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MG 20.5-B-6-1 · Item · November 14, 1916
Part of The Cape Breton Highlanders collection

Item is a typewritten letter from the Assistant Deputy Assistant & Quartermaster General to the Nova Scotia Highland Brigade’s Officer Commanding regarding declaration and attestation papers for the 185th Overseas Battalion, C.E.F. Included are two lists, one listing all the declaration and attestation papers that were handed in to Camp Headquarters at Aldershot, Nova Scotia and the other listing the declaration and attestation papers that had not yet been received at Camp Aldershot.

MG 21.44-A-3-2 · Item · Digitized 2017
Part of Basker Family of Mull River collection

Item is a digitized copy of a 1966 re-issue of Kenneth Basker’s birth and baptism certificate signed by Father J.A. Gillis on behalf of Saint Mary’s Parish in Mabou, Nova Scotia. Kenneth Basker was born on December 31, 1897 and his baptism certificate was originally issued on January 2, 1898.

MG 21.44-B-1 · Item · Digitized 2017
Part of Basker Family of Mull River collection

Item consists of digitized securities and stock certificates between Columbus Kirkland Gold Mining Company and F.W. Beer, Homer L. Gibson, and F.S. Leslie; Canadian International Corporation Limited and Levia McMillan; Straw Lake Beach Gold Mines Limited and Cameron, Pointon & Merritt; West-Side Long Lac Mines Limited and Noel H. Knowles; Macfarlane Long Lac Gold Mines Limited and Ronald Basker; and, Vanguard Explorations Limited and Kaye Figurski (Kaye Basker).

Various Pictures
MG 21.44-D-121 · Item · 2017
Part of Basker Family of Mull River collection

Item is an electronic booklet of photos of the Basker Family. Included are:
• Page 1 – Jack Basker (John Joseph Basker) and Ida Basker (née Ida McLaughlin/Ida McIntosh)
• Page 2 – Kaye Basker (Catherine Basker) and an unidentified man (June 1957)
• Page 3 – Kaye Basker (Catherine Basker) and three unidentified people (June 1957)
• Page 4 – unidentified people
• Page 5 – Kaye Basker (Catherine Basker) in her wedding gown
• Page 6 – Kaye Basker (Catherine Basker) and Don Figurski on their wedding day with the wedding party on the steps behind them
• Page 7 – Kaye Basker (Catherine Basker) and Don Figurski’s wedding portrait
• Page 8 - Kaye Figurski (Kaye Basker, Catherine Basker) and Don Figurski in the early 1980s
• Page 9 – from left to right, Roddy Nicholson, Kaye Figurski (Kaye Basker), Mary Nicholson, Theresa Figurski-Chartrand
• Page 10 – Mary Nicholson, Donny Nicholson, [?], Roddy Nicholson, and [?]

Various Photos
MG 21.44-D-120 · Item · 2017
Part of Basker Family of Mull River collection

Item is an electronic booklet of photos of the Basker Family. Included are:
• Page 1 – Jack Basker (John Joseph Basker)
• Page 2 – Composite Platoon in Fort Lewis, Washington, USA - Jack Basker (John Joseph Basker) was a private during the Korean War.
• Page 3 – Basker family home in Mull River, Nova Scotia
• Page 4 – Kenny Basker (Kenneth Basker)
• Page 5 – two photos of members of the Basker Family (top of the page)
• Page 5 – Kaye Basker (Catherine Basker) (bottom left)
• Page 5 – Kaye Basker (Catherine Basker) with an unidentified man (bottom right)
• Page 6 – Ranald Basker (possibly him front and centre wearing a flat cap) with some of his political friends
• Page 7 – Kaye Basker (Catherine Basker, Kaye Figurski) and her brother, Danny Basker.
• Page 7 – Danny Basker

MG 21.44-C-3 · Item · Digitized 2017 (originally created April 10, 2010)
Part of Basker Family of Mull River collection

Item is a digitized copy of an email from Jim St. Clair to Julie White, daughter of Jack Basker (John Joseph Basker) and Ida McIntosh, with information about the Basker family dating back to 1792 and memories of her grandmother, Cassie Bell Basker, and aunt, Kaye Figurski (Kaye Basker), who were Jim’s neighbours in Mull River, Nova Scotia. The email had been printed off and re-digitized, along with a short biography of Jim St. Clair from the Storytellers of Canada website.

MG 21.44-C-2 · Item · Digitized 2017 (originally created [between June 1970 and July 1970])
Part of Basker Family of Mull River collection

Item is a digitized copy of a letter from Jim St. Clair, who was in New Canaan, Connecticut at the time of it’s writing, to his neighbours in Mull River, Nova Scotia, Kenneth Basker and Danny Basker, upon the death of their aunt, Belle [Belle MacDonald]. Also included is the letter’s envelope.

