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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Chronicle about the changes that have happened in health care within Nova Scotia through the years including the expansion of health care into rural communities, the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918, the Halifax Explosion of 1917, and deployed health professionals during war. Includes a bibliography and an index for easy searching at the back of the book.

Medicare — Nova Scotia
Medical Care — History — Nova Scotia

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Debt and bad management drove Abraham Gesner off his farm in Nova Scotia's bucolic Annapolis Valley in 1825. It turned out to be a stroke of luck. While doing medical courses in London hospitals, he encountered the industrial revolution. Attending sundry lectures and demonstrations, he got his first whiff of the rapidly developing new sciences of chemistry, geology and natural history. He was hooked! Back home, traveling about the country visiting patients, he honed his observational skills, finally producing pioneering geological surveys of all three Maritime provinces. Imitating procedures which he had first observed while abroad, he experimented with "cracking" coal to generate the tars, oils and gases which fueled the industrial revolution. In the process, he produced "kerosene" - an illuminating gas and an oil - which revolutionized artificial lighting and generated much industry. Because he explored with native guides and advocated on their behalf, he served for a time as Indian Commissioner. An engaging lecturer, he addressed audiences on many scientific subjects and developed the region's first natural history museum; he wrote articles and books describing the region and extolling its potential for development. His final publication was a textbook of hydrocarbon chemistry. Local lawsuits over mining rights and patent infringements caused him to move to New York. Still more lawsuits drove him back to his native land where he died, shortly after being appointed to a coveted lectureship in Dalhousie University. Includes bibliographic references and index.

Gesner, Abraham, — 1797-1864
Geologists — Maritime Provinces — Biography
Inventors — Maritime Provinces — Biography
Natural history — Maritime Provinces
Mining leases — Maritime Provinces
Mines and mineral resources — Maritime Provinces — History
Mineral industries — Maritime Provinces — History

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Author Dan Soucoup takes readers from the eighteenth century to present day, detailing the blizzards, floods, tornadoes, and tsunamis that have brought havoc to the East Coast.

Mombourquette, Angela

Storms — Atlantic Provinces — History
Storms — Nova Scotia — History

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Research, compilation and notes by Gervais (Garvie) Samson. St. Cécile-Marie, F.J. (Annie Adèle Samson) (1891-2004), Teacher and Poet. Celebrating 113 years and 9 months of service Includes bibliographical references.

Samson, Garvie

Canadian poetry — Women authors
Canadian poetry — 21st century
Canadian poetry — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Poetry

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Compiled work from Canadian authors (poets, writers, and playwrights) written and compiled by members of the Canadian Author's Association Atlantic Branch. Completes the trilogy of anthologies from the CAA-Atlantic Branch - Atlantic Voices in 1994 and Atlantic Echoes in 1998.

Canadian poetry — Nova Scotia
Canadian fiction — Nova Scotia
Canadian poetry — 20th century
Canadian fiction — 20th century
Nova Scotia — History

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Rather than thinking of Maud Lewis as an artist who was untrained, unskilled, and worked in total isolation, we ought to reframe her as an artist who, through her observation of landscape and culture, created composite images of what inspired her." Upon seeing the title of this work, you could be forgiven for asking, "Another book about Maud Lewis? Is there anything left to say, or is this just one more voice laying claim to her story and legacy?" After all, Lewis's work has been marketed and co-opted as part of the larger folk identity in Nova Scotia for decades. But something has been missing from that discourse all these years. In Painted Worlds, Dalton explores what always seems to be lacking in the storytelling and mythmaking surrounding Maud Lewis: she situates Lewis's work within a wider context of art history. Discussions of technique, intent, and colour theory permeate these pages. Instead of reducing Lewis to her cute black cats and whimsical rural scenes, Dalton takes us on a deep dive of the artist's oeuvre, through the lens of critical art history inquiry. That is, Dalton does not simply regard the paintings as ethnographic objects of rural Nova Scotia, but as serious works of art to be carefully examined. The result is a rigorous analysis that grants Lewis's work--and thus, her legacy--a measure of the dignity and respect denied to her in real life. Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-172) and index.

Lewis, Maud, 1903-1970 — Criticism and interpretation

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Political Cartoons from the Chronicle-Herald and the Mail-Star by Robert Chambers from 1967.

Political cartoons — Canada
Caricatures and cartoons — Canada
Canada — Politics and government — Humor

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Political Cartoons from the Chronicle-Herald and the Mail-Star by Robert Chambers from 1966.

Political cartoons — Canada
Caricatures and cartoons — Canada
Canada — Politics and government — Humor

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The story of Don Messer and his fiddle that made him a nation figure in Canadian music history.

Leahy, Frank, 1961-

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Messer, Don, 1909-1973
Leahy, Frank, 1961-
Don Messer's jubilee (Television program)
Fiddlers — Canada — Biography

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This edited collection offers a broad reinterpretation of the origins of Canada. Drawing on cutting-edge research in a number of fields, Violence, Order, and Unrest explores the development of British North America from the mid-eighteenth century through the aftermath of Confederation. The chapters cover an ambitious range of topics, from Indigenous culture to municipal politics, public executions to runaway slave advertisements. Cumulatively, this book examines the diversity of Indigenous and colonial experiences across northern North America and provides fresh perspectives on the crucial roles of violence and unrest in attempts to establish British authority in Indigenous territories. Drawing on specific case studies of law and state formation in English and French Canada, Violence, Order, and Unrest considers patterns of settler colonialism across the century before Confederation. The result is a collection that brings together innovative research in different fields to reconsider the ideology, governance, and political culture that underpinned British North America. In the aftermath of Canada 150, Violence, Order, and Unrest offers a timely contribution to current debates over the nature of Canadian culture and history. It demonstrates that we cannot understand Canada today without considering its origins as a colonial project.

