This book documents the beautiful Tall Ship Bluenose, now a sailing ambassador for the province of Nova Scotia, and tells the dramatic story of the battles and triumphs of original Bluenose. The original Bluenose, built in Lunenburg and launched in 1921, was designed to combine a career as a racing ship with the working role fishing the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. Its captain, Angus Walters, took Bluenose to five international sailing races, and was undefeated for seventeen years. By the 1930s, the vessel's achievements made it an icon for Nova Scotia and an important Canadian symbol. The newly-restored replica, the Bluenose II, represents the wooden shipbuilding achievements and the dory-based cod fishery traditions of Nova Scotia. This book offers an interpretive guide of the ship and its complex traditional equipment. It also tells the story of the original Bluenose, with many historic photographs of the ship and its crew aboard the most famous Tall Ship in Canada in this souvenir of a vessel whose history and allure continues to captivate to this day. Includes index.

Bluenose II (Schooner) — History
Bluenose (Schooner) — History

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An illustrated history of Acadie for children. Illustrated by Anne LeBlanc.

LeBlanc, Anne

English language — Alphabet — Juvenile literature
Alphabet books — Juvenile literature
Frontier and pioneer life — Canada — Juvenile literature

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Blending narrative and documentary styles, the video recreates the life and work of the enigmatic and reclusive Nova Scotian author, Ernest Buckler, an internationally renowned novelist, short story and essay writer.

Buckler, Ernest, 1908-
Canadian literature
Authors, Canadian — Biography

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A compilation of two documentaries providing a frank but sensitive look at two poor rural families in the Annapolis Valley region of Nova Scotia, their unique culture and a community's innovative approach to dealing with a rural housing crisis.

National Film Board of Canada
Annapolis Valley (Annapolis County and Kings County, N.S.) — History

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Includes bibliographical references.

Education — Nova Scotia
Educational change — Nova Scotia
School management and organization — Nova Scotia

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Artists depictions of the First World War - special focus on arts that soldiers created in the aftermath of Vimy Ridge in the Battle of France, 1917.

Boileau, John

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

World War, 1914-1918 — Canada — Exhibitions
Vimy Ridge, Battle of, France, 1917 — Exhibitions
War in art

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Ledgers of names from both the New and Old Tremont Community Cemeteries; organized by last name and respective cemetery. Assumed to be printed in at least 2018 given the records inside the book.

Nova Scotia — Genealogy
Cemeteries — Nova Scotia
Cemeteries — Kings County (N.S.)

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This publication presents only a small part of the material held at the Archives in the Colchester Historeum. It is intended to honour and celebrate the generosity of our residents a hundred years age.

Maybee, Janet

Halifax (N.S.) — History — Explosion, 1917

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CBC Halifax Harbour tour for Halifax Explosion survivors.

History — Nova Scotia
Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917
History — Halifax Harbour (N.S.)

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Biography of Nova Scotia born contralto Portia White, who in the 1940' and 50's was often compared to the American Marian Anderson, covering her singing and teaching careers. Uses archival film and TV footage, excerpts from recordings, and interviews with family, friends, pupils and her accompanist. Small, accompanying poster for film can be found in V/F V.550 #29

White, Portia, 1911-1968
Women singers — Canada — Biography
Contraltos — Canada — Biography

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The life of Joseph Howe as told through video.

History — Nova Scotia

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Oil and gas — Nova Scotia
Power resources — Nova Scotia
Natural gas — Nova Scotia
Natural gas — Prospecting — Nova Scotia

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The story of a woman and an organization that changed the course of aviation history. Deaf from the age of 5, Mabel Bell not only defied society’s expectations by speaking and living comfortably in a hearing world, she also provided leadership to some of the greatest scientific minds of her time. The one hour documentary chronicles the creation and life of the Aerial Experiment Association (A.E.A.), a professional organization designed and paid for by Mabel.

Bell, Mabel
Aerial Experiment Association — History

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After a rough few years of on-again, off-again dating, Robbie and Sharon have finally decided to tie the knot. The couple are from North Preston, which is Nova Scotia's oldest Black community. Here weddings are larger than life, with bridesmaids by the dozen. Sharon wants it all. And Robbie... well, he just wants to get married. They have their hands full organizing a wedding party of more than 30, catering, invitations, bachelor parties, and the hall - often arguing about whether something really needs to be done right now. Toss in stress, sleepless nights, and money, money, money, and you've got a story that's by turns humorous and agonizingly frustrating. << I Made a Vow >> is an entertaining documentary with a stirring gospel soundtrack that reveals the ups and downs of nuptial planning in a unique and vibrant community where weddings are a huge affair.

