Sable Island (N.S.)

Where the horses run : the story of Sable island, a dune adrift in the Atlantic / by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folder 2
File
2003 - 2004

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a revised, edited manuscript, editorial notes, and correspondence from Jacqueline Johnson, non-fiction editor at Walker Books.

Vegetation and phytogeography of Sable Island, Nova Scotia : [manuscript and other materials]

MS-2-789, Box 25, Folder 9
File
1982-1985

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains the manuscript by Freedman, with P.M. Catling and Z.Lucas, for Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, volume 34, parts 3-4. File also contains the draft manuscript entitled "The vegetation of Sable Island", as well as correspondence and photo negatives.

Typescript drafts of stories about Sable Island ponies and related material

MS-2-646, Box 10, Folder 25
File
1960-1997

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Transparency relief map of Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 40
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Item consists of a slide containing five hand-drawn (and coloured) relief maps of Sable Island.

Transparency relief map of Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 47
Item
1981

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

The Secrets of Sable

MS-2-646, Box 8, Folder 35
File
1973

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains an article written by Joyce Barkhouse and published in the Canadian Frontier.

The ghost of Sable Island / by Thomas H. Raddall

MS-2-202, Box 22, Folder 8
Item
1929

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a copy of Thomas Raddall's story "The Ghost of Sable Island," published in the magazine Sea Stories, June 1929.

Scrapbook page with a portrait of T.H. Raddall, Sr. with his rifle division, the R.C.R.I. Rifle Team at the Coate's Match, Rockcliffe Range in Ottawa, Ontario, and photographs of Thomas Head Raddall around Nova Scotia

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 20, Item 5
Item
[between 1913 and 1921]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item may have been a page in one of Thomas Head Raddall's photograph albums. The photographs are either duplicates of or related to material in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1917-1927. T.H. Raddall, Sr. can be found holding the telescope in the middle of the front row in the portrait of the rifle division. On the reverse side of the scrapbook page, the photographs on the left and right of Thomas Head Raddall are duplicates from the aforementioned album. The photograph on the left was taken in North Sydney in 1920, and the photograph on the right was taken in Point Pleasant Park in 1921. The photograph in the bottom middle may have been taken at Sable Island.

Sable Island groundwater analysis : [draft manuscript and data sets]

MS-2-789, Box 30, Folder 5
File
2008

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains Maxxam and Stantec reports relating to water analysis samples taken from several locations on Sable Island. File also includes draft manuscript compiled by Freedman, for Jacques Whitford Stantec Limited.

Sable Island : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folder 5
File
[200-]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains an extended treatment for a possible television program about Sable Island.

Sable Island : [agreement and contract]

MS-2-789, Box 5, Folder 1
File
2014

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains an agreement and contract relating to the publication Sable Island with Fitzhenry & Whiteside.

Richard Orme Allen fonds

MS-2-474
Fonds
[c. 1917]-1980

Fonds consists of a manuscript about Allen's experiences with one of his superiors during his service on Sable Island, a Department of Marine Notice from 1919, and 60 photographs of Sable Island and its inhabitants.

Allen, Richard Orme

Remineralization and availability of phosphorus in acidic lakes : [manuscripts and reviewer comments]

MS-2-789, Box 4, Folder 24
File
[198-?]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains manuscripts and reviewer comments relating to the article Remineralization and Availability of Phosphorus in Acidic Lakes.

Records regarding a Sable Island Evening of Entertainment at The Aster in Liverpool

MS-2-646, Box 10, Folder 32
File
2007

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

Publicity and reviews for A Dune Adrift: The Strange Origins and Curious History of Sable Island

MS-2-825, Box 2, Folder 1
File
2004 - 2005

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Postcard photograph of Clyde Blakeney in military uniform

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 10
Item
1917

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a postcard photograph produced by Cox Bros., Halifax, N.S., of Clyde Blakeney (who left Sable Island to enlist in the armed forces in the fall of 1917), dressed in military uniform standing atop Citadel Hill.

Photographs of the flora, fauna, and buildings on Sable Island, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10
File
1981-1982

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 77 photographs taken by Bill Freedman at Sable Island, Nova Scotia, over several visits between 1981 and 1982. Photographs show vegetation, brackish ponds, aerial surveys, wild horses, as well as some of the researchers. File also includes 3 transparencies.

Photographs of buildings and structures on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35
File
1917 - 1918

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

File contains photographs of lighthouses, wireless stations, and other out buildings on Sable Island as they appeared in 1917 and 1918.

Photograph of Zoe Lucas and Noreen Stadey photographing grasses on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 31
Item
1982

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of Zoe Lucas and Noreen Stadey in the "Rose Bowl" on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 30
Item
1982

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of Zoe Lucas and Noreen Stadey harvesting sandwort on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 50
Item
1981 or 1982

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

Photograph of wild horses on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 36, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of seven wild horses grazing on Sable Island, ca. 1917.

Photograph of wild horses in winter on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 36, Item 7
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of seven Sable Island wild horses in winter.

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 Walter Blank and family at Station Number 3 at the east end of Lake Wallace on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 9
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of unidentified vegetation on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 18
Item
1982

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of unidentified vegetation on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 19
Item
1982

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of unidentified bones exposed on Sable Island dunes

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 17
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of two unidentified people on horseback in front of the refuge house near the eastern lighthouse on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 15
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of two unidentified people on horseback, in front of the refuge hut, described as being "east of east light" on Sable Island.

Photograph of two unidentified people leading cows on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 36, Item 2
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of two unidentified people (one on foot, one on horseback), driving three cows along the sand on Sable Island.

Photograph of two people examining Honckenya (sea sandwort) on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 1
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of three wild horses on standing in shallow water near the wireless station on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 36, Item 5
Item
1917

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Photograph of three wild horses on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 3
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of three wild horses grazing on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 53
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of three wild horses drinking from a freshwater pond on Sable Island

MS-2-789, Box 12, Folder 10, Item 65
Item
1981

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of three people examining sections for the stack of the new west lighthouse on Sable Island 1917-1918

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 9
Item
[1917 or 1918]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of three unidentified people examining sections of the stack for use in the construction of the new western lighthouse on Sable Island, taken either late 1917 or early 1918.

Photograph of three dories ashore on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 8
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of three dories ashore on Sable Island, arriving from an unidentified distant fishing boat, taken ca. 1920.

Photograph of Thomas Head Raddall posing on a beach of Sable Island beside a beached life boat

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 18, Item 8
Item
1922

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

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

Photograph of the wireless station on Sable Island before its extension in 1918

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 8
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the primary wireless station on Sable Island prior to its expansion in 1918.

Photograph of the wireless station on Sable Island before 1918 extension

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 35, Item 1
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the Sable Island wireless station, prior to the expansion of the facility in 1918.

Photograph of the wild horse "Ottawa" on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 36, Item 4
Item
1917

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the Sable Island wild horse named Ottawa, ca. 1917.

Photograph of the wild horse Louise and her colt on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 36, Item 6
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the Sable Island wild horse Louise and her colt, with four other wild horses in the background.

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 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 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 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 Ritcey family at Station Number 4 near the east lighthouse on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 37, Item 11
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of the Ritcey family leaning on a fence at Station Number 4 on Sable Island, located just west of the eastern lighthouse. Mr Ritcey is absent from the photograph.

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