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Donald M. McRitchie

Description
Don McRitchie was a political cartoonist with the Halifax Herald between 1920 and 1937. Many of his original cartoons were done on cardboard and drawn in ink. Topics ranged from sporting events and local issues to criticism of decisions made by all levels of government.

The entire fonds consists of 208 original sketches created between 1920 and 1937, with the majority dated 1920 to 1926. All of the sketches are made available digitally and are in the public domain.
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Donald M. McRitchie

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Dates: 1920 to 1937 (year approximate)
Collection: Donald M. McRitchie, Archival Catalogue
Description: Finding aid for the Donald M. McRitchie fonds.
Type: finding aid

A Deplorable Condition

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Dates: 1923
Collection: Donald M. McRitchie
Description: Ink sketch of the public sitting in the C.B. strike situation while an agitator and BESCO stoke with the fire with talk of revolution and refusal to grant Union's demands
Accession Number: 1900.007-RIT/101
Type: drawing

A Free Trade Dump

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Dates: 1921
Collection: Donald M. McRitchie
Description: Ink sketch of the U.S. dumping surplus American goods on Atlantic Canada
Accession Number: 1900.007-RIT/038
Type: drawing

A Hydro-Headed Monster

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Dates: 1922
Collection: Donald M. McRitchie
Description: Ink sketch of a two-headed bird labeled light bill and power bill monopoly, standing on a hydro-electric wire, cutting the Halifax taxpayer in half. Written in pencil below the image 'Are the dreams of the taxpayer to end / in a nightmare like this?' On reverse is another sketch in pencil, which has been scratched out
Accession Number: 1900.007-RIT/054
Type: drawing

A King Without a Throne

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Dates: 1926
Collection: Donald M. McRitchie
Description: Ink sketch of the storm of Parliamentary crisis sweeping away the Premiership, majority and one seat in Parliament. Written in pencil above the image "A KING WITHOUT A THRONE"
Accession Number: 1900.007-RIT/122
Type: drawing

A Little Service Please

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Dates: 1920
Collection: Donald M. McRitchie
Description: Ink sketch of a mob facing the weather man
Accession Number: 1900.007-RIT/001
Type: drawing

A Slippery Costumer

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Dates: 1922
Collection: Donald M. McRitchie
Description: Ink sketch of Halifax reaching for the hydro-electric eel, which is being caught by monopoly with a fishing line
Accession Number: 1900.007-RIT/058
Type: drawing

A Vagabond Crept Slowly In and Posed Upon the Floor

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Dates: one of the dates: 1920 until 1937
Collection: Donald M. McRitchie
Description: Ink sketch of City Hall legislation entering the House of Assembly. Written in pencil below the image "A vagabond crept slowly in and posed upon the floor"
Accession Number: 1900.007-RIT/174
Type: drawing

A Welcome Suggestion

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Dates: 1921
Collection: Donald M. McRitchie
Description: Ink sketch of US and J.B. laden with armaments sweating under a taxation sun. Written in pencil below the image 'A welcome suggestion'
Accession Number: 1900.007-RIT/018
Type: drawing

A Wonderful Crop

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Dates: 1922
Collection: Donald M. McRitchie
Description: Ink sketch of Nova Scotia's wildly growing hay, grain, and vegetables being cut by the Nova Scotia farmer. Written in pencil below image "WONDERFUL CROPS"
Accession Number: 1900.007-RIT/082
Type: drawing

All Balled Up

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Dates: one of the dates: 1920 until 1937
Collection: Donald M. McRitchie
Description: Ink sketch of Father Time holding old time and daylight saving time while Halifax asks him questions. Written in pencil below the image "all balled up"
Accession Number: 1900.007-RIT/170
Type: drawing

And He Passes By

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Dates: 1926
Collection: Donald M. McRitchie
Description: Ink sketch of the immigrant walking towards the West, past Nova Scotia and wonderful fruit lands, social life and education, great forest resources, inexhaustible fisheries, and great mineral wealth
Accession Number: 1900.007-RIT/142
Type: drawing

And the End is Not Yet

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Dates: 1921
Collection: Donald M. McRitchie
Description: Copy of an ink sketch of a man, representing the N.S. taxpayer, reading a large Book of Revelations.
Accession Number: 1900.007-RIT/003
Type: drawing

Asleep at His Post

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Dates: 1922
Collection: Donald M. McRitchie
Description: Ink sketch of a series of frames about hydro-electric power's death and resurrection.
Accession Number: 1900.007-RIT/062
Type: drawing

At the Dardanelle Inquiry

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Dates: 1926
Collection: Donald M. McRitchie
Description: Ink sketch of six men, one witness, and one judge sitting in a court room
Accession Number: 1900.007-RIT/148
Type: drawing