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William Young
Fonds · 1814-1919, predominant 1860-1886
Consists of correspondence and other records documenting Young's law practice, political offices, and his family and personal business affairs. Includes letters to and from Young regarding political matters, such as elections, fisheries, roads, and the Windsor-Annapolis Railway; and legal opinions and cases dealt with including the estate of Hon. Michael Tobin. Letters between Young and his father and brothers George and Charles concern personal news and family business matters. Other records include Young's summaries of cases heard before him in the Supreme Court, Court of Vice Admiralty, and the Court of Marriage and Divorce, ledgers, day books, financial statements and accounts, drafts of speeches, newspaper clippings, law books, personal diary, and journal of a trip to England. Also contains correspondence, legal documents, and other items concerning the estate of William Young and others, 1887-1919. MG 2 volumes 731-782
Edgar N. Rhodes
Fonds · 1892, 1916-1935
Consists of correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings and articles, pamphlets and other published material, reports, certificates, and financial statements created and accumulated by Rhodes, primarily during his political career from 1916 to 1935. Subjects include the 1917 election, Military Services Act, Farmers' Creditors Arrangement Act, proportional representation, federal budget and other financial matters. Fonds also contains photographic portraits of Rhodes as well as photographs of the speaker's chair and interior views of the House of Commons, blueprints of the Amherst subway, and a print of Acadia University. MG 2 volumes 404-421C
S.G.W. Archibald fonds
Fonds · 1813-1835
Fonds consists of letters received by Archibald, mainly concerning political affairs or seeking legal opinions, together with legal documents including briefs, dockets, and a bill for the establishment of schools in Nova Scotia. MG 1, vol. 89
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
Mather Byles Almon
Fonds · 1827-1868
Consists of correspondence, accounts, and financial statements created and received by M.B. Almon, mainly concerning shipping, financial, and property matters. Correspondence includes mention of fisheries and the fish market, Belcher Binney and Co., Albion Mines and store, and the United States Civil War. MG 1 volumes 18-83
R.V. Harris fonds
Fonds · [187-]-1968, predominant 1910-1967
Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by Harris in the course of his research, including correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings, articles, genealogies, scrapbooks, draft manuscripts, notebooks, sheet music, drawings, photographs, maps, and card files on early Masonic lodge members. A considerable portion of the material relates to the production of his book, Oak Island Mystery. Other subjects include various aspects of Nova Scotia history, such as military regiments, industries, communities, Halifax civic affairs and civic revival, chief justices and Supreme Court judges, Annapolis County families, Harris family and related families, and other individuals. Fonds also contains correspondence, minutes, and other material relating to Harris and his involvement with the Board of Halifax School Commissioners, Halifax City Council, Anglican Church Synod, Halifax Branch of the Overseas League, and Freemasons, as well as material concerning his sister Claire Harris MacIntosh and nephew Captain Ian MacIntosh. Fonds also contains photograph prints, negatives, and albums depicting Harris' Freemasonry activities, portraits of family members and friends, and portraits of Chief Justice R.E. Harris. Additional graphic and cartographic materials used in his research are found within the textual records. MG 1 vol. 337-390; 1542; microfilm reels 12188
Fonds · 1898-1977
Consists of minute books of the council, 1898-1977, and its committees including the Welfare Committee, 1948-1957, and Arts and Letters Committee, 1960-1972; record book of dues, 1947-1972; roll call book, 1951-1966; outline of the council's history; booklet; and also minute books, 1942-1959, and treasurer's account book, 1971-1975, of the Local Council of Women Westville branch. MG 20 volume 1029-1030
Rear Admiral Hugh F. Pullen
Fonds · 1920-1983
Consists of records created and accumulated by H.F. Pullen, including correspondence, notes, manuscripts, essays, addresses, imprints, newspaper clippings, catalogues, books, periodicals and other published material, ephemera, photographs (prints, negatives, slides), and photocopies and transcripts of admiralty papers from the Public Record Office in England. Records document Pullen's interests in naval, military, and maritime history, several community organizations, William Hall VC, and the Pullen family, as well as his navy career and personal life. A smaller portion of the records were created in the course of Pullen's research for his publications Shannon and the Chesapeake, The Pullen Expedition and The Sea Road to Halifax. Other subjects represented include the Royal Canadian Navy, defence policy, Captain James Cook, Lord Colville, Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron, and the Anglican Church. Also includes unpublished typed manuscript, including photographs, on lighthouses of Nova Scotia (1983); full orchestra music score and sound recording of "Commodore Pullen March" composed by Petty Officer V. Miloslavich of Halifax in early 1950s recorded in 1978 by Kenneth Irons of Ottawa, Ontario. MG 1 volumes 2526-2590
Maurice Crosby
Fonds · 1943-1995
Consists of a representative sample of photographic files produced by the Crosby studio as well as selected samples of Crosby's work as a free-lance photographer in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1990s. The bulk of the studio's production consisted of portraits, passport snapshots, wedding photos, advertising copy work, industrial and construction site progress shots, aerial views of urban areas for developers, copy prints of architectural drawings and sketches, theatre and television publicity shots, and photos of notable buildings and street scapes. The files include negatives, copy prints, photographs and transparencies. They depict important contemporary persons and events, such as the famous 1943 Churchill photograph, aerial views of downtown Halifax and Dartmouth in the 1960s when rapid changes in urban development commenced, the early days of CBC Halifax television productions (e.g. Don Messer, Singalong Jubilee), the peak of industrial activity at Halifax Shipyards and Trenton Steel Works, the expanding fishing industry, the construction of the Sedco Oil Rig for Sable Island, 1969-1971, the assembly of Volvo automobiles in its Dartmouth plant, and the reactions of victims' families during the Springhill Mine Disaster of 1958. 1997-254
Alfred C. Fuller
Fonds · [1890?]-1974, predominant 1923-[196-]
Fonds consists of scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, product manuals, publications, inventories, and ledgers documenting the activities of the Fuller Brush Company, particularly in the area of advertising. Also includes newspaper clippings, articles, certificates, biographical notes, addresses, correspondence, and printed ephemera relating to Alfred C. Fuller and his career; draft manuscript and correspondence pertaining to his biography, A Foot in the Door; and notes and charts on Fuller family geneaology and related families. Fonds also contains photographs of the Fuller Brush Company plant and products, Alfred C. Fuller, family members, celebrities, and social and promotional events, some of which were published in Foot in the Door. There are also drawings of Fuller, miscellaneous prints, and sound recordings and films featuring interviews with Fuller, company training and recruitment, and scenes of a trip to Connecticut by the Nova Scotia Apple Blossom Festival queen in 1960. MG 1 volume 1233-1251