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The Archives of William R. Bird: A Guide
Collection Number: MS-2-367
Collection Level Description | ||
| Title: | William R. Bird fonds | |
| Dates: | 1910-1973, bulk 1928-1950 | |
| Extent: | 82 cm of textual records. -- 49 large format scrapbooks. -- 2 boxes of index cards. -- 10 volumes | |
Biographical Sketch
William R. Bird was born in East Mapleton, N.S. on May 11, 1891. Born into poverty, he moved to the Canadian Prairies to help harvest crops as a teenager. In 1914, he enlisted in the Canadian Army and served in the trenches with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces (42nd Battalion, Black Watch of Canada) in France and Belgium until 1918. Upon demobilization in 1919, he returned to Cumberland County, N.S, where he married Ethel Sutton with whom he had two children, Stephen and Betty. After a failed general store venture in Southampton, he moved to Amherst with his family and worked at the Post Office. Winning a story-writing contest in the early 1920s and a love of writing prompted him by 1928 to try making his living by writing. Bird's stories were widely accepted by magazines such as Saturday Evening Post , Maritime Advocate , Toronto Star Weekly , Family Herald and Weekly Star and his first monograph, A Century at Chignecto , was published in 1928. During the 1930s, Bird lectured widely across Canada, and in 1933 he joined the staff of the recently established Nova Scotia Tourist Bureau. For the next thirty-three years, he worked in various capacities for the Nova Scotia government. In 1938, he and his family moved to Halifax where he served as Chairman of the Historic Sites and Monuments Advisory Council until his retirement in 1966. Bird died on January 28, 1984.
In 1949 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters by Mount Allison University. He published roughly 25 books and 600 short stories, for which he garnered acclaim for his historical fiction and war stories. Although Bird wrote on many subjects, he was continually fascinated by the early settlers of Nova Scotia and wrote many stories and novels on the topic. His experience during the First World War also became inspiration for much of his work. He twice won the Ryerson All Canada Award for Fiction and served as president of the Canadian Author's Association.
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Custodial History
The complete fonds of Dr. William R. Bird were acquired through purchase by the Dalhousie University Archives on May 23, 1979.
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Scope and Content
The fonds includes correspondence covering the years 1962-1978; scrapbooks containing clippings, correspondence and photographs (1926-1973); manuscripts for a number of Bird's published and unpublished works-including novels, stories and articles (undated); hardcover novels, fiction and non-fiction published in magazines, journals and newspapers (1928-1975); and miscellaneous documents including reviews, articles about Bird and royalty information (1935-1976).
Correspondence / 1962-1967, n.d.
Published Non-Fiction / 1927-1975
Miscellaneous Documents / 1935-1976
Arrangement
The records within each series are arranged chronologically unless otherwise noted.
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Combined Series and File Level Descriptions | ||
| Date: | 1962-1967, n.d. | |
| Extent: | 4 cm of textual records | |
| Scope and Content: | ||
| This series contains correspondence collected by Bird. Correspondents include fans and contemporaries. Repeat correspondents include Clarke, Irwin and Co., the MacMillan Group publishing company, McGraw-Hill, University of Toronto Press, the Cumberland Publishing Company, and the Banff School of the Arts. Bird's natural order of organizing this correspondence (incoming and copies of outgoing mail stapled together) has been preserved. See also the Scrapbook Series for further correspondence. | ||
