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"Evangeline and the Real Acadians"

"Evangeline and the Real Acadians"

Item is a typescript transcription of "Evangeline and the Real Acadians," an essay by Archibald MacMechan. MacMechan published the essay in 1914, as part of the collection 'The Life of a Little College & Other Papers'.
"Old Wall-paper in Nova Scotia"

"Old Wall-paper in Nova Scotia"

File contains an adaptation of an article of the same title written by Blodwen Davies, printed in the Halifax Herald, May 27,1929, with handwritten notes by Raddall. File also contains an associated article "They Play House with Antiquity" by Claire Van Wart.
"Old Sailor's Ballads, Collected by the Late Capt. Fenwick Hatt of Liverpool, N.S."

"Old Sailor's Ballads, Collected by the Late Capt. Fenwick Hatt of Liverpool, N.S."

File contains a transcription of ballads. Includes: "The Frozen Girl," "On the Banks of Newfoundland," "The Worn-Out Sailor," "The Rose of Britons Isle," "The Banks of Brandywine," "The Pride of Glenco," "Sweet Jinny on the Moor," [Untitled], "The Blind Sailor," "The Ship Lady Sherbrooke," "The Cabin Boy," "The Braes of Balquhidder," "The Ramblin' Irishman," "The Desolate Widow," "The Bounty Jumper," "Our Fifer Boy," "The Ghostly Sailors," "The Cumberland," and "Bold Jack Donahue." Includes handwritten annotations by Raddall
"Diary Notes"

"Diary Notes"

Item contains excerpts from Raddall's diary, covering the period of February 17, 1933 to September 9, 1939.
Firearms

Firearms

Item is one volume of an unbound notebook containing notes on historic fire-arms, including the Enfield-Snider Rifle, muzzle-load muskets, canons, and early rifles. Pages are numbered with a corresponding index, many pages are blank.
"Chanties and Other Songs of the Sea" : [manuscript]

"Chanties and Other Songs of the Sea" : [manuscript]

Item is a collection of transcribed sea chanties, as sung aboard vessels out of Liverpool, Nova Scotia in the 1870's, 1880's, and 1890's, and recalled in whole or part by William H. Smith, of Liverpool, N.S. (born 1867). The words were taken down and prepared in typescript by his son T. Brenton Smith, in the year 1940. Includes the following chanties: "The Loss of the Emma-Jane," "Lay Out, Tack Sheets and Haul," "Bound to Rio," "Blow the Man Down," "Old Hoss," "Screwing in Song," "Way Down in Tennessee," "The City of Baltimore," "Around the World and Home Again," "Old Mother Head's," "Sauer Kraut," "Arriving back at Liverpool," "The Mary," "Brigantine Scrocco," "The Big Five Gallon Jar," "Shiloh Brown," "Shanadore [Shenandoah]," "What You Going to do with a Drunken Sailor," "Goodbye, Fare Ye Well," "Say Old Man," "Harbour Grace," "Liverpool Packet," "Fire in the Foretop," "Sailor's Burial at Sea," "On the Banks of the Sacremento," "Rolling Home to Merry England," "Then Turn out You Jolly Tars," "Whiskey for my Johnnie," "The Banks of Newfoundland," "Hangman Johnnie," "On the Plains of Mexico," "We'll Pay Paddy Doyle for his Boots," "Isle of Fugi," "Old England's Gained the Day," and "Walking in de Middle of de Road." Includes annotations about the chanties, some of which are handwritten and by Thomas H. Raddall.
"Irish Settlers in Queens County"

"Irish Settlers in Queens County"

Item consists of Thomas H. Raddall's typed research notes (with handwritten annotations) related to Irish emigration to Queens County, likely compiled in the early-1950s.
"From Biplanes to Jets, Pioneer Knew Them All," Clipping Halifax Chronicle Herald (January 1970) ...

"From Biplanes to Jets, Pioneer Knew Them All," Clipping Halifax Chronicle Herald (January 1970) and "Donald W. Saunders," Dalhousie Alumni News (March 1970)

Item is a two-page copy of a newspaper article title "From biplanes to jets, pioneer knew them all" dated January 8, 1970 from the Halifax Chronicle Herald and a short obituary for Donald W. Saunders from Dalhousie Alumni News dated March 1970.
From J. R. MacQuarrie, Pugwash, Nova Scotia, to Thomas Head Raddall

From J. R. MacQuarrie, Pugwash, Nova Scotia, to Thomas Head Raddall

Item is eight pages of correspondence. Includes a two-page letter from John MacQuarrie to Thomas H. Raddall, dated February 22, 1969, expressing interest in Raddall's radio announcement that he would be putting together a paper on the history of flying, and a five page letter, dated December 5, 1968, from W.L. Fillmore to John MacQuarrie .
From W. L. Fillmore, Amherst, Nova Scotia, to Thomas Head Raddall

From W. L. Fillmore, Amherst, Nova Scotia, to Thomas Head Raddall

Item is five pages of correspondence and includes a one-page letter dated April 1, 1969 W. L. Fillmore to Thomas H. Raddall, a one-page letter dated March 9, 1960 from James Barr to W. L. Fillmore, and a three-page letter dated March 11 (?), 1969 from W. L. Fillmore to James Barr.
From W. L. Fillmore, Amherst, Nova Scotia, to Thomas Head Raddall

From W. L. Fillmore, Amherst, Nova Scotia, to Thomas Head Raddall

Item is seven pages of correspondence. Includes a four-page letter dated March 3, 1969 from W. L. Fillmore to Thomas H. Raddall, a six page letter dated March 3, 1969 from W. L. Fillmore to John MacQuarrie (contains annotations), and one card dated December 1968 from H.O. Maddens to W. L. Fillmore.
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