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Series · 1963-1979
Part of Nova Scotia Department of Supply and Services

Series forms part of Department of Supply and Services fonds and consists of records relating to the construction and renovation of government buildings. Series includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, calls for tenders, surveys, specifications, plans, photographs, handbooks, guides, booklets, pamphlets, and notices and minutes of various departmental meetings. Series is arranged by subject matter.

the commission's report. The first volume consists of the summary and recommendations, the second volume covers municipal government and the Province and consists of chapters 1-35 in five separate bindings, the third volume covers education and includes chapters 36-65 in three separate bindings and the fourth volume consists of the appendices. Also includes copies of a separate table of contents of all chapters of the report.

Minutes
Series · April 1971-March 1974
Part of Royal Commissions (RG 44 ) Record Group
  • the minutes of commission meetings and hearings. Series consists of Sub-series - Minutes of the commission
  • Sub-series - Minutes of public hearings
  • Sub-series - Minutes of private hearings
Executive correspondence
Series · 1971-1974
Part of Royal Commissions (RG 44 ) Record Group

Series forms part of Royal Commission on Education, Public Services and Provincial-Municipal Relations fonds and consists of correspondence with the Government. Includes files of correspondence with Premier Gerald Regan, Finance Minister Peter Nicholson, Attorney General and Labour Minister Leonard Pace, Municipal Affairs Minister Fraser Mooney, Education and Public Welfare Minister Allan Sullivan and Health Minister Scott MacNutt, as well as with other ministers and deputy ministers.

Series · 1971-1974
Part of Royal Commissions (RG 44 ) Record Group

Series forms part of Royal Commission on Education, Public Services and Provincial-Municipal Relations fonds and consists of the chair's manuscript notebooks and other material. The notebooks include a set of four kept during the public hearings and an additional set of seven (of which no. 4 is missing) covering the period from the commission's beginnings in March 1971 to December 1973. The notebooks include the chair's general notes and notes on meetings. Series also includes further notes and notebooks of the chair, undesignated but descriptive of the direction of the commission, as well as an annotated copy of J. Murray Beck's study of municipal government in Nova Scotia. Also includes a group of folders with notes referring to many of the public hearings; a photograph of the three commissioners at work; records documenting the mandate, terms of reference, procedural rules and guidelines; prepared biographies of the commissioners; summation of written and distributed commission material; commission hearing notice and press release; notes on a statement to be delivered by Premier Gerald Regan upon tabling of the report and the proposed timetable for report implementation.

Proceedings books
Subseries · 1884-1963
Part of Supreme Court of Nova Scotia fonds

books in which court proceedings were recorded. In general, for each case the proceedings note the parties, their counsel, the witnesses called by each party, whether they were cross-examined, and the disposition of the case. Though some prothonotaries had earlier kept notes on court activity, the proceedings books became mandatory in 1884 when legislation first addressed the records to be kept by local prothonotaries. Although not typical, the Annapolis County proceedings books record jury lists, County Court proceedings, County chambers proceedings and proceedings of the County Court Judge's Criminal Court, proceedings of the Supreme Court, and, during the 1950s and 1960s, divorce proceedings.

Docket books
Subseries · Microfilmed in 1975
Part of Supreme Court of Nova Scotia fonds

Subseries forms part of Shelburne County circuit records series and consists of docket books that provide a schedule or calendar of actions or matters for hearing or trial. Books provide case file number, action and proceedings taken, and attending lawyers. Books include nominal index by name of plaintiff and defendant. Series is arranged chronologically.

Subseries · 1808-1906
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Subseries forms part of Government at Halifax series and consists of letter books containing office copies of dispatches from the lieutenant governors of Nova Scotia to the secretary of state (Great Britain) and, after Confederation, to the governor general or secretary of state (Canada).

Subseries · 1752-1791
Part of Commissioner of Public Records

Subseries forms part of Government at Halifax series and consists of entry-books containing dispatches and letters relating to the Acadian French inhabitants; correspondence with governors of other provinces and the French governors at Louisbourg; letters to Sir Jeffrey Amherst, commander-in-chief of the British Army in North America, and to the governors of neighbouring provinces, relating to the Seven Years' War in North America; and letters from Governor Parr and Secretary Bulkeley to officials within the province and elsewhere.

Minutes of the commission
Subseries · 8 April 1971-7 March 1974
Part of Royal Commissions (RG 44 ) Record Group

Subseries forms part of Minutes series and consists of the minutes of the meetings of the commission proper. They constitute a complete sequence in three numbered binders and are numbered 1 through 95, corresponding to the dates of their creation: 8 April 1971 (no. 1) to 7 March 1974 (no. 95).

Minutes of public hearings
Subseries · 20 September 1971-3 May 1972
Part of Royal Commissions (RG 44 ) Record Group

Subseries forms part of Minutes series and consists of the minutes of the 39 public hearings the commission held throughout Nova Scotia. They constitute a complete sequence in two numbered binders and are numbered 1 through 39, corresponding to the dates of their creation: 20 September 1971 (no. 1) to 3 May 1972 (no. 39).

Minutes of private hearings
Subseries · 16 July 1971-14 June 1973
Part of Royal Commissions (RG 44 ) Record Group

Subseries forms part of Minutes series and consists of the minutes of the 142 private hearings held by the commission. They constitute a complete sequence in two numbered binders and are numbered 1 through 142, corresponding to the dates of their creation: 16 July 1971 (no. 1) to 14 June 1973 (no. 142).

Subseries · 1971-1972
Part of Royal Commissions (RG 44 ) Record Group

Subseries forms part of Briefs and submissions series and consists of the nearly 500 written public briefs and submissions to the commission, in the following categories: province-wide organizations, home and school associations, individuals, organizations, Nova Scotia Teacher's Union locals, school boards, and towns and municipalities. Also includes transcripts of the secondary oral briefs presented by the Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities and the Association of Municipal Administrators. Includes briefs not accounted for in the indices and item list.

Subseries · 1971-1972
Part of Royal Commissions (RG 44 ) Record Group

Subseries forms part of Briefs and submissions series and consists of the nearly 70 private briefs and submissions received by the commission. Subseries is arranged alphabetically by subject. Also includes an associated brief summary of many of the private meetings, 1971-1972.