File Level Descriptions | ||
| Folder - 1.1 | 1962-1967 | |
| Folder - 1.2 | 1970-1972 | |
| Folder - 1.3 | 1973-1978 | |
| Folder - 1.4 | n.d. | |
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| Date: | 1926-1973 | |
| Extent: | 49 large format scrapbooks. -- 2 boxes of index cards | |
| Scope and Content: | ||
| This series contains 56 large format scrapbooks compiled by Bird. Dates of material contained within the scrapbooks are wide ranging and the organization, idiosyncratic and haphazard. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, programmes, playbills, invitations, correspondence, magazine clippings, photographs, birthday cards, obituaries, advertisements, published writings from pamphlets. Dates of materials within the scrapbooks (as far as can be discerned) are provided. When photographs or other salient features appear, they are noted. Also included in this series are two small boxes of index cards created by Bird to give more information about materials included in the scrapbooks. | ||
| Arrangement: | ||
| Bird made an attempt to number the scrapbooks donated to the archives. Unfortunately, some of these numbers have gone missing as the tags Bird used have in some cases fallen off and gone missing. He numbered the scrapbooks firstly with numbers (1-?). A second set was numbered 55-1, 55-2, etc. Reasons for this numbering system are unknown. Two #42 scrapbooks exist and as such, one has been numbered 42a. The 17 unnumbered scrapbooks have been numbered A-Q. By utilizing Bird's numbering system, natural order has been preserved as much as possible. | ||
File Level Descriptions | ||
| Box 9 | Scrapbooks | |
| Volume 3 - 1946-1948 | ||
| Volume 4 - 1910 | ||
| Volume 5 - 1931-1942 | ||
| Volume 7 - 1934-1960 | ||
| Volume 9 - 1948 | ||
| Volume 10 - 1918-1934 | ||
| Volume 11 - 1951-1963 | ||
| Volume 12 - 1963-1967 | ||
| Box 10 | Scrapbooks | |
| Volume 13 - 1972-1973 | ||
| Volume 14 - 1931-1961 | ||
| Volume 17 - 1954 | ||
| Volume 20 - 1951 | ||
| Box 11 | Scrapbooks | |
| Volume 22 - 1945 | ||
| Volume 24 - 1948-1949 | ||
| Box 12 | Scrapbooks | |
| Volume 25 - 1949-1950 | ||
| Volume 26 - 1950 | ||
| Volume 27 - 1934-1966 | ||
| Box 24 | Scrapbooks | |
| Volume 28 - n.d. | ||
| Box 13 | Scrapbooks | |
| Volume 30 - 1945-1946 | ||
| Volume 32 - n.d. | ||
| Volume 33 - 1966? | ||
| Box 24 | Scrapbooks | |
| Volume 34 - n.d. | ||
| Volume 35 - n.d. | ||
| Volume 36 - n.d. | ||
| Volume 38 - 1960-1972 | ||
| Volume 39 - 1968-1970 | ||
| Box 14 | Scrapbooks | |
| Volume 40 - 1965-1966 | ||
| Volume 42 - 1951-1953 | ||
| Box 15 | Scrapbooks | |
| Volume 42a - 1960-1965 | ||
| Volume 43 - 1952-1953 | ||
| Box 16 | Scrapbooks | |
| Volume 55-1 - 1926-1934 | ||
| Volume 55-2 - 1956-1957, 1973 | ||
| Volume 55-3 - 1960s? | ||
| Box 17 | Scrapbooks | |
| Volume 55-6 - 1962? | ||
| Volume 55-8 - 1934 | ||
| Volume 55-9 - 1949-1951 | ||
| Volume 55-10 - n.d. | ||
| Volume 55-11 - n.d. | ||
| Volume 55-14 - 1951-1963 | ||
| Box 18 | Scrapbooks | |
| Volume A - 1934-1960 | ||
| Volume B - 1935 | ||
| Volume C - 1932-1960 | ||
| Volume D - 1944-1948 | ||
| Box 19 | Scrapbooks | |
| Volume E - 1949 | ||
| Volume F - 1957 | ||
| Box 20 | Scrapbooks | |
| Volume G - 1952-1957 | ||
| Volume H - 1952-1959 | ||
| Box 21 | Scrapbooks | |
| Volume I - 1953-1957 | ||
| Volume J - 1953-1969 | ||
| Box 22 | Scrapbooks | |
| Volume K - 1954 | ||
| Volume L - 1954-1955 | ||
| Volume M - 1955-1956 | ||
| Box 23 | Scrapbooks | |
| Volume N - 1959 | ||
| Volume O - 1961-1964 | ||
| Boxes 25 | Scrapbooks | |
| Volume P - n.d. | ||
