Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: Biography
20 years! : Cape Breton's magazine photographs by Ronald Caplan : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 28 March to 26 April, 1992 / Ken Aucoin, guest writer. Halifax : The Gallery, 1992. iv, 28 pages : chiefly illustrations, portraits ; 34 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5200 C23 T971 - Open Shelf
Exhibition catalogue.
Portrait photography — Exhibitions
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Biography — Portraits — Exhibitions.
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50 years of seafaring, 1851 to 1901 : my grandfather Captain Augustin Mederic Saulnier / by Evangeline R. Pothier. Yarmouth : Stoneycroft Publishing, 1990. xi, 41 pages : illustrations, ports.; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.182 #3 - Vertical File
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Biography.
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96 years in the Royal Navy : the astonishing story of Halifax born Admiral of the Fleet Sir Provo Wallis, who joined the Royal Navy at the age of four and served for 96 years / William C. Heine. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1987. 92 pages, viii pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V64 G786 W221
Naval biography — Great Britain
Admirals — Great Britain — Biography
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A biographical history of the judges of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004 : illustrated & with notes on some Nova Scotia Court Houses / compiled & edited by Charles E. Haliburton. Kentville : Judges of Nova Scotia, 2004. 486 pages : ports. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - KE396 N935 H172 2004
Judges — Nova Scotia Biography.
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A Bridge to the past : Wilmot Valley, 1784-1979 Prince Edward Island : Wilmot Valley Historical Society, 1980. 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2645 W54 B75 - Open Shelf
Spine title: Wilmot Valley : a bridge to the past.
Wilmot Valley Historical Society.
Wilmot Valley (P.E.I.) — History
Wilmot Valley (P.E.I.) — Biography.
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A brief sketch of the life of the Reverend John Franklin Forbes / by Clarence MacKinnion ; with an appreciation by W.H. Smith. Saint John, N.B. : Saint John Globe Pub. Co., 1905. 56 pages : illustrations, port.; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.317 #24 - Vertical File
Presbyterians — Nova Scotia — Biography.
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A brush with fame Toronto : Great North Productions ; Magic Lantern Communications distributor, 1998. 1 videocassette (VHS) (45 min.) : sd., col. & b&w
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD9999 B865 F85 1998
Public performance rights.
Skerrett, Bill, drt
Trecartin, F. Whitman, drt
Tassé. Tom.
History Television (Toronto, Ont.)
Businesspeople — Nova Scotia — Biography.
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A Cyclopedia of Canadian biography being chiefly men of the time : a collection of persons distinguished in professional and political life : leaders in the commerce and industry of Canada, and successful pioneers / edited by Geo. Maclean Rose. Toronto : Rose Pub. Co., 1888. 816 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm R796 C995 - Open Shelf
In double columns. Original issued in series: Rose's national biographical series ; 2. Includes index.
Rose, Geo. Maclean George Maclean, 1829-1898.
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A doctor's way to health and fitness / by C.M. Harlow. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1989. 130 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - R461 H286
Self-care, Health
Pathologists — Nova Scotia — Biography.
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A higher duty : speakers of the Legislative Assemblies of the North-West Territories and Alberta, 1888-2005 / by Sandra E. Perry and Valerie L. Footz ; editor and historical consultant, Philip A. Massolin. Edmonton : Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 2006. xvii, 572p. : illustrations, ports, maps (some colour) ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC3655 C397 2006 - Open Shelf
Massolin, Philip A.(Philip Alphonse),1967-
Footz, Valerie.
Legislative bodies — Alberta — Presiding officers — Biography.
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A historical and genealogical tour of Nuttby and Earltown Mountain / by Norris Margeson Whiston. Earltown : N.M. Whiston, 2007. 1 v. (various foliations) : maps ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2349 N981 Z48 2007 - Open Shelf
Second draft — from preface.
Nuttby (N.S.) — Biography
Nuttby (N.S.) — History
Earltown (N.S.) — Biography
Earltown (N.S.) — History.
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A history of Aylesford and district : in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the Aylesford Township / by John A. DeCoste and Twila L. Robar-DeCoste. Aylesford- Nova Scotia : 1986. 315 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 A978 D296 - Open Shelf
Robar-DeCoste, Twila L. (Twila Lee), 1956-
Aylesford (N.S.) — History
Aylesford (N.S.) — Biography
Aylesford Region (N.S.) — History
Aylesford Region (N.S.) — Biography.
