Beaubassin : and the Beginning of the Acadian Tragedy / by John G. McKay. Amherst, NS : John G. McKay, 2003. 51 pages : 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.551 #4 - Vertical File
Acadians
Acadians — Nova Scotia — History — Expulsion, 1755
Beaubassin (Acadia) — Genealogy
Beaubassin (Acadia) — History
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Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf
Washing, Bathing, Care of Hair and Teeth Amherst, NS : Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf. 23 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.549 #12 - Vertical File
Information on helping hard-of-hearing children with personal hygiene. Pages 191 to 214 Full series: V/F V549 #6 to #12
Deaf — Education — Atlantic Provinces
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Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf
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Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf
Toilet Training Amherst, NS : Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf. 31 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.549 #11 - Vertical File
Information on helping hard-of-hearing children use the washroom. Pages 159 to 190 Full series: V/F V549 #6 to #12
Deaf — Education — Atlantic Provinces
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Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf
Introduction to Dressing Amherst, NS : Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf. 28 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.549 #10 - Vertical File
Information on helping hard-of-hearing children get dressed. Most pages printed upside-down. Pages 130-158 Full series: V/F V549 #6 to #12
Deaf — Education — Atlantic Provinces
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Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf
Table Laying, Meal Preparation, Washing and Drying Dishes Amherst, NS : Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf. 11 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.549 #9 - Vertical File
Information on getting hard-of-hearing children to help with table laying and meal prep. Pages 117 to 128 Full series: V/F V549 #6 to #12
Deaf — Education — Atlantic Provinces
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Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf
Feeding Amherst, NS : Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf. 23 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.549 #8 - Vertical File
Information on getting hard-of-hearing children to eat. Pages 93 to 116 Full series: V/F V549 #6 to #12
Deaf — Education — Atlantic Provinces
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Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf
Moving About, Lifting Head and Chest, Sitting, Walking, etc. Amherst, NS : Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf. 35 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.549 #7 - Vertical File
Information on getting hard-of-hearing children to move. Part 2. Pages 57 to 92 Full series: V/F V549 #6 to #12
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Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf
General Information Amherst, NS : Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf. 56 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.549 #6 - Vertical File
Information on general care and education while working with hard-of-hearing children. Part 1. Pages 1 to 56 Full series: V/F V549 #6 to #12
Deaf — Education — Atlantic Provinces
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The New Scotian : Michael J. Marsden / resident editor Russell Fisher . Amherst, N.S. : Interprovincial Vocational School, 1973. 24 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.549 #4 - Vertical File
Volume XII October 1973 Number 1 Printed and published as learning experience by the lithography student at Interprovincial Vocational School Amherst, Nova Scotia. A federal interprovincial project.
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Marsden, Michael J. — Biography
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Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf
Interprovincial School 1969 : The Glooscap Amherst, NS : Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf, 1969. 1 volume (unnumbered) : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HV2579 M34 S36 1969
Yearbook for the Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf from the year 1969. Also contains a torn page, "Commissionaire 'Jim' Thompson" and "'Everyone's friend' Donald Fairfax".
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Cumberland County Genealogical Society
Five score and more : reflections of a centenarian Amherst, NS : Cumberland County Genealogical Society, 2017. 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 C84 Z48 2017 - Open Shelf
Biographical sketches of over 250 centenarians who have lived in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. Includes bibliographical references.
Centenarians — Nova Scotia — Cumberland (County)
Obituaries — Nova Scotia — Cumberland (County)
Cumberland (N.S. : County) — Genealogy
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Truro-Amherst, Antigonish and region : Criss Cross Directories / Might's Directories. Polk Canada Ltd., 1997- 3 volumes ; 34 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F91 N85 P758
Archives have 1 copy of 1997 and 2 copies of 1998.
