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Series consists of administrative records created by the Nova Scotia Women’s History Society (NSWHS) including meeting agendas, minutes from board meetings (2012-2017) and from Annual General Meetings (2013-2020), NSWHS’ by-laws, codes of conduct (2018), membership lists (2014-2015), newsletter drafts (2018), and logo designs. Series also includes correspondence between NSWHS members, with other Nova Scotia organizations, and with members of the public.

Series consists of financial records belonging to the Nova Scotia Women’s History Society (NSWHS). The series contains financial statements (2013-2019), financial reports (2013-2020) including membership donations, general ledgers, and revenue reports from fundraising activities. Series also includes budgets, invoices, insurance files (2017-2018), and correspondence with CRA officers (2018-2020) as well as a CRA registered charity forms book (2018).

Fonds consist of records created and accumulated by the Nova Scotia Women’s History Society (NSWHS) including financial reports, budgets, meeting agendas and minutes, by-laws, member lists, media releases, correspondence, and grant applications, as well as slides, photographs, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets pertaining to NSWHS initiatives. Materials came from Janet Guildford and Sharon MacDonald, two founding members and first two chairs of the society.

Fonds also consist of records relating to the planning and installation of the WOW [Woman on the Waterfront] project (2013-2017) including artist agreements, technical drawings, budgets, promotional brochures, fundraising activities, correspondence, and historical research compiled by NSWHS members.

Series consists of research materials compiled by members of the Nova Scotia Women’s History Society (NSWHS). Contents include primary sources documenting Halifax activities during World War II and the 1917 explosion, notes on Canadian census records in Halifax from 1921-1999, photographic slides and prints of Halifax during the twentieth century, and notes on African Nova Scotian community members (predominantly teachers) in Truro including Martha Jones (b. 1877-1914).

Series consists of transcripts and notes from talks given by members of the Nova Scotia Women’s History Society (NSWHS). Series includes talks given at various venues in Halifax including the library, the Junior League, and St. Mary’s Heritage Fair (2018).

Series consists of records relating to the Nova Scotia Women’s History Society’s (NSWHS) Woman on the Waterfront (WOW) project (2013-2017) which involved planning and installing a monument on the Halifax waterfront honouring the volunteer work and labour of women during World War II.

Series includes Annual General Meeting notes referring to the WOW project (2015-2017), budgets for the commission and installation of the monument, the project’s Request for Proposal, records documenting the formation of the artist committee (2014-2017), notes from the committee’s jury deliberations and selection process of the successful candidate (2014-2017), and Marlene Hilton Moore’s maquette of the monument.

Series also includes promotional brochures, cards, pamphlets, media releases, and newspaper clippings referring to the design and unveiling of the monument (2013-2017), records relating to fundraising events and initiatives including “100 Women Donors” and “We’ll Meet Again: North End Services Canteen Re-enactment and Fundraiser,” and primary source research and notes compiled by NSWHS members on women’s volunteer activities during World War II and on art and statues in Canada.

Series also consists of donor agreements and correspondence, CN’s donation pledge, correspondence and agreements with the Halifax Port Authority, as well as grant applications and agreements, including those from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the Halifax Regional Municipality.