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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-1-5-16 · 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 attention 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-D-1-5-17 · 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-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.

Highlander in Holland
MG 20.5-D-1-5-24 · Item · 1945
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is one photograph of a Cape Breton Highlander resting on the front bumper of a military truck with the alphanumeric code “CL5926545” painted on the door in Holland. The back of the photo has been damaged after being affixed to a photo album, but the greeting “all my love” can be made out near the top.

MG 20.5-D-1-5-26 · Item · 1945
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is one photograph of three Cape Breton Highlanders, from left to right, Ike Wiseman, Harvey Myers, and R. Patterson, holding a bottle between them while they stand in front of a military vehicle with their arms around each other’s shoulders in Holland during World War 2 (WW2).

Highlanders in Holland
MG 20.5-D-1-5-4 · Item · 1945
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is one postcard featuring a photograph of Cape Breton Highlanders posing for a group photo in front of the Delfzijl Railway Station in Delfzijl, Holland. There is no message written on the postcard.

Highlanders in Holland
MG 20.5-D-1-5-5 · Item · 1945
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is one postcard photograph of Cape Breton Highlanders posing for a group photo in front of the Delfzijl Railway Station in Delfzijl, Holland. There is no message written on the postcard.

Highlanders in Holland
MG 20.5-D-1-5-6 · Item · 1945
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is one postcard featuring a photograph of Cape Breton Highlanders posing for a group photo in front of the Delfzijl Railway Station in Delfzijl, Holland. There is no message written on the postcard.

Highlanders in Holland
MG 20.5-D-1-5-9 · Item · 1945
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is one postcard featuring a photograph of Cape Breton Highlanders posing in front of a number of military vehicles near the Delfzijl Railway Station in Delfzijl, Holland. There is no message written on the postcard.

MG 20.5-E-1 · Subseries · 1939 - 1975
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Sub-series consists of correspondence, programmes, schedules, scrapbooks, and photographs belonging to Ralph Davies and Sharkey MacDonald (Charles MacDonald), former Cape Breton Highlanders and World War 2 (WW2) veterans, who were chosen to be delegates for the “30th Anniversary: The Canadians in Italy” delegation sent to Italy to commemorate the Italian Campaign and the 30th anniversary of the liberation of Italy. Delegates visited memorials, battlefields, and war cemeteries and took part in cultural and religious ceremonies to mark the occasion.

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

Sub-file consists of a photo album of photographs taken by or for Joseph Oldford in Rome, Italy and Cassino, Italy during the Canadian delegation to Italy to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Liberation of Italy during the Second World War.

MG 20.5-E-2-2 · File part · May 1985
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Sub-file consists of a photo album of photographs taken by or for Joseph Oldford in Anzio, Italy, Sicily, Italy and Orton, Italy during the Canadian delegation to Italy to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Liberation of Italy during the Second World War.

MG 21.37-A-2-3 · Item · [19-]
Part of Dr. C. Lamont MacMillan Fonds

Item consists of a speech given by Dr. MacMillan welcoming a man from Scotland to Cape Breton. He has come to Cape Breton for the annual Gaelic Mod Festival in Baddeck. Dr. MacMillan talks about the similarities between Scotland and Cape Breton as well as the predominant highland and Gaelic culture in parts of Cape Breton.

Sylvia Karrel collection
MG 21.49 · Fonds · 1943 - 2001

Fonds consists of correspondence written to Sylvia Karrel (née Sylvia Glickman) by Pilot Officer Curdis Karrel, Pilot Officer Karrel's war medals, photographs of Pilot Officer Karrel’s headstone in Kiel War Cemetery in Kiel, Germany, and newspaper clippings.

Karrel, Sylvia
Highland Clearances Trail
PAM 4138 · Item · June 1983

Item has short entries on Scottish towns along the Highland Clearances Trail, which include geographic and historic descriptions of each place.

Isle of Lismore
PAM 4139 · Item · 1977

Item is a history of the Isle of Lismore in Scotland. A small map card is tucked against the first page.