Item is a reproduction of an extract from the North American review, no. CCXXX, January, 1871.
Item is a map of Atlantic Canada post-Confederation with inset of Halifax harbour.
Mitchell, Augustus SamuelGertrude E. N. Tratt: "In 1872 the Cape Breton Times, which had absorbed the circulation list of the (Cape Breton) News, appeared. It had four 23" x 33" pages, and cost $1.50 and later $1.75 per annum. It had about 700 to 1000 regular subscribers. M.A. Shaffer was manager for the Cape Breton Publishing Co."
Gertrude E. N. Tratt: "The Herald, the oldest weekly in Cape Breton, began as a weekly with four 24" x 36" pages and a circulation of slightly more than 800. James W. Gould was editor and publisher, but within five years was succeeded by A.C. Bertram. Under Bertram's ownership the paper was more than tripled its circulation to 2,750 and its format altered, first to four 19 1/4" x 28 1/2" pages, and then to eight 15" x 23" pages. During these years it was Conservative in politics.
Sometime before 1910 the North Sydney Herald Publishing Company had begun to issue the paper. Its politics changed from Liberal-Conservative to Liberal, then to Independent. The circulation rose to a peak of 4,700 in 1918, and then began a steady decline. While it retained its eight pages, these reverted to Bertram's 19 1/4" x 22 1/2" size.
For some years after 1920, a daily as well as a weekly edition was published. At that time J. S. MacDonald was manager of the Herald Publishing Company. The daily, like the weekly, was an eight page newspaper. It cost $6 per annum, was Liberal in politics, and it had a circulation of 1,700.
The daily apparently ended about 1928 but the weekly continued for another 20 years. In the mid-thirties it became once more politically Independent."
Item is a photograph of ships on a beach after the August Gale on August 26, 1873.
Item is a photograph of Margaret Sybella Brown, daughter of R.H. Brown, pictured sitting in a chair.
Item is a photograph of a view of Lingan and the International Colliery from the Illustrated News in Montreal on September 20, 1873.
This fonds consists of an extensive collection of documents relating to the life and work of Matha Avery and Sister St. Mary Martha. Martha Moore was born in 1851 to a prominent family in Steuben, Maine. She married Millard Avery in 1881 and a daughter, Catherine, was born in 1881. Mother and daughter moved to Boston in 1888 where Mrs. Avery became involved in many reform movements and the Socialist Labour Party. Her daughter, who was educated in a Catholic convent school, became a member of the religious order of the Congregation of Notre Dame in 1900, taking the name Sister St. Mary Martha. This event helped to draw Mrs. Avery to the Catholic Church to which she converted in 1904, after which she, along with David oldstein travelled through the United States as Catholic evangelists, using the slogan "Convert from Marx to Christ" as their motto. Mrs. Avery died in 1929.
Memoranda and Articles of Association for Cape Breton
Coal Company, Bridgeport.
Item is a photograph of Anne Ethel (Brown) Johnstone, daughter of R.H. Brown, sitting in a chair.
Item is a photograph of D. Bergin, M.P., at the House of Commons, Ottawa.
Fonds consists of correspondence, legal documents, diaries, and clippings. It includes Anthony's MacMillan's wartime correspondence with his cousin, Cecilia MacMillan, in addition to other wartime correspondence.
MacMillan, JamesItem is a photograph of Premier Marchand, president of the Royal Society of Canada.
Item is a photograph of Darcy McGee, Minister of Agriculture in 1865.
Item is a photograph of H.L. Langevin, M.P., who was the Solicitor General for Eastern Canada.
Item is a photograph of William Henry, M.P. for Antigonish County.
Item is a photograph of C.E. Church, an M.P. from Louisbourg, Nova Scotia.
Item is a photograph of the Earl of Dufferin who was the Governor General from 1872-1878.
Item is a photograph of Alexander MacKenzie, a Western Canadian who was a M.P. from 1873-1878.
Fonds consists of records documenting the history and operations of the North Sydney Western Union Telegraph Company. Records include an early inventory of the property from 1876, employee listings and collections, telegrams and a cash book, general history and various technical publications and sketches. The fonds also includes a significant portion of the Western Union Housing Committee minute books and property agreements.
