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Minuitaqn Craft Shop
CA BI 00-01-29987 · Item · ca. 1995

Item is a photograph of the sign for Minuitaqn Craft & Gift Shop in Eskasoni, N.S.

J. Madden
00-02-30006 · Item · ca. 1922

Item is a photograph of J. Madden, an actor who appeared in the movie "The Sea Riders". This was a film by The Maritime Picture Co. of Canada Ltd.

Rita Joe
CA BI 00-03-29989 · Item · 199-?

Item is a photograph of Rita Joe reading to a small group of people.

Rita Joe
CA BI 00-04-29990 · Item · 1992

Item is a photograph of Rita Joe with her daughter Caroline and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

Rita Joe
CA BI 00-05-29991 · Item · 1992

Item is a photograph of Rita Joe signing a record after her induction into the Privy Council. The Governor-General and Queen Elizabeth II are also featured in the photograph.

Rita Joe
CA BI 00-06-29992 · Item · 1990

Item is a photograph of Rita Joe holding the proclamation of her induction to the Order of Canada.

Cape Breton musicians
07-01-30019 · Item · ca. 1975

Item is a photograph of Sandy MacIntyre (fiddler – Inverness), Winston “Scotty” Fitzgerald (fiddler – Sydney), Ron Gonnella (fiddler – Scotland), Doug MacPhee (pianist – New Waterford), and Dan Joe MacInnis (fiddler – Big Pond).

Ranna Cossit
08-02-30021 · Item · ca. 1795

Item is a miniature portrait of Ranna Cossit. He was the first Anglican minister in Sydney and the founder of St. George's Church.

World War I Scrapbook
CA BI MG 09.021-C-1 · Item · 1915-10-04 - 1918-11-12
Part of Dodd Family fonds

Item is a scrapbook kept by Frances Dodd during her time serving as a nurse in England during World War I (WWI). The scrapbook includes photographs with handwritten descriptions, drawings, poems and recipes.

"Justice at Last"
CA BI MG 21.14-A-12-1 · Item · [After April 2010]
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is a typewritten, three-page draft essay with handwritten notes by Wanda Robson about how she became a student at Cape Breton University (CBU), her activism and the work she did to promote the legacy of her sister, Viola Desmond. The essay was printed on the back of information sheets about Crime Stoppers Bingo.

Johnstone Scholarship
CA BI MG 21.14-A-13-1 · Item · January 10, 2008
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is a typewritten letter from Betty Ann Pothier, Johnstone Scholarship Administrator at the Nova Scotia Department of Education, to Wanda Robson regarding the Dr. P. Anthony Johnstone Scholarship and Robson's role on its Scholarship Committee. Attached to the email is a poster for the scholarship and a copy of the application.

MG 20.5-A-1 · Item · September 1910
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a group photograph of the 94th “Victoria” Battalion of Infantry, “Argyll Highlanders” regiment brass band and officers posing in a grassy field at Camp Aldershot in Aldershot, Nova Scotia with a number of bell tents erected in the background. The men are in uniform surrounding a large drum and the band members are holding clarinets, tubas, trumpets and French horns.

Included in the photograph are:
Front row (sitting): [unknown], Joe Valentine, D. MacKeigan, Eddie O’Brien, Grover Hull, J. Johnstone, J. Taylor MacDonald, and [unknown].

Middle row (kneeling): Bandmaster Walter Carmichael, Norman MacDonald, Noddie Morrison, Sam Mosely, Tom Fraser (kneeling the left of the drum), John MacNaughton (kneeling on the right of the drum), D. Weir, and Davy Seaton.

Back row: [unknown], Rannie MacDonald, [unknown], R. Bramwell, [unknown], James Mosley, Stewart [?], [unknown], Alex McLeod, George Weir, Allan MacDonald, Charles Anderson, [unknown], [unknown], and [unknown].

MG 20.5-E-1-3-8-1 · Item · April 29, 1975
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is one photograph of Ralph Davies (right), a “30th Anniversary: The Canadians in Italy” delegate and veteran of the Cape Breton Highlanders, shopping in Ravenna, Italy with an unidentified administrator from Camp Hill Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

MG 13.58-E-2-1 · Item · 1910
Part of Msgr. Donald MacPherson fonds

Item includes a handwritten and typewritten copy of “Third Centenary of the First Baptisms among the Micmac Indians which took place at Port Royal, now Annapolis, N.S., June 24, 1610 – Celebration held at St. Anne de Restigouche” written by Rev. Donald MacPherson.

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.

MG 20.5-E-1-3-1-1 · Item · April 20, 1975
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is one photograph of Charles MacDonald (Sharkey MacDonald, left) and Ralph Davies at the Skyline Hotel in Ottawa, Ontario during a briefing held by the Department of Veterans Affairs regarding logistics for the delegates’ trip to Italy to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Liberation of Italy.

CA BI MG 21.18-C-1 · Item · 1977
Part of Tarbot Music Festival fonds

Item is a promotional poster for Tarbot: Cape Breton’s Music Festival, which took place on August 28, 1977 at Malcolm Dean’s farm in Tarbot, Cape Breton as presented by School on the Hill. The poster lists festival ticket prices and where to buy advance tickets, along with that year’s performers.

Sixty-Two Club
MG 20.5-D-1-3-1 · Item · [Between November 1941 to November 1943]
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is one photograph of eight Cape Breton Highlanders in battle dress and a young boy standing in front of a brick building with a sign reading “Sixty-Two Club”. Pictured in the photograph are: J. Corkery, J. Vickers, J. Donovan, P. Turnbull, B. MacAulay, Bob Kipping, and E. Kipping.

MG 21.18-B-2-1 · Item · 1978
Part of Tarbot Music Festival fonds

Item is one photograph of the audience at the Tarbot Music Festival, with one man standing shirtless in the centre with his arms in the air and a number of people around him wearing Tarbot t-shirts.

"Takes Action"
CA BI MG 21.14-A-1-1 · Item · [201-] (originally created December 31, 1946)
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is three photocopies of the December 31, 1946 edition of The Clarion newspaper published in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia featuring articles about Viola Desmond's 1946 arrest at the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow and her court appeals.

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.

DVA Meeting
MG 20.5-E-2-1-1 · Item · May 1985
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a photograph of a Department of Veterans Affairs meeting held in preparation of the Canadian delegation being sent to Italy to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Liberation of Italy during the Second World War.

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.