| Volume Q - 1948-1970 | ||
| Boxes 7-8 | Index Cards relating to scrapbooks | |
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| Date: | n.d. | |
| Extent: | 33 cm of textual records | |
| Scope and Content: | ||
| This series contains manuscripts of seven novels, seven articles, and two manuscripts of plays and pageants. | ||
File Level Descriptions | ||
| Boxes 1-3 | Manuscripts of Novels | |
| 1.11-13 | "Angel Cove" | |
| 1.14-16 | "An Earl Must Have a Wife" (Draft One) | |
| 2.1-3 | "An Earl Must Have a Wife" (Draft Two) | |
| 2.4-5 | "Misadventures of Rufus Brody" (Galley Proofs) | |
| 2.6-8 | "Off Trails in Nova Scotia" | |
| 2.9-11 | "Prince Henry the Crusader" | |
| 3.1-2 | "Top of the Hill" | |
| Boxes 3, 6 | Manuscripts of Articles | |
| 3.3 | "Expulsion of the Acadians" - 35 pp. | |
| 3.4 | "Fan Mail" - 9 pp. | |
| 3.5 | "Halifax Has Major Historical Attractions" - 5 pp. | |
| 3.6 | "Interview - with W.R.B." - 26 pp. | |
| 3.7 | "The London Coach in Cumberland County" (2 Drafts) - 13/14 pp. | |
| 3.8 | "Story of the Nova Scotia Highways" - pp. 1-58 | |
| 3.9 | "Story of the Nova Scotia Highways" - pp. 59-141 | |
| 6.1 | "To the Officers and Men of the North Nova Scotia Highlanders" | |
| Box 3 | Manuscripts of Plays and Pageants | |
| 3.11 | "Halifax - 1749. A Musical Play" - 107 pp. | |
| 3.10 | "The Birth of a City - 1949 - Pageant" - 33 pp. | |
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| Date: | 1928-1969 | |
| Extent: | 31 cm of textual records. -- 8 volumes | |
| Scope and Content: | ||
| This series contains published fiction including 5 stories published in journals; 20 stories published in magazines; 8 stories published in newspapers; 8 hardcover first editions of novels; one published play; 12 stories published in the Spectator/Advertiser , an annual advertisement publication from Kentville Nova Scotia; 35 undated stories published in the Busy East most likely dating from between 1927 and 1932; 52 undated stories published in the Maritime Advocate and Busy East most dating from between 1933 and 1948; 6 stories appearing in Canadian War Stories ; and 34 stories published in The Legionary . | ||
| Arrangement: | ||
| When dates are known, items are arranged chronologically; otherwise, they are arranged alphabetically. | ||
File Level Descriptions | ||
| Box 5 | Stories Published in Journals | |
| 5.3 | "Sleep" - Whirligig | circa 1930s |
| 5.3 | "When a Moment Seems an Eternity" - Whirligig | circa 1930s |
| 5.3 | "When Yorkshire Came to Nova Scotia" - Dalhousie Review | n.d. |
| 5.5 | "The Kaiser's Birthday" - Reveille | May 1934 |
| 5.5 | "Sleep" - Reveille | December 1939 |
| Boxes 5-6 | Stories Published in Magazines | |
| 5.17 | "The Old Man's Mascot" - Carry-On Magazine | November 1928 |
| 5.17 | "The Wisdom of the Major" - [unknown] | October 1929 |
| 5.17 | "Courage" - Forty Stories Magazine | n.d. circa 1930 |
| 5.17 | "One Dark Night in '18" - The Veteran | c.1930 |
| 5.17 | "Champion of the Driving Dam" - Nova Scotia Fishing and Game | May 1936 |
| 5.17 | "The Dory Builder" - The Canadian Magazine | December 1938 |
| 5.17 | "Sit Down Strike" - The Canadian Magazine | February 1939 |
| 6.4 | "The Love of Bride Crowdy" - Chatelaine | April 1932 |
| 6.6 | "Private Elemental" - MacLean's | May 1929 |
| 6.6 | "Fundy Fog" - The New Goblin | September 1930 |
| 6.6 | "Beyond the Wire" - Collier's | April 1931 |
| 6.7 | "Pro Tem" - Maclean's | October 1931 |
| 6.7 | "Grammy's Art" - Canadian Home Journal | December 1932 |
| 6.7 | "The Reward" - The Farmer | April 1934 |
| 6.8 | "From The Things That Are to The Things that Were" - The Canadian Veteran - September 1934 | |
| 6.8 | "The Substance of Content" - The Canadian Magazine | January 1935 |
