Coronation Parade for King George VI, St. James United Church, Antigonish, 1937

Coronation Parade for King George VI, St. James United Church, Antigonish, 1937. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Jeff Parker Initially this was thought to be part of the Highland Games Parade. Local curator, Jocelyn Gillis identified that this parade is photographed heading in the opposite direction to what was typical of the Highland Games […]

Lame Angus MacEachern (1899-1984), Pleasant Valley, Antigonish County, 1943

Lame Angus MacEachern (1899-1984), Pleasant Valley, Antigonish County, 1943. He shot a bear that had got into his moonshine and then took his trophy into town for several days. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Betty Cameron. http://www.heritageantigonish.ca/images/pdf/museum/Newsletter/2009/2011_10_newsletter.pdf The October 2011 edition of The Old Train Station includes a present-day photo of Lame Angus’ farm […]

Highland Society platform members , the Highland Games c 1922, the Elm Grounds

Highland Society platform members , the Highland Games c 1922, the Elm Grounds. The official piper, Angus ‘the Ridge” MacDonald, playing a tune. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Kathy Gillis The power of photo restoration, it was only after Kathy Gillis took her “healing brush” to this stained and damaged photo for the production […]

StFX Drafting student, 1910

StFX Drafting student, 1910. Courtesy of Bart Sears, C. J. MacGillivray album, and the Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald. A similar photo of a 1909 drafting class, taken by drafting instructor Fred Piper. A search for the name Charlie Malzard on the blackboard by Anne Louise MacDonald revealed a Charles Stanley Malzard 1889-1959 […]

At the wheel, c 1920

At the wheel, c 1920. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Wayne Ezekiel

Garden party, c 1910

Garden party, c 1910, Stanley Copeland with camera. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum, Cunningham Album. Restoration: Joe Fraser. Bessie Copeland (Stanley’s sister) married Norman Kerr Cunningham, who ran a feed shed . They lived on Church St. Extension.   They had three daughters. This line has died out in Antigonish. The Copeland family of druggists had […]