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Newspaper 33-Vol. 2 No. 192 · Item · 16 Aug. 1899
Part of The Daily Record

The Daily Record cost $3 for one year, $1.50 for six months, 75 cents for 3 months, and 30 cents for one month. According to the newspaper, it was sold at bookstores, hotels, and post offices in country districts.

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.

The Micmac Tercentenary
MG 13.58-E-2-3 · Item · 1912
Part of Msgr. Donald MacPherson fonds

Item is a pamphlet authored by John M. Clark about the 300th anniversary of the first Mi’kmaq Baptism. The report was originally included in the Eighth Report of the Director of the Science Division, 1911 issued by the New York State Education Department in Albany, NY.

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.

MG 21.49-A-53 · Item · July 27, 1944
Part of Sylvia Karrel collection

Item is one handwritten letter from Curdis Karrel addressed to his mother, Sarah Karrel, and brothers, Benjamin Karrel and Sam Karrel. He writes that “nothing new or drastic is happening at all” and that he is hoping to go on leave within the next week. It was his last letter to the family before his death on July 29, 1944.

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.

Autograph Book
CA BI MG 20.21-MG 20.21 1.1 · Item · 1918
Part of Annie MacDonald fonds

Item is an autograph book of signatures and poems collected during World War 1 when Mrs. MacDonald of Sydney Mines was a nurse serving in the military forces. Various battalion insignias, scenes from the local countryside, and a comic drawing of Mrs. Annie MacDonald in nurses' uniform were drawn in the book by wounded soldiers.

The Nova Scotia Gleaner
CA BI PAM 1605 · Item · 5 October, 1929

Item is a October 5, 1929 issue of the Nova Scotia Gleaner, a monthly newspaper that was published in Sydney, Nova Scotia. This issue of the Gleaner was subtitled "In the Interest of the Coloured People of Nova Scotia," and features an editorial and several pieces that focus on Black persons across Nova Scotia.