| 6.8 | "Home Pastures" - The Canadian Magazine | April 1938 |
| 6.8 | "A Homesteader Needs A Wife" - Canadian Home Journal | September 1942 |
| 6.9 | "There's Gold on Oak Island" - Mayfair | June 1947 |
| 6.9 | "The Money Belt" - National Home Monthly | May 1948 |
| 6.9 | "Halifax" - Echoes | Spring 1949 |
| Box 6 | Stories Published in Newspapers | |
| 6.5 | "Impressions of Paschendale" - Ypres Times | October 1923 |
| 6.5 | "The Night Watchman" - Sunday Leader | December 1923 |
| 6.5 | "Ma's Enlargement" - The Standard | circa 1930 |
| 6.5 | "A Man Who Knows What He Sees" - The Standard | circa 1930 |
| 6.5 | "Pearly Without Price" - The Standard | circa 1930 |
| 6.5 | "The House of Mystery" - Bridgewater Bullet | August 1935 |
| 6.5 | "Jerome, Mystery Man of Digby County" - Digby Corner | September 1949 |
| 6.5 | "The Chignecto Ship Railway" - Amherst Daily News | June 1967 |
| Box 4 | Novels | |
| "Thirteen Years After," The Maclean Publishing Company, Limited: Toronto, ON - 1932 | ||
| "Here Stays Good Yorkshire," The Ryerson Press: Toronto, ON | 1945 | |
| "Sunrise for Peter," The Ryerson Press: Toronto, ON | 1946 | |
| "The Passionate Pilgrim," The Ryerson Press: Toronto, ON | 1949 | |
| "This is Nova Scotia," The Ryerson Press: Toronto, ON | 1950 | |
| "To Love and to Cherish" (signed), The Ryerson Press: Toronto, ON | 1953 | |
| "Tristam Salvation," The Ryerson Press: Toronto, ON | 1957 | |
| "An Earl Must Have a Wife" (signed), Clarke, Irwin and Company: Toronto, ON | 1969 | |
| Box 3 | Published Plays | |
| 3.13 | "The Baronets of Nova Scotia" | June 15, 1939 |
| Boxes 3, 6 | Stories published in the Advertiser/Spectator | |
| 6.10 | "For A Peaceful Life" | May 1944 |
| 6.10 | "Let us Live in a House on the Hill" | May 1946 |
| 6.10 | "The Prisoner" | May 1952 |
| 3.15 | "Uncle Egbert and Bessie" | May 1956 |
| 3.15 | "Wedding on the Green" | May 1958 |
| 3.15 | "Diana Keeps a Diary" | May 1959 |
| 3.15 | "The Decoy" | May 1961 |
| 3.15 | "Bride Crowdey" | May 1962 |
| 3.16 | "The Gold Laced Hat" | May 1964 |
| 3.16 | "Bachelor Brother" | May 1965 |
| 3.16 | "Fort Orders" | May 1966 |
| 3.16 | "The Substance of Content" | May 1968 |
| Box 5 | Stories published in Busy East | |
| 5.14 | "Clear Crystal"; "Clothes Make the Man"; "Far Lands"; "Forty-Seven Dollars Worth of Life"; "Ghosts and Haunted Places"; "Governor Charles Lawrence"; "Jonah and the Wail"; "Legacy"; "One Night at Pin Tickle"; "Outwitted"; "Personal" | |
| 5.15 | "Priscilla's Private"; "Simple-Minded"; "Take Your Choice"; "That Astute Mr.Bannerman"; "The Attractions of Annapolis"; "The Courtesies of War"; "The Future of the Maple"; "The Golden Lure of Pirate Treasure"; "The Judgment of the Hawk of Fundy"; "The Matchmaker"; "The Mecca of the Maritimes"; "The Message"; "The Nightshirt Exchange"; "The Preacher and the Bear" | |
| 5.16 | "The Secret of the Wooden Bear"; "The Stranger at the Landing"; "The Widow Muroy"; "The Wizard's Thumb"; "To Have and to Hold"; "Trapper Joe"; "Two Pioneers of Cumberland County"; "Umpty-Ump"; "When Ships Were to Cross Chignecto by Rail"; "White Magic" | |
| Box 5 | Stories Published in Maritime Advocate and Busy East | |
| 5.10 | "A Man's Place"; "A Soldier's Place"l Acquaintance"; "Angel's Faith"; "Buried Treasure"; "Captain Jonas Wintell, Curiosities"; "Don't Let them Call you Sweetheart"; "Escape"; "Fish is Brain Food"; "Full of Bounce"; "Grand Finale"; "Green Mouth" | |
| 5.11 | "Grip of Circumstance"; "Henry Meets Adventure"; "Hero from Spain"; "Home Pastures"; "In Memory of a Gentleman"; "In Time of Flood"; "Love and Water Find a Level"; "Leather Pants"; "Looking In"; "Love and Water Find a Level"; "Married on Tuesday"; "Magic Chariot"; "One Year Married"; "Queen of Value"; "Rainbow's End"; "Red Brush" | |
