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Recent acquisitions at the University Archives

The University Archives is pleased to share information about some recent acquisitions:

  • Catherine Banks fonds (MS-2-8) – The personal papers of this two-time winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama document her career as a professional playwright, from her first published play, Eula’s Offer, to works currently in development.  Records include manuscripts and typescripts, photographs, correspondence, and publicity material.
  • Donna Morrissey fonds (MS-2-753) – The personal papers of this award-winning novelist document the development of best-selling novels Kit’s Law and Downhill Chance and recent works The Deception of Livvy Higgs and Cross Katie Kross.  Morrissey’s fonds includes some of the first email and electronic records to be acquired by the University Archives for long-term preservation.
  • The Creelman Family fonds (MS-2-775) – Thomas Wilson Creelman worked for the Imperial Oil Company in the 1920s and 30s, and spent five years stationed in various locations in South America with his wife Annie.  Their son, William MacKay Creelman (Mack) spent over 40 years working with the Navy, holding posts such as Supervising Inspector, Electrical Anti-Mining (Maritimes), where he was responsible for all electrical mine countermeasures in the Atlantic Command.  Mack was also involved in ship degaussing in the 1950s.   The family fonds contains diaries, correspondence, and over 2,000 photographs of South American oil fields and facilities, Canadian navy ships, family members, and family vacations.
  • The Lockport Historical Collection (MS-4-177) – This large collection of business and personal archives from Lockeport, Nova Scotia documents over 150 years of mercantile and social history in Shelburne County.  It contains the mercantile and shipping papers of William McMillan and William E. Harding, prominent merchants and shipowners, and the Locke family, descendents of the one of the two families that founded Lockeport.  The collection also contains rare letters from ship captains and extensive research material compiled by Trevor Bebb, a local historian and author who rescued the materials in the collection from businesses that were going out of business.

All of these materials are now available for research and the Archives has detailed inventories available on-site.  Drop by to check out our newest acquisitions!

Recent Archival Acquisitions at Archives and Special Collections

The EAC recently donate its archival records to Dalhousie

The University Archives and Special Collections has had a busy year!  Newly catalogued items enter the Special Collections on a routine basis and our music room is as busy as every.   We’ve also been busy acquiring and processing some exciting archival material.  Not all of the material is ready for research – it takes some time to create finding aidsto our collections – but we want to spread the word about a few acquisitions to give you a sense of what we’ve been collecting:

  • Ecology Action Centre (MS-11-13) – The Ecology Action Centre recently donated its audiovisual and print library to DUASC.  As part of this donation, the EAC also transferred a large batch of historical records that were held at Nova Scotia Archives.
  • Centre for Art Tapes (MS-3-46) – The Centre for Art Tapes donated a large collection of administrative records, programmes, brochures, exhibit materials, and other records that document the organization’s 30+ years as an artist-run non-profit arts organization.  The fonds is an excellent match for DUASC – we already hold the archives of long-time CFAT collaborator, Eye Level Gallery (MS-3-35).
  • Upstream Music Association (MS-5-16) – The Upstream Music Association is a genre-busting non-profit music organization that steers a number of composition & conduction ensembles, concert series, festivals, recordings, workshops and symposia in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.  Upsteam recently donated administrative records that document the organization’s history, audiovisual materials, and some fantastic avant-garde music scores – you have to see them to believe them!

This is just a selection – we’ve acquired over 100 metres of archival records this year alone!  We’re always working to process and make available new acquisitions and our extensive collection of unprocessed archives – business, shipping, personal, and university records.  If you’re interested in learning more about a collection, don’t hesitate to contact us!

 

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