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MG 20.5-E-1-2-1 · Item · January 7, 1975
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is one typewritten letter from Lieutenant Colonel T.M. Mosley, Commanding Officer of the 2nd Battalion, The Nova Scotia Highlanders, to Ralph Davies to inform him that he had been chosen as a delegate for the 30th Anniversary: The Canadians in Italy commemorative trip to Italy in April and May 1975. Attached is a copy of a letter from the Minister of Veterans Affairs to Mosley asking for his nominations for the delegation.

MG 20.5-E-1-2-10 · Item · April 8, 1975
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is one typewritten letter from J.M. Ruttan, Chief of Information Services for the Department of Veterans Affairs, in response to a letter from Ralph Davies regarding the purchase of, and laying of, wreaths at cemeteries in Italy during the “30th Anniversary: The Canadians in Italy” delegation sent to Italy in April and May 1975.

MG 20.5-E-1-2-2 · Item · January 16, 1975
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is one typewritten letter from the Department of Veterans Affairs and signed on behalf of the Director of Public Relations, G.S. Way, to Ralph Davies congratulating him for his nomination as a member of the "30th Anniversary: The Canadians in Italy" Official Delegation and forwarding a number of documents, including a Pro Forma, which is attached to the letter.

MG 20.5-E-1-2-3 · Item · January 16, 1975
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a typewritten letter from G.W. Halpenny, MD, Medical Officer of the Canadian Delegation sent to Italy to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Italian Campaign in April and May 1975, to Ralph Davies asking him to forward a medical report to his office before the trip.

MG 20.5-E-1-2-4 · Item · January 21, 1975
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is one typewritten and annotated letter from Ralph Davies to the Medals Section of the Department of Veterans Affairs asking for his World War II medals to be replaced, including the 1939-1945 Star, Italy Star, France & Germany Star, CVSM and clasp, 1939-1945 War Medal, Defense Medal and the medal bar brooch and ribbons. A copy of the letter is attached.

MG 20.5-E-1-2-6 · Item · February 27, 1975
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is one typewritten letter from G.S. Way, Director of Public Relations for the Department of Veterans Affairs, to Ralph Davies to let him know that his passport had been received by the Department of External Affairs ahead of the "30th Anniversary: The Canadians in Italy" delegation trip to Italy.

MG 20.5-E-1-2-7 · Item · March 24, 1975 – March 27, 1975
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a typewritten letter from J.M. Ruttan, Chief of Information Services for the Department of Veterans Affairs, to Ralph Davies with an information package for the “30th Anniversary: The Canadians in Italy” delegation. The package includes information on travel, allowances, baggage, customs, documents, dress, and tips for the delegation's Papal Audience.

MG 20.5-E-1-2-8 · Item · April 1, 1975
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a typewritten and annotated form letter from Edwin T. Davis, Charter Tour Organizer, informing “30th Anniversary: The Canadians in Italy” delegates that a charter tour had been organized for spouses, widows, and Silver Star mothers who could not accompany the official delegation to Italy. Attached to the letter are four newsletters to participants outlining travel details.

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

Item is a program for the ceremony held at the Ortona War Cemetery in Ortona, Italy to honour the war dead as part of the official Canadian delegation trip to Italy to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Liberation of Italy during the Second World War.

MG 20.5-E-2-3-38 · Item · May 1985
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a program for a ceremony held at the Ravenna War Cemetery in Ravenna, Italy to honour the war dead by the Canadian delegation sent to Italy to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Liberation of Italy during the Second World War.

MG 21.44-A-2-5 · Item · Digitized 2017
Part of Basker Family of Mull River collection

Item consists of digitized Basker family obituaries, memorial cards and wedding announcements. Individuals included in the document are Edith M. Beaton (Mabou), Kaye Basker and Don Figurski (Saskatchewan), Cassie Belle Basker (Mull River), Mary Theresa MacDonald (Montreal), Charlie Basker, Daniel MacLean, Thomas Joseph Basker (Coxheath), Donald Nicholson (Hamilton, Ontario), Sarah Basker Nicholson (Niagara Falls, Ontario), James Allan Beaton, Roderick Daniel Nicholson, Don Figurski, James W. Basker (Casper, Wyoming/Portland, Oregon), and Kaye Figurski (Kaye Basker, Catherine Anne Basker).

MG 21.44-A-3-2 · Item · Digitized 2017
Part of Basker Family of Mull River collection

Item is a digitized copy of a 1966 re-issue of Kenneth Basker’s birth and baptism certificate signed by Father J.A. Gillis on behalf of Saint Mary’s Parish in Mabou, Nova Scotia. Kenneth Basker was born on December 31, 1897 and his baptism certificate was originally issued on January 2, 1898.

MG 21.44-B-1 · Item · Digitized 2017
Part of Basker Family of Mull River collection

Item consists of digitized securities and stock certificates between Columbus Kirkland Gold Mining Company and F.W. Beer, Homer L. Gibson, and F.S. Leslie; Canadian International Corporation Limited and Levia McMillan; Straw Lake Beach Gold Mines Limited and Cameron, Pointon & Merritt; West-Side Long Lac Mines Limited and Noel H. Knowles; Macfarlane Long Lac Gold Mines Limited and Ronald Basker; and, Vanguard Explorations Limited and Kaye Figurski (Kaye Basker).