Bannister, Jerry, 1968-
McKim, Denis
See, Scott W., 1950-

Violence — Canada — History — 18th century — Case studies
Violence — Canada — History — 19th century — Case studies
Canada — Colonization — History — 18th century — Case studies
Canada — Colonization — History — 19th century — Case studies
Canada — Social conditions — 18th century — Case studies
Canada — Social conditions —19th century — Case studies

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The days of the general store may be long gone but thanks to Mike Parker are not forgotten. Illustrated with more than 400 images, A Little of Everything has something for everyone. For those who remember the sights, sounds and smells of an old-fashioned general store, this book will be a walk down memory lane. For those less fortunate who missed out on the waning days of the general store but are looking for a good read with a touch of history, A Little of Everything will open another window to the past in Mike's long-time quest to shine light on Nova Scotia's old days, old ways. Yesterday's general store was today's Costco, Home Depot and Superstore rolled into one – and then some. Includes selected bibliography.

General stores — Nova Scotia — History
General stores — Nova Scotia — History — Pictorial works

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Steam Titan' tells the story of a transatlantic fight born of and powered by steam, a fight to wrest control of the globe's most lucrative trade route. It's the story of two men: Samuel Cunard and Edward Knight Collins, and two nations: Great Britain and the United States. Wielding the tools of technology, finance, and politics--and at the same time coping with the inevitable, sometimes crushing, perils of the sea--these opposing forces fought to capture control of a commercial lifeline that spanned the North Atlantic. Tracing the paths of ships, goods, people, information and money, historian William M. Fowler Jr. brings to life the spectacle of this generation-long struggle for supremacy, during which New York rose to take her place among the greatest ports and cities of the world, and recounts the tale of competition that was the opening act in the drama of economic globalization that is still unfolding today. Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-350) and index.

Collins, Edward Knight, 1802-1878
Cunard, Samuel, Sir, 1787-1865
Collins Line
Cunard Steamship Company, ltd
Merchant marine — North Atlantic Ocean — Biography
Steamboat lines — North Atlantic Ocean — History — 19th century
Shipping — North Atlantic Ocean — History — 19th century
Steamboats — North Atlantic Ocean — History — 19th century
United States — Commerce — 19th century
Great Britain — Commerce — 19th century

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This book examines the services provided by the CN System from 1919 to 1975, with the various types of train services highlighted both historical and geographically from Newfoundland to British Columbia.

Canadian National Railways — History
Railroads — Canada — History

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Jennings, John

Henniger, Perry — 1906-1990
Woodworkers — Ontario — Biography

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Inner note "The Property of the Halifax Co-Operative Society Limited, Dec 20th, 1940". Copy was formerly held by the Halifax Co-Operative Society Limited. Guidebook on how to run a co-operative business.

Administrative Acts — History — Nova Scotia

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Throughout the twentieth century, the city of Sydney, Nova Scotia was home to a steel industry that polluted the air and contaminated the waterway of Muggah Creek, known in local parlance as the Tar Ponds. This dissertation examines public discourse surrounding the subject of industrial pollution in the deindustrializing city of Sydney, focusing between 1950 and 2014. It explores how diverse community interests--including those of steelworkers, local environmentalists, residents whose properties bordered the contaminated site, and members of the local business community--interpreted and responded to the pollution.

Sydney (N.S.) — Environmental Conditions
Sydney (N.S.) — Environmental Activism

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The chronological story of athletics at Acadia University from 1838-1985 as told by alumni Burton Russell. Compiled from past publications, coach observations, and the author's assessment, these elements combine and create a vivid account of moments of joy and sorrow throughout

Acadia University — Sports — History
Athletics — Nova Scotia — History
College sports — Nova Scotia — History
Acadia University — Athletics — History

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Written by or in honour of Nova Scotian dancers. Collected on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the RSCDS Nova Scotia branch in 2017. Includes index.

Folk dancing, Scottish — Nova Scotia

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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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Hedley (Ted) Charles Cornick Goodyear chose to leave his university studies at Mount Allison University to enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force (R.C.A.F.), following the lead of his older brother Ray. 'Dear Flo, Letters From a Pilot' includes all of the letters that were received by his mother Florence (Flo) between 1941-1944. These letters offer a rare glimpse into the day-to-day life of the pilots who trained on and flew fighter/bombers during the Second World War. They also offer insight into the risks, triumphs and resilience of all those Ted Goodyear met, both before departing for England and while stationed overseas.

Grant, John
Harvie, Ann E.

World War, 1939-1945 — Correspondence
Flight navigators, Military — New Brunswick — Correspondence
Goodyear, Hedley Charles Cornick — Correspondence
Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force — Biography
Fighter pilots — Canada — Correspondence

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Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 304-208).

Acadians — History
Mi'kmaq — History
Cobequid Bay Region (N.S.) — History

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Students — Nova Scotia — Wedgeport Region — Biography — Portraits
Wedgeport Region (N.S.) — Biography — Portraits

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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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A loving tribute to Annie Deyoung and a tangible way to share the Deyoung legacy with future generations. Includes genealogy charts and tables.

History — Pomquet (N.S.)
Deyoung family — History

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