John Johnson (1742-1830) / by Alan J. MacLachlan. Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1977. 4 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.4 #16 - Vertical File
United Empire loyalists — Biography.
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Hannah Ingraham (1772-1869) / by Darrel Butler. Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1977-. 4 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.4 #15 - Vertical File
United Empire loyalists — Biography.
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Alexander Graham Bell : inventor of the telephone Montreal : Bell Telephone Company of Canada, 1961. 32 pages : copies illustrations; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.3 #24 - Vertical File
Bell Telephone Company of Canada.
Inventors — United States — Biography.
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In memoriam : biographical sketches of Mrs. David Starr, her daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Starr, and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. D. Henry Starr Halifax : Conference Office, 1861. vi, 45 pages ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F93 ST4 - Akins
Nova Scotia — History
Nova Scotia — Biography.
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Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte jusqu'à nos jours / par F.X. Garneau ; précédée d'une étude sur la vie et les luvres de l'auteur par m. Chauveau. 4. éd. Montréal : Beauchemin & Valois, 1882-1883. 4 v. : port. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F70 G18 - Akins
Fréchette, Louis Honoré, 1839-1908
Suite, Benjamin, 1841-1923
Chauveau, Pierre-J.-Olivier (Pierre-Joseph-Olivier), 1820- 1890.
Historians — Canada — Biography
Canada — History
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
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Hunter's hand book of the Victoria Bridge, illustrated with wood-cuts : a brief history of that wonderful work, from the time that the first practical idea for its construction was submitted to the public in 1846, up to its completion in 1859 : also, a sh / by F.N. Boxer. Montreal : Hunter and Pickup, 1860. 114 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F65 H912 - Akins
'Now we can form an estimate ...' Dedicated (by permission to the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. Includes advertising matter. Includes index.
Engineers — Great Britain — Biography
Victoria Bridge (Montréal, Quebec)
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Memoirs of Major Robert Stobo of the Virginia Regiment / by Robert Stobo. First edition, London, 1800. The present reprint, edited by N.B. Craig, includes documentary material not found in the original. Pittsburgh : J.S. Davidson, 1854. 92 pages : plan ; 15 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F45 ST6 - Akins
Arma virumque. Attributed to Robert Stobo--National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints. Introd. signed: N.B.C. [i.e. Neville B. Craig].
Canada — History — 1713-1763 (New France) — Biography
United States — History — French and Indian War, 1755-1763 — Personal narratives.
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The public dinner at Amherst : Hon. Mr. Howe's speech Nova Scotia : 1853. 1 folded sheet (8 pages) ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F100 H83s - Akins
Politicians — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1784-1867.
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, from Alfred the Great to the latest times, on an original plan / Ed. by George Godfrey Cunningham. Illustrated by a series of finely executed portraits, selected from the most authentic sources, and engraved by eminent artists. Glasgow : A. Fullarton & Co., 1834-1842. 8 v. ; 22 cm
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK DA4 C91 - Akins
Great Britain — Biography
Great Britain — History.
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Memoir of Captain Edward Pelham Brenton, R.N., C.B. : with sketches of his professional life, and exertions in the cause of humanity, as connected with the Children's Friend Society, &c., observations upon his Naval history, and Life of the Earl of S / by his brother, Vice-Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton, Bart., K.C.B. London : James Nisbet and Co., 1842. vii, 359 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK DAB7 - Akins
Philanthropists — Great Britain — Biography.
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A portraiture from life / by a bereaved husband. Halifax : Christian Messenger Office, 1862. 18 pages ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK B12 C84P - Akins
Attributed to J. M. Cramp--A Bibliography of Canadiana (Toronto Public Library #6002. Printed for private circulation.
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Source book for Sackville history : an alphabetical listing for sources of information pertaining to the history of Sackville / prepared for the Sackville Heritage Society by Laurelea Lutes and David Peverill. Sackville : Sackville Heritage Society, 1993. various pagings ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - Z7165 S119 1993
Lutes, Laurelea
Peverill, David.
Sackville (N.S.) — History — Sources
Sackville (N.S.) — 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
Herbert, Miranda C
McNeil, Barbara.
