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 […]
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A Bicycle Built for Two: A WW1 Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0sZLt-7PLg A Bicycle Built for Two was a favorite song of World War One. This 1931 recording is the backdrop to WW1 pnotos, many of which are of the dead and wounded. The second from last images is of a ward for wounded soldiers. The Canadian Corps of Cyclists fought at Ypres, Vimy Ridge, Passchendacle […]
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 […]
Early Antigonish Camera – Zeiss Jena – at the Antigonish Heritage Museum
An article in the Casket from June, 1984 caught my attention. It was an announcement that this month’s program will be given by widely known and recognized local photographer Robert Gourley. His theme will be “Beginning of Photography in Antigonish.” And this tidbit: “He has in his possession the first camera in Antigonish and also […]
The Angelina Effect
http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/15/the-angelina-effect-times-new-cover-image-revealed/http:// The Angelina Effect represents Angelina Jolie in black and white on the cover of Time Magazine May 15, 2013, in which she announces her double mastectomy and raises awareness and dialogue about genetic testing for the Breast Cancer gene. Why black and white? Because it has more impact than colour?
Ryerson Image Centre: War Photographs IN PRINT, 1854-2008
DISPATCH: WAR PHOTOGRAPHS IN PRINT, 1854 – 2008 This exhibit runs at Ryerson Image Centre from September 17 – December 7, 2014. http://www.ryerson.ca/ric/exhibitions/Dispatch.html DISPATCH: War Photographs in Print, 1854–2008 examines the production of war photographs, the role of photojournalists, and their collaboration with picture editors in the press. From Roger Fenton’s collodion plate photographs taken during […]
Founder of Antigonish, Timothy Hierlihy, 1784 arrival in Antigonish: August, 1984 re-enactment
These are just some of the photos taken by Archie MacLellan for the 200th anniversary of the landing at Town Point of the founder of Antigonish, Colonel Timothy Hierlihy. If you find yourself in these photos, please identify yourself by responding in the comment box. You will see Mayor Colin Chisholm, Bishop William Power, Eileen […]
Positive Aging
These photo portraits are said to represent the impact of aging and this feels like a negative — and a loss. A narrow vision of beauty. To me, the mature portraits could also represent other impacts — maybe wisdom, acceptance, clarity. resilience. Other? Makes me wonder if the older person knew that the […]
Lakevale Resident Patrick Delaney, 1880s tintype restored by Bob Gourley
This photo is in the collection of the Antigonish Heritage Museum and in the graphic documents of the Archives of Nova Scotia, which describes it this way. ACCESSION NUMBER: 2008.001.001 CATEGORY: GRAPHIC DOCUMENTS DATE: 1880 – 1890 MATERIALS: PAPER MEASUREMENTS: 24 CM; 19 CM COLLECTOR: ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE NARRATIVE: Portrait of Patrick Delaney, a native of Pictou County […]