Item consists of a photograph on slide of the tombstone of William Chasty (d. 1912) and Alice Annie Moore (d. 1935), located near the Falconbridge mining site.
Item, a photograph, is related to material in MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 18 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The photograph was taken by Hugh Byrne.
Item, a photograph, is a duplicate of material in MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 18 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The photograph was taken by Hugh Byrne.
Item, a photograph, is a duplicate of material in MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 18 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The photograph was taken by Hugh Byrne. A few years after the photograph was taken, most of the tailings at the Molega mines were trucked away to help form part of a new motor road into Kejimkujik Park.
Item, a photograph, is a duplicate of material in MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 18 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The photograph was taken by Hugh Byrne.
Item, a photograph, is related to material in MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 18 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The photograph was taken by Hugh Byrne.
Item, a photograph, is related to material in MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 18 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The crucible was used to heat amalgam from the stamp mill in order to separate into quicksilver and gold.
Series consists of records regarding proposals for research and reports submitted to companies, research centres and government departments by MacLaren Plansearch Limited and Plansearch Inc.
Item is a letter from W.E. Faulkner to his Aunt Jessie in Pictou, Nova Scotia. The letter makes reference to the mining strikes of the previous year, as well as correspondence with other family members in Moncton, New Brunswick, Boston, and Manila.
Fonds consists of documents relating to mining, primarily the Styles Mine in Cumberland County, NS. Records include correspondence, maps, geological surveys and reports. There is also a collection of prose and poetry by John Rutherford and personal family correspondence.
MS-2-587, SF Box 4, Folders 1-16; SF Box 45, Folders 25-32
Fonds
1901-1907
Fonds includes items dealing with the invention of and patenting of a hydraulic gold extractor first registered in 1887. Also involves setting up a company to use the machine and begin gold mining. The material covers a period of 1883 to 1905, and involves many individuals in the business and legal community of Halifax and the South Shore. It also includes the original patent with the specification and diagrams, other diagrams, a 31 page hand written report by Westhaver on his trip to Dawson City, Yukon in 1902 to test his separator. A very interesting collection of letters, documents, legal correspondence, governmental material, etc., etc., dealing with the starting of a company to use the gold separate and Westhaver's various difficulties with financing and control.
Fonds contains research material and manuscripts created by historian Ian McKay when he resided in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Materials include a student essay on strikes in the Maritimes (1901-1914), a manuscript of McKay's undergraduate honours thesis, "The Working Class of Metropolitan Halifax," and 55 audio cassettes and accompanying notes from interviews with workers in the Springhill and Joggins coal mines.
