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CA BI T-2069 · Item · 1982
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of interviews with Carl MacKenzie, Charlie MacKenzie, Malcolm MacDonald and Josie Maclean of Washabuck, N.S.

Carl MacKenzie:

His grandfather, Charles "Framer" MacKenzie came from Kintyle, Scotland, first to Margaree, then to Washabuct

Talk about his musical background and family

There is a Washabuct fiddle style

His violin style influenced by Scotty Fitzgerald and Budy MacMaster

Talks about the good old-fashoined home parties

Charlie MacKenzie:

Recites two poems he composed

Talks about his mother washing clothes in the brook years ago

Recites another poem, "Blackbirds", also his own composition

tells of his mother singing Gaelic songs while she worked, spinning etc.

Malcolm MacDonald:

Talks about the old farms, now closed, how hard the pioneers worked

The house ceilidhs; fishing in the area

The store in Washabuct at one time

The Bard MacLean

"Lazy Stick" - a game they played

The browns - tricks people would play on them

Josie MacLean:

The one-room school she attended Formation of the Home & School Association

Joe MacLean :

Talks about Lauchlin MacLean - he arrived from Barra in 1817 - his family

Laughlin MacLean died at the age of 114

Other pioneer familes

Snow storms in previous years

Early mail service - by boat to Baddeck, also by hourse & buggy

CBC Radio
MG 21.8-T-3029 · Item · 5 Aug. 1957
Part of D.J. MacDermaid Songs & Stories Collection

Item is a sound recording of the unveiling of Pioneer Cairn at Framboise.

Cassette notes it as tape #111.

Track List: Side A
Track A1 - Piping, piper is Sally MacPherson of Sydney (Neil MacDonald M.C.) 03:39
Track A2 - Rev. MacLean opening Prayer
Track A3 - Choir sings Psalm 23 in English - The Lord is my Shephard (Neil MacDonald M.C.)
Track A4 - MC introduces Rev. Dr. J.D. Nelson MacDonald who addresses the attendants in Gàidhlig and reads part of the hymn, Dhe Bhetel. (Neil MacDonald M.C.)
Track A5 - Dhe Bhetel tune: Martyrdom. Hymn precented by choir led by Seumas MacFhionghain. (Neil MacDonald M.C.)
Track A6 - MC thanks all members involved with the Pioneer Cairn project (Neil MacDonald M.C.)
Track A7 - An t-Seann t-Seann Sgeul. Singer: Dan Willie Strachan. (Neil MacDonald M.C.)
Track A8 - Rev. Dr. Nelson MacDonald reads Joshua, Chapter 4 in Gaelic. Reading from the 34th Psalm. (Neil MacDonald M.C.)
Track A9 - Precenting, Psalm. Tune: Martyrdom. (Neil MacDonald M.C.)
Track A10 - Rev. Dr. Nelson MacDonald speaks to attendants in Gàidhlig and English (Neil MacDonald M.C.)

Side B
Track B1 - Rev. Dr. Nelson MacDonald speaks to attendants in Gàidhlig, choir sings 51st Psalm Dèan Tròcair Orm a Dhia nan Dràs (Neil MacDonald M.C.) 22:25
Track B2 - Rev. Dr. Nelson MacDonald says a prayer (Neil MacDonald M.C.) 01:33
Track B3 - Piping

CA BI T-353 · Item · 1972
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of the Glendale N.S Gaelic Players singing and performing a Gaelic play. Gaelic play entitled "Katie is Coming Home", written by Rev. S.P. MacDonald. Recording includes a conversation with Joseph L. MacDonald.

A Cape Breton Gaelic play
Tha mi an diugh gu tinn
Ho ro gur thu mo run
Gaelic play - Act II
Illean ill o, illean i
Square set
My own Glen
Early days in Sydney (N.S.)
The Townsends, Muggahs, Crawleys
A boom in Sydney (N.S.) - 1872
A Gaelic tid-bit
Father Edwards last Mass in Boisdale

MacDonald, Joseph Lawrence
CA BI T-708 · Item · 1973
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of Mrs. Tena Morrison (Baddeck) and Neil MacKay (Big Baddeck) discussing history, lore and genealogy of Bddeck and surrounding areas. Recording includes Gaelic conversation and songs.

