15 August 2023

500 audio reels and 3000 photographs taken by pioneer folklorist Helen Creighton have now been digitized and added to the existing online resource exploring her life and career. Taken between 1914 and 1951, these images cut a wide geographic path from small communities throughout Nova Scotia to Toronto, Trinidad and Mexico, and reveal a life filled with family, friends and meaningful work.

07 June 2023

John Irvine was an enthusiastic amateur photographer, active in the period ca. 1895 to ca. 1905. His views of Halifax and several nearby communities (Fall River, Purcell Cove, Waverley), plus the area around Annapolis Royal (Bear River, Clementsport, Granville Ferry, Smiths Cove) include buildings, street-scapes, picnics, camping and outdoor activities, railways, farm scenes and informal portraits.

20 April 2023

The 2023-batch of historical vital statistics are currently being prepared for our website. Birth records from 1922, marriages from 1947 and deaths from 1972 are being transferred from the Office of Vital Statistics, with scanning and standard indexing underway. Once completed in SUMMER 2023, the records will be added to our website as well as added into our public Transcribe tool.