Pipe band members line up in front of the Wallace Hotel on Front Street for a parade. Their Scottish heritage visible in tartans and sporans the pipe bands are surrounded by horses, wagons, an well dressed spectators.
Trenton (N.S.) -- Biography -- Pictorial Works ; Trenton (N.S.) -- Pictorial Works
A collection of photographs of a variety of people from Trenton, Nova Scotia. The collection was prepared by Philip MacKenzie and Clyde F. Macdonald and is "A Steeltown Tribute to Ralphie Cameron".
In the front left is Clare Keen, son of Frank Keen and brother to Jack Keen. Clare is a painter in Digby. In the right of the photo facing the camera in the front is Mrs. A. Sypher Morrell. The little boy in the checked shirt in the front center...
The Minto Pharmacy, located in the MacKenzie Block on Front Street, was decorated as well as the next building, once the Masonic Hall. Men in top hats escorted their ladies dressed in grand gowns along the wooden sidewalk.
Pictou Hardware was managed by Earl Lovegrove in 1957. The building, burned in 1960 during the Wetmore fire, was located in the now vacant lot on Front Street in front of the Highlander Tavern.
Passengers waiting for the next stage coach or boat to leave Pictou spent time at the Wallace Hotel. The menu might include boiled ham and tongue, creamed potatoes, steamed English plum pudding with brandy sauce. This grand hotel was located on...
Townsfolk were dressed in their finery as well as tartan on this day of celebration. The corner of Front and Coleraine Streets was the home of businesses such as Dr. H. E. Morris, Dentist, which was located above James MacLean & Sons book store....
This Front Street stone cottage, the Pictou Men’s Club house since 1940, was built in 1827 by Henry Blackadar. It is so tiny that the upstairs doorways are less than six feet high.
The east-looking view of Front Street, taken from Coleraine Street, shows a parade wending past the later home of Twitter Johnston on the right, with a gas pump on the sidewalk. Across the street, on the left is MacLean's bookstore, the resent...
Remember when Front Street businesses included Tofick Mansour Clothing Store, Bill's Lunch, Wetmore's? Now this block is a parking lot between Twinning and Chapel Streets.
Judging by the decorations hanging in the windows, this photo, looking west along Front Street to Coleraine Street, may have been taken when Pictou's first passenger train arrived in 1887.
In 2005, there are fewer buildings along Front Street, but much more traffic. The photographer couldn`t stand in the middle of the street for fear of being hit by a car.
Front Street was the home of several large buildings before fire claimed them. The Rose Café located next to Mel Hill’s now is the site of Sharon’s Place. Bobby Melanson standing the street.
1879 Illustrated Historical Atlas of Pictou County, Nova Scotia created by J.H. Meacham and Company. Detailed section by section maps including names of landholders as well as historical information regarding the settlement of the County, native...
