Castaway on Cape Breton : Ensign Prenties' narrative, 1780 / edited with an historical setting and notes by G.G. Campbell ; to which is added Samuel Burrows' narrative of shipwreck on the Cheticamp coast, 1823 / with notes on Acadians who cared for the survivors by Charles D. Roach. Wreck Cove Nova Scotia : Breton Books, 1991. xix, 119 pages, [2] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G530 C346
Burrows, Samuel
Campbell, G. G. (George Graham), 1904-
Shipwrecks — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — History
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive11067
Steam Ship Atlantic : Papers relating to the wreck of the SS Atlantic / Ordered by The House of Commons. Ottawa : House of Commons, 1873. 533 pages, 3 pages of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S G530 A881 S799 - Oversize
Contents. Part I. Copy of the Evidence taken and Report of Inquiry held at Halifax into the Loss of the Steam Ship "Atlantic." with Correspondence - Part II. Copy of the Evidence taken and Report of Inquiry at the Inspection afterwards held at Liverpool by Admiral Schomberg and Mr. Ravenshill, un the Provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, with Correspondence - Part III. Copy of subsequent Correspondence with the Owners of the "Atlantic," Messrs. Ismay, Imrie & Company Board of Trade, 29 July 1873. Also includes various newspaper clippings.
Shipwrecks — Nova Scotia
Shipwrecks — SS Atlantic
British Board of Trade — Wreck of the SS Atlantic
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive11066
Sagas of the land and sea / by Roland H. Sherwood ; ill. by James DeCoste and the author. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1980. 100 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G525 S554
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive11056
Men against the sea Windsor : Lancelot Press. 140 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G525 R65
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive11054
Oceans of mystery / produced by Eco-Nova Corporation. Halifax : Eco-Nova Corporation, 1997. 1 videocassette : 24 minutes.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G525 O24 - Video
Shipwrecks — North Atlantic
Underwater exploration — North Atlantic
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive11051
At the harbour mouth / Archibald MacMechan ; edited by John Bell. Porters Lake : Pottersfield Press, 1988. 140 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G525 M32 1988
Sea stories, Canadian — Nova Scotia
Shipwrecks — Nova Scotia
Seafaring life — Nova Scotia.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive11050
MacMechan, Archibald, 1862-1933
At the harbour mouth Porters Lake : Pottersfield Press, 1988. 142 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G525 M32 1988
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive11049
Disasters at sea : an anthology of Nova Scotia shipwreck stories / co-authored by Susie Sweeney and Gail Anne McNeil ; with contributing writers, Greg Cochkanoff, Joan Vickery and Margaret Eisnor ; editor, Gail Anne McNeil ; foreword by Eric J. Ruff. Halifax- Nova Scotia : T. Cranston, 1986. 128 pages : illustrations, maps, ports. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G525 D611
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive11045
Treasure-trove, pirates' gold / Gordon Cooper. London : Lutterworth Press, 1951. [188] pages, 23 pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G525 C717
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive11043
Davey's pilots Halifax : Petheric Press, 1975. [3], 77p.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G525 B87
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive11041
Walking Nova Scotia : the doer's and dreamer's complete guide to Canada's walking province / by Bradford W. Ketchum, Jr.. Boston : Walking Magazine, 1993. 128 pages : col. illustrations, maps (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G504 N935 W177
Includes index. Published in cooperation with the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism and Culture and the Nova Scotia Adventure Tourism Association.
Nova Scotia Adventure Tourism Association
Nova Scotia. Dept. of Tourism and Culture.
Walking — Nova Scotia — Guidebooks
Nova Scotia — Description and travel
Nova Scotia — Guidebooks.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive11036
Nova Scotia Dept. of Lands & Forests. Parks and Recreation Division
Risser's Beach
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G504 N935 R596
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive11035
Nova Scotia. Dept. of Recreation
Proceedings of the first Nova Scotia trails symposium Digby. 272 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G504 N935
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive11034
Map of the county of Surry in the island of Jamaica / laid down from the papers and under the direction of Henry Moore, Esqr., His Majesty's Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of that island, in the years 1756, 57, 58, 59, 60 & 61, & from a great number of actual surveys performed by the publishers i. London : D. Fournier, 1763. 1 map on 4 sheets : colour, illustrations ; 97 x 122 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S G4963 S9 C73 1763 - Map
Copy 2 is incomplete. Hand coloredition Inscribed To the right honorable George Grenville, Esq., first lord commissioner of the treasury, chancellor & under treasurer of the exchequer, &c. &c.
