RARE OLD PICTURES



                TOP PICTURE... Sydney At It's PRIME


   The 1904-05  SYDNEY BASKETBALL TEAM...winner of the league
   championship. Here's their names:

          H.R. WAY       I.C. MACKIE *

          F.W. STIRLING     A.W. ROBB

          David  REID     Keith  MAC LEAN

                * Mr. MACKIE was the patent holder for a steel rail
   hardening process used thruout the world, and a major reason
   Sydney rails had world-wide popularity.


                    SECOND  PICTURE

  The 1914  SYDNEY MILLIONAIRES HOCKEY TEAM THAT IN 1913 PLAYED 
QUEBES FOR THE  STANLEY CUP.... THE ONLY Maritime hockey team to do so.

THEY ARE:
        Front;  Harvey Richardson   Bill Dunphy  Joe Curlin
                                       Jimmy Fraser

        REAR: Ken Rundell     Robin Foote      Don Buckley *
                     BILLY PARSONS       Joe  SAVARD

              Mr. Buckley's brother was the owner of one of the
     world's  foremost and popular cough syrup....BUCKLEY'S  MIXTURE.


                             BOTTOM  PICTURE

       PETERSFIELD;   Col. John Peters, a Loyalist,came from Connecticut
to Cape Breton,his wife and children having settled near Baddeck.
Around 1783, he alone, left for England in a search for his soldiers
pay... he never returned...having died in 1793.

   From this family of sons,the name PETERS has spread all over 
Cape Breton and indeed Eastern Canada. One son, SAMUEL PETERS moved
to tye western shore of Sydney River, next to the lands of Thomas
CRAWLEY. THUS THE NAME....  PETERS FIELD.

JOHN STEWART MAC LENNAN,the first General Manager of the new steel
plant eventually purchased this land,and built his estate.


MORE interesting History & Pictures

The Mac Lennan's: of PETERSFIELD
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The ORIGINAL Sydney Millionaires: The 1913Stanley Cup Team