MacKay, Neil - Early settlers at Baddeck

MacKay, Neil - MacKay family history

MacKay, Neil - First ministers at Big Baddeck

MacKay, Neil - Early schools, teachers and salaries

MacKay, Neil - Church services in early days

MacKay, Neil - First doctors in Baddeck area

MacKay, Neil - Social life - ceilidhs

MacKay, Neil - First newspaper - The Nova Scotian

MacKay, Neil - Sheep-shearing, milling frolics, marking lambs

Morrison, Mrs. Tena - Home-made dyes and wool dying

MacKay, Neil - Fhear a'Bhata

Morrison, Mrs. Tena - Early days of teaching, schools she taught in, salaries

Morrison, Mrs. Tena - Her father's stories

Morrison, Mrs. Tena - Presbyterian churches at Baddeck and first ministers

Morrison, Mrs. Tena - Pioneer handicrafts

Morrison, Mrs. Tena - Box Socials

Morrison, Mrs. Tena - Ferry service at Baddeck

Morrison, Mrs. Tena - Her recollections of Mr. And Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell

Morrison, Mrs. Tena - The Silver Dart

Morrison, Mrs. Tena - Old landmarks at Baddeck

Morrison, Mrs. Tena - The ice breakers at Baddeck

Morrison, Mrs. Tena - Amazing Grace (Gaelic)

Morrison, Mrs. Tena - Morag a Dunbheagan

MacKay, Neil; Morrison, Mrs. Tena - Ged tha mi gun chrodh gun aighean

Vallas, Sister Angelina
CA BI T-366 · Item · 1972
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of Joseph Lawrence MacDonald telling stories of Donald "Gorm" Macdonald.

Story of Donald "Gorm" MacDonald - Story of this man, at the time of taking of Louisbourg

A mother's curse - Donald went from house to house taking the young men by force to fight with him. When he took the third son, a cripple, from this widow, she said: "My son will return but you never will"

Burning of the church - Donald burns church after closing windows, all inside perish

The ending - Tells how this man, possessed by the devil, dies

The schoolmaster and the old woman

The old man's operation - Funny story by a teller of tall tales

Comhairle (advice)

Donald's version of the sinking of the Titanic - Donald couldn't read very well, his stories were strange

He alone know how much he is worth

MacDonald, Joseph Lawrence
CA BI T-119 · Item · 1969
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of Hugh F. Mackenzie and Joseph A. Gillis discussing ghosts and forerunners in Gaelic tradition.

"Miracle of the seed." (Gillis, Joe)
Story about Frenchvale (Gillis, Joe) (Anecdote--Humorous)

Hugh MacKenzie:
"The barley is full of the devil, it will grow anyway." (Anecdote--Humorous)
Story of the woman who gave her cow to the Priest. One year later she came back for it.
"No liquor...Priest hated liquor so he sent the man out of his Parish."
Story about the man who saw his shadow. (Anecdote--Humorous)
"Did you hear that the devil died?" " "
Story about the farmer in Inverness. "I had lived here for 50 years and this road has never left here." (Anecdote--Humorous)
"He fell with a bottle in his back pocket." (Anecdote--Humorous) "I trust it was blood and nothing else."
"Mickey Katie saw something strange." (Story--second sight) "-- death of a brother."
Story about "the coffin being brought out to bury" that the man saw. He predicted that the coming death would be sudden. "It was." (Story--second sight)
"This man met a ghost." (Story--Forerunner) "The boy who died and returned with the money he had borrowed."
"Story about Ottawa Brook." (Story--Ghost) "...his daughter gave him signature he needed."
"Bocan......How do you know that this was a real bocan?" (Story--Bocan) Mr. MacKenzie and his brother were visiting a neighbour and saw a terrible thing at the end of the bridge. (Story--Ghost)
Story of the drowning and the fidelity of a dog. (Anecdote)
Story about the old woman who had no money. (Anecdote)
Story about the prayers. "Lack of intelligence makes people pray on, and on." (Anecdote)
"Here is the story about a foolish man who tells a priest about a bocan he saw." The priest told him it must have been the devil. "How could it have been the devil, it spoke Gaelic." (Anecdote)
Women who got lost (Finished on B-1)

Hugh MacKenzie:
What were you telling me about the bleating of lamb and the power of prayer? An old lady was lost in the woods. Prayers were said for her. A lamb was heard bleating. She was found.
"You won't go to their wake, they didn't come to ours."
"Thusa Eachain" (Anecdote--Humorous) "Don't call me 'Thusa' call me Sibhse."
It is true that there is gold buried in a well near Christmas Island? (Story--Ghost) People heard horses galloping - but there were no horses.
Story about the woman who had a great devotion to the Blessed Virgin - a priest played a trick on her. "Be polite, be quiet - I am talking to your mother!"
Story about the man who had no money - he walked 188 miles to get one bag of meal.
"She made him a pair of trousers and he went with her." Story about the woman whose husband wouldn't let her go away alone.
"She thought he was the Bishop" "Save me, save me, the Bishop is chasing me!" She thought her husband was the Bishop because he dressed up to go to church and she did not recgonize him. (Anecdote--Humorous)
"Horrinn o hi ri dhiu o." Mr. MacKenzie composed this in 1937, when he heard the whistle of the Steel Plant and thinking of his yesteryears he was lonely and sad. (Song)

MacKenzie, Hugh Francis
CA BI T-2054 · Item
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Stephen Rory MacNeil Iona The Co-operative Moment in Iona
Dr. Coady taught them how to start & operative Co-operatives
The Iona Co-operative, its beginning
Difficulty during the depression
Credit Union started first - small deposits
First co-op failed
It was difficult to get the Credit Union organized first payment 10 cents
Benefits of the Credit Union
Second Iona Co-op got along well
Depression - no money - $1 a day would make them rich
Farmers had plenty food but no way of earning money for taxes, etc.
Jim Francis MacNeil Sydney (N.S.) "Thig dhiot an cada; 's tionndaidh rium"
"Ho ro mo chuid chuideach thu..."
An Te a'Chaill a'Ghaidhlig"
Started working in the Steel Plant at age of 20
His job at the plant - drilling rails
Describes the rail-making process
5,000 working for Dosco when he started
Where rails are shipped
Reasons for starting the plant in Sydney (N.S.)

