The ships of Canada's marine services / Charles D. Maginley and Bernard Collin. St. Catharines, ON. : Vanwell Publishing, 2001. 288 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM26 M33 2001
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The great coal schooners of New England, 1870-1909 Mystic, Conn. 1948. 135 pages illus., ports. 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VKP22
Coal-carrying vessels
Schooners
Coal trade — New England.
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Sailing directions for the coast of North America part 1 : from Cape Canso to New York London : James Imray & Son, 1872. xii, 184 ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK981 S25 1872
Includes index.
Pilot guides — Atlantic Coast (Canada)
Pilot guides — Atlantic Coast (United States).
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The new American practical navigator : being an epitome of navigation ... and since his decease / continued by his son, J. Ingersoll Bowditch. 25th new stereotype ed. New York : E. & G.W. Blunt, 1855. xix, 319, 460 pages, 12 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK555 B78 1855
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Come quick, danger : a history of marine radio in Canada / Stephan Dubreuil. Ottawa : Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Coast Guard, 1998. ix, 136 pages, [52] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK397 D82 1998
Issued also in French under title: CQD, toujours áa l'âecoute. Distributed by the Government of Canada Depository Services Program.
Radio — Canada — Installation on ships — History
Radio operators — Canada — History.
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Between France and New France : life aboard the tall sailing ships / Gilles Proulx. Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1984. 173 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK18 P7613 1984
Published by Dundurn Press Limited in co-operation with Parks Canada and the Canadian Government Publishing Centre, Supply and Services Canada.
Sailing — North Atlantic Ocean — History — 18th century
Ocean travel — History — 18th century
Sailing ships — Canada — History — 18th century
Sailing ships — France — History — 18th century
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Island keepers / Allison Mitcham. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1989. 183 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1430 D639 M679
Lighthouse keepers — Nova Scotia — Sable Island — Biography
Lighthouse keepers — Nova Scotia — Scatarie Island — Biography
Sable Island (N.S.) — Biography
Scatarie Island (N.S.) — 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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The captain & the queen / director, Chuck Stewart ; produced by Great North Atlantic Media Inc. for Great North Productions Inc. ; producer, F. Whitman Trecartin ; executive producers, Bill Skerrett, Patricia Phillips. Edmonton, AB. : Great North, 1998. 1 videocassette : 60 minutes.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 W3 C37 1998 - Video
Title on container: The captain and the queen : Angus Walters & the schooner Bluenose.
Phillips, Patricia
Skerrett, Bill
Stewart, Chuck
Trecartin, F. Whitman.
Great North Productions
Great North Atlantic Media Inc.
Ship captains — Nova Scotia Biography.
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The Spicer of life : a Maritime marriage during the Age of Sail : Captain Dewis and Emma Spicer of Spencer's Island, Nova Scotia / David Stanley. Halifax : Dalhousie University, 2007. ix, 99 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 S754 2007
Addendum on last page. Includes bibliographical references.
Spicer family.; — Spicer, Dewis.; — Spicer, Emma Parsons.
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Biography
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Diaries.
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If his sea chest could talk : a tribute to Captain Robert N. Crowell, 1840-1902 / by Fred D. Whitehouse. Yarmouth : The author, 1996. 193 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 C76 W45 1996
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Biography
Seafaring life — Nova Scotia
Voyages and travels.
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List of lights, buoys and fog signals Ottawa : Department of Transport, 19--. ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1245 C21
Description based on: 1971.
Canada. Dept. of Transport
Canada. Ministry of Transport
Canada. Transport Canada
Canadian Coast Guard
Canadian Coast Guard. Aids and Waterways Directorate.
Aids to navigation — Canada — Lists.
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Lights of hope Montreal : Pixcom, 2001. 1 videocassette : 23 minutes.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1047 L54 2001 - Video
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Against darkness and storm : lighthouses of the Northeast / photographs by Wayne Barrett ; text by Harry Thurston. Halifax : Nimbus, 1993. vi, 102 pages : col. illustrations ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1027 M332 T544 1993
Lighthouses — Atlantic Coast (Canada)
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The armed yachts of Canada / Fraser McKee. Erin, ON. : Boston Mills Press, 1983. 172 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VA400 M44 1983
Includes index.
Yachts and yachting — Canada — History — 20th century.
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The ships of Canada's naval forces 1910-1981 : a complete pictorial history of Canadian warships / Ken Macpherson, John Burgess ; forward by H.F. Pullen. Toronto : Collins, 1981. 240 pages : illustrations ; 36 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S VA400 M172 - Oversize
Includes index.
Warships — Canada — History — 20th century.
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Unlucky lady: the life & death of HMCS Athabaskan, 1940-44 / Len Burrow, Emile Beaudoin. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1987. 198 pages: illustrations (some col.); 23 x 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VA400 B972 1987
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian.
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The Bonnie, HMCS Bonaventure / by J. Allan Snowie ; foreword by J.C. Scruffy O'Brien. Erin, ON. : Boston Mills Press, 1987. 336 pages : illustrations (some col.), ports. ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V874.5 C3 S66 1987
Ports. on lining papers.
Aircraft carriers — Canada — History
Ship captains — Canada — Biography.
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Alongside the navy, 1910-1950 : an intimate account / Jean Donald Gow. Quyon, Quebec : Chelsey House Publications, 1999. viii, 166 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V743 C3 G68 1999
Navy spouses — Canada — Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Nova Scotia — Halifax.
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With many voices : memoirs of a sailor / Jeffry V. Brock. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1981-. 2 v. : port. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V64 C22 B864
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian
Korean War, 1950-1953 — Naval operations
Admirals — Canada — Biography
Canada — History, Naval.
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Canada and sea power: Canadian naval thought and policy, 1860-1910 / by Thomas Richard Melville. Ann Arbor, Mich. : Univ Microfilms International, 1982. 368 pages: ill, maps; 11 x 15 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V55 C212 M531
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Knots, volts and decibels : an informal history of the Naval Research Establishment, 1940-1967 Dartmouth : Defence Research Establishment Atlantic, 1993. 113 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V395 C3 L63 1993
Defence Research Establishment Atlantic.
Naval research — History — Canada.
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Maritime Museum of Canada (N.S.)
Occasional papers Halifax : The Museum, 1958-. 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V13
... historical sketches on maritime subjects of importance to the nation.
Naval art and science — History
Canada — History, Naval
Canada — History — Periodicals
Canada — History — Sources
Halifax (N.S.) — History — Periodicals.
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The Crowsnest Ottawa : King's Printer, 1948-1965. 17 v. : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V1 C953
The Royal Canadian Navy's magazine.
Sailors — Canada — Periodicals
Canada. Royal Canadian Navy — Periodicals.
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Feasibility study : the Nova Scotia Tattoo 1980 Halifax- : 1980. 143 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UH45 C2 F43 1980
Military ceremonies, honors, and salutes — Canada
Naval ceremonies, honors, and salutes — Canada
Military music.
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