Department of Community Services - Archived Material

“Social Welfare in Nova Scotia” – A hard covered book documenting historical material prepared by the Department of Public Welfare as a Centennial Project dated March 15, 1968. The Department asked Stan Fitzner of the Halifax Herald to compile it. A rich source of the early beginnings of social welfare in the province. It contains the following articles:

• The Development of Social Welfare in Nova Scotia by Stan Fitzner
• The Halifax Poor Man’s Friend Society ( 1820 – 1827) by George Hart
• The Institution as an Illustration of the Poor Laws in Nova Scotia ( 1750 - 1901 by Gerald Alton
• Poor Relief and Medicine in Nova Scotia 1749 – 1783 by Relief Williams
• The Negro in Nova Scotia ( 1686 – 1967) by W. P. Oliver

The History of Children’s Aid Societies and Child Caring Institutions ( 1964) by D. H. Johnson.

Department of Public Welfare Publications:

Publication # 1 – 1970  Public Assistance

Publication # 2 – 1971  Biographical Sketches of Ministers of Public Welfare

Publication # 3 – 1972  Social Welfare Pioneers in Nova Scotia ( 1944 – 1956)

Publication # 4 – 1972              Part I – Nova Scotia Association of Children’s Aid Societies ( 1926 – 1956)

                                                Part II – The Nova Scotia Association of Child Caring Institutions ( 1948 – 1956)

Publication # 5 – 1972              Part I – Joint Conference of the Association of Children’s Aid Societies and the Association of Child Caring Institutions ( 1957 – 1959)

                                                Part II – The Nova Scotia Child Welfare Association ( 1960 – 1967)

Publication # 6 – 1979  Social Welfare Pioneers in Nova Scotia

Social Services Department Annual Reports for 1977 and 1978:

Annotated Bibliography of Social Welfare in Nova Scotia prepared by Dr. Fred MacKinnon:

• ISSUES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY SERVICES - “SOCIAL SERVICES NEWS” – ( located in the Association library)

1973 – Summer and December

1974 –       Spring and Summer

1975 –       Spring, Summer ( special edition “Whose Who – 1950 - 1975”) and December

1976 –       Spring

1977 –       Spring, Summer and December

1978 –       Spring, Summer and December

1979 –       Spring and Fall

1980 –       January and December

1981 –       Spring and Summer

1982 –       missing….

1983 –       January and Fall

1984 – Summer

Other Material:                         

- Stratton Report

- Report on Special Protection Services

- “Oral History of Social Work in Canada” by Karen Hill

- “History of the Canadian Association for the Mentally Retarded – Nova Scotia Division”

- Black Binder containing articles, notes and biography of Dr. Fred MacKinnon as Director of the Senior Citizens Secretariat

- “Halifax: Its Sins and Sorrows”, April 9, 1862 – A small booklet