Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: Biography
The Roar of the Sea / Captain William A. Crowell and Frank Crowell Leaman. Portugal Cove-St. Philip's, Newfoundland and Labrador : Boulder Publications, 2015. 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F92 C88 2015
An adventurer who traveled the world on an epic solo voyage in a 23-foot sailboat in the 1930s. With only his dog, Togo, as a companion, Captain William Crowell overcame the challenges of an unforgiving ocean. Decades later, his grandson Frank Leaman helped him tell the story of his travels, his family's history, and also Nova Scotia's seafaring heritage. Together with Allison Lawlor, Frank has created a story that weaves Captain Crowell's life into his family's Loyalist roots and personal reflections. One grandson's loving tribute to his grandfather - a daring mariner who saw the end of a golden era of wooden ships and iron men. The Roar of the Sea, as told by Capt. William Arthur Crowell, was transcribed by his grandson, Frank Leaman, in the early 1950s. The original text has been edited by Allison Lawlor. Leaman's memories and reflections, as well as the family's Loyalist history, were recorded by Lawlor in 2014 and added to the original edited manuscript. Previous edition published in 1955.
Leaman, Frank, 1942-
Lawlor, Allison, 1971-
Crowell, William A. — Voyages and travels
Ocean travel — Biography
Seafaring life — Nova Scotia — Biography
Voyages and travels
Sailors — Nova Scotia — Biography
Memoirs.
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The roos of Bay Street / by Don Ripley. Halifax : Ripley Books, 1991. 165 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HG5152 R57 1991
Brokers — Nova Scotia — Biography
Investments — Nova Scotia.
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The rooster crows at dawn : my eighty years in the Nova Scotia village of Blandford / Lee Zinck. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1987. 136 pages, 4 pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204.9 Z77 - Open Shelf
Blandford (N.S.) — History
Blandford (N.S.) — Biography.
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The Scot in British North America / by W.J. Rattray. Toronto : MacLear, 1880-1884. 4 v. : portraits ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5030 S4 R23 - Open Shelf
Prefaces dated: Feb. 16, 1880-Dec. 13, 1883.
Scots — Canada
Canada — Politics and government
Canada — Biography.
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The Scots / Frank Emmerson. Tantallon : Four East Publications, 1987. 70 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5221 S3 E54 - Open Shelf
Scots — Maritime Provinces — History
Scottish Canadians — Maritime Provinces — History
Scottish Canadians — Maritime Provinces — Biography
Canada — Emigration and immigration.
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The Scottish nation, or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland / by William Anderson. Edinburgh : A. Fullarton & Co., 1880. 3 v. : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - CS AN2
Heraldry — Scotland
Scotland — Biography
Scotland — Genealogy.
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The sculptor : Cecil Clarence Richards / by Vaughan L. Baird. Winnipeg : 1981. [48] pages : illustrations, ports. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NB249 R514
Limited edition of 350 numbered copies.
Richards, Cecil Clarence, 1907-
Sculptors — Canada — Biography.
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The sea in my blood : the life and times of Captain Andy Publicover / James and Marlene Richards with Eric Hustvedt. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1987. 123 pages, xx pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204.9 P976 R516 - Open Shelf
Hustvedt, Eric
Richards, Marlene.
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Biography.
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The Shelburne Black loyalists : a short biography of all Blacks emigrating to Shelburne County, Nova Scotia after the American revolution 1783 / an edited transcription by Ruth Holmes Whitehead. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 2000. 294 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AM1 N935 C975 #94
Nova Scotia. Dept. of Tourism and Culture
Nova Scotia Museum.
Blacks — Nova Scotia — Shelburne (County)
Blacks — Nova Scotia Biography
Afro-American loyalists — Nova Scotia — Shelburne (County)
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Blacks
Shelburne (N.S. : Co
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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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The St. Lawrence survey journals of Captain Henry Wolsey Bayfield, 1829-1853 / edited with an introduction by Ruth McKenzie. Toronto : Champlain Society, 1984-1986. 2 v. : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 B357
Limited edition of 1350 copies (1300 numbered.
Surveyors, Marine — Canada — Biography
Saint Lawrence River — Description and travel
Saint Lawrence, Gulf of — Description and travel.
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The Stony road / compiled by Eleanor Taylor Belmore. Upper Musquodoboit : E.T. Belmore, 1987. 80 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.326 #19 - Vertical File
Belmore, Eleanor Taylor, 1914-
Women — Nova Scotia — Biography.
