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Richard F. R. Tolson fonds
Fonds · 1946-1975
Fonds consists of documents relating to Richard Tolson's professional positions as well as his personal activities. CR51
Fonds · 1953-2004
Fonds consists of minutes, reports, membership lists, correspondence, scrapbooks with photographs of members and newspaper clippings, and related horticultural information. Records document the work of the Society in promoting gardening in Halifax, Nova Scotia. CR52
Fonds · 1854-1874
Fonds consists of by-laws, rules and regulations, memoranda, correspondence, including letters from Sir William Young, lists, receipts and a statement of account. The contents of the fonds document the Society's work in promoting gardening in Halifax, their creation of the Public Gardens, and provides history about the challenges faced by the organization, particularly with respect to its financial situation. CR53
Fonds · 2000-2010
Fonds consists of records documenting the Association’s lobbying and planning efforts for the initial phases of the walking and biking trail along CN Rail line in the Beaufort Avenue area of South End Halifax, including reports; correspondence between HUGA members and local supporters as well as between HUGA and CN Rail; transcripts of public meetings held for local residents regarding the proposed trail; yearly budgets for the organization; progress reports on the trail; media and press releases for fundraising and awareness events; photographs of the rail-line, bridges and area surrounding the proposed trail. CR54
Collection · 1969
Collection consists of souvenirs from the Halifax - Dartmouth Canada Summer Games in 1969; including 2 publicity pamphlets with a map of all the venues in Halifax-Dartmouth, "Alone", a publication in honour of the athletes, with Sherman Hines photography, 2 souvenir programs, an Official Record publication listing all medal winners and organizational executives, social events and a summary of the Games, a letter to Mr. Gosley -as an official to the Games, "Look Out World" audio-recording of the Canada Games song by Dolores Claman and Richard Morris, 4 small flags with stands, 1 sheet of 6-cent postage stamps,2 tickets to the Track and Field events on Beazley Field, 3 delegate ribbons, 3 stickers, 10 pins and 3 pens. CR55
Collection · 1940-1967
Collection consists of images and ephemera donated by Nola Stoddart from her family's collection of second-world war era mementoes. Includes 1940-1941 dated photographs of Orpheus Theatre window displays for George Formby's "Keep Your Seats Please", Point Pleasant Park gates, Sailors Memorial and Martello Tower in Point Pleasant Park, war-time parades passing Kay's department store, Public Gardens fountains, All Saints Cathedral,Dalhousie University campus and the University of King's College Main building, Dingle Memorial Tower, and other unidentified local scenes. The unidentified ships in the harbor in .18 and .19 are "four-stack" destroyers, likely transferred from the USA to Canada in 1940 as part of the Destroyers for Bases deal between the USA and the UK. Postcards from the 1960s depict Dalhousie and St. Mary's universities, Sailors Memorial at Citadel Hill, the MacDonald Bridge, Grace United Church in Dartmouth, St. Paul's Church in Halifax, the Halifax Memorial Library, and two postcards from 1940s showing the Old Town Clock and an aerial view of Citadel Hill. Textual records include programs from the 1944 Remembrance Day Ceremony at the Halifax War Memorial; the May 21, 1944 Empire Youth Sunday held at the United Services Forum; the July 2, 1967 Service of Worship and Thanksgiving for Canada's Centennial, held at Dartmouth Park. Also included are a 1937 invoice from the Oxford Dairy, and a mimeograph of a poem of unknown origins about the VE Day Riots in May 1945 titled "The Battle of Halifax." CR56
Collection · 1930-1950
Collection consists of photographs collected by the family of Philip Alberstat. Includes 12 images of the exterior of West House, on Brunswick St, Halifax,when the Goldberg family lived there, 1926-1956 that are snapshots of grandchildren Philip and Lionel Alberstat and daughter Berta who later took over the house from her father. Also includes 13 published class photo-cards from Quinpool Road School, 1937-1943; three class photos from Le Marchant School, 194? and 1946-1947 and Alexandra School, 1936. Two of the LeMarchant St. class photos are of the graduating grade 9 class and have the graduates identified. As well there are 3 images of the construction of the Macdonald Bridge in 1950, one shows a gap in the deck; another shows no deck; another shows a single car crossing. There is also an photograph of a group photograhpof Jewish War Veterans of Atlantic Canada, Halifax Chapter. CR57
Collection · 1917-1985
Collection consists of contents that were chosen by the Halifax Explosion Memorial Bells Committee and enclosed in a time capsule that was placed in the Halifax Explosion Memorial on Fort Needham hill on December 6, 1985, the first Explosion anniversary ceremony held at the Memorial. CR58
Collection · 1949
Collection consists of a scrapbook album compiled by Pamela Collins (nee Ventham) documenting performances of the operetta In Halifax Town , which commemorated Halifax's founding in 1749 for the city's bicentennial in the summer of 1949. Materials originally collected into a photograph album by Collins include programmes, press clippings, photographs (images of cast, rehearsals, and family outings) and ephemera relating to her participation in the operetta and a Thanksgiving Service during the bicentenary celebration. The operetta, presented by the Canadian Legion District Council, was staged in the 'Theatre Under the Stars' on Citadel Hill, with a cast including Haligonian actor Peter Donkin. CR59
Collection · [1870] - 1980
Collection consists of individual, unrelated graphic images (photographs, slides, negatives) that depict places or people or events within the Halifax Region. CR6