Pick-up Hockey game, Antigonish Landing, circa 1910

Pick-up Hockey game, Antigonish Landing, circa 1910. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum, McNaughton Collection. Restoration: Wayne Ezekiel

Fish fry

Fish fry. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Society. Restoration: Betty Cameron

Swimming, Jimtown Beach, 1920s

Swimming, Jimtown Beach, 1920s. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Betty Cameron

Women’s Hockey Team, 1919

Women’s Hockey Team, 1919. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Betty Cameron. Excerpted from Stanley-Blackwell & MacLean (2004, p. 239): There was a female team as early as 1900. By 1920 … two women’s teams were organized: the Ice Sickles and the Fleetfoot. … Antigonishers packed the rink to witness the Ice Sickles’s first game […]

Picnic at Lanark, circa 1930s

Picnic at Lanark, circa 1930s. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Jeff Parker

Parade to welcome home StFX hockey team after their defeat of Harvard 4-1 in Boston, February 7, 1910.

Parade to welcome home StFX hockey team after their defeat of Harvard 4-1 in Boston, February 7, 1910. Courtesy of Bart Sears, C. J. MacGillivray album. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald

Pauline and Amy Simon, Paqtnkek, c 1960s

Pauline and Amy Simon, Paqtnkek, c 1960s. Courtesy of John R. Prosper, Paqtnkek. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald.

Tossing the caber, Highland Games, 1940

Terry Thompson, Tossing the caber, Highland Games, 1940. Photographer: Ronnie Jaques. Courtesy of National Archives of Canada e10979681. Source: Library and Archives Canada/Ronny Jaques fonds/e010979681 http://www.antigonishhighlandgames.ca/the-scottish-heavy-events/ Caber Toss Out of all of the Scottish heavyweight events, the caber toss is the most known and certainly the most popular. The competitor must “pick” (pick up) the […]

Four families share a toboggan, Protestant manse in background c. 1959

Four families share a toboggan, Protestant manse in background c. 1959. Anne Louise MacDonald smiling for the camera in front of Pushie, Gillis, and Taylor children. Photographer: J. J. MacDonald. Courtesy of Anne Louise MacDonald. Email from Anne Louise MacDonald: It’s got many of the elements of the social determinants of health; Religion (the old […]

Antigonish Curling Club formed around 1850, c 1883-1884

Antigonish Curling Club formed around 1850, c 1883-1884. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald. Member Names on Virtual Gallery. A letter on the letterhead of The Union Fire Insurance Company Limited of Paris, France from F. N. Arnaud of Annapolis Royal to Alex MacGillivray, Antigonish, dated 13th June, 1931, describes Antigonish’s first […]