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Abbass Studios Ltd.
Abbass · Corporate body · 1946-Present

The Abbass family emigrated from Lebanon to Cape Breton at the turn of the 20th century. With his wife, Lilly Khattar, Jobe Abbass built a home on Townsend Street in Sydney, N.S. and together raised twelve children. It is in this building that three of those children, George, John and Anthony started Abbass Studios in the summer of 1946.

While still in high school at Sydney Academy, George took a job as an apprentice at Meyer’s Photography, a national chain. In 1941, after graduating from high school, his brother John also secured a job with Meyers where they both learned the craft of photography. Eventually they began private work contracting jobs with the Post Record and Chronicle Herald newspapers. In January of 1943 four of the Abbass boys, George, John, Joe and Ferris, enlisted to serve during World War II. They left their younger brother Anthony (Tony), who was too young to enlist, in charge of their Post and Herald contracts. When the brothers returned from war, they received a stipend from the government to open their own business.

Abbass Studios opened its doors July 18, 1946 in the family home on Townsend Street in Sydney, N.S. . The studio offered photo finishing, portraits and commercial photography. By the mid-1960s Abbass Studio served all of the Maritime Provinces. The company built a photo finishing plant in Moncton, New Brunswick and purchased stores in New Castle, New Brunswick. The brothers eventually brought the Econo-Color Camera Stores and Studios franchise from Sherman Hines.

Abbass Studios captured and continues to document the diverse economic, political and cultural heritage of the area. The business is still in family hands and run by John’s sons Blaise and John. The Townsend Street building was demolished in 2014 and Blaise Abbass now operates Abbass Studios, Sydney from his home. John Abbass runs the store at Scotia Square Mall in Halifax.

Pearl, Mather Byles
Accession 2008-043 · Person · 1876-1943

Mather Byles Pearl was born on 3 April 1876, the son of Albert and [Caroline Hutt?] Pearl. He succeeded his father as lighthouse keeper on Pearl Island after his death on 20 November 1910. He died on 5 January 1943.

Pearl, Albert
Accession 2008-043 · Person · ca. 1840-1910

Albert Pearl was born about 1840, the son of Walter and Ann Matilda (Church) Pearl. He served as the lighthouse keeper on Green Island (subsequently Pearl Island) which was established in 1874 at the mouth of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia. He was first married to Caroline Hutt. He married his second wife, Mary Dauphinee, at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, on 28 February 1895. He died on 20 November 1910.

Accession 2008-046 · Corporate body · 1863-1913

The Acadia Powder Mills Company was incorporated in July 1863 to supply explosives for gold mining operations in the vicinity of Waverley, Nova Scotia. The mill was built in Waverley and managed by Thomas Laflin, a member of the Laflin gunpowder family of the United States, and subsequently by B.C. Wilson after Mr. Laflin's death in 1870. The name was changed in 1869 to the Acadia Powder Company. In the early 1880s the company successfully undertook the manufacture of dynamite for mining operations and in 1883 expanded by purchasing the Pacific Powder Mills of Brownsburg, Quebec. The company was purchased by Nobel Company of Scotland and later from Nobel by the Hamilton Powder Company. By 1899 Nobel had acquired a controlling interest in the Hamilton Powder Company and it continued operation until 1910, when, under the presidency of William McMaster, Canadian Explosives Limited was formed to merge the majority of the explosives businesses in the country. Production continued at Acadia Powder Company until 1913 when the machinery was transferred to Windsor Mills, Quebec.

Helene (White) Read
Accession No. 2013.019 · Person · 1920-2002

Helene (White) Read was born in Truro in 1920 and was the daughter of John Dimock White and Annetta ‘Nettie’ Blanche Stoddard. Nettie Stoddard was the daughter of James Edward Stoddard and Nancy McCarthy of Clam Harbour. Helene married Ernest W. Read and they had one son. Helene passed away on June 21, 2002 in Truro, Nova Scotia.

Helene was a founding member of the Association for the Preservation of the Eastern Shore and served as its president in its later years of operation.

