The Future of Our Past Council of Nova Scotia Archives

The Bedford Heritage Society was formed in 1980 at the urging of Bedford resident and local history buff Joseph Foy. The Society charged itself with the collection of photographs and stories from Bedford's past. The Society's collection boasts 500 negatives, from the collection of the late Fred Emmerson, of images of Bedford during World War I. The collection is also home to approximately 2500 photos from the O. Bertram-Stubbs Studio.

View of Bedford [ca.1900] Photo produced by the O. Bertram-Stubbs Studio. It shows a view of central Bedford prior to 1910. Looking east from what today is Douglas Dr., is a horse pulling a wagon of logs on what today is Meadowbrook Dr. Most of these houses are still standing. The church in the mid ground is St. Anne’s, the Catholic Church, later renamed St. Ignatius and in 1932 the present church building was built around this one and then it was dismantled and “thrown out the windows of the new one.”