Breton, and Yarmouth (1866-1985 with gaps), annual reports for Nova Scotia (1815-1830, 1914, 1960-1989), annual reports for Canada (1977-1989), financial statements and ledgers (1938-1976), draft constitutions and by-laws (1958-1969), newspaper clippings (1923-1981), membership lists (1971-1981), and some correspondence (1940-1986).

Also includes script and music for a play by William Baillie Hamilton in 1986; a draft and published booklet of A History of the Bible Society in Nova Scotia 1813-1963 by John Doull published in 1964; and 4 photographs of a parade float for the Halifax Natal Day Parade in 1979.

Also includes official publications including the Nova Scotia Sower newsletter (1988-1993 with gaps), the Quarterly Newsletter of the Canadian Bible Society (1961-1992), The Bible in the World magazine Canadian edition (1906-1909) and British edition (1905, 1959-1970), and the American Bible Society Record magazine (1969-1974).

Canadian Bible Society. Nova Scotia District
Fonds · 1962 - 1993

The fonds consists of five series: (A) Proceedings of Annual Conferences, 1968 - 1991; (B) Executive Committee Files, 1973 - 1991; (C) Correspondence, 1974 - 1989; (D) Financial Records, 1974 - 1993; and (E) Reports, 1962 - 1983. Each of the series has sub-series. The files in each sub-series are arranged chronologically.

Canadian Conference on Historical Resources
MG 20 - vols. 1658, 1866-1867, 3097-3098, 3538-3541 / 1998-069, 1999-006, 2000-042, 2002-047, 2004-030, 2005-058, 2009-028. · Fonds · 1936-2006

Fonds consists of annual reports, governance documents, financial information, newsletters, notices, agendas, membership lists, and promotional materials. The contents of the fonds document the role that the Halifax Club of the Canadian Federation of University Women plays in the local community and the activities it conducts and supports in its efforts to fulfill its mandate.

Canadian Federation of University Women. Halifax Club
Fonds · 1853-1948, predominant 1924-1940

Fonds consists of tracings and original drawings of property surveys and plot plans for the town of Windsor NS and nearby communities showing gypsum quarries, rail lines and landowners’ plots (1853-1938 and undated); original topographical survey drawings of the Avon and St. Croix Rivers showing low and high tide marks for Windsor-Hantsport-Summerville area (1940-1944); and blueprints and copies on linen of technical plans for barge ships including the DANIEL M. MUNRO, and the MUMFORD, as well as technical plans for a ship’s marine engine from Johnson Iron Co. Ltd. of Yarmouth (1919-1942). Companies represented include Wentworth Gypsum Co., Newport Plaster Mining and Manufacturing Co., the Canadian Gypsum Co., and its parent the United States Gypsum Co.

Fonds also includes a 1922 map of the world showing trade routes between Canadian and Foreign ports published by the Canadian Department of the Interior (1922); black & white photographic copies of geology maps of Avondale, Hantsport, Miller Creek, St. Croix, Upper Falmouth, and Windsor (1948); and undated topographical maps of Windsor area quarries.

The material documents the mining management activities of Canadian Gypsum Company and its parent United States Gypsum Co. as they created topographical survey plans of their quarries and other assets for mining gypsum rock; studied water levels and ships’ drafts to calculate their loading capacities; and built or retrofitted ships to transport the rock to the United States and elsewhere.

Canadian Gypsum Company (Windsor, NS)
MG 20, vol. 1457-1496 · Fonds · 1947-1983, predominant 1958-1969

Fonds consists of scrapbooks, annual general meeting and executive committee meeting minutes, reports, financial records, constitution and by-laws, correspondence, articles and other publications created and accumulated by the Nova Scotia Division of the Canadian Mental Health Association. Fonds includes files relating to local branches in Nova Scotia, the National Office of the Canadian Mental Health Association, provincial divisions, and various mental health organizations and centres in Nova Scotia.

Canadian Mental Health Association. Nova Scotia Division
Fonds

Fonds consists of records documenting the court's activities, including a minute book, correspondence, membership records, and financial records.

Canadian Order of Foresters. Gladstone Court, No. 745 (Pictou, N.S.)
MG 20 volumes 321-323 · Fonds · 1914-1985

Consists of records documenting the activities of the provincial and local branch offices of the Red Cross in Nova Scotia. Includes annual reports, minute books, notebooks, newsletters, policies, newspaper clippings, secretary and treasurer's books, financial records, correspondence, agreements, committee reports, membership lists, historical notes, photographs, albums, and slides. Images include relief operations during the First and Second World Wars, Halifax Harbour Explosion of 1917, fire at Parrsboro in 1969, the Springhill mine disaster, blood donor clinics, provincial branch presidents, staff, volunteers, social and fundraising events, and the journey of Swedish immigrants to Halifax on the Walnut in 1949. Red Cross branches represented in the fonds include Halifax, Musquodoboit Valley, Rockingham, Fairview, Annapolis Royal, Springhill, and Sydney. Also includes a film produced by the American Red Cross, and articles and printed material relating to the Canadian and International Red Cross, and Junior Red Cross.