Macdonald, Norman
Stephen D.R. MacNeil
CA BI 77-474-608 · Item · ca. 1890

Item is a photograph of Stephen D.R. MacNeil, a bard from Benacadie.

CA BI T-2144 · Item · 1968
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of a Mod concert held at the Gaelic College in St. Ann's, N.S.

Side A: Ian Webster performs bagpipe tunes, followed by more numbers played by a pipe band. Joann Bray sings Gaelic songs unaccompanied by musical instruments. Barry Ewan performs a hornpipe on bagpipes. John Allan Cameron and J. and L. Mac Issac sing and play "Banks of Sicily" and other numbers. Side B: Ian Webster plays various bagpipe pieces, then sound becomes too distorted for remaining tape to be playable.

CA BI MG 6.26-MG 6.26 E · File · 1942
Part of Scottish Catholic Society fonds

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.
CA BI T-1090 · Item · 1964
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of Malcolm Angus Macleod, Skir Dhu N.S, singing a selection of Gaelic Songs.

"Tuireadh na Hiortach"
"Cha bhi mi buan..."
"Air faill irin iu..."
"Cuir dhiot an cadal..."
"Leis a' Mhaighdean"
"Bodach beag an lòinean"
"O ho ro 'ille dhuinn..."
"Am muileann dubh..."
"Dùthaich MhicLeòid"
"Mo rún, mo nighean donn bhoidheach"
"O hi ri leibh a ho..."
Twenty-third Psalm

Shaw, John
Songs from Framboise
CA BI G168 · Item · 1986

Item is a collection of compositions by bard, Dan Alex MacDonald in Gaelic and English

CA BI T-2019 · Item · 1950
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Mrs. Margaret Gillis Gillisdale
" 'S ann Di-Luain gabhainn cuan..."
"Illean bithibh sunndach a null air a voyage..."
"O ho ro ille dhuinn..."
"Horan o, ho ro bhi iu o..."

Malcolm MacLellan Piper's Glen
"Bithibh aotrom 's togaibh fonn..."
"Bi 'gan cuimheachadh 's gan ionndrainn..."

Lauchie MacLellan Dunvegan
"Hugabh a bhi hu ga rireabh..."
" 'Nam biodh uine nam choir..."

Mrs. McCoridh Sgeulachd: Domhnall Cliobaisteach & Bonach Mills

Leach, MacEdward
Sgeulachdan and Gaelic Songs
CA BI T-1083 · Item · June, 1975
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Campbell, Hector Hillsdale, Inverness County (N.S.) "Nighean Righ Eireann"

Morrison, Dan J. Breton Cove, Victoria County "Gaol an t-Seòladair"

MacDonnell, Hughie Dan Broad Cove, Inverness County (N.S.) Port-a-beul

Morrison, Sandy Wreck Cove. Victoria County "Gur e mo rùn an Domhnallach..."

MacLeod, Malcolm Agnus Sgir Dubh, Victoria County "Annt a rill u o..."

Morrison, Sandy Wreck Cove. Victoria County "Airfaill irinn o..."

Morrison, Sandy Wreck Cove. Victoria County "Airfaill irinn o..." (cont.)

Morrison, Sandy Wreck Cove. Victoria County

Campbell, Hector Hillsdale, Inverness County (N.S.) "Ceadach MacRigh nan Collach"

Shaw, John
Sgeulachd and Gaelic Songs
CA BI T-477 · Item · 1972
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

MacEachern, Alex A. (Creignish):
Fairy Tales and Gaelic Jokes

MacEachern, Elizabeth (1972):
Stories of Folklore

MacInnis, Roddie and Allan
Election song
Composed by Montana Dan MacInnis

MacInnis, Roddie and Allan
Othail mhor a'phicnac
Composed by Jane Henrietta MacKinnon

MacInnis, Roddie and Allan:
Poite Dhubh
Composed by Jane Henrietta MacKinnon

MacInnis, Roddie and Allan:
Allan Angus's Party (song)
Composed by George MacQuarrie

MacEachern, Elizabeth
CA BI T-195 · Item · 1970
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Mr. Joe Allan MacLean was interviewed at his home.
MacLean's origin story of "Duan na Ceardaich". The "boss" in a forge threatens to fire all employees if a "duan" is not composed for him.

