The definitive academic resource on the Great Influenza by celebrated historian behind Black Loyalists, in time for the pandemic's centenary. It could kill in as little as ten hours. Extremely high fever, bleeding from eyes, nose, and ears, terrible pain, especially in the head and the joints, delirium--and then its victims literally drowned in their own fluids. Fifty to 100 million people worldwide died in this global pandemic in the early twentieth century. The Great Influenza first entered Nova Scotia through ports. (Sydney, Cape Breton, received five hundred sick American troops in a single day.) For three years, the province coped with this vicious epidemic as it spread like wildfire. Local economies ceased functioning; fishing fleets, banks, and apple-canning factories reported all staff were suffering from the flu. The heart of this book, however, is its human element. Oral histories, family memoirs, newspaper articles, and provincial death records tell, county by county, stories of those who died. Accompanied by 20 photographs, Nova Scotia and the Great Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1920 chronicles both provincial and personal efforts to cope during this most perilous time. Includes bibliographical references.

Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 — Nova Scotia — Sources
Influenza — Patients — Nova Scotia — Biography — Sources
Nova Scotia — Biography — Sources
Nova Scotia — History — 20th century — Sources

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Includes indexes.

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

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Series: Nova Scotia Archives I.

Published under a resolution of the House of Assembly passed March 15, 1865 ; edited by Thomas B Akins, D.C.L. Commissioner of Public Records ; the translations from the French by Benjamin Curren.

Contains: Papers relating to the Acadian French. 1714-1755. Papers relating to the forcible removal of the Acadian French from Nova Scotia, 1755-1768. Papers relating to the French encroachments in Nova Scotia, 1749-1754, and the war in North America, 1754-1761. Papers relating to the first settlement of Halifax. 1749-1756. Papers relating to the first establishment of a representative assembly in Nova Scotia. 1755-1761.

Website: Records of the Deportation and Le Grand Dérangement, 1714-1768

Akins, Thomas Beamish, 1809-1891
Curren, Benjamin

Nova Scotia. House of Assembly
Acadians
Acadians — Expulsion, 1755
Nova Scotia — History — 1713-1775
United States — History — French and Indian War, 1755-1763 — Sources

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Haliburton's Nova Scotia. Errors in paging: v.1., p. 302, 303 are numbered 202, 203; v.2, p. 164, 175, 176 numbered 152, 177, 178 respectively. Both volumes include indexes. Includes bibliographical references.

Nova Scotia — History — Sources
Nova Scotia — Description and travel — 1785-1850

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