Beaton Institute Digital Archives

1953 Closing Exercises Program

CA BI SB1951-1960.2
Part
May 17, 1953

Part of Xavier College Scrapbook 1951 - 1960

Item is a program for the 1953 closing exercises of Xavier Junior College which took place on May 17, 1953

2nd Battalion, Cape Breton Highlanders (Cape Breton) officer training booklet

PAM 2190
Item
1975

Item is a booklet that was handed out during officer training for the 2nd Battalion, Nova Scotia Highlanders (Cape Breton) between September 1975 and May 1976. The booklet was created to consolidate information about the history of the Cape Breton Highlanders and serve as a training medium for study as well as a reference for future regimental history lectures. The booklet contains an introduction by then commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel I.D. MacIntyre and sections that highlight the history of the unit before World War I to the unit as the 2nd Battalion, Nova Scotia Highlanders (Cape Breton).

A Choral Tapestry - Twenty-Five Years with the Cape Breton Chorale

Part of Cape Breton Chorale

A Short History & Photographic Record of the Cape Breton Highlanders 185th Overseas Battalion C.E.F

MG 20.5-B-1
File
1916

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

File contains a booklet, a photocopy, and a microfilm copy of "A Short History & Photographic Record of the Cape Breton Highlanders 185th Overseas Battalion C.E.F." that features photographs and details such as rank, regimental number and origins, of the officers, infantry, and other groups of the battalion.

Angus R. MacDonald fonds

CA BI MG 6.33
Fonds
1928-1973

Fonds consists of papers including poetry, book excerpts, and a scrapbook. Papers include:

A collection of his poetry compiled by his daughter, Christena E. MacDonald, 1968. Also included is a poem by French Road bard, Duncan MacDonald. Typescript and printed, 32 pages.
Excerpts from Songs of the Gael [n.d.]. Printed, 6 pages.
Obituary of Angus R. MacDonald, 1973. Clippings including a poem by John Og Walker of Lake Ainslie.
“Biography of Christena Evelyn MacDonald” 1931. Original, 9 pages.
Scrapbook of clippings pertaining to Florence E. MacDonald’s track and field career, and including clippings on Johnny Miles, 1929.
Failte Cheap Breatuinn: A collection of Gaelic poetry by Vincent A. MacLellan (1891). The MacNeil Edition edited by James Hugh MacNeil, 1933. Typescript 233 pages. Supplement, 1933, containing biography of V. A. McLellan. Typescript, 22 pages. Presented by Angus R. MacDonald.

MacDonald, Angus R.

Autograph Book

CA BI MG 20.21-MG 20.21 1.1
Item
1918

Part of Annie MacDonald fonds

Item is an autograph book of signatures and poems collected during World War 1 when Mrs. MacDonald of Sydney Mines was a nurse serving in the military forces. Various battalion insignias, scenes from the local countryside, and a comic drawing of Mrs. Annie MacDonald in nurses' uniform were drawn in the book by wounded soldiers.

Baddeck Telephone August 30, 1899

Newspaper 2-Vol. 2 No. 31
Item
30 Aug. 1899

Part of Baddeck Telephone

Baddeck Telephone March 8, 1899

Newspaper 2-Vol. 2 No. 10
Item
08 Mar. 1899

Part of Baddeck Telephone

Baddeck Telephone November 16, 1898

Newspaper 2-Vol. 1 No. 19
Item
16 Nov. 1898

Part of Baddeck Telephone

Baddeck Telephone September 13, 1899

Newspaper 2-Vol. 2 No. 32
Item
13 Sep. 1899

Part of Baddeck Telephone

Bay News no. 1

MG 20.5-C-5-a
Item
25 Aug. 1945

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

Item is issue number 2 of the Cape Breton Highlanders publication the Bay News.

Bay News no. 10

MG 20.5-C-5-j
Item
27 Oct. 1945

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

Item is issue number 10 of the Cape Breton Highlanders publication the Bay News.

Bay News no. 11

MG 20.5-C-5-k
Item
03 Nov. 1945

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

Item is issue number 11 of the Cape Breton Highlanders publication the Bay News.

Bay News no. 12

MG 20.5-C-5-l
Item
12 Nov. 1945

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

Item is issue number 12 of the Cape Breton Highlanders publication the Bay News.

Bay News no. 13

MG 20.5-C-5-m
Item
17 Nov. 1945

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

Item is issue number 13 of the Cape Breton Highlanders publication the Bay News.

Bay News no. 14

MG 20.5-C-5-n
Item
24 Nov. 1945

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

Item is issue number 14 of the Cape Breton Highlanders publication the Bay News.

Bay News no. 2

MG 20.5-C-5-b
Item
Sep. 1945

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

Item is issue number 2 of the Cape Breton Highlanders publication the Bay News.

Bay News no. 3

MG 20.5-C-5-c
Item
08 Sep. 1945

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

Item is issue number 3 of the Cape Breton Highlanders publication the Bay News.

Bay News no. 4

MG 20.5-C-5-d
Item
September 29, 1945

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

Item is a photocopy of issue number 4 of the Cape Breton Highlanders publication the Bay News.

Bay News no. 5

MG 20.5-C-5-e
Item
22 Sep. 1945

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

Item is issue number 5 of the Cape Breton Highlanders publication the Bay News.

Bay News no. 6

MG 20.5-C-5-f
Item
September 29, 1945

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

Item is issue number 6 of the Cape Breton Highlanders publication the Bay News.

Bay News no. 7

MG 20.5-C-5-g
Item
September 29, 1945

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

Item is issue number 7 of the Cape Breton Highlanders publication the Bay News.