"Duan na Ceardaich"

Sgeulachd - Fletcher and the Ghost. A man sets out to seek his fortune in England. He ends up in the employ of a nobleman trying to determine who is haunting his house. It is his dead daughter who desires to have her wrongly-convicted love freed from prison. See T-409

Day, Hilda
CA BI MG 6.22-MG 6.22 9 · Item · 1964-1966
Part of Gaelic songs

Item is a scrapbook of song clippings, some of which are loose. Songs include:

“Moladh a Bhaird Dha Mhuinntir Duthcha” by John Currie, Blackett’s Lake. Submitted by Neil Morrison.
“Marbhrann do Chursaidh Moireasdan” by Iain Moireasdan, Glasgow, Scotland.
“Am Brusach ir Blar Allt-a’-Bhonnaich”
Song in praise of the poet Alasdair MacKinnon (1770-1814).
“An Gaidheal am Measg nan Gall” also known as “Och a Ruin Gur-a Tu th’air m’Aire” by John “The Bard” MacLean
“Duanag Chaoil” by Lady MacLeod of Raasay. Submitted by James A Campbell of Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts.
“Horo Eileinich” also known as “’S ann tha Mo Run ‘s air a’Ghalldachd”
“Oran do Bheinn-Eoin” by Angus R. MacDonald of New Waterford.
“Fuadach ann Gaidheal” Submitted by James Charles MacNeil.
“A Mhairi Bhinn, Mheall Shuileach”
“Sine Chalum Bhain”
“Oran Gaoil” also known as “Fear a Bhata”
“Fifty Years Ago” by Hugh Francis MacKenzie.
“An Cailin Dileas Donn” Submitted by Neil Morrison, Sydney Forks.
A Lament by Alexander MacDonald (The Keppoch Bard), Antigonish County.
“Faighnich is Freagair” A short story.
“Cumha Aonghuis”
“Oich u Agus H-Iuraibh Eile”
“Oran do’n Aois” Submitted by Neil Morrison, Sydney Forks.
“Is Braithrean Sin Uile” translation of “We Are All Brothers”. Submitted by John P Matheson, St. Ann’s.
“Oran Cheap Breatunn” by Dan Alex MacDonald of Framboise
“Oran an t-Amadan Ruisgt’” about a man whose love died and who was found dead outside in Beauly, Scotland.
“Do Mhaighdeann Uasail ‘s an Eilean Fhada” also known as “A Mhairi Bhoidheach” Submitted by Neil Morrison.
“Do Thighearna Chola” by John “The Bard” MacLean
“Do Thighearna Og Chola” by John “The Bard” MacLean
“Oran a Cheilidh” by Neil MacLean. Originally appeared in MacTalla.
“Oran Teagasg nan Sgoil” by Archie Sheumais MacKenzie of Rear Christmas Island.
“An t-Soiridh an t-Soiridh”
“Oran Cheap Breatunn” by Dan Alex MacDonald, Framboise
“Do dhuin’ Uaisal de Chlann-Gilleain”
“Do Raonull Domhnullach Tighearna Staffa” by John “the Bard” MacLean. Submitted by James A. Campbell of Massachusetts.
“Nam Faighinn Gille Ri Cheannach”
“Marbhrann do Dh’Uilleam Labhruidh Bhail-a-Chaoilais”. Submitted by Rev. Samuel MacMillan.
“An Cailin Dileas Donn” Submitted by Neil Morrison.
“Oran nam Fasan” by James Campbell
Clipping from MacTalla containing news about the sinking of ships Dorcas and Etta Stewart in the Great August Gale of 1893.
“Oran do Mhaighstir Alasdair Domhnullach”
“An Gaol thug Mi Og” by Neil MacLeod, Isle of Skye. Submitted by Jim Charles MacNeil, Sydney.
“Am Bard agus a’Phoit Ti”
Gaelic article that has been edited.
“Uaighean Aoin Teaghlach” by John P. Matheson, St.Ann’s

Morrison, Neil
CA BI T-391 · Item · 1977
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of a gaelic church service in Loch Lomond, Cape Breton (N.S).

MacDonald, Rev. J.B.N. - Opening prayers

Loch Lomond Gaelic Singers - Hymn

MacDonald, Rev. J.B.N. - Prayer

Loch Lomond Gaelic Singers - Precenting

MacDonald, Rev. J.B.N. - Scripture reading - 23rd Psalm

Loch Lomond Gaelic Singers - Hymn

MacDonald, Ross; Morrison, Kenneth - Hymn - "In the Garden"

Loch Lomond Gaelic Singers - Precenting

MacDonald, Rev. J.B.N. - Sermon

MacDonald, Rev. J.B.N. - Sermon

Loch Lomond Gaelic Singers - Precenting

MacDonald, Mary Catherine "Kay"
Rev. Duncan Joseph Rankin
CA BI MG 6.32 · Fonds · 1911

Fonds consists of:
The 1920 petition by M.R. MacLeod to allow Gaelic to be taught in public schools.
A letter to the editor of the Casket urging readers to speak Gaelic to their children in the home.
Various writings in Gaelic, including a story attributed to Joe "Eòs a'Ghobha" MacNeil of Christmas Island, a story about a humorous trip for Boisdale to Christmas Island and a congratulatory speech for the 50th anniversary of Johnny A. and Peggy MacKinnon of Rear Iona.

