Captain Alex MacDonald, early 1900s. Photography: Waldren Studios. Courtesy of Dalhousie University Archives, Waldren Studios Collection, 108-023. Restoration: Betty Cameron Jocelyn Gillis, Curator, Antigonish Heritage Museum, noticed the likeness in this photo to a man with a trumpet (3rd from left, front row) in a band photo in Pat Walsh’s (1989) The History of Antigonish, […]
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Woman’s right to smoke, c 1920
Woman’s right to smoke, c 1920. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Betty Cameron
Cross-dressing c 1910
Cross-dressing c 1910. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Betty Cameron The history of women’s right to ride a bike coincided with the modern women’s movement in the 19th century. In 1895, Frances Willard, the long time President of the early American Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)and World’s WCTU wrote the book. How I Learned to […]
Millinery and photography, c 1915
Millinery and photography, c 1915. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Wayne Ezekiel. An advertisement under Local Items in The Casket , Thursday, April 8, 1897, p. 8: Miss Roberts, McCurdy & Co’s new milliner has just arrived and commenced work. The flattering testimonial she had from one of the largest millinery concerns in Boston […]
Sawing logs, c 1910
Sawing logs, c 1910. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald.
The Marshall Women
The Marshall Women. Theresa Johnson, her mother Bridget Marshall, Mary Marshall, Paqtnkek. Courtesy of John R. Prosper, Paqtnkek. Restoration: Jeff Parker
Cousins avec leur grand- père, 1928
Cousins avec leur grand- père: L-R: Louise Doiron (visiting from US), Raphael Doiron, Mary Ida Doiron, Pomquet, c 1928. Courtesy of PomquetHéritage. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald Dorothy Lander in conversation with May (Doiron) Bouchard, June 23, 2014, Pomquet Museum. Raphael was my great grandfather. My father was Joseph, and my grandfather Xavier. Raphael died at […]
In the Driver’s Seat. Flora Vincent (1887-1979), c 1950s
In the Driver’s Seat. Flora Vincent (1887-1979), c 1950s. Courtesy of PomquetHéritage. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald.
The Wild Geese. The parade of Mount St. Bernard Academy women, c1912
The Wild Geese. The parade of Mount St. Bernard Academy women. Only on Sundays and holidays were they allowed to walk into town, two by two, under close watch of the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame (CND), c 1912. Courtesy of Bart Sears, C. J. MacGillivray album & Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Anne […]
A Bottle of My Own, c 1918
A Bottle of My Own, c 1918. Far left: Effie (Cross) Vincent (grandmother of Anne Marie Benoit, gg of Daniel Benoit). Courtesy of PomquetHéritage. Restoration: Jeff Parker.