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MG 1 vol 2124 number 324a

Halifax Disaster Record Office
Chronicle Building
Halifax, N.S.

Memo.

The Halifax Disaster Record Office was authorized verbally by Mr. D. Macgillivray while a member of the Executive Committee. On December 15, he notified Professor MacMechan to begin at once. An office was accordingly rented in the Chronicle Building, Dec. 17, 1918 and two assistants engaged. Professor MacMechan was informed that he was authorized to incur expense up to a certain figure named by Mr. Macgillivray. About six weeks later Mr. Ralph Bell authorized expenditure of this office in a letter to Mr. Glass.

Two suggestions have been made as to what form the History of Report should take.
(a) A pamphlet of 125 pages locally produced, sold at a nominal price, available, if necessary, by the Relief Commission or the Board of Trade. Within six months.
(b) A larger and more complete work produced only when rehabilitation is complete. Within two years.

Possibly both should be produced: the first as an outline, or memoire pour servir: the second as the final work of reference on record. For libraries etc.

I may add that the work of collecting material is steadily going on. A.M.

[stamp] Public Archives of Nova Scotia
Halifax