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Collection consists of a telegram from Neta and Arnold ? (1956), various photocopies of correspondence between Harvey Mesher and others; handwritten copy and a typewritten copy of personal accounts of life in Sandwich Bay by Harvey Mesher; a photocopy of the CARTWRIGHTER, vol. 4, no. 12, (1940), a photocopy of THE LABRADORITE vol. 2, no. 4 (1965), a clipping entitled: ‘Bargain Basement No Longer’ (1975), copy of Labrador Heritage Society Newsletter; a Newfoundland Confederation Celebration calendar (1974); an assignment paper written by Alicia M. Eaton on Harvey Mesher, (1979), a copy of an agreement between Hudson’s Bay Company and the Church of England regarding land (1916), a copy of a Christmas program (1930), a copy of fishing boat registration, a photocopy of a custom house paper (1935), Defense regulations and correspondence from the Department of Secretary of State to Harvey Mesher (1942), a copy of National Defense registration, a Newfoundland Federation of Fisheries membership card (1951-52); a captain Earl Winsor election poster with map of Labrador and words from Joseph Smallwood (Election Promises), original flyer; a letter to commissioner Edwards from Harvey Mesher (1966), certification of Birth and Baptism of Harvey Mesher, a poem written by Harvey Mesher entitled: ‘The Rose of Tennessee’, a letter to the editor of THE EVENING TELEGRAM from Harvey Mesher (1972); 2 booklets entitled: ‘Government of Newfoundland: Northern Newfoundland Conference’ (1956), and ‘Province of Newfoundland: Annual Conference of Welfare Officers and Senior Staff of Department of Social Services and Rehabilitation’ (original booklets); a letter from W.A. Paddon MD to Harvey Mesher (1960); a magazine entitled: DATELINE LABRADOR (1965), a booklet entitled: ‘Heritage of the Sea.. Our Case on Offshore Mineral Rights’; and a copy of ‘Our Case: Premier Smallwood’s Statement of Policy’.

This fonds contains some of the corporate records of Hawes and Company (London) Ltd. The records include minutes of meetings, trade reports and subject files. There is also a collection of financial records. Fonds is arranged in two series: 1. Administrative records, 1909-1934; 2. Financial records, 1926-1947.

The collection contains 204 copies of original photographs gathered by the Haystack Reunion Committee for inclusion in its commemorative booklet, Haystack Reflections, published in 1997. The images include schools, churches, business premises, work and social activities, special events, Haystack residents, and the changing landscape of the community in the first half of the 20th century. All have been identified and described on MHA photographic database. Families include Gregory, Drake, March, Coffin, Wakely, Gilbert, Wareham, Allen, Halfyard, Paul, Bendle, Best, Johnson, Jarvis, Tulk, Bert, Peach, Quinton, Pike, Reid, Bugden.

The Medical School and University Hospital project was first considered in the period 1961-1963, and its need and feasibility was supported by Lord Brain in his study and subsequent report on the Health Services in the Province in 1965-1966. It also demonstrated and reaffirmed the MacFarlane report of 1966. Following a conference held in St. John’s in the fall of 1966 to discuss the effects of the establishment of a health sciences centre, a Brief to the Government of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador was prepared and submitted by the University in November 1966. A commitment in principle was made by Premier Smallwood on behalf of the Provincial Government on 18 April, 1967, recognizing the immense benefits, which would accrue to the Province’s health resources as a result of the institution of a medical school and university hospital.

The publication of the Royal Commission on Health Services in Canada and the subsequent establishment of the Health Resources Fund by the Federal Government confirmed the local and national need to train more medical and para-medical practitioners and assisted in no small measure in establishing the viability of the project terms and initial cost. The University, in recognising the close disciplinary relationships between the Health and Life Sciences and the academic and economic benefits, which would be achieved, decided in 1967 to integrate the Life and Health Sciences into one physical and administrative complex. The facilities in this complex would include schools of the health-related professions in a similar close association to the continuing benefit of Newfoundland and Labrador.

In the summer of 1968, following the appointment of the Dean of Medicine, work began on functional planning and development of a master plan for the Health and Life Sciences Centre within the framework of Sir Frederick Gibberd’s master plan for the University as a whole. This planning and development document found here in this collection, is divided into two parts and defines the functional objectives of the proposed Centre, outlines its functional requirements and organization in terms of personnel and space and recommends a plan or framework for its physical development.

The Functional and Development Plan for the Health and Life Sciences Centre at Memorial University represented a further, positive step towards the realization of Newfoundland’s Medical School and University Hospital. Also, it defined the future expansion of the important programmes of the Life Sciences and the establishment of training facilities for the health-related professions.

The functional and development plan was developed to meet the specific needs of Newfoundland and Labrador’s medical system not only in relation to the health services of the Province but also to ensure that fiscal demands arising from the construction of the Centre could be met by the Government in a flexible way. The development concept recommended in this report was not a rigid plan but a system of building the facilities for this very exciting and forward-looking Centre.

The wide range of alternative phasing possibilities meant that the plan would need to be monitored, ensuring that the University’s needs were met, phase by phase, and the Centre’s full potential was realized without inhibiting the basic aim of integration of the disciplines. It was also intended the plan be extremely functional to produce an efficient and economic Centre, both in construction and in operation, and that the design concept proposed would enable the Provincial and Federal Government to embark upon the construction of this Centre with confidence.

