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RG 25 · Fonds · 1901-1987

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.

Nova Scotia. Department of Health
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
MG 3 volumes 1267-1271 · Fonds · 1851-1987

Consists of business records, minutes of directors meetings, statutes and scrapbooks documenting the Nova Scotia Savings and Loan Company’s banking and investment business, the rules it operated under, its communications to shareholders, news coverage it received, public relations activities and social aspects of the banking industry over its 137 year history in Nova Scotia and Canada.

It is arranged by the archivist into nine groupings: annual financial statements and reports (1851-1923, 1941, 1949), minutes of directors and shareholders meetings (1849-1949, missing 1894-1897), registers of shares and shareholders (1850-1964), daily cash books (1850-1921), scrapbooks of clippings and original documents (1918-1987, missing 1940-1949), selected correspondence with customers and lawyers (1860, 1875, 1880-1930, 1939), statutes and by-laws (1854-1950), banking business ephemera (early 20th century) and photographs (189?-1987).

Nova Scotia Savings and Loan Company
John W. Hugill
1992-375 · Collection · 17-19 October 1897

Collection consists of 31 photographs taken of Windsor, Nova Scotia by George Wright in the days following a fire that destroyed a portion of the town in the fall of 1897. The photographs were developed by Notman Studio and were included in an article titled "Photo Sets of the Windsor Fire" in the Halifax Morning Herald on 11 November 1897.

Hugill, John W., 1881-1971
Marie Bishop
MG 1 volumes 3160-3162 · Fonds · 1975-1976, 1986

Consists of predominantly of scrapbooks created or compiled by Marie Bishop. The scrapbooks contain obituaries from the Halifax Herald organized in rough alphabetical order, with entries from across Nova Scotia. There are also stories and reminiscences about the Bishop family on the sound recording.

Bishop, Marie, 1929-2011
RG 44 volume 194 · Fonds · 1986

Consists of written briefs submitted to the Task Force from concerned citizens, chemistry experts, community groups, universities, municipalities, and businesses (September to December 1986). They are arranged by place of public hearing in chronological order: Dartmouth, Kentville, Liverpool, Sydney, Port Hawkesbury, Truro, New Glasgow, Amherst, Yarmouth, and Halifax. Also includes a list of all submissions, both written and oral (see RG 44 Volume 194 no. 1).

Nova Scotia. Department of the Environment. Minister's Task Force on Hazardous Waste Management
Moody family
MG 1 volume 2684 · Fonds · 1777-1986

Consists of business and personal correspondence with James Moody (1744-1809), and his second wife Jane Moody, grandson Elisha William Budd Moody (1799-1863) and great grandson John Wentworth Moody (1826-1894); business letters of John Wentworth Moody (1826-1894) and John W.’s son Elisha William Budd Moody (1863-1942); Philip Moody’s (1890-1975) childhood letters to his mother in 1890s; commissions to militias; certificates; memorials and testimonies in support of James Moody’s military actions; property deeds (including one for the purchase of an enslaved girl named Sylva 1807), wills, powers of attorney and other legal documents; two original land grants 1787 and 1816; an inventory of John W.’s possessions 1892; and family photographs and coat of arms. Also includes invitations, family genealogical records, and transcripts of some letters. The records document James Moody’s activities as a loyalist and immigrant to Nova Scotia, and the activities of his descendants in Nova Scotia.

Moody family
Norman Creighton
1982-2 · Fonds · 1964-1965, 1982-1986

Reflects Creighton's work as a radio journalist, and his keen interest in Nova Scotia's history. The two recordings deal with the 1945 V.E. Day riots in Halifax and life in Lunenburg's Grand Banks schooner fishing fleet, respectively.

Creighton, Norman, 1909-1995
Fred R. MacKinnon
1992-718 · Fonds · 1962-1970, 1 March 1986

Consists of records documenting MacKinnon's activities and interests in the fields of social work and human rights in Nova Scotia. Includes two series: Interdepartmental Committee on Human Rights minutes and other records and British guest children: history and working papers.

MacKinnon, Fred R., 1912-2006
RG 44 Volume 195-210 · Fonds · 1982-1985

Consists of briefs or written submissions from individuals, citizens groups, environmental organizations, and government together with summaries of the presentations made, organized by public meeting date (April 2 to October 8, 1982); audio recordings of the public meetings and hearings as well as a CBC Radio “Radio Noon” interview and call-in program (April 2, 1982 to March 18, 1983); transcripts of the 2 formal public hearings held in Halifax (March 4 and 18, 1983); official correspondence of the Commission and personal correspondence of Judge McCleave (1982-1985); newspaper clippings and research files (collected 1982); outlines and early drafts of the Final Report (1985?); photographs of a uranium exploration site near Bear River, NS owned by Shell (July 2, 1982); photographic slides of uranium mining site owned by Kidd Creek Company (June 1982); and a map of Annapolis and Shelburne Counties showing uranium concentrations in 1976 (collected 1983?). Fonds also includes a subject index to the briefs (see RG 44 Volume 195 no. 2), lists of names of presenters by meeting date (see RG 44 Volume 195 no. 6), and public notices.