Read, Helene
Accession No. 2013.019 · Person · 1920-2002

Helene (White) Read was born in Truro in 1920 and was the daughter of John Dimock White and Annetta ‘Nettie’ Blanche Stoddard. Nettie Stoddard was the daughter of James Edward Stoddard and Nancy McCarthy of Clam Harbour. Helene married Ernest W. Read and they had one son. Helene passed away on June 21, 2002 in Truro, Nova Scotia.

Helene was a founding member of the Association for the Preservation of the Eastern Shore and served as its president in its later years of operation.

McCabe, Baxter (family)
Baxter McCabe Family · Family · 1863 -

John Baxter McCabe (1863 - 1950) was born on 6 August 1863 to Asa McCabe (1825 - 1901) and Dorothy Downing (1827 - 1912). He married Jane Creelman (1869 - 1938) on 30 April 1892. The family settled at Greenfield, Colchester County, NS, where he worked as a farmer. Their children included: Perley Elmer McCabe (1893 - 1979), Edith Mildred (McCabe) Dickson (1896 - 1954), Jessie Creelman (McCabe) Pyke (1901 - ), June Marie McCabe (1902 - ), Helen Jane McCabe (1905 - ), and Irwin Ross McCabe (1909 - ). Perley married Loella J. Stevens in 1917; they had a son, Lorne, and a daughter, Doris Jane (1922 - ), who was a civil servant and volunteer member of the Canadian Women's Army Corps during World War II.

Blaikie Family
Blaikie Family · Family · 1837 - present

The Blaikie Family lineage begins with John McKay Blaikie (1837 – 1929), prominent merchant, shipbuilder, and lumberman of the mid- to late-1800s. He and his first wife, Adelaide McLellan, had three sons and a daughter. Their sons were John Arthur Blaikie (1862 – 1938), a customs officer; Thomas David Blaikie (1864 – 1951), owner and manager of the Great Village Creamery; and Gloud Wilson Blaikie (1867 – 1930), owner and operator of the Londonderry Stove Works Co. Their daughter, Annie Blanche Blaikie (1860 - 1879), died at 19-years-old. After the death of Adelaide, John McKay married her first cousin, Melinda Gould (nee McLellan) (1842 – 1920). All three sons married and remained in the area until their deaths; only John Arthur and Gloud Wilson had children. The descendants of the Blaikie Family continued to occupy the Great Village area of Nova Scotia for over a century.

C. W. Kelly
C. W. Kelly · Corporate body · 1895 - 1905

Photography studio that was located in Sydney and Truro, NS. Ran by C. W. Kelly, starting at the West End Studio at 23 Prince St., Truro and then moving to the McKay Block, Inglis St., in 1896. Kelly partnered with H. O. Dodge of Bridgewater to open a studio on Charlotte St., Sydney, NS in 1900. The stamp of "Kelly & Dodge" is so far found on photographs dating up to 1905.

Sarah Donaldson Naugle
Canada · Person · 1885-1963

Sarah Ann Donaldson was born in July of 1885 to Captain John Henry and Elizabeth Ellen (Hirtle) Donaldson. Captain Donaldson was posted at Life Saving Station 3 on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, where the family lived in the late 1890s and early 1900s. John and Elizabeth Donaldson had several other children, including Robert, George, Mabel and Helen (Polly), at least some of whom were born on Sable.

It was on Sable Island that Sarah met her husband Reuben Alexander Naugle (sometimes Alexander Reuben Naugle, b. September 1878). After being a labourer there for several years, he was appointed Keeper of Sable Island’s #2 Station in June of 1904. They married in October 1904 and started their family, later moving on to Sable Island’s Life Saving Station #3.

The 1921 Census of Sable Island showed Sarah and Reuben still on the Island, now with a family of six children: Reuben (b. 1906), Ernest (b. 1908), Lawrence Robert (b. 1910), Dorothy Mabel May (b. May 4th 1913), Willard (b. ca. 1918), and Clyde (b. ca. 1920). When they left Sable Island (around 1924), the family settled in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia.

Reuben Alexander Naugle died in 1961, and Sarah Ann Naugle in 1963.