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94th Band, Baddeck
CA BI 77-617-751 · Item · 1898

Item is a photograph of the 94th Band, Baddeck, with the names of numbers listed on the back of the picture.

94th Highlanders
CA BI 77-192-326 · Item · ca. 1895

Item is a photograph of the 94th Highlanders at camp in Big Baddeck.

94th Highlanders Summer Camp
CA BI 77-198-332 · Item · ca. 1898

Item is a photograph of the 94th Victoria Battalion "Argyll Highlanders" summer camp at Big Baddeck.

94th Regiment at Camp
CA BI 77-195-329 · Item · ca. 1898

Item is a photograph of the 94th Regiment at camp in Big Baddeck.

94th Regiment at Camp
CA BI 77-196-330 · Item · ca. 1898

Item is a photograph of the 94th Regiment at camp in Big Baddeck.

94th Regiment at Camp
CA BI 77-193-327 · Item · ca. 1898

Item is a photograph of the 94th Regiment at camp in Big Baddeck.

94th Regiment at Camp
CA BI 77-194-328 · Item · ca. 1898

Item is a photograph of the 94th Regiment at camp in Big Baddeck.

A Ceilidh at Benacadie
CA BI T-427 · Item · 1972
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of a ceilidh at Benacadie, N.S. Includes conversation in English/Gaelic with informants throughout the Iona area. Features:

MacKinnon, Joseph - Brief biographical sketch

MacDonald, Joseph L. - A Ceilidh at Benacadie

Campbell, Neil - Biographical sketch

Campbell, Neil - How did your people first acquire land here?

MacNeil, Stephen R. Curator of Highland Village, Iona - Brief biographical sketch

MacNeil, Stephen R. Curator of Highland Village, Iona - Who were instrumental in bringing the Highland Village to Iona

MacNeil, Stephen R. Curator of Highland Village, Iona - How was land acquired for the Highland Village?

MacNeil, Stephen R. Curator of Highland Village, Iona - Highland Village Day

MacNeil, Stephen R. Curator of Highland Village, Iona - Problems facing a curator

MacDonald, Joseph Lawrence
AEA Cygnet II
CA BI 76-15 · Item · Feb-1909

Item is a photograph of an early aerial experiment by Alexander Graham Bell; the tetrahedral kite the Cygnet II was tested on the frozen Bras d'Or Lake at Baddeck Bay between 22 and 24 February 1909.

CA BI Reports: Museums · Item · 2009

Item is a feasibility study prepared in 2009 for the Silver Dart Centennial Association (SDCA). The SDCA commissioned a group of architects, museum planners and fundraisers to carry out a study that would develop plans for and assess the feasibility of expanding facilities at the AGB National Historic Site.

94-878-25393 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of Alexander Graham Bell's sheep outside of the barn.

94-879-25394 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of Alexander Graham Bell's sheep outside of the barn.

American Pulp and Paper Co.
CA BI 79-1001-3981 · Item · 20th century

Item is a photograph of American Pulp and Paper Co. at Murray on St. Ann's Harbour.

An Unidentified Brook
CA BI 77-1077-1211 · Item · ca. 1909

Item is a photograph of an unidentified brook.

CA BI T-2034 · Item · 1982
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Biographical Sketch
Genealogy of the Loch Lomond MacDonald'
Farming in the early days
Dominion Coal Company cut lumber at Silver Mine
Describes the operation, log bridge built across the river
The log drive to the sawmill...
Describes the process of hauling logs to the river
Logs provided lumber for company houses
Started school at age of 10
His first teacher, Jessie Morrison
Far from school, boarded with his aunt...
Describes the school, how it was heated, the discipline
Left school after grade 5
Started working at the Steel Plant, 1926
During Depression, little work - plant worked 2 days a week
Women were hired during the War (WW II)
Work on the farm - what the women did - the day's routine

Food - fish, how it was preserved
Making farm implement
Hay making in the early days
Dairy proucts - keeping milk cold
The arrival of cream separators, their care
His father was postmaster, 1912
Carried mail to Salmon River, $1 a trip
Discusses operation of the post office & mail route
First post office at Loch Lomond
News papers - Sydney (N.S.) Weekly Post, Family Herald
Wages at the Steel Plants after the War
Describes work at the Plant
United Steel Workers Union didn't get started until after 1941
The Plant Council...
Life on the farm - kerosene lamps, wood stoves...
Water from the well - never frozen because of its depth
When the mine started, the well went dry
No social activities in his youth
Church history - lay preachers in the earliest times
Present church built in 1910
United Church at Loch Lomond opened 1929
The first ministers...
Dissension and division over the union
Choir made up of older people
Prayer meetings held in school once a week
Gaelic the only language spoken at home; few could repeat it
His thoughts on Gaelic Today
He and all his brothers & sisters, born at home, delivered by a midwife, Peggy Currie
Never felt that his likfe lacked anything
Discusses food on the farm; potatoes & turnip the only vegetables
Implements manufactured in the forge
Four blacksmiths in the area, he gives their names; none today
Names 3 merchants that were in the area at the time
Pioneer craftes, processing wool
Describes his trip to North Uist, his search for information on Malcolm "The Carpnter"
Describes the Presbyterian Church in Scotland, his impression
Describes a Gaelic service he attended
Sunday laws stricty bserved there
Some more genealogy
His mother's weaving - she was self taught
Mary MacLean whom he visited in Scotland
Reads in Gaelic

Macdonald, Wilma J.
CA BI T-1084 · Item · 1975
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

MacNeil, Stephen R. Iona "Reisemaid Ghàidhealeach Eilean C.B." (185th Battalion)

Morrison, Dan Neil Loch Lomond "Chi mi na mòrbheanna..."

