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Kendall, Helen
Person · 1892-1985

Helen Kendall, the daughter of the late Lieutenant Governor Doctor H. E. Kendall and Ida (Burchell) Kendall, was born in Sydney in 1892. She was a graduate of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal and served at that hospital and as a trainer in Romania. During World War 1 and World War 2, Miss Kendall was a Nursing Sister and served overseas. She died at the age of 93 on December 4, 1985.

Holland, Samuel
Person · 1728-1801

Samuel Holland was commissioned as lieutenant in the Royal Americans in 1755 and in1758 he was transferred as assistant, engineer to the expedition against Louisbourg, Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island). Under the command of Brigadier-General James Wolfe, he surveyed the ground adjacent to the fortress, took soundings, prepared plans, and gave engineering advice during Wolfe’s operations against the town. Holland surveyed the St. Lawrence Gulf, the city of Halifax, and Fort Frederick in New Brunswick. In 1759 he was promoted captain and he was active in the siege of Quebec. By 1770, Holland was collaborating with John Frederick Wallet DesBarres in creating maps and conducting hydrographic surveys around Nova Scotia. Some of Holland’s maps and surveys were included in The Atlantic Neptune, compiled and edited by DesBarres in 1774.

Dheulland, Guillaume
Person · 1700-1770

Dheulland was a French 18th century astronomer, map engraver and publisher.

Mitchell, Augustus Samuel
Person · 1792-

Samuel Augustus Mitchell was born in Bristol, Connecticut on March 20, 1792. Mitchell worked on the "New American Atlas" in 1831. The majority of his work involved the creation of individual maps and he was successful in creating pocket sized tourist maps for various locations in the United States.

Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
Person · 1703-1772

Jacques Nicolas Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French Navy at the age of 18 in 1721. He was eventually named the official hydrographer to King Louis XV. A member of the French intellectual group, the philosophes, Bellin's work was known for intellectual rigour and high quality often copied by other cartographers. His maps set a high standard of production and accuracy and were often copied by other cartographers. During his term in office he was commissioned to carry out major coastal surveys. In 1764 he published the Petit Atlas Maritime in 5 volumes.

Gastaldi, Giacomo
Person · 1500-1566

Gastaldi was an Italian cartographer, astronomer and engineer of the 16th century. He began his career as an engineer, and from about 1544 he turned his attention to mapmaking, and his work represents several important turning points in cartographic development.

Corporate body · 1919-present

The Canadian Federation of Women, a voluntary, non-profit, self-funded bilingual organization of over 100,000 women university graduate, was founded in 1919. CFW members are involved in public affairs, working to raise the social, economic and legal status of women, as well as to improve education, the environment, peace, justice and human rights.

MacDonald, Michael Malcolm
Person · 1906-

Rev. Michael Malcolm MacDonald (also known as Mickey Malcolm) was born in 1906 at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, the son of Dan E. and Effie Ann MacDonald. As a young man, he worked in the coal mines for two years to finance his studies. In 1928 he graduated from St. Francis Xavier University and in 1928 entered Holy Heart seminary in Halifax. He was ordained in 1932 and was appointed assistant priest to Reverend James M. Kiely, Holy Redeemer Parish, and Whitney Pier. While there he became an outspoken supporter of the right of labour to organize in order to combat Communism. In November 1940 he was sent to St. Peter's Parish, South Ingonish as parish priest and remained until December 1948. He was appointed as the first pastor of the newly formed Holy Cross Parish at Caledonia, Glace Bay in 1948 where he remained until his retirement on 1 July 1970. Rev. MacDonald died in 1981.

Cape Breton Ski Club
Corporate body · 1940-present

The Sydney Ski Club was founded in 1940 by a group of interested skiers at Sydney, Nova Scotia, with Gordon Naish as its first president. In the late 1940s the group discovered a new ski area at Barrachois, which lead the group to change its name to the Cape Breton Ski Club. In 1969 the Club acquired property at Ben Eoin, and move its operations there. The Club remains in operation.

Corporate body · 1908-1923

The Sydney Trades and Labour Council (TLC) was founded in 1908 as a chapter of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada. The organization acted as a forum for discussion and action on issues relating to union politics, wages and working hours; its local chapter membership included iron, steel and tin workers, carpenters, plumbers, mechanics and tailors. The Council's first president was J.R. Martin, M.J. Kelly acted as vice-president and P.M. Draper was the first secretary-treasurer. The Sydney Trades and Labour Council was disbanded by 1923.

Barrington family
Family · 1770-1959

Charles Parnell Barrington was born in 1770 in Middlesex, England. He married Elizabeth Hayward Budd and the couple had eleven children: Margaret Sibella, Carter, Harriet, Victoria, Christina, Elizabeth Ann, Olivia Mary, John, Sidney William, Henry and Edwin John Carter. Barrington immigrated to Canada where he joined the militia and was stationed first in Quebec and then Charlottetown, P.E.I. He was finally stationed at Sydney, Nova Scotia, holding the position of Captain of the 7th Battalion of the 60th Rifles of Foot. He settled at Sydney Mines in 1817 and brought his family over from England. Barrington died in 1848. Many of the Barrington children and grandchildren remained in Cape Breton. Yorke Henry Ainsley Barrington, son of Edwin, and his son Yorke Cotrill Barrington, became heavily involved in the founding of the Cape Breton coal industry.

Gibbons family
Family · 1734-1943

Richard Gibbons Jr. was born in 1734 at London, England, the son of Richard and Susannah Gibbons. He received his early education in England. The family first immigrated to Virginia and then Halifax, Nova Scotia. Richard Jr. married Susanna Shepard on 10 May 1783 at Halifax. On 14 May 1765 he was admitted as a solicitor of the Court of Chancery for Nova Scotia. On 31 October 1765, Gibbons was named a clerk for the Inferior Court of Common Pleas. In 1770, he was elected to the Legislature for Barrington Township for one year. Between 1777-1781, he was Solicitor General and in 1781 named Attorney General. On 25 July 1784 Gibbons was named Chief Justice for Cape Breton and he and his family moved to the island. Richard Gibbons Jr. died on 3 August 1794 in a prison at Nantes, France. His son, Richard Gibbons III was Attorney General of Cape Breton and a leading lawyer and separatist. The Gibbons family resided largely around Marion Bridge during the twentieth century.