Bay News no. 8

MG 20.5-C-5-h
Item
13 Oct. 1945

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

Item is issue number 8 of the Cape Breton Highlanders publication the Bay News.

Bay News no. 9

MG 20.5-C-5-i
Item
20 Oct. 1945

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

Item is issue number 9 of the Cape Breton Highlanders publication the Bay News.

Bras D'or Advertiser August 20, 1936

Newspaper 16-Vol. 1 No. 26
Item
20 Aug. 1936

Part of Bras D'Or Advertiser

Bras D'Or Advertiser July 2, 1936

Newspaper 16-Vol. 1 No. 19
Item
02 Jul. 1936

Part of Bras D'Or Advertiser

Bras D'Or Advertiser June 25, 1936

Newspaper 16-Vol. 1 No. 18
Item
25 Jun. 1936

Part of Bras D'Or Advertiser

Cape Breton Chorale

CA BI MG 15.47
Fonds
1973-1998

Fonds consists of records documenting the performances, tours, community activities and governance of the Cape Breton Chorale. Fonds includes sound recordings from original performances, radio broadcasts, and taped interviews with choir members. Textual documents include financial reports, correspondence, programs, newspaper clippings, interview transcripts, awards, membership information and histories about the Chorale. Colour photographs and 35mm slides are found in the records along with a comprehensive collection of scrapbook albums documenting the activities of the group from its inception until 2010. A small collection of VHS video tapes are also available featuring the televised program "Now the Bells Ring with Rita MacNeil" as well as other performances.

Cape Breton Chorale

Cape Breton Highlanders 1973 reunion program

CA BI MG 20.5-D-7-a
Item
July 20, 1973 - July 22, 1973

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

Item is a program for the Cape Breton Highlanders 1973 reunion that was held in Glace Bay, N.S. The program details a short history of the unit, the program for the event, a note about the event's guest speaker The Honourable Daniel J. MacDonald, Minister of Veterans Affairs, and details about the Cape Breton Highlanders Association.

Cape Breton Highlanders Association 1980 reunion program

CA BI MG 20.5-D-7-b
Item
1980-07-25 - 1980-07-26

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

Item is a program for the Cape Breton Highlanders Association Eleventh Annual Reunion (1980) that was held at the New Waterford Community Centre in New Waterford, N.S.

Cape Breton Highlanders Association 1981 reunion program

CA BI MG 20.5-D-7-c
Item
1981-07-24 - 1981-07-25

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

Item is a program for the Cape Breton Highlanders Association Twelfth Annual Reunion (1981) that was held in at Royal Canadian Legion Branch 78 in Dominion, N.S.

Cape Breton Highlanders Association 1986 reunion program

CA BI MG 20.5-D-7-d
Item
July 25, 1986 - July 26, 1986

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

Item is a program for the Cape Breton Highlanders Association Seventeenth Annual Reunion (1986) that was held at Royal Canadian Legion Branch 78 in Dominion, N.S.

Cape Breton Highlanders Association 1987 reunion program

CA BI MG 20.5-D-7-e
Item
July 31, 1987 - August 1, 1987

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

Item is a program for the Cape Breton Highlanders Association Eighteenth Annual Reunion (1987) that was held at Royal Canadian Legion Branch 138 in Sydney, N.S.

Cape Breton Highlanders Association 1988 reunion program

CA BI MG 20.5-D-7-f
Item
July 22, 1988 - July 23, 1988

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

Item is a program for the Cape Breton Highlanders Association Nineteenth Annual Reunion (1988) that was held at Royal Canadian Legion Branch 40 in Glace Bay, N.S.

Cape Breton Highlanders Association 1989 reunion program

CA BI MG 20.5-D-7-g
Item
July 21, 1989 - July 22, 1989

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

Item is a program for the Cape Breton Highlanders Association Twentieth Annual Reunion (1989) that was held at Royal Canadian Legion Branch 8 in Sydney Mines, N.S.

Cape Breton Highlanders members list

MG 20.5-C-3-B
Item

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

Item is a duplicate copy of an unidentified list of members of the Cape Breton Highlanders during World War II. The list notes each soldier's regimental number, rank, name and which company they belong to.

Cape Breton Highlanders roll of honour

PAM 396
Item
1945?

File consists of a small booklet containing a roll of honour of the war dead of the Cape Breton Highlanders during World War II. The roll of honour includes each member's regimental number, rank, name, company, date killed, and their origins. The booklet was printed in N.V. Groningen, Holland by Dijkstra's Drukkerij.

Cape Breton Highlanders, 1939-1945 booklet

CA BI MG 20.5-D-5
File
1975

Part of Cape Breton Highlanders Collection

File consists of a publication titled "The Cape Breton Highlanders, 1939-1945" written and compiled by at the time Cape Breton Highlanders Association Ralph S. Davies. The publication provides a summary of the Cape Breton Highlanders regimental history, the war cemeteries where members of the unit who died in the war are buried, a tribute to Honorary Captain and RC Padre Father Alexander Duncan MacDonald, and the honours and awards of the Cape Breton Highlanders won during World War II. Included alongside the publication is a print-out of two pages of an unidentified book titled "The Highland Society of London."

Charles MacDonald fonds

CA BI MG 11.40
Fonds
1963-1983

This fonds consists of documents relating to: the Highlander Press Co. Ltd; pulpwood cutting in Cape Breton County; Roman Catholic Diocese of Antigonish; speeches. Dr. Charles MacDonald was a member of the faculty of the University College of Cape Breton.