Mahone Bay 1919-2019 : One Hundred Years and Counting / written by Bob Sayer. Mahone Bay, NS : Town of Mahone Bay, 2019. 87 pages : illustrations (some colour), map ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2349 M317 S29 2019 - Open Shelf
Documenting the history of Mahone Bay from 1919-2019.
Mahone Bay (N.S.) — History — 20th century
Mahone Bay (N.S.) — History — 21st century
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42333
Birchtown and the Black Loyalist experience : from 1775 to the present / by Stephen Davidson ; photography by Peter Zwicker. Halifax : Formac Publishing Company Limited, 2019. 88 pages : illustrations (some color), 1 color map, color portraits, 1 color coat of arms ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2349 B56 D38 2019 - Open Shelf
The experiences of Black Loyalist refugees escaping the American Revolution, based on artefacts and displays at the Birchtown Black Loyalist Centre in Nova Scotia. This book chronicles experiences of African Americans who were part of the influx of Loyalist refugees from the American Revolution. The Black Loyalists were both freed and enslaved Black Americans who had joined the British side. For their loyalty, they were evacuated by the British Navy to Nova Scotia, where they were to receive freedom, land, and provisions. The Black Loyalists landed at a settlement named Birchtown, adjoining the white Loyalist town of Shelburne. On arrival they found virtually no shelter. Many died and others only survived by digging small holes in the ground and fixing logs over top for makeshift huts. Food was extremely scarce. White Loyalists quickly received their land and provisions. It was years before the Black Loyalists received their land grants, and not everyone got a plot. The lands provided proved to be rocky and hard to cultivate. Ultimately many Black Loyalists chose to leave Nova Scotia to go to Sierra Leone, West Africa, founding a new settlement there. Others remained, and their descendants are found in communities across Nova Scotia and beyond. Through images, artifacts, and text, this book tells the story of Birchtown and its residents as well as the larger story of Black Loyalist history, reflecting the research and exhibits in the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre in Birchtown. Includes bibliographical references (page 86) and index.
Black people — Nova Scotia — Birchtown — History
Black people — Nova Scotia — Birchtown — Antiquities
African Americans — Nova Scotia — Birchtown — History
African Americans — Nova Scotia — Birchtown — Antiquities
African American loyalists — Nova Scotia — Birchtown — History
Birchtown (N.S.) — History
Birchtown (N.S.) — Antiquities
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42331
Peer into the Past : History and Oral Traditions of Richmond County / by Stephanie Campbell; research assistant Ann Marie Yorke. Descousse, NS : Richmond County Literacy Network, 2004. 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 R52 C35 2004 - Open Shelf
Compiled oral and other histories from Richmond County Nova Scotia.
Readers for new literates
Richmond (N.S. : County) — History
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42327
Kings County Schools : A Brief History of the Schools and School Sections of Kings County, Nova Scotia / compiled by Nelson Labor and Linda Hart. Kingston, NS : Published by T & S Office Essentials & Printing, 2011. 124 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 K56 K56 2011 - Open Shelf
History of the schools of Kings County, Nova Scotia. Includes bibliographic reference and table of contents for easy searching.
Schools — Kings County (N.S.)
Kings County (N.S.) — History
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42321
Cumberland County Genealogical Society
Five score and more : reflections of a centenarian Amherst, NS : Cumberland County Genealogical Society, 2017. 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 C84 Z48 2017 - Open Shelf
Biographical sketches of over 250 centenarians who have lived in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. Includes bibliographical references.
Centenarians — Nova Scotia — Cumberland (County)
Obituaries — Nova Scotia — Cumberland (County)
Cumberland (N.S. : County) — Genealogy
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42320
The Museum Called Canada : 25 Rooms of Wonder / Charlotte Gray. Created and Produced by Otherwise Editions for Random House Canada, Toronto, Ontario, 2004. 705 pages : colour and black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC21 G73 2004 - Open Shelf
Welcome to a museum so full of wonder that it could only be called Canada. Explore its twenty-five rooms, collectively bringing together a breathtaking range of cultural artifacts, artworks, and historic objects - many of them never seen in a museum before. You'll find high art next to pop culture, scientific inventions displayed beside prehistoric creatures - myriad pieces of our past that tell the story of Canada. Book concept and curation: Sara Angel; design: Dinnick & Howells; cover and interior photography: Nancy Tong.