Research material includes an overview of the Canadian uranium industry, Canadian policies on nuclear energy, the health risks of radiation, the moral/ethical concerns, nuclear waste management (tailings), and regulation trends in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Nova Scotia. Commission of Inquiry on Uranium
2022-022 · Collection · 1952-1985

Consists of 143 music record albums (LPs, 78s and one 45) of Nova Scotia-born international country music star Hank Snow, including albums released in Japan, East Germany, Australia and the United Kingdom; a Grand Ole Opry radio broadcast of Hank Snow; and recordings sold only to radio stations by Thesaurus Programming Service. The Collection spans Hank Snow’s United States recording career starting in the early 1950s up to 1985 when he stopped recording. The collection was assembled by life-long fan Gordon “Gordie” Silver, who bought his first Hank Snow album in 1955 at the age of 10 and continued collecting until 2018.

Gordie’s collection also includes Hank Snow’s E-Z Method for Spanish Guitar complete with instruction booklet; a booklet listing all of Snow’s recordings with Bluebird and with RCA Victor Records up to 1968; a 1984 yearbook from the Hank Snow International Fan Club and a published songbook “Hank’s Favourite Songs” (cover is missing).

Gordon Silver
Jean Doris LeBlanc
MG 1 volume 2711 · Fonds · 1985

Consists of a typescript of the Genealogy of the Poirier family in Chéticamp - Volume 1: the Andre line by Jean Doris Le Blanc. The Poirier family of Cheticamp in this fonds descends from Jean Poirier (born ca. 1626 - died ca. 1654) who was married to Jeanne Chabrat of La Chausee in the Poitou region of France. Jean Poirier was part of the group from France hired to work on the fishing establishments of Nicolas Denys in Cape Breton. They had two children: Marie-Francoise (born ca. 1648) who married Roger Caissie and Michel (born ca. 1650) who married Marie Boudrot. The focus of this family history is on the descendants of Michel and Marie (Boudrot) Poirier.

Jean Doris LeBlanc, 1938-
1986-47 · Fonds · 1984-1985

Produced in the early stages on the Native Council of Nova Scotia's Mi'kmaq Language Program, an initiative launched in 1983, "for the purpose of preserving, protecting and encouraging the use of the Mi'kmaq Language among both the Mi'kmaq and non-Mi'kmaq people of Eastern Canada". The cassettes and the accompanying workbook were the first of a series of Mi'kmaq as a Second Language Learning Materials. The Program maintains an extensive library of Mi'kmaq language learning materials. Also, under its auspices customized Mi'kmaq Language teaching methodologies have been developed, and Mi'kmaq Translation Services and a school language familiarization plan have been established. Audio recordings, then, provides an interesting insight into the early work of what has since become a significant institution in Nova Scotia's Mi'kmaw culture.

Native Council of Nova Scotia, 1975-
School Records
RG 14 · Collection · 1789-1985

Consists of warrants for payments to trustees, general correspondence about schools in the county, statistical returns and reports, petitions, grants, abstracts, some minutes of the school boards, teacher contracts, attendance records, financial account books, home and school association minutes, Halifax Commercial College finances (1887-1892), and in the 1820's and 1830's there are some general returns giving the names and ages of pupils and names of parents or guardians, and lists of schools in the county. Also includes Annual School Directories of NS (1952-1954) and material on school boundaries.

Halifax Shipyards Limited
1990-215 · Fonds · 1918-1984

Consists of annual reports, 1954-1976, originated from the parent company (e.g. Dosco or Hawker Siddeley Canada Ltd.), but are incomplete. Each includes a separate report on subsidiaries, including the Halifax Shipyards. The board of directors' files contain minutes, correspondence and similar material, while the management committee files include minutes, organizational charts and policy manuals. The contracts and agreements consist both of contract books (which have daily entries of ships built and repaired) and contract documents, which concern major construction projects such as steel fishing trawlers, SEDCO oil rigs, and the Panamax floating dry dock. The financial statements were known by various titles from 1918-1970, such as "consolidated balance sheets and profit and loss accounts", "president's reports", and "financial reports". The reports and studies were those undertaken internally by the shipyard or commissioned by them to review ship-building operations, plan for performance improvement, assess prospects for the company and similar topics. Also includes projects case files, 1943-1985 which concern events, projects and products of the shipyards, and include transactions with parent companies such as DOSCO and Hawker Siddeley, government departments, private organizations, and prominent individuals. Subjects include significant construction projects such as fishing trawlers, SEDCO oil rigs, and floating dry docks, and events such as modernization and reconstruction programs and public relations and promotional campaigns. Technical drawings are a representative sample of ships' plans and drawings considered significant to the yard's production and operations. They represent vessel production and major projects built at the yard including freighters, icebreakers, Argentinian transports built in 1950, ferries, steel trawlers, tugs, and oil rigs. There are also samples of ships repaired and refitted, products other than ships manufactured and built, and plans of the physical layout of the yard (buildings, machinery and equipment). Photographs were commissioned by the shipyard to document major construction and repair projects, actitvities of yard workers and prominent officials, and related subjects. A scrapbook consists of one volume of clippings from mainly Halifax newspapers, depicting activities of the shipyard and other contemporary events in the shipping and marine industries.

