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185th Battalion, Broughton
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Item is a postcard of the 185th Battalion marching past the Broughton Hotel taken during the First World War. Item has a handwritten caption in the bottom right hand corner reading: "185 Batt, Broughton C.B." 77-903-1037
2007.36.23c
Item · April 1935
Part of Blaikie Family Collection
This item is a postcard with a black and white photograph of Great Village, NS, titled "A View in Great Village, N. S.". Visible are the tourist cabins that were located below the home of Edmund Munroe Johnson and Annie Blanche (Blaikie) Johnson on the Great Village River; they were in this location from the 1920s to the 1940s. The postcard is addressed to "Mr. and Mrs. Russell Peppard" [Russell Waldo Peppard and Melinda Gould (Blaikie) Peppard], Irvington, NJ. The note reads: "Easter Greetings, love Johnson Family".
Collection · 1905-1914, predominant 1906-1912
Collection consists of postcards accumulated by Anna Barbara Webber. Postcards date from 1905 to 1914, but predominantly from 1906 to 1912. Most postcards are addressed either to Anna Barbara or to her (then) future husband William Wilson Webber, although there are also some to other family members. Most of the postcards refer to events and activities on the Eastern Shore and in Dartmouth, where Anna Barbara lived during this time period. Postcards are each assigned an individual number from 1 to 696, and are arranged into five categories pertaining to their styles or types: postcards representing specific communities, landscape postcards, photograph postcards, greeting cards, and romance cards. Within each category, cards are arranged in order of their number. Accession number 2008.013.
Annabel (Siteman) Ells fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1900-1969]
The fonds consists of records accumulated by Annabel (Siteman) Ells during the course of her research on the area of Ship Harbour and the families who lived there as well as personal records created and accumulated throughout her lifetime. The fonds includes a wide variety of records such as land related documents, wills, Loyalist petitions, census information, court papers, church registers and vital statistics including marriage, birth, and death records; school papers, genealogies, clippings and notes taken from various newspapers and periodicals, photographs and negatives, correspondence, postcards, and diaries. The records within the fonds shed light on the history of Ship Harbour and its families, the work of Annabel Ells, her personal life from a young girl growing up on the Eastern Shore to travelling as a young woman and attending school, entering into various careers, living as an independent woman in the early 20th century, her marriage later in life and her lifelong interest in her Ship Harbour home. http://www.heritagevillage.ca/LCASresources/Annabel_%28Siteman%29_Ells_fonds_Inventory.pdf Accession number 2013.066
Broughton Arms Hotel
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Item is a photograph of the Broughton Arms Hotel with soldiers during WWI. 77-432-566
Cabot Trail
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Item is a postcard of the Cabot Trail 78-84-1834
Coal Mine at Dominion
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Item is a postcard featuring the coal colliery in Dominion, Nova Scotia. There are train cars filled with coal on the tracks. There is snow on the ground. 78-105-1855
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Item is a postcard of coal miners mining on the 'Flats' between Main and Brown Streets in Sydney Mines. 77-326-460
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Item is a postcard of coal miners mining on the 'Flats' between Main and Brown Streets in Sydney Mines. 77-323-457
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Item is a postcard of coal miners mining on the 'Flats' between Main and Brown Streets in Sydney Mines. 77-324-458