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Uniacke, Richard John, 1807-1887

Uniacke's Sketches of Cape Breton : and other papers relating to Cape Breton Island / edited with an introduction and notes by C. Bruce Fergusson, M.A, D. Phil. (Oxon.), Archivist of Nova Scotia.  Halifax, NS : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1958. ix, 198 pages : portrait, maps (3 folded) : 24 cm.

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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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Public Archives of Nova Scotia

Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia / with an introduction by Charles Bruce Fergusson, Archivist of Nova Scotia.  Halifax : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1967. vi, 751 pages, 18 folded leaves of plates : county maps ; 24 cm.

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Public Archives of Nova Scotia

Nova Scotian Institute of Science : Bulletin of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia No. 18 / by Charles Bruce Fergusson, Provincial Archivist.  Halifax : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1963. 36 pages ; 26 cm.

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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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Public Archives of Nova Scotia

Mechanics' Institutes in Nova Scotia : Bulletin of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia No. 14 / prepared by C. Bruce Fergusson, Provincial Archivist.  Halifax : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1960. 47 pages ; 26 cm.

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DeWolfe, Barbara

Discoveries of America: letters of British emigrants to America on the eve of the Revolution - From Perspectives in American History, New Series 3, 1987 1987. pages 1-80.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.342 #7 - Vertical File

Pacey, Elizabeth

Historic Halifax / by Elizabeth Pacey.  Willowdale : Hounslow Press, 1988. 159 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NA747 H173 C733

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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Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia

Seasoned Timbers. Volume 2 : Some Historic Buildings from Nova Scotia's South Shore / compiled by Heritage Trust Book Committee.  Halifax : Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia, 1974. 156 pages : illustrations, 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NA7242 N93 H54 v.2

Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia

Seasoned Timbers. Volume 1 : A Sampling of Historic Buildings Unique to Western Nova Scotia / compiled by Heritage Trust Book Committee.  Halifax : Petheric Press, 1972. 151 pages : illustrations, 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NA7242 N93 H54 v.1

Marble, Allan Everett

The house that Sexton built : a century of outstanding graduates / Allan E. Marble, Verilea D. Ellis.  Tantallon : Glen Margaret Publishing, 2007. 101 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LE3 T255 M312 2007

Buckie, Catherine

La démocratie parlementaire en Nouvelle-Écosse : début et évolution / Catherine Buckie.  Halifax : Chambre d'assemblée, Nouvelle-Écosse, 2011. iv, 64 pages : colour illustrations, portraits (some colour), colour maps ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - J223.5 R46 B8214 2011

Whitfield, Harvey Amani, 1974-

Blacks on the border : the Black refugees in British North America, 1815-1860 / Harvey Amani Whitfield.  Burlington, VT : Hanover : University of Vermont Press ; University Press of New England, 2006. xiii, 179 pages : maps ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2350 B6 W595 2006 - Open Shelf

Potter, L. Ross

Gaspereau : a river runs through it : interesting stories of interesting people from the village of Gaspereau, Nova Scotia collected here with geneological information / by L. Ross Potter.  Kentville : Published by Ross Potter : Printed for author at Gaspereau Press, 2007. 413 pages : illustrations, 1 fold. map ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2349 G37 P68 2007 - Open Shelf

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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Mennel, Robert M.

Testimonies and Secrets : the Story of a Nova Scotia family, 1844-1977 / Robert M. Mennel.  Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2013. xiii, 219 pages : illustrations , maps ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2349 C76 Z48 2013 - Open Shelf

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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Ingram, Katie

Breaking Disaster : Newspaper Stories of the Halifax Explosion / Katie Ingram.  East Lawrencetown : Pottersfield Press, 2017. 159 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2346.4 I54 2017 - Open Shelf

'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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Doucette, J. Donald

Surette's Island, West Pubnico & Georges Bank — My Memoirs / by J. Donald Doucette.  Lower West Pubnico : J.D. Doucette, 2008. 272 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 Y3 Z49 2008 - Open Shelf

Henderson, T. Stephen

Angus L. MacDonald : a Provincial Liberal / T. Stephen Henderson.  Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2006. viii, 300 pages : illustrations

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2325.1 M32 H45 2006 - Open Shelf

Byers, Mary

Atlantic hearth : early homes and families of Nova Scotia / Mary Byers and Margaret McBurney.  Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1994. 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2312 B94 1994 - Open Shelf

McKay, Ian

In the province of history : the making of the public past in twentieth-century Nova Scotia / Ian McKay and Robin Bates.  Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010. viii, 481 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2311 M337 2010 - Open Shelf

Rollinson, David

Nova Scotia's Industrial Heritage : A Guidebook / David Rollinson.  Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 2017. v, 138 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2307 R65 2017 - Open Shelf

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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Nova Scotia Historical Society

Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society / compiled by members of the Nova Scotia Historical Society.  Belleville, ON : Mika Publishing Co., 1976-1977. 8 v. in 2

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2302 N935 - Open Shelf

Includes indexes.

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

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Marshall, Dianne

Heroes of the Acadian Resistance : The Story of Joseph (Beausoleil) Broussard and Pierre Surette, 1715-1755 / Dianne Marshall.  Halifax : Formac Publishing, 2011.  207 pages : map ; 23 cm. Also issued in electronic format.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2043 M37 2011 - Open Shelf

Savary, A. W. (Alfred William), 1831-1920

Supplement to the History of the County of Annapolis correcting and supplying omissions in the original volume / by A.W. Savary.  Toronto : William Briggs, 1913. xv, 142 pages, 10 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F106 AN7 SA9

See also: History of the county of Annapolis : including old Port Royal and Acadia : with memoirs of its representatives in the provincial parliament, and biographical and genealogical sketches of its early English settlers and their families / by W.A. Calnek ; edited and completed by A.W. Savary. Includes index. (reprinted by Mika Publishing in 1973)

Calnek, W. A. (William Arthur), 1822-1892

Annapolis County (N.S.) — History
Annapolis (N.S. : County) — Genealogy
Nova Scotia — History

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Nova Scotia. Commissioner of Public Records

Selections from the public documents of the Province of Nova Scotia / edited by Thomas Beamish Akins, Commissioner of Public Records.  Halifax : Charles Annand, 1869. ii, 755 pages, 1 folded plate, 2 folded facsimilies : 22 cm.

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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, Thomas Chandler

An Historical and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia : In Two Volumes / by Thomas C. Haliburton.  Halifax : Printed and published by Joseph Howe, 1829. 2 volumes (viii, 340 pages : viii; 453 pages, iii) : illustrations, maps : 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 H13

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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D'Entremont, Henri Leander, 1862-

Forts of Cape Sable of the seventeenth century / by Henri Leander D'Entremont.  Yarmouth : R.H. Davis & co., ltd., 1938. 106 pages ; 18 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F95 D43 F77

First Copy: F95 D43 F77 Second Copy: F95 D43 F77 C.2

Cape Sable Island (N.S.)—History
Nova Scotia— History
Cape Sable Island (N.S.)
Islands—Nova Scotia

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