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Halifax Regional Municipality fonds
Fonds · -1995
Fonds consists of records of the Halifax Regional Municipality. See series descriptions for specific details. 400
Halifax Nocturne: A Novel
Pièce · 2019
Item consists of a noir novel written by Steven Laffoley, set in Halifax in 1954, just before the opening of the MacDonald Bridge. 813.3081.L3 2019
Canada. Halifax Harbour Commissioners fonds
Fonds · 1928-1945
Fonds consists of records created and/or accumulated and used by the Halifax Harbour Commissioners as well as some records maintained by the City of Halifax pertaining to the Halifax Harbour Commission. The fonds includes agreements, briefs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, meeting minutes, maps, and drawings. Records primarily pertain to efforts in the late 1920s and early 1930s to have a bridge built between Dartmouth and Halifax. Other records pertain to disagreements between the city and the commissioners. CA 1 (formerly RG 35-102-47)
Halifax Steam Boat Company records
Fonds · 1822-1886
Fonds consists of the records of the Halifax Steam Boat Company, including meeting minutes, reports, resolutions, financial records, correspondence and labour books. CR-21
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
Joshua Mauger land deeds and sale agreements
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
Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'I World Peace Pavilion Stewardship Committee records
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
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