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Historical maps, surveys, plot plans and related cartographic material.
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Cemetery & Memorial Records
Memorial photographs, inscriptions, cemetery plans and related documentary records.
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Pictou Island Wharf at night — photograph credited to PIHS
Historic colour photograph of Pictou Island Wharf
Church Cemetery — PIHS photograph
The Hall, Pictou Island — photograph credited to PIHS
1914–1918 Roll of Honour
The White Lady
Pictou Island Hearse House
Forerunners and the Hearse House
Historic Pictou Island iceboat illustration
Pictou Island iceboat
Daily Patriot, 23 February 1903 — Minto passengers at Pictou Island
Daily Patriot, 17 March 1903 — Minto and Stanley report
Pictou Island ferry
Pictou Island mail plane
Pictou Island fisheries
Margaret MacDonald
Ralph Hooper
Military gravestone of Lance Corporal J.R. Hooper
Veterans Affairs service and burial record for Lance Corporal J.R. Hooper
Sunday school picnic at the Rankin farm
Jack and Mary Rankin
The MacLean sisters
Sidney, Ralph, and Theodore Hooper
Lorne Matheson collection photograph
Unidentified wreck — view 1
Unidentified wreck — view 2
Unidentified wreck — view 3
Unidentified wreck — view 4
Historic lighthouse view
Island shipbuilding
Factory Road
Historic lighthouse and outbuildings
Pioneer Cemetery
Heritage Centre and Iceboat exhibit
Eddie Glover, Billy MacMillan Sr., and Punch Patterson with an iceboat
Historic illustration of the Pictou Island hearse
Historic lighthouse view
South Side Lighthouse
Boat passing Sutherland Memorial Church in 2019
Boat passing Edward Rankin’s former house in 2019
South Side Lighthouse, fishing boats, and people
People loading cattle aboard a boat
Historic East End Lighthouse
Historic West End Lighthouse and keeper's buildings
Historic South Side Lighthouse
Lorraine MacDonald and Rena Ferguson on the South Lighthouse steps
Early photograph of Sutherland Memorial Church
Sunday school picnic in the 1940s
Island community members at Sutherland Memorial Church
Archibald Sutherland
Pioneer Cemetery restoration volunteers
Pioneer Cemetery during restoration
Headstone recorded during Pioneer Cemetery restoration
Historic view associated with the Pioneer Cemetery
Andrew MacFarlane
William C. “Bill Cole” MacDonald
Archibald “Archie” MacDonald
Charles “Charlie Dan” Patterson
John Alexander “Jack Happy” MacDonald
Hugh “Big Hughie” MacLean
Lauchlan “Lauchie” Rankin
John M. MacLean
Pictou Island Sunday School class, August 16, 1942
The Hearse House—PIHS's first project
Pictou Island group portrait
Welcoming a soldier home, probably 1945
The vessel Morag near Pictou Island
Ward MacCallum grading an island road
Opening the Iceboat Exhibit
PIHS lighthouse-keeper photograph search
Pictou Island Auction 45 rules
Old-time card party, 2022
Old-time card party gathering, 2022
Pictou Island 45s tournament, 2023
Sheila Rankin painting of the South Lighthouse
South Lighthouse painting raffle winner
Sutherland Memorial Church restoration, 2024
First annual PIHS work party, 2024
Caring for PIHS heritage buildings
Wharf Lighthouse work party
Pictou Island heritage photography, 2024
Pictou Island heritage photography, 2024—second view
Piping in the lobsters at LobsterFest XVI
Cooking for LobsterFest XVI
Gathering for LobsterFest XVI
LobsterFest XVI at the wharf
LobsterFest XVII volunteer
Community meal at LobsterFest XVII
Longtime and new island residents at LobsterFest XVII
Skipper Ronny honoured at LobsterFest XVII
LobsterFest XVII cooking crew
LobsterFest XV, 2023
LobsterFest XV community gathering
LobsterFest XV volunteers
The first PIHS bottle drive, 2017
Transporting PIHS refundables, 2023
PIHS refundable-container fundraiser, 2025
Gathering for LobsterFest XVIII, 2026
LobsterFest XVIII community meal
Lobster prepared for LobsterFest XVIII
Arriving for LobsterFest XVIII
Young visitors at LobsterFest XVIII
LobsterFest XVIII volunteers
Community dinner at LobsterFest XVIII
Fisheries and Canneries — view 4
Fisheries and Canneries — view 5
Fisheries and Canneries — view 6
Fisheries and Canneries — view 7
Fisheries and Canneries — view 8
Fisheries and Canneries — view 9
Ray Hayman family and community photographs
Ray Hayman family and community photographs — view 3
Ray Hayman family and community photographs — view 4
Ray Hayman family and community photographs — view 5
