Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: Canada Biography
Life and letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier / by Oscar Douglas Skelton. Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1921. 2 v. : illustrations, portraits
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F83 L37 Sk2
Prime ministers — Canada — Correspondence, reminiscences, etc
Prime ministers — Canada — Biography
Canada — Politics and government — 1867-
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Long Road to Justice : the Viola Desmond Story / directed by Brian Murray. Halifax : Province of Nova Scotia, 2011. 1 videodisc : digital.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC106 B6 L66 - Open Shelf
Published by the Nova Scotia Departments of Education and Communities, Culture and Heritage with Director, Brian Murray and Cinematographer, Dan Mombourquette.
Province of Nova Scotia
Department of Education
Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage
Desmond, Viola
Racism — Nova Scotia — History
Black Canadians — Biography
Civil rights — Canada — History
Biographical documentary films
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Lord Minto's Canadian papers : a selection of the public and private papers of the fourth Earl of Minto, 1898-1904 / edited and with an introduction by Paul Stevens and John T. Saywell. Toronto : Champlain Society, 1981-1983. 2 v. : portraits ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 M667
Limited edition of 1450 copies (1400 numbered.
Saywell, John, 1929-
Stevens, Paul, 1938-
Governors general — Canada — Correspondence
Governors general — Canada — Biography
Canada — Politics and government — 1896-1911 — Sources
Canada — Politics and government — 1896-1911.
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Lord of Point Grey : Larry MacKenzie of U.B.C / P.B. Waite. Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1987. xi, 256 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LE3 B817 W3
College presidents — Canada — Biography
Legislators — Canada — Biography.
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Louisbourg portraits : life in an eighteenth-century garrison town / Christopher Moore. Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1982. ix, 302 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5065.9 M821 - Open Shelf
Map on lining papers.
Pioneers — Nova Scotia — Louisbourg — Biography
Louisbourg (N.S.) — Biography
Canada — History — 1713-1763 (New France) — Biography.
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Mackenzie King : his life and world / J. L. Granatstein. Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1977. 202 pages : illustrations, portraits (some colour) ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC581 K5 G73 1977 - Open Shelf
Includes index.
Prime ministers — Canada — Biography
Canada — Politics and government — 1914-
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Mackenzie King : man of mission / by William Teatero. Toronto : Personal Library publication produced exclusively for T. Nelson & Sons (Canada), 1979. 192 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 x 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC581 K5 T43 1979 - Open Shelf
Prime ministers — Canada — Biography
Canada — Politics and government — 20th century.
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Maids & matrons of New France Boston : Little, Brown, and Company, 1901. xii, 286 pages : 1 leaf front., plates, portraits ; 22 c
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC306 A1 P47 1901 - Open Shelf
Women — Biography
Canada — Biography
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
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Marjorie Tremaine Twining: a reminiscence / Mary Kate Bull. Toronto : Mary Kate Bull, 2002. 35 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC27 T97 2002 - Open Shelf
Limited edition of 100; library has copy #47.
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Memoirs of Major Robert Stobo of the Virginia Regiment / by Robert Stobo. First edition, London, 1800. The present reprint, edited by N.B. Craig, includes documentary material not found in the original. Pittsburgh : J.S. Davidson, 1854. 92 pages : plan ; 15 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F45 ST6 - Akins
Arma virumque. Attributed to Robert Stobo--National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints. Introd. signed: N.B.C. [i.e. Neville B. Craig].
Canada — History — 1713-1763 (New France) — Biography
United States — History — French and Indian War, 1755-1763 — Personal narratives.
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Memory is my diary / Angus James MacQueen. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1990-1991. 2 v. : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - BX9883 M37 A3 1990
Clergy — Canada — Biography
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Biography.
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Men of Canada : or, success by example in religion, patriotism, business, law, medicine, education and agriculture .. / edited by Wm. Cochrane. Brantford, ON. : Bradley, Garretson & Co., 1891-1896. 5 v. : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F83 C16
At head of title: The Canadian album. Volume 5 has title: Encyclopedic Canada : or, the progress of a nation in religion, patriotism, business, law, medicine, education and agriculture ... with pen and picture sketches of Canadian institutions, industries and communities, edited by J. Castell Hopkins. Includes index.
Cochrane, William, 1831-1898
Hopkins, J. Castell, 1864-1923.
Canada — Biography
Canada — Description and travel.
