Item is a photograph of Margaret Sybella Brown, daughter of R.H. Brown, pictured sitting in a chair.
Item is a photograph of Margaret Sybella Brown, daughter of R.H. Brown, pictured leaning on a chair.
Item is a photograph of D. Bergin, M.P., at the House of Commons, Ottawa.
Item 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.
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 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 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 BrothersItem 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 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, TheodoreItem is a photograph of Mi'kmaw women at St. Ann's.
Item is a photograph of the paternal grandmother of Eugene MacDonald, Boisdale, that was taken in Scotland.
Item is a photograph of Msgr. Finlay Chisholm, who was the parish priest in S.W. Margaree for over 60 years. The photograph shows him with a horse and riding sleigh with a part of a church in the background which was destroyed by a fire in 1960.
Item is a photograph of Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, a representative of Antigonish in the House of Assembly from 1877-1882.
Item is a photograph of Mrs. Katie MacDonald of Mabou Ridge.
Item is a photograph of a road along the shore in St. Ann's Bay.
Keisel, TheodoreItem is a photograph of fish flakes in St. Ann's Bay.
Keisel, TheodoreItem is a photograph of St. Peter's Canal, looking towards Bras d'Or.
Keisel, TheodoreItem is a photograph of a view of the town and harbour of Baddeck from the balcony of Bras d'Or House.
Keisel, TheodoreItem is a photograph of a view of the Upper Bay, Baddeck, taken from Red Head.
Keisel, TheodoreItem is a photograph of a view of the summit of Salt Hill taken by Theodore Keisel, photographer, who came to Baddeck to visit Alexander Graham Bell in 1889 or 1890.
Keisel, TheodoreItem is a photograph of Anne Ethel (Brown) Johnstone, daughter of R.H. Brown, sitting in a chair.
Item is a photograph of the Victoria County Jail, Baddeck, that was created by Theodore Keisel who came to Baddeck to visit Graham Bell in 1889 or 1890.
Item is a photograph of Sydney looking north from Tannery Bridge, located at the corner of Esplanade and Kings Road.The coal piers are in the background of the photograph.
Umlah StudiosItem is a photograph of Henry Gray, M.P.
Gertrude 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."
Item is a photograph of Robert MacDougall, second sheriff of Inverness County.
Item is a photograph of Lillian Seward Brown at age 6, seated on an armchair next to her dog.
StubbertAccording to the Edwin Alden & Bro.'s American Newspaper Catalogue, the Port Hood Referee consisted of four 22" pages and was printed weekly. It had a circulation of 375 and was classified as an Independent paper.
Item is a photograph of cows grazing on Judge E. M. Dodd's property. Old Sydney Academy, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church and Old Willow Lodge (which is now the Cape Breton Post) are visible in the background.
Item is a reproduction of a postcard displaying a view of North Sydney.
Item is a photograph of a portrait of Bishop John Cameron.
The North Sydney News Boy was published every Tuesday evening by MacKeen, Moore & Co. and costed 25 cents per annum until about 1885. It was then published the third Saturday of every month and costed 10 cents per annum. R. J. Coleman was listed as manager.
The North Sydney News Boy (4 Sept. 1883): "Our object is, in the first place, to give the current news of the day in the most condensed and explicit form; next, to inform the public on subjects of general importance without boring them with details of minor interest.
Public men and public events will be referred to without animus or personality.
Politics, - except as the action of politicians affect our immediate interests, - shall be carefully eschewed.
Religious matters or correspondence, except when of general interest, will not be admitted to our columns.
Local information will be carefully attended to, and no references made unless of interest to the community."
Item is a photograph of Halifax Rifles, featuring Cape Bretoners Ned Monshan, Fr. E. Bayer, and C.W. Kelly.