MG 21.44-C-1 · Item · Digitized 2017 (originally created January 23, 1951)
Part of Basker Family of Mull River collection

Item is a digitized copy of a resolution given by the Warden and Councillors of the Municipality of the County of Inverness and sent to the Basker family upon the death of Ranald Basker, who served as a councillor for the municipality from 1934 to his death in 1950. It was signed by James MacDonnell, municipal clerk.

Land Deed
MG 21.44-B-4 · Item · Digitized 2017 (originally created June 5, 1970 and January 7, 1971)
Part of Basker Family of Mull River collection

Item is a digitized copy of a land transfer deed signed by Catherine Figurski (Kaye Figurski, Kaye Basker) for a 149 acre parcel of land in Mull River, Nova Scotia. Also included is a typewritten letter from the Municipality of the County of Inverness to Kaye Figurski regarding the land in Mull River.

MG 21.44-A-2-5 · Item · Digitized 2017
Part of Basker Family of Mull River collection

Item consists of digitized Basker family obituaries, memorial cards and wedding announcements. Individuals included in the document are Edith M. Beaton (Mabou), Kaye Basker and Don Figurski (Saskatchewan), Cassie Belle Basker (Mull River), Mary Theresa MacDonald (Montreal), Charlie Basker, Daniel MacLean, Thomas Joseph Basker (Coxheath), Donald Nicholson (Hamilton, Ontario), Sarah Basker Nicholson (Niagara Falls, Ontario), James Allan Beaton, Roderick Daniel Nicholson, Don Figurski, James W. Basker (Casper, Wyoming/Portland, Oregon), and Kaye Figurski (Kaye Basker, Catherine Anne Basker).

CA BI MG 12.181 · Fonds · 1833-1892

Papers include correspondence, business receipts, legal documents, and deeds:

1.
a. Two letters from C.F. Harrington, MLA, Arichat, regarding politics in the area, a legal action taken by Pringle, and a public meeting regarding building a road to Black River, 1841, 1850.
b. Correspondence regarding debt owed by Hugh McDonald, Big Cove, 1846.
c. Payment of accounts, sale of cattle, 1860.
d. Correspondence regarding James Pringle's lawsuit against Chandler, 1867.
e. Correspondence from Donald McKenzie, teacher in Victoria County, whose salary was 38 pounds per year, 1865.
f. Correspondence from John V. Flynn, MLA, Halifax re purchase of spring Fife wheat at 7/6 bushel, 1870.
g. Correspondence from Hart & Ingraham, Port Hawkesbury regarding purchase of leather, 1870.
h. Correspondence from Tina J. Pringle to her brother George relaying experiences of Cape Bretoners in Boston, 1892.
i. Bill of goods, sale between James Cochran and Ellen Murray, 1855.
j. Correspondence regarding interest on account, 1871.
k. General bill of affairs, from William MacKay to James Pringle, making mention of Captain Wolfe, 1852.
l. Correspondence, 1842.

2.
a. Business receipts of James Pringle, 1833-1874. Some material does not contain discernable dates.
b. Accounts of James Pringle with John McLean, 1845-1861.
c. Accounts of James Pringle, 1865-1866.
d. Account of McDonald Murray with James Pringle, 1843-1857.
e. Account of sales of cattle, sheep and butter to Mr. James Pringle, 1859.
f. Account of James Pringle with M.J.T. MacNeil, River Bourgeois, 1877-1880.

3.
a. Warrant sworn out for arrest of Duncan Murray for theft of violin from James Pringle, 1863.
b. Notice of public meeting of the ratepayers, Section 23, Richmond County for the purpose of electing trustees, 1864.

4.
a. Agreement between the Province of Nova Scotia and James Pringle for road repair between his farm and that of William Urquharts, 1854. Includes envelope.
b. Statement regarding the settlement of debt of Dougald Cameron “Dougaldson” to James Pringle, 1863.
c. Indenture between James Pringle and Robert Hill of Black River, Esquire Executor of the last will and testament of John Ross of Scot’s River, St. George’s Channel, 1864.
d. Draft of Indenture between James and Sarah Pringle to their son, James Jr., for land at St. George’s Channel, 1865.

Pringle, James
Songs
CA BI MG 15.91-MG 15.91.7 · File · 1975-1997
Part of Rita Joe fonds

File consists of poetry, lyrics and sheet music by Rita Joe.

Rita Joe
CA BI B&G - Joe, Rita · File · 1981 - 2007

File consists of various newspaper clippings re: Rita Joe, including her obituary and an article announcing her death in 2007. File also includes a university report entitled "Rita Joe: Mi'kmaq Poet" written by Joanne Peck in 1994.

