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The Great Fire, Sydney
CA BI 77-312-446 · Item · 1901

Item is a photograph of a man selling fish amidst the ruins of Sydney's Great Fire.

Wheeler
The Great Fire, Sydney
CA BI 77-308-442 · Item · 1901

Item is a photograph of the day after Sydney's Great Fire. View is from Wentworth Street.

The Great Fire, Sydney
CA BI 77-309-443 · Item · 1901

Item is a photograph of the day after Sydney's Great Fire. View is from the YMCA on the corner of Charlotte and Pitt Street.

The Great Fire, Sydney
CA BI 77-310-444 · Item · 1901

Item is a photograph of Sydney's Great Fire. The view is of the ruins of the Prowse Bros. and Crowell's building on the sourtheast corner of Charlotte and Prince Street.

The Great Fire, Sydney
CA BI 77-342-476d · Item · 1901

Item is a photograph of a view of the ruins left by the Great Fire on the west side of Bentinck Street from Wentworth to Prince. The fire that started in a Charlotte Street shop would destroy 67 buildings, leave 31 families homeless, and cause over $500,000 in damage. The Robert Ingraham House, Dillon Dwelling, Woodill House, Rudderham House, and the Conway Building (now Ingersall Road) were all destroyed in the fire. However, the building seen on the left hand side of the photograph is still standing today, as well as the Khattar home and Khattar Law Offices.

Kelly and Dodge
MG 21.48-C-5 · Item · June 6, 1923 and April 30, 1929
Part of Thomas J. Brown fonds

Item is a typewritten letter from The Indian Cove Coal Company Ltd., signed by M. Dwyer, to Thomas J. Brown returning borehole records for the Jubilee Pit and Gannon Road. Also included was an April 30, 1929 balance sheet for the Indian Cove Coal Company.

MG 12.45.4 · File · 1929

The Inverness County Guardian was published in Port Hood every Wednesday by D. W. Jones, the publisher and editor of the newspaper. A yearly subscription costed $2.00 per year in Canada and $2.50 per year in the United States. The newspaper was Independent in politics.

Newspaper 27 · File · 1904-[19??]

Ned MacDonald: "On August 4, 1904, the first issue of the "Inverness News", published by A.S. MacAdam, appeared on the streets. The newspaper had a tendency to exaggerate the potential of the town, sold for two cents, was printed weekly, and was enthusiastically received. It informed, organized and agitated through its editorials. It became a vehicle for the proclamation of views on social, economic, cultural, and political issues. The "Inverness News" was the link that expressed and documented the evolving days of the town."

The Island Reporter
Newspaper 4 · File · [1890?]-1907

The Island Reporter was published every Wednesday morning in Sydney. The cost of the newspaper was $1 per annum or 3 cents for a single issue.

The Isle of Skye
CA BI PAM 60 · Item · 1972

Item is a tourist booklet for the Isle of Skye written by Barbara Newson.

"The Lady Resists"
CA BI MG 21.14-A-5-3 · Item · September 19, 2001
Part of Wanda Robson & Viola Desmond Collection

Item is a fax from Marilyn Gray, a producer at Inner City Films in Toronto, Ontario, to Wanda Robson and Joe Robson regarding the Viola Desmond documentary being made by the film studio. The fax includes a note from Gray and a synopsis of the one hour documentary, "The Lady Resists: The Viola Desmond Story."

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.

CA BI 78-724-2474 · Item · 1886

Item is a photograph of St. Peter's Canal. Pictured are the locks with the S.S. Marion going through.

Keisel, Theodore
CA BI PAM 24 · Item · 1967

Item is a historical booklet describing the maritime provinces at the time of the Confederation written by W.S. MacNutt

The "Mary"
CA BI 77-586-720a · Item · ca. 1900

Item is a photograph of the ferry "Mary," which ran between Sydney, Westmount and Point Edward.

The "Mary"
CA BI 77-586-720b · Item · ca. 1900

Item is a photograph of the ferry "Mary," which ran between Sydney, Westmount and Point Edward.

The Mayflower
MG 21.48-D-2 · Item · [192-?]
Part of Thomas J. Brown fonds

Item is a copy of the poem “The Mayflower: The Emblem Flower of Nova Scotia” by John McPherson of Liverpool, Nova Scotia.

The Micmac Tercentenary
MG 13.58-E-2-3 · Item · 1912
Part of Msgr. Donald MacPherson fonds

Item is a pamphlet authored by John M. Clark about the 300th anniversary of the first Mi’kmaq Baptism. The report was originally included in the Eighth Report of the Director of the Science Division, 1911 issued by the New York State Education Department in Albany, NY.

The "Minto"
CA BI 77-714-848 · Item · ca. 1900

Item is a photograph of the "Minto," an icebreaker.

The Morning Sun
Newspaper 53 · File · 1892

J. W. D. Stearns: "The Morning Sun is the only daily newspaper east of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is printed every morning (Sunday excepted) at Sydney, Cape Breton, office No. 106 South Charlotte St. It gives the cable and telegraphic news by special services direct from New York and other centres of information, and lacks none of the facilities of a thorough newspaper. Subscription price is $6 per year. Advertising rates $1 per inch first insertion, 25 cents each continuation. Special rates on advertising contracts according to space and time."

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 North Sydney Herald
Newspaper 32 · File · 1872 - [1948?]

Gertrude E. N. Tratt: "The Herald, the oldest weekly in Cape Breton, began as a weekly with four 24" x 36" pages and a circulation of slightly more than 800. James W. Gould was editor and publisher, but within five years was succeeded by A.C. Bertram. Under Bertram's ownership the paper was more than tripled its circulation to 2,750 and its format altered, first to four 19 1/4" x 28 1/2" pages, and then to eight 15" x 23" pages. During these years it was Conservative in politics.
Sometime before 1910 the North Sydney Herald Publishing Company had begun to issue the paper. Its politics changed from Liberal-Conservative to Liberal, then to Independent. The circulation rose to a peak of 4,700 in 1918, and then began a steady decline. While it retained its eight pages, these reverted to Bertram's 19 1/4" x 22 1/2" size.
For some years after 1920, a daily as well as a weekly edition was published. At that time J. S. MacDonald was manager of the Herald Publishing Company. The daily, like the weekly, was an eight page newspaper. It cost $6 per annum, was Liberal in politics, and it had a circulation of 1,700.
The daily apparently ended about 1928 but the weekly continued for another 20 years. In the mid-thirties it became once more politically Independent."