County of Halifax Record Series

These are the records the Municipal Archives holds from the former Municipality of the County of Halifax. For more information, look at the description in the Archives Database, which is linked to the record series name.

The Municipal Archives continues to acquire and process more records, so if you don't see what you need, contact the Archives.

• County Council records [was 312-P], 1880-1996: 312-1

  • Minutes and Reports, 1880-1996: 312-1A

  • Submissions, 1880-1884, 1894-1909, 1929-1930, 1942, 1945-1949: 312-1B

  • Agendas, 1963-1978, 1995-1996: 312-1C

  • By-laws: [ca. 1880], [ca. 1885], 1900, 1926, 1958, 1972-1996: 312-1D

  • Recorded Resolutions, 1992-1996: 312-1E

  • Photographs, [189-?]-[199-]: 312-1F

  • Council roll books and election records, 1880-1981: 312-1G

  • Halifax County Municipality Administration Centre Guestbook, 1984-1989: 312-1H

• Halifax County Building Inspection scrapbook, 1958: 312-1I

• Ad Hoc Committee re Sackville Incorporation minutes, 1987-1989: 312-2

• Municipal Building Board records, 1961-1964, 1970-1974, 1976-1984: 312-3

• School Capital Program Committee minutes, 1956-1958, 1960-1979: 312-4

• Policy Committee minutes, 1979-1984: 312-5

• Executive Committee records, 1935-1969, 1971-1996: 312-6

• Hospital Board of Management minutes, 1960-1971, 1975: 312-7

• Joint Recreation and Planning Advisory Committees minutes, 1975-1979: 312-8

• Planning Advisory Committee minutes, 1944, 1947-1970, 1973-1996: 312-9

• Joint Municipal and City Planning Advisory Committees minutes, 1994-1995: 312-10

• Joint Executive and Planning Advisory Committees minutes, 1963-1964, 1966: 312-11

• Service Standards Committee minutes, 1993-1995: 312-12

• Joint Service Standards and Planning Advisory Committees minutes, 1995: 312-13

• Transit Committee minutes, 1987-1993: 312-14

• Rural Services Committee minutes, 1983-1991: 312-15

• Urban Services Committee minutes, 1981-1993: 312-16

• Market Committee records minutes, 1911, 1943, 1950, 1952-1953: 312-17

• Committee on By-Laws minutes, 1935-1948, [1955]: 312-18

• Welfare Committee minutes and reports, 1935-1979: 312-19

  • County Jail minutes, 1952-1966: 312-19-1

  • Ocean View Home minutes, 1935, 1960-1966, 1969: 312-19-2

  • County Home and Mental Hospital minutes, 1952-1960: 312-19-3

  • Minutes and reports, 1963-1979: 312-19-4

• Arbitration Committee minutes, 1951-1952, 1960, 1967, 1975, 1980: 312-20

• Tenders and Public Property Committee minutes, 1935-1945: 312-21

• Revenue Committee minutes, 1952, 1956: 312-22

• Low Cost Housing Committee minutes, 1962-1963: 312-23

• Civil Defence Committee records minutes, 1962-1964: 312-24

• Industrial Committee minutes, 1955, 1961-1965, 1970: 312-25

• Halifax County Industrial Commission, 1974, 1979-1987, [199-]: 312-26

• Industrial Sub-Committee minutes, 1980: 312-27

• Joint Industrial Sub-Committee and Industrial Commission minutes, 1980: 312-28

• Redistribution Committee minutes, 1935-1936, 1945-1946, 1952, 1975, 1978-1979: 312-29

• Library Board records, 1960-1966, 1968-1980, 1984-1996: 312-30

• Ocean View Municipal Home Board of Management minutes, 1969, 1973-1975: 312-31

• Public Works Committee minutes, 1955, 1957-1958, 1961-1972, 1974-1979: 312-32

• Special Committee on Taxation minutes, 1962: 312-33

• Jury Lists Committee minutes, 1968: 312-34

• Joint Public Works Committee and Planning Board minutes, 1960, 1968: 312-35

• Emergency Measures Organization Control Committee minutes, 1966-1969: 312-36

• Joint Public Housing and Welfare Committees minutes, 1966: 312-37

• Joint Jail and City Prison Committees minutes, 1934: 312-38

• School Bus Conveyance Committee minutes, 1969: 312-39

• Recreation Committee minutes, 1972-1973, 1979: 312-40

• Board of Health records, 1940-1944, 1950-1951, 1961-1996: 312-41

• Joint Board of Health and Executive Committee minutes, 1941: 312-42

• Special Medical Committee minutes, 1950: 312-43

• Snow Removal Committee minutes, 1942: 312-44

• Special School Committee minutes, 1981: 312-45

• Meeting re Annexation of Western Suburbs to the City of Halifax minutes, 1964: 312-46

