Item is a photograph of the sign for Minuitaqn Craft & Gift Shop in Eskasoni, N.S.
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.
Item is a photograph of Rita Joe reading to a small group of people.
Item is a photograph of Rita Joe with her daughter Caroline and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
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.
Item is a photograph of Rita Joe holding the proclamation of her induction to the Order of Canada.
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).
Item is a miniature portrait of Ranna Cossit. He was the first Anglican minister in Sydney and the founder of St. George's Church.
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.
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.
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.
Item is a digitized copy of a 1962 re-issued of John Alexander Basker’s birth and baptism certificate issued by Father K.J. MacDonald on behalf of the Catholic Church in Mull River, Nova Scotia. John Alexander Basker was born on March 8, 1890 and his baptism certificate was originally issued on May 3, 1890.
Item is one photograph of Ranald Basker [Ronald Basker] and Cassie Bell Basker (née Catherine Isabel McLean) with their arms around each other on the Basker farm in Mull River, Nova Scotia. A horse is standing behind them.
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].
Item is one photograph of a military unit in Battle Dress parading past a Superline Service Station.
Item is one photograph of the Cape Breton Highlanders Pipe and Drum Band performing in a cobble square in front of a [cathedral] in an unidentified city in Europe during World War 2 (WW2). A crowd is standing on the sidewalks.
Item is the Cape Breton Highlanders War Diary Volume 1.
Item is a copy of Bay News No. 1.
Item is one photograph of Sharkey MacDonald (Charles MacDonald, left) and Ralph Davies standing in front of the Cross of Sacrifice in the Moro River War Cemetery after placing a wreath at the base of the cross for the Cape Breton Highlanders buried at the cemetery in Ortona, Italy.
Item is one photograph of the Men of the Deeps performing on a wooden stage at the Tarbot Music Festival in Tarbot, Nova Scotia.
Item is one photograph of five veterans of the Cape Breton Highlanders, including Joe Oldford (far left), posing together in Cesena War Cemetery in Cesena, Italy.
Item is a typewritten history of the 2nd Battalion, The Nova Scotia Highlanders (i.e. Cape Breton Highlanders), including a note on their original organization, short histories of the Battalion during the First World War and Second World War, a brief timeline, and a description of the crest.
Item is a typewritten program for the 1990 recruit swearing-in ceremony at Victoria Park in Sydney, Nova Scotia.
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.
Item is one photograph of Cape Breton Highlander Corporal Patrick Corkery (F55650).
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.
Item is one handwritten letter from Curdis Karrel to Sylvia Glickman, sent while Curdis was stationed in Jarvis, Ontario for training with the RCAF during World War II.
Item is a handwritten genealogy of the Benjamin Newton Davis family.
Item is a letter from Colleen Gillis to Hon. Percy Paris, Minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs, asking him to support the creation of Viola Desmond Day.
Item is a typewritten genealogy of the Basker family from 1792 to 2012 compiled by Peter MacDonald.
Item is a typewritten list of service men, including their first initials, last names and regimental numbers, who served in “D” Company of the 185th Battalion who were transferring to the 25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Rifles), CEF.
Item is one photograph of Private Donnie Matheson of the Cape Breton Highlanders in Italy during World War 2 (WW2).
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.
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.
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.
Item is a photograph of Dr. MacMillan standing next to a car and the caption on the back reads, “On his beloved Bras d’Or Lakes”.
Item is one photograph of Pilot Officer Curdis Karrel’s headstone in Kiel War Cemetery in Kiel, Germany.
Item is one photograph of Lieutenant-Colonel Roderick Theodore Chisholm facing members of the Cape Breton Highlanders who are standing at attention in two ranks across from him during a training exercise at their annual summer camp.
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.
Item is one studio portrait of Cape Breton Highlanders Danny Fraser and Terrana MacDonald.
Item is one photograph of Sharkey MacDonald (Charles MacDonald, left) and Ralph Davies, standing together in Pescara, Italy.
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.
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.
Item is a program for the play "Other People's Heaven," about Viola Desmond's 1946 arrest, which was staged at the Firebrand Theatre in Toronto, Ontario.
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.
Item is one photograph of Ralph Davies, a “30th Anniversary: The Canadians in Italy” delegate and veteran of the Cape Breton Highlanders, walking amongst headstones in Cesena War Cemetery in Cesena, Italy.
Item is one photograph of Sharkey MacDonald (Charles MacDonald, left) and Ralph Davies, “30th Anniversary: The Canadians in Italy” delegates and veterans of the Second World War, signing the register at the Argenta Gap War Cemetery in Argenta, Italy.
Item is one photograph of Ralph Davies posing at a scenic rest stop while travelling from Ravenna, Italy to Rome, Italy.
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.
Item is a photograph of the Montecchio War Cemetery entrance in Montecchio, Italy.
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.