Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: Biography
Mona Parsons : from privilege to prison, from Nova Scotia to Nazi Europe / Andria Hill. Halifax : Nimbus, 2000. 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D802 N4 H645 2000
World War, 1939-1945 — Underground movements — Netherlands Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Prisoners and prisons, German
Prisoners of war — Germany Biography
Prisoners of war — Canada Biography.
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More about Pictonians / by James M. Cameron. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1983. 87 pages ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 P611 C182a1 - Open Shelf
Pictou (N.S. : County) — Biography
Pictou (N.S. : County) — History.
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More than conquerors : the story of All Saints, Springhill, Nova Scotia / by Bertha J. Campbell. Halifax : Oxford Street Press, 1986. 238 pages, [22] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - BX5617 S769 A416
Clergy — Nova Scotia — Springhill — Biography
Hospitals — Nova Scotia — Springhill — History
Springhill (N.S.) — Church history.
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More than just folks : 31 remarkable Nova Scotians / by Stephen Kimber. Lawrencetown Beach : Pottersfield Press, 1996. 187 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2029 K55 1996 - Open Shelf
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Morning in his heart : a biographical sketch of Watson Kirkconnell (1895-1977) / J.R.C. Perkin. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1986. 72 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LA2325 K57 P447
Authors, Canadian (English) — 20th century — Biography.
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Moses H. Nickerson / by Margaret E. Messenger for the Archelaus Smith Historical Society. Nova Scotia : The Society, 1981. 33 pages : 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.281 #2 - Vertical File
Archelaus Smith Historical Society.
Poets, Canadian (English) — Biography
Fishers — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — Biography.
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Mostly Maritimers / by Frank E. Archibald. Windsor : Lancelot Press, 1972 127 pages ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204 A669 - Open Shelf
Maritime Provinces — Biography.
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Mrs. Mary and others : women of Barrington / Hattie A. Perry. Barrington : Spindrift Publishing, 1993. 93 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HQ1460 B37 P47 1993
Includes index.
Women — Nova Scotia — Barrington — Biography
Barrington (N.S.) — Biography.
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Muriel Duckworth : a very active pacifist : a biography / Marion Douglas Kerans. Halifax : Fernwood, 1996. 239 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - JX1962 D82 K47 1996
Pacifists — Canada — Biography.
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Music of the eye : architectural drawings of Canada's first city, 1822-1914 / Gary K. Hughes. Saint John, N.B. : New Brunswick Museum and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, 1992. xii, 136 pages : illustrations, maps, ports. ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NA2700 N533 N893
New Brunswick Museum
Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
Architectural drawing — 19th century — New Brunswick — Saint John — Exhibitions
Architectural drawing — 20th century — New Brunswick — Saint John — Exhibitions
Architects — New Brunswick — Biography
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My Acadian heritage / Leonie Comeau Poirier. Halifax : Nimbus, 1985. 95 pages : illustrations, ports; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.501 #7 - Vertical File
Acadians — Biography
Authors, Canadian — 20th century — Biography.
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My Africa, my Canada / Bridglal Pachai. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1989. 219 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5221 B613 P116 M995 - Open Shelf
Immigrants — Nova Scotia — Biography
South Africans — Biography
Blacks — Nova Scotia — Biography
Civil rights workers — Nova Scotia — Biography.
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My book of memories / by Hilda Mleczko. Glace Bay : H. Mleczko, 1987. 116 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204.9 M685 - Open Shelf
Women — Nova Scotia — Biography
Glace Bay (N.S.) — Social life and customs — 1945-
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My grandfather's Cape Breton Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1980. 213 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8557 O93
Authors, Canadian — 20th century — Biography
Authors, Canadian (English) — 20th century — Biography — Youth
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Biography.
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My grandfather's house : scenes of childhood and youth / Charles Ritchie. Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1987. xv, 167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC561 R58 A3 1987 - Open Shelf
Diplomats — Canada — Biography.