• Bedford Co-Ordinating Committee minutes, 1980: 312-47

• Centennial Committee minutes, 1980: 312-48

• Regional Resolutions Committee minutes, 1980: 312-49

• Urban Area Advisory Board minutes, 1980-1981: 312-50

• Eastern Area Working Group minutes, 1980-1981: 312-50-1

• Sackville Working Group minutes, 1980-1981: 312-50-2

• Task Force [on Salaries for Elected Officials] minutes, 1979: 312-51

• Area Rate Sub-Committee minutes, 1980: 312-52

• Fire Advisory Committee minutes, 1980-1981: 312-53

• Staff Technical [School Board Co-ordination] Committee minutes, 1980: 312-54

• Plan Review Committee minutes, 1991-1993: 312-55

• Safety Committee reports, 1991-1993: 312-56

• Nominating Committee reports, [1955]: 312-57

• Legislative Committee minutes and correspondence, 1913, 1942: 312-58

• Resources Committee reports, [1955]: 312-59

• Institutional Committee minutes, 1936, 1938: 312-60

• Municipal Clerk and Treasurer (was RG-35-312-M &C), 1880-1996: 312-61

  • General correspondence, 1880-1968: 312-61-1

  • Hospital account correspondence, 1919-1955: 312-61-2

  • Reports and other materials, 1898-1970: 312-61-3

  • Scrapbooks, 1933-1996: 312-61-4

  • Election records, 1914-1955: 312-61-5

  • Court correspondence and other records, 1886-1887, 1934-1941: 312-61-6

  • Oaths of Office and associated records, 1880-1946: 312-61-7

  • School capital construction files, 1956-1960: 312-61-8

• Joint Welfare and Executive Committees minutes, 1962: 312-62

• Overseers of the Poor records (was RG-35-312-C), 1835, 1882-1950: 312-63

• County Hospital and Mental Home records (was RG-35-312-C), 1886-1957, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1983-1984, 1989, 1993, 1996: 312-64

  • Patient billing records, 1948-1955: 312-64-1

  • Employee payroll records, 1954-1955: 312-64-2

  • Account ledgers, 1940-1957: 312-64-3

  • Returns, 1903-1929: 312-64-4

  • Building specifications and other records, 1886-[19-]: 312-64-5

• Committee on Insane records (was RG-35-312-C), 1879-1909: 312-65

• Ledger and Insane pauper list, 1859-1909: 312-65-1

• Examinations and other materials, 1879-1909: 312-65-2

• Clerk of Licenses records (was RG 35-312-L), 1902, 1907-1908, 1938-1955: 312-66

• County Jail (was RG 35-312-J.68 to J.110), 1876-1967: 312-67

  • Committal and discharge books - debtors, [18-?]-1929: 312-67-1

  • Committal and discharge books - criminal, 1885-1967: 312-67-2

  • Daily admittance and discharge log, 1902-1927: 312-67-3

  • Jail physician visitation books, 1924-1944, 1961-1967: 312-67-4

  • Prisoner property and cash books, 1921-1924, 1945-1967: 312-67-5

  • Financial records, 1928-1954: 312-67-6

  • Police charge books, 1928-1967: 312-67-7

  • Commitment books and other records, 1880-1961: 312-67-9

• County Constable records (was RG 35-312-J.4a,b, 6-11,15), 1919-1957: 312-68

  • Correspondence, 1946-1957: 312-68-1

  • Receipts of complaints, 1949-1951: 312-68-2

  • Daily diaries, 1919, 1921, 1939: 312-68-3

  • General administrative records, 1930-1951: 312-68-4

• Hospital Committee minutes, 1935: 312-69

• Jail Committee visitation reports and minutes (was RG 35-312-J), 1924-1952: 312-70