Biography — indexes
Biography — United States — indexes
Genealogy and Heraldry — indexes
Genealogy and Heraldry — United States — indexes
Biography — Indexes
United States — Biography — Indexes
Unit
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Biographical dictionaries and related works : an international bibliography of more than 16,000 collective biographies .. / Robert B. Slocum, editor. 2nd ed. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1986. 2 v. ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - Z5301 S55 1986
Biography — Dictionaries — Bibliography
Biography — Bibliography.
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Climbing the halyards : the 1948 voyage of the schooner Bowdoin / Jeffrey C. Ives. Ithaca NY : Ives : 2004. xx, 210 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM395 B785 I95 2004
Inuit Pictorial works
Sailors — United States — 20th century — Biography
Sailors — United States Pictorial works
Arctic regions Pictorial works
Canada, Northern Pictorial works.
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Island keepers / Allison Mitcham. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1989. 183 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1430 D639 M679
Lighthouse keepers — Nova Scotia — Sable Island — Biography
Lighthouse keepers — Nova Scotia — Scatarie Island — Biography
Sable Island (N.S.) — Biography
Scatarie Island (N.S.) — Biography.
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Schooner master : a portrait of David Stevens / Peter Carnahan. Halifax : Nimbus, 1989. ix, 180 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, ports. ; 23
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140.5 S82 C37 1989
Shipbuilding — Nova Scotia — Biography.
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A Mariner's Memories : a Chronicle of the Life and Times of Earle S. Wagner, Master Mariner, 1929-1999 / Earle S. Wagner. Nova Scotia : Earle S. Wagner, 2017. 272 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 W346 1999
At age 17, Earle Wagner joined Canada's marchant navy and served in it for four years during World War II. For nearly a quarter of a century he managed a fleet of vessels owned and operated by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. He was involved for a total of 48 years in the marine industry.
Merchant marine — Canada — Biography
Pilots and pilotage — Manitoba — Churchill — Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Atlantic Ocean — Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Transportation — Biography
West La Have (N.S.) — Biography
Autobiographies
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The captain & the queen / director, Chuck Stewart ; produced by Great North Atlantic Media Inc. for Great North Productions Inc. ; producer, F. Whitman Trecartin ; executive producers, Bill Skerrett, Patricia Phillips. Edmonton, AB. : Great North, 1998. 1 videocassette : 60 minutes.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 W3 C37 1998 - Video
Title on container: The captain and the queen : Angus Walters & the schooner Bluenose.
Phillips, Patricia
Skerrett, Bill
Stewart, Chuck
Trecartin, F. Whitman.
Great North Productions
Great North Atlantic Media Inc.
Ship captains — Nova Scotia Biography.
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The Spicer of life : a Maritime marriage during the Age of Sail : Captain Dewis and Emma Spicer of Spencer's Island, Nova Scotia / David Stanley. Halifax : Dalhousie University, 2007. ix, 99 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 S754 2007
Addendum on last page. Includes bibliographical references.
Spicer family.; — Spicer, Dewis.; — Spicer, Emma Parsons.
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Biography
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Diaries.
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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
Merchant seamen — Nova Scotia — Biography
Seafaring life.
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If his sea chest could talk : a tribute to Captain Robert N. Crowell, 1840-1902 / by Fred D. Whitehouse. Yarmouth : The author, 1996. 193 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 C76 W45 1996
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Biography
Seafaring life — Nova Scotia
Voyages and travels.
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Titanic : the Canadian story / Alan Hustak. Montreal : Véhicule Press, 1998. 172 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 H88 1998
Library's copy signed by author.
Shipwrecks — North Atlantic Ocean
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. — Biography.
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The Bonnie, HMCS Bonaventure / by J. Allan Snowie ; foreword by J.C. Scruffy O'Brien. Erin, ON. : Boston Mills Press, 1987. 336 pages : illustrations (some col.), ports. ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V874.5 C3 S66 1987
Ports. on lining papers.
Aircraft carriers — Canada — History
Ship captains — Canada — Biography.
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Alongside the navy, 1910-1950 : an intimate account / Jean Donald Gow. Quyon, Quebec : Chelsey House Publications, 1999. viii, 166 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V743 C3 G68 1999
Navy spouses — Canada — Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Nova Scotia — Halifax.
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