Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: Biography
Appletons' cyclopædia of biography American ed. New York : D. Appelton and Company, 1856. 1058 pages ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - CS AP5
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Archibald MacMechan : Canadian man of letters / by Janet E. Baker. 1977 1978. ix, 278 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche B167 - Open Shelf
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Archibald MacMechan : Canadian man of letters / Janet E. Baker. Lockeport : Roseway Publishing, 2000. 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8525 M42 Z58 2000
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Architects of Nova Scotia : a biographical dictionary, 1605-1950 / by Maud Rosinski. Halifax : Department of Municipal Affairs, Heritage Section, 1994. 296 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NA60 C3 R68 1994
Nova Scotia. Heritage Section.
Architects — Nova Scotia — Biography — Dictionaries
Architecture — Nova Scotia — History.
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Arnie Patterson : a Nova Scotian's memoir Halifax : Nimbus, 2001. vi, 178 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2327.1 P317 A3 2001 - Open Shelf
Businessmen — Canada Biography
Nova Scotia Biography.
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Around the harbors / compiled by members of the Marine Highway Historical Society. Jeddore : 1981. 2 v. : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 H173 A771 - Open Shelf
Around the harbours. Edited by: Helen M. Jennex and Grace Forsythe.
Forsythe, Grace
Jennex, Helen M., 1912-
Marine Highway Historical Society (Jeddore, N.S.)
Jeddore Oyster Ponds region (N.S.) — History
Jeddore Oyster Ponds region (N.S.) — Biography.
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Arthur Thurston's Tallahassee skipper : the biography of John Taylor Wood, Merrimac gunner, soldier-at-sea, guardian of the Confederate treasury, adopted Nova Scotian Yarmouth : Lescarbot, 1981. 434 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E467.1 W876 T544
Ship captains — Confederate States of America — Biography
United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Naval operations.
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Bishop, Harold Fletcher, 1896-1919
As ever, the wartime letters written by Cpl. Harold Fletcher Bishop : A Student from Acadia University / compiled by John Bishop Grant. Sydney : John Bishop Grant, 2016. 158 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D640 B547 2016
Harold Bishop, of Auburn, Nova Scotia was a member of the Class of 1917 at Acadia University. Upon completing his sophomore year in 1915 he, along with the majority of men in his graduating class, joined the 4th University Company of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. This is a compilation of his letters sent from training bases and the front lines of France to the home front. In them, he thanks those who wrote to him and sent parcels, as well as he advises his brothers how they should enlist. A personal story of military service, including mention of the loss of friends in combat. Bishop demonstrateds his attachment to family, the importance of his faith, and the connections to those he knew on the campus of Acadia and in his home community. Includes index.
Bishop, Harold Fletcher, — 1896-1919 — Correspondence
Canada. — Canadian Army. — Battalion (Eastern Ontario Regiment), 2nd — Biography
Acadia University — Students — Biography
World War, 1914-1918 — Personal narratives, Canadian
Soldiers — Nova Scotia — Biography
Soldiers — Canada — Biography
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As I remember : Hantsport area in the 30's : book two / Harold Gloade. Hantsport : Hantsport and Area Historical Society, 1989. 56 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 H251 G562 - Open Shelf
Hantsport and Area Historical Society.
Hantsport (N.S.) — History — Anecdotes
Hantsport (N.S.) — Biography — Anecdotes.
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As the days go by / by Thomas Aylward and Anne Hutten. 94 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 F19 A477 - Open Shelf
Farmers — Nova Scotia — Falmouth — Biography
Falmouth (N.S.) — Biography.
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Aunt Peggy from Loch Bras d'Or / by Mabel MacPhail Pillar. Windsor : Lancelot Press, 1976. 131 pages, [2] pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204.9 M172 - Open Shelf
Authors, Canadian (English) — Biography.
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Autobiography of Oliver Goldsmith : a chapter in Canada's literary history / edited by Wilfrid E. Myatt ; with foreword by Phyllis R. Blakeley. 2nd ed. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1985. 174 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204.9 G624 M995 - Open Shelf
Poets, Canadian — Biography
Canada — Biography.
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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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Back to my Father and Home / Walter W. Hichens. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1987. 96 pages, iv leaves of plates : illustrations, port. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2349 B36 H52 1987 - Open Shelf
Memories of Barrington Passage, Nova Scotia, and one of its most beloved citizens of the early 1900s, Dr. Ben Hichens
Hichens family
Barrington Passage (N.S.) — Biography
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Back when-- : a collection of stories about people, places and happenings on the north shore of Nova Scotia Nova Scotia : Advocate Publishing, 1993. 56 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.392 #5 - Vertical File
Tatamagouche Region (N.S.) — History
Pugwash Region (N.S.) — History
River John Region (N.S.) — History
Tatamagouche Region (N.S.) — Biography
Pugwash Region (N.S.) — Biography
River John Region (N.S.) — Biography.
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Back when-- volume III : a collection of stories about people, places and happenings in northern Nova Scotia / Ellen Giles Millard. Pictou : Printed by Advocate Publishing, 1998. 64 pages : illustrations, ports.; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.535 #18 - Vertical File
Tatamagouche Region (N.S.) — History
Tatamagouche Region (N.S.) — Biography.
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Bagman : a life in Nova Scotia politics / Donald F. Ripley. Toronto, ON. : Key Porter Books, 1993. 249 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2326.1 R589 A3 1993 - Open Shelf
Includes index.
Fund raisers (Persons) — Nova Scotia — Biography
Political corruption — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1970-1978
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1978-
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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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Bear of the sea : giant Jim Pattillo and the roaring years of the Gloucester-Nova Scotia fishery / Joseph E. Garland. Halifax : Nimbus, 2001. xiv, 352 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - SH20 P38 G37 2001
First edition published 1966 under title: That great Pattillo.
Ship captains — Massachusetts — Gloucester Biography
Fisheries — North Atlantic Ocean — History — 19th century
Fishers — Nova Scotia Biography.
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Aikens, Gwladys M. Rees (Gwladys May Rees)
Before and after the battles : from Wales to Canada via two world wars / Gwladys M. Rees Aikens. Halifax : Cymru Press, 2001. 168 pages : illustrations, geneal. table, maps, portraits ; 21 cm
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2346.26 A291 A3 2001 - Open Shelf
Prequel and sequel to the author's Nurses in battledress.
Aikens, Gwladys M. Rees (Gwladys May Rees), 1916- Nurses in battledress.
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Before the camera / Steve Murphy. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 2006. viii, 150 pages, 8 pages of plates: illustrations; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PN4913 M978 A3 2006
Television news anchors — Atlantic Provinces — Biography
Television journalists — Atlantic Provinces — Biography
Television news anchors — Canada — Biography
Radio journalists — Atlantic Provinces — Biography.
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Behind the headlines : Moose River to Shangri-La : memoirs of Ralph Kelly Morton Halifax : Nimbus, 1986. x, 197 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PN4913 M67 A3
Journalists — Nova Scotia — Biography.
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Between the lines / by H.L. Woodman. Kentville : Kentville Publishing, 1983. 96 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.293 #31 - Vertical File
Includes index.
Kentville (N.S.) — Biography
Kentville (N.S.) — History.
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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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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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