CA BI MG 6.63-6.63 2 · File · 1983
Part of Angus Y. MacLellan fonds

File contains the following autobiographical stories:

-My Life on Margaree Island by Mary Margaret MacLellan Long, 1983.
-Life on Margaree Island, a Challenge by Duncan H. MacLellan.
-My Years on Margaree Island by Lauranna Maclellan MacDonald.

Reminiscences of Gabarus
CA BI T-47 · Item · 1966
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Robert Morgan Ottawa (Ont.), Gabarus (N.S.), Rouses Point (N.S.) Interrogates Mr. Fred Reid on his early life in Gabarus (N.S.), his birthplace, his ancestors, the history of Gabarus (N.S.), etc.

Mr. Fred Reid Speaks of the Catholic Church which was there 68 years ago.

Mr. Fred Reid Discusses the different families of Gabarus (N.S.) and their Religions

Mrs. Truman Clark Asked Mr. Reid questions concerning the early settlers of Gabarus (N.S.)

Mr. Fred Reid Said that the Roy family, after leaving Scotland, changed their name to Reid.

Mr. Fred Reid The Campbell's tried to kill them in Scotland

Robert Morgan Tell us what you know about the Loyalists

Mrs. Truman Clark Mrs. Truman Clark presents map and discusses, with the others, the Land Grants

Robert Morgan Asks what is known about "Squatters Rights"?

Mr. Fred Reid Armstrong - vessell blew up and he was drowned

Mr. Fred Reid The land could be had a long time before the grants were given

Mr. Fred Reid DeOrmistons were Huguenots.

Mrs. Truman Clark How many factories were there in times?

Robert Morgan Methodist Church...

Mr. Fred Reid Was there a battery around here?

Mr. Fred Reid Asks why Gabarus (N.S.) bigger than it is now?

Mrs. Truman Clark Discussed the early people of Gabarus (N.S.)...

Mrs. Truman Clark Why did the fishermen go on strike? They went on strike because of the small price of lobster

Mrs. Truman Clark Where did you sell the lobster? They were canned and sent to Halifax (N.S.), then shipped over-seas

Mrs. Truman Clark Speaks of his work in a lobster cannery - .05 cents an hour

Mrs. Truman Clark Tell us about the politicians around here in your time...

Mrs. Truman Clark What do you know about Alex Johnson and Dr. Kendall?

Mr. Fred Reid Gives and interesting history of the Orange Hall.

Mrs. Truman Clark You were Customs Officer, weren't you, Mr. Reid?

Robert Morgan What can you tell us about the First World War?

Robert Morgan Did the Catholics speak Gaelic

Mr. Fred Reid It is often clear in Gabarus (N.S.) when it is very foggy in Louisbourg

Robert Morgan He says people want to see the shore and not fancy places through the woods

Robert Morgan Asks if there are any Mi'kmaq here

Mrs. Carita Reid Introduces herself

Robert Morgan Asks Mrs. Reid her age, and where she lives.

Mrs. Carita Reid The first Bagnell was General Bagnell who came during the war.

Mrs. Reid Gives the history of her ancestors

Mrs. Reid Gives the history of the old house on Rouses Point (N.S.)

Robert Morgan Asks about the story of the French ship...

Robert Morgan How long were you a Sunday school teacher

Robert Morgan Information on MacGillivary's, Low Point (N.S.), Newfoundland, and Cape Breton County

Robert Morgan Do you know anything about the Lobster fisheries here in Rouses Point (N.S.)?

Mrs. Carita Reid Methodist Church was built long before the Baptist Church.

Mrs. Carita Reid Were automobiles common in the early days?

Mrs. Carita Reid Graveyards...

Mrs. Carita Reid Do you know anything about the Mi'kmaq in the early days?

CA BI T-40 · Item · 1966
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Pioneers of Big Pond (N.S.)

Story of the drowning of three men March 18, 1885. Two men were MacKinnons and the third was a MacNeil.

Religious Life in early days. Priest-Church 1890-1892.

Private graveyards. Private graveyard not far from Church on Neil MacIsaac's farm

Tell us about the Mi'kmaq...

What was that second-sight story about the burning house?

The house was seen burning 30 years before it actually did burn.

Man sees his Mother return from the dead. She returned for Mick Currie's brother

Father Duncan MacDonald tells a story

Was this a miracle?

Hardships of mail drivers

Story of tragic snowslide. Decendants of victims still living in the area.

Old diary

Political meetings at Big Pond (N.S.) in the early 1900's

Councillor elections - results, Big Pond (N.S.)

Rural Route Mail.