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The Stories of Caribou / edited by Olive Prest Pastor. Canada 125 commemorative ed. Pictou : Caribou District Two Heritage Society, 1992. 283 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 C277 S885 - Open Shelf
Caribou District Two Heritage Society.
Caribou (N.S.) — History
Caribou (N.S.) — Biography.
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The thousandth man : a biography of James McGregor Stewart / Barry Cahill. Toronto : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, 2000. xxi, 266 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - KE416 S838 C33 2000
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Lawyers — Biography
Directors of corporations — Canada
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The trees and fields went the other way / Evelyn Eaton. 1st ed. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8559 E14 Z5
Includes index.
Novelists, Canadian (English) — 20th century — Biography
Eaton, Evelyn Sybil Mary, 1902-
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The unknown New Brunswicker / by Ruth Scott. Fredericton, N.B. : R. Scott, 1988. 113 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5254.9 H468 S428 - Open Shelf
Baptists — New Brunswick — Clergy — Biography
Clergy — New Brunswick — Biography.
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The valley of the dinosaurs, its families and coal mines / written, compiled and edited by Ernest Hlady. East Coulee, AB. : East Coulee Community Association, 1988. xi, 1017 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC3695 D7 H55 1988 - Open Shelf
Covering the communities of East Coulee, Millerfield, Lehigh, Arcadia, Willow Creek, Cambria, Rosedale, Aerial, Wayne, Drumheller, Newcastle, Nacmine, Midland. Includes index.
East Coulee Community Association.
Drumheller Region (Alta.) — History
Drumheller Region (Alta.) — Biography.
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The veterans of Shelburne County : a memorial / Eleanor Robertson Smith and Patricia McCormick. Shelburne : Shelburne County Genealogical Society, 2002- . v. : illustrations, facsims., portraits ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 S544 Z48 2002 - Open Shelf
Includes bibliographical references. v.1: World War One.
Veterans — Nova Scotia — Shelburne (County) — Biography
Shelburne (N.S. : County) — Genealogy
Shelburne (N.S. : County) — Biography.
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The wit and wisdom of Joe Casey / by Barbara Erjavec ; illustrated by Barbara Elaine Dorey, Harold Cromwell, and Louis Comeau. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1994. 154 pages, vi pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2326.1 C37 E75 1995 - Open Shelf
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The works of Samuel de Champlain Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1971. 6 v. : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm + portfolio.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 B592
Text in English and French. Reprinted, translated and annotated by six Canadian scholars under the general editorship of H.pages Biggar--v. 1, pages [v].
Biggar, H. P. (Henry Percival), 1872-1938.
Explorers — France — Biography
Explorers — Canada — Biography
First Nations of North America — Canada — History
America — Discovery and exploration — French
Canada — History — To 1663 (New France)
Canad
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The Yankee professor's guide to life in Nova Scotia .. / by Philip Milner. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1993. 166 pages ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2318 M45 1993 - Open Shelf
Being an account of a year in an expatriate's life, touching on matters leading to the realization that Nova Scotia is exactly the right place to thwart distracting ambition, teach what you know, keep bees, understand the outdoors and the self outdoors, cherish friendship, write as best you can, love those you're privileged to live with, and serve God as necessity imposes.
College teachers — Nova Scotia — Antigonish — Biography
Antigonish (N.S.) — Social life and customs
Antigonish (N.S.) — Biography
Nova Scotia — Social life and customs.
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The Years of the locusts / Earle K. Hawkesworth. sl. : sn., 1990--. 260 pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LA2325 H385 A3 1986
Educators — Alberta — Biography
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They came to Phillips Harbour : memoirs of a native son / Auldon B. Carter. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1989. 355 pages, xvi pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 C323 T421 - Open Shelf
Phillips Harbour (N.S.) — History
Phillips Harbour (N.S.) — Biography
Phillips Harbour (N.S.) — Genealogy.
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This old house / by Dorothy E. Kirby. Halifax : D.E. Kirby, 1981. 2 v. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204.9 K58 - Open Shelf
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This was Barrington / Hattie A. Perry. Halifax : 1973. ii, 119 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 B27 - Open Shelf
Barrington Township (N.S.) — History
Barrington Township (N.S.) — Biography.
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