Cain Thompson, Sandra
Cain, Robert
Weddings — Planning
Black Canadians — Nova Scotia — North Preston — Biography
Black Canadians — Nova Scotia — Social life and customs

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Membership directory of Construction Specifications Canada for 2004-2005. Directory sections include the following indexes: advertisers index, by name, by organization, and by chapter.

Devis de Construction Canada

Building — Canada
Building — Nova Scotia
Building — Indexes

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A three-part series telling the compelling story of Canada during the Second World War through the exclusive use of newly discovered colour footage at war and at home. Episode 1: "Rumors of War" Episode 2: "Call to Duty" Episode 3: "Victory and Beyond"

Duffy, Pauline
Halpern, Elliott
Shopsowitz, Karen
Allcock, Michael

World War, 1939-1945 — Canada

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Yearbook for the Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf from the year 1969. Also contains a torn page, "Commissionaire 'Jim' Thompson" and "'Everyone's friend' Donald Fairfax".

Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf
Interprovincial Vocational School

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Photographs of the wharf at Scots Bay in the Bay of Fundy.

Marine photography — Scots Bay (N.S.)
Scots Bay (N.S.)—Pictorial works

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Africville, a small black settlement, lay within the city limits of Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the 1960s, the families who lived there were uprooted and their homes demolished in the name of urban renewal and integration. Now, more than twenty years later, the site of the community of Africville is a stark, under-utilized park. Former residents, their descendants and some of the decision-makers, speak out and, with the help of archival photographs and films, tell the story of that painful relocation.

National Film Board of Canada

Relocation (Housing) — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Blacks — Nova Scotia — Halifax — Social conditions
Africville (Halifax, N.S.)

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This is the story of an ambitious boy from Loyal Hill, in the village of Summerville on the Avon River in Hants County, who became a respected figure in the business community. Hon. MacCallum Grant served as Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia from 1916 to 1925, the last Nova Scotian to be appointed to two full terms as the King's representative. He created a new standard for the occupants of the viceregal office, reaching out to minorities and utilizing his charm and humour to engage everyone he met. Presiding By Desire - Nova Scotia's Popular Lieutenant Governor: Hon. MacCallum Grant by Scott J. Burke chronicles Grant's activities as lieutenant governor, highlighting significant events during his eight years at Government House. His terms in office encompassed the First World War and the Halifax Explosion. He played host to famous visitors including the Prince of Wales, and travelled to Washington to meet a president at the White House. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Freeman, Myra, 1949-

Grant, MacCallum, 1845-1928
Lieutenant governors — Nova Scotia — Biography
Businessmen — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — History — 1867-1918
Nova Scotia — History — 1918-1945

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Volume 2: documentation of more tragedies within the Halifax Regional municipality including disaster scenarios like fires, untimely deaths, and genealogical related materials. Index in the front of the book for easy searching.

History — Halifax (N.S.)

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Volume 1: documentation of different tragedies within the Halifax Regional municipality including disaster scenarios like fires, untimely deaths, and genealogical related materials. Index in the front of the book for easy searching.

History — Halifax (N.S.)

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Brief biographies of WWII soldiers from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Details including marital status, military status, and family lineages mostly from the Halifax Herald Limited. Second Volume.

World War, 1939-1945—Nova Scotia
World War, 1939-1945—Participation, Canadian
Halifax (N.S.)—Soldiers—Biography
Halifax (N.S.)—History, Military—20th century

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This work focuses on telling the story of an unknown child from the Titanic famously buried in Fairview Lawn Cemetery - later identified as Sidney Leslie Goodwin, Carol Goodwin's ancestor.

Goodwin family
Titanic (Steamship)
Shipwrecks—North Atlantic Ocean
Shipwreck victims—North Atlantic Ocean

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Photographs, complied by Linda Gray-LeBlanc, of gravesites at the Dartmouth Memorial Gardens by surname from A-L. Includes an index in the back of the book; index directs the reader to which page each burial site is on by name of the person.

Cemeteries — Halifax County (N.S.)
Cemeteries — Dartmouth (N.S.)
Dartmouth (N.S.) — Genealogy

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