Archives Catalogue

Correspondence between Thomas Head Raddall and Zoe Lucas

MS-2-202, Box 43, Folder 28
Item
1988

Item consists of a letter sent by Zoe Lucas to Thomas H. Raddall in 1988 thanking Raddall for a copy of an autobiography gifted to Lucas on Sable Island.

Photograph of human bones found near a brick hearth on Sable Island by Donald Patterson

MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 25, Item 4
Item
March 1963

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Photograph of the 1915 wreck of the Silver Wings

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 2
Item
1915

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of a shipwreck off the coast of Sable Island, likely the British steam schooner Silver Wings, lost in August 1915.

Photograph of the bow of the wrecked Skidby

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 4
Item
1918

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a black-and-white photograph of the bow of the grounded Skidby, taken in 1918 by Richard Orme Allen.

Photograph of the Sable Island supply ship CS Lady Laurier

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 6
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of a ship -- likely the twin-screw steamer CS Lady Laurier -- approaching Sable Island on a resupply mission, ca. 1920.

Photograph of the Sable Island west end beach from supply ship CS Lady Laurier

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 34, Item 3
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of a pond located east of the Sable Island wireless station

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 34, Item 4
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of a pond, likely located just east of the Sable Island wireless station.

Photograph of the north shore of Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 34, Item 5
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the beach along the north shore of Sable Island, ca. 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 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 34, Item 7
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, ca. 1917.

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 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 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 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 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 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 engine components inside the Sable Island Main Station

MS-2-474, PB Box 25, Folder 23, Item 1
Item
1918

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of engine components inside the Sable Island Main Station

Item
1918

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Composite photograph of engine components inside the Sable Island Main Station

MS-2-474, PB Box 25, Folder 23, Item 3
Item
1918

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a composite of three photographs depicting engine equipment inside Main Station, Sable Island, ca. 1918.

Photograph of sparse Ammophila (marram grass) on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 8
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of freshwater Tillaea aquatica (pygmyweed) on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 11
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of boggy heath on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 12
Item
1982

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Aerial photograph of the grassy plain in Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 20
Item
1982

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of an unidentified person taking a photo of Ammophila on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 27
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of a freshwater pond near the western lighthouse on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 29
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of dense Ammophila near a large dune on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 39
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of mixed heath within an enclosure on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 42
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of grazed Honckenya (sandwort) on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 43
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of an unidentified person walking alongside a Honckenya (sandwort) enclosure on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 44
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

The person depicted in the photograph is likely Paul Catling.

Photograph of freshwater Potamogeton on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 45
Item
1982

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of Potamogeton oblongus on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 46
Item
1982

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of dense Potamogeton near a freshwater pond on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 51
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of Ilex verticillata (black alder) on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 54
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of sparse Ammophila (marram grass) on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 56
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of dense fescue grass amid Anaphalis on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 59
Item

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of five wild horses standing on the beach on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 63
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of rich mixed grassland on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 64
Item
1982

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of rich mixed grassland on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 68
Item
1982

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of six wild horses near freshwater pond on Sable Island

MS-2-789, box 12, Folder 10, Item 69
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of an old house encased by encroaching dunes on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 71
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of a wild horse drinking from a freshwater pond on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 74
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of Zoe Lucas and Noreen Stadey constructing a small enclosure on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 76
Item
1982

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Transparency map of continental shelf off Nova Scotia and Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 77
Item
1982

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of a Sable Island horse

PC1, Box 31, Folder 35, Item 57
Item
June 1971

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph of a Sable Island horse nibbling at the sparse vegetation. Sable Island horses ancestors arrived from Spain in the eighteenth century. Photograph taken by Peter Saraganian. Peter Saraganian was with psychology department. Wamboldt-Waterfield printed the photo.

Saraganian, Peter

Photograph of the 1905 wreck of the Skidby

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 1
Item
[1917?]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a copy of a photograph of the wreck of the Skidby, originally taken in 1905, initially grounded 1.5 miles SE of West Light, Sable Island.

Photograph of a dory departing the Erie at Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 5
Item
1912

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a copy of a photograph taken in 1912 showing a dory rowing ashore after departing the steam schooner Erie, which was stranded on the South Side of Sable Island in August 1912.