Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: Canada Biography
Curious Canadians / Nancy Liss & Ted Liss. Markham, ON. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2002. xi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC25 L57 2002 - Open Shelf
Canada Biography
Canada — History.
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Dear old rebel : a priest's battle for social justice / Harvey Steele. Porters Lake : Pottersfield, 1993. 219 pages, [4] pages of plates : ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - BV3705 S75 A3 1993
Corrected ISBN mounted on label.
Missionaries — Canada — Biography.
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Descendents of Henry Burrell / by E.J. Newell. Sparks, Nev. : Prospect Publishing, 1993. iii, 94 pages : illustrations, facsims., map, portraits ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 B87 1993 - Open Shelf
Includes index.
Irish — Canada — Genealogy
Yarmouth (N.S. : County) — Biography
Yarmouth (N.S. : County) — Genealogy.
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Dictionary of Canadian biography Regular ed. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1991. vii, 557 pages ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Reference - Open Shelf
Issued also in French.
Dictionary of Canadian biography — Indexes
Canada — Biography — Indexes.
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Digby County, Nova Scotia Honour Roll, 1914-1919 / Wayne W. Walker. Ottawa, ON. : Wayne W. Walker, 2013. iv, 275 pages ; 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS88 N935 D571 2013 - Open Shelf
A record of the service of the men and women of Digby County, Nova Scotia who volunteered or were drafted for service in the Home Guard, the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) or the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force (CSEF).
Canada. — Canadian Army. — Canadian Expeditionary Force (Siberia) — Registers
Canada. — Canadian Army. — Canadian Expeditionary Force — Registers
Canada. — Canadian Army. — Nova Scotia Overseas Highland Brigade — Registers
Soldiers — Nova Scotia — Digby (County) — Registers
World War, 1914-1918 — Nova Scotia — Digby (County) — Registers
Digby (N.S. : County) — Biography
Digby (N.S. : County) — Genealogy
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Diplomatic passport : more undiplomatic diaries, 1946-1962 / Charles Ritchie. Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1981. 200 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC616 R58 A3 1981 - Open Shelf
Includes index.
Diplomats — Canada — Biography.
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Donald Cameron Mackay, artist & teacher : John James Cook, artist & teacher Halifax : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1999. 24 pages.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.443 #33 - Vertical File
Painters — Canada — Maritime Provinces — Biography
Painting, Canadian — Maritime Provinces
Painting, Modern — 20th century — Canada — Maritime Provinces.
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Dreams to reality : a personal account of books, art & the spirit within / by William Pope. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, Robert Pope Foundation, 1997. 106 pages, 18 pages of plates : illustrations some copies, port.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.507 #27 - Vertical File
Publishers and publishing — Canada — Biography.
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Dutch / G.H. Gerrits. Tantallon : Four East, 2000. 94 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2050 D9 G378 2000 - Open Shelf
Includes bibliographical references.
Dutch — Maritime Provinces — History
Dutch Canadians — Maritime Provinces — History
Dutch Canadians — Maritime Provinces — Biography
Canada — Emigration and immigration.
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Echoes from labor's wars : industrial Cape Breton in the 1920's, echoes of World War One, autobiography & other writings / Dawn Fraser ; with an introduction by David Frank & Don MacGillivray, a chronology & further readings. Expanded ed. Wreck Cove : Breton Books, 1992. xxvi, 117 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8511 R224 E18
Working class — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Poetry
World War, 1914-1918 — Canada — Poetry
Poets, Canadian (English) — 20th century — Biography.
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Eleven exiles : accounts of Loyalists of the American Revolution / edited by Phyllis R. Blakeley and John N. Grant. Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1982. 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5069.1 E39 - Open Shelf
Blakeley, Phyllis R. (Phyllis Ruth), 1922-
Grant, John N.
United Empire loyalists — Biography
American loyalists — Biography
American loyalists — Canada — Biography
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Biography.
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Evelyn's guiding stars : the life story of professional astrologer Evelyn Hare / by Rosemary Bauchman. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1982. 152 pages : ports. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - BF1708 H274 B337
Astrologers — Canada — Biography.
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Facing history : portraits from the National Archives of Canada / introduction by Lydia Foy ; catalogue entries by Lydia Foy (paintings, prints and drawings) and Peter Robertson (photographs) = Face à face avec l'histoire : portraits des Archives nationales du Canada / introduction par Lydia Foy ; notices du catalogue p. Ottawa : The Archives = Les Archives, 1993. xxxiv, 146 pages : ports. (some col.) ; 22 x 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - N7594 N37 1993
Includes indexes. Text in English and French. Exhibition catalogue.
