Fonds consists of: Series - Case files, Series - Judgment books, Series - Jury lists and venires, Series - Jury books, Series - Process books, Series - Writs of mesne process registers, Series - Foreclosure sales of property and goods books, Series - Executions and attachments registers, Series - Judges' notes and other material, Series - Docket books, Series - Index books, Series - Minute books, Series - Proceedings books, Series - Chambers books, Series - Chambers summons book, Series - Lawyers' court costs record books, Series - Fees charged and received registers, Series - Registers, Series - Warrants of attorney register, Series - Equity chambers books, Series - Court of Commissioners Summary Trial writs of execution, Series - Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes case files, Series - Divorce cause books

• Fonds consists of: Series - Executive case and subject files, Series - Deputy minister's office case and subject files, Series - Industrial Benefits Office case files, Series - Community Economic Development Branch Mainstreet Program photographs, Series - Economic Analysis Branch case and subject files, Series - Departmental case and subject files, Series - Sydney Steel Corporation records, Series - Voluntary Planning Board minutes and other material, Series - Industrial Estates Limited administrative files
• Series - Michael V. Knight's correspondence and other material, Series - Trade and industry project files, Series - Ministers' correspondence and other material, Series - Minister's copies of Industrial Estates Limited minute books, Series - Waterfront Development Corporation records, Series - Nova Scotia Resources Limited minutes and other material, Series - Job creation correspondence, Series - Technical and administrative services program records, Series - Halifax-Dartmouth Regional Development Plan Review records, Series - Industrial Loan Board minute book, Series - Industrial Benefits Office conference records, Series - Subsidiary agreements with the federal government, Series - Projects Division correspondence and other material, Series - Investment Canada correspondence and other material, Series - Industrial Estates Limited project files and other material

Fonds consists of records created to support the granting of final clearance for the sale of security issues in Nova Scotia. Fonds includes drafts of final versions of prospectuses, registration statements filed with the Registrar of Securities under the Securities Act, correspondence of the commission and issuers relating to deficiencies in documents, documentation from security regulators in other jurisdictions, and clearances from the commission. Records dating from 1989 to 1992 tend to be relating to applications for clearances that were withdrawn prior to the clearance being issued. The remainder of the records date from 1982 to 1985. Only records for companies incorporated in Nova Scotia, those having a substantial presence in Nova Scotia, or those for which the primary regulatory filing was done in Nova Scotia, have been retained.

Fonds 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.

Fonds consists of 4 Series: Official Minutes of Proceedings and other material (1751-1855); Case files (1751-1855); Solicitors' writ register and admission records (1769-1853); and Cape Breton Court of Chancery records (1818-1820).

Collection consists of records relating to quarantine of smallpox cases, financial returns and by-laws of local boards of health, reports of the Committee on Transient Paupers and Committee on the Bridewell, correspondence to and from the provincial secretary, warrants to the provincial treasurer, and returns of overseers of the poor to the provincial secretary. Collection also includes accounts for care of the sick and transient poor, returns of the Commissioners of the Poor to the clerk of the legislature, correspondence to and from local boards of health, petitions for relief to the House of Assembly, and accounts of the central board of health. This collection comprises records of local boards of health, the provincial secretary's office, the provincial treasurer, the House of Assembly, and the Commissioners of the Poor. Collection is arranged by subject.

Collection consists of two ships' log books. The contents of the collection document the voyages of a number of vessels mastered by Capt. Mills and Capt. Robert W. Anderson, including a few voyages to and from Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing details about location (longitude and latitude), winds, course and related remarks.

Collection consists of portions of the Colonial Office records containing information about Nova Scotia through the British colonial period. The collection includes the original correspondence or dispatches (in-letters) of the various colonial governors of Nova Scotia or other senior officials responsible for administering the colonial government, as well as entry books (out-letters) consisting of copies of Colonial Office replies. These are supplemented with various indexes, registers, acts passed by the colonial legislature, Blue Books of Statistics, sessional papers and miscellanea. Collection consists of: Series - Original correspondence, Board of Trade (CO 217)

Collection consists of seventeen political cartoons on provincial, national and international subjects, created by well-known Nova Scotian cartoonist Bob Chambers and collected by Usmiani.

Collection consists of correspondence, business records, lot descriptions, a map of the property and deeds relating to the Prince's Lodge property on the Bedford Basin. The contents of the collection document some of the work of the Prince's Lodge Association including the purchase of the property and its subsequent transfer to the Crown.

Collection consists of 48 photographs documenting a fishing expedition in Halifax County, Nova Scotia, circa 1900. The photographs show H.M. Rosenberg, Principal of the Victoria School of Art and Design in Halifax, Martin Rosenberg, Harry Russell, Frank Russell, Robert Finn and unidentified people camping, fishing, cooking and hunting. Interior and exterior views of log cabins, houses and camping sites are included.

Fonds consists of minutes of board meetings. Included with the minutes are appendices which provide relevant correspondence, reports, and other documents referred to in the minutes and which reflect its relationship with pulpwood producers and pulpwood buyers, including regulations, rules of procedure, directives and orders, registration of organizations as bargaining agents, litigation documents, records of public hearings, and other internal administrative matters.

Fonds consists of Fisheries Minister's correspondence files with the Premier, other provincial and federal ministers, the Fishermen’s Loan Board, department staff and the public as well as planning and budget files (1960-1973); Deputy Minister's correspondence files (1942-1993); the Director of Fisheries Division files when it was part of the Department of Trade and Industry (1943-1964); “Deputy Minister’s Library” containing minutes of the Federal-Provincial Atlantic Fisheries Committee and its Sections (1959-1975); Director of Industrial Development Division files managing projects to improve vessels, gear and harbour facilities as well as negotiating funding agreements with the federal government (1961-1991); Product Development Officers’ files containing scientific research reports and experiments’ results, correspondence, proposals, and photographs (1973-1992); and Funding Programs Case Files from several cost-shared funding programs run by the Department alone or in partnership with the federal government (1972-1998). Fonds also includes meeting minutes, agendas, and loan agreements with the NS Resources Development Board (1980-1986), previously known as the NS Fishermen’s Loan Board.

Some major subjects represented in the records include experimenting with fish waste to make fertilizer (silage) for agricultural use; bringing new products to market such as snails and shark; and improving fish preservation, among other subjects. Some major projects of the Department include building the Fraser Mills hatchery and research centre near Antigonish NS (1987-1990), the Billfish experimental fishery (1995-1996), and the construction of 3 steel-hulled fishing vessels (1977-1979).