Couriers Pay and Contracts

Stores

Were there blacksmiths in those days?

When did Father MacDonald come to the Parish?

Building of the Glebe House (1905-1926)

Story of the Coal Schooner

Coal landed on Island

Father Laughlin MacDonald followed Father Duncan MacDonald - 1930

Father MacDonald was folllowed by Father MacLean

What can you tell us about school teachers and their salaries

Teachers were licensed

Tell me something about the night of the elections as well as the night before

Reminiscences of Beaver Cove
CA BI T-22 · Item · 1965
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of a conversation with Roddie F. Nicholson and John Nicholson.

Song concerning the building of the house

I can write a letter, I can read a letter, and I can send a letter anywhere!

What subjects were taught in school

Did they write well in the back woods?

Mental figuring

What about the cats whiskers?

Tell us all you know about local history

Diseases and cures of the times

Were people brought into build houses?

No one was lazy in those days. No very rich, no very poor.

Could they make a living off the land now as they did in your times?

Diseases such as appendicitus were certain death in those times?

Was there any heavy drinking in those times?

Story of the Jack O Lantern

Nicholson, John
CA BI MG 6.25 · Fonds · 1954-1955

This fonds consists of the records of attendance and payment for members of a Gaelic class held through Xavier College's Department of Adult Education.

CA BI GSM28 · Item · n.d.

Item is a photocopy of a song appearing in a newspaper. It praises the work of a Doctor Angus MacLennan who, while serving as an MP (1882-1886), was instrumental in bringing the railway to western Inverness County so that industries could be developed there.

North Shore Gaelic Songs
CA BI T-1110 · Item · 1975
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of Gaelic singers from the Dunvegan and North Shore areas.

Beaton, David (Broadcove, N.S) - Unsuccessful moonshine... (Story)

Beaton, David - First electric shock treatment of rheumatism in Broadcove

MacLellan, Lauchie - "Moch 'sa mhadainn rinn mi gluasad..."

MacLellan, Lauchie (Dunvegan) - "Nighean donn a'bhreacain uaine..."

Shaw, John; MacLeod, Malcolm A. - "'S e mo cheist..."

Shaw, John; MacLeod, Malcolm A.

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - "Ho ro fear mo ruin thu..."

Shaw, John - "An teid thu leam a ribhinn og..."

Shaw, John - "Fidhler an ceann an drochaid..."

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - (Skir Dhu, N.S) Port a beul

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - Port a beul

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - Miss MacLeod's Reel

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - "Mo luaidh a' chruinneag"

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - "Thuirt an gille 's tu mo laochan..."

MacLeod, Malcolm A. - Song by "Lazarus" with history

Shaw, John - (North Shore, N.S) "Caidil thusa 's gheobh thu fheidh..."

Shaw, John - "An cluinn thu, leannain, an cluinn thu..."

Shaw, John - "Ho ro ho goraidh o..."

Shaw, John - "A nighean donn an t-sugraidh..."

Shaw, John - "Chunna mi lair dhonn aig Seumas..."

Shaw, John - "Mo nighean donn ghuanaich..."

MacLean, Alex (Big Baddeck, N.S) - "Am minister MacLeoid..."

Shaw, John
CA BI T-3158 · Item · 1970
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of a milling frolic in French River, N.S. The end of the tape includes english songs by Norman Kennedy, Lizzie MacNeil and Johnny Edward Macneil.

Milling frolic songs are as follows:

Fear a' Bhata
Leis a mhaighdean o hi u
O hi og i o
Tha mo bhreacan s fo dile
Thug mi gaol dhan fhear bhan
Ho ro mo nighean donn bhoidheach
He mo leannan o mo leannan
Ged tha mi gun crodh gun aighean

Newspaper Clippings
CA BI MG 6.23-MG 6.23 11 · File · 1955-1971
Part of Hugh Francis MacKenzie fonds

Material includes:
A typed manuscript of the anecdotes of pioneer Neil "Goillician" MacNeil by Hugh Francis MacKenzie.
The above, as appearing in an article in the Weekly Cape Bretoner, January 25, 1958.
An article concerning the history of Christmas Island by Hugh F. MacKenzie.
An article by MacKenzie about the history of Christmas Island Catholic church.
Two obituaries for Hugh Francis MacKenzie.

MacKenzie, Hugh Francis
CA BI T-2023 · Item
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Dan Morrison North Shore
"Nighean donn a' bhroilleach shoilleir"
"Gaol an t-seolaair"

Neil MacQuarrie North Shore "Ma phosas mi, cha ghabh mi te mhor"

Unidentified Singer "The mo bhreacan dubh fo'n dile..."

Unidentified Singer "Il o, il ho, horo eile..."

George MacAskill Precenting - Psalm 68

George MacAskill North Shore "Ma phosas mi, cha ghabh mi te mhor..."

Unidentified Singer
"Hi ill iu ill agus o..."
"O hi ri ill obha ho..."
Unidentified Informant "Domhnall agus Alasdair..."