Canadian Red Cross Society. Nova Scotia Division
MG 20 - Volumes 3078 and 3557. · Fonds · [ca. 1968]-1989

Fonds consists of directories, membership documents, minutes, correspondence, financial records, newsletters, promotional items, and reports. The contents of the fonds document the operations of the chapter in fulfilling its mandate.

Canadian Society of Safety Engineering. Nova Scotia (Bluenose) Chapter
Cape Breton's Magazine
1981-042 · Fonds · 1967-1998

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.

Cape Breton's Magazine
Carl Bennett
2004-029 · Fonds · 1818, 1911-1918, predominantly 1916-1918

Fonds consists of Carl's letters written to his sister and parents in Halifax while serving overseas between 1916 and 1918. He wrote several times a month and the letters describe Carl's social and military activities in detail, both in France and in England. Included are stories about fellow officers and friends, social and recreational activities such as visits to concerts and the theatre, sports, motor trips, dining out, and card games. There are also descriptions of his war experiences such as learning to fly military aircraft and being exposed to shelling, anti-aircraft guns and bombs. In addition there is a letter to John Bennett (Carl's ancestor), from his brother in Aberdeen, Scotland, dated 19 March 1818. In it Bennett describes his dangerous transatlantic voyage in a small vessel. There is also a letter to Carl from Jessie Bell of London, a cousin, who provides family information and biographical information on Carl and the Bennett family.

Bennett, Carl Norwood, 1895-1918
Carrie Best
2011-031 · Fonds · 1952-1979

Consists of audio tapes that include segments from Carrie Best's radio shows as well as interviews with her about her work. The contents document her broadcasting career and record information about her life and her views on racism in Nova Scotia.

Best, Carrie M., 1903-2001
Carroll Burton Feindel
Fonds · 1940 - 1960

Consists of 14 colour films, 4 black and white films, and 1 in both for a total of 19 films copied onto 3 film reels. Most of the films were made by Carroll Feindel and reflect his life and interests. The bulk of his work is of the "home movies" or "travelogue" genre, consisting of amateur footage depicting his family, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) bases to which he was posted, and his family excursions and vacations off the bases. The films document military and family life in the 1940s and 1950s, and provide a view of the places he visited in Newfoundland-and-Labrador and Nova Scotia during this time. In particular, one of the "Labrador" films (Vc 1083) captures video of Naskapi First Nation members returning from a seal hunt, and others woodworking and drying skins (1949). There is also footage of the family taking a boat trip up the Hamilton River which disappeared after opening of Churchill Falls hydroelectric project in 1974. The cinematography is generally very good. The fonds also includes 3 documentary works made by others which Mr. Feindel collected and preserved.

Carroll Burton Feindel
Cecil Zink
MG 3 volume 6166 · Fonds · [ca. 1912]-1967

Consists of a business ledger, journal, correspondence, receipts and invoices. The contents document Mr. Zink's business involvements and funeral work in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Zink, Cecil, 1880-1967
RG 8 volumes 1-19 · Fonds · 1818-1873

Consists of records created and accumulated by the secretary of the Central Board of Agriculture, particularly during the tenures of John Young, William Scott, and Titus Smith. Includes correspondence, returns, reports, accounts, notes payable, invoices, receipts, by-laws, orders, affidavits, and lists of officers. Volume 1 includes a minute book of the Provincial Agriculture Society from 1818 to 1825. Most of the records are relating to local agricultural societies. Arranged by agricultural society name.

C.H. Johnson
MG 1 volumes 1469A and 1538D · Fonds · 1845-1960

Consists of poetry, newspaper clippings, articles, bibliographies and research notes. There are also indices for a number of serial religious publications including: The Guardian, The Wesleyan, The Presbyterian Witness, New Brunswick Religious and Literary Journal, The Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Wesleyan Methodist Magazine and British North American Wesleyan Methodist Magazine. There is also significant research on centenarians taken from some of the indexed publications.

Johnson, C.H., [ca. 1878]-1974
Charitable Irish Society
MG 20 volumes 61-70 · Fonds · 1786-2009

Consists of official records of the society, including executive minutes, committee minutes, constitution and bylaws, financial papers, presidential files, correspondence, and proposals for membership. Also includes programs, addresses and menus for Society events; publications and engravings, and a brief history of the Society compiled in digital format in 2009.

Charitable Irish Society (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Charles and John Inglis
MG 1 volume 1688A · Fonds · 1771, 1787-1837

Consists of an Act Book, also entitled "..Register of the Diocese of Nova Scotia and its Dependeces", kept from the time of Bishop Charles Inglis' consecration in 1787 until 18 September 1810. The book contains the names and particulars of men he ordained to the ministry and which parish the minister was licensed to serve in. There is a gap in the book until 1825-1826 when it was kept by his son, Bishop John Inglis, who also included additional notes, 1829-1837. The Act Book also contains rough copies of letters and documents drafted by Charles Inglis before they were forwarded to the addressee, usually officers of state, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, and two letters written by John Inglis when he acted as commissary to his father. There are also copies of documents by Charles Inglis relating to the proposal to consecrate bishops for the United States, copies of letters he wrote to the commission appointed by Parliament in London stating the losses he sustained as a Loyalist, and a copy of the deed of endowment of St. Pauls Church, Halifax, 1771.

Inglis, Charles, 1734-1816