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Thomas Head Raddall photograph album 2

Item is an album with 206 photographs taken between 1929 and 1941 by Raddall and others. Subjects include Raddall and friends and family; Raddall and Edith's vacation to Bermuda; Raddall and friends boating, and taking camping, hunting and fishing trips across Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island; historical artifacts including a -pound canon; images from a 1933 performance of "Three Live Ghosts" put on in Liverpool, Nova Scotia and in which Raddall acted; and Edith Raddall with her children, Tommy and Frances.

Thomas Head Raddall photograph album 3

Item is an album containing 327 photographs taken between 1941 and 1953 by Raddall and others. Subjects include Raddall and engagements regarding his work, including presenting the address at a club meeting, and meeting with CBC personnel in Toronto, Ontario; Raddall, and his family and friends; the rescue and medical care of surviving crew members from the S/S Empire Seal and S/S Empire Sun, both of which were attacked near Liverpool, Nova Scotia by German U-boats during W.W.II; Raddall's time as an orderly officer at Camp Aldershot in 1942; hunting and fishing trips and vacations with friends and family across the province of Nova Scotia; the last of the navy at Liverpool near the close of W.W.II; urban scenes from Liverpool in winter and the destruction of the Broad River bridge; scenes and local histories from Tancook Island, Seal Island, Cape Breton, and Glode Island; and important figures including Helen Creighton working on Devil's Island, and Raddall meeting photographer Youssef Karsh and McClean's writer Ian Sclanders in Lunenburg. «

Thomas Head Raddall photograph album 4

Item is a photograph album containing 48 photographs taken between 1944 and 1961 by Raddall and others. Subjects include Raddall participating in CBC radio press media in Halifax; Raddall filming an interview with CBC; Raddall meeting with significant figures in Toronto including Mayor Robert Hood Saunders, Jim Scott with CBC, and author Nicholas Monsarrat; Raddall receiving a silver tray from the West Nova Scotia Regiment at Camp Aldershot; Raddall exploring Moose Harbour after a forest fire, Tanners Pass at Lunenburg, and the W.C. MacKay & Sons shipyard at Shelburne, Nova Scotia; Raddall fishing at Lake Falls, Mersey River; portraits of Raddall and press images of Raddall with his wife Edith; Tom Raddall, Jr. participating in a dissection lab at Dalhousie University; and Tom Raddall, Jr. with his daughter Deborah.

Photograph of Thomas Head Raddall receiving a silver tray from the West Nova Scotia Regiments

Item, a photograph, is related to material found in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1944-1961, and to MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 30, Item 3 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The photograph was taken at a dinner hosted in the Officers' Mess at Camp Aldershot given to honour Raddall. The silver tray Raddall received was presented by Lieutenant Colonel Tom Powers on behalf of the West Nova Scotia Regiments.

Photograph of Thomas Head Raddall at a dinner in his honour in the Officers' Mess at Camp Aldershot

Item, a photograph, is related to material found in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1944-1961, and to MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 30, Item 3. The photograph includes Lieutenant Colonel Simmonds of the Princess Louise Fusiliers in the tuxedo on the left. Lieutenant Colonel Powers of the West Nova Scotia Regiment is in the tuxedo in the middle of the photograph. Major Ted Bent of the West Nova Scotia Regiment is in uniform to the left of Edith Raddall. Finally, Mrs. Bent is seated to Thomas Raddall's right.

Photograph of a man looking at a hole in the keel of a salvaged boat, sitting on a beach at Seal Island with a small crowd of people amassed to observe

Item is a photograph of a salvaged boat. The hole in its keel was sustained by striking a piece of steel. An American ship went aground between Seal Island and Blonde Rock during World War II, and steel cargo was thrown overboard in an effort to lighten the vessel for subsequent salvage operations. The ejected steel remains a menace to fishing boats in those waters, where the tide rises and falls with a large margin.

Photograph of Thomas Head Raddall aboard the yacht Ripple

Item is a duplicate of a photograph in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1941-1953. A second duplicate copy can be found in MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 8. The photograph was taken while Raddall was on a local cruise from Liverpool, Nova Scotia to Port Mouton Bay during the summer of 1946. The yacht, Ripple, was owned by Reverend John ("Sailor John") Wilson of Trinity Church, Liverpool, Nova Scotia.

Photograph of the German submarine U-889 shortly after its surrender to Canadian naval forces near Shelburne, Nova Scotia

Item, a photograph, is related to material found in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album [between 1940 and 1959] and to MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 8 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The photograph has a stamp marking it copyright to the Royal Canadian Navy on the reverse side.

Photograph of Flat Point, Louisbourg

Item is a photograph of the site of the New Englander's landing in 1745, and later, in 1758, the landing of Amherst with his artillery stores. The birds visible in The Barachois on the left are cormorants.
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