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Photograph of the Dalhousie Pit

Item is a photograph of buildings and equipment at the Dalhousie Pit in Stellarton. Acadia Coal Company opened the Dalhousie Pit on the Foord Seam in 1850. The mine was destroyed by fire in 1870. A negative is available: PC-2-318-66.

Portrait of Victor Stalmans

File contains a bust-style portrait of Victor Stalmans. Victor Stalmans, also known as Mouche Stalmans, operated a store in Stellarton, Nova Scotia for many years on Acadia Ave. The print was made from nitrate negative: 29-498.

Photograph of the Pictou County Dairy

The dairy building with six vehicles and their drivers in front of it. One of the vehicles is an ice cream cart and is drawn by a horse. A large advert is painted on the wall promoting Picoda products. Negative also available: PC-2-335-11. Print copy also available: PC-2-334-3

Photograph of Miss McAskill

Item is a photograph of Sadie E. McAskill, who was born November 25, 1898 in Stellarton, and died January 15, 1969 in Taunton, Mass. USA. She had at least three brothers, Donald, Alex, and Kenneth McAskill, and was married to Clifford Emanuel Peterson, with whom she had seven children.

Photograph of Donald McAskill and George Burden

Item is a photograph of Donald McAskill and George Burden. McAskill had at least three siblings: brothers Alex and Kenneth, and sister Sadie E. Burden was born circa 1877 in Stellarton, Pictou County, and married Jessie Osburn (who died circa 1944). They had four sons, Clarence, William, Nathan, and Gordon, all of whom live in the U.S.A. Burden had two brothers, James who lived in the U.S.A., and John, who lived in Stellarton. Burden died in Taunton, Massachusetts, U.S.A., in 1953.
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