Digital Collections

A small selection of materials from Acadia’s Archives & Special Collections are available digitally. Please note that due to copyright restrictions and privacy considerations, most of our materials are not available online. Images on this site are provided for reference and research use only. If you wish to publish or use these images, including on social media, please see our Publication and Use policy.

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Artefacts
Acadia Archives' limited artefact collection. Acadia and Baptist-related artefacts.
Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton
Prolific author and Kings County historian. Land transactions, manuscripts, correspondence.
ARTSNews
Newsletter of ARTSPLACE, operated by the Annapolis Region Community Arts Council
Baker family
Records of the Baker family of Cumberland County. Land records, legal documents, correspondence.
Baptist Image Collection
Baptist-related images that lack provenance. Churches (interior and exterior), clergy, missionaries.
Baptist Missionary Magazine of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
Baptist Year Books of the Maritimes
Minutes of the annual sessions of the Baptist Convention of NS, NB, and PE.
Beals family
Records of the Beals family. Photographs, correspondence, manuscript, articles.
Blomidon Naturalists Society
Eastern Annapolis Valley field naturalists club. Minutes, membership, newsletters, and projects.
Bridgetown Reader
Weekly newspaper for Annapolis County
Bulmer-Bowers-Hutchinson-Sutherland family
Records of the Bulmer-Bowers-Hutchinson-Sutherland family, relatives of poet Elizabeth Bishop.
Caleb Barratt
American Revolutionary War lieutenant.
Canada. Department of the Interior
1923 publication, "General Report on Topographical Survey of Nova Scotia" by P.E. Palmer.
Cape Split Development Company
Company that examined the development of a potential hydroelectric power plant at Cape Split.
CBAC Yearbooks
Annual publication of the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada
Chipman family
Records of the Chipman family of Kings County. Planter descendants.
Class Lists, from course calendars
Class lists for Seminary (1880-1926), Horton (1890-1958), University (1854-1964).
Dennison family
Records of the Dennison family of Hortonville. Farming records, land and legal records.
Ditmars family
Records of the Ditmars family of Clementsport, Annapolis County. Loyalist descendants.
Donald M. McRitchie
Sketches created by political cartoonist Don McRitchie for the Halifax Herald, 1920-1937.
Dykes and Common Fields
Records relating to the dykes and common fields of the Annapolis Valley, especially Kings County.
Edward Manning
Influential early Baptist minister and leader in Kings County. Correspondence, journals, writings.
Eldred E. Bridges
Graduate of Acadia, Class of 1924. Acadia-related scrapbook.
Elizabeth McWhinnie
Graduate of Acadia, Class of 1916. Acadia-related photographs and postcards.