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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
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
Collection · [ca. 1887]-[ca. 1990], predominant 1940-1959
Collection consists of photographs depicting sports and athletic activities from the Halifax region featuring individual athletes or teams who have been inducted into the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame (NSSHF). Sports series include baseball and softball; boxing; canoeing, kayaking, and paddling; football and rugby; Halifax & District Baseball League; swimming; track and field; and other activities and sports, including athletics and gymnastics, auto racing, cycling, field hockey, lacrosse, lawn bowling, snooker, sports journalists, etc. CR67
Fonds · 1975-1979
Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by the Old South End Community Association. Records include meeting minutes, memos, correspondence, reports/briefs, publications, and membership information. Records document the association's participation in community and development planning in Halifax's south end. CR7
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 · 1943-2007
Collection consists of ephemera collected at the close of QEHS, including a photo of the first graduating class, with students and teachers names labelled; 2 school pins; the programme of the 1951 Opening of the Auditorium and Gymnasium, as well as the programme for the first opera, Erminie, in the new auditorium, newspaper clippings scrapbooks of school activities created by the Student Council, covering the years: 1950-1952, 1958-1959, 1967-1968; student directories, 1946-1972 (missing 1957); the guest-book from the 50th Anniversary reunion in 1993; a poster for the 2007 final school musical "Titanic"; and 2 1996 publications: "QEHS Profile" and "QEHS Improvement Plan". CR15
Reference Collection
Collection · 1820-2016
Collection consists of reports and publications created by or related to Halifax Regional Municipality and its predecessor municipalities.
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