People Archives | Crossing Cole Harbour: From Ferry to Dyke then Rail to Trail

Cutting Hay on the Dyke

Cutting hay on the Cole Harbour dyke, with Jack Settle seated on a horse drawn mower.

Mrs. Phillips

Mrs. Phillips was a Mi’kmaq resident of Cole Harbour. The Phillips family came to Cole Harbour in the early 20th century when there were several Mi’kmaq families living […]

Cutting the Marsh Hay

Transcript: Bernard Kuhn asked Mr. Forsyth to write a piece about his summer working on the Peter McNab Kuhn farm in Upper Lawrencetown as an appendix to Kuhn’s […]

Eel Fishing

A silent video showing Eel Fishing in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia. The video is in colour. This video has no sound. First, the men use axes to chop […]

Girls on Horseback

Jessie (left) and Mae (right) Storey seated on horseback on the Cole Harbour dyke.

Railroad

Two unidentified people sit on the Eastern Railway bridge over Cole Harbour.

Cole Station

An unidentified woman and girl stand outside of Cole Station, a railway stop in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia.

Hunter and Goose

Hunting on the salt marsh has been a common activity for as long as people have lived around it. When the estuary was owned by Peter McNab Kuhn, […]

Hunter

Hunting on the marsh was important to residents of Cole Harbour throughout the years. This young man continued that tradition.

John George Bissett

“Squire” John George Bissett was a local of Cole Harbour, and member of the Halifax City Council in 1898. He owned a great deal of land in the […]

Peter McNab Kuhn

Peter McNab Kuhn purchased the Cole Harbour estuary in 1891, and maintained a dyke until 1917, when it was destroyed. Kuhn attempted to control the hunting going on […]

Washing Carrots

A man (possibly Percy Ernst) washes carrots for market. Farmers in Cole Harbour sold their goods at the Halifax City Market well into the twentieth century, as their […]