File consists of three videos of the West Indian Reunion Achievement Dinner at St. Alban's Hall, Whitney Pier.

Item is a video recording of a service held at St. Philip's African Orthodox Church, Whitney Pier.

File consists of two audio reels that feature sound recordings of Vernon Tull being interviewed by Elizabeth Beaton about the Black population in Whitney Pier.

Track listing is as follows:
Side A:

• Genealogical sketch
• Early African Orthodox Church in Cape Breton
• Religions practised by West Indians before the African Orthodox Church
• Building Church
• Archdeacon Phillips
• Succession of priests and wardens
• Keeping the records of the church
• Discussion of architectural changes
• Discussion of the different features of the Church
• Financial Support Systems for the Church
• Musical bands in the community

Side B:

• War experiences
• Early people who contributed to community
  i-30- The African Orthodox Church and young people
• Connection to United Mission
• Mendelek Hall, Dr. Calder
• Traditional Barbaian music
• Cricket teams at Whitney Pier pre 1941
• Traditional foodways
• William Fitzgerald; owned much property at the Pier

File consists of two audio reels that feature sound recordings of Neville Gibson, Ralph Trotman, Vernal Till and Mae Crawford being interviewed by Elizabeth Beaton about the Black population of Whitney Pier.

Track listing is as follows:
Side A:

• Biographical information (Neville Gibson)
• Rev. Phillips founder; White people creating problems for them (Neville Gibson)
• Problem - St. Cyprians on Henry Street (Neville Gibson)
• Re-iteration of involvement; Split in Black community (Neville Gibson)
• The "Brethern" Bible study meetings (Neville Gibson)
• Land bought by church; Bishop Trotman; History of African Orthodox Church (Neville Gibson)
• Marcus Garvey; Black Star Line; U.N.I.A. (Neville Gibson)
• Father lost house; Went to night school (informant); Picnics at Mira; Tennis courts; Menelik Hall (Neville Gibson)
• Dr. Calder (Neville Gibson)
• Connection between U.N.I.A. and A.O.C. (Neville Gibson)
• Cricket Club (Neville Gibson)
• Marcus Garvey; United Mission; Home and School (Neville Gibson)
• Discrimination; Black scholarship program; Influence on Stanfield (Neville Gibson)
• Black Methodist Church (Neville Gibson)
• Reid Family (Neville Gibson)

Side B:

• Biographical information; Born 1912; Arthur Stanley Trotman was father (Ralph Trotman, Vernal Till and Mae Crawford)
• Robertson from States; One named Jones (Ralph Trotman, Vernal Till and Mae Crawford)
• A.O.C. history; Robertson worked out of church on Henry Street (Ralph Trotman, Vernal Till and Mae Crawford)
• Robertson gone by 1924; Trotman had church on Victoria Road; Never a Methodist Church (Ralph Trotman, Vernal Till and Mae Crawford)
• Chronology of Priest (Ralph Trotman, Vernal Till and Mae Crawford)
• St. Alban's problems (Ralph Trotman, Vernal Till and Mae Crawford)
• Trotman, third bishop of A.O.C. (Ralph Trotman, Vernal Till and Mae Crawford)
• Marcus Garvey (Ralph Trotman, Vernal Till and Mae Crawford)

Item is an audio reel that features a sound recording of Kay (Morrison) Borden being interviewed by Pam Newton about the Blacks and West Indians of Whitney Pier.

Item is an audio reel that features a sound recording of a CBC Radio program entitled "The Future of Sydney Steel."

Track listing is as follows:

• The History of the Sydney Steel Plant, DOSCO threatening to close it on Black Friday 1967
• History from 1901 to present
• The working of the plant; Various furnaces
• The importance of the Plant during World War II investments poured into the plant
• Hard times before the Union came
• Establishment of Local 1064
• 1967 march in Sydney to keep the Steel Plant alive
• Problems during the 1980s with SYSCO; Many of the mills closed and moved to Upper Canada

File consists of two audio reels that feature sound recordings of a speech presented by Reverend Vincent Waterman at St. Philip's African Orthodox Church to the Friends of Whitney Pier that outlines the history of the Church.

Track listing is as follows:
Side A:

• History of A.O.C. priests, problems, establishment, etc.; Pier not an "ethnic ghetto," Synod in Pier
• Trained by American Catholic Church, Endich Theological Seminary
• Commitment to A.O.C.
• Majority of Blacks belong to either United or Anglican or Catholic Churches
• More support from whites, negative defeatist attitude in Sydney
• Need for pride in community
• Informal religion and A.O.C.
• Father came in 1940
• Sunday very important day, always dress up for church

Side B:

• Christmas preparations, food and customs
• Sermons based on gospel
• Holy days
• Christmas celebrations
• Women in church
• Prayers
• Superstition, preach good behaviours, no African Methodist Episcopalian Churches in Nova Scotia
• Brought up very strict
• Awareness of African Heritage
• Food was very important, West Indian dishes
• Linguistics, dialects
• Further from Cuba, mother from Antigua
• Many left A.O.C.; Very discouraging at times

File consists of two audio reels that feature sound recordings of of Dr. Leo Bartley of the United Negro Improvement Association discussing the organization and its history in Cape Breton.

Track listing is as follows:
Side A:

• Came to Cape Breton in 1974 to do research, C.B. U.N.I.A. people involved
• Thesis to be controlled into book
• U.N.I.A. not a West Indian organization, people of African descent tied together
• Marcus Garvey, here on way to England
• A.O.C. in Pier, Bishop MacGuire, U.N.I.A., tried to make A.O.C. established church of organization
• Dr. Alvinus Calder, first president of organizations; W.E. Robertson was a later Bishop
• Phillis Family
• Sydney had three associations; West Indian and Black characteristics

Side B:

• Various backgrounds, several different organizations; West Indians importance of education; Dr. Bentley's other interests
• A.O.C. has only one church in Canada and it's in Whitney Pier, do not want to be called Africans
• Marcus Garvey stressed the importance of maintaining archives
• Bentley met Garvey's son