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Collection · 1918-2000; predominantly 1980-2000
Collection consists of photographs taken or collected by Graham Lavers. Most images were taken by Lavers as a professional photographer hired by Halifax and Halifax County organizations to document their events for publicity products. Included are images taken for the City of Halifax Recreation Department, the Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission, St. Patrick's High School Athletics, Halifax County Recreation, Halifax City Music program, the Halifax County Industrial Commission and other sports organizations. Special events documented include the 1995 G-7 Halifax Summit, the Halifax 1999 conference, held in 1991, the 2000 Tall Ships Festival, the 500th million driver to cross the MacDonald Bridge, and the opening of various projects like the Aerotech Business Park supported by the Halifax County Industrial Commission. There are also photographs Lavers used to teach photography at community college. Images were chosen which show Halifax landmarks such as: Halifax waterfront, ferry terminal, Spring Garden Road Memorial Library and park with food trucks, the Grand Parade, Cenotaph, St. Paul's Church; Dingle Memorial Tower, Horseshoe Island, Sir Sandford Fleming Park, Point Pleasant Park, Hemlock Ravine and its heart-shaped pond, the Public Gardens, Halifax Common recreation facilities. The collection also includes material from George Lavers' management of the 1948 Port of Halifax Marine and Industrial Exhibition; the 1939 Royal Visit; and from Elizabeth Lavers' teaching career at Southdale School in Dartmouth. CR40
Collection · [194?-196?]
Collection consists of photographs of various views of the site at the corners of Barrington, Argyle and Sackville Streets in downtown Halifax prior to Canada Permanent constructing its new building at 428 Barrington Street. There is also an artist's rendition of the new building. Buildings shown are New Service Restaurant, Garrick Theatre, Zellers, Carleton Hotel, Rosedale Nurseries, Diana Cigar Store, American Sweet Shop, The Herald, D'Allairds Loans, Tailor Made Eating. Photographs also show trolley buses, and billboard advertisements. CR2
Collection · 1954-2006
Collection consists of a scrapbook documenting Mrs. Fergus A. (Barb) Fergusson's participation in the Junior League of Halifax club. This item contains annual reports, committee reports, project proposals, membership and committee lists, newspaper clippings, programs of events and meetings, and some correspondence. CR49
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
Collection · 1969
Collection consists of souvenirs from the Halifax - Dartmouth Canada Summer Games in 1969; including 2 publicity pamphlets with a map of all the venues in Halifax-Dartmouth, "Alone", a publication in honour of the athletes, with Sherman Hines photography, 2 souvenir programs, an Official Record publication listing all medal winners and organizational executives, social events and a summary of the Games, a letter to Mr. Gosley -as an official to the Games, "Look Out World" audio-recording of the Canada Games song by Dolores Claman and Richard Morris, 4 small flags with stands, 1 sheet of 6-cent postage stamps,2 tickets to the Track and Field events on Beazley Field, 3 delegate ribbons, 3 stickers, 10 pins and 3 pens. CR55
Collection · [194?]
Collection consists of photographs of Halifax trams (also called Birneys or streetcars) of the Nova Scotia Light and Power Co. who operated Halifax's transit system. Images show operators, car barns, passengers, street-scapes and billboards. Streetcars include numbers 5, 6, 7, 76, 100, 101, 109, 110, 117, 119, 129, 130, 134 (running the #5 Forum line), 135 (Oxford and Armdale lines at the Oxford Theatre stop), 138, 140, 141, 142, 148, 152, 158 (Buckingham St. line), 159, 160 (Agricola - South Park line), 161 and 162 at the No. 2 car barn, 173, 175 at the Nova Scotian Hotel, 176 with Operator changing poles at the end of the lne. CR60
Collection · 1930-1950
Collection consists of photographs collected by the family of Philip Alberstat. Includes 12 images of the exterior of West House, on Brunswick St, Halifax,when the Goldberg family lived there, 1926-1956 that are snapshots of grandchildren Philip and Lionel Alberstat and daughter Berta who later took over the house from her father. Also includes 13 published class photo-cards from Quinpool Road School, 1937-1943; three class photos from Le Marchant School, 194? and 1946-1947 and Alexandra School, 1936. Two of the LeMarchant St. class photos are of the graduating grade 9 class and have the graduates identified. As well there are 3 images of the construction of the Macdonald Bridge in 1950, one shows a gap in the deck; another shows no deck; another shows a single car crossing. There is also an photograph of a group photograhpof Jewish War Veterans of Atlantic Canada, Halifax Chapter. CR57
Collection · 1949
Collection consists of a scrapbook album compiled by Pamela Collins (nee Ventham) documenting performances of the operetta In Halifax Town , which commemorated Halifax's founding in 1749 for the city's bicentennial in the summer of 1949. Materials originally collected into a photograph album by Collins include programmes, press clippings, photographs (images of cast, rehearsals, and family outings) and ephemera relating to her participation in the operetta and a Thanksgiving Service during the bicentenary celebration. The operetta, presented by the Canadian Legion District Council, was staged in the 'Theatre Under the Stars' on Citadel Hill, with a cast including Haligonian actor Peter Donkin. CR59
Collection · 1917-1985
Collection consists of contents that were chosen by the Halifax Explosion Memorial Bells Committee and enclosed in a time capsule that was placed in the Halifax Explosion Memorial on Fort Needham hill on December 6, 1985, the first Explosion anniversary ceremony held at the Memorial. CR58
Collection · 1942-1984
Collection consists of a photo album of images of Halifax landmarks taken in 1984, as well as comparative panoramic views taken from Citadel Hill in 1948, 1968 and 1978. Landmarks include the Town Clock, Memorial Tower (Dingle), Public Gardens bandstand, fountains and bridges, Halifax Waterfront, Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Barrington Street, Barrington Place, Cogswell Interchange, St. Matthew's Church, World Trade and Convention Centre, bank towers, Chateau Halifax, Scotia Square, Metro Centre, Robie St. and Windsor St. exchange, and Armdale Yacht Club. Album also contains 11 black and white oblique Royal Canadian Air Force aerial images of military sites during World War Two. Images show Halifax Harbour, Halifax Citadel, Bedford Basin with military convoys, Fort Ogilvie in Point Pleasant Park, Devil's Battery at Hartlen Point, Fort McNutt in the Shelburne Harbour, [Osborne Head] and [Duncan's Cove - Chebucto Head], and other military fortifications along a coastline, either in Nova Scotia or England. Some show batteries under construction. Many are marked "Secret" on back. CR63