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Barbara Keddy
Fonds · 1982-1992
Fonds consists of oral history interviews conducted by Keddy in the course of her research. Recordings contain interviews with over eighty women and cover topics including the social history of nursing in Nova Scotia in the 1930s, the lives of working women in the 1920s and 1930s, retired nurse leaders, and experiences of Black women in the nursing profession. The interviews have served as research data for papers and articles written and/or published by Keddy. 1983-017
Barnstead's Drug Store
Fonds · 1910-[ca. 1955]
Fonds consists of the contents of a prescription book which documents the period of the Halifax Explosion as well as the Spanish flu epidemic, price lists, correspondence and examples of the recipes and formularies used to create the medications. The contents of the fonds document the business operations of this Halifax drug store. MG 3 volumes 1741-1793
Barry, Hicks family
Fonds · 1786-1876, predominant 1852-1876
Fonds consists of correspondence among Barry and Hicks family members, describing family news and health, business matters, and events in Liverpool, N.S. The fonds contains primarily letters written to Francenia (Hicks) Hamilton from her sister-in-law, Mathilda Hicks, her mother, Margaret Hicks, and husband David Porter Hamilton. Other family members represented in the fonds include John Hicks, Walter M. Hicks, Mary Ellen (Hicks) Doughty, John Thomas Hicks, Robert Barry, Samuel J.W. Barry, William H. Barry, Thomas S. Barry, Charlotte (Barry) Mack, and W.E.C. Barry. MG 1 volumes 90E and 1920
Bayer family
Fonds · 1793-1913
Fonds consists of records documenting the Bayer family's business activities and interests in Horton, N.S. Fonds contains correspondence, deeds, accounts, and bonds, primarily relating to Edward Bayer and the sale of property in Horton. Also includes warrants of survey for George Bayer; a map showing land grants to the 82nd Regiment at Pictou and Merigomish; and material relating to the Olding, Collard, and Lowden families, Reverend William Black and J. Sherman Dennison of Horton, and the Capt. Dennison Company. MG 1 volume 2759
B.C. Silver
Fonds · 1847-1992
Fonds consists of records documenting Silver's professional career and personal activities. Includes correspondence, research notes, draft manuscripts, newspaper clippings, publications, photographs, and other material relating to music history, music teaching, education issues, and local history in Nova Scotia. Also contains geneaological notes and chart on the Silver family, music sheets, poems and song lyrics written by Silver and his wife Marietta, and microfilm reels of a scrapbook entitled "Home and School Sponsored Music Festivals in N.S." MG 1 volumes 3377-3384
Beamish Murdoch
Fonds · 1848-1870
Fonds consists of records documenting Murdoch's historical research and writing, including twenty-one notebooks containing draft manuscript and notes relating to his book, History of Nova Scotia, or Acadie; four volumes containing draft manuscript with clippings and notes on the history of the British North American provinces; notebooks pertaining to Mi'kmaq (1864) and Irish (1848) vocabularies; essay on the origin and sources of the law of Nova Scotia (1863); and photocopies of letters written by Murdoch to John Godfrey of Bangor, Me., discussing the history of Maine and Murdoch's writing of History of Nova Scotia, or Acadie (1869). MG 1 volumes 723-727A
Belgian Relief Committee
Fonds · 1914 - 1915
Consists of the minute book of the Belgian Relief Committee. MG 20 volume 496b
Bell Gift Cemetery Company
Fonds · 1890-1991
Fonds consists of a minute book used to record details of the annual meetings of the organization. 1993-249
Bell-Maclaren family
Fonds · 1917-1958
Fonds consists of a first person account by Andrew Mackinlay Bell and a letter sent to Rev. Thomas Deinstadt of Saint John, both describing the effects of the Halifax Explosion on 6 December 1917, as well as photographs of a Waegwoltic Club swimming regatta and the wreck of the vessel Dauntless. 2009-041