| 5.12 | 5.12 "Red Cupid"; "Remember the Blond Man"; "Return"; "Safely Through"; "Storm Child" (two copies); "Sundown at Dagett's Brook"; "The Axe"; "The Courtship of Mary Belle"; "The Dory Builder"; "The Hired Man"; "The Lady Shed Tears"; "The Last Letter"; "The Night of the Full Moon" | |
| 5.13 | "The Proving of Corporal Flynn"; "The Recovery of Joe Peters"; "The Romantic Scarf"; "The Russian Coat"; "The Saga of a Poet"; "The Shot-Out Part"; "The Soldier's Place"; "The Third Letter"; "The Thoroughbred"; "The Widow's Right"; "The Willow Whistle"; "The Woman with Three Daughters"; "Under Cover"; "Voice of Adventure"; "When Losers Win"; "When Williams Smiled"; "Witchery"; "Words with Music" | |
| Box 5 | Stories published in Canadian War Stories | |
| 5.2 | "The Coal Dust Twins" | September 1929 |
| 5.2 | "Spotted!" | October 1929 |
| 5.2 | "Boots!" | November 1929 |
| 5.2 | "The Tired German" | December 1929 |
| 5.2 | "Bones and Skulls" (?) | January 1930 |
| 5.2 | "You Don't Know my Officer" | February 1930 |
| Box 5 | Stories published in The Legionary | |
| 5.6 | "His Deputy" | July 1927 |
| 5.6 | "The Major's Prisoner" | March 1928 |
| 5.6 | "June Reminiscences" | June 1928 |
| 5.6 | "A Turn of the Wheel" | August 1928 |
| 5.6 | "When Knights Were Bold" | October 1928 |
| 5.6 | "The Night Hawk" | January 1929 |
| 5.6 | "No Man's Land" | March 1929 |
| 5.6 | "Sunshine" | June 1929 |
| 5.6 | "The Dead Germans" | June 1929 |
| 5.6 | "Wire Overhead" | September 1929 |
| 5.6 | "If You Were Me" | October 1929 |
| 5.6 | "Merry Christmas" | December 1929 |
| 5.7 | "Slightly Shell Shocked" | January 1930 |
| 5.7 | "Mechanical Matthew" | March 1930 |
| 5.7 | "Tin Targets" | May 1930 |
| 5.7 | "You Don't Know My Officer" | May 1930 |
| 5.7 | "Eyes! Eyes! Eyes!" | June 1930 |
| 5.7 | "The Creeping Phantom" | September 1930 |
| 5.7 | "The Spy Catcher" | February 1931 |
| 5.7 | "The Laughing Jackass" | November 1931 |
| 5.7 | "The Finer Instincts" | December 1931 |
| 5.8 | "White Collars Part I" | February 1932 |
| 5.8 | "White Collars Part II" | March 1932 |
| 5.8 | "Vimy - Before April 9, 1917" | July 1932 |
| 5.8 | "What Price Liberty Part I" | July 1932 |
| 5.8 | "What Price Liberty Part II" | August 1932 |
| 5.8 | "'Midnight Visitations' on the Western Front" | November 1933 |
| 5.8 | "The Night Before Christmas" | December 1933 |
| 5.8 | "Was it Yesterday" | July 1935 |
| 5.8 | "Dear Mother, I am Now at Vimy..." | August 1935 |
| 5.8 | "Nobody Missing" | April 1936 |
| 5.8 | "The Three Maskoteers" | July 1936 |
| 5.8 | "To Secure Prisoners for Identification" | August 1939 |
| 5.8 | "Ask Will Bird" | August 1939 |
| Box 6 | Stories Published in Toronto Star Weekly | |
| 6.2 | "Auntie Abdul" | August 3, 1929 |
| 6.2 | "Aristocrat" | November 30, 1929 |
| 6.2 | "Jo John's Joe" | August 30, 1930 |
| 6.2 | "The Little Yorkie" | February 25, 1950 |
| 6.2 | "Fort Orders" | April 14, 1951 |
| 6.2 | "The Making of a Man" | November 8, 1952 |
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| Date: | 1927-1975 | |
| Extent: | 7 cm of textual records | |
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| This series contains Bird's published non-fiction: two articles published in journals; seven articles published in magazines; eight undated articles appearing in the Ypres Times -a war-time 'trench' newspaper; and one published speech given to the Institute of Public Administration. | ||
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| Box 3, 6 | Articles in Published in Journals | |
| 3.14 | The London Coach in Cumberland County - The Nova Scotia Historical Quarterly | June 1971 |
| 6.3 | The Prisoner - Canadian Defense Quarterly | |
| Boxes 3, 5 | Articles Published in Magazines | |
| 3.17 | Excerpts from "The Misadventures of Rufus Brody" - Sojourn - June 1975 | |
