Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: Biography
From cloddy earth to glittering gold / George Norrie, Harry Norrie. Saint John, N.B. : Trinity, 2006. [10], 489 pages: illustrations, facsims., maps, ports.; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - TN140 N853 N853 2006
Norrie, James Paul, — 1891-1945.
Gold mines and mining — Qu{nonjoin}bec (Province) — Abitibi Region — History
Mining engineers — Qu{nonjoin}bec (Province) — Biography
Prospectors — Qu{nonjoin}bec (Province) — Biography
Industrialists — Quebec (Province)
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From island to island / by Margaret E. Messenger for the Archelaus Smith Historical Society. Clark's Harbour : The Society, 1987. vi, 95 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.326 #5 - Vertical File
Archelaus Smith Historical Society.
Cape Sable Island (N.S.) — History
Cape Sable Island (N.S.) — Biography.
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From our island's past / by Margaret E. Messenger for the Archelaus Smith Historical Society. Clark's Harbour : The Society, 1990. vi, 86 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.370 #6 - Vertical File
Archelaus Smith Historical Society.
Cape Sable Island (N.S.) — History
Cape Sable Island (N.S.) — Biography.
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From slavery to freedom : the life of David George, pioneer black Baptist minister / by Grant Gordon. Hantsport : Published by Lancelot Press for Acadia Divinity College and the Baptist Historical Committee of the United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic Provinces, 1992. xvii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - BX6495 G67 1992
Includes index.
Acadia Divinity College
United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic Provinces. Baptist Historical Committee.
Baptists — Clergy — Biography
Clergy — Maritime Provinces — Biography
Clergy — Sierra Leone — Biography
Black Canadians — Biography.
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From the pier, dear! : images of a multicultural community Sydney : Whitney Pier Historical Society, 1993. vi, 102 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 C237 W617 - Open Shelf
By Mary Keating and Elizabeth Beaton.
Whitney Pier Historical Society.
Whitney Pier (Sydney, N.S.) — History
Whitney Pier (Sydney, N.S.) — Biography.
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Full sail for Philadelphia : the Etter family reunited / Lela Hultquist Booth & Joan Magee. Windsor, ON. : Electa Press, 1997. 128 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F157 L2 B66
Swiss — Pennsylvania — Lancaster County — Biography
Lancaster County (Pa.) — Biography.
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Genius at work : images of Alexander Graham Bell / Dorothy Harley Eber. Halifax : Nimbus, 1991. 192 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - TK6143 B45 E24 1991
Includes index.
Inventors — United States — Biography
Inventors — Canada — Biography.
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George Grant : a biography / William Christian. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1993. xxiii, 472 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations, ports. ;
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - B995 G724 C5 1993
Includes index.
Philosophers — Canada — Biography
Philosophes — Canada — Biographies.
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George Heriot : postmaster-painter of the Canadas / Gerald Finley. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1983. xx, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ND449 H45 F553
Checklist of the works of George Heriot: pages [227]-292. Includes indexes.
Painters — Canada — Biography
Postal service — Canada — Postmasters — Biography.
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George MacEachern, an autobiography : the story of a Cape Breton labour radical / edited and introduced by David Frank and Donald MacGillivray. Sydney : University College of Cape Breton Press, 1987. xvii, 146 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD8039 I5 M34
Frank, David Alexander
Macgillivray, Don, 1942-
Trade-unions — Iron and steel workers — Nova Scotia — Organizing — History
Trade-unions — Nova Scotia — Organizing — History
Trade-unions — Nova Scotia — Officials and employees — Biography.
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George Nowlan : Maritime Conservative in national politics / Margaret Conrad. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1986. xviii, 357 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ;
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204.9 N68 C67 - Open Shelf
Cabinet ministers — Canada — Biography
Politicians — Canada — Biography
Politicians — Nova Scotia — Biography
Canada — Politics and government — 1957-1963
Canada — Politics and government — 1948-19
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Giant MacAskill / written and illustrated by Mary P. Campbell. Sydney : Sydney Literary Council, 1985. 16 2 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.332 #27 - Vertical File
To be used after Skill Book III, and correlated reader, Changes - Laubach Way to Reading.
