Item is a copy of Gaelic Lessons for Beginners by an unknown author. The book is inscribed in the front cover to Meg MacKay.
Item is a copy of the poem “The Mayflower: The Emblem Flower of Nova Scotia” by John McPherson of Liverpool, Nova Scotia.
Item is one clipping from an unidentified newspaper titled, ‘“Thomas J. Brown’s ‘Place Names of Nova Scotia’ Should be Writer’s Handbook,” about the publication of Brown’s book.
Item is a letter from a representative of the House of Commons, [Thomas Cauley], in Ottawa, Ontario to Thomas J. Brown thanking him for his recent telegram, expressing his regrets that Brown was retiring as Deputy Minister of Mines, and giving him a report about the Scotia and Dominion Submarine Areas.
Item is a typewritten letter from M. Dwyer of Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia to Thomas J. Brown regarding R.E. Archibald’s account and contract, or lack of contract, with Sydney Mines.
Item is a typewritten follow-up letter from Thomas E. Vaughan to The Indian Cove Coal Company Ltd. in reference to R.E. Archibald’s February 9, 1923 letter to the company regarding the wholesaler’s accounts. A handwritten note is written on the back of the letter.
Item is a typewritten letter from R. E. Archibald, Wholesale and Retail Dealer of Soft Coal, Hard Coal and Petroleum Coke, to The Indian Cove Coal Company Ltd. regarding the Camp Hill Hospital coal account. A handwritten note is included on the back of the second page.
Item is a handwritten goodbye letter addressed to E.G. McKay by M. Dwyer on behalf of the staff at the Sydney Mines Colliery in Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia. Mr. McKay was leaving the Sydney Mines for a steel company in the United States.
Item is a twenty-three page, typewritten paper about coal mining in Nova Scotia written by an unidentified author. The first three pages of the manuscript are missing.
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)Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diary Volume 12.
Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diary Volume 11.
Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diary Volume 10.
Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diary Volume 9.
Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diary Volume 8.
Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diary Volume 7.
Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diary Volume 6.
Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diary Volume 5.
Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diaries Volume 3.
Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diaries Volume 2.
Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diary Volume 1.
Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diaries Volume 4.
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.
Item is one photograph of Cape Breton Highlander Corporal Murray Howie (F55446) standing in front of an unidentified brick building.
Item is a studio portrait of Cape Breton Highlander Private Anthony Leudy (F88378).
Item is one typewritten list of Cape Breton Highlanders including names, regimental numbers, companies, and ranks developed during World War 2 (WW2).
Item is one typewritten Cape Breton Highlanders regimental history which includes information about the First World War, including various battalions (85th, 185th, 193rd, 219th), Battle Honours, and casualties; changes made to the regiment in the inter-war years; and, a list of Honorary Colonels from 1871 to 1939. A note was typewritten at the bottom of page 3 in 1944 to announce that the Highlanders had taken part in a battle on the Arielli River in Italy and on the same page handwritten annotations were added to the list of colonels sometime after 1959.
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.
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.
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].
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.
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.
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.
Item is a photograph of wreaths laid at the base of the Cross of Sacrifice at the Montecchio War Cemetery in Montecchio, Italy.
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.
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.
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.
Item is a photograph of Jean Guy Chapman, a representative of the Department of Veteran’s Affairs (right), standing with an unidentified Canadian military piper in Italy.
Item is a photograph of Second World War veterans, Smokey Smith (left) and Joe Oldford (second from left) standing with two unidentified veterans in Italy.
Item is a photograph of Allan McKinnon, MP, laying a wreath at the Cassino War Cemetery in Cassino, Italy at a ceremony to honour the war dead buried in the cemetery.
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.
Item is a photograph of a wreath laying ceremony at Cassino War Cemetery in Cassino, Italy.
Item is a photograph of a wreath laying ceremony at Cassino War Cemetery in Cassino, Italy.
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.
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.
Item is a photograph of Francisca [?], an Italian translator working for the Canadian delegation in Italy.
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.