Running the gauntlet : an oral history of Canadian merchant seamen in World War II / by Mike Parker. Halifax : Nimbus, 1994. xi, 344 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D810 T8 P37 1994
Merchant marine — Canada — History — 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Atlantic Ocean
Merchant mariners — Canada — Biography.
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The merchant navy fights ; tramps against U-boats London : J. Murray, 1940. 121 pages : front. ; 19 1/2 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D810 T8 D618 M554
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian
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The Ajax affair: citizens and sailors in wartime Halifax, 1939-1945 / by James F. E. White. Halifax : the Author, 1984. vii, 120 pages: illustrations; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D810 C36 C212 W585
Halifax (N.S.) — History — 20th century
Halifax (N.S.) — History — 1939-1945
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The prisoner of Ottawa : Otto Strasser / by Douglas Reed. London : Cape 1953. 272 pages ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D805 C212 R323
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Mona Parsons : from privilege to prison, from Nova Scotia to Nazi Europe / Andria Hill. Halifax : Nimbus, 2000. 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D802 N4 H645 2000
World War, 1939-1945 — Underground movements — Netherlands Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Prisoners and prisons, German
Prisoners of war — Germany Biography
Prisoners of war — Canada Biography.
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Through footless halls of air : the stories of a few of the many who failed to return / Floyd Williston ; foreword by J.E. (Johnnie) Johnson. Burnstown, ON. : General Store Publishing, 1996. xxvii, 310 pages : illustrations, maps
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D792 C2 W54 1996
World War, 1939-1945 — Aerial operations, Canadian
Airmen — Atlantic Provinces — Biography.
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U-boats against Canada : German submarines in Canadian waters / Michael L. Hadley. Kingston, ON. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985. xxii, 360 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D781 H32 1985
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations — Submarine
World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Atlantic Ocean
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian
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Collision at sea / Gregory P. Pritchard. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1993. 178 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D779 P75 1993
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On the triangle run / James B. Lamb. Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1986. xv, 237 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D779 C3 L35
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Atlantic Ocean.
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In all respects ready : the Merchant Navy and the Battle of the Atlantic, 1940-1945 / Frederick B. Watt. Scarborough, ON. : Prentice-Hall Canada, 1985. xviii, 222 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map, po
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D779 C2 W37 1985
World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Atlantic Ocean
World War, 1939-1945 — Transportation
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
Merchant marine — Canada — History — 20th century.
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White plumes astern : the short, daring life of Canada's MTB Flotilla / C. Anthony Law. Halifax : Nimbus, 1989. 170 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D779 C2 L38
Includes index.
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian
Torpedo-boats — Canada.
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Canada's war at sea Montreal : A.M. Beatty, 1944. 2 v. in 1. : illustrations (part col.), ports., maps ; 30 c
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D779 C2 C3 1944
Leacock, Stephen Butler, 1869-1944
Roberts, Leslie, 1896-
Morton, J. Alexander
Ward, Wallace.
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations
World War, 1939-1945 — Canada
Canada — History, Naval.
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Through the corridors of hell / George H. Evans. 1st ed. Antigonish : Formac Publishing, 1980. 99 pages, 5 pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D770 E92
World War, 1939-1945 — Arctic Ocean
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian.
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An East coast port-- Halifax at war, 1939-1945 / compiled and edited by Graham Metson ; with the assistance of Cheryl Lean. Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1981. 157 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D768.15 H173
World War, 1939-1945 — Nova Scotia — Halifax
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Social aspects — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Halifax (N.S.) — History.
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Alex Colville : diary of a war artist / compiled by Graham Metson and Cheryl Lean. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 1981. 159 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D743.2 C727
Lean, Cheryl
Metson, Graham, 1934-
Painters — Canada — Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Art and the war.
