Presiding by Desire : Nova Scotia's Popular Lieutenant Governor: Hon. MacCallum Grant / forward by Hon. Myra Freeman. Victoria, BC : Tellwell Talent, 2020. 472 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC3655 G73 B87 - Open Shelf
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.
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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It Happened in Halifax & Halifax County : Joy—Sorrow—Heartbreak—Tragedy / researched by Linda Gray-LeBlanc. Halifax : Linda Gray-LeBlanc, 2022. 148 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.
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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.
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It Happened in Halifax & Halifax County : Joy—Sorrow—Heartbreak—Tragedy / researched by Linda Gray-LeBlanc. Halifax : Linda Gray-LeBlanc, 2022. 173 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.
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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.
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Halifax WWII Heroes Remembered : Lest we Forget Those Brave Men and Women / by Linda Gray-LeBlanc. Halifax : Etc. Press Limited, 2015. 170 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2346.4 G778 W855 2015 - Open Shelf
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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Titanic's Unknown Child / by Carol Goodwin. Whitewater, WI : Newcastle Lane Publishers, 2016. 162 pages : illustrations, portraits, charts ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 G66 2016
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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Dartmouth Memorial Gardens : A-L / complied by Linda Gray-LeBlanc. Halifax : Linda Gray-LeBlanc, 2014. 250 pages : colour illustrations; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS88 H173 D37 2014a - Open Shelf
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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Nova Scotia. Department of Health. Uranium Task Force
The Occurrence and Significance of Uranium, Radium, and Radon in Water Supplies in Nova Scotia : A Report of the Investigation Carried Out by the Provincial Uranium Task Force Halifax : Nova Scotia Department of Health, 1986. Binder: 256 pages : maps, figures, tables; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - TD427 U7 1986
Compiled report after investigations carried out by the Provincial Uranium Task Force regarding Uranium, Radium, and Radon in well water across Nova Scotia. Maps, figures, and tables are used to show how and where water contamination happens, as well as recommendations for how to prevent and stop water contamination in the future.
Grantham, David A.
MacFarlane, D.S. (David S.)
Drinking water — Nova Scotia
Uranium
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Radium
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Dartmouth Memorial Gardens : L-Z / compiled by Linda Gray-LeBlanc. Halifax : Linda Gray-LeBlanc, 2014. 243 pages (numbered 251-494) : Cemetery index : colour illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Photograph collection, complied by Linda Gray-LeBlanc, of gravesites at the Dartmouth Memorial Gardens by surname from L-Z. 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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Health Coalition of Nova Scotia
Report : Public Forum on Medicare / sponsored by the Health Coalition of Nova Scotia. Health Coalition of Nova Scotia, 1983. 263 pages : newspaper clippings, brochures, letters ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - R463 H43 M43 1983
Report from 1983 public forum meetings across Nova Scotia to discuss Medicare in Canada and it's future with the Health Coalition of Nova Scotia. Newspaper clippings, brochures, and letters from events are included among the meeting minutes and notes. Table of contents includes an Appendices section for the different towns that held meetings as well as for the financial report across the areas and brief area reports.
Public health — Halifax (N.S.)
Medicaid — Halifax (N.S.)
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Around the corner : homes and stories of the Barss Corner area, 1838-2018 / compiled by Marlean (Taylor) Rhodenizer. Revised second edition Barss Corner, NS : Marlean (Taylor) Rhodenizer, February 2019. 238 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2349 B37 R46 2019 - Open Shelf
Around the Corner: Homes and Stories of the Barss Corner Area 1838-2021 reflects extensive research into families in the communities of Barss Corner, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada. House information is included for the surrounding communities of Cornwall and Scarsdale, as well as selected homes in Farmington, NS. The information in this book was supported by Marlean’s daughter, Pat Rhodenizer, who researched land deeds going back to the original Crown Land Grants of the mid 1800s. Photos, home ownership from the 1800s to the present, and family stories have been compiled to create this 238-page history of the area.
Barss Corner (N.S.) — History
Barss Corner (N.S.) — Biography
Dwellings — Nova Scotia — Barss Corner
Barss Corner (N.S.) — Buildings, structures, etc.
