Port Blakely : the community Captain Renton built / by Andrew Price, Jr.. 1st ed. Seattle, Wash. : Port Blakely Books, 1990. 196 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD8039 S3 R422
Pioneers — Washington (State) — Port Blakely — Biography
Port Blakely (Wash.) — History
Port Blakely (Wash.) — 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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Barnardo children in Canada / Gail H. Corbett. Peterborough, ON. : Woodland Publishing, 1981. 133 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD6250 C252 C67
Includes index.
Children — Canada — History
Children — Canada — Biography
Immigrants — Canada — Biography
Canada — Emigration and immigration — History
Great Britain — Emigration and immigration — History
Great
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The Canadian establishment / Peter C. Newman. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1975-. 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD2809 N554
Includes indexes.
Elite (Social sciences) — Canada
Power (Social sciences)
Capitalists and financiers — Canada — Biography
Businessmen — Canada — Biography
Canada — Biography.
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please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive12192
Ralph Pickard Bell : a biography / W. John E. Williams. Lockeport : Community Books, 2000. 71 pages : ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HC112.5 W54 2000
Industrialists — Biography. — Canada
Capitalists and financiers — Biography. — Canada
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please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive11886
Thomas Cantley remembered / Catherine Hayden Campbell. (2004 printing). Pictou : Catherine Hayden Campbell, 2002. v, 438 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HC112.5 C231 C187 2004
Includes bibliographical references.
Cantley, Thomas, — 1857-1945
Businessmen — Nova Scotia — Biography
Politicians — Nova Scotia — Biography
Pictou (N.S. : County) — Biography
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Maritime sport stars on parade : highlighting Nova Scotia's golden age of sports / Alex Nickerson, Robert Chambers ; edited by A.J. Sandy Young and Heather Harris. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1989. 88 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GV585.3 M342 N632
Chambers, Robert, 1905-
Harris, Heather
Young, Sandy.
Sports — Nova Scotia — History
Athletes — Nova Scotia — Biography
Newspapers — Sections, columns, etc. — Sports.
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Nova Scotia Sports Personalities / by Burton Russell and Stan Cameron. Kentville : B. Russell, 1975. 197 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GV585 R97
Athletes — Nova Scotia — Biography
Sportifs — Nouvelle-Ecosse — Biographies
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Canada's sporting heroes / by S. F. Wise & Douglas Fisher for Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. Don Mills, ON. : General Pub. Co., 1974. xi, 338 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GV585 C212 W813
Includes index.
Athletes — Canada — Biography
Athletes, Canadian — Biography.
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Beyond heroes : a sport history of Nova Scotia / A.J. Sandy Young. Hantsport : Lancelot Books, 1988. 2 v. : illustrations, ports. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GV225 N935 Y68
Sports — Nova Scotia — History
Athletes — Nova Scotia — Biography.
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Sweat and soul / Charles R. Saunders. Hantsport : Dartmouth : Lancelot Press ; Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, 1990. 182 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 20 x 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GV1127 N935
Includes index.
Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia.
Boxers — Nova Scotia — Biography
Athletes, Black — Nova Scotia — Biography
Boxing — Nova Scotia — History.
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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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Cecil Sharp : his life and work / by Maud Karpeles. [New ed.] London : Routledge & Kean Paul, 1967. xii, 228 pages, 7 pages of plates: illustrations, ports.; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR55 S531 K18
Musicians — England — Biography.
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please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive11378
Helen Creighton / Hilary Sircom. Tantallon : Four East, 1993.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR55 C74 S57 1993
Folklorists — Canada — Biography.
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Helen Creighton : Canada's first lady of folklore / Clary Croft. Halifax : Nimbus, 1999. iv, 297 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR55 C74 C76 1999
Folklorists — Canada — Biography
Women folklorists — Canada Biography
Folklore — Maritime Provinces
Folk songs — Maritime Provinces.
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Away : maritimers in Massachusetts, Ontario, and Alberta :an oral history of leaving home / Gary Burrill. Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. xv, 249 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR430 B971 A964 1992
Maritime Provinces — Emigration and immigration
Maritime Provinces — Emigration and immigration — Biography.
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Songs and sayings of an Ulster childhood / by Alice Kane ; edited by Edith Fowke. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1983. 254 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR148 B44 S698
Includes index.
Folk songs, English — Northern Ireland — Belfast
Children's poetry, English — Northern Ireland — Belfast
Storytellers — Canada — Biography
Belfast (Northern Ireland) — Social life and customs.
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Following the sea / by Benjamin Doane. Halifax : Co-published by Nimbus Pub. Ltd. and the Nova Scotia Museum, 1987. xvii, 275 pages : illustrations, maps, ports. ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G545 D62 1987
Voyages and travels
Whaling
Seamen — Nova Scotia — Biography.
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Skipper Gabe--: the life story of Captain Gabriel David Pentz, 1886-1980, adventurous mariner of LaHave, Nova Scotia, in his own words / G.D. Pentz; transcribed by Greta Pentz Himmelman. Yarmouth : Stoneycroft Publishing, 1999. xii, 141 pages: illustrations, facsims., geneal. tables, map, ports.; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G540 P419 1999
Includes index.
Pentz, Gabriel David, — 1886-1980.
Seafaring life
Sailors — Canada — Biography
"Canada, Northern — Description and travel
LaHave (N.S.) — Biography."
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The log of the skipper's wife / edited by James W. Balano. Camden, Me. : Down East Books, 1979. x, 160 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G540 B148 1979
Seafaring life
Travelers — United States — Biography.
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RMS Titanic: the first violin: the story of the great liner's bandsman John Law Hume / by Yvonne Hume; forward by Millvina Dean. Catrine : Stenlake, 2011. 112 pages: illustrations (some col.); 31 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G530 T6 H922 2011
Musicians — Great Britain — Biography
Shipwrecks — North Atlantic Ocean — History — 20th century.
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Cape Breton captain : reminiscences from 50 years afloat & ashore / David A. McLeod ; edited by Ronald Caplan. Wreck Cove : Breton Books, 1992. vii, 145 pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations, ports. ; 23
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G530 M165 C236
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Biography
Merchant marine — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Biography.
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Alone at sea : the adventures of Joshua Slocum / Ann Spencer. Toronto : Doubleday Canada, 1998. xiv, 321 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G440 S63 S63 1998
Includes index.
Sailors — Canada — Biography
Voyages around the world
Sailing, Single-handed.
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Pullen, William J.S., 1813-1887
The Pullen Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin : the original diaries, logs, letters of Commander W.J.S. Pullen / selected and introduced by H.F. Pullen. Toronto : Arctic History Press, 1979. 230 pages, [8] leaves of plates (4 fold.) : ill., fold. maps ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC3961 P84 1979 - Open Shelf
Includes index. Library has copy number 272.
Franklin, John, — Sir, — 1786-1847
Pullen, William J.S., — 1813-1887
Explorers — Arctic regions — Biography
Arctic coast (Canada) — Discovery and exploration
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War brides & rosies: Powell River and Stillwater, B.C / Barbara Ann Lambert. Bloomington, IN : Trafford On Demand Publishing, 2012. 332 pages: illustrations, portraits, map; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC3845 P882 L222 2012 - Open Shelf
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-316 and index.
War brides — Canada — Biography
War brides — British Columbia — Powell River Region — Biography
War brides — Great Britain — Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Women
Powell River Region (B.C.) — Social life and customs
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