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Coal engine passing under Charlotte Street

  • NSSXA 77-167-301
  • Item
  • 1893

Item is a photograph of a coal engine passing under Charlotte Street. Originally the Glasgow & Cape Breton Railway, by 1893 the Fairlie narrow-gauge locomotive was operated by the Sydney & Louisbourg Railway.

Umlah Studios

J. B. McLachlan

  • NSSXA 76-84
  • Item
  • 1933

Item is a photographic portrait of J. B. McLachlan, a labour leader in Glace Bay with the United Mine Workers of America. This portrait was taken when he was running an election under the title Workers United Front Candidate.

Shedden Studio

#4 Caledonia Colliery, Glace Bay

  • NSSXA 77-140-274
  • Item
  • 1935-1955

Item is a photograph of a stack standing at the #4 Caledonia Colliery in Glace Bay.

Shedden Studio

Horse Haulage #20 Colliery (G.B.)

  • NSSXA 77-698-832
  • Item
  • 1952

Item is a photograph of a horse hauling coal in a pit with driver John Bennett, who was reported to be an expert in the care of horses.

Shedden Studio

Coal inspection

  • NSSXA 76-97
  • Item
  • 1956

Item is a photograph of Mr. Earl Chubb visiting the #18 colliery on Nov. 18, 1956, along with other officials, a few months before he was made the President of the Dominion Coal Company. Left to right: Ernie Beaton, Earl Chubb, Grant Mitchell, D.R. MacKenzie.

Shedden Studio

Rio Kemptville Tin Company fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1984-1992

Fonds consists of records related to the planning, development and running of the East Kemptville Tin Mine. The records were in no apparent order and have been arranged into the following series: Briefs and Reports; Manuals; Publicity; Photographs; Union Agreements: Plans: Staff Newsletter; and Lot Shipping Certificates.

Rio Kemptville Tin Company (East Kemptville, Yarmouth County, N.S.)

Abner Van Norden fonds

  • Fonds
  • Photocopied 1995

Fonds consists of Van Norden personal correspondence and receipts; records related to the Plomosa Mining Company; and correspondence, deeds and judgements related to Argyle families including the Spinney, Gayton and Van Amburg families.

Van Norden, Abner M., 1843-1923

Letter from W.E. Faulkner to his Aunt Jessie in Pictou, Nova Scotia

  • CA NSHDA MS-2-140, SF Box 27, Folder 6
  • Item

Item is a letter from W.E. Faulkner to his Aunt Jessie in Pictou, Nova Scotia. The letter makes reference to the mining strikes of the previous year, as well as correspondences with other family members in Moncton, New Brunswick, Boston, and Manila.

James Benjamin Westhaver fonds

  • CA NSHDA MS-2-587, SF Box 4, Folders 1-14, 16; SF Box 45, Folders 25-32
  • Fonds

Fonds includes items dealing with the invention of and patenting of a hydraulic gold extractor first registered in 1887. Also involves setting up a company to use the machine and begin gold mining. The material covers a period of 1883 to 1905, and involves many individuals in the business and legal community of Halifax and the South Shore. It also includes the original patent with the specification and diagrams, other diagrams, a 31 page hand written report by Westhaver on his trip to Dawson City, Yukon in 1902 to test his separator. A very interesting collection of letters, documents, legal correspondence, governmental material, etc., etc., dealing with the starting of a company to use the gold separate and Westhaver's various difficulties with financing and control.

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