Halifax Shipyards Limited
MG 20 volume 1621-1623 · Fonds · 1958-1984

Consist of constitution and by-laws; correspondence; financial statements; membership lists; minutes of meetings (executive council, committees, etc.); press releases; reports. Also, records of related organizations such as the Atlantic Provinces Chamber of Commerce, Halifax Board of Trade, Burnside Industrial Park Committee, Shubenacadie Canal Commission, etc. Arranged by series or subject and filed chronologically.

Dartmouth Chamber of Commerce
RG 44 volume 158 · Fonds · 1982-1984

Consists of submissions received (1984); meeting minutes (1983-1984); correspondence and briefing notes of the Department of Culture, Recreation and Fitness along with terms of reference and the Memo to the Policy Board (1982-1983); press releases (1984); and draft recommendations (1984).

Nova Scotia. Ministers Task Force on the Film and Video Industry
RG 44 volume 185 · Fonds · 1982-1984

Consists of briefs with their cover letters (1982-1984); copy of the newspaper public notice of hearings (1983?); and lists of submitters appearing at hearings (1983-1984). Briefs are from unions, companies, boards of trade, health organizations, and labour councils. They are arranged in alphabetical order by name of submitter.

Nova Scotia. Department of Labour and Manpower. Minister's Committee on Occupational Health and Safety
1992-121 · Fonds · 1981-1983

Consists of materials relating to the public hearings of the Commission, transcripts of oral presentations made to the Commission as well as written briefs submitted to it, background reports prepared for the Commission, and copies of the interim and final reports of the Nova Scotia Royal Commission on Pensions.

Nova Scotia Royal Commission on Pensions
MG 20 volume 624 · Fonds · 1864-1983

Consists of minutes of annual meetings, minutes of general meetings, amendments, memorandums, admissions and annual reports. As well as, accounts, preliminary law examination, regulations, resolutions, correspondence, notes, receipts, invoices and letters.

Nova Scotia Barristers' Society
Rear Admiral Hugh F. Pullen
MG 1 volumes 2526-2590 · Fonds · 1920-1983

Consists of correspondence, notes, manuscripts, essays, addresses, imprints, newspaper clippings, catalogues, books, periodicals and other published material, ephemera, photographs (prints, negatives, slides), and photocopies and transcripts of admiralty papers from the Public Record Office in England. Records document Pullen's interests in naval, military, and maritime history, several community organizations, William Hall, VC, the Pullen family, as well as his navy career and personal life. A smaller portion of the records were created in the course of Pullen's research for his publications Shannon and the Chesapeake, The Pullen Expedition and The Sea Road to Halifax. Other subjects represented include the Royal Canadian Navy, defence policy, Captain James Cook, Lord Colville, Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron, and the Anglican Church.

Includes unpublished typed manuscript, including photographs, on lighthouses of Nova Scotia (1983); full orchestra music score and sound recording of "Commodore Pullen March" composed by Petty Officer V. Miloslavich of Halifax, Nova Scotia in early 1950s recorded in 1978 by Kenneth Irons of Ottawa, Ontario.

Pullen, Hugh F.
Fonds · 1974 - 1983

Consists of correspondence (1975-1982), meeting minutes (1976-1981), constitution and aims & objectives (1976-1982), reports from president and committees (1976-1979), membership lists (1976-1981), association newsletter “Outdoors” (1979-1981), project files such as the Cape Breton Earthcare Project (1974-1979), financial statements (1976-1981), newspaper clippings (1970s), and correspondence and research on environmental legislation (1978-1981).

Also includes brochures on how to hike and cross-country ski (1970s), a report on Pictou County Coastal Zone Inventory (1970s) and an audio recording of the Association’s public service message on protecting nature used in their Wise Use Campaign during 1979 Nova Scotia Environment Awareness Week.

Association of Outdoor Nova Scotians
Frederic J. Melanson
MG 1 volumes 3301-3302 · Fonds · 1960-1983

Consists of records documenting Melanson's genealogical research of Digby and Halifax counties, Nova Scotia. Includes extracts from Roman Catholic church registers and census, and research notes on the Sigogne family and other families of Chezzetcook, Dartmouth, Weymouth, Plympton and other parts of Digby County.

Melanson, F.J., 1911-1990
Christina Simmons
1982-025 · Collection · 1982-1983

Consists of 9 audio reels containing approximately 14 hours of oral history interviews with 9 different informants recorded between May 1982 and June 1983. Interviewees discuss their relationships with the Jost Mission and the Salvation Army (Halifax); as well as what role these institutions played with regard to the women who both distributed and received the social benefits/services. This study focuses on "class relations and motherhood in the context of social welfare".