Nova Scotia

Lorraine grew up in beautiful and historic Nova Scotia and lived, for a time, near Yarmouth. Anyone with roots in Nova Scotia should visit Archway, a website developed and maintained by Nova Scotia's Council of Archives, which helps researchers identify pertinent historical records held in archives across the province.  For example, you can search the Archway photographic database by keyword (like Yarmouth) to view historic images.

Newspaper Announcements of the Wedding

Jessie Collins, the mother of the bride, wrote several announcements about the wedding, which she sent to newspapers in Nova Scotia, including the Yarmouth Light and the Yarmouth Herald . (Images can be enlarged, for reading, by clicking on them.)

From the Yarmouth Light, August 17, 1961

From the Yarmouth Herald, August 23, 1961

Organist Graham Steed

(Photo courtesy of Josh Michtom.)

 

Graham Steed was the church organist at 1st Baptist Church in Truro, Nova Scotia, when Bill and Lorraine and family lived there in the 1970s and early 1980s. He and his wife Rita were good friends, and Bill sang tenor in the church choir that Graham directed. Click here for YouTube clip of Graham Steed playing "Evocation III" by the French composer-organist Marcel Dupré, about whose work Mr. Steed was considered an authority.

 

 

Truro, Nova Scotia

In the 1970s we lived in Truro, Nova Scotia. Here are some images of the house, as it looks now. (Or, as it did in a recent winter.)

An image of the vicinity of this house on College Road -- a sunnier version! -- can be found through Google Maps by clicking here.

For historical information on Truro, the "hub" of Nova Scotia, you can visit the Colchester County Archives, here.  You can also visit the Town of Truro's home page.