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, […]

Old Photographs as Window into Another World

This is the letter from the letter of Hyperallergenic blog for April 15, 2015. A certain sadness about photographs that are stripped of their stories. Yesterday, as I was walking through the crooked streets of Beyoğlu in Istanbul, I came across a beaten up suitcase filled with old photographs being sold for 50 kuruş […]

Commemorate the Battle of Culloden Saturday April 18, 2015

http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1281155-out-and-about-five-things-to-do-in-nova-scotia-this-weekend Commemorating the Battle of Culloden feature in the top things to do in Nova Scotia this weekend. Antigonish Scots feature in this photo: Peter MacKenzie gave a rousing and inspired address about the Battle of Culloden and the challenges Scottish settlers faced when they arrived in Nova Scotia. (MICHAEL GORMAN / File) Scots […]

Postcard of St. Augustine’s Monastery, Winter Scene

Postcard Courtesy of Robert R. MacDonald, from his great aunt, Sr. Mary Rachel Watt, Bethany, posted on Old Photos of Antigonish Town and County.

Moonlight Restaurant, Main Street

Moonlight Restaurant, early days. Photo Courtesy of Robert Cedric Brown on Old Photos of Antigonish Town and County Can anyone confirm that this is Pearl MacPherson, the long time waitress at the Moonlight Restaurant — and the epitome of great service?

Bethlem Museum of the Mind Opens in London

Artist Richard Dadd, a patient at Bethlem (courtesy Bethlem Gallery and Museum) http://hyperallergic.com/184820/bedlams-new-museum-looks-beyond-madness/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Your+Concise+Guide+to+Armory+Week+2015&utm_content=Your+Concise+Guide+to+Armory+Week+2015+CID_30cfa9a17c4d2e6dddd6ca876fbc0601&utm_source=HyperallergicNewsletter&utm_term=Bedlams%20New%20Museum%20Looks%20Beyond%20Madness The name Bedlam is so evocative of chaos and madness, the real history of one of the world’s oldest institutions for the treatment of mental illness often gets detached from its public presence. Bethlem Royal Hospital, which still operates as part of South London […]

Antigonish from McAmis’s Bridge 1930s

This postcard submitted to the Old Photos Of Antigonish site by Robert Cedric Brown. Annotated as 1930s and from the Fraser Collection