Tag Archives: Antigonish Heritage Museum, World War One, Train Station, c 1916

Brick-making factory, Salt Springs, Antigonish County, 1895

Brick-making factory, Salt Springs, Antigonish County, 1895. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Jeff Parker The art of photographic restoration: it was only when Jeff Parker restored this photo, that we were able to detect the date of 1895, scratched on the negative.

Backyard of restaurant, Sydney Street, c 1937-38

Backyard of restaurant, Sydney Street, c 1937-38. Photographer: Molly Lee Wong. Courtesy of Bill Wong and Antigonish Heritage Museum. Stanley-Blackwell and MacLean (2004, p. 279) include this photo in their chapter on “The Many Faces of Antigonish.” We learn that George Wong moved to Antigonish in 1928. The laundry on Sydney Street, which appears in […]

MT& T CO. STAFF, 1920

MT& T CO. STAFF, 1920. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald Antigonish’s first telephone exchange was established in the late 1880s but proved so primitive and unreliable that it was suspended within the year. It was not until 1901 that the Antigonish Telephone Company, negotiated with the Nova Scotia Telephone Company to […]

T. J. (Thomas) Sears livery stable, Lochaber, 1905 – 1910

T. J. (Thomas) Sears livery stable, Lochaber, 1905 – 1910. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald. Tom (T. J. ) Sears began his livery stable in Lochaber in 1901. He sold the business in 1913 and moved to town to start a business on Main Street , which would become Eastern Auto […]

Building a railroad

Building a railroad. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Wayne Ezekiel No one has identified the exact location of this photo. “In December 1880, the Eastern Extension Railway opened its line from new Glasgow to the Strait of Canso. There followed a flurry of station-building at various locations, including James River, Brierly Brook, Antigonish, South […]

A native family’s seasonal home at Antigonish Landing, Victoria Day weekend, 1924.

A native family’s seasonal home at Antigonish Landing, Victoria Day weekend, 1924. Photographer: Violet Cunningham. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald Violet Cunningham’s son, Roy, remembers his mother taking this photo when he was a child. A memorable day because he got to have “pop” on this holiday. Jocelyn Gillis, Curator, Antigonish […]

“Charlie Hughie” in action, 1916

“Charlie Hughie” in action, 1916. Courtesy of Bart Sears, C. J. MacGillivray Album, and Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald