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MG 1 vol 2124 number 324b

Halifax Disaster Record Office
Archibald MacMechan, B.A., (Tor.,) Ph.D. (J.H.U.,) F.R.S.C
Director

Circular No.1

This Office has been established by the Executive Committee of the Halifax relief Committee in order to collect material for a comprehensive report or history of the recent disaster. Its object is to ascertain the facts.

The importance of this undertaking must be evident to all. Even more apparent is its difficulty, indeed, impossibility without the hearty co-operation of the entire community. Information is urgently desired as to:
1. Phenomena of the explosion; sound; impressions; testimony of eye-witnesses; effects of glass; freaks; etc. in Halifax and within the Province.
2. Personal narratives of escapes.
3. Rescue and relief work on the 6th,7th,8th,9th, of December, particularly narratives of doctors, nurses, soldiers and sailors.
4. Names and addresses of all those who assisted in relief, or gave voluntary aid in the hospitals, or sheltered homeless people.
5. Damage done to various institutions and establishments, with particulars of injuries to personnel, and of material damage; measures taken to make good damage done, date at which normal business was resumed, etc.

Suggestions
1. All communications should be written or typed on one side of paper only.
2. Heads of institutions and business firms are desired to dictate their statements to their stenographers, or typists.
3. For purposes of record, notes, memoranda, etc., are almost as useful as statements written out in full.

NOTE: Confidential statements may be made. Unwelcome publicity will be avoided. Representatives of this office can call for statements, if desired. Appointments may be made with the Director at Room 24, Chronicle Building.
Halifax Disaster Record Office
P.O. Box 25
Halifax, N.S.

[stamp] Public Archives of Nova Scotia
Halifax