Salter's Gate : archaeological resource impact assessment final report

An archaeological resource impact assessment of Lot A-l on the north side of the Alexander Keith's Brewery Building in downtown Halifax was conducted by Davis Archaeological Consultants Limited. The assessment was conducted between March and September 2005 under Heritage Research Permit A2005NS10. A total 5,695 artifacts were collected from 34 archaeological features within the study area. The features dated from the late eighteenth through mid twentieth centuries and included stone foundations, privies, wells, middens, outbuildings, municipal drainage systems, and original city street surfaces

Archaeological resource impact assessment : Jefferson Property, Fall River

In October 2004, Davis Archaeological Consultants Limited conducted an archaeological resource impact assessment of the Jefferson Property in Fall River under contract to Halifax Regional Municipality and in accordance with Heritage Research Permit A2004NS82 (Appendix A). The property is the proposed site for a community recreational facility to be constructed in 2005. The purpose of the assessment was to locate potential heritage resources within the study area, assess the archaeological significance of any such resources, and provide recommendations for mitigation if necessary. A field survey was conducted by three qualified archaeologists over three days between 20 and 22 October 2004 and was preceded by a historical background study. This report is a summary of the history of the study area, the activities carried out by the archaeologists during the assessment, the heritage resources encountered and their historical significance, as well as recommendations for their mitigation prior to and during construction

Phase II : Jefferson Property, Fall River : archaeological resource impact assessment

File consists of two copies of an archaeological resource impact assessment follow up study on the Jefferson Property site in Fall River, conducted for the Halifax Regional Municipality .In December 2004, Davis Archaeological Consultants Limited conducted a phase II archaeological resource impact assessment (subsurface testing) of the Jefferson Property in Fall River under contract to Halifax Regional Municipality and in accordance with Heritage Research Permit A2004NS90. Although development plans had not been finalized at the time of the assessment, the property has been proposed as the site of a new recreational facility and fire station to be constructed in 2005. The purpose of this assessment was to evaluate the physical integrity and cultural and archaeological significance of features identified during a previous assessment conducted by DAC in October 2004, to determine if any additional subsurface features were present in the development area, and to provide recommendations for further mitigation of those resources based on the findings of this assessment. A total of 56 formal 50 cm by 50 cm test units were excavated at five metre intervals in a grid encompassing the house, well, and barn, and their immediate surroundings. Testing was conducted by a crew of three to seven qualified archaeologists over four days between 2- 6 December 2004 with monitoring of geotechnical testing by DAC's senior technician taking place on 1 December 2004. This report is a detailed account of the extent of the study area, the subsurface testing conducted within that area, the resources encountered and an analysis of them, an evaluation of the research strategy, and recommendations for further mitigation

Jefferson Property, Phase III : archaeological resource impact assessment

File consists of an archaeological resource impact assessment report prepared by Davis Archaeological Consultants for the Halifax Regional Municipality regarding a proposed recreational facility and fire station at the Jefferson property in Fall River.In August 2006, Davis Archaeological Consultants Limited was contracted by Halifax Regional Municipality to conduct a phase III archaeological resource impact assessment of the proposed Fall River Recreational Facility and Fire Station at the Jefferson Property on Fall River Road. The purpose of the assessment was to fully document and more clearly define the archaeological features identified and recorded in December 2004 and to determine the function of a feature identified near the southeast corner of the Jefferson house. These features are to be capped with fill prior to construction and artificially delineated through landscaping. The paddock wall identified in 2004 will be dismantled. The assessment was conducted under Category C Heritage Research Permit A2006NS59 issued by the Nova Scotia Heritage Division

Citadel High School steam line installation, Halifax : archaeological resource impact assessment

Appears to be lacking page 1.In November 2006, Davis Archaeological Consultants Limited was contracted by CBCL Limited Consulting Engineers, on behalf of the Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Public Works, to conduct an archaeological resource impact assessment of the Citadel High School Steam Line Installation project in metropolitan Halifax. The purpose of the assessment was to determine the potential for archaeological resources within the development zone and to provide recommendations for further mitigation if necessary. The assessment included archaeological monitoring of mechanical excavation of a trench and associated catch basins between the High School property on Bell Road and the QEII Hospital on Summer Street. The assessment was conducted between 04 December 2006 and 18 June 2007. The assessment was conducted under Category C Heritage Research Permits A2006NS79 and A2007NS04 (Appendix A) issued by the Nova Scotia Heritage Division

