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Archival description
Prat, Starr family
Fonds · 1760-1986, predominant 1831-[196-]
Consists of records relating to the Prat and Starr families of Annapolis County and Kings County. Contains family and business correspondence, accounts, deeds and other legal and court records, newspaper clippings, genealogical notes, scrapbooks, poems, pamphlets, photographs, sketchbooks, and watercolours. Photographs primarily depict family members, relatives, friends, and residences and also contains scenes of various Nova Scotia towns. Drawings and watercolours, most of which were painted by Annie L. Prat, depict Nova Scotia flora and fungi. Most of the Prat material was created by sisters Annie L. Prat, Minnie Prat, and May Prat Starr, while the Starr material represents five generations of family members. Other related families and individuals represented in the fonds include the Morse, Moore, Wilcox, and Boehner families, Bliss Carman, Charles G.D. Roberts, Charles Stayner, and Dorothy Cornell. MG 1 volumes 886A, 2625-2632
Fonds · 1894-1987
Consists of minutes of the council's executive, annual, and general meetings, treasurer's account books, financial statements, correspondence, annual and committee reports, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, programmes, booklets, membership lists and record book, attendance registers, essays, historical notes, constitution and by-laws, resolutions, and ephemera. Also contains photographic prints depicting members, conventions and social events, and slides taken at Expo '67. Fonds also includes publications and other material relating to the National Council of Women of Canada and International Council of Women. MG 20 volume 204
Agnes Dennis
Fonds · Microfilmed 1989
Fonds consists of two scrapbooks compiled by Agnes Dennis, containing newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, and invitations relating to her career activities, the Victorian Order of Nurses and Local Council of Women, Halifax. Also contains newspaper clippings concerning her husband, Senator William Dennis and daughter, Dr. Clara Dennis. Scrapbooks predominantly cover the period 1908 to 1947 but include items added years later by family member(s). microfilm 10219
Linda Mason
Fonds · 1977-1995
Consists of photographs of people, scenes, and events in the Annapolis Valley and on the South Shore of Nova Scotia as well as photographs of travels in Europe, North America and South America. Includes negatives of Ross Farm, New Ross; former Lieutenant-Governor Lloyd R. Crouse; author Dr. Thomas Raddall; the Nova Scotia Fisheries Exhibition; The South Shore Exhibition; the Caledonia Exhibition; and Spring Fling. 1996-325
Phyllis R. Blakeley fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1830]-1986, predominant [195-]-1985
Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by Blakeley in the course of her career, including her activities as historian and archivist, her research and publications, and involvement with various professional and special interest organizations. Fonds contains research material such as notes, clippings, photocopies of documents, correspondence, draft chapters of books, and rough drafts of articles and speeches, particularly dealing with Nova Scotia history, including Halifax, the United Empire Loyalists, Samuel Cunard, and biographies for the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Fonds also contains incoming and outgoing correspondence concerning archives business, her publications and personal activities, personal documents, diaries, travel journals, programs, pamphlets and other ephemera, certificates, genealogical notes on the Blakeley family and others, various records relating to Blakeley's involvement with Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia, local history committee of the Canadian Historical Association, as well as records relating to her sister Shirley Blakeley. Photographs are found among the textual records, several of which were used in her publications. Most of the fonds is arranged in alphabetical order, with the exception of Blakeley's correspondence and personal papers which are organized chronologically. MG 1 volumes 3000-3128; 3184
Karen Oxley
Fonds · 1961-1982, predominant 1963-1974
Consists of material relating to Oxley's professional musical career. Includes production, rehearsal, and dubbed audio reel recordings of programs such as Singalong Jubilee, as well as Music Hop - Frank's Bandstand, Let's Go, and an episode of Birt's Bandstand, 1961. Other recordings accumulated by Oxley feature the Hants East Regional High School band, Les Troubadours, The Sable Island Chorale, Anne Murray and others in concert in Charlottetown, J. Chalmers Doane of the Halifax District School Board, transcriptions done for CBC, and interviews with, or about, Karen Oxley. Also contains b&w and colour photographs of Oxley on various sets, singers including John Allan Cameron, Anne Murray with John Lennon and others, the musical group Chicago, and a Christimas party with cast members of Singalong Jubilee. 1994-10
Verna Payne fonds
Fonds · 1924-1968, predominant 1930-1946
Fonds consists of correspondence received by Verna (Long) Payne from family and friends in Nova Scotia, the United States, and abroad. Letters discuss personal and family news and describe the daily routine and activities of women in rural Nova Scotia. Numerous letters from her brothers Elmore and Shane Long as well as close friend T.W. (Tom) Howe describe the reflections and daily life of men training and serving in the Canadian Army at home and overseas during the Second World War. Mostly arranged chronologically. Also contains a few personal documents and certificates. MG 1, vol. 1171
Constance MacFarlane
Fonds · 1875-1999, predominant 1947-1971
Consists of records documenting MacFarlane's career as a scientist, her involvement with various professional and special interest organizations, and her private life. Includes correspondence received by MacFarlane from family, friends and colleagues, 1928-1996 (also undated), arranged alphabetically; diaries and day books, 1940-1989; field note books, 1948-1969; biographical material; correspondence, working papers, project files, articles, reports, conferences, publications, underwater photographs, and research notes on different types of seaweed complied by MacFarlane as director of the Seaweed Division of the Nova Scotia Research Foundation, 1948-1971. Some of the special projects include the Marine Plants Experiment, Mimineagash on Irish Moss, Fink Cove Experiment, Gulf of St. Lawrence Marine Plants Advisory Committee, and the Northumberland Strait Project. Also contains correspondence, reports, minutes, and working papers accumulated in the course of MacFarlane's involvement with the National Council of Women, Local Council of Women of Halifax, Zonta Club, Canadian Federation of University Women, and Dalhousie Alumni Association. Also includes correspondence and biographical material of Evelyn Campbell and various records relating to Henry and Ida MacFarlane, 1875-1948. Family and other photographs may be found among the textual records. 2000-07
Ellen Wainwright
Fonds · 1916-[ca. 1940], predominant 1916-[ca. 1921]
Consists of two photograph albums compiled by Ellen (O'Brien) Wainwright, one containing photographs depicting scenes of Edgehill School for Girls, Windsor, including students, school activities and sports events (1916-1917). The other album depicts military personnel during World War I, celebrations including the Dominion Day parade (1918), house decorated for Armistice Day (1919), military camp at Fort Edward, Windsor (1918), sports and recreation at Edgehill, Windsor, and Evangeline Beach, Kings County, and other scenes in Hants County. Also includes a photograph of three soldiers, one of which is Evan Wainwright, of the 85th Battalion, Nova Scotia Highlanders. 1996-101
Fonds · 1974-1984, predominant 1974-1975
Fonds consists of letters written by Hugh MacLennan to Rordam, documenting MacLennan's private life and views on writings and events in Canada. Subjects include the FLQ, Quebec separatism, the Levesque government in Quebec, reminiscences of Halifax, MacLennan's publications, Rivers of Canada (1982), Voices in Time (1980) and The Colour of Canada (1982), and Vita Rordam's works. Also included is a b&w photograph of Vita Rordam and Hugh MacLennan.