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Barbara Grantmyre
Fonds · 1923-1977
Fonds consists of material documenting Grantmyre's career as a writer and her personal life. Fonds includes correspondence, notebooks, newspaper clippings, research notes, drafts of plays, novels, and stories, galley proofs for her books, and scrapbooks pertaining to her books, Long Hard Look and The River That Missed the Boat, and the Media Club and Writer's Federation of Nova Scotia. Also includes photographs of Grantmyre, scenes of the Shubenacadie River used in her book the River that Missed the Boat, and audio recordings of her stories featured on CBC radio. MG 1 volumes 1052, 2474-2478
Baptist Girls' Work Committee
Fonds · 1965-1971
Fonds consists of committee and general correspondence, committee minutes, reports, and booklets. MG 20 volumes 383 (B) and (C)
Baptist Board of Christian Education
Fonds · 1967-1971
Fonds consists of Board of Christian Education Correspondence, and Bayside Camp correspondence. MG 20 volume 383 (A)
Baird family
Fonds · 1883-1979
Fonds consists of photographs and correspondence to John “Jack” Baird from various family members including older brother Avard (1932-1973), younger brother Fred (1932-1973), sister Ethel (1932-1960), and sister-in-law Mae (MacKenzie) Baird (1930-1962) as well as his daughters (1964-1966), nieces and nephew (1958-1968); letters John sent to his mother Hannah (Stoddard) Baird while he was working in Ontario and Hannah’s letters to John (1932-1947); correspondence of Charles W. Baird to his wife Hannah (1918) and Charles’ financial account book on ships he captained (ca.1916 to 1922); John’s business correspondence regarding property and employment with Department of National Defence (1958-1969); and with lawyers (1958) and family members on settling the estates of Catherine Bigney and May (Baird) Pond (1955-1979) as well as researching Baird family history (1955-1957). Also includes John’s diaries and notebooks from his youth and young adulthood (1924-1942, 1973) and his car expense account book (1952-1967). Also includes an autograph book owned by Arabella Baird of Londonderry, NS (1883-1886), two family histories written by John’s daughter Jane (Baird) Barry, and lots of photographs of Baird and Bigney ancestors (ca.1860s-ca.1890s); John’s family and friends enjoying camping, fishing and boating at Panuke Lake, NS (ca.1917-1937); winter scenes of ice skating (1936-1937); and sailing ships, cars and homes owned by the Bairds (1927-1967). The records document a family’s life through the Great Depression of the 1930s and civilian life at home during the Second World War. 2014-034
Bailly family
Fonds · 1754-1827
Fonds consists of deeds and other items predominantly accumulated by Georges-Frederic Bailly and his son Joseph Bailly concerning property in Lunenburg, 1754-1824. Also includes deeds of property later acquired by the Bailly family and an account dated 1827, playing cards used to draw lots of land in Lunenburg, baptismal certificate, Georges-Frederick Bailly's certificate of naturalization, and two bound note books of his entitled, "Abrege de 16 discours, sur la redemption des hommes par la mort de Christ", 1780, which contains some notes on the Bailly family, and "Les degres de la vie spirituelle representes dan la vie interieure de Theodore de Brakel ministre de l'eglise de Makum en Frise [Holland]", 1775, written for his son Joseph. MG 1 volume 105 MG 8 volume 3, 3A
Aza Avramovitch
Fonds · 1939-1999
Fonds consists of records documenting Avramovitch's private life and architectural career. His personal papers include a few reminiscences of World War II, correspondence with friends and family, 1940s-1950s (written mostly in French, German, Italian and Serb), correspondence with Canadian government officials regarding his emigration to Canada, and various notes, drafts and typed booklets of poetry he produced from 1979-1995. The records relating to his architectural career are not business records as such but materials accumulated for personal reasons. They include academic papers written as a student, architectural drawings and plans from his early career in Europe and Montreal, and his Halifax firm, 1950s- 1980s. In addition there are reminiscences and notes about his career as an architect and files regarding some of his major projects in Halifax. Most of the latter contain photographs of buildings and sites, sketches, drawings and plans, architect's notes, clippings and similar material. Many files include handwritten explanatory and contextual notes inserted after his death by his widow, Francene Cosman Avramovitch. 2001-036
Aylward family
Fonds · 1865-1992, predominant 1918-1971
Fonds consists of probate records, correspondence, indentures, agreements, journals, day books, account books, cash books, and subject files relating to Walter J. Aylward's activities as a farmer and public administrator in West Hants and Falmouth; and legal records relating to the estates of the following family members: Charles E. Akins, Thomas B. Akins, May Akins, T.B. Akins, Annie Aylward, Chatherin Aylward, Marguerite L. Aylward, Mary L. Aylward, Thomas Aylward I, Thomas Aylward II, and Walter Victor Aylward. Fonds also includes material relating to John V. Duncanson's geneaological research of the Aylward family. Other related families represented in his research are Boyd, Dermody, Duncanson, and Winn. MG 1 volumes 3536-3538
Attorney General’s Advisory Committee on Legal Aid
Fonds · 1976
Fonds consists of a draft of the full final report including the briefs submitted (1976?); and the summary report submitted to the Attorney General with cover letter (May 1976).
Atlas Fisheries Ltd.
Fonds · 1955-1963
Fonds consists of records documenting the company's activities, including correspondence of the secretary-treasurer, 1955-1963 relating to the Fisherman's Loan Board, licenses, crews, and marine equipment; financial statements, 1959-1962; and trip sheets detailing the number and variety of fish caught, 1956-1962. 1997-252/003
Atlantic Word Processing Association
Fonds · 1981-1987
Document files accumulated by the immediate president of the A.W.P.A. from the records of various officers. The arrangement is by fiscal year, and by categories within each fiscal year (e.g. President, Annual General Meeting, etc.). The contents of each file are in chronological order, with the most recent item on top. MG 20 volumes 3091-3094; 1989-008