Item is a typewritten letter from A.F. MacKenzie, Acting Assistant Deputy and Secretary of the Department of Indian Affairs, to Fr. MacPherson to tell him that the book he requested, The Handbook of Canadian Indians, was out of print and suggesting other titles.
Item is a typewritten letter from Cal Best (aka J.C. Best or Calbert Best), son of Carrie Best, to Wanda Robson in response to a letter previously sent by Robson. Wanda was looking for a copy of Carrie Best's book, That Lonesome Road, which had gone out of print.
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.
Item is a handwritten letter from Simon Basquer to Msgr. MacPherson, with a short note written at the bottom by Mrs. Simon Basquer.
Item is a letter from Stephen B. MacNeil and John A. McKinnon from May 2, 1914.
Item is a typewritten letter from John M. Clarke at the New York State Museum to Fr. Donald MacPherson offering to buy a number of Mi’kmaq items – “the squaw cap, the wooden plate with buttons, copies of Father Kander’s prayerbook, baby boards.”
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.
Item is one typewritten list of Cape Breton Highlanders including names, regimental numbers, companies, and ranks developed during World War 2 (WW2).
Item is a letter about extra-curricular literary activities at Xavier Junior College, included activities in the letter are the College Newspaper the Junior Bi-Weekly and the College Yearbook.
File consists of the following items:
Obituary for Lucy Doucet, Cape Breton Post, March 18, 2005
"Neré pi Lucy Jane: Their Story," a biography written by Lucy's son Daniel Doucet, March, 1999
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 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 one handwritten note based on knowledge given by Stephen Morrison regarding Mi'kmaq names for the Mabou River, the Mull River, the mouth of the harbour in Mabou, Nova Scotia, and Port Hood, Nova Scotia. The note is written on the back of a typewritten financial sheet about St. Francis Xavier University (St. FX).
File consists of various newspaper clippings re: New Waterford pianist Margaret MacPhee, including her obituary. File also contains a copy of Greg MacLeod's eulogy delivered at her funeral in 1997, and a remembrance article from The Cape Bretoner (Summer 1999).
MacPhee, MargaretItem is a digitized copy of Ranald Basker (Ronald Basker) and Cassie Bell McLean’s (Catherine Isabel McLean, Cassie Bell Basker) marriage certificate, signed in New Waterford, Nova Scotia in 1915.
Item is a handwritten note about the Mi’kmaq language written by Fr. Donald MacPherson while learning the language.
Item is a handwritten Mi’kmaq lexicon created by Msgr. MacPherson while learning the Mi’kmaq language. Newspaper clippings are fixed to some pages and Joe Gould of Whycocomagh, Cape Breton wrote his name on the inside front cover.
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.
Item is a draft of "My Early Memories of Race, My Sister Viola, and the Incident at the Roseland Theatre" by Wanda Robson, which appeared as a chapter in Viola Desmond's Canada: A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land by Dr. Graham Reynolds. Corrections and annotations in red pen have been made throughout the essay.
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 typewritten nominal roll of men in the 185th Battalion (Cape Breton Highlanders), including first initials, last names, and regimental numbers, who were transferred to the 17th Reserve Canadian Battalion, Bramshott, England. There are four copies of the list with various handwritten notes on each copy.
Item is a handwritten note from Fr. Lucien [?] at Ste-Anne de Ristigouche in Bonaventure, Quebec sending $2.00 for “Le Pays des Micmacs.”
Item describes a picnic that was held in Southwest Margaree.
Item is handwritten notes about the Mi’kmaq language as recorded by Fr. Donald MacPherson when he was learning the language in the early 20th century.
Item is a Cape Breton University Press publication re: the Nova Scotia Music Educators Association.
Porter, BrendaItem is a poster advertisement for an event at McConnell Library in Sydney, Nova Scotia to celebrate Nova Scotia's 2015 Heritage Day, which was dedicated to Viola Desmond. Guests at the event included Wanda Robson and Dr. Graham Reynolds.
Item is the official biography of The Honourable Daniel J. MacDonald, Minister of Veterans Affairs, who served as a Cape Breton Highlander during the Second World War (WWII) and was instrumental in planning the 30th Anniversary delegation to Italy.
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.
Item is a program for the play "Other People's Heaven," about Viola Desmond's 1946 arrest, which was staged at the Firebrand Theatre in Toronto, Ontario.
Photograph is of Xavier Junior Hockey team the X-men during a game