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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.

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.

Charles MacDonald fonds
CA BI MG 11.40 · Fonds · 1963-1983

This fonds consists of documents relating to: the Highlander Press Co. Ltd; pulpwood cutting in Cape Breton County; Roman Catholic Diocese of Antigonish; speeches. Dr. Charles MacDonald was a member of the faculty of the University College of Cape Breton.

CA BI MG 21.14-A-1-12 · Item · July 21, 2010
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is a letter from Ross Landry, Minister of Justice of Nova Scotia, to Wanda Robson thanking her for her work in getting her sister, Viola Desmond, an official apology from the province and a Royal Prerogative of Mercy Free Pardon for her 1946 arrest at the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.

The Many Faces of Jim Crow
CA BI MG 21.14-A-7-2 · Item · [Between 1995 - 2005]
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is a project proposal for "The Many Faces of Jim Crow: Stories of Racial Discrimination in Twentieth Century Canada," a documentary, to be produced by Dr. Graham Reynolds and Dr. Richard MacKinnon.

"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.

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