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Photograph of two fishing boats racing off Cape Sable Island

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 6, Item 3
Item
[ca. 1946]

Photograph of three H.M.C.S. ships docked at Thompson Bros. Machinery Company Ltd. at Liverpool, Nova Scotia

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 8, Item 4
Item
November 1945

Item is a photograph of three docked corvettes taken at the conclusion of Second World War. Some of the corvettes were taking their final journeys as naval ships.

Photograph of Mrs. Murray Chipman, Mrs. Napier Moore, Murray Chipman, and an unidentified gentleman on a veranda near the waterfront in Chester, Nova Scotia

MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 42, Item 2
Item
1945

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is related to MS-2-202, Box 43, Folder 51 of the Thomas Head Raddall Correspondence series, in the Correspondence between Thomas Head Raddall and Maclean's Magazine file. The man on the far right is speculated by Napier Moore to be Thomas Head Raddall, but there is a chance that he had identified the wrong photograph of visitors to the Chester residence, "Driftwood".

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

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 5, Item 3
Item
13 May 1945

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

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.

Correspondence between Thomas Head Raddall and C. J. MacGillivray

MS-2-202, Box 43, Folder 38
File
1945-1946

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

File contains correspondence sent by C.J. MacGillivray (published of The Casket in Antigonish) to Thomas H. Raddall, between 1945 and 1946, discussing Thomas Hierlihy, a British officer deemed the "founder of Antigonish".

Photograph of Lighthouse Point from across the Louisbourg harbour

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 3, Item 3
Item
1944

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is taken from the roof of a casement in King's Bastion. The foundation of the fort's barracks are visible in the foreground, the ruins of more casements are visible in the right foreground, and beyond the casements are the roofs of the museum and caretaker's house.

Photograph of Flat Point, Louisbourg taken from the shore facing Kennington Cove

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 3, Item 6
Item
1944

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Photograph looking west from Kennington Cove, Louisbourg

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 3, Item 9
Item
1944

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a photograph taken from the nid-de-pie position at Kennington Cove.

Photograph of Thomas Head Raddall sitting in his study in the morning

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 4, Item 1
Item
October 1944

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a photograph of Raddall in the morning, wearing his pyjamas and dressing gown. Raddall habitually worked like this until the mid-morning. This photograph was taken by flying officer BIll Burke R.C.A.F. A duplicate copy can be found in MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 4.

Correspondence between Thomas Head Raddall and the Liverpool Naval Athletic Association

MS-2-202, Box 43, Folder 16
File
1944

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

File contains three pages of correspondence between Thomas H. Raddall and the Liverpool Naval Athletic Association dating from 1944.

Photograph of the inner moat between the town and King's bastion at the Fortress of Lousibourg

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 3, Item 2
Item
1944

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a photograph showing the foundation of the fort's barracks. The ruined casements visible in the background show the original height of the ramparts.

Photograph looking east from Flat Point Cove, Louisbourg

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 3, Item 4
Item
1944

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, includes White Point, which is the long, low spit in the background. The small point in the middle distance is shown on old maps as Gull Point.

Photograph of Flat Point, Louisbourg

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 3, Item 5
Item
1944

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

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.

Photograph of Kennington Cove, Louisbourg

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 3, Item 7
Item
1944

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, shows the small niche among the rocks in the foreground where James Wolfe's men landed.

Photograph looking west from Kennington Cove's nid-de-pie position

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 3, Item 10
Item
1944

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a photograph of the beach where James Wolfe's attempt to land was beaten off by the French troops entrenched along the cliff-edge.

Photograph of the King's Bastion at the Fortress of Louisbourg

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 3, Item 1
Item
1944

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a photograph that shows the foundation of the fort's barracks in the right foreground, and the ruins of casements in the centre left.

Photograph of the beach at Kennington Cove, Louisbourg

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 3, Item 8
Item
1944

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Photograph of Evelyn White and Tommy Raddall at Weymouth, Nova Scotia

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 8, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1942]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Correspondence from Janet Mullins, Liverpool, Nova Scotia, to Thomas Head Raddall

MS-2-202, Box 31, Folder 2, Item 4
Item
March 5, 1941

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of correspondence from Janet Mullins to Thomas H. Raddall, regarding the Irwin and Bartling families of Queens County, Nova Scotia.

"Origin of the Irwin and Bartling Families in Queens County, N.S."