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The epic of Vimy / compiled and edited by W.W. Murray. 2nd ed. Ottawa : The Legionary, 1937. 223 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D680 F8 M984
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A cenotaph rises : the missing heroes / Arthur Thurston. Yarmouth : A. Thurston Publications, 1991. 48 pages.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D680 C212 T544
War memorials — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth — History
World War, 1914-1918 — Monuments — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth — History
World War, 1914-1918 — Registers of dead — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth (County)
Soldiers
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Percy Willmot : Cape Bretoner at war / Brian Douglas Tennyson. Sydney : Cape Breton University Press, 2007. 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D640 W744 2007
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Willmot, Percy, — 1884-1919 — Correspondence.
Soldiers — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Correspondence
World War, 1914-1918 — Personal narratives, Canadian.
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The letters of a young Canadian soldier during World War I : P. Winthrop McClare of Mount Uniacke, N.S / edited by Dale McClare. Dartmouth : Brook House Press, 2000. xiii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D640 M213 2000
Soldiers — Canada Correspondence
World War, 1914-1918 Personal narratives, Canadian.
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My darling girl : wartime letters of James Lloyd Evans, 1914-1918 / edited by Susan Evans Shaw. Hamilton, ON. : S. Evans Shaw, 1999. 120 pages : port. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D640 E82 1999
Includes indexes.
World War, 1914-1918 — Personal narratives, Canadian
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Bishop, Harold Fletcher, 1896-1919
As ever, the wartime letters written by Cpl. Harold Fletcher Bishop : A Student from Acadia University / compiled by John Bishop Grant. Sydney : John Bishop Grant, 2016. 158 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D640 B547 2016
Harold Bishop, of Auburn, Nova Scotia was a member of the Class of 1917 at Acadia University. Upon completing his sophomore year in 1915 he, along with the majority of men in his graduating class, joined the 4th University Company of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. This is a compilation of his letters sent from training bases and the front lines of France to the home front. In them, he thanks those who wrote to him and sent parcels, as well as he advises his brothers how they should enlist. A personal story of military service, including mention of the loss of friends in combat. Bishop demonstrateds his attachment to family, the importance of his faith, and the connections to those he knew on the campus of Acadia and in his home community. Includes index.
Bishop, Harold Fletcher, — 1896-1919 — Correspondence
Canada. — Canadian Army. — Battalion (Eastern Ontario Regiment), 2nd — Biography
Acadia University — Students — Biography
World War, 1914-1918 — Personal narratives, Canadian
Soldiers — Nova Scotia — Biography
Soldiers — Canada — Biography
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The war diary of Clare Gass 1915-1918 / edited and introduced by Susan Mann. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. xlvii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D630 G38 A3 2000
World War, 1914-1918 — Medical care — France
World War, 1914-1918 — Medical care — Canada.
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The secret war 1914-1918 / Stuart Ramsay Tompkins. Victoria B.C. : Morriss Publishing, 1981. 71 pages : port. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D610 T662
World War, 1914-1918 — Diplomatic history.
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The C.E.F. roll of honour : members and former members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force who died as a result of service in the Great War, 1914-1919 / compiled and edited by Edward H. Wigney. Ottawa : Eugene Ursual, 1996. 867 pages ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D609 C2 W54 1996
World War, 1914-1918 — Registers of dead — Canada.
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First World War honour roll of Guysborough County, Nova Scotia / Bruce F. MacDonald. Antigonish : Bantry Publishing, 2015. Volumes : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm. Issued also in electronic format.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D609 C2 M25 2015
The book contains profiles of 71 First World War soldiers from Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, all of whom died while in uniform, the majority in military combat. The stories in volume I are arranged chronologically by date of death and covering the years 1915 to 1917 inclusive while volume II focuses in on 1918-1937. The profiles provide a glimpse into the events of the war through the soldiers' stories, and details what life was like for returning soldiers. While the majority served with Nova Scotian battalions, some served with units from New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario and Western Canada, also providing a glimpse into the roles of various military battalions and some non-combat units in the war's events. Includes index.
Canada. — Canadian Armed Forces — Registers of dead
World War, 1914-1918 — Registers of dead — Nova Scotia — Guysborough (County)
Soldiers — Nova Scotia — Guysborough (County) — Biography
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