University Archives

Health and Medicine

Additional Resources

About our Medical Archives

The University Archives collects materials that document the history of medicine in Nova Scotia, including the personal archives of physicians and pharmacists, faculty papers, records of professional organizations, and administrative records from the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Health Professions.

Key Subject Areas

  • Faculty papers
  • Medical clinics
  • Pharmacy--Study and teaching
  • Physicians

    • Featured Collections

  • J. Gordon Duff (MS-13-82)
  • Dalhousie University, No.7 "Overseas" Stationary Hospital (MS-13-2)
  • Halifax Visiting Dispensary (MS-13-84)

    • Published Research

    Langley, G. Ross. Medical Education and Health Research Innovator: Chester Bryant Stewart (1910-1999), MD, OC.  Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society14 (2011): 22-53.

    MacCara, Mary E. "Dispensing knowledge : one hundred years of the College of Pharmacy, 1911-2011." Tantallon, N.S. : Glen Margaret Pub., 2012.

    Twohig, Peter L. “To Produce an Article We are not at Present Capable of Producing: The Evolution of the Dalhousie University School of Nursing, 1946-1956.” Nova Scotia Historical Review 15.2 (1995): 26-41.