MS-2-202, Box 31, Folder 2, Item 5
Item
March 1941

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of a transcribed copy of a letter from Janet Mullins to Thomas H. Raddall on the history of the Irwin and Bartling families of Queens County, Nova Scotia.

Correspondence between Thomas Head Raddall and the Mahone Bay Legion

MS-2-202, Box 43, Folder 67
Item
1940-10-09

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of correspondence sent to Thomas H. Raddall by the Mahone Bay Legion in October 1940 inviting Raddall to deliver a lecture.

Photograph of Edith Raddall with her children beside her husband's car, taken at Summerville

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 7, Item 4
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, includes a 1936 Chevrolet.

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

MS-2-202, Box 31, Folder 2, Item 11
Item
1940

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

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.

Photograph of Fort Beausejour from an old trench leading to the outworks

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 31, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1939]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, was taken facing southwest.

Photograph of the interior of a stone curtain at Fort Beausejour

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 31, Item 9
Item
[ca. 1939]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a photograph of a stone curtain in Fort Beausejour that is loopholed to form the southwest curtain covering the powder magazine and parade ground. From the interior shown in the photograph, the firing step and stone drain are visible. The northwest bastion is also visible in the background.

Photograph of Fort Beausejour observed from a pavilion

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 31, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1939]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, faces south, tracing a mown path that leads towards the fort.

Photograph of Fort Beausejour taken from one of the flanking trenches

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 31, Item 8
Item
[ca. 1939]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a photograph taken from a flanking trench that was dug by Robert Monckton after the capture of 1755. The trench communicates with a deep fosse that is dug across the ridge, about 400 yards from the moat, on the fort's vulnerable side. The photograph is taken facing southwest.

Photograph of the sundial and mast house at the H.M. dockyard, Halifax

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 30, Item 4
Item
[before 1939]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, has a stamp marking it copyright to the Royal Canadian Navy on the reverse side. The photograph was taken inside the south gate of the dockyard.

Photograph of the ridge at Fort Beausejour

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 31, Item 5
Item
[ca. 1939]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is taken facing southwest.

Photograph of a pavilion at Fort Beausejour

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 31, Item 6
Item
[ca. 1939]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is taken facing northeast from the north bastion at Fort Beausejour.

Photograph from Fort Beausejour facing east-southeast taken from the southeast bastion

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 31, Item 3
Item
[ca. 1939]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a photograph taken from Fort Beausejour. Fort Lawrence is visible on the left, and to the right is Île de la Vallière.

Photograph of a flag at Fort Beausejour looking southwest towards Westcock

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 31, Item 4
Item
[ca. 1939]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, features the mouth of the Tantramar River on the left.

Photograph of the interior of Fort Beausejour

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 31, Item 7
Item
[ca. 1939]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, was taken facing north from the southeast bastion.

Photograph of Hilda, Ellen, Edith, and Tommy Raddall, Jr. sitting at a picnic, taken near Porters Lake, Halifax County

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 7, Item 10
Item
[ca. 1938]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a photograph of Hilda Raddall on the far left, Ellen Raddall second from the left, Edith Raddall second from the right, and Edith's son, Tommy Raddall, Jr. on the far right.

Photograph of Tommy Raddall, Jr. and Edith Raddall beside a river, taken near Porters Lake, Halifax County

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 7, Item 11
Item
[ca. 1938]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

In the Probate Court. In the estate of Sarah C. Giberson, deceased. Halifax, Monday, January 18, 1937, 10am, before Robert F. Yeoman, KC, Registrar

MS-2-202, Box 10, Folder 4, Item 13
Item
18 January 1937

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of Halifax Probate Court transcripts, drafted Monday, January 18, 1937, regarding the estate of Sarah Croker Giberson. Includes Major T.H. Mundy, Reginald V. Harris, Almon E. Hilchey, and Walter A. Stech as witnesses. Item is part of "Enclosure 8" accompanying correspondence between Thomas Raddall and Roy Laurence.

Correspondence from Eugene T. Parker to Mr. M. B. Archibald, February 13, 1937

MS-2-202, Box 10, Folder 4, Item 2
Item
13 February 1937

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of typed correspondence sent from Eugene Parker to Mr M.B. Archibald, February 13, 1937, discussing Sarah Croker's will. Item is "Enclosure 1" accompanying correspondence between Thomas Raddall and Roy Laurence.

