New Waterford--facing west

The inlet at the top is the entrance to Sydney harbor. The Barachois (fisherman's inlet) is bit more than half down the right side of the picture. Of the two most pronounced roadways (vertical), the one to the right is Ellesworth Avenue (County Road whem Mom was a child). The house where she grew up was on that road, just out of the picture at the bottom.

Facing east.

Facing east, this aerial photo of New Waterford covers, I guess, about half of the town. Points of interest are numbered: 1. Where Mom lived when I met her.
2. Most of her childhood was spent closer to the shore, at that single road leading away from town. Their house was on the grounds of the old Rigby farm, and they lived there until Mom was 16.
3.Mount Carmel where Mom went to school, elemenary and highschool.
4.Where I grew up. Much of the property in that area was my father's farm. Marine Drive (the sort of flat dogleg road that extends east (upward) from the area) is, in fact, the extended gated driveway from Convent Street to my folks' farm--road to the three houses that my father owned. One of these was sold to Bernie and Kaye Flynn just before the war, and another was sold to Angus (Doink) and Mary McDonald just after the war. The third house, where I lived as a child, no longer exists.
5. Saint Agnes where I went to school. (Mount Carmel, Saint Agnes, and other area schools are much smaller now because of the amalgamation of Junior and Senior highschools into large institutions--as elswhere).
6. The frog pond.
7. 14 yard
The little talon-shaped bay in the middle left is the Barrachois fisherman's port. The area above that was what we called 14. The area below it is 12; 16 and then Scotchtown are out of the picture to the right. Lingan is east of (above) New Waterford and Dominion and Glace Bay are on the other side of that inlet (Lingan Bay); and New Victoria, etc. are west.

The next few shots are along 'the shore' from the Barrachois (pronounced 'barraschwa') past the old farm, or actually through it, because much of it's edge has been eaten away into the ocean.

Abandonned fishing boat at the Barrochois cove, facing away from it. The frog pond was just to the left and slightly back from that nearest white house. The buildings beyond that are on the old farm land.

This was a very ppular swimming area when I was a kid--not far beyond the Barrachois. Unfortunately, it is now a disposition outlet, a common practise on both coast that is, happily, being corrected.

Several hundred feet east of the old farm. The land has been crumbling away badly, into the ocean, from old underground mine workings, apparently.

Great swimming area--12 shore. The floor is smooth sandstone with nice reefs, bit of surf, etc. Beyond the point is what we called lighthouse cove.

Lighthouse (Low Point)

This is 'lighthouse cove.' It was a beautiful sand beach, deteriorated in spots, now.

Newfoundland Ferry

Entering harbour--arriving from Newfoundland. In the background is Sydney Mines, one of the harbour north side communities.

Photo of Mount Carmel School, where Mom did her 3-Rs. This is the original building which housed a convent in the middle and classrooms on each side. By the time Mom started school, another building had been built for junior and senior highschool. The same history and discription applied to the school at Saint Agnes (following) where I attended.

This is the original Saint Agnes school/convent, where I attended grade one to five. The convent is in the middle. There were a lot of nuns in these convents, virtually all teachers, and all but about four or five of the teaching staffs were nuns. The St. Agnes junior and senior highschool building was across the street, to the left. None of these buildings exist now.
The photo was sent to me by my nephew, Danny.

The Pit

No. 12 colliery where I worked from 1951 to 57. The 'slope' from the building on the left ran down into the mine, several miles, ultimately, well out under the ocean and well beneath it. On the right is another smaller slope for cars that we called rakes. They ferried the men to and from the bottom. Rakes also ferried men on the 'main slope' between shifts (next photo). Underground the slopes were called 'deeps.'

Men on the rake on the main slope, waiting to descend.

No. 12 and nearby No. 16 were closed down not too long after these shots were taken, and the grounds converted into a community park--Colliery Park.

Colliery Park

Miners Memorial, commemorating miners who were killed on the job. The volume of names is a story in itself--a major story.

Alex

My brother, Alex is included on this stone--1976.

Canso Causeway

Blustering November day. (photo was sent to me from Carol in California

Regina skyline, from the southeast

Remember the geese on Wascana Lake.

Victoria Park. A shot I took from my office at Avord Tower, Spring-1989

Victoria Park, again

Home in Regina, 15 McDougall Road, 1965 to 92. We had been in Regina since 1960.

Another angle

Wascana now

A couple of shots of one of the new works at Wascana Park.

A picture of Mt. Boucherie taken from Mt. Dilworth in north Kelowna. Our community is behind Boucherie.

Our house in West Kelowna, taken after a night of gentle snowfall. The next picture (below) was taken at the same time, from our front doorstep.

Here is a shot from our downstairs window, in 2002, the year before the big fire that raged across there, destroying more than 200 houses in Kelowna. That area is not visible here. The next photo is a summer shot from the same spot, showing the area that burnt a few weeks later.