Truro (N.S.) — Directories
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Once By Sea, Once By Land : genealogy of Elijah Brown 31 March 1780-30 September 1855 / prepared by Bliss L. Brown. Amherst, NS. : Cumberland County Genealogical Society, 2018. 3 volumes : illustrations.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 B88 2018 - Open Shelf
Once By Sea, Once By Land" is a three volume 1100 page collection of genealogy and history based upon the ancestry and descendants of Elijah Brown (31 March 1780 - 30 September 1855). The story begins in England 1635, to Boston, then New Hampshire and Maine before his marriage 1802 in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. The families of Elijah and Henrietta (Cannon) Brown spread across Colchester and Cumberland counties of Nova Scotia, Westmorland County of New Brunswick and Elgin County, Ontario. The wide span of family names include Siddall, Piers, Carter, Welton, Hughes, Fife, Brundage, Jeffers, Skidmore, Kennedy, Tabor, Edwards, Pettigrew, Thompson, Allen, Canning, Harrison, Hoeg, Bird, Atkinson, Cochrane, Bowden, Dowe, Quinn and of course, Brown; and so many more. Pages also include over 300 photographs and numerous obituaries. Authored by Bliss Brown (Elijah's great-great-great-grandson), after more than 40 years of research. Volume 1: Once by Sea. Book 1, Genealogy of Elijah Brown, 31 March 1780 - 30 September 1855. His Ancestors Volume 2: Once by Land. Book 2, Genealogy of Elijah Brown, 31 March 1780 - 30 September 1855. His Descendants Volume 3: Once by Land. Book 2 Continued, Genealogy of Elijah Brown, 31 March 1780 - 30 September 1855. His Descendants.
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Finding Emma : my search for the family my grandfather never knew / Amy Whorf McGuiggan. Amherst, Massachusetts : Small Batch Books, 2019. xiv, 231 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS71 O81 2019 - Open Shelf
In this heartwarming voyage of discovery, Amy Whorf McGuiggan brings us to 18th-century Acadia (present-day Canada) to meet her ancestors, and then connects them back to New England. Every genealogist has a story to tell, and the author takes us along for her in-depth research with a narrative that brings her ancestors' story alive" - David Allen Lambert, chief genealogist, New England Historic Genealogical Society. Includes bibliographical references.
Osborne family
Downing family
Acadians — Genealogy
Acadia — Genealogy
Salem (Mass.) — Genealogy
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Bards & Co's business and professional directory of Halifax, Amherst, Charlottetown, Dartmouth, Chatham, Fredericton, Kentville, Moncton, New Glasgow, Sydney, N. Sydney, Pictou, Quebec, St. John, St. Stephen, Summerside, Yarmouth, Woodstock, Truro, Windso New York ; Toronto : Bards & Co., 1900. 72 frames.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 08249 - Open Shelf Internet Archive
Nova Scotia — Directories
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Red Tarn, or, The vision of the lake a thrillig temperance poem in fourteen cantos / by S.O. Fulton. Amherst : 1872. 87 frames.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 06050 - Open Shelf Internet Archive
Tempérance — Poésie
Temperance — Poetry
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The emergence of class consciousness in industrial Nova Scotia a study of Amherst, 1891-1925 / J. Nolan Reilly. Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1986. 360 frames ; 11 X 15 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche R362 - Open Shelf
Trade-unions — Nova Scotia — Amherst
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A labour aristocracy skilled labour in Amherst, Nova Scotia, 1891-1914 Ottawa : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1991.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche L364 - Open Shelf
University Microfilms order no. UMI00290307.
Skilled labour — Nova Scotia — Amherst
Amherst N.S. — Social conditions
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Claude deL Black's directory of the town of Amherst, N.S Amherst : Black, 1901. 86 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3292 - Open Shelf
Covers the years 1899-1901.
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Amherst Directory Amherst.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3291-3292 - Open Shelf
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School furniture / A.D. Smith. Amherst : A.D. Smith, 1928. 11, 1 pages : illustrations; 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S V/F V.27 #21 - Oversize Vertical File
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Amherst, Nova Scotia / Amherst Area Industrial Commission. Amherst : 1986. 8 pages: illustrations; maps; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S V/F V.26 #21 - Oversize Vertical File
Amherst Area Industrial Commission
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Our architectural heritage: a celebration of Amherst's architecture / text by Leslie Childs. Amherst: Amherst Township Historical Society, 2000. 1 v. unpaged : illustrations; 14 x 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.543 #16 - Vertical File
Historic buildings—Nova Scotia—Amherst
Architecture—Nova Scotia—Amherst
"Amherst (N.S.)—Buildings, structures, etc."
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A story of the Copelands, from County Wexford, Ireland to Amherst, Nova Scotia / Jennie M. MacPhee. Vancouver, B.C. : Jennie MacPhee, 197-. 66 pages : illustrations; 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.543 #5 - Vertical File
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Report on preliminary study - Stewiacke River Colchester Co., Nova Scotia / prepared by the Department of Forestry and Rural Development. Amherst : The Dept., 1966. 13, 10, 5 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.533 #28 - Vertical File
Cover title: Report of preliminary study Stewiacke River, N.S.
Canada. Dept. of Forestry and Rural Development.
Flood control — Nova Scotia
Stewiacke River (N.S.)
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