Material culture — Canada — Pictorial works
Canada — History — Pictorial works
Canada — Antiquities — Pictorial works
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42317
Nova Scotia South shore : Polk City Directories / Polk City Directories. Polk Canada Ltd., 1999- 2 volumes ; 34 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F91 N85 P762
Previously called Might's Directories. Archives have 1999 and 2000. 2000 edition published by Equifax.
South Shore (N.S.) — Directories
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42315
Valley & South Shore : Criss Cross Directories / Might's Directories. Polk Canada Ltd., 1997- 3 volumes ; 34 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F91 N85 P76
Archives have 2 copies of 1997 and 1 copy 1998.
Annapolis Valley (N.S.) — Directories
South Shore (N.S.) — Directories
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42313
Truro-Amherst, Antigonish and region : Criss Cross Directories / Might's Directories. Polk Canada Ltd., 1997- 3 volumes ; 34 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F91 N85 P758
Archives have 1 copy of 1997 and 2 copies of 1998.
Truro (N.S.) — Directories
Amherst (N.S.) — Directories
Antigonish — Directories
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42312
The Maritime guide for 1875 : containing routes for summer travel through the coast and inland towns of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape Breton, and Prince Edward Island Halifax : Charles McAlpine, 1875. 120 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F91 M12 1875
Maritime provinces — Description and travel
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42311
Uniacke, Richard John, 1807-1887
Uniacke's Sketches of Cape Breton : and other papers relating to Cape Breton Island / edited with an introduction and notes by C. Bruce Fergusson, M.A, D. Phil. (Oxon.), Archivist of Nova Scotia. Halifax, NS : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1958. ix, 198 pages : portrait, maps (3 folded) : 24 cm.
view this publicationNova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F90 N85 Ar2n
Nova Scotia Series I. This volume was prepared not only to make available in the first instance Rev. Richard John Uniacke's "Sketches of Cape Breton", which were written at Sydney, N.S., between 1862 and 1865, but also to present a number of additional descriptions of the Island from the pens of other writers at interviews between the founding of Sydney in 1785 and the year 1862.
Fergusson, Charles Bruce, 1911-1978
Public Archives of Nova Scotia
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Genealogy
Nova Scotia — Genealogy
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Description and travel
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42310
Colchester County : a Pictorial History / by S.F. Creighton. revised Truro, NS : Municipality of the County of Colchester, 1980. 181 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5248 C687 C914 1980
Contains pictorial and written accounts of life in Colchester County, Nova Scotia.
Colchester (N.S. : County) — History
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42308
The Consequences of Loyalism : Essays in Honor of Robert M. Calhoon / edited by Rebecca Brannon and Joseph S. Moore. Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, 2019. xii, 333 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E277 C65 2019
Since the 1970s scholars have regarded Robert M. Calhoon as an invigorating and definitive force when it comes to the study of American Loyalism. His decades-long work redefined the Loyalists' role in the American Revolution from being portrayed as static characters opposing change to being seen eventually as reactionary actors adapting to a society in upheaval. Loyalists were central to the Revolution, and Calhoon and these authors argue that they were not so different in ideology from their Patriot neighbors — except occasionally when they were. In The Consequences of Loyalism, Rebecca Brannon and Joseph S. Moore seek to provide an understanding of Calhoon's foundational influence and the development continuing in the wake of his prolific career. Includes bibliographic references and index.
