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Paul MacEwan fonds

  • NSSXA MG 9.30
  • Fonds
  • 1936-1998

Fonds consists of the personal materials of Paul MacEwan, founder and leader of the Cape Breton Labour Party from 1982-1987 and former member of the Nova Scotia Legislature for Cape Breton Nova from 1970-2003. Included is correspondence, subjects files concerning healthcare and agriculture, press releases, and papers related to the New Democratic Party and Cape Breton Labour Party.

MacEwan, Paul

Captain John Parker collection

  • NSSXA MG 12.50
  • Fonds
  • 1880-1978

Fonds consists of correspondence, papers, scrapbooks referring to ships, shipping, sailing, and items that were of interest to Captain John Parker. Included is a scrapbook that includes information about "Gaelic speaking Blacks" and photographs from a sailing trip to the West Indies.

Parker, John

Alvinus Calder fonds

  • NSSXA MG 12.192
  • Fonds
  • 1962

Fonds consists of of an undated autobiography, a travel-logue of a trip to Moscow in 1962, a letter to the editor of a Grenada newspaper concerning that island's economy, a clipping of a speech that Dr. Calder gave on racial prejudice, and a report of the Medical Committee. The fonds also includes an address given by Dr. Calder to St. Andrew's Brotherhood, Sydney, 1950 about racial prejudice.

Calder, Alvinus

Seymour's Senators, Sydney Little League

  • NSSXA 84-01-14101
  • Item
  • ca. 1951

Item is an Abbass Studios photograph of members of the Seymour's Senators, a Sydney Little League team. Identified from left to right are Joe "Whirly" Worrell, Alvin Daniels, Hubert Crawford, Tom Miller, R. Callander, and C. Boucher.

Abbass Studios Ltd.

Cape Breton Black/West Indian Community Scrapbook

  • NSSXA SB 151
  • Item

Item is a scrapbook that was compiled for the 200th Anniversary of Sydney celebrations that includes reproductions of photographs, event tickets, and newspaper articles, as well as listings of Black men who served during wartime, and a history of the Black population in Sydney.

Sterling Assistance Depot: Black Research of the Sterling Area of Glace Bay

  • Item

Item is a report that was created by Wilma MacLean with the support of the Sterling Assistance Depot that outlines a history of the Black population of that area and presents information about housing, education, employment, and community organizations (such as the United Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League).

Nova Scotian Blacks: An Historical and Structural Overview

  • NSSXA F 5221 N4 C43
  • Item

Item is a copy of Nova Scotian Blacks: An Historical and Structural Overview by Donald H. Clairmont (Dalhousie University) and Dennis W. Magill (University of Toronto). The study focuses on the issues of poverty and marginalization among Nova Scotian Blacks.

The History of the African Orthodox Church

  • NSSXA BX 9999 A3 TF7
  • Item

Item is a book about the history of the African Orthodox Church written by Rev. A.C. Terry-Thompson, D.D.. The book includes a history of St. Philip's Church, Sydney.

Canadian Black Studies

  • NSSXA FC 106 B5 C3
  • Item

Item is a book containing twenty-three articles related to Black Studies, edited by Dr. Bridglal Pachai.

The following pieces are featured within the book:

  • D.R. Fraser Taylor, "Black Studies: A Canadian Perspective"
  • Jan Carew, "Black Studies: An Afro-American Perspective from Northwestern"
  • Peter Igbonekwu Okeh, "Black Studies: A West African Perspective"
  • Wilson A. Head, "Problems and Prospects for Blacks in the Canadian Mosaic"
  • R. Leighton Hutson, "Black Conciousness is our Culture"
  • James W. St. G. Walker, "Blacks in Context: Black Canadians and the History Curriculum"
  • Ralph E. James, "Concerns about Black Students in Science and Technology"
  • Howard D. McCurdy, "Blacks and Science"
  • Lorris Elliot, "Literary Writings by Blacks in Canada"
  • Vicent D'Oyley "Emerging Canadian Interethnic Issues and Canadian Black Studies"
  • Colin A. Thomson, "White Response to Black Migration to the Prairies, 1908-1912"
  • Jean Luc Gouveia, "The Blacks in Quebec or the Difficulty of Being a Minority Group that is 'Different'"
  • Phillip H Alexander, "Resource Development in Southwestern Ontario"
  • Judith R. Gold, "A Special University Program for Nova Scotian Blacks and Micmacs"
  • Cynthia M. Thomas, "Black Youth and Education"
  • Cherry Paris, "Education and Human Rights"
  • Eleanor Dorrington, "Halifax Outreach Employment Project"
  • Winston S. Ruck, "Nova Scotian Blacks in the Canadian Mosaic: Blacks and Employments"
  • Patricia Skinner, "The Minority Situation in the Antigonish, Guysborough Region"
  • Donald E. Fairfax, "The Black Church and Youth"
  • Wayne Adams, "The Church and the Black Man"
  • Carolyn Thomas, "The Black Church and the Black Woman"
  • Donald D. Skeir, "The African United Baptist Association and the Black Man in Nova Scotia."

West Indian Reunion, Whitney Pier

  • NSSXA FT 18
  • Item

File consists of two videos of a gathering at the AOC Churchyard during Whitney Pier's West Indian Reunion.

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