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Archival description
Advertising Manager records
Series · 1951-1986
Part of Wm. Stairs, Son & Morrow Limited fonds
Series consists of films of the construction of the new store and warehouse on Kempt Road, Halifax, NS in 1967; photographs of staff, the sod-turning ceremony for new store, and an aerial view showing part of north end of Halifax; correspondence with sales people; promotional items; internal communications concerning the move and operational changes; an employee handbook; and company newsletters. The records document the daily operation of a hardware store and its communication strategies to manage change in the mid-20th century. 2011-013
Series · 1991-1998
Part of Nova Scotia Voluntary Planning Board
Series forms part of the Nova Scotia Voluntary Planning Board fonds and consists of records created by the African Nova Scotian Business Ad-Hoc Committee and its preceding committees and initiatives: Nova Scotia Advisory Group on Race Relations and African Nova Scotian Business Forum. In the early 1990s the VPB determined it was time for collaboration on a more multicultural level to better represent the province’s population. The Advisory Group on Race Relations brought together three levels of government and members of the Black community to recommend a plan of action to eliminate racism and racial discrimination in the province. The African Nova Scotia Business Forum was initially convened to discuss matters of access to financing, though it was quickly determined that there were other areas of need and the forum broadened focus to creating a strategy for African Nova Scotia business development. The African Nova Scotian Business Ad-Hoc Committee was formed to continue the work begun at the Forum. Records in this series include reports and recommendations, meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, and community consultation materials.
Series · 1962-1993
Part of Nova Scotia Voluntary Planning Board
Series forms part of the Nova Scotia Voluntary Planning Board fonds and contains records created by the Agriculture Sector Committee of the Nova Scotia Voluntary Planning Board (VPB). This Sector Committee was formed to serve as a forum for farmers, producers, regulators and others from across the province with common concerns. Founded in 1963 as one of VPB's original sectors, members came from the Provincial Department of Agriculture, Federation of Agriculture, other related Provincial Government departments, Federal interests, agricultural associations and the larger agricultural community. These records include correspondence, transcripts of speeches and presentations, background material for reports and papers, meeting minutes and agendas, discussion items, responses to position papers and other materials. The main focus of the records is planning for the future of the agricultural industry in Nova Scotia, touching on legislation, taxation, the stewardship of land and primary resources, education, and government policy in regards to various aspects of the industry.
Series · 1763-1980, predominant 1763-1922
Part of Nova Scotia Registry of Deeds fonds
Series forms part of the Nova Scotia Registry of Deeds fonds and consists of 185 land transaction registers, 1763-1922, recording the sale or transfer of land between grantor (seller) and grantee (buyer), mortgage assignments and releases (including Canadian Farm Loan Board mortgages, 1937-1971), quit claim deeds, and numerous other types of documents relating to land transactions. The documents recorded in the land transaction registers are transcriptions (the Registry's copy) of the original documents held by the grantor and grantee. Series also includes: Will Books 1-6, 1879-1967, recording wills that affected deeded land or mortgages; Lease Books 1-4, ca. 1927-1973; Judgment Books 12 and 13, 1928-1980, recording County and Supreme Court judgments that affected deeded land or mortgages; Crown Land Grant Books 1-6, 1854-1953, and Crown Land Lease Books 1-3, 1901-1957, which provided a local copy of land grants and leases also recorded at the Crown Lands office.
Series · 1784-1971; predominant 1784-1930
Part of Nova Scotia Registry of Deeds fonds
Series forms part of the Registry of Deeds fonds, and consists of 83 land transaction registers, 1784-1930, recording the sale or transfer of land between grantor and grantee, mortgage assignments and releases, quit claim deeds and numerous other documents relating to land transactions. Series also includes two Judgment Books, 1926-1971, recording County and Supreme Court judgments against land titles; one Canada Farm Loan Board Mortgage register, 1937-1957; one volume of Nova Scotia Pulp Limited agreements, 1957-1971; and a microfilm copy of the Crown Land Grant register, 1857-1967, which provided a local copy of land grants also recorded at the Crown Lands office in Halifax. In the early land transaction registers the county is identified as Sydney County. Created in 1784 Sydney County included what is now Antigonish and Guysborough Counties. In 1824 Sydney County was divided into defined upper and lower districts. In 1836 the Lower District of Sydney County became Guysborough County and the Upper District reverted to the original name, Sydney County and in 1863 was renamed as Antigonish County.
Appeal case books
Series · 1890-1947
Part of Supreme court as a court of appeal
Series forms part of Supreme Court as a court of appeal subfonds and consists of bound volumes containing printed appeal case records. The first statutory codification of court practice, the Judicature Act of 1884, included provisions for the printing of appeal cases and required that eight copies of the appeal case record be filed with the prothonotary. The printed case record was to contain the appeal papers, rules, minutes of evidence, statements of case, affidavits, report of trial, exhibits and all other matters on which argument could be made. The cover page of each case record identifies the parties to each case, their solicitors, the court and judge of original jurisdiction and the file number assigned by the prothonotary or clerk to the original case. Subsequent changes to the rules included the requirement of filing a printed case with the law library which was referred to with further precision as the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society Library in subsequent editions of the rules. The requirement was removed from the rules ca.1975. The cases in these volumes were collected by that library and bound in annual volumes.
Birth registration books
Series · Microfilmed 1980
Part of Nova Scotia Deputy Registrar-General fonds
Series forms part of Nova Scotia Deputy Registrar-General fonds and consists of birth registration books recording the name of the person born, the date and place of birth, the mother's maiden name, the father's name, residence and occupation, when and where the parents were married, the date the birth was registered and who provided the information. Series is indexed by surname of person being registered.
Series · 1832-1867
Part of Treasury Papers
Series forms part of Treasury Papers and consists of primarily of correspondence, with some minutes, reports on distilleries and Board of Revenue Minute Books as well. Correspondence covers a variety of subjects, including monies received from customs and excise, accounts of bonds and of duties paid, quarterly returns, the shipping trade, petitions and complaints, and employment within the excise office and other government positions.
Bounties
Series · 1787-1861
Part of Treasury Papers
Series forms part of Treasury Papers and consists of records regarding bounties on accommodation for travelers (particularly settlers, explorers and emigrants), rewards for apprehending military deserters, cattle breeding, chocolate manufacturing, cleared land, communications (particularly regarding settlement and support of emigrants, as well as packet boats used for trade and mail delivery), fish and fishing, grains, iron works, leaf tobacco manufacture, mills, pot ash, salt, whales, seal fishing, seamen (particularly those who volunteered for His Majesty's ship Halifax), shipbuilding and sugar refining.