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MG 21.49-A-5 · Item · June 23, 1943
Part of Sylvia Karrel collection

Item is one handwritten letter from Curdis Karrel to Sylvia Glickman, sent while Curdis was stationed in London, Ontario for training with the RCAF during World War II. Karrel starts planning a meeting with Glickman while the two of them are passing through Montreal on July 9, 1943 on their way home to Cape Breton, he for a two week leave and she returning from a trip to New York City.

CA BI MG 21.14-A-16-1 · Item · February 5, 2005
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

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.

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 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.

Literary Activites Letter
CA BI SB1951-1960.3 · Part · 1951 - 1960
Part of Xavier College Scrapbook 1951 - 1960

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.

Lucy Doucet
CA BI B&G - Doucet, Lucy · File · 1999-2005

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

Doucet, Lucy Jane
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.

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.

Mabou River Note
MG 13.58-E-1-2 · Item · August 12, 1937
Part of Msgr. Donald MacPherson fonds

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).

MG 21.49-D-3 · Item · January 24, 2001
Part of Sylvia Karrel collection

Item is a map and plan of Kiel War Cemetery in Kiel, Germany produced by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. On the map, Kiel and Hamburg, Germany are highlighted in yellow, and on the plan of Kiel War Cemetery the row where Pilot Officer Curdis Karrel was buried has been highlighted.

Margaret MacPhee
MG 15.76 · File · 1997 - 1999

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, Margaret
Mi’kmaq Lexicon
MG 13.58-E-1-5 · Item · 1905
Part of Msgr. Donald MacPherson fonds

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.

Micmac Hymnal
CA BI PAM 4087 · Item · ca. 1983
Micmac Association of Cultural Studies
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.

Missing: Curdis Karrel
MG 21.49-C-1 · Item · [after July 29, 1944]
Part of Sylvia Karrel collection

Item is one clipping from an unidentified newspaper with the announcement that Sgt. Curdis Karrel was missing in action during World War II (WWII). The clipping includes a photograph of Karrel in uniform.

CA BI MG 21.14-A-7-1 · Item · [Before 2016]
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

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.

MG 20.5-B-7-2 · Item · [March 9, 1918]
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

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.

Notes about Mi’kmaq
MG 13.58-E-1-10 · Item · [190-?]
Part of Msgr. Donald MacPherson fonds

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.