This photo from 1959 was submitted to The Casket, December 10, 2014, as a remembrance of Jean Beliveau, hockey legend and Pride of the Habs, who died December 2. 2014, age 83. http://www.cbc.ca/sports-content/hockey/hockeynightincanada60/relive/hockey-night-memories.html In 2013, the 60th anniversary of Hockey Night in Canada, Scott Russell wrote: My grandpa used to despise the Montreal Canadiens […]
Category Archives: Social Support Networks
Remembrance Day Tribute
Judith MacLean contributed this photo as a Remembrance Day Tribute on Old Photos of Antigonish FB page. Her father, the late Alex MacLean of Georgeville is in the centre. The photo was taken when he served with the RAF in the UK during WWII. She goes on to say he served in Scotland and London […]
1866 Headstone uncovered at Tenbrinke home in St. Andrews
http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=484097 This CTV story with Dan MacIntosh unfolds the story of the 1866 headstone of Catherine Livingstone, found buried at doorstep of the 150-year old home of Mary and Jerry Tenbrinke in St. Andrews. Catherine MacGillivray, an amateur researcher with the Antigonish Heritage Museum, says a major clue in solving the mystery of the headstone […]
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, […]
AHA!’s Heritage Walks for Health: Workshopping the Script for the Walk with Colonel Timothy Hierlihy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys5SVsTvh70&list=UUm1SjUVQthHMC1uXwkGs4Xw Here is my effort to capture on YouTube the rehearsal of the script for the Walk with Colonel Timothy Hierlihy, the 1784 Founder of Antigonish. Click on the link above. Our wonderful videographer and AHA! supporter provided all these images. Thank you, Denise and what a perfect day for an autumn walk.. […]
Imagine Hong Kong 1950s
Have a look at Chinese street photographer Han Fo’s b/w photos of Hong Kong in the 1950s. Imagine Hong Kong!!!! Look for some of the same conditions for community health in this bustling urban metropolis as in Imagine Antigonish, a bustling rural town and county: Social Support Networks; Early Childhood Education & Play; Intergenerational […]
Nebraska is a b/w film exemplifying art for health
This excerpt from Skip Dine Young’s article on Movies and the Mind in Psychology Today, 2014, draws out the impact of black and white photography in experiencing and empathizing with the aging process. This “addition by subtraction” is a silver (not ‘golden’) opportunity of a black and white film such as Nebraska. A family drama with […]
Newly Found Photos from National Geographic
http://hyperallergic.com/142446/unearthed-photographs-from-national-geographics-over-a-century-of-discovery/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Unearthed+Photographs+from+National+Geographics+Archive&utm_content=Unearthed+Photographs+from+National+Geographics+Archive+CID_755a790b36514f1824b4527d92325f93&utm_source=HyperallergicNewsletter&utm_term=Unearthed%20Photographs%20from%20National%20Geographics%20Archive Unearthing heritage photos seems to be in the Zeitgeist. And Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel in Nova Scotia, probably Baddeck (??), is the lead photo in this story of the photography archive from National Geographic. And is Graham Bell carrying a camera? A picture of loving relationship, which is […]
Kitchen party, Pomquet, Simon Vincent on fiddle, son Joe facing him, 1950s.
Simon Vincent on fiddle, Pomquet kitchen party, c 1950s. Courtesy of Pomquet Héritage. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald. Simon Vincent on Fiddle, son Joe next to him, others unidentified, Pomquet kitchen party, 1950s. Courtesy Pomquet Héritage. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald Email from Daniel Benoit to AmberleeBoulton, July 5, 2014: The kitchen party photo the one […]