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Fonds · 1991-2004
Fonds consists of correspondence and project files for the creation and maintenance of the World Peace Pavilion on the Dartmouth waterfront. Records were created by the Metro Youth for Global Unity and the Baha'I World Peace Pavilion Stewardship Committee. Files are arranged predominently by country, and consist primarily of donation requests and related correspondence regarding the collection of bricks and rocks from numerous contries to be included in the pavilion. Also included are photographs of the donations,pamphlets and news clippings discussing the pavilion, the catalogue of donations, and a Memorandum of Understanding between the Halifax Regional Municipality and the The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Halifax. There is a sound recording of a 1998 tour of the Pavilion in which initiator Rachel Farahbakhsh explains the project and tells the story of each donation. CR12
CUPE Local 143 fonds
Fonds · 1967-1977
Fonds consists of records created or maintained by the Halifax Civic Employees Local Union, Number 143, of the Canadian Union of Public Employees. The fonds contains reports and correspondence with members, other union officials, city officials, and outside organizations. Most of the documents relate to union policy, the collective agreement, overtime, or the retirement/resignation of members. CR4 (formerly known as RG 35-102-10F)
Michael Zatzman fonds
Fonds · 1988-1990
Fonds consists of records which reflect Michael Zatzman's role in the 1989-1990 construction of Alderney Gate, a civic centre complex in downtown Dartmouth. The fonds consists of building permits, development or building proposals, photographs, correspondence, and records from the commissioning of a sculpture for the building. CR1
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
Fonds · 1977-1981
Fonds consists of a variety of items created and accumulated by the Ward One Residents Association. Records in the fonds include meeting minutes, correspondence, reports/briefs, newspaper clippings, and notices. Records relate to the association's participation in community planning. CR8
Fonds · 1975-1979
Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by the Old South End Community Association. Records include meeting minutes, memos, correspondence, reports/briefs, publications, and membership information. Records document the association's participation in community and development planning in Halifax's south end. CR7
Henry S. Colwell fonds
Fonds · 1890 - 1948
Fonds consists of Alderman Colwell's constituency correspondence, reports from the Committee on City Prison and the Charities Committee's oversight of the City Home, as well as records from Halifax's response to the Halifax Explosion. Committee-related records include: property assessments; an annual report from the City Prison for the 1916-1917 fiscal year; a list of committees and committee members for the 1924-1925 fiscal year, and copies of some city council minutes for 1923-1925. There is also a file regarding the proposed City Home extension which details overcrowding issues on the insane ward, and the request to house elderly couples together. There is a 1924 report on the condition of City Home, focusing on air-quality and overcrowding problems. There is also correspondence regarding a sketch plan of the proposed extension to City Home (the plan itself is not included in the file). A 1925 auditor's evaulation is also included.There is a file on Colwell's mayoral running in 1925, which includes various petitions in support of Colwell's run for Mayor, newspaper clippings, and correspondence regarding Colwell's ill-health and subsequent removal from mayoral candidacy.Records about the Halifax Explosion include City Council meeting minutes from December 6, 1917 to January 10, 1918 which detail the City's response to the disaster.The fonds contains newspaper clippings from the 1917 Halifax Explosion, the 1945 VE Day riots in Halifax; from a 1934 Halifax Herald - Halifax Mail special publication, "Builders of Greater Halifax and Dartmouth"; The Morning Chronicle's "Coronation Number" feautre on the cornonation of King Edward VII; and from Colwell's death.There are four photograph portraits of Colwell. The files of correspondence document the full gamut of aldermanic responsibilities including municipal election campaign material, the 1916 agreement between the City and the Halifax Power Company, the 1918 Tramway Strike, the decision to impose black-outs during WWI, the 1918 mass resignation of aldermen, taxation on billboards, wartime preparation, notes by Colwell for speeches and meeting preparation, speeches to welcome back servicemen from WWI, funeral notices including that of Sir Charles Tupper which includes the 1915 funeral procession list. CR13
Series · 1988-2000
Part of City of Halifax fonds
Series consists of publications, reports, minutes, photographs and video recordings created or received by the City of Halifax through its twinning with the City of Hakodate, Japan, and through its involvement with the Star-Shaped Citadel Cities international organization. 102-56
Series · 1979-1996
Part of Town of Bedford fonds
Series consists of records pertaining to all aspects of local governance, and include minutes of the proceedings of all meetings of Town Council, whether Regular, Special, Emergency or Committee of the Whole meetings; by-laws passed by Council; and photographs of council members, events or facilities. Records of the activities of Council were taken and kept as required by the Towns Act from incorporation in 1979 until Bedford was amalgamated into the Halifax Regional Municipality in 1996. 103-1
Series · 1841-1996
Part of City of Halifax fonds
Series consists of minutes of the proceedings of all meetings of the City Council - whether regular, special or Committee of the Whole Council meetings - as well as the ordinances, by-laws and resolutions passed by Council. Records of the activities of Council were taken and kept as required by the City Charter from the time of incorporation in 1841 until amalgamation in 1996. The records pertain to all aspects of local governance. 102-1