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M. Grace Wambolt
Fonds · 1838-1988, predominant 1925-1974
Consists of records relating to Wambolt's legal career and personal activities, including correspondence (1925-1988); essays and lectures on the legal status of women, women in the legal profession, and other legal topics (1938-1970); personal documents (1908-1975); biographical material and reminiscences; Wambolt family genealogical notes and charts; printed material, some featuring articles written by Wambolt; and newspaper clippings pertaining to her career. Also contains photographic portraits of Wambolt, her father J.P. Wambolt's general store in Halifax, relative Mary Robinson, and Dalhousie Law School class of 1925 reunion (1975). MG 1 volume 1596
MacCallum Grant
Fonds · 1887-1927
Consists of a personal diary kept by Grant from October 26, 1887 to December 25, 1927, with a separate name index created by his son John Grant. The diary contains brief hand-written entries in chronological order of MacCallum Grant’s career milestones and personal highlights: births and marriages of children and grandchildren; children’s illnesses, mishaps and schooling; pleasure trips, homes purchased, pets, deaths of family and friends, career appointments, awards, and meeting British royalty. Some pages have printed images of their homes or news clippings of family members pasted in. Inserted between the pages are more news clippings, photographs, a few letters, notes of a speech, a school report card for Harold and other bits of memorabilia. 2014-030
MacDonald MacLennan family
Fonds · 1865-1996
Consists of family correspondence (1865-1996); the personal diaries of Katherine “Aunt Katie” MacLennan Anderson (1935-1969); travelogues by May MacDonald (1905-1938), Helen Harris Rand (1977), Robert MacDonald (1982), Katherine MacLennan Anderson (1924,1928), and Frances MacLennan (1913, 1919); speeches by Robert honouring medical colleagues (1970s-1980s), a speech by Hugh MacLennan given at Princeton University (1987); family histories of the MacDonalds, Murrays, Archibalds, Armstrongs, and Harris (1960-1966); family photograph albums for May & Ed and their 3 children (1897-1960s), for Edward MacDonald’s ancestors (ca1880-ca1905), and for May MacLennan’s ancestors (ca1870-ca1900) all from Cape Breton Island, NS; loose photographs of family and individual portraits and snapshots, including Hugh MacLennan (1911-1986); news clippings about Hugh’s literary career collected by his mother and sister (ca1935-1967); published books and essays by and about Hugh, and by his first wife Dorothy Duncan, all inscribed to Katherine or to Frances (1935-1981); and Robert MacDonald’s resumes (1958-1984), award certificates (1967-1987), and incoming and outgoing business correspondence (1938-1947). Also includes business correspondence of Dr. Edward MacDonald (1935-1948); files on Hugh MacLennan’s and Frances MacLennan’s deaths (1989, 1990) kept by Robert MacDonald, a sound recording of skits by Marguerite (MacQuarrie) Spencer, a distant family relative; general family history files; a file on the life of Lilias Toward; and a file of tributes and memorials on Robert MacDonald’s death (1996) kept by his daughter Sharon. Documents the family and social life of two generations of physicians in Nova Scotia for most of the 20th century, as well as the early life of author Hugh MacLennan. It is arranged by family member, in loose chronological order. 2017-043
MacKenzie Studios
Fonds · [ca. 1941]-1976, predominant 1948-1975
Consists of photographs (nitrate and safety negatives and prints) representing nearly 16,000 contracts undertaken by Roy MacKenzie and MacKenzie Studios. The geographic area encompassed by the work is exclusively Pictou County, N.S., with the exception of a small number of portraits of graduate nurses from St. Martha's School of Nursing in Antigonish (1957-1965). Contains portraits of family groups, individuals, weddings and secondary school students and graduates within Pictou County taken for school yearbooks (1952-1975). Also includes photographs taken for insurance adjustment, real estate sales, advertising for small businesses, and a significant number of industrial photographs (1952-1976), including Trenton Industries Ltd., its products, mechanical coal-mining machine, development of the Marine Extension Program (1952-1953), and other local steel forging companies. Approximately one percent of photographs in the fonds are colour. Over five percent of photographs are unidentified and/or undated. 1988-407
Cape Breton's Magazine
Fonds · 1967 - 1998
