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War Medal 1939-1945
MG 21.49-B-5 · Item · August 16, 1945
Part of Sylvia Karrel collection

Item is the War Medal 1939-1945 awarded to Pilot Officer Curdis Karrel for serving over 28 days as a full-time member of the Air Force during World War II (WWII).

1939-1945 Star
MG 21.49-B-3 · Item · 1943
Part of Sylvia Karrel collection

Item is the 1939-1945 Star awarded to Pilot Officer Curdis Karrel after serving two months as active air-crew in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II (WWII).

The Defence Medal
MG 21.49-B-2 · Item · August 16, 1945
Part of Sylvia Karrel collection

Item is on Defence Medal awarded to Pilot Officer Curdis Karrel for service in Britain during World War II (WWII).

Bridgeport
CA BI 80-19-4199 · Item · ca. 1900

Item is a photograph of a street scene showing W.J. McDonald's Store and the Methodist Church in Bridgeport.

MG 21.37 · Fonds · [18-?]-1993, predominant 1949-1978

The collection consists of 4 complete manuscripts and 2 partial manuscripts of “Memoirs of a Cape Breton Doctor”/ “Hang the Lantern on the Gate” (which was the original title), personal correspondence and letters of congratulations, reviews of “Memoirs of a Cape Breton Doctor” as well as a rough draft of an opening scene for a play based on “Memoirs of a Cape Breton Doctor”. This collection consists of photographs, an audio cassette tape (The Bush & The Salon), a CD (C.L. MacMillan- Oral Histories), clipping with information about the “C. Monty MacMillan” ferry, clippings of Dr. MacMillan’s obituary as well as condolence letters sent to the family, tributes that were given after the doctor's death, political speeches given by Dr. MacMillan as well as other speeches he has given and 2 scrapbooks containing clippings dealing with his time as MLA and letters of congratulations on receiving the Order of Canada.

MacMillan, Dr. C. Lamont (Monty)
Plan of the City of Sydney
Map 424 · Item · 1910

Item is a Plan of the City of Sydney with businesses, churches and schools identified on the map with a list of each located on the left side of the map. Along the right side of the map are a list of the advertisers included on the map.

MG 21.39-B-8 · Item · 1979
Part of Dr. Thomas Carter fonds

The item consist of a photograph of a farm near the shore in Board cove, Nova Scotia. The farmhouse is a dark faded red with a small storage barn next to it done in the same colour. There is land and small islands in the water across from the farm.

Farm, Cape Breton
MG 21.39-B-20 · Item · 1979
Part of Dr. Thomas Carter fonds

The item consists of a photograph of timber that was cut for use in the barn and on the Beaton’s property.

MG 21.39-B-9 · Item · 1979
Part of Dr. Thomas Carter fonds

Item consists of a photograph of a farm in Broad Cove, showing a house with a blue truck parked in the front, two barns on the property and a person walking down the driveway. The property is on the water with trees lining a portion of it while the rest is open field.

Dr. Thomas Carter fonds
MG 21.39 · Fonds · 1970-1979

The fonds consists of images and sound recordings of the Beaton and Kennedy family in the Broad Cove. The recordings feature John Beaton playing the fiddle, while family is heard speaking with Tom Carter about various topics pertaining to Cape Breton. There is a change in language between English and Canadian Gaelic from individuals on the recordings. The fiddle playing is Scottish-Canadian in style, while some are Scottish fiddle music. The recordings include small conversations between reels and songs, descriptions and origins of the music’s is also discussed. The photographs are of the Beaton family house and farm, highlighting rural life in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The photos also show the boarder Broad Cove community and Inverness county.

Carter, Thomas Dr.
CA BI MG 09.021-C · Subfonds · October 4, 1915 - August 12, 1937
Part of Dodd Family fonds

Sub-fonds consists of a World War I scrapbook kept by Frances Dodd during her time in England serving as a nurse, correspondence, and objects, including a silver service, pewter goblets, a silver urn, and a tea set.

