Category Archives: Conditions for Community Health

The Mason Chapman Band 1980s

The Mason Chapman Band played Bloomfield Centre, the MacKay Room in the early 1980s.  Tell us what you remember if you were there.  I remember that it attracted students and the community and their music had everyone up  dancing. Rhythmically challenged, I’m not able to do the jive but my husband Patrick Napier and my […]

George Levick’s 1910 photographer’s notebook from Captain Scott’s Antarctic Hut

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/20/thaw-notebook-photographer-captain-scott-antarctic-hut   A photographer’s notebook lost for more than a century has washed out of the melting snow at Captain Scott’s hut in the Antarctic, the base for his fatal 1911 Terra Nova expedition. It was left behind when George Murray Levick, a photographer, surgeon and zoologist, returned safely with the surviving members of the party […]

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 […]

Tennis for Everyone in 1900 & the Wearing of the Middy Blouse

        This photo from the Waldren Studio Collection, Dalhousie University is a glass negative inscribed in handwriting: Mrs. C. C. Gregory 1900.   Can anyone make the connection to Mrs. C. C. Gregory?  Or anyone else in this photo? Or, is there a written or remembered history of playing tennis in Antigonish, […]

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 […]

Therapeutic Harp: Not just for Humans

http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/1239076-primates-go-ape-over-a-little-music   Harpist Terri Tacheny long enjoyed taking her young daughters to Como Zoo in St. Paul, Minnesota, except for the Primate House, where she thought the gorillas, orangutans and monkeys seemed a little lethargic. Her solution: A little music. Now Tacheny, 57, a zoo volunteer, plays once a month for an appreciative audience that […]

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 […]

Archie MacLellan on the Circuit Camera

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirkut https://soundcloud.com/user813564484/archie-maclellan-july-11-circuit-camera At first glance, local photographer Archie MacLellan, thought that our signature photo of the 1924 Highland Games was taken with a circuit camera.  This speaks well of the restoration process, which involved piecing together two very damaged photos, to create that illusion.  Click on the link above to hear Archie tell the […]

The Regimental Piper in the Great War

  Over a 1000 pipers died during WWI. These extraordinary men were sitting ducks as they went over the top to pipe their men into battle. Piper Harry Lunan was the last surviving piper and he said, “I just played whatever came in to my head, but I was worried about tripping on the uneven […]