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Catherine Creighton and family fonds

  • CA NSHDA MS-2-656
  • Fonds

Fonds consists of papers created and/or accumulated by Catherine Creighton and her family, including those of her husband Graham and children Edith, Anna, Lois, Frieda, and Howard. While the fonds includes correspondence from Wilfred Creighton to his siblings and parents, Wilfred's papers are not included as a sous-fonds within the fonds.

The bulk of the fonds consists of correspondence from family and friends, but also includes diaries, photographs, financial papers, personal papers, memorabilia, print materials, scrapbooks, articles, and artwork. Records in the fonds provide a well-rounded depiction of the family's daily activities and lives - from their relationships with each other, their extended family, and their community, to their financial status, values, education, and careers.

Eastern Command Players fonds

  • CA NSHDA MS-3-12
  • Fonds

This fonds consists of meeting minutes, a circular letter, and programs for productions of Dover Road and Blithe Spirit.

Guest books of Malachy Bowes Daly

  • CA NSHDA MS-2-19, SF Box 14, Folders 1-2
  • File

File consists of two guest books (1890-1893 and 1897-1900) printed for Daly and his wife, used during his time as Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

Letter from Francis V. Hugo to Mrs Saunders

  • CA NSHDA MS-2-277, SF Box 41, Folder 15
  • Item

Letter from Francis V. Hugo to Mrs Saunders, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Hugo's younger sister, Adèle, boarded with the Saunders under an assumed name after she followed Lt. Albert Andrew Pinson from London to Halifax, where he was stationed between 1863-1866.

Letter to Mrs. William Clarke from her cousin

  • CA NSHDA MS-2-150, SF Box 27, Folder 4
  • Item

Item is a black-bordered letter written to [Maria?] Clarke from her cousin in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia relating the news of her sister's death and funeral.

Oland family fonds

  • CA NSHDA MS-2-135
  • Fonds

Fonds consists of various personal records, including correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, slides, negatives, an artifact, and legal and financial records. Some business records from Oland and Son Limited and its affiliated companies are also included.

Our Voices Matter Project fonds

  • CA NSHDA MS-13-88
  • Fonds

Collection consists of 16 DVDs, 5 CD-ROMs, and 54.4 GB of digital video and electronic transcriptions. The collection contains oral histories given by mental health consumers that span the second half of the twentieth century to the present. Some videos are accompanied by a transcription of the interview.

The Our Voices Matter Project is an initiative of the Canadian Mental Health Association Halifax-Dartmouth Branch. The purpose of the Project is to offer older mental health consumers living in Halifax Regional Municipality the opportunity of leaving a permanent record of their lives.

The Project collects oral histories from individuals interested in sharing their personal perspective on the evolving social and mental health environments. Involvement in the project is voluntary and any participant may withdraw from the process at any time and have all records destroyed during and up to the end of the project. The project is sponsored by the Canadian Mental Health Association Halifax-Dartmouth Branch and funded by the Nova Scotia Department of Health and Wellness and Halifax Regional Municipality.

Papers of William A. Major on the Halifax Curling Club

  • CA NSHDA MS-2-167, SF Box 27, Folder 32
  • File

File consists of a brief manuscript essay on Halifax Curling Club's history, the 1923 end-of-season report, and an excerpt from a published pamphlet called "Curliana Memorabilia."

Theatre Arts Guild fonds

  • CA NSHDA MS-3-4
  • Fonds
  • 1931-1999

This collection consists of records regarding Theatre Arts Guild's management and productions from the establishment of the guild in 1931 to 1999. Materials include administrative documents and some financial records, programs, posters, newsletters, histories of Theatre Arts Guild and information about amateur theatre in Halifax, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks.

Theatre Arts Guild.

Welfare Council (Halifax-Dartmouth area) fonds

  • CA NSHDA MS-11-6
  • Fonds

Fonds consists of records documenting the council's role in coordinating health, welfare, and recreation services and programs. Fonds contains newsletters and memoranda, reports, and correspondence.