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A history of the County of Colchester, Nova Scotia / by Israel Longworth. Truro : 1879. 322 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3842 - Open Shelf
Colchester N.S. : County — History
Colchester N.S. : County — Biography.
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A history of the Green Oak area of Colchester County / written by Mildred Pulsifer Burrows for the Colchester Historical Museum. Truro : The Museum, 1985. 89 pages, 2 pages of plates : 2 maps, 1 port.; 28.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.300 #19 - Vertical File
Cover title: History of the Green Oak area.
Green Oaks Region (N.S.) — History
Green Oaks Region (N.S.) — Biography.
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A journey in Celtic music : Cape Breton style / Sheldon MacInnes. Sydney : University College of Cape Breton Press, 1997. 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3563.7 M6 M152
Folk music — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Musicians — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Biography.
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A life worthwhile : a biographical sketch : Major James A.H. Church, D.S.O., M.C. : Royal Engineers, provincial land surveyor, 1883-1967 / by James F. Doig. Lawrencetown : Geographics Press, 1990. vi, 44 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.347 #10 - Vertical File
Surveyors — Canada — Biography.
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A life worthwhile : memories of a banker's son growing up across Canada in the years before World War II / C. Sydney Frost. Saint John, N.B. : Neptune Publishing, 1994. 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - KE416 F76 A3 1994
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A man for Dalhousie / text by Jim Bennet ; pictures arranged by Derek Mann. Halifax : Dalhousie University, 1980. 117 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 x 31 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LE3 D317 H631
College teachers — Nova Scotia — Biography.
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A Mariner's Memories : a Chronicle of the Life and Times of Earle S. Wagner, Master Mariner, 1929-1999 / Earle S. Wagner. Nova Scotia : Earle S. Wagner, 2017. 272 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 W346 1999
At age 17, Earle Wagner joined Canada's marchant navy and served in it for four years during World War II. For nearly a quarter of a century he managed a fleet of vessels owned and operated by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. He was involved for a total of 48 years in the marine industry.
Merchant marine > Canada > Biography
Pilots and pilotage > Manitoba > Churchill > Biography
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Atlantic Ocean > Biography
World War, 1939-1945 > Transportation > Biography
West La Have (N.S.) > Biography
Autobiographies
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A monument speaks--and tells the story of its dead / by Arthur Thurston. Yarmouth : A. Thurston Publications, 1989. xix, 397 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UA601 N935 T536
World War, 1914-1918 — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth (County) — Biography
Yarmouth (County : N.S.) — Biography.
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A name for himself : a biography of Thomas Head Raddall / by Joyce Barkhouse. Toronto : Irwin, 1986. 87 pages : illustrations, maps, ports. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8535 R23 Z57
Novelists, Canadian (English) — 20th century — Biography — Juvenile literature
Novelists, Canadian — 20th century — Biography — Juvenile literature.
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A parson reminisces : a melange of recollections and reflections / by J.W. O'Brien. Sackville, N.B. : Tribune Press, 1956-. 108 pages : port. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - BX8495 O13
Clergy — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — Description and travel
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A passion for survival : the true story of Marie Anne and Louis Payzant in eighteenth-century Nova Scotia / Linda G. Layton. Halifax : Nimbus, 2003. xvi, 140 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC384.1 P39 L39 2003 - Open Shelf
Huguenots — Biography — Canada
Nova Scotia — History — Biography — 1713-1775
Canada — History — Prisoners and prisons — Seven Years' War, 1755-1763
Canada — History — Biography — 1713-1763 (New
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A portraiture from life / by a bereaved husband. Halifax : Christian Messenger Office, 1862. 18 pages ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK B12 C84P - Akins
Attributed to J. M. Cramp--A Bibliography of Canadiana (Toronto Public Library #6002. Printed for private circulation.
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A rose in November : true stories of overcoming adversity and following your dreams Port Hood : Daily Bread Publishing, 1994. 146 pages : portraits ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2343.25 A1 G55 1994 - Open Shelf
Written by Francene Gillis.
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Biography.
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