Archives Catalogue

Oddball : [manuscript regarding Sable Island Coastal Station experience]

MS-2-474, SF Box 43, Folder 9
Item
[197-?]

Item consists of a short typed manuscript drafted by Richard Orme Allen, likely in the 1970s, about experiences at the Sable Island Coastal Station.

Dominion of Canada, Notice to Mariners #4 of 1919 (Atlantic No. 4)

MS-2-474, SF Box 43, Folder 10
Item
1919

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a portion of a Dominion of Canada Notice to Mariners from 1919 related to contacting the Chebucto Head; Canso; and Cape Race-Radiotelegraph Direction Finding Stations.

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 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 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 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 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 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

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 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 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.

Photograph of Baillie Stephenson and Sidney White on horseback on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 18
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of Baillie Stephenson and Sidney White on horseback behind a fence on Sable Island.

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 four unidentified persons standing outside of Main Station on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 16
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

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 Muriel Blakeney on horseback on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 14
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of Hector Corriveau, wireless operator on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 13
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of wireless operator Hector Corriveau standing outside of the main wireless 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 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.

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 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 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 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 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 "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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 the old schoolhouse on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 14
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of a building on Sable Island -- likely the old schoolhouse -- prior to its being overtaken by encroaching sand, probably taken in 1918.

Photograph of the first well at the extended wireless station on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 13
Item
1918

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the first well created at the extended Sable Island wireless station, likely taken in 1918.

Photograph of a person standing in front of the Sable Island wireless station after construction of its extension

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 12
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of a person wearing waterproof gear standing in front of the wireless station on Sable Island after the construction of the building's extension was completed in 1918.

Aerial photograph of the station building at the new west lighthouse on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 11
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the station located at the new western lighthouse on Sable Island, taken from atop that lighthouse, likely in early 1918.

Photograph of the new west lighthouse on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 10
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the new western lighthouse on Sable Island, taken shortly after the completion of construction, likely in early 1918.