Main Street, Antigonish, c 1950. Photograph Courtesy of Mary Rose Wong This photo was taken from an upper floor of a building on the South Side of Main Street. Any speculations? Many of the photos in Mary Rose’s collection were taken by her mother, Molly Wong. Her unusual perspective allows us to see […]
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Girlfriends 1950s
GIRLFRIENDS L-R: Junior Wong, Patricia Wong, Frances MacMillan, Karin Alex Fleurin. Photograph: Courtesy of Mary Rose Wong Mary Rose Wong provided additional details about this photo. The Wong family lost Junior in the tragic fire of 1961. The 5 and 10 store in the background was also known as the Green & White. Who else […]
Lochaber Lake 1916
Lochaber Lake, 1916, Notman Studios, Courtesy of Nova Scotia Public Archives
1866 Headstone uncovered at Tenbrinke home in St. Andrews
http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=484097 This CTV story with Dan MacIntosh unfolds the story of the 1866 headstone of Catherine Livingstone, found buried at doorstep of the 150-year old home of Mary and Jerry Tenbrinke in St. Andrews. Catherine MacGillivray, an amateur researcher with the Antigonish Heritage Museum, says a major clue in solving the mystery of the headstone […]
Remembering Evelyn Mary Bayne and the old Clydesdale Schoolhouse
http://www.clcurry.com/obituaries/92274/ Evelyn Mary Bayne 1928-2014 Our condolences to the family and friends of Evelyn Mary Bayne. As a tribute to her love of life and family, we post an image of the old Clydesdale Schoolhouse, which played such an important part in her life: At a dance in the old Clydesdale schoolhouse, Evelyn met […]
House of Providence: Maternity Hospital in Antigonish 1914-1924
This family home at 66 Hawthorne Street was operated as a Maternity Hospital by the Sisters of St Martha for 10 years: 1914 to 1924 and known as the House of Providence. It was built around 1880 and was part of the Trotter lands and farms on Hawthorne Street. Henry McCurdy purchased this […]
Photogrammar: An interactive tool to search American photos of the Great Depression and WWII
http://www.southernstudies.org/2014/09/what-did-your-town-look-like-80-years-ago.html A new tool called Photogrammar created by a Yale University team allows users to search pictures of Great Depression and World War II-era photos using an interactive map. Is there anything comparable in Canada to view what our town looked like 80 years ago? The photos are from a collection created during the 1930s and 40s when […]
Nat King Cole sings A Bicycle Built for Two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78MKBHR3NbU Here is Nat King Cole singing On a Bicycle Built for Two. We would love to have a tandem bicycle for the Imagine Antigonish collection. Meanwhile, here is Hughie Chisholm on his bicycle in the 1950s. It looks like a state-of-the art bicycle with hand brakes rather than pedal brakes. Was there a day […]
Nova Scotia Paving Project: Monastery Route 4, 2.5 miles from Havre Boucher, 1937
Monastery – Mulgrave Route No. 4, 2 1/2 miles from Monastery towards Havre Bouche Date: 1937
Nova Scotia Paving Project: Photographic Archive of Reconstruction in the 1930s
CBC Radio Halifax, Mainstreet, September 17, 2014. An interview with the Nova Scotia Public Archives on their newly acquire photographic record of highway reconstruction in Nova Scotia from 1934 to 1938. The James River Paving Plant and the James River to Heatherton Route, Highway # 4, 1936 are included in the album. As yet, this […]