Uniacke House, Acacia Grove, Winckworth, Saint's Rest, Spruce Tree Cottage. Ever wonder how Nova Scotia houses got their names? The better-known names are largely connected with prominent historical figures who resided in commodious homes with sprawling grounds, but the naming tradition was far more prevalent than that. In this book, the author explains that a "hurst" is a wooded eminence, a hillock, or a grove, and this suffix lends an air of nobility to a property-Springhurst in Maitland, Lindenhurst in Halifax, and the ubiquitous Elmhurst, which appears in various communities. Named houses have a certain essence and vitality about them. Named or not, places do possess character-and putting a name to something that exhibits character makes sense on some level. Historic House Names of Nova Scotia provides a fascinating look at the house-naming tradition in Nova Scotia. What sorts of names did Bluenosers create, and what did the names mean? Author and historian Joe Ballard has amassed a wealth of historical information and photos on the subject.

House names — Nova Scotia — History
Nova Scotia — History

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In 1892, Mary Kaulbach came to Truro to attend the Provincial Normal School. Her diary provides a glimpse into the life of a young woman in Victorian Truro and at Normal.

Students — Nova Scotia — Diaries
Teachers colleges — Nova Scotia
Truro (N.S.) — History — 19th century
Nova Scotia — Genealogy

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Volume 2.

Queens (N.S. : County) — History — Pictorial works
Queens (N.S. : County) — Pictorial works
Nova Scotia — History — Pictorial works

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In this brilliant follow-up to the bestselling Then & Now, award-winning photographer Len Wagg again takes readers back through time. Aerial landscapes shot in dazzling colour from Louisbourg to Church Point are contrasted with black-and-white photos from the Nova Scotia Archives collection. Readers will see high rises where there were once open fields; stark vistas filled in with residences and windmills. In some side-by-side pairings, the change is startling; in others, subtle. Nova Scotia from the Air is both a photo book and an historical study. Wagg flew over towns and landmarks from one end of the province to the other, recreating scenes from archival photos dating back to the 1930s. This remarkable collection of then-and-now images shows both the growth and the decline of this province by the sea. The 100 photographs evoke nostalgia and surprise.

Cities and towns — Nova Scotia — History — Pictorial works
Historic sites — Nova Scotia — Pictorial works
Historic sites — Nova Scotia — History
Cities and towns — Nova Scotia — History
Nova Scotia — Aerial photographs
Nova Scotia — History — Pictorial works
Nova Scotia — Pictorial works
Nova Scotia — History

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Nova Scotia Series I. This volume was prepared not only to make available in the first instance Rev. Richard John Uniacke's "Sketches of Cape Breton", which were written at Sydney, N.S., between 1862 and 1865, but also to present a number of additional descriptions of the Island from the pens of other writers at interviews between the founding of Sydney in 1785 and the year 1862.

Fergusson, Charles Bruce, 1911-1978

Public Archives of Nova Scotia

Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Genealogy
Nova Scotia — Genealogy
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Description and travel

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Nova Scotia Series III.

Website: Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia

Fergusson, Charles Bruce, 1911-1978

Names, Geographical — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Gazetteers
Nova Scotia — History

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Series : Bulletin of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia. No. 18.

Fergusson, Charles Bruce, 1911-1978

Archives — Nova Scotia — Periodicals
Nova Scotian Institute of Science — History

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Series : Bulletin of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia. No. 14.

Fergusson, Charles Bruce, 1911-1978

Archives — Nova Scotia — Periodicals
Libraries — Nova Scotia — History
Library Science — Nova Scotia — History
Mechanics' Institutes — History
Adult Education — Nova Scotia — History
Nova Scotia — Intellectual Life
Nova Scotia — Economic Conditions

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British Americans — Correspondence
British — Nova Scotia — Correspondence
Nova Scotia — Emigration and immigration — History

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Halifax's History as with photographs of historic Halifax. Copy 1: NA747 H173 C733 Copy 2: NA747 H173 C733 C.2

photographs by Alvin Comiter

text by Elizabeth Pacey

History—Halifax (N.S. County)
Nova Scotia—Pictorial works

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Includes bibliographies.

Architecture, Domestic — Nova Scotia
Dwellings — Nova Scotia
Building, Wooden
Historic buildings — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — History

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Includes bibliographies.

Architecture, Domestic — Nova Scotia
Dwellings — Nova Scotia
Building, Wooden
Historic buildings — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — History

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Technical University of Nova Scotia — History
Nova Scotia Technical College — Alumni and alumnae
Technical University of Nova Scotia — Alumni and alumnae — Biography
DalTech — Alumni and alumnae
Dalhousie University — Faculty of Engineering — Alumni and alumnae

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Parliamentary democracy in Nova Scotia, how it began, how it evolved.

