Standing Stone Putt, Highland Games, 1940

Terry Thompson, Standing Stone Putt, Highland Games, 1940. Photographer: Ronnie Jaques. Courtesy of National Archives e01097993 Source: Library and Archives Canada/Ronny Jaques fonds/e010979953 As identified during the 151st Highland Games, Terry’s brother Gib Thompson is standing to his direct right. Robby MacDonald, an Industrial Arts teacher, is second from the right. Different possibilities for the […]

Marian Seaman, at home on Court Street

Marian Seaman, at home on Court Street. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Joe Fraser.

Pick-up Hockey game, Antigonish Landing, circa 1910

Pick-up Hockey game, Antigonish Landing, circa 1910. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum, McNaughton Collection. Restoration: Wayne Ezekiel

Fish fry

Fish fry. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Society. Restoration: Betty Cameron

Swimming, Jimtown Beach, 1920s

Swimming, Jimtown Beach, 1920s. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Betty Cameron

Women’s Hockey Team, 1919

Women’s Hockey Team, 1919. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Betty Cameron. Excerpted from Stanley-Blackwell & MacLean (2004, p. 239): There was a female team as early as 1900. By 1920 … two women’s teams were organized: the Ice Sickles and the Fleetfoot. … Antigonishers packed the rink to witness the Ice Sickles’s first game […]

Picnic at Lanark, circa 1930s

Picnic at Lanark, circa 1930s. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Jeff Parker

Parade to welcome home StFX hockey team after their defeat of Harvard 4-1 in Boston, February 7, 1910.

Parade to welcome home StFX hockey team after their defeat of Harvard 4-1 in Boston, February 7, 1910. Courtesy of Bart Sears, C. J. MacGillivray album. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald

Pauline and Amy Simon, Paqtnkek, c 1960s

Pauline and Amy Simon, Paqtnkek, c 1960s. Courtesy of John R. Prosper, Paqtnkek. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald.