Fonds consists of records documenting club activities, including minutes of executive meetings, 1967-1990; the president and secretary's correspondence, 1979-1991; membership lists and speakers roster, 1983-1989; treasurer's reports, 1983-1984; subject files, 1980-1990; newsletters, 1989-1992; pamphlets, 1983-ca.1990; and scrapbooks, 1912-1926 and 1971-1978. Also includes minutes of the Women's Canadian Club of Halifax general, executive, and annual meetings, 1939-1959, and a summary of its activities in 1946.

Fonds consists of minutes of the council's annual general meetings, 1949-1985; annual reports, 1974-1985; minutes of executive meetings, 1949-1986; correspondence, 1968-1987; and financial records, 1955-1987.

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.

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.

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

Fonds 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.

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.

Fonds 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.

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.

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

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

Fonds 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. Fonds 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 in the fonds are relating to local agricultural societies. Fonds is arranged by agricultural society name.

Fonds 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.