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Scotian Railroad Society
RG 28 S · Fonds · 1849-1983

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.

Scotian Railroad Society, 1968-1983
Atlantic Jewish Council
MG 20 volume 646 · Fonds · 1975-1983

Fonds consists of a constitution, accountant's comments and financial statements, papers of the Shaar Shalom Synagogue, newsletters and programmes.

Atlantic Jewish Council
Gordon K. Smith
1988-502 · Fonds · 1890-1983

Consists of correspondence, call books, diaries, journals, and financial records, as well as medical reports and certificates. Correspondents include: J.L. Ilsley, G.T. Purdy, A.S. MacMillan, Angus L. Macdonald and Dr. Smith's sister, Millicent Smith. There are also photographs that document members of the Smith family of Windsor, Nova Scotia. The contents contain records relating to Dr. Smith's medical practice and his activities both as medical officer and Mayor of Hantsport, Nova Scotia.

Smith, Gordon K., 1896-1986
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
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.

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
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
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
MG 20 volumes 3091-3094; 1989-008 · Fonds · 1981-1987

Document files accumulated by the immediate president of the A.W.P.A. from the records of various officers. The arrangement is by fiscal year, and by categories within each fiscal year (e.g. President, Annual General Meeting, etc.). The contents of each file are in chronological order, with the most recent item on top.

Atlantic Word Processing Association
Halifax Curling Club
MG 20 volumes 3171-3187 · Fonds · 1852-1987

Consists of a bound volumes of issues of The Curler, 1931-1984; a bound volumes of annual closing charity bonspiel booklets, 1939-1985; minute books, 1900-1984; scrapbooks, 1911-1981 as well as books, magazines and pamphlets, 1890-1987 and miscellaneous records, 1852-1984.

Halifax Curling Club
RG 44 volumes 211-212 · Fonds · 1982-1987

Consists of the secretary’s files containing Select Committee meeting minutes and a few Steering Committee minutes (Nov 1985-Feb 1987); newspaper clippings about tourism (July 1985-May 1987); draft interim and final reports (Apr 1986-Feb 1987); a few briefs submitted and informal research reports (1983-1986), and recommendations from the earlier Select Committee on Tourism chaired by Brian Young (1982-1984). Also includes notices of meetings and cancelations (June 1985-Jan 1987), meeting attendance lists (June 1985-Mar 1987), Select Committee mailing lists (1982-1986), and Members of the Legislature lists (1985-1986).

Nova Scotia. House of Assembly’s Select Committee on Tourism
Charles H. Clark
Fb2812-Fb2846 · Fonds · 1980-1987

Consists of moving images, sound recordings, and textual records relating to Charles H. Clark's work on his short, experimental film 8 Frames per Second, which he produced in association with the Atlantic Filmmaker's Cooperative. Includes the video master of 8 Frames and a 16mm print. Fonds also includes most of the 16mm printing elements used in the making of the film, including original trims, A&B optical reversal tracks for the film's dialogue, reversal film, internegatives, credit outtakes, and A&B reversals. Since 8 Frames per Second is based largely on Clark's dialogue with his neighbours, extensive sound recordings were made by Clark during the six years of the film's production. These recordings include his neighbours' conversations and extensive recordings of a variety of "wild sound" used to evoke the atmosphere of the neighbourhood in which Clark lived.

Charles H. Clark
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