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Description archivistique
Nola Stoddart WWII collection
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 · 1959-2005
Collection consists of photographs and post-cards of Nova Scotia Light and Power electric trams, Trailways charter buses and Dartmouth Transit and Halifax Transit buses; transit maps, tickets and transfers. Photos show trams in downtown Halifax in 1959 and 1968; Trailways Starliner buses at the Commission St. garage, 1978; Dartmouth Transit buses at the Dartmouth Mall loop, as well as a bus-stop sign, 1978; and buses at the Halifax Transit garage on Young St., and at Mumford terminal with Simpson's in background, 1978. Post cards show the last Birney trolley car in Halifax, 1948; the first articulated bus built in Canada used on the Metro Transit #20 Glen Forest run, 1992; NSLP trolley coach outside the CNR railway station in 1967, and a trolley car on Barrington St. at Grand Parade, ca. 1910. There are explanations on the backs of some of the post-cards.Bus Route maps are from Dartmouth Transit, which includes the ferry schedule (197?),and Halifax Transit (1971 and 1978). Tickets are from Nova Scotia Light and Power, Halifax Transit and the Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission; transfers are from Dartmouth Transit, Halifax Transit and Metro Transit. Also includes the article Halifax Electric Tramway Centennial by Robert D. Tennant - published in Upper Canada Railway Society Rail and Transit, January 1996. CR42
Queen Elizabeth High School collection
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
Collection · 1950-1952
Fait partie de Municipality of the County of Halifax fonds
Collection consists of items found in a "time capsule" that had been placed in the new wing of the Halifax County Hospital, probably when it was opened in 1952. Items include: Report of the Tenders and Public Property Committee re. Halifax County Home and Mental Hospital, 1951; the program for the Official Opening of the New Hospital Unit of the Halifax County Hospital, January 9, 1952; the 1950 Minutes and Reports of the Thirtieth Council of the Municipality of the County of Halifax; the January 9, 1952 edition of the Halifax Chronicle-Herald; a 1951 Canadian dollar bill, quarter, dime, nickel and penny in an envelope labelled "Coin of the Realm"; an envelope labelled "Stamps of the Realm" containing 6 Canadian 4 cent, 3 cent, 2 cent and 1 cent stamps stuck to a card; two business cards for Martin F. Donohue of James Donohue Ltd. (a roofing company) and T.E. Vaughan of Building Products Ltd.; 3 NS Liquor Permit cards for Geo. Miller, T.E. Vaughan and Martin Donohue. 312-64-8
Roy Levin photograph collection
Collection · [195-?], 1962
Collection consists of black and white photos of downtown Halifax on and around Jacob Street, and Starr Street, including what appears to be the synagogue on Starr Street (CR76.3). Also includes aerial shots of downtown Halifax showing businesses such as Howards, Clayton's, Maritime Warehousing and Transfer. CR76
Mayor Robert MacIlreith collection
Collection · [189?] - 1927
Collection consists of two portraits of Mayor Robert MacIlreith, two paintings by Gladys Clarke MacIlreith, and two hand-tinted photographs. The portraits include one of MacIlreith wearing the City of Halifax mayor's chain of office [1905-1908]; and one of McIlreith wearing business attire, 1906. There are two framed paintings done by the mayor's wife, Gladys Clarke MacIlreith: one of the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron and Halifax Harbour, 1905; the other of Memorial Tower, Northwest Arm, 1927. The framed hand-tinted photographs include one looking over the NorthWest Arm, probably from Deadman's Island or Sir Sandford Fleming Park. A boat club is visible across the water - possibly Jubilee Boat Club. CR68