MacLellan, Angus Grand Mira (N.S.) "Cumha MhicChriomain"

MacLellan, Angus Grand Mira (N.S.) "Creach na Samhna"

MacLellan, Angus Grand Mira (N.S.) "Óran a 'Mhathain"

MacLellan, Angus Grand Mira (N.S.) "Postman's Song"

MacLellan, Angus Grand Mira (N.S.) "Óran na Bainnse" (Cape Mabou Wedding)

MacLellan, Angus Grand Mira (N.S.) "Poite-dhubh MhicRaing

Campbell, Hector Hillsdale, Inverness County (N.S.) "A ' bhrádha"

Shaw, John
MG 21.37-A-2-9 · Item · [19-]
Part of Dr. C. Lamont MacMillan Fonds

Item consists of a speech given by Dr. MacMillan at the third annual meeting of organized festival of song and speech. It is a three-day long festival in Baddeck where 16 school sections of the county compete. Dr. MacMillan mentions how the festival is sponsored by Home & School and how the very first Home & School Association in all of Canada was organized in Baddeck. He gives special credit to Mrs. Freda Jones, the circuit music teacher who organized the festival as well as Mr. Jame MacKinnon, a school inspector who has helped to develop said festival and Mr. Donald Wetmore and Mrs. J.W. Walshman, both from the department of education who were to act as judges.

Audio Visual
MG 21.37-B-5 · File · [197-]
Part of Dr. C. Lamont MacMillan Fonds

File consists of a tape recording of a radio program titled, "The Bush and the Salon" that Dr. MacMillan appeared on as well as a CD titled "C. Lamont MacMillan- Oral Histories".

Baddeck
CA BI 77-1381-1521 · Item · ca. 1917

Item is a photograph of Baddeck featuring several homes, the Steamer Marion docked at a wharf, and a lighthouse.

Baddeck
CA BI 77-1387-1521 · Item · ca. 1917

Item is a photograph of Baddeck featuring several homes, the Steamer Marion docked at a wharf, and a lighthouse.

Baddeck
94-849-25364 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of an unidentified man standing behind a car.

Baddeck
94-850-25365 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of Main street in Baddeck

Baddeck
94-867-25382 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of water near Baddeck.

Baddeck
94-880-25395 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of an unidentified sailing vessel in Baddeck Bay.

Baddeck
94-882-25397 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of unidentified sailboats in Baddeck Bay

Baddeck
94-886-25401 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of an unidentified woman displaying fish (salmon & trout).

Baddeck
94-888-25403 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of six unidentified, uniformed soldiers in front of a horse and buggy.

Baddeck
94-902-25417 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of four unidentified men in a boat.

Baddeck
94-926-25441 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of unidentified children and a woman.

Baddeck
94-940-25455 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of sailboats in the water near Hollifield House

Baddeck
94-996-25511 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of a school group in Baddeck.

Baddeck
94-823-25338 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of a cottage in Baddeck.

Baddeck
94-866-25381 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph with Baddeck in the distance.

Baddeck
94-869-25384 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of a ship in Baddeck Bay.

Baddeck
94-873-25388 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of a road with a horse and buggy traveling on it.

Baddeck
94-891-25406 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of six unidentified, uniformed soldiers in front of a horse and buggy.

Baddeck
94-901-25416 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of two unidentified men fishing.

Baddeck
94-908-25423 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of salmon and trout fish.

Baddeck
94-917-25432 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of Hollifield House with a ship in the Bay.

Baddeck
94-919-25434 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of a sailing ship in the harbour.

Baddeck
94-925-25440 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of an unidentified child.

Baddeck
94-942-25427 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of a sailboat in Baddeck Bay

Baddeck
94-979-25494 · Item · 1913

Item is a photograph of a regatta of sailboats at Baddeck.

Baddeck
94-1003-25518 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photograph of Baddeck in the distance. The photograph was taken from Washabuckt.

Baddeck
94-1032-25547 · Item · 1910

Item is a photograph of six unidentified men standing in front of a horse and buggy.

Baddeck
CA BI 77-60-194 · Item · ca. 1920

Item is a photograph of the village of Baddeck, with Spectacle Island in the foreground.

Baddeck
CA BI 77-204-338 · Item · ca. 1898

Item is a photograph of Baddeck, featuring Kidston Island.

Baddeck
CA BI 78-725-2475 · Item · ca. 1880

Item is a photograph of a view of the town and harbour of Baddeck from the balcony of Bras d'Or House.

Keisel, Theodore
Baddeck
CA BI 78-730-2480 · Item · ca. 1880

Item is a photograph of a view of the Upper Bay, Baddeck, taken from Red Head.

Keisel, Theodore