The 1981 Seven-Million Dollar Cake for StFX

The death of Reverend Doctor Gregory Aloysius MacKinnon in his 98th year and 73rd year of ordained life was announced in August 2022. On August 19, 2022, the St. Francis Xavier University (StFX) community along with family and friends celebrated the life of Reverend Doctor Gregory Aloysius MacKinnon, who served as StFX President from 1978 […]

StFX University and the No. 9 Stationary Hospital 1915

http://thechronicleherald.ca/thenovascotian/1322509-st.-f.x.-and-the-great-war-university%E2%80%99s-hospital-tended-to-wounded-soldiers Story by John Boileau appeared in The Chronicle Herald, Nov. 16, 2015, p. D3. No credits are given for the photos. Other photos of No. 9 Stationary Hospital are available through the Antigonish Heritage Museum, and others have been restored for the Peace Banner of Imagine Antigonish Rev. Dr. Hugh P. MacPherson, […]

Tompkinsville plays Antigonish, April 30, 2015

Lindsay Kyte’s magnificent play Tompkinsville came to Antigonish on April 30, 2015 and played to a receptive audience, clearly proud of our town and university’s role in Tompkinsville as part of the Antigonish Movement. An additional part of the auditorium had to be opened up. Standing ovation! These photos of Fr. Jimmy and Tompkinsville reveal […]

Photographs of Strong Women

What do photographs of women, taken by women, look like? In honor of International Women’s Day, March 8, seven female National Geographic photographers shared an image they took that revealed a woman’s experience. In a world where gender equality is still elusive, these photographs tell stories of hope, bravery, hardship, and survival. Philomene, […]

A Women’s Day Message from Dr Vandana Shiva, 2015

Canadian photographic artist Geneviève Cadieux Exhibition at Mount St. Vincent Art Gallery 21 March to 17 May 2015

http://msvuart.ca/index.php?menid=02&mtyp=17&article_id=514 Here you may see the best portrait that, later, I was able to make of him. Passages to Abstraction. Geneviève Cadieux Geneviève Cadieux, Ravissement 1985 (detail) black and white stereoscopic photograph (© Geneviève Cadieux) 21 Mar 2015 – 17 May 2015 Organized and circulated by the Musée d’art de Joliette with financial support from […]

Under the Dome:

A man and his dog, both wearing masks, walk along a small alley on a hazy day in Beijing. China’s capital raised its four-tiered alert system to “orange” for the first time on February 20, 2015. (REUTERS/Legal Evening/Liu Chang) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhIZ50HKIp0 http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-march-4-2015-1.2981015/under-the-dome-confronts-china-s-dire-air-pollution-crisis-1.2981025 Chai Jing, the filmmaker of Under the Dome, is interviewed on CBC Radio’s The […]

Viola Desmond: The Newspaper Report of 1946

Gender Failure: Panel and Movie at StFX, January 15, 2015

Gender Failure has a long history in Antigonish. Click on the Gender collection in Imagine Antigonish’s Photo Gallery, especially these links: https://imagineantigonish.ca/work-or-play-c-1910/ https://imagineantigonish.ca/cross-dressing-c-1910/ https://imagineantigonish.ca/the-wild-geese-the-parade-of-mount-st-bernard-academy-women-c1912/