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Fonds · 1974 - 1983
Consists of correspondence (1975-1982), meeting minutes (1976-1981), constitution and aims & objectives (1976-1982), reports from president and committees (1976-1979), membership lists (1976-1981), association newsletter “Outdoors” (1979-1981), project files such as the Cape Breton Earthcare Project (1974-1979), financial statements (1976-1981), newspaper clippings (1970s), and correspondence and research on environmental legislation (1978-1981). Also includes brochures on how to hike and cross-country ski (1970s), a report on Pictou County Coastal Zone Inventory (1970s) and an audio recording of the Association’s public service message on protecting nature used in their Wise Use Campaign during 1979 Nova Scotia Environment Awareness Week.
Government of Cape Breton
Fonds · 1783-1820
Contains the administrative records of the colonial government of Cape Breton Island and includes Executive Council meeting minutes (1785-1820); Proclamations (1788-1820); Financial records (1787-1820), Appointments and other material (1787-1819); Roads correspondence and other material (1803-1815); Ordinances (1783-1820); Dispatches (1784-1820); Petitions (1802-1820); and Executive and Privy Councils meeting minutes and other material (1783-1820).
Lorne White family
Fonds · 1917-2009
Fonds consists of newspaper clippings (1917-2016); photographs (ca.1916-ca.2000s); correspondence (1948-2009); programs, fliers, and memorabilia (1945-2005) all collected by family members. They document the singing and acting careers of Lorne White, his famous sister Portia White and the posthumous recognition given their father Rev. Captain William A. White. The records also document the experiences of Lorne and Mary (Hennigar) White, an inter-racial couple raising a family during the latter half of the 20th century in Nova Scotia. Fonds also includes an Order of Canada certificate for Lorne’s older brother Bill White (1997), newspaper clippings on the singing career of Yvonne White (sister, 1987-2002), a music CD by Chris White (nephew, 2005), a children’s book about racism by Sheila White (niece, 1993), newspaper clippings on racism in the RCMP collected by Cpl. Calvin G. Lawrence (b.1941-d.1998), a re-print article on anti-black racism by George Elliott Clarke (great nephew, 2012), and a White family genealogy by Bill’s wife Vivian R. (Keeler) White (2002). Fonds also includes a video recording of a fictional scene 2 men and 1 woman socializing and playing a piano in a bar (no audio). The fonds is arranged into file folders, one for each family member, with photographs filed separately.
Views of Halifax photographs
Collection · 1870-1890
The collection consists of one photograph album which was compiled by Thomas Mower Martin, an English-born Canadian painter. Most of the photographs depict scenes in Halifax and Cape Breton, including the Public Gardens, the Citadel, Melville Island, and Point Pleasant Park. Each photograph has a caption indicating the location of the scene. Many of the photographs are inscribed with the name of the photographer on the front, including William Notman, Umlah, and J.M. Margeson. Some photographs taken by William Notman also have a number assigned by the photographer. At the end of the album, there are six contrived studio portraits of unidentified African Nova Scotian men and women. Using props and costumes they are not authentic representations of the past but examples of anti-Black racism. There is no information about the photographer of these portraits.
School Records
Collection · 1789-1985
Consists of warrants for payments to trustees, general correspondence about schools in the county, statistical returns and reports, petitions, grants, abstracts, some minutes of the school boards, teacher contracts, attendance records, financial account books, home and school association minutes, Halifax Commercial College finances (1887-1892), and in the 1820's and 1830's there are some general returns giving the names and ages of pupils and names of parents or guardians, and lists of schools in the county. Also includes Annual School Directories of NS (1952-1954) and material on school boundaries. RG 14
Fonds · 1985 - 1990
Consists of 30 VHS videotapes containing 33 television advertisements submitted to the Time4Dsign competition in the TV Advertisement category (3.05). The competition was juried, and organized by the Atlantic Chapter of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada. Seven-hundred entries were considered, submitted by over 90 graphic designers and directors working across Atlantic Canada. The other categories in the competition included: (1) Visual identity programs; (2) Publications; (4) Product; (5) Environmental; and (6) Special.
Fonds · 1782
Item is a handwritten certificate awarding John Frederick Traugott Gschwind with an Order of Military Merit (Orden pour la Vertu Militaire) from the Hessian Army signed by Frantz Carl Erdman von Seitz. It is written in French and German, with a red wax seal attached. On the back is written “Discharge from the Hessian --?-- 1st June 1782”. Provides additional documentation on the presence of the Hessian Army in Halifax after the American Revolutionary War.
Howard Pentelow
Fonds · December 1917-1920s
Consists of 5 telegrams to Howard’s parents William and Maud Pentelow from the Royal Canadian Naval College and from Deputy Minister of Naval Services (Dec 7 to 9, 1917); a letter from Howard to his mother Maud detailing his experience of the Halifax Explosion on Dec 6, 1917 (Dec 1917) and treatment in hospital; and 2 photographic copy prints of Howard Pentelow in uniform, taken later (ca.1920s).
Fonds · 1972 - 1983
Consists of correspondence of the president (1975-1982) and newsletter editor (1975-1979); minutes of executive meetings (1977-1982); president’s annual report to members (1978-1982); the association newsletter (1974-1983); membership lists and roster (1976-1983); and programs, financial statements and reports from the Annual Conferences (1972-1983). Also includes photocopies of correspondence and meeting minutes of the Canadian Sociologists and Anthropologists Association (1980-1983).
Fonds · 1815 - 1993
Consists of annual and executive meeting minutes for Halifax, Amherst, Cape Breton, and Yarmouth (1866-1985 with gaps), annual reports for Nova Scotia (1815-1830, 1914, 1960-1989), annual reports for Canada (1977-1989), financial statements and ledgers (1938-1976), draft constitutions and by-laws (1958-1969), newspaper clippings (1923-1981), membership lists (1971-1981), and some correspondence (1940-1986). Also includes script and music for a play by William Baillie Hamilton in 1986; a draft and published booklet of A History of the Bible Society in Nova Scotia 1813-1963 by John Doull published in 1964; and 4 photographs of a parade float for the Halifax Natal Day Parade in 1979. Also includes official publications including the Nova Scotia Sower newsletter (1988-1993 with gaps), the Quarterly Newsletter of the Canadian Bible Society (1961-1992), The Bible in the World magazine Canadian edition (1906-1909) and British edition (1905, 1959-1970), and the American Bible Society Record magazine (1969-1974).