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