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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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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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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RCAF : squadron histories and aircraft, 1924-1968 / Samuel Kostenuk, John Griffin. Toronto : Sarasota : Hakkert ; Stevens, 1977. xix, 255 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UG635 C212 K86
Includes indexes.
Griffin, J. A. (John A.), 1922-, jt. auth.
Airplanes, Military — Canada — History
Aeronautics, Military — Canada — History
Airplanes, Military — History.
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Substance and practice : building technology and the Royal Engineers in Canada / Elizabeth Vincent. Ottawa : National Historic Sites, Parks Service, Environment Canada, 1993. 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UG413 V768 1993
Issued also in French in title: Le Génie royal au Canada, matériaux et techniques de construction.
Canadian Parks Service. National Historic Sites.
Building materials — Canada — History — 19th century
Canada — History, Military — 19th century.
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Perseverance : the Canadian Sea King Story / John L. Orr. Shearwater : Sea King 50th Anniversary Committee, 2013. 331 pages ; 23 cm and 1 DVD.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UG1235 C3 O77 2013
The Canadian Sea King helicopter has served Canada and Canadians with distinction since its arrival in Shearwater, Nova Scotia on 1 August 1963. Includes bibliographical references. Includes DVD containing a Microsoft Word document containing 16 pages of photographs (some in colour), two photographs per page.
Sea King 50th Anniversary Committee
Canada — Canadian Armed Forces — History — 20th century
Sea King (Helicopter)
Military helicopters — Canada — History — 20th century
Flight crews — Canada — History — 20th century
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British smooth-bore artillery : a technological study to support identification, acquisition, restoration, reproduction, and interpretation of artillery at national historic parks in Canada / David McConnell. Ottawa : National Historic Parks and Sites, Environment Canada, Parks, 1988. 595 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UF57 M35 1988
Issued also in French under title: L'artillerie lisse britannique.
Canadian Parks Service. National Historic Parks and Sites.
Artillery — Great Britain — History
Artillery — Canada — History
Historic sites — Interpretive programs — Canada.
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Military uniforms in Canada, 1665-1970 / Jack L. Summers, René Chartrand ; illustrated by R.J. Marrion. Ottawa : National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada, 1981. 192 pages : col. illustrations ; 31 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UC485 C212 S955
Issued in French under title: L'uniforme militaire au Canada, 1665-1970. Includes index.
Canadian War Museum
National Museum of Man (Canada)
Military uniforms
Canada — Armed Forces — Uniforms.
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Canadian Militia dress regulations, 1907 : illustrated, with amendments to 1914 / David Ross, René Chartrand. Saint John, N.B., Canada : New Brunswick Museum, 1977. iv, 124 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UC485 C212 1907
Includes reprint of: Dress regulations for the officers of the Canadian Militia / Militia Department. Ottawa, 1907.
Chartrand, René
Ross, David, 1926-
New Brunswick Museum
Canada. Dept. of Militia and Defence. Dress regulations for the officers of the Canadian Militia : Militia Department, 1907.
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The King's regulations and orders for the Canadian Militia, 1939 Ottawa : Canadian Army, 1939. 409 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UC16 M59k
Canada — Militia
Canada — History, Military
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Canadian welcome home medals, 1899-1945 / author, George A. Brown ; publication coordinator, Vickey Kidd ; photography, Don LeBlanc. Langley, B.C. : Western Canadian Distributors, 1991. ix, 155 pages : col. illustrations ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UB435 C3 B76 1991
Presented by: J. Douglas Ferguson Historical Research Foundation. Includes index.
J. Douglas Ferguson Historical Research Foundation.
South African War, 1899-1902 — Canada — Medals
World War, 1914-1918 — Canada — Medals
World War, 1939-1945 — Canada — Medals.
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The Commissionaires : an organization with a proud history, 1925-1998 / edited by John Gardam ; foreword, Romeo LeBlanc. Burnstown, ON. : General Store Publishing, 1998. ix, 345 pages : illustrations, ports.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UB359 C2 C65 1998
Veterans — Canada — Anecdotes.
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Broken promises : a history of conscription in Canada / by J. L. Granatstein and J. M. Hitsman. Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1977. 281 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UB345 C2 G72 1977
Includes index.
Hitsman, J. Mackay, 1917-1970.
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The black battalion : 1916-1920 : Canada's best kept military secret / Calvin W. Ruck. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 1987. 125 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UA602 C54 R8 1987
Includes index.
World War, 1914-1918 — Regimental histories — Canada
World War, 1914-1918 — Blacks — Canada
Blacks — Canada — History — 20th century
World War, 1914-1918 — Canada.
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