Consists of audio cassettes and tape reels containing interviews, folklore, and music compiled by Ronald Caplan in the course of research for articles appearing in Cape Breton's Magazine. Most recordings are conversations with older citizens of Cape Breton, many of whom are now deceased. Under the general subject of Cape Breton history and culture, the topics include industrial history, trains and train wrecks, Mi'kmaq life, traditional songs, Sydney Steel, coal mining, musicians, community histories, Acadian culture, fisheries, labour history, supernatural tales, coal miners, hockey and other sports, shipwrecks, Gaelic traditions, reminiscences of immigrants, environmentalists, and the Canso Causeway. 1981-042
MacLean, Sinclair family
Fonds · [ca. 1768], 1815-1973, predominant 1833-1939
Consists of eight scrapbooks, correspondence, and other records created, accumulated, and used by three generations of the MacLean and Sinclair families, including John MacLean, his grandson Rev. Dr. A. MacLean Sinclair and great-grandson, Rev. Dr. D.M. Sinclair. Scrapbooks were compiled by A. MacLean Sinclair and son D.M. Sinclair, late 1800s-1973, and contain newspaper clippings and articles relating to history and events in Scotland and Pictou County, articles written by both Sinclairs, obituaries of clergy and early settlers, genealogical notes and charts, Gaelic poems, and ephemera. Correspondence primarily consists of letters written to A. MacLean Sinclair concerning genealogy and writing activities, 1866-1906, although some letters contain personal and community news and parish affairs. Also includes sixteen bound volumes, ca. 1768, 1815-1891, containing Gaelic poems, songs, hymns, psalms, historical sketches and grammar, most of which were accumulated by John MacLean in Scotland and Nova Scotia. Aside from MacLean's poems and hymns, there are several volumes of writings or translations by Dr. Hector MacLean of Mull, Scotland, Rev. Duncan Black Blair and Rev. James MacGregor of Pictou Co., and one volume by Dr. MacKintosh MacKay including an essay on the "Loss of Gaelic". All of John MacLean's poems together with the poems in Dr. Hector MacLean's manuscript given to him in 1818, and others, were later published by A. MacLean Sinclair. Other records included are an account book kept by John MacLean, ca. 1815-1854, assorted poems and songs, financial statements, newspaper clippings and articles, notes, printed material, a few letters and other items relating to family members Christy MacLean Sinclair and Isabella Black MacLean, the Clan MacLean Association, and a minute book of the Strathbeg Reading Society, 1866-1869. MG 1 volume 2660
Mairi Macdonald
Fonds · [ca.1920]-2008
Consists of journals, draft manuscripts, correspondence, family records and photographs, and documentation from associations with which Dr. Macdonald was involved. The contents document her professional career in education and community work, her private life, and varied community involvements. The journals document her childhood and young adulthood at Egnaig Farm, Baileys Brook, Pictou County and her life thereafter. 1998-107
Malagash Salt Company
Fonds · 1925-1952
Consists of case files documenting the company's operations, including correspondence, reports, notes, price lists, financial statements, certificates, and published material. Arranged alphabetically according to subject. Most of the records deal with the marketing of salt and its uses in fishing, agriculture, and road construction. MG 3 volumes 2086-2105
Malcolm and Marial Mosher
Fonds · [1939]-[194-]
Consists of film footage of Marial Mosher dancing and with her friends in the Canadian Women's Army Corps, of the 1939 Royal Visit to Halifax, and a Guide's Meet at Lake Williams (near Bridgewater, Nova Scotia). The one film which was not made by Malcolm Mosher is of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, which was shot by Marial Mosher and a friend. The footage of Marial Mosher's dance recital is significant, since it provides insight into the work of Madame Hylda's School of Dancing. Madame Hylda won national recognition for her work as a dance instructor, and has earned a place in the Dance Hall of Fame in Toronto. 1986-29
Marian Leonard
Fonds · 1974, 1990
Consists of a typed manuscript of chapter 13 “Micmac Memories” from the book Paradis Terrestre (ca.1990); a letter to Marian Leonard from Edith (Longley) Balcom recounting her childhood memories visiting the home of the Labradors, a Mi’kmaq family living on the other side of the Annapolis River (1974); and photographic copy prints of Noel Labrador, his twin sisters Agnes and Celia Labrador, as well as several of Stephen Heggie Luxie, and one of the Longley family (copied ca.1970s, originals taken ca.1918-ca.1930). All but 2 photographs were used in the book. 2016-051