Ridgway, Frances (Dodd)
Frances (Dodd) Ridgway
CA BI 77-577-711 · Item · ca. 1930

Item is a photograph of Frances (Dodd) Ridgway, R.N. daughter of Dr. Marcus Dodd, born in 1885 and died in 1973.

Thomas J. Brown fonds
MG 21.48 · Fonds · 1820 - 1939

Fonds consists of Brown’s collection of mining documents, the manuscript for his book, Place Names of Nova Scotia as well as an undated mining manuscript. Also included is a copy of the poem The Mayflower, the book Gaelic Lessons for Beginners, a scroll addressed to E.G. McKay, a leather nameplate, newspaper clippings and correspondence.

Brown, Thomas James
MG 20.5 · Fonds · 1910 - 1990

Collection consists of materials related to The Cape Breton Highlanders, including photographs, recruitment ledgers, rolls and daily orders, correspondence, regimental histories, programs, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings and the World War 2 war diaries.

The Cape Breton Highlanders (CBH)
MG 20.5-D-1-6-7 · Item · 1945
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is one photograph of a group of thirteen Cape Breton Highlanders having a small celebration during World War 2 (WW2) in [Holland or Belgium or Germany], possibly on the evening that peace was declared. Included in the photograph are Leo [?], of New Waterford, Nova Scotia, and Earl Wilson, from Sydney, Nova Scotia, sitting in the grass; Hiram Connelly from the Annapolis Valley; [?] McLeod (playing the violin), from Inverness, Nova Scotia; [?] White from Halifax, Nova Scotia; [?] Curtis from Sydney, Nova Scotia; and, Private Louis Broussard (F607694) who is dancing in the centre of the photograph.

MG 20.5-D-1-5-18 · Item · [Between May 1945 and June 1945]
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is one postcard featuring a photograph of a small group of Cape Breton Highlanders standing at parade rest in front of The Adam, a windmill, in Delfzijl, Holland during World War 2 (WW2). The top of the windmill cannot be seen in this photograph.

MG 20.5-B-8 · Item · [19--]
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a photocopied and oversize photograph of the 185th Overseas Battalion (Cape Breton Highlanders) Regimental Band taken in Nova Scotia by photographer W.G. MacLaughlan.

Included in the photograph are:

1st row (sitting): Bdsn Joseph Mullings, Bdsn William P. Laurence, Bdsn John McOuigan, Bdsn John T. Green, Bdsn Gerald Liscombe, Bdsn Daniel Guthro, Bdsn A.J. MacLean (L. Corp.).

2nd row (kneeling): Bdsn Joseph Dunn, Bdsn James A. Ross, Bdsn Mark Conway, Bdsn Harry Beaddock, William Williams (Sergt. Bandmaster), Col. F.P. Day, Capt. F.P. Munro, Bdsn D. Mck Weir, Bdsn joseph Davies.

3rd row: Bdsn Samuel Hayward, Bdsn Fred Ferryhough, Bdsn John Harracks, Bdsn Malcom O'Hanley, Bdsn Ben Hitchens, Bdsn James F. MacDonald, Bdsn Thomas Denny, Bdsn John Nicholson, Bdsn Elsmer Bulmer, Bdsn Burns MacDonald, Bdsn James Bowers.

4th row: Bdsn Alex Brown, Bdsn Frank MacKinnon, Bdsn James Critchley, Bdsn John Hitchens, Bdsn Robert Weilding, Bdsn Herbert Poycott, Bdsn William MacLaverty, Bdsn Albert Beresford, Bdsn Thomas Saunderson, Bdsn Walter Cosman.

MG 20.5-A-1 · Item · September 1910
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a group photograph of the 94th “Victoria” Battalion of Infantry, “Argyll Highlanders” regiment brass band and officers posing in a grassy field at Camp Aldershot in Aldershot, Nova Scotia with a number of bell tents erected in the background. The men are in uniform surrounding a large drum and the band members are holding clarinets, tubas, trumpets and French horns.

Included in the photograph are:
Front row (sitting): [unknown], Joe Valentine, D. MacKeigan, Eddie O’Brien, Grover Hull, J. Johnstone, J. Taylor MacDonald, and [unknown].