Government House, Halifax : archaeological resource impact assessment

Davis Archaeological Consultants Limited conducted an archaeological resource impact assessment of renovations at Government House in Halifax from November 2006 to February 2007. The assessment included surface reconnaissance of the property grounds as well as archaeological monitoring of excavations in the moat, beneath the existing floor in the interior basement, and at the southeast corner of the exterior of the house. Three test trenches were also excavated between the carriage house and the north side of the main house which were monitored by an archaeologist. Archaeological resources were observed in the moat as well as beneath the floor of the basement and on the south wall of the carriage house in the excavated trench. Recommendations for monitoring of any ground disturbance inside the carriage house have been made. Early nineteenth century artifacts were observed in a disturbed context in the gardens on the southeast side of the house. No additional monitoring is required in those areas investigated by archaeologists. However, recommendations for monitoring on the west side of the house in the gardens and on the east side of the grounds near the entrance to the house have been made if future ground disturbance is to occur in hhese areas. These areas have not been investigated and may contain in situ archaeological resources

North Park Street Roundabouts design plan : archaeological resource impact assessment : geotechnical monitoring

In June 2013, Davis MacIntyre & Associates (DM&A) Ltd. was contracted by GENIVAR Inc. on behalf of the Halifax Regional Municipality as part of a project to design roundabout conversions at the intersections of North Park / Rainnie / Cogswell / Trollope / Ahern and North Park / Cunard / Agricola in Halifax. The first phase of the archaeological component of this project included mapping and a summary of potentially significant archaeological areas and features within the study area, for which a previous report was submitted in July 2013. In response to recommendations following the initial assessment, Davis MacIntyre & Associates Limited was again retained to conduct monitoring of geotechnical testing within the footprints of the proposed roundabouts. Four geotechnical test pits were excavated. This assessment was conducted under Category C (Archaeological Resource Impact Assessment) Heritage Research Permit 2013NS055 issued by the Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage. This report conforms to the standards required by the Heritage Division under the Special Places Protection Act (R.S., c. 438, s. 1)

Bengal Lancers new riding paddock : archaeological resource impact assessment

Davis Archaeological Consultants Limited was contracted by CBCL Limited Consulting Engineers to conduct an archaeological resource impact assessment of the Bengal Lancers New Riding Paddock in Halifax in May 2006. The purpose of the assessment was to monitor the mechanical excavation of those areas believed to be of archaeological potential. A previous assessment by Powell (2003) indicated that the southwest end of this area was the site of a late nineteenth century city dump which may have extended throughout the current development zone. During the current archaeological assessment, a deposit of late nineteenth century refuse was encountered throughout the development area but appeared to be heavily disturbed. The primary deposit was located through an archaeological test pit to the north of the temporary riding paddock but proved to be located below the level of excavation warranted for this development and, therefore, was not disturbed with the exception of this test pit. A sample of artifacts was collected from the secondary deposit and catalogued in the Nova Scotia Museum's Museum Information Management System (MIMSLite) (Appendix C). A late nineteenth or early twentieth century concrete foundation was also encountered on the west side of the stables which extends beneath the temporary riding paddock through to the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History parking lot. Due to the recent origin of this structure, it is not believed to be of elevated archaeological significance

Halifax Public Gardens : archaeological resource impact assessment

In January 2006, Davis Archaeological Consultants (DAC) Limited conducted an archaeological resource impact assessment in the Halifax Public Gardens, under contract to Halifax Regional Municipality. The assessment was limited to archaeological monitoring of mechanical excavation adjacent to the male washroom near South Park Street and a reconnaissance of the area immediately west of the female's washroom near Spring Garden Road as well as an area southeast of Horticultural Hall near the Spring Garden Road entrance gate. In July 2006, the construction was expanded to include the installation of catch basins on the west side of Horticultural Hall. The second phase of construction was conducted by Permacrete and was monitored by DAC's senior technicians from 10 July to 19 July 2006 and by DAC's president on 20 July and 26 July 2006. The assessment was conducted under an extension of Heritage Research Permit A2006NS10, issued by the Nova Scotia Museum in January 2006. No significant archaeological resources were encountered during monitoring activities, although several artifacts were collected from disturbed contexts. Consequently, construction was allowed to proceed as scheduled

Leadership after virtue: MacIntyre’s critique of management reconsidered

MacIntyre argues that management embodies emotivism, and thus is inherently amoral and manipulative. His claim that management is necessarily Weberian is, at best, outdated, and the notion that management aims to be neutral and value free is incorrect. However, new forms of management, and in particular the increased emphasis on leadership which emerged after MacIntyre’s critique was published, tend to support his central charge. Indeed, charismatic and transformational forms of leadership seem to embody emotivism to a greater degree than do more Weberian, bureaucratic forms of management, so MacIntyre’s central contention about our emotivistic culture seems to be well-founded. Having criticised the details but defended the essence of MacIntyre’s critique of management, this paper sketches a MacIntyrean approach to management and leadership by highlighting the affinities between MacIntyre’s political philosophy and Greenleaf’s concept of servant leadership