Moore, Henry, Sir, 1713-1769
Simpson, James, surveyor
Fournier, Daniel, 1710-1766
Map of the county of Middlesex in the island of Jamaica / laid down from the papers, and under the direction of Henry Moore, Esqr., His Majesty's Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of that island, in the years 1756, 57, 58, 60, & 61 and from a great number of actual surveys performed by the publishers is. London : D. Fournier, 1763. 1 map on 4 sheets : colour, illustrations ; 98 x 123 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S G4963 M5 C73 1763 - Map
Hand coloredition Inscribed To the Right Honorable Wills, Earl of Hillsborough, first lord commissioner of trade & plantations.
Moore, Henry, Sir, 1713-1769
Simpson, James, surveyor
Fournier, Daniel, 1710-1766
Map of the county of Cornwall, in the island of Jamaica / laid down from the papers, under the direction of, Henry Moore, Esqr., His Majesty's Lieutenant Governor, and Commander in Chief of that island, in the years 1756, 57, 58, 59, 60 & 61, & from a great number of actual surveys performed by the publishers is. London : D. Fournier, 1763. 1 map on 4 sheets ; colour, illustrations ; 98 x 123 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S G4963 C6 C73 1763 - Map
Copy 1 is incomplete. Hand coloredition D. Fournier, invt. et delin. Inscribed To the Right Honorable Robert, Earl of Holdernesse.
Moore, Henry, Sir, 1713-1769
Simpson, James, surveyor
Fournier, Daniel, 1710-1766
Map of the island of Jamaica / laid down from the papers and under the direction of Henry Moore, Esqr.; His Majesty's Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of that island, in the years 1756, 57, 58, 59, 60 & 61; & from a great number of actual surveys performed by the publishers i. London : D. Fournier, 1763. 1 map on 4 sheets : colour ; 97 x 125 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S G4960 C73 1763 - Map
Hand coloredition Relief shown pictorially. D. Fournier inv. & del. Inscribed To the Right Honorable George, Earl of Hallifax, one of His Majesty's principal secretary's of state, &c. &c.
Moore, Henry, Sir, 1713-1769
Simpson, James, surveyor
Fournier, Daniel, 1710-1766
Journal d'un voyage fait aux Indes Orientales (1690-1691) / par Robert Challe ; texte publié et commenté par Frédéric Deloffre & Melâhat Menemencioglu. 2e éd. mise à jour et augm. Paris : Mercure de France, 1983. 2 v. : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G490 C45 1983
Deloffre, Frédéric
Menemencioglu, Melâhat.
Voyages and travels
East Indies — Description and travel.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive11025
If we are spared to each other : love and faith against the sea : the diary of Annie Rogers Butler and letters of Captain John Kendrick Butler / compiled and edited with additional material by Raymond A. Simpson. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1995. 270 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G463 B97 1995
Butler, John Kendrick, 1837-1876
Simpson, Raymond A.
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth — Correspondence
Ship captains' spouses — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth — Diaries
Ship captains' spouses — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth — Correspondence.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive11020
If we are spared to each other : love and faith against the sea : the diary of Annie Rogers Butler and letters of Captain John Kendrick Butler / compiled and edited with additional material and notes by Raymond A. Simpson. Halifax : The Author, 1989. xii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G463 B97 1989
Butler, John Kendrick, 1837-1876
Simpson, Raymond A.
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth — Correspondence
Ship captains' spouses — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth — Diaries
Ship captains' spouses — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth — Correspondence
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive11019
Nova Scotia. Provincial Crown Lands Record Centre
Wallaback Lake Kings, Lunenburg and Hants Counties / Provincial Crown Lands Record Centre. Surveys Division, 1947. 1 map ; 88 cm x 62 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S G4516 G4 N68 K-17 - Map
Nova Scotia. Provincial Crown Lands Record Centre
Louisbourg Cape Breton County / Provincial Crown Lands Record Centre. Surveys Division, 1960. 1 map ; 88 cm x 62 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S G4516 G4 N68 CB-48 - Map
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.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive11016
Around the world awheel : the adventures of Karl M. Creelman / by Brian F. Kinsman. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1993. 130 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G440 C844 K5 1993
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive11015
Lawrence, William Dawson, 1817-1886
His story of his travels around the world Maitland, 1880. 134 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G420 L42
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive11014
Nova Scotia Archives — https://archives.novascotia.ca/library/catalogue/
Crown copyright © 2026, Province of Nova Scotia.