Middle row (kneeling): Bandmaster Walter Carmichael, Norman MacDonald, Noddie Morrison, Sam Mosely, Tom Fraser (kneeling the left of the drum), John MacNaughton (kneeling on the right of the drum), D. Weir, and Davy Seaton.

Back row: [unknown], Rannie MacDonald, [unknown], R. Bramwell, [unknown], James Mosley, Stewart [?], [unknown], Alex McLeod, George Weir, Allan MacDonald, Charles Anderson, [unknown], [unknown], and [unknown].

Italian School Children
MG 20.5-E-2-3-46 · Item · May 1985
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a photograph of Italian school children, teachers and parents watching a memorial ceremony at the Ravenna War Cemetery in Ravenna, Italy hosted by the Canadian delegation that was in Italy to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Liberation of Italy.

Youth of Canada
MG 20.5-E-2-3-37 · Item · May 1985
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a photograph of four young adults who were invited to be delegates during the Canadian delegation to Italy to mark the 40th anniversary of the Liberation of Italy.

Coriano Ridge War Cemetery
MG 20.5-E-2-3-23 · Item · May 1985
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a photograph of Canadian veterans and delegates walking through Coriano Ridge War Cemetery in Coriano, Italy. The delegates were holding a ceremony at the cemetery to honour the war dead during the group’s trip to Italy to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Liberation of Italy during the Second World War.

Sicilian on a Donkey
MG 20.5-E-2-2-26 · Item · May 1985
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a photograph of a Sicilian man riding a donkey on the street in Sicily, while Canadian delegates in Italy to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Liberation of Italy, speak with him.

Helen O’Brien
MG 20.5-E-2-2-20 · Item · May 1985
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a photograph of Canadian Nursing Sister and veteran, Helen O’Brien, seated at a table while acting as a delegate during the trip to Italy to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Liberation of Italy during the Second World War.

Brereton Greenhaus
MG 20.5-E-2-2-5 · Item · May 1985
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a photograph of Brereton Greenhaus, a historian chosen to join the Canadian delegation to Italy (right), speaking with an unidentified British woman who had been widowed during the Second World War.

Cassino War Cemetery
MG 20.5-E-2-1-38 · Item · May 1985
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a photograph of members of the military carrying a wreath to the base of the Cross of Sacrifice in Cassino War Cemetery in Cassino, Italy during a memorial hosted by the Canadian delegation in Italy.

MG 20.5-E-2-1-40 · Item · May 1985
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a photograph of Second World War veterans, from left to right, Bob Chamberlain, Smokey Smith, [?] Seaforth, Joseph Oldford, and General Bertram Hoffmeister, standing together at Cassino War Cemetery in Cassino, Italy, where the Canadian delegation was holding a commemoration ceremony for the war dead buried in the cemetery.

Joseph Oldford
MG 20.5-E-2-1-12 · Item · May 1985
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a photograph of Joe Oldford, a veteran of the Cape Breton Highlanders and Canadian delegate, standing in Rome with two unidentified delegates during their trip to Italy to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Liberation of Italy during the Second World War.

Rain in Rome
MG 20.5-E-2-1-9 · Item · May 1985
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a photograph of Canadian delegates and veterans in Rome to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Liberation of Italy during the Second World War.

At the Mayor’s Reception
MG 20.5-E-2-1-6 · Item · May 1985
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a photograph of Italian military members standing guard outside of the Mayor’s reception in Rome, Italy, which was held to honour the Canadian delegation which was in Italy to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Liberation of Italy.

Reflection
MG 20.5-E-2-1-3 · Item · May 1985
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a photograph of a flash of the camera in the reflection of a window. The Colosseum in Rome may be visible through the window.

DVA Meeting to Organize
MG 20.5-E-2-1-2 · Item · May 1985
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a photograph of a Department of Veterans Affairs meeting held in preparation of the Canadian delegation being sent to Italy to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Liberation of Italy during the Second World War.

DVA Meeting
MG 20.5-E-2-1-1 · Item · May 1985
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a photograph of a Department of Veterans Affairs meeting held in preparation of the Canadian delegation being sent to Italy to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Liberation of Italy during the Second World War.