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Nova Scotia and the great influenza pandemic, 1918-1920 : a remembrance of the dead and an archive for the living / compiled and edited by Ruth Holmes Whitehead. Halifax, NS : Nimbus Publishing Limited, 2020. xvi, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RC150.55 C23 N86 2020
The definitive academic resource on the Great Influenza by celebrated historian behind Black Loyalists, in time for the pandemic's centenary. It could kill in as little as ten hours. Extremely high fever, bleeding from eyes, nose, and ears, terrible pain, especially in the head and the joints, delirium--and then its victims literally drowned in their own fluids. Fifty to 100 million people worldwide died in this global pandemic in the early twentieth century. The Great Influenza first entered Nova Scotia through ports. (Sydney, Cape Breton, received five hundred sick American troops in a single day.) For three years, the province coped with this vicious epidemic as it spread like wildfire. Local economies ceased functioning; fishing fleets, banks, and apple-canning factories reported all staff were suffering from the flu. The heart of this book, however, is its human element. Oral histories, family memoirs, newspaper articles, and provincial death records tell, county by county, stories of those who died. Accompanied by 20 photographs, Nova Scotia and the Great Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1920 chronicles both provincial and personal efforts to cope during this most perilous time. Includes bibliographical references.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 — Nova Scotia — Sources
Influenza — Patients — Nova Scotia — Biography — Sources
Nova Scotia — Biography — Sources
Nova Scotia — History — 20th century — Sources
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Atlantic Canada's Greatest Storms / by Dan Soucoup; edited by Angela Mombourquette. Halifax, NS : Nimbus Publishing Limited, 2019. 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QC959 A85 S68 2019
Author Dan Soucoup takes readers from the eighteenth century to present day, detailing the blizzards, floods, tornadoes, and tsunamis that have brought havoc to the East Coast.
Storms — Atlantic Provinces — History
Storms — Nova Scotia — History
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Untitled / Marie-Therese McGuinness. 2nd edition Montreal, PQ : Quebecor World Inc., 2008. Unnumbered ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8575 S65 Z46 2008
Some background is provided on ancestors but it mostly is a biography for her and her immediate family.
Nova Scotia — Genealogy
Nova Scotia — History
McGuinness Family
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Poems and Lyrics by a Super-Centenarian : (I needed the quiet) / by St. Cécile-Marie, F. J. (Annie Adèle Samson) ; compiled by Garvie Samson. 4th edition Dartmouth, NS : Garvie Samson, 2018. 94 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8537 A46 A14 2018
Research, compilation and notes by Gervais (Garvie) Samson. St. Cécile-Marie, F.J. (Annie Adèle Samson) (1891-2004), Teacher and Poet. Celebrating 113 years and 9 months of service Includes bibliographical references.
Canadian poetry — Women authors
Canadian poetry — 21st century
Canadian poetry — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Poetry
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Canadian Authors Association Atlantic Branch
Atlantic Musings : A Tribute Anthology / compiled by the Canadian Authors Association Atlantic Branch. Halifax, NS : Atlantic, Canadian Authors, 2007. 112 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8329.5 A85 A84 2007
Compiled work from Canadian authors (poets, writers, and playwrights) written and compiled by members of the Canadian Author's Association Atlantic Branch. Completes the trilogy of anthologies from the CAA-Atlantic Branch - Atlantic Voices in 1994 and Atlantic Echoes in 1998.
Canadian poetry — Nova Scotia
Canadian fiction — Nova Scotia
Canadian poetry — 20th century
Canadian fiction — 20th century
Nova Scotia — History
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Silver Hair and Golden Voice Austin Willis : from Halifax to Hollywood Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 2020. 163 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PN1998.2 D535 2020
Follows the life and career of Austin Willis, actor known for CBC's Space Command and Goldfinger as told to Ernest Dick. Foreword by Costas Halavrezos.
Willis, Austin
Motion picture actors and actresses — Canada — Biography
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Garrison Graveyard : grave markers & inscriptions / Denise J. Rice. Bridgetown, NS : Integrity Printing, 2018. 1 v. (unpaged) : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NB1880 C2 R53 2018
Errors and omissions sheet included. Includes index.
Cemeteries — Nova Scotia — Annapolis Royal — History
Sepulchral monuments — Nova Scotia — Annapolis Royal — History
Stone carving — Nova Scotia — Annapolis Royal — History
Annapolis Royal (N.S.) — History
Fort Anne National Historic Site (Annapolis Royal, N.S.) — History
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Don Messer's Violin : Canada's fiddle / foreword by Frank Leahy. Toronto : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2005. x, 118 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML418 M37 R63 2005
The story of Don Messer and his fiddle that made him a nation figure in Canadian music history.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Messer, Don, 1909-1973
Leahy, Frank, 1961-
Don Messer's jubilee (Television program)
Fiddlers — Canada — Biography
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Violence, order, and unrest : a history of British North America, 1749-1876 / edited by Elizabeth Mancke, Jerry Bannister, Denis McKim, and Scott W. See. Toronto, ON : University of Toronto Press, 2019. xiv, 519 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HN103 V56 2019
This edited collection offers a broad reinterpretation of the origins of Canada. Drawing on cutting-edge research in a number of fields, Violence, Order, and Unrest explores the development of British North America from the mid-eighteenth century through the aftermath of Confederation. The chapters cover an ambitious range of topics, from Indigenous culture to municipal politics, public executions to runaway slave advertisements. Cumulatively, this book examines the diversity of Indigenous and colonial experiences across northern North America and provides fresh perspectives on the crucial roles of violence and unrest in attempts to establish British authority in Indigenous territories. Drawing on specific case studies of law and state formation in English and French Canada, Violence, Order, and Unrest considers patterns of settler colonialism across the century before Confederation. The result is a collection that brings together innovative research in different fields to reconsider the ideology, governance, and political culture that underpinned British North America. In the aftermath of Canada 150, Violence, Order, and Unrest offers a timely contribution to current debates over the nature of Canadian culture and history. It demonstrates that we cannot understand Canada today without considering its origins as a colonial project.
