Have a look at Chinese street photographer Han Fo’s b/w photos of Hong Kong in the 1950s. Imagine Hong Kong!!!! Look for some of the same conditions for community health in this bustling urban metropolis as in Imagine Antigonish, a bustling rural town and county: Social Support Networks; Early Childhood Education & Play; Intergenerational […]
Category Archives: Infrastructure, Housing &Transport
Meeting the train from Halifax, Winter during the war years, c 1916
Meeting the train from Halifax, winter during WWI. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Jeff Parker. The waiting crowd is largely women and children. Do they know in advance that their husbands and fathers are on the train and coming safely home? Or that they are coming home because they have been wounded? […]
The Casket Office on upper College Street
The Casket Office on upper College Street. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum.
Building culverts, Summer 1917, possibly Jimtown
Building culverts, Summer 1917, possibly Jimtown. Courtesy of Bart Sears, Jos. D. Chisholm album, and the Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald
Barn raising in Pomquet, 1940s
Barn raising in Pomquet, 1940s. Courtesy of PomquetHéritage, Vincent Album.
Hauling Logs up Hawthorne Street
Hauling Logs up Hawthorne Street. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Jeff Parker
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.
Antigonish Train Station, WWI, 1916
Antigonish Train Station, WWI, 1916. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Jeff Parker.
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 […]