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My journey through eternity : an autobiography / by Ethel L. Gibson. 1st ed. Dartmouth : Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, 1988. 15, 5 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.388 #5 - Vertical File
Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia.
Blacks — Nova Scotia — Biography.
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My mother / by Ruth Buchanan. Toronto : Women's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church, 1938. 23 pages : port.; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.147 #10 - Vertical File
Missionaries — India — Biography
Missions — India — History.
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My Story of luck : autobiography of an immigrant doctor from Latvia / Rolf Sers. Antigonish : R. Sers, 1990. 207 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - R154.5 N935 S481
Physicians — Latvia — Biography
Latvia — Biography.
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National Liberal-Conservative convention held at Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 10th to 12th, 1927 : a review Toronto : Printed by Southern Press, 1930. 436 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - JL197 L695 M169
MacNicol, John R. (John Ritchie)
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New Brunswick blue book and encyclopedia / biographical sketches by James Conwell. Nova Scotia blue book and encyclopedia / historical review by Benjamin Russell ; biographical sketches by James Conwell. Toronto : Historical Publishers Association, 1932. 44, 127, 67 pages ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F93 N85
Attributed to Benjamin Russell. First part (44 pages deals with New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Second part (127 pages concerns Nova Scotia, and has own t.pages Third part (67 pages consists of biographical sketches. Binding variant. In some copies, the section on Nova Scotia precedes that on New Brunswick. Bindings display either the arms of N.S. or N.B., and appropriate spine and cover titles, depending on which section is bound first. In addition, the binding of some copies is decorated in gilt; these items are part of a limited edition of 100 numbered copies.
Maritime Provinces — Biography
Maritime Provinces — History
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New insight on a true straightforward British colonial governor during his posting to Nova Scotia 1811-1816 / by Elizabeth C. Snell. Halifax : Elizabeth Snell , 2005-. 1 v. : illustrations some copies; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.541 #6 - Vertical File
Read before the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society. By Elizabeth C. Snell. May 2005. from last page.
Lieutenant-governors — Nova Scotia — Biography.
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Newport, Nova Scotia, a Rhode Island township / John Victor Duncanson ; illustrated by Robert W. Chambers ; cartography by Walter K. Morrison. Belleville, ON. : Mika Publishing, 1985. xiv, 494 pages, [11] pages of plates : illustrations, maps, port.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 N558 D911 - Open Shelf
A plan of the Township of Newport, Nova Scotia, by Geo. Hallyburton, Depy. Survr., April 10, 1775, copied July 27, 1866, by Dept. of Crown Lands: 1 folded sheet mounted on end papers.
Newport (N.S.) — History
Newport (N.S.) — Genealogy
Newport (N.S.) — Biography.
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Nicolas Denys, sa vie et son oeuvre / par Clarence-Joseph d'Entremont. Yarmouth, Nouvelle-Ecosse : Impr. Lescarbot, 1982. 623 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5060.9 D414 D417 - Open Shelf
Includes index. Includes a reprint of the text of: Description geographique et historique des costes de l'Amerique septentrionale / Nicolas Denys. Paris : L. Billaine, 1672.
Explorers — Canada — Biography
Explorers — France — Biography
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Acadia — Discovery and exploration — French.
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No place like home : the life and times of Cape Breton heritage houses / Mary K. Macleod, James O. St. Clair. Sydney : University College of Cape Breton Press, 1992. iv, 101 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 C237 M163 - Open Shelf
Historic buildings — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Biography
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Buildings, structures, etc.
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No Turning Back : Surviving the Linehan Family Tragedy / Ida Linehan Young. St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador : Creative Publishers, 2014. 205 pages, 17 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2199 N59 Z49 2014 - Open Shelf
Burns and scalds — Patients — Newfoundland and Labrador — North Harbour (Saint Mary's Bay) — Biography
Fires — Newfoundland and Labrador — North Harbour (Saint Mary's Bay)
Bereavement — Psychological aspects
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