The study was performed by Llewellyn-Davies Weeks Forestier-Walker & Bor of London, England and Ottawa, Ontario. The fonds consists of the following series:

1.0 Publications, April 1969

Health Science Information and Media Services (HSIMS) has been documenting the formation and development of the Faculty of Medicine and the Health Sciences Centre since the first mention of a medical school for Memorial University. The photographs and visual materials in this collection were part of a large display that was created by HSIMS in 1983 on the anniversary of the Medical School at Memorial. It originally hung in the lobby of the Health Sciences Centre until 1984 when it was removed and stored and later, donated to the Faculty of Medicine Founders’ Archive.

Fonds consists of photographs and visual material relating to the planning, staffing, construction, and administration of the Faculty of Medicine and the Health Sciences Centre in which it operates. Fonds is composed of the following series:

1.0 Health Sciences and Early Thoughts, 1960-1964
2.0 Feasibility Studies, 1965-1967
3.0 Acceptance, 1967
4.0 Development of Educational Programmes, 1968-1969
5.0 Faculty Recruitment, 1968-1969
6.0 Construction, 1969-1974
7.0 The Mortar That Holds The Bricks Together, 1969-1974
8.0 The Early Years, 1973
9.0 Graduation, 1973
10.0 The Medical School Moves to the HSC, 1973-1978
11.0 General Hospital Moves to the HSC, 1978-1978
12.0 Medical Consultation, 1823-1983

As part of its mandate, HSIMS (Health Sciences Information and Media Service, formerly called Medical Audio Visual Services [MAVS]) created many videocassettes for the Medical School after its formation and made them available as teaching aids, public awareness tools and medical learning resources for students, staff and faculty. They were written, produced, directed and designed by the staff of HSIMS and also involved students, staff and faculty from Memorial and affiliated teaching hospitals in the St. John’s area. They were retained in the HSIMS storage area in the Health Sciences Centre.

The videocassettes cover the many projects and subjects worked on by HSIMS during the years 1978-1991, including community activities, health education, outreach to youth, and many other topics dealing with medicine and the provision of health care in Newfoundland and Labrador.

The fonds contains materials pertaining to the Health Sciences Library at Memorial University.

The fonds is composed of the following series:
1.0 Health Sciences Library Faculty and Staff Christmas Photographs, 1996-2002
2.0 Slides and Audio Cassette of the Health Sciences Library, No. I, 1981
3.0 Health Sciences Library Librarians’ Records, 1984-1994
4.0 Committees, 1975-1978, 1990
5.0 Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, Publications, 1972-2004
6.0 Retreats, 1994-2002
7.0 Memorial University of Newfoundland, Publications, 1966, 1995
8.0 Memorial University Library, Publications, 1993-1999
9.0 Miscellaneous, 1991-1992
10.0 Correspondence and Meeting Agendas, 1974-2000
11.0 Faculty of Medicine Founders’ Archive, 2000
12.0 Health Sciences Library, Annual Reports, 1971-1991
13.0 Health Sciences Library, Policies and Work Instructions – Documentation, 2009-2013
14.0 Health Sciences Library, Policies and Work Instructions - Library Administration, 2005-2013
15.0 Health Sciences Library, Policies and Work Instructions – Public Services, 2009-2-13
16.0 Health Sciences Library, Policies and Work Instructions – Information Resources Management, 2012
17.0 Health Sciences Library, Policies and Work Instructions – Faculty of Medicine Founders’ Archive, 1999-2011
18.0 Health Sciences Library, Policies and Work Instructions – Collection Development, 2011
19.0 Health Sciences Library, Policies and Work Instructions – Library Systems and Support, 2012-2013
20.0 Health Sciences Library, Policies and Work Instructions – NLHKIN, (no documents)
21.0 Heath Sciences Library Email Notifications, 2007-2013
22.0 Health Sciences Library - Administration

Collection consists of information concerning early Hamilton Inlet Settlers and Hudson's Bay Company Activities (1836), a report on the economy of Labrador (1843); a list of members of the Quebec Lower North Shore and Labrador Heritage Society, (1990), minutes from the Quebec Lower North Shore and Labrador Heritage Society, (1990); report on foundation of a new Heritage Society , Seven Islands Branch, a letter to Doris Saunders from Hector Blake (1987), a letter to Doris Saunders from Hector Blake (1988), genealogy research on the Blake family compiled by Robert Blake, genealogy research on the Peel Family compiled by Marion Roger, David Peel Jr, and Roger Peel, and genealogy research on the Blake family compiled by Rhonda Blake and R.J. Blake.

Collection consists letters about Henley Harbour

Collection consists of Henry Gordon’s diary of the Spanish Flu epidemic (1918), handwritten and typewritten copy by Doris Saunders; photocopies of correspondence between: Clara Ashall and the Colonial and Continental Church Society (1918), Henry Gordon and the Colonial and Continental Church Society (1918), and Clara Ashall and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador (1918) regarding the hiring of Miss Ashall as a schoolteacher at the Labrador Public School.