Land Deed
MG 21.44-B-4 · Item · Digitized 2017 (originally created June 5, 1970 and January 7, 1971)
Part of Basker Family of Mull River collection

Item is a digitized copy of a land transfer deed signed by Catherine Figurski (Kaye Figurski, Kaye Basker) for a 149 acre parcel of land in Mull River, Nova Scotia. Also included is a typewritten letter from the Municipality of the County of Inverness to Kaye Figurski regarding the land in Mull River.

MG 21.44-C-1 · Item · Digitized 2017 (originally created January 23, 1951)
Part of Basker Family of Mull River collection

Item is a digitized copy of a resolution given by the Warden and Councillors of the Municipality of the County of Inverness and sent to the Basker family upon the death of Ranald Basker, who served as a councillor for the municipality from 1934 to his death in 1950. It was signed by James MacDonnell, municipal clerk.

MG 21.44-C-2 · Item · Digitized 2017 (originally created [between June 1970 and July 1970])
Part of Basker Family of Mull River collection

Item is a digitized copy of a letter from Jim St. Clair, who was in New Canaan, Connecticut at the time of it’s writing, to his neighbours in Mull River, Nova Scotia, Kenneth Basker and Danny Basker, upon the death of their aunt, Belle [Belle MacDonald]. Also included is the letter’s envelope.

MG 21.44-C-3 · Item · Digitized 2017 (originally created April 10, 2010)
Part of Basker Family of Mull River collection

Item is a digitized copy of an email from Jim St. Clair to Julie White, daughter of Jack Basker (John Joseph Basker) and Ida McIntosh, with information about the Basker family dating back to 1792 and memories of her grandmother, Cassie Bell Basker, and aunt, Kaye Figurski (Kaye Basker), who were Jim’s neighbours in Mull River, Nova Scotia. The email had been printed off and re-digitized, along with a short biography of Jim St. Clair from the Storytellers of Canada website.

Various Photos
MG 21.44-D-120 · Item · 2017
Part of Basker Family of Mull River collection

Item is an electronic booklet of photos of the Basker Family. Included are:
• Page 1 – Jack Basker (John Joseph Basker)
• Page 2 – Composite Platoon in Fort Lewis, Washington, USA - Jack Basker (John Joseph Basker) was a private during the Korean War.
• Page 3 – Basker family home in Mull River, Nova Scotia
• Page 4 – Kenny Basker (Kenneth Basker)
• Page 5 – two photos of members of the Basker Family (top of the page)
• Page 5 – Kaye Basker (Catherine Basker) (bottom left)
• Page 5 – Kaye Basker (Catherine Basker) with an unidentified man (bottom right)
• Page 6 – Ranald Basker (possibly him front and centre wearing a flat cap) with some of his political friends
• Page 7 – Kaye Basker (Catherine Basker, Kaye Figurski) and her brother, Danny Basker.
• Page 7 – Danny Basker

Various Pictures
MG 21.44-D-121 · Item · 2017
Part of Basker Family of Mull River collection

Item is an electronic booklet of photos of the Basker Family. Included are:
• Page 1 – Jack Basker (John Joseph Basker) and Ida Basker (née Ida McLaughlin/Ida McIntosh)
• Page 2 – Kaye Basker (Catherine Basker) and an unidentified man (June 1957)
• Page 3 – Kaye Basker (Catherine Basker) and three unidentified people (June 1957)
• Page 4 – unidentified people
• Page 5 – Kaye Basker (Catherine Basker) in her wedding gown
• Page 6 – Kaye Basker (Catherine Basker) and Don Figurski on their wedding day with the wedding party on the steps behind them
• Page 7 – Kaye Basker (Catherine Basker) and Don Figurski’s wedding portrait
• Page 8 - Kaye Figurski (Kaye Basker, Catherine Basker) and Don Figurski in the early 1980s
• Page 9 – from left to right, Roddy Nicholson, Kaye Figurski (Kaye Basker), Mary Nicholson, Theresa Figurski-Chartrand
• Page 10 – Mary Nicholson, Donny Nicholson, [?], Roddy Nicholson, and [?]

Mining Manuscript
MG 21.48-B-2 · Item · [after 1923]
Part of Thomas J. Brown fonds

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.

M. Dwyer to E.G. McKay
MG 21.48-C-1 · Item · April 25, 1922
Part of Thomas J. Brown fonds

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.

MG 21.48-C-2 · Item · February 9, 1923
Part of Thomas J. Brown fonds

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.

MG 21.48-C-3 · Item · February 13, 1923
Part of Thomas J. Brown fonds

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.

M. Dwyer to Thomas J. Brown
MG 21.48-C-4 · Item · February 23, 1923
Part of Thomas J. Brown fonds

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.