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 […]
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Brothers John D. & Sander Gillis, Livingstone’s Cove wharf, 1940s
Brothers-in law John D. Brown & Sander Gillis, Livingstone’s Cove wharf, 1940s. John D. fished lobster, salmon, herring, mackerel, gaspereau, cod and hake. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald
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 […]
1916 Commencement, Clairvaux Hall, Mount St. Bernard
1916 Commencement, Clairvaux Hall, Mount St. Bernard. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum, unidentified album, 99.61.118. Restoration: Anne Louise MacDonald
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 […]
Xavier Hall, St. Francis Xavier University, view from Corner of West Street and St. Ninian’s Street, c 1905
Xavier Hall, St. Francis Xavier University, view from Corner of West Street and St. Ninian’s Street, c 1905. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum, Cunningham album. Restoration: Joe Fraser. Letter on Xavier Hall, StFX , letterhead from Alex MacDonald to Rev. A. MacLean Sinclair, Belfast, PEI, dated March 29, 1899, 2¢ stamp , Queen Victoria. Franked […]
At the wheel, c 1920
At the wheel, c 1920. Courtesy of Antigonish Heritage Museum. Restoration: Wayne Ezekiel
MacGillivray family at home, c. 1917
MacGillivray family at home, c. 1917. Courtesy of Bart Sears, C. J. MacGillivray album, and the Antigonish Heritage Museum.
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 […]