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Whitfield, Harvey Amani, 1974-

Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes / Harvey Amani Whitfield.  Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, 2022. lxv, 236 pages ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HT1052 M37 W535 2022

Series: Studies in Atlantic Canada History. This biographical dictionary recovers the stories and illuminates the lives of enslaved Black people in the Maritimes. Includes bibliographical references.

Enslaved persons — Maritime Provinces — Biography — Dictionaries
Slavery — Maritime Provinces — History

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Burnett, Frederick C.

Biographical directory of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Free Baptist ministers and preachers / Frederick C. Burnett.  Hantsport : Published by Lancelot Press for Acadia Divinity College and the Baptist Historical Committee, United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic Provinces, 1996. xx, 303 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - BX6493 B87 1996

Sabine, Lorenzo

Biographical sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution, with an historical essay / by Lorenzo Sabine.  2nd ed. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1864. 2 v. ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F70 SA1

American loyalists — Biography.

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Sabine, Lorenzo

Biographical sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution, with an historical essay / by Lorenzo Sabine.  Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1979. 2 v. ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F70 SA1 1979

Reprint of the 2nd edition published in 1864 by Little, Brown, Boston.

American loyalists — Biography.

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Biography and genealogy master index Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1980-. 29 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - Z6293 B615

Drake, Samuel G.

Biography and history of the Indians of North America ... : also, a history of their wars .. / by Samuel G. Drake.  5th ed., with large additions and corrections, and numerous engravings. Boston : Antiquarian Institute, 1837. xii, 48, 120, 144, 96, 168 pages, [12] pages of plat

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 D78

Spine title: Indians of North America. First published under title: Indian biography. Added t.pages title: The book of the Indians of North America.

First Nations of North America — History
First Nations of North America — Biography.

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Thibault, Charles

Biography of Sir Charles Tupper, Minister of Railway, K.C.M.G, C.B., M.P., High Commissioner of Canada to England / by Charles Thibault.  Montreal, Quebec : L'Etendard, 1883. 148, ii pages : 19 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.196 #23 - Vertical File

Robertson, Carmelita

Black loyalists of Nova Scotia : tracing the history of Tracadie loyalists 1776-1787 / by Carmelita Robertson.  Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 2000. 146 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AM1 N935 C975 #91

Grant, John N

Black Nova Scotians / John N. Grant ; drawings by Azor Vienneau.  Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1980. 47 pages : illustrations. ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5221 N3 G762 - Open Shelf

Biographical material courtesy Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission.

Vienneau, Azor.

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Nova Scotia Museum.

Blacks — Nova Scotia — History
Blacks — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — History.

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Grant, John N

Black Nova Scotians / John N. Grant ; drawings by Azor Vienneau.  Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1980, 1984. 47 pages : illustrations. ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5221 N3 G762 1984 - Open Shelf

Biographical material courtesy Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission.

Vienneau, Azor.

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Nova Scotia Museum.

Blacks — Nova Scotia — History
Blacks — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — History.

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Pachai, Bridglal

Blacks / Bridglal Pachai.  1st ed. Oct. 1987. Tantallon : Four East Publications, 1987. 60 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5221 B613 P116 - Open Shelf

Pachai, Bridglal

Blacks / Bridglal Pachai.  Rev. ed. Tantallon : Four East, 1993, 1987. 96 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2050 B6 P33 1993 - Open Shelf

De Villiers, Marq

Blood traitors / Marq De Villiers & Sheila Hirtle.  1st ed. Toronto : HarperCollins, 1996. 408 pages ; 25 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E206 D4 1996

Hartling, Ernest K.

Bluenose master : the memoirs of Captain Ernest K. Hartling / as told to Jo Kranz.  Willowdale, ON. : Hounslow Press, 1989. 177 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 H331

Kranz, Jo.

Merchant seamen — Nova Scotia — Biography
Seafaring life.

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English, John

Borden - his life and world / John English.  Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1977. 223 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 26

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC556 B67 E54 1977 - Open Shelf

Includes index.

Prime ministers — Canada — Biography
Canada — Politics and government — 1911-1921.

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Thomson, Colin A.

Born with a call : a biography of Dr. William Pearly Oliver, C.M / by Colin A. Thomson.  Dartmouth : Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, 1986. i, 157 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204.9 O48 T479 - Open Shelf

Blaikie, David

Boston, the Canadian story / by David Blaikie.  Ottawa : Seneca House Books, 1984. 222 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GV1065 B634

Runners (Sports) — Canada — Biography
Marathon running
Boston Marathon.

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Coward, Elizabeth Ruggles

Bridgetown, Nova Scotia : its history to 1900 / by Elizabeth Ruggles Coward.  Kentville : Kentville Pub. Co., 1955. 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 B85 - Open Shelf

Includes indexes.

Bridgetown & Area Historical Society.

Bridgetown (N.S.) — History
Bridgetown (N.S.) — Biography.

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Coward, Elizabeth Ruggles

Bridgetown, Nova Scotia : its history to 1900 / by Elizabeth Ruggles Coward.  Bridgetown : Bridgetown & Area Historical Society, 1986. 253, [34] pages, [22] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 B85 1986 - Open Shelf

Includes indexes.

Bridgetown & Area Historical Society.

Bridgetown (N.S.) — History
Bridgetown (N.S.) — Biography.

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McGray, Edith Alida Clare

Brooklyn in retrospect : facts, fiction and suppositions of the development of the village of Brooklyn, Hants County, Nova Scotia / by Edith Alida Clare (Hennessy) McGray and George Stanley McGray.  Halifax : The Authors, 1992. 315 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 B871 M147 - Open Shelf

MacLellan, Frances

Brother Lawrence, kitchen saint / Frances MacLellan.  Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1987. 60 pages : 20 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.321 #15 - Vertical File

Lawrence, Brother
Priests — Biography

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Fryer, Mary Beacock

Buckskin pimpernel : the exploits of Justus Sherwood, Loyalist spy / by Mary Beacock Fryer.  Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1981. 288 pages : maps, port. ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E278 S53 F948

Builders of history Canadian edition. Toronto : Longmans, Green and Co., 1931. 287 pages : illus. ; 18 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LTH62 W67 B85

Biography — Juvenile literature.

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Bourinot, John George

Builders of Nova Scotia : a historical review, with an appendix containing copies of rare documents relating to the early days of the province / by John G. Bourinot.  Toronto : Copp-Clark, 1900. x, 197, vi pages : illustrations, facsim., plan, plates, ports

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F93 B66

From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 1899.

Copp Clark Company.

Nova Scotia — History
Nova Scotia — Biography.

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Hartlen, Robert

Butterbox survivors : life after the Ideal Maternity Home / Robert Hartlen.  Halifax : Nimbus, 1999. xxvi, 238 pages : ports.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HV700.5 H37 1999

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