Nouvelle-Écosse. Assemblée législative

Nova Scotia. — House of Assembly
Representative government and representation — Nova Scotia
Democracy — Nova Scotia — History
Nova Scotia — Politics and government
Nova Scotia — History

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Black people — Nova Scotia — History — 19th century
Black people — Nova Scotia — Social conditions — 19th century
Black Canadians — Social conditions — 19th century
Black Canadians — History — 19th century
Freed persons — Nova Scotia — History — 19th century
Refugees — Nova Scotia — History — 19th century
Enslaved persons — United States — History — 19th century
Black people — Migrations — History — 19th century
United States — History — War of 1812 — Blacks
United States — History — War of 1812 — Refugees
Nova Scotia — History — 1763-1867
Nova Scotia — Race relations — History — 19th century

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This book with its authentic stories, its many pictures, and genealogical data, gives an excellent visit into the past. Library copy signed by Author.

Caldwell family
Gaspereau (N.S.) — History
Nova Scotia — Genealogy

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This compelling history is drawn from the papers of the Crouse-Eikle family, discovered in their ancestral home in Crousetown in Lunenburg County on Nova Scotia's South Shore. Millwright John Will Crouse (1844-1914) kept a meticulous diary spanning five decades. Reflective by nature, he recorded the challenges of work, pondered the intricacies of communal life, and wrote movingly of his personal and spiritual struggles. His daughter Elvira Crouse Eikle reported on village events for local newspapers, and her son, Harold Eikle (1912-1977), a gifted teacher and musician, wrote letters and family history. Harold's correspondence celebrated the social liberations of the 1930s and beyond, but also showed their limits in the suffering he experienced as a gay man in a heterosexual world. Using the family papers, other unpublished documents and oral history, Robert M. Mennel connects the experiences of the Crouse-Eikle family and their community to larger themes of social and cultural change in North America. A story of vivid personalities and episodes, by turns sad, conflicted, joyful, bitter, funny and reflective, Testimonies and Secrets will be read with pleasure by scholars and general readers alike. Includes bibliographical references pages 269-300 and index.

Crouse family — Diaries
Eikle family — Diaries
Gay men — Biography
Crousetown (N.S.) — History
Nova Scotia — History — Diaries.

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'The rumble got louder, the walls quaked as if in fear, and the classroom's windows started to pulse and shake before they completely shattered, showering everyone inside with glass.' On December 6, 1917, the face of Halifax changed forever when the Imo, a Belgian Relief ship, collided with the French ship, the Mont Blanc. Shortly after 9:00 a.m., the Mont Blanc, which was carrying a large cargo of explosives, blew up. It destroyed much of the city's north end and neighbouring communities like Tuft's Cove and Dartmouth. The effect was catastrophic. Almost immediately, aid was rushed to Halifax as survivors and workers dug through rubble and ruins for friends and family. Over 2,000 people died and 9,000 were injured, while countless others were rendered homeless. As news broke about the explosion, newspapers from Toronto to Hawaii and France to Australia scrambled to provide readers with updated information. These and other stories gave face to a disaster which, at the time, was a mix of ever-changing statistics, details, and questions about blame. Often the reports were exaggerated and erroneous. In Halifax, newspapers carried lists of the injured, dead, and missing alongside a collection of notices and ads. This strange juxtaposition showed just how quickly the explosion had happened as holiday-themed advertisements mixed with notices about relief and stories of survival and death. Together, they present the overarching image of Halifax at the time - survival and confusion - while separately they show just how much impact one event had. Katie Ingram is a Halifax-based freelance journalist and writer.

Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917
Disasters — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Nova Scotia — Halifax — Press coverage
Journalism — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History

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Fisheries — Nova Scotia — History
Ships — Nova Scotia — History
Nova Scotia — Biography

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

MacDonald, Angus L. — (Angus Lewis), — 1890-1954
Canada. — Royal Canadian Navy — History
Prime Ministers — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — Politics and Government

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McBurney, Margaret

Historic buildings — Nova Scotia
Pioneers — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — History

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bates, Robin

Tourism — Nova Scotia — History
Tourism — Government policy — Nova Scotia
Collective memory — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Historiography

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This guidebook explores 70 of Nova Scotia's historic industrial sites. If you drive across Nova Scotia, you will see abandoned rail lines and sleepy towns that once hummed with mills and mines. If you look closely enough, you will see the remnants of the province's industrial revolution, which began in the 1850s and faded away a century later. Author and historian David Rollinson identifies and explores many of the historic sites and cultural artifacts that record this era. Included are over 70 sites of interest from across the province, from the shipbuilding display at the Bear River Heritage Museum to the Digby Rail Trails on the old rail bed out of Digby, which overlooks the Annapolis Basin. Organized by industry - power, natural resources, agriculture, crafts, and transportation - and by county, and featuring 60 fascinating images, Nova Scotia's Industrial Heritage will appeal to tourists travelling by car as well as locals interested in industry, their roots, and social change. David Rollinson's interest in industrial heritage and the history of technology was sparked by a visit to a vintage machinery display as a youngster. After years of historic preservation work in the Caribbean, David moved to Nova Scotia. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Historic industrial sites — Nova Scotia — Guidebooks
Nova Scotia — Economic conditions
Nova Scotia — History

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Includes indexes.

Nova Scotia — History — Periodicals
Nova Scotia — History — Sources — Periodicals

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-203) index.

Broussard, Joseph, — 1702-1765
Surette, Pierre, — 1709-
Acadians — Nova Scotia — Biography
Acadians — Nova Scotia — History
Acadians — Expulsion, 1755
Nova Scotia — History — 1713-1775

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