• Commissioners of Court House (was RG 35-312-J), 1880-1920, [195-?], 1969-1972, 1984-1995: 312-71

• Committee on Roads and Bridges records (was RG 35-312-R.1-7), 1880-1908: 312-72

• Public Services Committee records (was RG 35-312-U), 1951-1955: 312-73

• Municipal School Board records (was RG 35-312-S), 1883-[1891?], 1928-1982, predominantly 1942-1955: 312-74

  • Minutes and reports, 1942-1982: 312-74-1

  • Correspondence, 1883-[1891?], 1942-1956: 312-74-2

  • Contracts and related materials, 1942-1954: 312-74-3

  • Resignations and related materials, 1944-1954: 312-74-4

  • Budgets and financial reports, 1943-1954: 312-74-5

  • Reports and other materials, 1928, 1938-1958: 312-74-6

  • School section account records, 1944: 312-74-7

• Financial records (was RG 35-312-F): [ca. 1876]-1968: 312-75

  • Cash received and disbursed ledgers, 1880-1946: 312-75-1

  • Account ledgers: [ca. 1876]-[ca. 1957]: 312-75-2

  • Debentures and other material, 1883-1957: 312-75-3

  • Welfare cheque registers, 1963-1968: 312-75-4

• Trustees of Oldfield Consolidated School records, 1977-1996: 312-76

• Recreation Department scrapbooks and photographs, 1975-1991: 312-77

• Board of Trustees, school section #75, Lower Sackville, records, 1959-1997: 312-78

• Halifax County-Bedford District School Board minutes, 1982-1996: 312-79-1

• Board of School Commissioners for Eastern District, 1865-1940: 312-80

• Board of School Commissioners for Western District, 1864-1941: 312-81

• Board of School Commissioners for Rural District, 1864-1903, 1906-1915, 1919-1939: 312-82

• Tax Collection records, 1935-1941: 312-83

• Planning and Development records, 1955-1994: 312-84

  • Planning and Development plans: [between 1955 and 1996]: 312-84-1

  • Public Works plans, 1958-1971: 312-85-1

• Property Assessment records, 1835-1978: 312-86

  • Assessment rolls, 1835-1978: 312-86A

• Financial Statements, 1965-1972, 1983-1996: 312-87

• Municipality of the County of Halifax budgets, 1983-1996: 312-88
• Halifax County Water Utility records, 1986-1995: 312-89
• Cole Harbour Place financial statements, 1989-1990, 1992: 312-90
• Municipality of the County of Halifax pension fund records, 1984-1998, 2000: 312-91
• Warden/Mayor's Office correspondence and subject files, 1976-1996: 312-92
• The Joint Expenditure Board of the Municipality of the County of Halifax, the City of Halifax, the City of Dartmouth and the Town of Bedford financial statements, 1969-1970, 1983-1990, 1992-1995: 312-93
• Cole Harbour-Westphal Community Council records, 1971-1997: 312-94
• Sackville-Beaverbank Advisory Board records, 1953-1989, predominantly 1982-1989: 312-95
• Cole Harbour-Westphal Community Planning Advisory Committee meeting minutes and reports, 1992-1996: 312-96
• Zoning and land use by-law publications, [ca.1950]-1996: 312-97
• Gifts received by the County of Halifax, 1959-1990: 312-100
• Sackville Community Council records, 1989-1996: 312-101
• Artifacts from the County of Halifax, [between 1880 and 1996]: 312-103
• Halifax County Social Committee records, 1984-1988: 312-104
• Western Region Community Council records, 1993-1996: 312-105
• Management Committee records, 1979-1995: 312-107
• Police Committee records, 1982-1996: 312-108
• Tourism Steering Committee minutes, 1984-1986: 312-109
• Forestry Protection Committee records, 1985: 312-110
• Tri Committee, 1982: 312-111
• Recreation Department records, 1975-1991: 312-112
• Noise Bylaw Committee records, 1990: 312-113
• Heritage Advisory Committee minutes, 1982: 312-114-1
• Joint Transportation Committee minutes, 1993: 312-115-1
• Lake District Recreation Association, 1992: 312-116-1
• Chief Administrative Officer's (CAO) records, 1979-1996: 312-117