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Brick-making factory, Salt Springs, Antigonish County, 1895

Brick-making factory, Salt Springs, Antigonish County, 1895. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Jeff Parker The art of photographic restoration: it was only when Jeff Parker restored this photo, that we were able to detect the date of 1895, scratched on the negative.

Backyard of restaurant, Sydney Street, c 1937-38

Backyard of restaurant, Sydney Street, c 1937-38. Photographer: Molly Lee Wong. Courtesy of Bill Wong and Antigonish Heritage Museum. Stanley-Blackwell and MacLean (2004, p. 279) include this photo in their chapter on “The Many Faces of Antigonish.” We learn that George Wong moved to Antigonish in 1928. The laundry on Sydney Street, which appears in […]

MT& T CO. STAFF, 1920

MT& T CO. STAFF, 1920. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald Antigonish’s first telephone exchange was established in the late 1880s but proved so primitive and unreliable that it was suspended within the year. It was not until 1901 that the Antigonish Telephone Company, negotiated with the Nova Scotia Telephone Company to […]

Dr. Pat Walsh, Moderator, Co-op TV Station, circa 1964

Dr. Pat Walsh, Moderator, Co-op TV Station, circa 1964. Courtesy of StFX University Archives Email from Pat Walsh   May 29, 2014 The photo of me as a Moderator for the People’s School brought back a flood of memories. The photo was taken in the TV building that stood on the hill in back of “Abelard’s Sic […]

T. J. (Thomas) Sears livery stable, Lochaber, 1905 – 1910

T. J. (Thomas) Sears livery stable, Lochaber, 1905 – 1910. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald. Tom (T. J. ) Sears began his livery stable in Lochaber in 1901. He sold the business in 1913 and moved to town to start a business on Main Street , which would become Eastern Auto […]

Pomquet Railroad Station, early 1900s

Pomquet Railroad Station. L-R: Simon Alfred Vincent, Jane Vincent, Effie Cross, Eddie Doiron and Lizzer, early 1900s. Courtesy of PomquetHéritage.   Restoration: Betty Cameron.     In conversation with May (Doiron) Bouchard, June 23, 2014. Going into Antigonish by train for the day meant dressing up. People would catch the early train in the morning and […]