Western Union Telegraph and Cable Company North SydneyFonds consists of textual records related to Malcolm MacDonald and his family, including correspondence related to Malcolm MacDonald's application for military service exemption and a letter from Pte. Dan MacDonald to a friend.
MacDonald, MalcolmFonds consists of personal papers (1876-1901), appointments, deeds, stock certificates and business papers (1900-1921), and memorial cards.
MacKay, Daniel J.Item is a photograph of Mrs. Richard Dwyer with three children, Patrick, Margaret and Michael, before emigration to Nova Scotia.
Item is a photograph of Mayor James MacKenzie who was the mayor of Sydney in 1889.
Item is a reproduction of an article originally published in the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, Halifax. Proceedings, 1877. 1878. v.4, pt. 3, p. 260-281.
Item is a reproduction of an item from the National Archives of Canada. The identifying information is as follows: NAC C-12800; "Micmac Indians waiting to receive Ld. Lorne in Halifax 1878"; SPH [Sydney Prior Hall]; India Ink, wash & scraping; 1878.
Fonds consists of an assessment ledger giving names of taxpayers and teachers, 1878-1888, and related correspondence concerning above ledger (1962).
Item is a photograph of Fr. Daniel J. MacIntosh, parish priest in North Sydney.
Item is a photograph of an oil painting by Henry Sandham, Canadian R.C.A., of people gathering seaweed in Cow Bay, Nova Scotia.
Item is a papal letter on the 1st aniversary of Pope Leo XIII's papacy. Also included is a letter from the bishop of Arichat to Catholics of the diocese.
Item is a photograph of the Gisborne Bridge, Mira, which was erected in 1875 and burned in 1910.
Item is a photograph of the Gisborne Bridge with a train crossing it, over the Mira River. There are sailboats visible on the river.
Item is a map of Cape Breton and Richmond counties from the "Atlas of the Maritime Provinces", page 77.
Roe BrothersThe Eastern Beacon was established in 1879 and was published on Wednesdays. The newspaper consisted of four 23" x 33" pages and cost $1.25 per annum. J. A. Cogswell was both the editor and publisher of the Eastern Beacon.
Three daybooks that are unidentified. Internal evidence indicates that they were used in Mulgrave. There are some references to Antigonish as well.
Example of fancy 19th century lettering done by Thomas Burke of Mabou in his 84th year. Last Will and Testament of Thomas Burke, Mabou, 1886.
Item is a photograph of the Hill Family.
Item is a reproduction of a photograph of Reverend Silas Tertius Rand, a Baptist missionary, with two unidentified Mi'kmaq boys.
Pridham, Robert S.Item is a photograph of Rev. Roderick MacNeil, a parish priest in Grand Mira, 1894-1899.
Item is a photograph of the Hon. Samuel Gordon Rigby, M.P., who was born in Sydney Mines on September 17, 1842. He was called to the bar in 1863 and died on July 8, 1886, then was buried in Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax.
Item is a photograph of Mi'kmaw women, men, and children at St. Ann's. Most likely Chief Herney and family. Photograph is the gift of Harold Medjuck, Photograph Collection #1.
Item is a photograph of a Mi'kmaw man at St. Ann's. On the reverse of the photograph is a handwritten note, identifying the man as a "Peter Henry" (Peter Herney).
Keisel, TheodoreItem is a photograph of H.G. MacDougall, M.L.A. for Cape Breton Co. from 1878-1882.
Item is a photograph of the Cape Breton Boot and Show Store and Dr. MacGillvray's Drug Store found on the corner of Pitt and George Street in Sydney.
Item is a photograph of Anne Ethel (Brown) Johnstone, daughter of R.H. Brown who married Dr. L.W. Johnstone.
Item is a photograph of two dories on the shore of St. Ann's Bay.
Keisel, TheodoreItem is a photograph of Plaster Falls in St. Ann's Bay.
Keisel, TheodoreItem is a photograph of Bras d'Or House, Baddeck, taken by photograph Theodore Keisel on his visit to Alexander Graham Bell.
Keisel, TheodoreItem is a photograph of Bell Cottage, Baddeck, that shows the family on the verandah, with a man in the hammock.
Keisel, Theodore