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There's no rhyme or reason anymore to what I'm able to post. I usually wanted to have a theme but right now I don't have the time. Let me know if there are any glaring mistakes in the names and maybe you have a more accurate date. (Posted by volunteer for the Port Hastings Historical Society)

I'm back. I'm just posting this one picture of Mulgrave which would have been taken by Jack McCully before October 11 th, 1941 who died in a house fire when he was just 35 years old. Fortunately for people interested in history, he took hundreds of pictures of all the communities in the Strait area as well as those further afield. He chose the ones he thought would be of interest and made them into post cards under his Fad Foto business as his home was handy where the auto ferries arrived and departed just off Granville St. (posted by volunteer gal)

Songs of 185 th Overseas Battalion is a small 36 page book of songs compiled for the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Cape Breton Highlanders during WW I. I'm headed to bed. Cheers. (Posted for the Port Hastings Historical Society)

Gertrude Duff and her husband Harry Plumb first came to the Port Hastings and District Museum and Archives (as it was known in July 1984) all the way from Cheshire, England. Her father, John George Tuttle Duff was born in Port Hawkesbury on August 21 st, 1880, he being the 4 th of the 10 children born to William and Lydia Duff. Gertrude and Harry returned again in September 1993 bringing family tree information on Duffs, Johnsons, Baillieul, Langley and many more families tha...t the sisters married. She also brought a picture of her father and the plaque the family received from the Merchant Navy after his death on July 18, 1941 in the North Sea, England. Local people should realize the extent of the genealogical material we have been acquiring over the years as other family members from this one family have come from the States too bringing additional information. More serious commitment by many, many more local residents will be necessary once the covid threat is history if people like the Duffs will have the opportunity to add to the history of local families and or do research..... See more

I wish someone would teach me how to make correction on individual pictures so I don't have to delete the whole post and start again because I make a mistake on a name. It's no fun being a 78 year old out here in rural world making mistakes on her own.....woe is me!! Well at least the sun is shining and it's a whopping 21 degrees!!! (Posted by the old volunteer for the Port Hastings Historical Society)

This would be the first time in almost 70 years that I won't be attending a Remembrance Day service. Back in the 1950's, we Explorers and C.G.I.T. girls in Truro marched to the Cenotaph along with the Scouts, Guides and veterans. (Posted by Yvonne Fox for the Port Hastings Historical Society)

Although who whoever typed the words after his picture had that he was from Port Hastings, he was born in Mackdale on January 18th, 1895 according to church records.

Belatedly I'm getting a few on for Remembrance Day. (Posted by Yvonne Fox for the Port Hastings Historical Society)