Item is a postcard depicting St. Paul's Presbyterian Church in Glace Bay, N.S.
Item is a photograph of Masons assembled at the Woolworth building in Glace Bay.
Abbass Studios Ltd.Item is a photograph of Masons assembled at the Woolworth building in Glace Bay.
Abbass Studios Ltd.Item is a photograph of Masons assembled at the Woolworth building in Glace Bay seated at a table.
Abbass Studios Ltd.Item is a photograph of the lead table of Masons at the masonic lodge located in the Woolworth building in Glace Bay.
Abbass Studios Ltd.Item is a photograph of bandleader Sammy Kaye with Mike presented with tartan at Glace Bay Forum by an unidentified female.
Abbass Studios Ltd.Item is a photograph of unidentified team members.
Abbass Studios Ltd.Item is a photograph of the Glace Bay Miners hockey team in an action shot.
Abbass Studios Ltd.Item is a photograph of the Glace Bay Miners hockey team in an action shot.
Abbass Studios Ltd.Item is a photograph of four unidentified band members of the Gaelic College - Glace Bay Division junior pipe band.
Abbass Studios Ltd.Item is a photograph of the Glace Bay Little League.
Abbass Studios Ltd.Item is a photograph of the Glace Bay Little League.
Abbass Studios Ltd.Item is a photograph of an action shot showing a player sliding home with the umpire looking on.
Abbass Studios Ltd.Item is a photograph of an action shot showing a player sliding into second base.
Abbass Studios Ltd.
Item is a photograph of Marconi House in Glace Bay prior to renovation.
Raytel Photography
Item is a photograph of Marconi House in Glace Bay after renovations and restoration.
Raytel Photography
Item is a photograph of the "Welcome to Glace Bay" sign mounted for the 1998 Canadian Little League Championship.
Prendergast, PaulCollection contains fourteen books of the Glace Bay Town Council meetings between 1901 and 1964 and an annual report for 1954.
Item is a newspaper clipping showing a reproduction of a photograph of the Glace Bay English Rugby Team of 1943.
Front Row (left to right): Max Marshall, Roddie Morrison, Robert Mercer, Angus MacKillop, Nathan Waldman, John Leggett, Ellie Marshal, and Joe Colson.
Second Row (left to right): Willis Archibald, Neil MacVicar, Eric Demont, Gordon Poole, Hymie Sable, Joe Chernin, Lauchie MacLean, and Glen Turner.
File consists of the following items:
Peter Politte's obituary, Cape Breton Post, February 28, 2023, p. B7.
"Politte gave local players the edge," Cape Breton Post, March 3, 2023, p. A1 and A4.
Politte, Peter
Item is a photograph of a new fire truck.
Abbass Studios Ltd.
Item is a photograph of a new fire truck.
Abbass Studios Ltd.
Item is a photograph of a new fire truck.
Abbass Studios Ltd.
Item is a photograph of a new fire truck.
Abbass Studios Ltd.
Item is a photograph of members of the Congregation Sons of Israel during the congregations 75th Anniversary celebration.
From left to right: Philip Simon, Mayor Dan Munroe, Judge J.L. Dubinsky, and Philip Givens (guest speaker from Toronto)
Raymond Goldman in front of Korean War monument on Union Street in Glace Bay.
Sub-fonds consists of a World War I scrapbook kept by Frances Dodd during her time in England serving as a nurse, correspondence, and objects, including a silver service, pewter goblets, a silver urn, and a tea set.
Ridgway, Frances (Dodd)
Item is a newspaper clipping showing a reproduction of a photograph of the Glace Bay English Rugby Team of 1935-1936.
Front Row: Bob (Rat) Kennedy, S. [unclear]ybrn, S. Chernin, Angus MacLennan, George Waye, D. Wilson, H. Clarke, Lawrence MacIvor, Tommy Marshall and Elver Smith.
Second Row: D. MacLean, M. MacDonald, D. MacAulay, Harold (Harley) Pippy, R. MacKenzie, R. MacDonald, D. MacRury, Reynolds (Fox) Travis, and Everett Cameron.
Back Row: H. Peach, H. Sharpe, I. Seigel, N. Goldman, Lloyd Hull, D. MacDonald, Ellison (Ellie) Irvine, and Owen Benjamin Smith of the High School staff, later principal and supervisor, who was coach of the rugby squad.
Item is an enlarged reproduction of a photograph of the Talmud Torah Building and the Congregation Sons of Israel Synagogue in Glace Bay.
Item is a film with footage of the 1979 No. 26 explosion and memorial service.
Collection consists of the following:
Series A
Series B: Memoranda including background information for Mr. Stephenson’s two books.
Series C: Deeds: Photocopy, 1826-1946 relating to the Bridgeport area, 31 pages, 1 folder.
Series D: Clippings
Series E: Photographs (See Photograph Collection #25)
Four volumes pertaining to the Town of Dominion and the organization of Mr. Stephenson’s two books: Dominion, Nova Scotia 1906-1981 and souvenir booklet on the History of the Dominion Volunteer Fire Department.
Series F. Scrapbooks:
Collection is several public utility records. The departments include: electrical, water, and public works. These records are registers, account books, rates, letters, payments, and cashbooks.
Fonds consists of a range of municipal records documenting the operation of the Town of Glace Bay from its incorporation until amalgamation in 1995. The bulk of the records in the fonds include hundreds of ledgers including: assessment, rate, and tax rolls, cashbooks, tax records, legal records and documents, financial records, receipts, and account books, public utilities records including electrical, water, and public works, and finally municipal department records including police, the school board, and the board of health. An earlier accrual included a petition to the Honorable Jean Marchand requesting re-opening of Number 20 Colliery; minutes of Town Council meetings; and an annual report from1954.