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Metagama : a journey from Lewis to the New World / Jim Wilkie. Toronto : Doubleday Canada, 1987. 208 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5221 S3 W683 - Open Shelf
Includes some text in Gaelic.
Immigrants — Canada — History — 20th century
Immigrants — Canada — Biography
Scots — Canada — History — 20th century
Scots — Canada — Biography
Lewis with Harris Island (Scotland) — Emigration
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Mona Parsons : from privilege to prison, from Nova Scotia to Nazi Europe / Andria Hill. Halifax : Nimbus, 2000. 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D802 N4 H645 2000
World War, 1939-1945 — Underground movements — Netherlands Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Prisoners and prisons, German
Prisoners of war — Germany Biography
Prisoners of war — Canada Biography.
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Muriel Duckworth : a very active pacifist : a biography / Marion Douglas Kerans. Halifax : Fernwood, 1996. 239 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - JX1962 D82 K47 1996
Pacifists — Canada — Biography.
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My grandfather's house : scenes of childhood and youth / Charles Ritchie. Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1987. xv, 167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC561 R58 A3 1987 - Open Shelf
Diplomats — Canada — Biography.
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National Liberal-Conservative convention held at Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 10th to 12th, 1927 : a review Toronto : Printed by Southern Press, 1930. 436 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - JL197 L695 M169
MacNicol, John R. (John Ritchie)
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Nicolas Denys, sa vie et son oeuvre / par Clarence-Joseph d'Entremont. Yarmouth, Nouvelle-Ecosse : Impr. Lescarbot, 1982. 623 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5060.9 D414 D417 - Open Shelf
Includes index. Includes a reprint of the text of: Description geographique et historique des costes de l'Amerique septentrionale / Nicolas Denys. Paris : L. Billaine, 1672.
Explorers — Canada — Biography
Explorers — France — Biography
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Acadia — Discovery and exploration — French.
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No weapon save love / by Lisa Potter-Seasons. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1983. 102 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - BX4705 P867 S439
Ex-priest, Catholic — Canada — Biography.
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Nova Scotia in London : a history of its Agents General, 1762-1988 / Shirley B. Elliott. London : Office of the Agent General of Nova Scotia, 1988. xiv, 62 pages : ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - JX1730 A95 E33 1988
Office of the Agent General of Nova Scotia.
Diplomats — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — Commerce — Great Britain
Great Britain — Commerce — Canada
Canada — Foreign economic relations — Great Britain
Great Britain — Foreign economic relation
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On a personal note / Rita MacNeil ; with Anne Simpson. Toronto : Key Porter Books, 1998. 270 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML420 M169 A3 1998
Includes index.
Folk singers — Canada — Biography.
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On Jules Helbronner / compiled by David Rome ; with an introduction by Saul Hayes. Montreal, National Archives, Canadian Jewish Congress, 1978. 98 pages 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5033 J3 C648 #11 - Open Shelf
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Open doors : Canadian baptists 1950-1990 : popular addresses and articles / by Jarold K. Zeman ; introduction by George A. Rawlyk. Hantsport : Published by Lancelot Press for Acadia Divinity College and The Baptist Historical Committee of the United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic Provinces, 1992. xv, 205, [6] pages : illustrations, ports. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - BX6251 Z46 1992
Acadia Divinity College
United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic Provinces. Baptist Historical Committee.
Baptists — Missions — Canada
Baptists — Clergy — Biography
Clergy — Canada — Biography.
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Out of the past, into the future : an introductory learning guide / written by Robert Ffrench ; illustrated by Henry V. Bishop. Dartmouth : Pride Communications, 1994. 60 pages : illustrations, maps; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.402 #22 - Vertical File
Blacks — Canada — History — Juvenile literature
Blacks — Canada — Biography — Juvenile literature
Blacks — Canada — History — Problems, exercises, etc. — Juvenile literature
Blacks — Canada
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Papa's pot o' tea : the autobiography of John Robert Jadis White Rock, B.C. : J.R. Jadis,2008. 194 pages, [?] plates :col. illustrations, ports. ; 28 cm. +2 CD-ROMs (12 cm.)
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HV7911 J22 A3 2008
CDs attached to inside back cover. CD 1: Fiddle music -- CD 2: Cartoons
Jadis, John Robert.; — Jadis family — Genealogy.
Cartoonists — Canada — Biography
Musicians — Canada — Biography.
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