Calhoon, Robert M. — (Robert McCluer)
American loyalists
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42303
A Life of Faith : An autobiography / written by Muriel Faustina Gallant, M.M. ; compiled and edited by Elise Mary Ellison Macdonald. 111 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - CT25 G35
Muriel Faustina Gallant — Biography
Nuns — Biography
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42301
Haulin' in the Family Net : Webber's / researched by Linda Gray-LeBlanc . Halifax: Linda Gray-LeBlanc, 2019. 160 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 W43 G778 2019 - Open Shelf
Webber family — Genealogy
Nova Scotia — Genealogy
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42300
The Totten Family : United Empire Loyalists / researched and compiled by James Everett Totten's cousin Jane (Currie) Wile. Belmont, NS : Wile, 1999. 92 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 T688 W676 1999 - Open Shelf
Totten Family tree to the year 1999. Includes index for easy searching and finding names. Dedicated to James Everett Totten, Wile's cousin.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42298
Haulin' in the family net : Purcell Genealogy / researched by Linda Gray-LeBlanc. Halifax : Linda Gray-LeBlanc, 2018. 164 pages : illustrations, portraits (some colour) ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 P87 G778 2018 - Open Shelf
Purcell — Genealogy
Nova Scotia — Genealogy
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42297
Haulin' in the Family Net : Gray's / researched by Linda Gray-LeBlanc. Halifax: Linda Gray-LeBlanc, 2016. 186 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 G77 G778 2016 - Open Shelf
Gray family — Genealogy
Nova Scotia — Genealogy
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42294
Haulin' in the family net : Doyle Genealogy / researched by Linda Gray-LeBlanc. Halifax : Linda Gray-LeBlanc, 2022. 85 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 D69 G778 2022 - Open Shelf
Doyle — Genealogy
Nova Scotia — Genealogy
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42291
Family of Henry Charlton Born Ponteland, Northumberland, England Died Annapolis County, Nova Scotia / compiled by Judith Tulloch ; research by Marion (Rood) Tulloch. Nova Scotia, Judith Tulloch, 2013. 129 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 C437 T855 2013 - Open Shelf
Outlines the family ancestors and descendants of Henry Charlton including appendices, scanned documents, letters, and table of contents for easy searching. Main body 129 pages with supporting documents after the appendices.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42289
Haulin' in the family net : Bayer – Bayers – Byers history / researched by Linda Gray-LeBlanc. Halifax : Linda Gray-LeBlanc, 2022. 110 pages : illustrations (most colour) ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 B39 G778 2022 - Open Shelf
Bayer — Genealogy
Bayers — Genealogy
Byers — Genealogy
Nova Scotia — Genealogy
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42287
Christian, Elizabeth A. (Merrick)
Johann Bauer and his Descendants 1752-1987 / by Elizabeth A. (Merrick) Christian. Nova Scotia : Elizabeth A. (Merrick) Christian, 1987. 100 pages : illustrations : charts ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 B384 C47 1987 - Open Shelf
Part 1 in the genealogy series for Johann Bauer and his descendants that includes an index for easy searching. Attached in the book is a revision/update document (3 pages) from 1989.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42286
Haulin' in the family net : Arnold Genealogy / researched by Linda Gray-LeBlanc. Halifax : Linda Gray-LeBlanc, 2022. 59 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 A76 G778 2022 - Open Shelf
Arnold — Genealogy
Nova Scotia — Genealogy
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42284
Abegweit Branch of the United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada
An Island Refuge : Loyalists and Disbanded Troops on the Island of Saint John / edited by Orlo Jones and Doris Haslam. Charlottetown, PEI : Abegweit Branch of the United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada, 1983. 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS88 P74 I84 1983 - Open Shelf
The history of Loyalists in Prince Edward Island and their development and settlement of the island.
Jones, Orlo, 1929-
Haslam, Doris Muncey, 1905-
United Empire loyalists — Genealogy
United Empire loyalists — Biography
Prince Edward Island — Genealogy
Prince Edward Island — Biography
Prince Edward Island — History
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42281
Land grants and immigrants of Northern Colchester, NE Cumberland, NW Pictou / Compiled and organized by Norris Margeson Whiston. Tatamagouche, NS : Norris Margeson Whiston, 2018. 1 volume (unnumbered) .
view this publicationNova Scotia Archives Library - CS88 N69 C6 W57 2018 - Open Shelf
With added notes by Glen Matheson and Terry Punch.
Land grants — Colchester (N.S. : County)
Land grants — Cumberland County (N.S.)
Land grants — Pictou County (N.S.)
Immigrants — Colchester (N.S. : County)
Immigrants — Cumberland County (N.S.)
Immigrants — Pictou County (N.S.)
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive42278
Nova Scotia Archives — https://archives.novascotia.ca/library/catalogue/
Crown copyright © 2026, Province of Nova Scotia.