The fonds is arranged by series according to department function with sub-series noting the type of information recorded. Item level description is primarily provided in a chronological arrangement where possible.
Town of Glace BayCollection is a set of documents recording municipal assessment and rate rolls/books as well as tax records for the town.
Collection is several municipal documents including municipal court documents from 1927-36 and 1960, register of bills 1908, public relief accounts, and direct relief records from 1931 to 1932.
Items are a collection of various financial documents from the Town of Glace Bay. The records range from account books, payroll records, financial accounts and statements, daybooks, and business ledgers.
Items are records from various departments in the Town of Glace Bay. This includes: the school board, police, and the board of health minutes, journals, orders, ledgers, and cashbooks.
Item is a book of police records for 1955-1956 from the town of Glace Bay. The collections are reports of police officer's shifts and what they did during them.
The General Mining Association, a Branch of the London
firm of Rundell, Bridge and Rundell, was granted a monopoly on
the Nova Scotian coal reserves by the Duke of York in 1827. The
monopoly was rescinded in 1857, but operations continued until
File contains a speech delivered by Mary Belle MacNeil at the Savoy Theatre, Glace Bay to the "Ladies of the Red Cross." The speech addressed the experiences she had while serving in World War 1.
Item is a newspaper clipping that details the opening of John Bernard Croak, V.C. Memorial School.
Item is a clipping from a Glace Bay newspaper that describes the unveiling of a monument in John Bernard Croak's honour.
Item is a photograph clipped from a newspaper of the opening of John Bernard Croak VC Memorial Park.
Fonds consists of papers related to coal mining and other business activities of Henry Mitchell and sons as well as family records documenting life in Bridgeport (now Dominion) Nova Scotia and various locations in Pennsylvania. Correspondence between Henry and his children provide a detailed account of social, economic and political life in North America between the mid-19th and early 20th century.
Members of the Mitchell family were impacted by the American Civil War which is documented among the letters, along with various events of note in Canada including Confederation.
Mitchell, Henry
Collection consists of a selection of early Ukrainian sound recordings and 1 photograph donated by Mr. Michael Kuna in 2009.
The collection consists of cellulose acetate film-based negatives originally belonging to Shedden Studio of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. The collection consists of 1136 negatives in two sizes: 10 x 12.5 cm and 12.5 x 16 cm. The content of the images primarily documents coal mining activity between 1948-1968 connected with the operations of the Dominion Coal and Steel Company (DOSCO). In addition to company staff portraits and company events, the negatives mainly capture coal miners and equipment above and below the surface. The main work sites documented include Glace Bay-based collieries ( 1B, No. 18, No. 26, No. 20, No. 25, No. 25). The collection also contains what appear to be unrelated images of rural Cape Breton and a group of Images of Glace Bay and rural Cape Breton. As well, a grouping of unidentified and un-numbered negatives which may belong to an earlier accrual accompanied this donation.
The negatives have been arranged to a series level with five distinct series. A selection of negatives from each series has been digitized for access purposes. An item level listing corresponding to the scanned images is available but does not include all the negatives. Unfortunately, no original listing or indices for the negatives were included in the donation and are thought to be lost. The full item level inventory is in process and after the appraisal is complete, some of the negatives will be re-arranged with earlier accruals to re-create original order.
Collection consists of biographical and genealogical materials, correspondence and clippings, as well as photographs collected and maintained by Shirley Chernin. Collection also consists of correspondence, clippings and photographs, as well as administrative, financial and promotional materials relating to the Congregation Sons of Israel Synagogue in Glace Bay, the Kum-a-Haym in 2001, and the Cape Breton Chapters of the Canadian Hadassah-WIZO.
File contains two different speeches and their English translations. The first speech is not dated but was a welcome to John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada on his visit to Glace Bay. Tweedmuir died in 1940. A photocopy is also included. The second speech is regarding the history of the Scottish Catholic Society of Canada and its Glace Bay Branch, Saint Margaret. It is dated 1942.
MacPherson, Msgr. Hugh P.This fonds consists of a certificate for six shares in the Cape Breton Columbus Club, a speech, a souvenir copy of the funeral mass for Mr. MacDougall, the Gaelic story "'N Uair a Thig Ri Duine Thig Ris" about "Dòmhnull na n-Òrdagan" and the story "A'Bhraisd Lathurnach" or "The Brooch of Lorn by Scottish author Hector MacDougall.
Michael Earle: "In December 1929 the first edition of a new paper, The Nova Scotia Miner, was printed in Glace Bay, declaring itself the "organ of District 26 Left Wing Committee." Worked into the masthead, on either side of the emblem of a crossed pick and shovel, was the slogan "Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains."
The Clan Macneil News was "The Official Organ of the Clan Macneil Association of America" and was published every two months by the Kisimul Sept of the Association at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. Subscriptions costed $1 per year. Macneil of Barra was listed as editor in chief and A. D. MacNeill was listed as secretary of the Kisimul Sept.
The Clan Macneil News: "The Macneil News, circulating as it does among Scots all over North America, will be a good medium for advertising especially for houses dealing in goods and publications of special interest to Highlanders, and more particularly to clan societies. It is the aim of the publishers to produce a periodical of interest to clansmen generally and it will have a special appeal to Cape Breton Scots abroad."