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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Eva Bessie Lockhart
Graduate of Acadia, Class of 1916. Acadia-related photo alums.
Frank L. Doyle
Private in the Canadian Mounted Rifles. Letters from South Africa.
Fritz Rothberger
Mathematician and Acadia professor. Correspondence, working notes, drafts of papers, photograph.
George Hill
Private Secretary of Sir Archibald, Lt. Gov. of Manitoba & Northwest. Diary of trip to Northwest.
George Johnson
Journalist and federal government employee, first Dominion Statistician. Professional papers.
Gormley family
Records of the Gormley family farm in Upper Falmouth. Photographs taken by Arch Gormley.
Grand Pre Marsh Body
Records of the Grand Pre Marsh Body. Minutes, administrative records, legal documents, and accounts.
Haley family
Ladies Seminary student from 1912-1914. Photograph album of seminary students & Grand Pre area.
Harrison Flint Lewis
Graduate of Acadia, Class of 1917. Records related to his career as a naturalist and ornithologist.
Henry Alline
Itinerant New Light preacher and hymnist based in Falmouth. Correspondence.
Homefires News
Newsletter of L'Arche Homefires in Wolfville, NS
Horton Collegiate Academy
Preparatory school opened in 1828 by the Baptist Education Society in Wolfville.
J.F.W. Des Barres
18th century cartographer. Maps of the coastal areas of Nova Scotia.
James Easterbrooks
New Brunswick politician and Planter descendant. Correspondence.
John Daniel Logan
Writer, professor, literary and music critic, WWI veteran. Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs.
John Frederic Herbin
Acadia Class of 1890. Jeweller and Optician. Writer and historian of Acadian culture at Grand Pre.
John Mockett Cramp
19th century President of Acadia College. Journal, manuscripts, publications.
John Wiswall
Church of England clergyman based in Wilmot. Journal, deed.
Joyce Duncanson
Diploma in Secretarial Science from Acadia, 1939. Acadia-related photographs.
Kentville Connection
Email newsletter produced by the Town of Kentville
Kings County Agricultural Society
Second oldest agricultural society in North America. Minute books, accounts, correspondence.
Kings County Regiment of Militia
19th century records of the 1st battalion and 1st regiment of the Kings County Militia.
Lillian Grant
Lillian Grant may have attended the Acadia Ladies Seminary. In 1916, she certainly lived in…
Louis Franquet
Louis Franquet (1697-1768), was a French army officer and military engineer. He traveled to French-…