Readers for new literates
Giants — Canada — Biography.
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Giants : Angus McAskill and Anna Swan / Jacqueline Langille. Tantallon : Four East Publications, 1990. 47 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.347 #15 - Vertical File
Giants — Nova Scotia — Biography — Juvenile literature
Nova Scotia — Biography — Juvenile literature.
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Glen Margaret / Anita Crathorne Legalley. Tantallon : Glen Margaret Publishing, 2004. 135 pages: illustrations, maps; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2349 G558 L496 2004 - Open Shelf
Glen Margaret (N.S.) — History
Glen Margaret (N.S.) — Biography.
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Glimpses into Nova Scotia history / by Bruce Fergusson and William Pope. Windsor : Lancelot, 1974. 96 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5205 F35 - Open Shelf
Nova Scotia — History
Nova Scotia — Biography.
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God, science and schooling : John William Dawson's Pictou years, 1820-1855 / by B. Anne Wood. Truro : Nova Scotia Teachers College, 1991. 73 pages : port.; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.349 #19 - Vertical File
Geologists — Nova Scotia — Biography
Educators — Nova Scotia — Biography.
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Great Canadians : a century of achievement / selected by Vincent Massey and others ; illus. by Franklin Arbuckle. Toronto : Canadian Centennial Pub Co., 1965. 1 v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5000 C212 C397 - Open Shelf
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Grier of San Francisco : builder in the West and his family, 1878-1988 / William M. Grier, Jr.. Denver : Grier, 1989. xxv, 320 pages [6] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 G848 - Open Shelf
Includes indexes.
Construction industry — West (U.S.) — Biography
Construction industry — West (U.S.) — History
Businessmen — California — San Francisco — Biography
San Francisco (Calif.) — History.
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Grist from the mills : a history of the village of Sheffield Mills / compiled by a special committee of the Sheffield Mills Women's Institute. Sheffield : The Institute, 1967. 118 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 S542 - Open Shelf
Sheffield Mills Women's Institute.
Sheffield Mills (N.S.) — History
Sheffield Mills (N.S.) — Biography.
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Growing up on a farm in Nova Scotia, 1915 to 1923 / G. Jessie Sinclair. Milford Station : Creative Promotions & Print, 1992. 26 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.429 #34 - Vertical File
Farm life — Nova Scotia — Mill Village (Hants)
Mill Village (Hants, N.S.) — Biography.
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H.B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and historian of China / John King Fairbank, Martha Henderson Coolidge, Richard J. Smith. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1995. xiii, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HJ7071 A3 M674 1995
Maps on lining paper.
Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-
Coolidge, Martha Henderson, 1925-
Customs administration — China — Officials and employees — Biography
China — Foreign relations — 1644-1912.
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Hal Foster, the once and future king : childhood in Halifax, 1892-1905 / Friends of Hal Foster Society. Friends of Hal Foster Society, Halifax : Nova Scotia 2010-. 20 pages : illustrations some copies, maps, ports.; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.542 #13 - Vertical File
Cartoonists — Canada — Biography.
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Haliburton, a centenary chaplet : with a bibliography by John Parker Anderson Toronto : Published for the Haliburton Club, King's College, Windsor by W. Briggs, 1897. 116 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8515 A38 Z66 1897
Anderson, John P. (John Parker), b. 1841.
University of King's College (Halifax, N.S.)
Authors, Canadian (English) — 19th century Biography
Judges — Canada — Biography.
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Halifax Heroes Remembered: the story of Halifax soldiers in World War I / by Linda Gray-LeBlanc. Halifax : Linda Gray-LeBlanc, 2012. 264 pages: illustrations, portraits; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2346.4 G778 Z48 2012 - Open Shelf
Includes index.
World War, 1914-1918 — Nova Scotia — Halifax
World War, 1914-1918 — Participation, Canadian
Soldiers — Nova Scotia — Halifax — Biography
Halifax (N.S.) — History, Military — 20th century
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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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