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Photograph of the Matheson Grave on Maré, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia

Photograph of the Matheson Grave on Maré, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia

Item consists of a black-and-white stereoscope photograph, likely taken in 1863, of a group of unidentified Indigenous people sitting in front of John W. Matheson's grave at the mission house in Maré, Loyalty Islands [New Caledonia]. Matheson, of Pictou County, traveled with John Paton to the South Pacific in 1858, and passed away in 1862.
Photograph of the military wards at an unidentified military hospital in France prior to the comp...

Photograph of the military wards at an unidentified military hospital in France prior to the completion of hut construction, First World War

Item consists of a black-and-white photograph taken (and hand-coloured) by A.M. MacKintosh in early 1918, showing the front of several ward buildings at an unidentified military hospital in France, prior to the completion of hut construction by German prisoners.
Photograph of the "S.S. Trebia"

Photograph of the "S.S. Trebia"

Item is a photograph of the S.S. Trebia loading in New York enroute to Australia. The writing on the back states that the ship (2343 tons) was built in Port Glasgow, Scotland, in 1902 by Russell and Co.
Photograph of the white cliffs of Dover

Photograph of the white cliffs of Dover

Item, a photograph, is related to MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 11, Item 5, and duplicate to materials in MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 12 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photograph.
Photograph of two women standing on the side of the road along Hospital Wood, looking north towar...

Photograph of two women standing on the side of the road along Hospital Wood, looking north towards Caix, France

Item is a duplicate of a photograph in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1929-1941. The photograph was taken near the headquarters of the 8th Battalion of the 90th Winnipeg Rifles during the First World War. The headquarters was located near the corner o the woods at the left of the picture. The 8th Battalion had to cover the open ground to the right under heavy machine gun fire where the Germans had occupied an old trench. Thomas Head Raddall's father, Col. Raddall, Sr., personally directed the 8th Battalion's attack. He crossed the road in the photograph and was killed about a quarter-mile past in the open ground to the right.
Photograph taken on a walk along the Canal d'Aire, northern France

Photograph taken on a walk along the Canal d'Aire, northern France

Item consists of a black-and-white photograph taken by A.M. MacKintosh, likely in early 1918, while on a walk on a tree-lined path along the shore of the Canal d'Aire, northern France. The path is between a bathhouse and living quarters for workers of an unidentified military hospital.

Photographs of the Amoco Cadiz oil spill, off Brittany

File contains 9 photographs taken by J. Vandermeulen (and collected by Bill Freedman), likely in 1978. Photographs show clean-up efforts of the oil spill after the Amoco Cadiz super-tanker ran aground off the Brittany coast (near Portsall, France) on March 16, 1978.
Photographs of the No.1 Canadian General Personnel Lines after an air raid on May 19th, 1918, Éta...

Photographs of the No.1 Canadian General Personnel Lines after an air raid on May 19th, 1918, Étaples, France

Item consists of two copies of the same photograph taken by A.M. MacKintosh on May 19th, 1918, depicting the after-effects of a German air raid on the No. 1 Canadian General Personnel lines near Étaples, France (30km south of Calais). During that attack fifty eight people (including three nursing sisters) were killed and fifty wounded in the Hospital, while there were 1200 other casualties in the area.
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