Nova Scotia Archives

Don Messer

Virtual Exhibit

Don Messer and 'The Islanders' - 1956 - their first year on TV

Date: 1956

Photographer: Wright, Halifax, NS

Reference: Don Messer Nova Scotia Archives 1998-132 volume 071 number 165


Cast in Don Messer's TV show from Halifax

Date: 1956

Reference: Don Messer Nova Scotia Archives 1998-132 volume 071 number 288


Original 'Backwoods Breakdown' Trio - 1956 - Duke Nielsen, Charlie Chamberlain, and Don Messer

Date: 1956

Photographer: Maurice Crosby

Reference: Don Messer Nova Scotia Archives 1998-132 volume 071 number 164


Don Messer

Reference: Don Messer Nova Scotia Archives 1998-132 volume 070 number 141


Don Messer with fiddle

Reference: Don Messer Nova Scotia Archives 1998-132 volume 070 number 143-146


Don Messer and a group of First Nations people during a ceremony

Photographer: Santa Lucia, Alberta, Canada

Reference: Don Messer Nova Scotia Archives 1998-132 volume 071 number 208-210


Contact sheets showing various shots of Marg Osburne, Don Messer and Charlie Chamberlain

Reference: Don Messer Nova Scotia Archives 1998-132 volume 071 number 206-207


Marg Osburne, Rae Simmons, Don Messer and unidentified male at Radio Station, Cornwall, Ontario

Photographer: Ron-Gal Photos, Cornwall, ON

Reference: Don Messer Nova Scotia Archives 1998-132 volume 071 number 235-237


Don Messer and Charlie Chamberlain with Ainsworth Burgess and oxen, 'Massey' and 'Ferguson', Windsor, N.S.

Date: 1959

Reference: Don Messer Nova Scotia Archives 1998-132 volume 071 number 240


Cecil MacEachern, Rae Simmons, Duke Nielsen and Don Messer

Date: 1960

Photographer: Maurice Crosby

Reference: Don Messer Nova Scotia Archives 1998-132 volume 071 number 287


Don Messer at his desk at home

Date: 1960

Photographer: Maurice Crosby

Reference: Don Messer Nova Scotia Archives 1998-132 volume 071 number 291


Don Messer, Marg Osburne and Charlie Chamberlain with a group of senior citizens at Acres Lodge Home for the Aged, Lethbridge, Alberta

Date: 1963

Photographer: Lethbridge Herald

Credit: Photo used courtesy of Lethbridge Herald.

Reference: Don Messer Nova Scotia Archives 1998-132 volume 071 number 157


Don Messer playing in Children's Hospital, April 1964

Date: 1964

Reference: Don Messer Nova Scotia Archives 1998-132 volume 071 number 249


Don Messer with fiddle

Date: 1965

Reference: Don Messer Nova Scotia Archives 1998-132 volume 071 number 154


Cast of 'Don Messer's' Jubilee, 1966

Date: 1966

Photographer: Wamboldt-Waterfield

Credit: Photo used courtesy of Wamboldt-Waterfield Photography, Halifax, N.S.

Reference: Don Messer Nova Scotia Archives 1998-132 volume 071 number 152


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