Dartmouth Council Minute Indexes

Searching the indexes to Council Minutes will give more precise results than searching the scanned minutes themselves. You have two ways of searching the indexes:

• If you know the approximate years of interest, open the relevant index below:
  • Select the year of interest to open a pdf file of the index.
  • Do a search (Find or <Ctrl><F>) for relevant keywords (use terms contemporary to that time period (eg. Pleasant St., alderman), try different spellings).
• Or, search all indexed years:
  • Go to Google.ca
  • Enter "site:http://legacycontent.halifax.ca/archives/DartmouthIndexes_your search term" (where _ is a space).

This will limit your search to the contents of this page. We apologize for this cumbersome temporary search mechanism, a better tool is in the works.

If you get results:

1. Note the date and page number of that index entry.
2. Go to  the Minutes list.
3. Find the date range containing the years you noted in the index and open the relevant pdf.
4. Search for the relevant term.

If you do not get expected search results, you may need to browse through the index. Because some of the indexes have been scanned from microfilm, the quality may be poor and thus search results will not be accurate.

Years Covered (click to open and search)	Notes re. the index
1873-1875	No headlines/index created. Search the minutes themselves.
1875-1906 (.5MB)	Created by Archives from headlines written by the Town Clerk in minute-books; No headlines available 1873-1875; 1877-1882)
1907-1935	No headlines/index created. Search the minutes themselves.
1936-1960 (.5MB)	Created by Archives from headlines written by the Town Clerk in minute-books.
1961-1971 (.5MB)	Created by Archives from headlines written by City Clerk in minute-books
1971 (3MB)	Digitized from annual type-written indexes created by the Dartmouth Regional Library; not all matters appear in the index and not all words may be searchable
1972 (3MB)
1973(3MB)
1974(3MB)
1975(3MB)
1976(3MB)
1977(3MB)
1978(2MB)
1979(4MB)	Digitized from annual dot-matrix print-outs of computerized indexes created by the Dartmouth Regional Library; not all matters appear in the index and many words are not searchable
1980(4MB)
1981(3MB)
1982(3MB)
1983(3MB)	Digitized from annual type-written indexes created by the Dartmouth Regional Library; not all matters appear in the index and not all words may be searchable
1984(2MB)
1985(2MB)
1986(3MB)
1987(3MB)
1988(4MB)
1989-1996	Indexes not created. Search the minutesthemselves.

If you have difficulty reading any of the files contact the Archives for assistance.