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Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company
Fonds · 1861-1966, predominant 1905-1930
Consists of operational records created by the NS Steel and Coal Company Ltd.'s New Glasgow and Sydney Mines offices. The most extensive section concerns the Old Sydney Collieries operations at Sydney Mines, containing letter books and correspondence files of the stores department (1905-1917), which detail the ordering and purchasing of supplies and equipment for the mines. In addition there are financial records such as cash books (1905-1913), general ledgers (1895-1915) and a very early workmen's book (1861-1864). Other records originate from the New Glasgow office and include general correspondence (1935-1941), corporate records such as printed annual reports and financial statements of NS Steel and Coal and its parent companies (BESCO and DOSCO), by-laws and articles of association, prospectuses and charters, and internal publications such as promotional booklets and agreements with labour unions. There are also a few files believed to have been created by former chairman Thomas Cantley, including two case files on the coal tariff issue (1912-1927) and a mine fire inquiry (1929), blueprints of mine sites in Sydney and schematic details of mining equipment used, and coal and steel production and sales figures (1898-1913). Finally there are later correspondence files and reports on mine performance and production at the Florence and Princess Collieries, 1953-1966. MG 3 volumes 2315-2414
Nova Scotia Sport and Recreation Commission
Fonds · 1979-1994
Consists of materials created by the Commission to document its activities in the sports and recreation sector in Nova Scotia between 1983 and 1994. During this time the province hosted the 1987 Canada Winter Games at facilities centred in Cape Breton County and the Commission was heavily involved in the games from bids from across the province to host the games, to site selection of the venues once the host had been identified, to details on the management of the games and the achievements of Nova Scotia Athletes. While not the complete record of the games that might have been kept by the Winter Games committee the records do contain information on the composition of provincial teams and competition results. Also contains minutes of management and grant committee meetings of the Department of Culture, Recreation and Fitness between 1984 and 1989 and additional materials reflecting the participation of the Department or Commission on relevant national committees of allied and like organizations. 1995-007
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
Roland H. Sherwood
Fonds · 1909-1994
Consists of records documenting Sherwood's activities as a writer and broadcaster in Nova Scotia, and his community interests. Contains draft manuscripts and articles, radio scripts, correspondence, newspaper clippings, programmes, brochures, and other miscellaneous items. Also includes photographs, postcards, and slides collected by or taken by Sherwood depicting the Pictou area, buildings, monuments, marine activities, and events such as the Pictou Lobster Carnival. Contains sound recordings of Sherwood's stories used in articles and radio broadcasts, programmes performed by the Pictou County Centrettes, songs performed for the Hector Bicentenary in Pictou, and film footage of the Pictou County Centrettes and the Chignecto Marine Railway. MG 1 volumes 3667-3671
Nova Scotia Barristers' Society
Fonds · 1864-1983
Consists of minutes of annual meetings, minutes of general meetings, amendments, memorandums, admissions and annual reports. As well as, accounts, preliminary law examination, regulations, resolutions, correspondence, notes, receipts, invoices and letters. MG 20 volume 624
Black United Front
Fonds · 1968-1996
Consists of operational records created or accumulated by the Black United Front. Includes records of the Provincial Council, 1970-1995, Board of Directors, 1969-1979, and Executive Director's Office, 1970-1996. The Provincial Council was the supreme authority of BUF and was the forum through which elected community representatives met and formulated policy and strategies. It had its own slate of officers, by-laws and committees. Its records consist of minutes of high-level meetings, correspondence (chiefly of the president), policy and procedural manuals, constitutions and by-laws, memoranda of association and incorporation documents. The Board of Directors was the policy refining branch, accountable to the Provincial Council. It consisted of councillors and the executive director. It ceased to exist in 1981. Its records consist of meeting minutes files, which also include supporting documentation such as correspondence, notes, reports, and submissions. The executive director, who was hired in 1970, carried out the policies, procedures and programs of the Provincial Council and managed staff. Other duties included preparation of submissions and reports on areas of research. Includes correspondence (arranged chronologically), annual and quarterly progress reports to the council, commissioned surveys, studies and reports and case files. The latter include on-going projects, investigations, fund-raising ideas, exchanges of information, policy and strategy with other organizations, and contacts with government departments and individuals, and are arranged alphabetically. There are also audited financial statements, correspondence and progress reports of outreach and field staff, community workers and the human services workers, and several in-house publications such as newsletters, newspapers and promotional brochures. Also includes a set of u-matic videocassettes containing episodes of BUF's "Black Horizon" cable tv show, which ran from 1976-1983. 2002-066
Nova Scotia Society of Occupational Therapists
Fonds · 1950-1991
Consists of records documenting the society's role in promoting the profession of occupational therapy in Nova Scotia. Includes minutes of meetings, reports, correspondence, subject files, publications, membership lists, newspaper clippings, act of incorporation, constitution and by-laws, certificates, and citation. Also included are photographs depicting patients and staff of the occupational therapy departments at Camp Hill Hospital and Royal Canadian Naval Hospital in Halifax, the society's 25th anniversary dinner, group photographs of members, an audio cassette and videocassette containing interviews with the Mary Black Award recipients of 1987, and a videocassette entitled Mary Black: A Pioneer in Occupational Therapy. Also contains material relating to the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapy. MG 20 volumes 1872-1876
Nova Scotia Society of Artists
Fonds · 1922-1974
Consists of correspondence (1954-1974); annual reports (1961-1964); minutes of meetings (1922-1974); catalogues of the society's annual exhibitions (1938-1968); lists of exhibitions and exhibitors (1957-1965); scrapbooks (1923-1964); constitution, by-laws, and mission statements (1937-1962); membership lists (1967-1972); member's notices and press releases (1956-1972); treasurer's reports (1953-1972); and booklet and visitors register for the Golden Jubilee Anniversary Exhibition (1972). Also includes material relating to the Maritime Art Association and Nova Scotia Arts Council. MG 20 volumes 499-503
Nova Scotia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA)
Fonds · 1877-1979, predominant 1955-1978
Consists of SPCA minute books, 1888-1926, and minutes of annual and executive meetings, 1943-1965; scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings pertaining to the work of the society, its Dartmouth and Halifax branches, and local and national animal welfare issues, 1877-1978; case books, 1892-1910; letter books, 1877-1895; journals, 1884-1889; treasurer's books, 1879-1943; annual reports, 1932-1970; shelter reports, 1932-1975; reports of the secretary-manager, 1965-1977, pound report books, 1974-1977; correspondence, 1955-1972; financial statements, 1958-1971; constitution and by-laws for 1979, and other miscellaneous material. Also includes records relating to the Canadian Federation of Human Societies, 1963-1972; seal hunting in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Committee on Seals and Sealing, 1964-1969. MG 20 volumes 513-519