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Charles Fulton collection
Collection · [189-?]-[193-?]
Collection consists of items relating to Charles Fulton's personal life, service as a police officer, and death. The majority of the records relate to his funeral. The collection consists of series: Police service records (contains photographs of Fulton's grave and of other officers, newspaper clippings related to Fulton's death, and letters to his widow from the police service) and Family records (contains letters to the widow, scrapbooks, and family photographs). CR3
Nola Stoddart WWII collection
Collection · 1940-1967
Collection consists of images and ephemera donated by Nola Stoddart from her family's collection of second-world war era mementoes. Includes 1940-1941 dated photographs of Orpheus Theatre window displays for George Formby's "Keep Your Seats Please", Point Pleasant Park gates, Sailors Memorial and Martello Tower in Point Pleasant Park, war-time parades passing Kay's department store, Public Gardens fountains, All Saints Cathedral,Dalhousie University campus and the University of King's College Main building, Dingle Memorial Tower, and other unidentified local scenes. The unidentified ships in the harbor in .18 and .19 are "four-stack" destroyers, likely transferred from the USA to Canada in 1940 as part of the Destroyers for Bases deal between the USA and the UK. Postcards from the 1960s depict Dalhousie and St. Mary's universities, Sailors Memorial at Citadel Hill, the MacDonald Bridge, Grace United Church in Dartmouth, St. Paul's Church in Halifax, the Halifax Memorial Library, and two postcards from 1940s showing the Old Town Clock and an aerial view of Citadel Hill. Textual records include programs from the 1944 Remembrance Day Ceremony at the Halifax War Memorial; the May 21, 1944 Empire Youth Sunday held at the United Services Forum; the July 2, 1967 Service of Worship and Thanksgiving for Canada's Centennial, held at Dartmouth Park. Also included are a 1937 invoice from the Oxford Dairy, and a mimeograph of a poem of unknown origins about the VE Day Riots in May 1945 titled "The Battle of Halifax." CR56
Capitol Theatre collection
Collection · 1930-2010
Collection consists of records from the former Capitol Theatre, Barrington St. Halifax including 1938 photo of staff from all Halifax Famous Players Theatres, 1943 photograph of Capitol Theatre staff collecting Victory Bonds, souvenir programmes from 1930, 1937, original programme of Gone With the Wind, Service Manual for Famous Players employees, correspondence re. external sign for Capitol Building, newspaper articles about the theatre and about Cynthia A. Henry, author of Remembering The Halifax Capitol Theatre. CR33
Centennial Collection sketches
Collection · 1967, 1971
Collection consists of nine framed sketches of Halifax historic landmarks, done by Nancy Stevens from historic photographs as a Centennial Collection. The Centennial Collection was commissioned by Seaman Cross Ltd. and mass-produced to celebrate Canada's Centennial. Seaman Cross was an office furniture supply company owned by Bill Kitchen, a close family friend of Stevens. This set was given to Hedley G. Ivany to acknowledge his service as City of Halifax Ward 2 Alderman, 1966-1971. Collection also includes a 1971 cartoon by Chronicle Herald cartoonist Bob Chambers (CR 41.10). Available as Fine Art Loan; consult the Archives for details. CR41
Collection · 1959-2005
Collection consists of photographs and post-cards of Nova Scotia Light and Power electric trams, Trailways charter buses and Dartmouth Transit and Halifax Transit buses; transit maps, tickets and transfers. Photos show trams in downtown Halifax in 1959 and 1968; Trailways Starliner buses at the Commission St. garage, 1978; Dartmouth Transit buses at the Dartmouth Mall loop, as well as a bus-stop sign, 1978; and buses at the Halifax Transit garage on Young St., and at Mumford terminal with Simpson's in background, 1978. Post cards show the last Birney trolley car in Halifax, 1948; the first articulated bus built in Canada used on the Metro Transit #20 Glen Forest run, 1992; NSLP trolley coach outside the CNR railway station in 1967, and a trolley car on Barrington St. at Grand Parade, ca. 1910. There are explanations on the backs of some of the post-cards.Bus Route maps are from Dartmouth Transit, which includes the ferry schedule (197?),and Halifax Transit (1971 and 1978). Tickets are from Nova Scotia Light and Power, Halifax Transit and the Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission; transfers are from Dartmouth Transit, Halifax Transit and Metro Transit. Also includes the article Halifax Electric Tramway Centennial by Robert D. Tennant - published in Upper Canada Railway Society Rail and Transit, January 1996. CR42
Collection · 1752-1784
Collection consists of Collection consists of original deeds and sale agreements to properties in Halifax, NS, primarily involving Joshua Mauger. There is also a large wax seal that may have been attached to one of the documents. See item-level descriptions for details. CR11
Collection · [1870] - 1980
Collection consists of individual, unrelated graphic images (photographs, slides, negatives) that depict places or people or events within the Halifax Region. CR6
Queen Elizabeth High School collection
Collection · 1943-2007
Collection consists of ephemera collected at the close of QEHS, including a photo of the first graduating class, with students and teachers names labelled; 2 school pins; the programme of the 1951 Opening of the Auditorium and Gymnasium, as well as the programme for the first opera, Erminie, in the new auditorium, newspaper clippings scrapbooks of school activities created by the Student Council, covering the years: 1950-1952, 1958-1959, 1967-1968; student directories, 1946-1972 (missing 1957); the guest-book from the 50th Anniversary reunion in 1993; a poster for the 2007 final school musical "Titanic"; and 2 1996 publications: "QEHS Profile" and "QEHS Improvement Plan". CR15
Collection · 1998
Collection consists of raw interview tapes of CBC radio producer, Ian Porter, interviewing Lou Collins about his life, his experiences in Halifax, his writings, his fight to preserve Historic Properties and his influences. The interviews took place over 5 days in January 1998, when Collins was in poor health. Porter used the interviews for a May 1998 Maritime Magazine piece called "Lou Collins' Halifax". CR36