Bannister, Jerry, 1968-
McKim, Denis
See, Scott W., 1950-
Violence — Canada — History — 18th century — Case studies
Violence — Canada — History — 19th century — Case studies
Canada — Colonization — History — 18th century — Case studies
Canada — Colonization — History — 19th century — Case studies
Canada — Social conditions — 18th century — Case studies
Canada — Social conditions —19th century — Case studies
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The Canadian National Railways' Story / by Patrick C. Dorin. First Edition Seattle : Superior Pub. Co., 1975. 206 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HE2810 C14 D67 1975
This book examines the services provided by the CN System from 1919 to 1975, with the various types of train services highlighted both historical and geographically from Newfoundland to British Columbia.
Canadian National Railways — History
Railroads — Canada — History
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Rising to the Challenge : The Craftsmanship of Perry Henniger / compiled by James Henniger ; photographs by John Jennings. Peterborough, ON : James Henniger, 2018. 147 pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD8039 W62 C3 2018
Henniger, Perry — 1906-1990
Woodworkers — Ontario — Biography
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Fight on! : Cape Breton coal miners, 1900-1925 / Joanne Schwartz. Halifax, NS : Nimbus Publishing Ltd., 2020. 74 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD5329 M615 S39 2020
In early twentieth-century Cape Breton, coal mines stretched far out under the ocean. The workers, mostly men, but also children and ponies, spent all day in the dark, damp mines. Each day the workers descended into the mines, they risked never seeing sunlight or their families again. They were miserable and fearful, working in dangerous conditions where fatal accidents were common. So the brave miners took matters into their own hands, and stood up to the companies treating them this way. They went on strike again and again, suffering from starvation, disease, freezing winters, and violence at the hands of the mine owners and police. Fight On! tells the stories of these miners and their families, Cape Breton heroes who fought against corporate greed, putting their livelihoods on the line for better conditions and healthier families and communities. The newest installment in the award-winning Compass series, Fight On! is at once an engaging history and a passionate call to action against injustice. Includes dozens of modern and archival colour photos and illustrations, a glossary of terms, index, and informative sidebars.
Strikes and lockouts — Coal mining — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — History — 20th century — Juvenile literature
Coal miners — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — History — 20th century — Juvenile literature
Coal mines and mining — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — History — 20th century — Juvenile literature
Coal miners — Labor unions — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — History — 20th century — Juvenile literature
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Royal Scottish Country Dance Society Nova Scotia Branch
A collection of Scottish country dances / by Royal Scottish Country Dance Society Nova Scotia Branch ; diagrams by Keith Rose. Halifax, NS : Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Nova Scotia Branch, 2017. 68 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GV1646 S35 C665 2017
Written by or in honour of Nova Scotian dancers. Collected on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the RSCDS Nova Scotia branch in 2017. Includes index.
Folk dancing, Scottish — Nova Scotia
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Goodyear, Hedley Charles Cornick
Dear Flo : letters from a pilot, correspondence home 1941-1944 / by Flight Lieutenant Hedley Charles Cornick Goodyear ; compiled and edited by John Grant. Nova Scotia : Boularderie Island Press, 2021. 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2474.1 G66 2021 - Open Shelf
Hedley (Ted) Charles Cornick Goodyear chose to leave his university studies at Mount Allison University to enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force (R.C.A.F.), following the lead of his older brother Ray. 'Dear Flo, Letters From a Pilot' includes all of the letters that were received by his mother Florence (Flo) between 1941-1944. These letters offer a rare glimpse into the day-to-day life of the pilots who trained on and flew fighter/bombers during the Second World War. They also offer insight into the risks, triumphs and resilience of all those Ted Goodyear met, both before departing for England and while stationed overseas.
World War, 1939-1945 — Correspondence
Flight navigators, Military — New Brunswick — Correspondence
Goodyear, Hedley Charles Cornick — Correspondence
Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force — Biography
Fighter pilots — Canada — Correspondence
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Images 1900-1960 : Photos d'écoliers de Wedgeport & de la Butte-des-Comeau = Student photos of Wedgeport & Comeau's Hill / sous la direction de / directed by Donnie Jacquard. Yarmouth, NS : Sentinel Printing, 2000. 146 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2349 W43 S478 2000 - Open Shelf
Students — Nova Scotia — Wedgeport Region — Biography — Portraits
Wedgeport Region (N.S.) — Biography — Portraits
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