Pictou County Postcards
Vintage Postcards from Pictou County, Nova Scotia

This real photo postcard has the original photo image that was used to produce PC 00419 a card published by James McLean and printed in Belgium, and PC 00518 & PC 00338 cards printed by Warwick & Rutter. One could reasonably state that James McLean is likely the original photographer, as he was known to have supplied images to Warwicks. Since PC 00518 was mailed in October 1904, this would date this image accordingly.

Identical to the real photo postcard image above.

Mailed to Miss Nellie B. Sheffield, Canning, Kings Co., NS, this card was made from the image shown on the real photo postcard PC 00515 shown at the top of this page. A nearly identical card (PC 00338) was also published by Warwick, with a different back and the publisher name in the upper right corner (instead of on the left).

Border is embossed on this version of the Warwick & Rutter cards.

This pretty young woman was likely the Grade 11 teacher.

Addressed to Master Stuart Bailey, Westville, NS, his young friend Herbert writes "Dear Stewart, Will I take my Boy Scout uniform to the camp starting Saturday. Please give me some hints on what to take. Please send a quick reply." Sounds like this was Herbert's first time at camp.

Built between 1876 and 1880 this building is listed in Canada's Historic Places. Unfortunately the long graceful porches that broke up the boxy look of the building, have been replaced with large chunky boxlike structures and a wheel chair ramp that serve as the entrances to the building.
http://historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=13461

This postcard was mailed on Nov 11, 1907 to Miss K. E. Murphy, 464 Lisbon Street in Lewiston, Maine. The sender mentions the death of Monsigner Wallace whom he refers to as a "great noble soul". Upon further research, I found the following interesting bits of information about Monsigner Wallace.

From: http://www.la-mag.com/shamrocks-on-the-androscoggin-irish-settlers-of-la/
"St. Patrick’s on Bates Street next to Kennedy Park was the second Irish church in Lewiston; the first Mass there was celebrated Christmas Eve, 1890. St. Patrick’s was the brainchild of Father (later Monsignor) Thomas H. Wallace, pastor at St. Joseph’s. Wallace was of Irish stock, his immigrant parents settling in Somersworth, NH. Wallace came to Lewiston in 1876, and anticipated St. Patrick’s as merely a second church in one parish, which he managed for four years. By 1894 the St. Joseph’s parishioners wanted their own priest, and Wallace moved to St. Patrick’s. Aside from founding St. Patrick’s, Wallace founded both the St. Joseph’s and St. Patrick’s parochial schools, and served 29 years on the public school committee, several years as chair."

There is also an elusive mention of Monsigner Wallace in a SunMedia article which unfortunately I could not read as it is blocked and only paid subscribers can view it. The preamble on the internet reads "For 102 years, the body of Monsignor Thomas Wallace lay behind an iron gate and a wall of cement in the basement of his church. But on Saturday morning, he ..." One can only assume from this, that the body was moved for some reason in 2009. Sadly, St Patrick's Church was closed probably at about the same time and the latest use for the building was as a movie set in 2012 for a comedy based on Shakespeare's Richard III.