Archives Catalogue

Photograph of H.B. Jefferson aboard the former fishing schooner "Theresa E. Connor" at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 30, Item 1
Item
June 1969

Photograph of Will and Neil Mosher and Thomas Head Raddall at Moose Harbour, Nova Scotia

MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 11, Item 1
Item
1958

Item is a duplicate of a photograph in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1944-1961. The photograph has a stamp marking it copyright to the National Film Board on the reverse side.

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

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

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 the schooner Esperanto after striking a sunken wreck and sinking herself off Sable Island

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 4, Item 6
Item
1921

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a duplicate of a photograph in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1917-1927. The Gloucester fishing schooner Esperanto won the Herald Cup at the first international fisherman's races in 1920, which was held off Halifax.

Photograph of the trawler Fabia trying to get the schooner Esperanto to the surface off Sable Island

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 4, Item 5
Item
1921

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a copy of a photograph in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1917-1927. The trawler Fabia was from Boston, and was equipped with diving and salvage gear. In the summer of 1921, the Fabia was financed by the Boston Post to raise the schooner Esperanto in order to defend the latter's title to the Herald Cup. The efforts to put the schooner back into service ultimately failed.

Photograph of the trawler Fabia attempting to salvage the sunken schooner Esperanto at Sable Island

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 4, Item 4
Item
1921

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a duplicate of a photograph in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1917-1927.

Photograph of Thomas Head Raddall in uniform as a wireless officer

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 4, Item 3
Item
1920

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a reproduction of a photograph of Thomas Head Raddall in uniform as a wireless officer, and a duplicate of MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 4, Item 2 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs.

Photograph of Thomas Head Raddall in uniform as a wireless officer on the cable-ship Mackay-Bennett, taken at Sydney, Nova Scotia

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 4, Item 2
Item
June 1920

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a duplicate of a photograph in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1917-1927, and to MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 4, Item 3 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs.

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

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 paddle steamer named City of St. John leaving the Packet Wharf at Liverpool

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 12, Item 4
Item
1898

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.

The history of the vessel, Sweat : manuscript

MS-2-201, SF Box 115, Folder 19
Item
[1930's?]

Part of Francis Freeman Tupper fonds

This item relates to the two guns in the town Milton, Nova Scotia.

Notes of Mrs. Gordon Cowan on the Rettie family of Truro, Nova Scotia

MS-2-173, SF Box 14, Folder 7
File
[1966]-[1967]

File consists of genealogical notes on the Rettie family of Truro, Nova Scotia, with a particular focus on Captain Alexander Rose Rettie and the wreck of his vessel "Forest Chief." Also included are a family tree, photocopies of research correspondence, and historical newspaper accounts.

Cowan, Mrs. Gordon

Joseph Simpson Harris fonds

MS-2-147
Fonds
1864-1933

Fonds comprises writs of execution, auction registers, papers regarding the barque Redento (1895), and correspondence (primarily postcards) reflecting Harris's work as High Sheriff for Pictou County.

Harris, Joseph Simpson

John D. McLeod's register of ships' protests

MS-2-125, SF Box 19, Folder 6
Item
1867-1875

Item is Pictou County Notary Public John McLeod's register of protests documenting declarations by ships' masters of circumstances beyond their control which may have given rise to loss or damages.

McLeod, John D.

Everett MacDougall's photographs

Series
[18-]

Part of Everett MacDougall fonds

Series contains photographs, portraits, prints, and postcards of sea captains and ships. Most of the material has notes by Everett Macdougall on the verso. These notes contain information about the origins and builders of the ships as well as biographical information about the sea captains in the portraits.

Ronald Justin Inness' correspondence

Series
[19-] - 1981

Part of Ronald Justin Inness fonds

Series consists of correspondence between Ronald Justin Inness and different individuals, including Noel R.P. Bonsor, Ernest D. Brown, W. Kayke Lamb of the Public Archives of Canad, and others, regarding ships and shipping companies.

Ronald Justin Inness' newspaper and magazine clippings