Atlantic Voices on CBC Radio aired the documentary on the Martin Street Housing Cooperative in Antigonish by Rose Murphy, featuring interviews with Chantal Phee and Jana MacDonald, who wrote her 1978 StFX Sociology thesis on the racist history of Martin Street. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-3-atlantic-voice/clip/15986144-the-martin-street-mystery The People’s Photo Album published in 2018 to celebrate the 90th anniversary of […]
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Nora Bateson’s Bookmobile for the PEI Library Demonstration 1933-1936
Nora Bateson Bookmobile for PEI Library Demonstration, 1933. Courtesy of Beaton Institute #83-6197-13497 http://www.edu.pe.ca/paro/exhibits/display.asp?libraryhistory.1.6 In the original Imagine Antigonish collection launched in 2014. this photo of the bookmobile was incorrectly attributed to an initiative of Fr. Jimmy Tompkins and the Antigonish Movement when he was the parish priest in Reserve Mines. Sue Adams, who has […]