John Matheson "Eilean an Fhraoich"

John Matheson "A' Mhairi Bhoidheach"

Leach, MacEdward
CA BI T-409 · Item · 1972
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of stories and songs performed by Dan MacKenzie, Joe Allan MacLean and Mrs. Annie MacLean. Featuring:

MacKenzie, Dan - Song sung from the perspective of an old pit mare purchased to help with the November plowing. Horses were plentiful and cheap, so when they ceased to be of use people took them to the marsh and killed them.

MacKenzie, Dan - Òran do Nighean Òg Bréagha. Song Composed by Iagain Steaphainn Ruaidh. Uses the chorus to "Bu Chaomh Leam Bhith Mire".

MacKenzie, Dan - Naidheachd: "A'Chailleach a'Bheat an Deamhan".

MacKenzie, Dan - Fairy Story "Di-Luain, Di-Mairt, DiCiadain"

MacKenzie, Dan - Naidheachd: "Cònar a'Seòladh is an Grog Làidir"

MacLean, Joe Allan - Sgeulachd: Sgeulachd - Fletcher and the Ghost. A man sets out to seek his fortune in England. He ends up in the employ of a nobleman trying to determine who is haunting his house. It is his dead daughter who desires to have her wrongly-convicted love freed from prison. See T-195

MacLean, Joe Allan - Sgeulachd: A man leaves home to hunt on "Beinn Dhunnchaidh" to earn his fortune. On the way there he encounters several characters and obstacles. He eventually is dissuaded from going to the mountain an returns home. He discovers gold and goes to England with it, where he open's the country's largest shoe factory.

MacLean, Joe Allan - Sgeulachd: "An Dròbhair Cruinn"

MacLean, Joe Allan - "Òran Bàs Eachainn MhicDhùghaill" composed by Archie MacDougall of Benacadie. Hector (Eachann "Larry") left Baddeck in a boat in 1896 but never returned home. He was presumed drowned. Archie's aunt, Mary (MacDougall) MacLeod also composed songs.

MacLean, Mrs. Annie - Biographical sketch

MacLean, Mrs. Annie - "Bha Mi'n Raoir gu Sunndach Sunndach" composed by Catrìona Iain Ruaidh (Catherine MacNeil)

MacLean, Mrs. Annie - "Tha Mise fo Mhulad air Tulaich gun Uaill" composed by Catrìona Iain Ruaidh (Catherine MacNeil). Song concerns a difficult winter and trying to preserve hay.

MacDonald, Joseph L. - History of Iona Credit Union

MacDonald, Joseph Lawrence
CA BI T-1121 · Item · 1975
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

MacAskill, Murdoch (North Shore) "'S fheudar dhomh le firinn sgur dhe'n dram..."

Shaw, John (North Shore) "Mo chridhe trom 's cha charaich e"

Shaw, John and MacAskill, Murdoch (North Shore) Do'n Chuthaig

Shaw, John (North Shore) "Ailein duinn..."

Shaw, John (North Shore) "Mo chuachag a rill u..."

Shaw, John (North Shore) "Mo ruin, mo nighean donn bhoidheach..."

Carmichael, Hector (North Shore) "Bithibh aotrom 's togaibh fonn..."

MacAskill, Murdoch (North Shore) "Ma bhuannaich thu nighean ghrinn.."

Carmichael, Hector (North Shore) Oran a Phoitseir

Carmichael, Hector (North Shore) An t-Each Ruadh

MacAskill, Murdoch (North Shore) Oran a' Choin Bhain

Carmichael, Hector (North Shore) Oran a' Mhortgage (one verse)

Carmichael, Hector (North Shore) "A story about Murdoch Dan..."

Shaw, John (North Shore) "Seann mhart..."

Shaw, John (North Shore) "E ho ro mo mhaighdean lurach..."

MacAskill, Murdoch (North Shore) A Mhairi Bhoidheach

Shaw, John (North Shore) Leis a' Mhaighdean

Carmichael, Hector (North Shore) Oran na Muice

MacAskill, Murdoch (North Shore) "Cha threiginn fhin mo chruinneag dhonn"

Carmichael, Hector (North Shore) "Oran na Torachd..."

Shaw, John
CA BI T-155 · Item · 1969
Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

Item is an audio recording of Mrs. Archie Kennedy. She speaks on life in Broad Cove and Margaree, education in the area, local lore, and prevalence of Gaelic language especially in the church.

Early days at home in Margaree...

Early school days at Captain Allan's House...School books, studies, school hours, discipline, temperature of school room.

"Hard shoes and woolen stockings" Mogans were pulled over the shoes to keep the feet warm.

Story about the "brocan cruaidh"

A day in school...The day started with a prayer, then the pupils stood in a row and read. Next came the spellings. Places of honour were won according to one's ability to spell. This was an ungraded school.

Teachers and method of teaching. The Friday program.

Nothing was learned in Gaelic in the schools.

The Church in Margaree. Prayers and Catechism all learned in Gaelic.

Beaton, Sister Margaret
More Tales from Port Hood
CA BI G42 · Item · 1949

Four stories told by four different storytellers living in or near Port Hood.

CA BI MG 6.23-MG 6.23 16 · File · n.d.
Part of Hugh Francis MacKenzie fonds

Materials include:

MacKenzie's English song compositions.
A speech for the meeting of the Nova Scotia and Canadian Associations of Social Workers in which his aunt Jane (Sr. Alexandra) was honored.
The story of the courtship of shy bachelor Donald MacNeil. It is set in late 19th century Christmas Island and references many cultural practices.
Early history of the first settlers to the Barra Strait region including a version of the story of first contact with the Mi'kmaq. Incomplete. Two copies.

MacKenzie, Hugh Francis
CA BI MG 6.63-6.63 1 · File · n.d
Part of Angus Y. MacLellan fonds

File consists of:

-Lament for Ronald MacLellan, the blacksmith of Southwest Margaree. In English.
-A Biography of Angus Y MacLellan.
-Clach an Carn an Domhnallaich. Handwritten MSS.
-8 songs by MacLellan and others from Smeorach nan Cnoc 's Nan Gleann and Gaelic Songs in Nova Scotia. Photocopies.
-A story by Angus Y. MacLellan, "Raonull Ban Mac Eoghain Oig".
-Information about a paper written about MacLellan by his great granddaughter, Lisa Long. Handwritten and signed Margaret MacLellan Long, 1983. Also included is a photo of Lisa Long.
-Obituary of James J. MacLellan, the bard's son.

CA BI MG 6.23-MG 6.23 6 · File · 1956
Part of Hugh Francis MacKenzie fonds

File consists of minutes to meetings of the Iona and Boisdale branch of the Board of Trade. Issues which feature prominently are the presence of Major C. I. N. MacLeod and raising fund for the creation of the Highland Village in Iona.
The presentation in support of Iona being the location for the Highland Village was authored by A.D. MacKinnon, Presbyterian minister at Little Narrows.

MG 21.8-T-3041 · Item
Part of D.J. MacDermaid Songs & Stories Collection

Item is a sound recording of a Milling Frolic from Catalone.

Track List:
Side A
Track A1 - Eilean Sgitheanach nam Buaidh. Singer: Maxie MacNeil, Iona.
Track A2 - Ma Bhuannich Thu Nighean Ghrinn. Singer: unknown.
Track A4 - Mo Roghainn 's Mo Rùn a Chunna mi'n Dé. In: an t-Òranaiche p. 108. Singer: unknown.
Track A5 - Mo Nigheann Donn 's Laghach thu. SInger: unknown.
Track A6- 'S i Mo Ghaol a'Mhaighdean Lurach. Singer: unknown
Track A7 - Gur tu mo Nigheann Donn Bhòidheach. Singer: unknown
Track A8 - Dan do Sheann Ford. Composed by William MacVicar or Catalone. In: Beyond the Hebrides p. 157. Singer: unknown.
Track A9 - Along the Shores of Washabuck. Singer: Maxie MacNeil, Iona.
Track A10 - Mo Chridhe Trom 's cha Neònach. Poor audio quality. Singer: unknown.

Side B
Track B1 -Ged a Sheòl mi air m'Aineol. Composed by Roderick Morrison of Loch Lomond. Singer: unknown.
Track B2 - Gur e mo Rùn an Dòmhnallach. Singer: unknown.
Track B3 - Mo Nighean Donn an t-Sùgraidh. Singer: unknown.
Track B4 - Cadal cha Dean Mi. Singer: unknown.
Track B5 - Tha Mo Rùn air a'Ghille
Track B6 - Nionag a'Chuil Duinn nach Fhan thu. SInger: Allan MacLeod, New Boston.
Track B7 - Mo Chridhe Trom 's Cha Neonach. Singer: unknown.
Track B8 - a'Mhorag 's na Horo Gheallaidh. In: Beyond the Hebrides. Singer: unknown.

May Ann MacKenzie's Diaries
CA BI MG 6.23-MG 6.23 3 · File · 1950-1955
Part of Hugh Francis MacKenzie fonds

File contains 3 diaries including information regarding births, deaths and marriages in Christmas Island and Iona Parishes as well as a record of the many visits made and received.

MacKenzie, May (Mary) Ann
Malcolm H. Gillis fonds
CA BI MG 6.8 · Fonds · 1927

Fonds consists of a Gaelic song "Na Cnoic 's na Glinn" with words and music by Mr. Gillis; the song "Nigh'n Donn a Chuil Reidh, written by Gillis. There is also Mr. Gillis' notebook containing songs in Gaelic and English, one of which is the original version of "Na Cnoic 's na Glinn"; violin music; record of marriages, 1881-1883, probably performed in St. Joseph's Church, Southwest Margaree. Also included is an affidavit by Malcolm R. MacLeod concerning the copyright of Gilis' songs.

Gillis, Malcolm H.