Foy, Lydia
Robertson, Peter, 1944-
Portraits — Canada — Exhibitions
Portraits, Canadian — Exhibitions
Canada — Biography — Portraits — Exhibitions.
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First World War honour roll of Guysborough County, Nova Scotia / Bruce F. MacDonald. Antigonish : Bantry Publishing, 2015. Volumes : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm. Issued also in electronic format.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D609 C2 M25 2015
The book contains profiles of 71 First World War soldiers from Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, all of whom died while in uniform, the majority in military combat. The stories are arranged chronologically by date of death and covering the years 1915 to 1917 inclusive. The profiles provide a glimpse into the events of the war through the soldiers' stories. While the majority served with Nova Scotian battalions, some served with units from New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario and Western Canada, also providing a glimpse into the roles of various military battalions and some non-combat units in the war's events. Includes index.
Canada. — Canadian Armed Forces — Registers of dead
World War, 1914-1918 — Registers of dead — Nova Scotia — Guysborough (County)
Soldiers — Nova Scotia — Guysborough (County) — Biography
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Flamboyant Canadians / edited by Ellen Stafford ; with illus. by Wallace Speck. Toronto : Baxter Pub. Co., 1964. 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5009 F577 - Open Shelf
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Forgotten Canadians / H.F. Wood ; illustrated by William Wheeler. 1st ed. Toronto : Longmans, 1963. 134 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5009 W875 - Open Shelf
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Friends : sixty years of intimate personal relations with Richard Bedford Bennett : a personal memoir with an appendix of letters / Lord Beaverbrook. London ; Toronto : Heinemann, 1959. x, 137 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC576 B45 B43 1959 - Open Shelf
Bennett, R. B. (Richard Bedford), 1870-1947.
Politicians — Canada — Biography
Prime ministers — Canada — Biography
Politicians — Great Britain — Biography.
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Genius at work : images of Alexander Graham Bell / Dorothy Harley Eber. Halifax : Nimbus, 1991. 192 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - TK6143 B45 E24 1991
Includes index.
Inventors — United States — Biography
Inventors — Canada — Biography.
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George Grant : a biography / William Christian. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1993. xxiii, 472 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations, ports. ;
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - B995 G724 C5 1993
Includes index.
Philosophers — Canada — Biography
Philosophes — Canada — Biographies.
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George Heriot : postmaster-painter of the Canadas / Gerald Finley. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1983. xx, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ND449 H45 F553
Checklist of the works of George Heriot: pages [227]-292. Includes indexes.
Painters — Canada — Biography
Postal service — Canada — Postmasters — Biography.
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George Nowlan : Maritime Conservative in national politics / Margaret Conrad. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1986. xviii, 357 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ;
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204.9 N68 C67 - Open Shelf
Cabinet ministers — Canada — Biography
Politicians — Canada — Biography
Politicians — Nova Scotia — Biography
Canada — Politics and government — 1957-1963
Canada — Politics and government — 1948-19
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Giant MacAskill / written and illustrated by Mary P. Campbell. Sydney : Sydney Literary Council, 1985. 16 2 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.332 #27 - Vertical File
To be used after Skill Book III, and correlated reader, Changes - Laubach Way to Reading.
Readers for new literates
Giants — Canada — Biography.
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Great Canadians : a century of achievement / selected by Vincent Massey and others ; illus. by Franklin Arbuckle. Toronto : Canadian Centennial Pub Co., 1965. 1 v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5000 C212 C397 - Open Shelf
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Hal Foster, the once and future king : childhood in Halifax, 1892-1905 / Friends of Hal Foster Society. Friends of Hal Foster Society, Halifax : Nova Scotia 2010-. 20 pages : illustrations some copies, maps, ports.; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.542 #13 - Vertical File
Cartoonists — Canada — Biography.
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Haliburton, a centenary chaplet : with a bibliography by John Parker Anderson Toronto : Published for the Haliburton Club, King's College, Windsor by W. Briggs, 1897. 116 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8515 A38 Z66 1897
Anderson, John P. (John Parker), b. 1841.
University of King's College (Halifax, N.S.)
Authors, Canadian (English) — 19th century Biography
Judges — Canada — Biography.
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