| 3.17 | "Historic Amherst" - Amherst Nova Scotia Travel Guide | |
| 3.18 | 1939-1945 The War Dead of the British Commonwealth and Empire - Beny-sur-mer Canadian War Cemetery 1955 | |
| 3.19 | "Nova Scotia Has Many Lights" - Canadian Geographical Journal | March 1957 |
| 3.19 | "Some Historic Houses of Nova Scotia" - Canadian Geographical Journal | August 1958 |
| 3.19 | "Nova Scotia's Historic South Shore" - Canadian Geographical Journal | June 1963 |
| 5.18 | "Three Centuries of Farming in Maritime Provinces" - The Tea Hour | August 1927 |
| Box 3 | Pamphlets | |
| 3.18 | 1939-1945 The War Dead of the British Commonwealth and Empire: Beny-sur-mer Canadian War Cemetery 1955 (uncredited introduction, "The War in France," possibly written by Bird) | |
| Box 5 | Articles published in the Ypres Times | |
| 5.9 | "And We Go On"; "Impressions of Passchendale"; "Salient Patrols"; "The Prisoners Who Cannot Escape"; "Vignettes from Passchendale"; Various other unsigned articles | n.d. |
| Box 5 | Published Speech | |
| 5.4 | "This Canada of Ours" - Institute of Public Administration (2 copies) | n.d. |
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| Date: | 1935-1976 | |
| Extent: | 7 cm of textual records; 2 volumes | |
| Scope and Content: | ||
| This series contains miscellaneous documents pertaining to Bird: three academic works about Bird; seven reviews of works by Bird; six articles about Bird; one file of royalty documents with Clarke and Irwin and Co. and McClelland and Stewart; one file of undated tour notes; one file of undated personal notes and a file of miscellaneous memorabilia. | ||
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| Box 5 | Theses and School Projects | |
| 5.1 | Matthews, Lillian Hunter. "The Life and Works of Dr.Will Bird." Acadia University | August 1953 |
| 5.1 | Mahn Keyworth, Vida. "The Regional Novels and Travel Books of Will R. Bird." University of Montreal | 1960 |
| 3.20 | Eagles, M.W.S. "Will R.Bird - Canadian Literature" | January 1958 |
| Box 1 | Reviews of works by Bird | |
| 1.5 | Review of "Maid of the Marsh" from the Legionary | November 1935 |
| 1.5 | Review of "Angel Cove" from the Chronicle Herald | April 8, 1972 |
| 1.5 | Review of "Angel Cove" from the Ottawa Citizen | June 10, 1972 |
| 1.5 | Review of "These are the Maritimes" from the Vancouver Sun | April 25, 1975 |
| 1.5 | Review of "The Misadventures of Rufus Brody" from the Kingston Whig-Standard | January 5, 1976 |
| 1.5 | Review of "The Misadventures of Rufus Brody" from the Lethbridge Herald | January 23, 1976 |
| 1.5 | Review of "The Misadventures of Rufus Brody" from CKCO TV (transcript) | |
| Boxes 1, 3 | Articles about Bird | |
| 1.6 | "Will Be Anniversary Speaker at Church" - The Citizen | May 28, 1975 |
| 1.6 | "Fine Arts Award for Dr. Bird" - source unknown | n.d. |
| 1.6 | "St.Stephen 50th Anniversary" - Trinity | n.d. |
| 1.6 | "Whatever happened of Will R. Bird?" - source unknown | n.d. |
| 1.6 | "Will R. Bird - Author of 'This is Nova Scotia'" - Canadian Life | n.d. |
| 3.12 | "Maritime Writer's Breakout" - Axiom | August/September 1975 |
| Box 1 | Royalty Documents | |
| 1.7 | Agreements and statements between Bird and Clarke, Irwin and Co. and McLelland and Stewart - | 1967-1972 |
| Box 1 | Tour Notes | |
| 1.8 | Handwritten and typed listings of locations of Bird speaking engagements | n.d. |
| Box 1 | Notes | |
| 1.9 | Typed notes for various of Bird's projects | n.d. |
| Box 1 | Miscellaneous | |
| 1.10 | Press releases, advertisement, book-jacket blurb, report on St.Matthew's church and Candian Author's Association event programme; "The Quality of Life in Atlantic Canada," advertisement for speaking engagement | n.d. |
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