CA BI PAM 1003 · Item

Item is a pamphlet containing a collection of wartime songs, some written about the Cape Breton Highlanders. Many of the songs within the pamphlet were written by people from Cape Breton.

CA BI PAM 4061 · Item · 1 December, 1918

Item is a pamphlet, published by the Personnel of the U.S. Naval Air Station in North Sydney, on December 1st, 1918. The pamphlet contains the staff muster roll, some pieces of poetry, jokes, and an editorial.

The Nova Scotia Gleaner
CA BI PAM 1605 · Item · 5 October, 1929

Item is a October 5, 1929 issue of the Nova Scotia Gleaner, a monthly newspaper that was published in Sydney, Nova Scotia. This issue of the Gleaner was subtitled "In the Interest of the Coloured People of Nova Scotia," and features an editorial and several pieces that focus on Black persons across Nova Scotia.

Autograph Book
CA BI MG 20.21-MG 20.21 1.1 · Item · 1918
Part of Annie MacDonald fonds

Item is an autograph book of signatures and poems collected during World War 1 when Mrs. MacDonald of Sydney Mines was a nurse serving in the military forces. Various battalion insignias, scenes from the local countryside, and a comic drawing of Mrs. Annie MacDonald in nurses' uniform were drawn in the book by wounded soldiers.

Margaret MacPhee
MG 15.76 · File · 1997 - 1999

File consists of various newspaper clippings re: New Waterford pianist Margaret MacPhee, including her obituary. File also contains a copy of Greg MacLeod's eulogy delivered at her funeral in 1997, and a remembrance article from The Cape Bretoner (Summer 1999).

MacPhee, Margaret
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.

CA BI 2018.11.1 · Item · 1989
Part of Stephen J.W. Drake Collection

Item is a report published by Nova Scotia Power in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1989. Report provides details of the proposed plans to interconnect Nova Scotia and New England through a high voltage direct current transmission system (HVDC).

Nova Scotia Power
Botanical Ledger
CA BI MG 12.109-MG 12.109 A.8 · Item · 1884
Part of McKeen Family fonds

Item is a leather bound botanical ledger detailing sales for trees, shrubs, and berries in communities across Cape Breton Island.

Item · 1966 1968

The item is a scrapbook documenting the years 1966 to 1968 at Xavier College. Highlights covered in the scrapbook include photographs featuring staff, students and visitors of Xavier College. Textual documents such as correspondence and programs related to operations and events at the school are also included. A few of the specific items found in the scrapbook are:
-News clippings and invitation to the induction of Dr. Jan Huntjens to the faculty of Xavier College
-News clippings, programs, tickets and images for the opening ceremony of the Xavier College Science building which took place on December 3, 1966
-News clippings, images, invitations, programs and tickets for the 1967 and 1968 graduation ceremonies at Xavier College.
-Issue of St. Francis Xavier University Newspaper The Xaverian, the issue is dated October 7, 1966
-Xaclibur bulletins included dates are: January 25, 1967, February 22, 1967, March 1, 1967 and March 22, 1967, April 5, 1967 and April 12, 1967
-Issues of the Xavier College newspaper the Xcalibur Issue. A majority of issues have only the month of publication only one issue has the exact date of publication. Issues with the month of publication: October 1966, January 1967, March 1967, October 1967, November, 1967, December, 1967, January, 1968 and April 1968. Issue with the exact publication date: December 1, 1966. The Xaclibur is still the same newspaper as the Excalibur, the name was changed the reason why it was changed can be found in the October, 1966 issue of the Xcalibur.

Diplomas
CA BI MG 21.14-A-9-1 · Item · 1940 - 1947
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item includes a photocopy of Viola Desmond's 1940 diploma from The Apex College of Beauty Culture and Hairdressing and a photocopy of Helen Flint's (née Helen Davis) 1947 diploma from the Desmond Beauty Studio.

CA BI MG 21.14-A-7-1 · Item · [Before 2016]
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is a draft of "My Early Memories of Race, My Sister Viola, and the Incident at the Roseland Theatre" by Wanda Robson, which appeared as a chapter in Viola Desmond's Canada: A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land by Dr. Graham Reynolds. Corrections and annotations in red pen have been made throughout the essay.

Stephen Kimber
CA BI MG 21.14-A-6-3 · Item · Febraury 22, 2014
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is a copy of an article written by Stephen Kimber for Metro News about 'Viola Desmond Day' only being held on the first Heritage Day in Nova Scotia. A short note at the top from Kimber states that this is an advanced copy of the article.