In the Court of Probate. In the Estate of Sarah Croker Giberson, deceased. Minutes of Evidence, January 25th, 1937

MS-2-202, Box 10, Folder 4, Item 14
Item
25 January 1937

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of Halifax Probate Court transcripts, drafted [Monday], January 25, 1937, regarding the estate of Sarah Croker Giberson. Includes discussions among the various legal teams, Mr M.B. Archibald (for T.H. Mundy), Mr. T.C. Doyle, Mr. J.F. Shaw (for Mrs. Lorna D. Abbott), and Mr. Roy Lawrence [sic, Laurence] (for Blanchard Giberson). Item is part of "Enclosure 8" accompanying correspondence between Thomas Raddall and Roy Laurence.

In the Probate Court. In the estate of Sarah C. Giberson, deceased. Halifax, Wednesday, January 13, 1937, 10am, before Robert F. Yeoman, KC, Registrar

MS-2-202, Box 10, Folder 4, Item 12
Item
13 January 1937

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of Halifax Probate Court transcripts, drafted Wednesday, January 13, 1937, regarding the estate of Sarah Croker Giberson. Includes Almon E. Hilchey, Major T.H. Mundy, and Harry Croker as witnesses. Item is part of "Enclosure 8" accompanying correspondence between Thomas Raddall and Roy Laurence.

In the Court of Probate. In the Estate of Sarah Croker Giberson, deceased. Minutes of a hearing held September 10th, [1937]

MS-2-202, Box 10, Folder 4, Item 10
Item
10 September 1936

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of Halifax Probate Court transcripts, drafted September 10, [1936], regarding the estate of Sarah Croker Giberson. Includes Thomas H. Mondy, Hope Rockwell, Blanchard Giberson, Lorna D. Abbott, Melissa Greene, Fred Purchase, and A.F. McIsaac as witnesses. Item is part of "Enclosure 8" accompanying correspondence between Thomas Raddall and Roy Laurence.

In the Probate Court. In re Estate of Sarah Croker Giberson. Halifax, Thursday, June 18, 1936, 10.30am, before the Registrar, Robert F. Yeoman, KC

MS-2-202, Box 10, Folder 4, Item 9
Item
18 June 1936

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of Halifax Probate Court transcripts, drafted Thursday, June 18, 1936, regarding the estate of Sarah Croker Giberson. Includes Blanchard Giberson, W. Turney Giberson, and Carolyn A. Bishop as witnesses. Item is part of "Enclosure 8" accompanying correspondence between Thomas Raddall and Roy Laurence.

In the Province of Nova Scotia. In the Court of Probate Halifax. In the estate of Sarah Giberson (Croker) deceased. Index to hearing held on September 11, 1936

MS-2-202, Box 10, Folder 4, Item 11
Item
11 September 1936

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of Halifax Probate Court transcripts, drafted September 11, 1936, regarding the estate of Sarah Croker Giberson. Includes [Lorna Doone] Abbott, [Blanchard] Giberson, and [Melissa] Green [sic, Greene] recalled as witnesses, plus further argument of Counsel. Item is part of "Enclosure 8" accompanying correspondence between Thomas Raddall and Roy Laurence.

Photograph of the south gate of the dockyard in Halifax

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 30, Item 5
Item
June 1936

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, has a stamp marking it copyright to the Royal Canadian Navy on the reverse side.

Photograph of Thomas Head Raddall digging in a shell midden at Port Joli, Nova Scotia

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 6, Item 1
Item
1935

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Photograph of the Yarmouth waterfront taken from the water

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 30, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1933]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Photograph of the Yarmouth waterfront taken by aerial

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 30, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1933]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

"August, 1926", "Lief Erickson" photographs

MS-2-202, Box 31, Folder 11, Item 11
Item
August 1926

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of photographs and research notes related to a visit by the ship Lief Erickson to Shelburne in 1926.

Photograph of Thomas Head Raddall with Alfred McCoy and Roy Gordon wearing snowshoes and carrying rifles for a rabbit hunt

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 4, Item 11
Item
[ca. February 1925]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is Alfred McCoy on the left, Raddall in the middle, and Roy Gordon on the right. The three men set off from the Macleod Pulp Mill office, Rapid Falls, and the mill's tail-race is visible in the background.