POETRY & SONGS
Acadiens de Tor Baie - by Brad Pellerin
My Old Port Felix Home - Father Hughie MacDonald
Loss of Capt. Ruben Munro and Son and Courtley Feltmate - Billy Cy Feltmate
The Larry's River Song - Author Unknown
The Pellerin Poem - By Jude Avery
My Village (Charlos Cove) - by Sister Theresa Levangie

 

RECIPES
Fisherman's Cookies (aka old-fashioned sugar cookies)
Tamarin (molasses candy)

 

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES - General area news
Whitehaven (also Port Felix Picnic) - July 30, 1891
Whitehead - May 4, 1911
Yankee Cove - May 4, 1911
Larry's River - September 1930
Larry's River - October 1930
Larry's River - December 1930
Port Felix - August 22, 1933
Halfway Cove - March 31, 1934
Charlos Cove - April 12, 1934
Cole Harbour - November 20, 1934
Port Felix - May 15, 1935
Larry's River - June 16, 1939
Port Felix - June 16, 1939
Port Felix - June 30, 1939
White Head - July 7, 1939
Upper White Head - July 7, 1939
Port Felix - July 21, 1939
Upper White Head - July 28, 1939
Larry's River - September 1, 1939
Upper White Head - December 3, 1939
Upper White Head - January 18, 1940
Charlos Cove - June 16, 1944
Charlos Cove - June 16, 1944 (2nd article)
Larry's River - June 16, 1944
Lower White Haven - June 16, 1944
Lower White Head - June 16, 1944
White Head - June 16, 1944
Port Felix - October 15, 1948
Charlos Cove - November 26, 1948
Cole Harbour - August 24, 1951
Halifax - August 24, 1951
Lower White Haven - August 24, 1951
Port Felix - September 21, 1951
Port Felix - September 21, 1951 (2nd article)
Upper White Head - September 21, 1951
Port Felix - October 5, 1951
Upper White Head - November 9, 1951
Port Felix - November 6, 1953
Port Felix - January 15, 1954
Port Felix - April 16, 1954
Port Felix - April 23, 1954
Port Felix - May 14, 1954
Port Felix - May 17, 1957
Port Felix - May 25, 1957
Port Felix - March 13, 1962
Larry's River - March 14, 1962
Charlos Cove - March 29, 1963

 

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES - Specific Events
Raspberry Fishermen pick up derelict schooner - July 8, 1854
American ship Union grounded off White Head - August 5, 1854
Canso's Successful Regatta - August 21, 1886
White Head Couple Robbed - April 1902
The Payment of Fenian Claims (Letter to the editor) December 12, (1913?)
Young Girl was Lost in Blizzard - December 24, 1921 (from reprint July 2002)
Shooting Accident at White Head, Guys Co. - April 14, 1923
Store Entered at Larry's River - break-in - 1930
Present Prizes - public speaking contest - June 1930
Larry's River vs Charlos Cove - Spelling Contest, Baseball Match - Oct 17, 1930
Share in Prize Money to Schools -money for school improvement - Dec 14, 1930
Larry's River beat Charlos Cove 3-1 (Hockey) January 1931
Larry's River vs Charlos Cove - Hockey - 1931
Fisherman Lands Small Swordfish - August 5, 1937
Memories of an Early Season - Pat Pitts, Trout fisherman - undated (1940s?)
Recognized For Heroism - May 15, [1942?]
Teachers Wanted - Charlos Cove - 1946
Victim of Japanese is Reunited with Brother After 22 Years - Sept. 14, 1947
The Wreck of the Arleux - August 19, 1948 (large file - may be slow-loading)
Larry's River Boy Rescued; Gets to School on Time - February 17, 1949
Suffers Serious Burns in Accident at Supper Table - 1950
Whitehead Seaman in Wreck - circa 1949
One Dead, Three Hurt As Car Leaves Road - Wednesday, August 3, 1955
Larry's River Native Recalls First Trip to U.S. 69 years ago - Aug 28, 1959
Murray Munroe, second engineer on HMS Bounty - ~1960
Narrow Escape - William Avery & Elliott Pellerin - June 11, 1964
2 Die in 107-foot Plunge - April 25, 1968
Convent at Larry's River 25 Years Old - 1980
Local Man Saves Life - April 1992
1st Annual Alphonse David Memorial Card Play - July 4, 1993
Larry's River man sits on the Legislative Assembly of the NWT - 2000
The Acadian Connection - May 2000
The Acadian Connection - Larry's River & Lundy - 2000
The Acadian Connection - Port Felix, A Brief History - November 1, 2000
78 Year Old Ordained in Catholic Church (Fr. Leo Richard)- November 29, 2000
Tor Bay Acadians hold workshop - November 13, 2002
Rabbit Pies & A Record Player - Christmas in the County- December 11, 2002
Port Felix School Reunion 1945-1984 - Guysborough Journal - Sept 10, 2003
Corporal Thomas Richard of Charlos Cove remembers - by Diana Lynn Tibert - Guysborough Journal - November 10, 2004

 

Blizzard of 1910

The shore from Torbay to Cape Canso is exceedingly craggy & broken. No adequate idea can be formed of the horrors of this part of the coast in a southerly gale.

Anthony Lockwood - A brief description of Nova Scotia
FORTY FISHERMEN OF DOVER AND WHITEHEAD SWEPT TO SEA BY FIERCE BLIZZARD, STILL MISSING - The Halifax Herald - Thursday, January 6, 1910 (full article)
ONLY TWO BOATS NOW MISSING FROM THE STRICKEN FISHING FLEET - plus - Captain Boudrot's Story of his Experience - The Halifax Herald - Friday, January 7, 1910
The Fishermen's Awful Experience - part 1 - The Antigonish Casket - Thursday, January 13, 1910
The Fishermen's Awful Experience - part 2 - The Antigonish Casket - Thursday, January 20, 1910
Letter to the Editor -Partial List of Boats & Crew - Canso Breeze - Date / Author unknown
Whitehead Boats & Crew involved - contributed by Peggy Feltmate
Loss of Capt. Ruben Munro and Son and Courtley Feltmate - Billy Cy Feltmate
Blizzard of 1910 - from the Memoirs of Beattie Munroe

 

Postmasters through the years

 

Land Grants, Deeds and Leases
DEED - Henry Lindon, E & M Fogarty, N & J Casey, AJ & W Morrell to Edward C Whitman
Tanner Land Grant - Cole Harbour - 1866

 

Petitions
 

 

Wills, Estate & Administration Papers
 

 

Tewksbury, MA, Almshouse Inmate Case Histories


Diaries & Memoirs
Diary of a Lighthouse Keeper - Patrick James Dillon - excerpts of a Diary kept 1887 - 1895
Diary of Marion Loretta Feltmate - Diary of a young girl in White Head, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia - Excerpts from the diary of Marion Loretta Feltmate b 9 May 1917 - diary dates range from 1932 - 1960s - submitted by Peggy Feltmate (work in progress - March 2004)
Memoirs of Beattie Munroe - Harley "Beattie" Munroe was born 1915 in Whitehead, a son of Thurlo Munroe and Mary Lavinia Uloth. These are some of the stories he recorded over the years.
THE LIGHTHOUSE: One of the Seven Wonders of My World - By Mary-Ellen Reynolds - The following journal was written by Mary-Ellen Reynolds in January 1989 - the year she died. Here she tells the story of the joys and sorrows of her life as a girl on Whitehead Island in Nova Scotia.

Goodies from School Text Books
Weights and Measures - circa 1920s
Arithmetic Book - circa 1920s

 
 

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