Sable Island (N.S.)

Sable Island : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folder 5
File
[200-]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains an extended treatment for a possible television program about Sable Island.

Photograph of a large group of unidentified persons on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 19
Item
[before 1916]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of more than 20 unidentified person on Sable Island, taken before 1916.

Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, Camperdown Station fonds

MS-4-141
Fonds
1905-1912

Fonds contains four logbooks from Camperdown Station spanning the years 1905-1908; one letter book, containing carbon copies of letter transcriptions; and several telegram carbon copies.

Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada

Photograph of a dory departing the Erie at Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 5
Item
1912

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a copy of a photograph taken in 1912 showing a dory rowing ashore after departing the steam schooner Erie, which was stranded on the South Side of Sable Island in August 1912.

Scrapbook page with a portrait of T.H. Raddall, Sr. with his rifle division, the R.C.R.I. Rifle Team at the Coate's Match, Rockcliffe Range in Ottawa, Ontario, and photographs of Thomas Head Raddall around Nova Scotia

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 20, Item 5
Item
[between 1913 and 1921]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item may have been a page in one of Thomas Head Raddall's photograph albums. The photographs are either duplicates of or related to material in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1917-1927. T.H. Raddall, Sr. can be found holding the telescope in the middle of the front row in the portrait of the rifle division. On the reverse side of the scrapbook page, the photographs on the left and right of Thomas Head Raddall are duplicates from the aforementioned album. The photograph on the left was taken in North Sydney in 1920, and the photograph on the right was taken in Point Pleasant Park in 1921. The photograph in the bottom middle may have been taken at Sable Island.

Photograph of the 1915 wreck of the Silver Wings

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 2
Item
1915

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of a shipwreck off the coast of Sable Island, likely the British steam schooner Silver Wings, lost in August 1915.

Photograph of the 1905 wreck of the Skidby

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 1
Item
[1917?]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a copy of a photograph of the wreck of the Skidby, originally taken in 1905, initially grounded 1.5 miles SE of West Light, Sable Island.

Photograph of seals on the north shore of Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 34, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of an aerial photograph of seals sunning themselves on the beach on the north shore of Sable Island, ca. 1917.

Photograph of Station Number 2 on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 4
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of two buildings on Sable Island inside a fenced enclosure -- presumed by Richard Orme Allen to be Station Number 2 -- taken likely in 1917.

Photograph of the Main Station on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 5
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph showing six buildings on Sable Island, making up the Main Station on the island.

Photograph of the wireless station on Sable Island before its extension in 1918

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 8
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the primary wireless station on Sable Island prior to its expansion in 1918.

Photograph of one of the stack sections for new west lighthouse on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 16
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of wild horses on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 36, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of seven wild horses grazing on Sable Island, ca. 1917.

Photograph of wild horses in winter on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 36, Item 7
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of seven Sable Island wild horses in winter.

Photograph of Fred or Joe Blakeney with his sister Muriel on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 7
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of either Joe or Fred Blakeney, walking on a Sable Island beach with his sister Muriel Blakeney and another unidentified person.

Photograph of the Blakeney family on horseback on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 8
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the Blakeney family on horseback on Sable Island. From left to right: Joe or Fred; Muriel; Clyde; Capt. J. U; Mrs. T; Evelyn (Mrs. Hood); Fred or Joe.

Photograph of Captain Blakeney and two unidentified people riding in a buckboard carriage on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 15
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of Captain Blakeney (and two other unidentified Blakeney family members) riding in a horse-drawn buckboard carriage on Sable Island, ca. 1917.

Photograph of the Sable Island west end beach from supply ship CS Lady Laurier

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 34, Item 3
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of a pond located east of the Sable Island wireless station

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 34, Item 4
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of a pond, likely located just east of the Sable Island wireless station.

Photograph of the north shore of Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 34, Item 5
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the beach along the north shore of Sable Island, ca. 1917.

Photograph of West Light, Sable Island, prior to its decommissioning

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 3
Item
1917

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken in 1917 of West Light on Sable Island, prior to its decommissioning at the end of 1917, The lighthouse was originally constructed in this form in 1888.

Photograph of the Main Station on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 6
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of two of the larger buildings in Sable Island's main station.

Photograph of the Main Station on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 34, Item 7
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph showing six buildings on Sable Island, making up the Main Station on the island, ca. 1917.

Photograph of David W. Rosebrugh, wireless operator on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 3
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of Fred and Joe Blakeney on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 6
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of Fred and Joe Blakeney standing in a tilled vegetable garden near Main Station on Sable Island.

Photograph of Sydney Osborne standing next to a horse on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 12
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of the Main Station on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of two buildings, including the Sable Island Main Station, taken ca. 1917.

Photograph of three people examining sections for the stack of the new west lighthouse on Sable Island 1917-1918

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 9
Item
[1917 or 1918]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of three unidentified people examining sections of the stack for use in the construction of the new western lighthouse on Sable Island, taken either late 1917 or early 1918.

Photograph of two unidentified people on horseback in front of the refuge house near the eastern lighthouse on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 15
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of two unidentified people on horseback, in front of the refuge hut, described as being "east of east light" on Sable Island.

Photograph of two unidentified people leading cows on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 36, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of two unidentified people (one on foot, one on horseback), driving three cows along the sand on Sable Island.

Photograph of a wireless operator and petting a dog outside the wireless station on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 36, Item 3
Item
1917

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of an unidentified Sable Island wireless operator petting a dog outside of the wireless station, 1917,

Photograph of three wild horses on standing in shallow water near the wireless station on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 36, Item 5
Item
1917

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of the wild horse Louise and her colt on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 36, Item 6
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the Sable Island wild horse Louise and her colt, with four other wild horses in the background.

Photograph of Frank Penney, wireless operator and Muriel Blakeney on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 5
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of wireless operator Frank Penney standing next to Sable Island resident Muriel Blakeney on a grassy area of the island.

Photograph of Walter Blank and family at Station Number 3 at the east end of Lake Wallace on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 9
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of Muriel Blakeney and Sidney White on horseback on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 17
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of the hulk of the Skidby aground on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 3
Item
[1917?]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph, likely taken around 1917, of the hulk of the British steam schooner Skidby, which ran aground off West Light, Sable Island, in 1905.

Photograph of supply ship CS Lady Laurier from the west end beach, Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 34, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photographs of buildings and structures on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35
File
1917 - 1918

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

File contains photographs of lighthouses, wireless stations, and other out buildings on Sable Island as they appeared in 1917 and 1918.

Photograph of the wireless station on Sable Island before 1918 extension

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the Sable Island wireless station, prior to the expansion of the facility in 1918.

Photograph of the wild horse "Ottawa" on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 36, Item 4
Item
1917

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the Sable Island wild horse named Ottawa, ca. 1917.

Photograph of Frank Penney, wireless operator on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of Frank Penney, wireless operator on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of David W. Rosebrugh, wireless operator on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 4
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Postcard photograph of Clyde Blakeney in military uniform

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 10
Item
1917

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a postcard photograph produced by Cox Bros., Halifax, N.S., of Clyde Blakeney (who left Sable Island to enlist in the armed forces in the fall of 1917), dressed in military uniform standing atop Citadel Hill.

Photograph of the Ritcey family at Station Number 4 near the east lighthouse on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 11
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the Ritcey family leaning on a fence at Station Number 4 on Sable Island, located just west of the eastern lighthouse. Mr Ritcey is absent from the photograph.