Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: Canada Biography.
The lumberjacks / by Donald MacKay. Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1978. 319 pages : illustrations, ports.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - SD538.3 C212 M153
Logging — Canada — History
Loggers — Canada — Biography.
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The man from Halifax : Sir John Thompson, prime minister / P.B. Waite. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1985. ix, 547 pages, [18] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, map
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204.9 T473 W144 - Open Shelf
Prime ministers — Canada — Biography
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1867-1896.
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The mysterious stranger, or, Memoirs of the notorious Henry More Smith : containing a correct account of his extraordinary conduct during the thirteen months of his confinement in the jail of King's County, province of New Brunswick, where he was convicte Halifax- Nova Scotia : 1835-. 44 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HV6248 S649 B329
Different editions by Walter Bates.
Criminals — Canada — Biography.
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The politics of chaos : Canada in the Thirties / H. Blair Neatby. Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1972. 196 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC577 N43 1972 - Open Shelf
Politicians — Canada — Biography
Canada — Politics and government — 1930-1935
Canada — Politics and government — 1935-
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The prime ministers of Canada, 1867-1994 / presented by the House of Commons and the National Archives of Canada. Ottawa : National Archives of Canada, 1994. vii, 20, 20, vii pages : ports.; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.401 #23 - Vertical File
Text in English and French with French text on inverted pages. Title on added t.p.: Les premiers ministres du Canada, 1867-1994.
Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
National Archives of Canada.
Prime ministers — Canada — Biography
Prime ministers — Canada — Portraits
Canada — Politics and government
Canada — Biography — Portraits.
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The prize of learning love : the life of Margaret Fawcett Norrie, Nova Scotia's first female senator / by Catherine Thompson. St. John, NB. : Trinity Enterprise, 2006. 414 pages : illustrations.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F1034.3 N68 T46 2006
Norrie, Margaret
Canada. — Parliament. — Senate — Biography
Legislators — Canada — Biography
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Pullen, William J.S., 1813-1887
The Pullen Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin : the original diaries, logs, letters of Commander W.J.S. Pullen / selected and introduced by H.F. Pullen. Toronto : Arctic History Press, 1979. 230 pages, [8] leaves of plates (4 fold.) : ill., fold. maps ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC3961 P84 1979 - Open Shelf
Includes index. Library has copy number 272.
Franklin, John, — Sir, — 1786-1847
Pullen, William J.S., — 1813-1887
Explorers — Arctic regions — Biography
Arctic coast (Canada) — Discovery and exploration
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The Scot in British North America / by W.J. Rattray. Toronto : MacLear, 1880-1884. 4 v. : portraits ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5030 S4 R23 - Open Shelf
Prefaces dated: Feb. 16, 1880-Dec. 13, 1883.
Scots — Canada
Canada — Politics and government
Canada — Biography.
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The Scots / Frank Emmerson. Tantallon : Four East Publications, 1987. 70 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5221 S3 E54 - Open Shelf
Scots — Maritime Provinces — History
Scottish Canadians — Maritime Provinces — History
Scottish Canadians — Maritime Provinces — Biography
Canada — Emigration and immigration.
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The sculptor : Cecil Clarence Richards / by Vaughan L. Baird. Winnipeg : 1981. [48] pages : illustrations, ports. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NB249 R514
Limited edition of 350 numbered copies.
Richards, Cecil Clarence, 1907-
Sculptors — Canada — Biography.
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The St. Lawrence survey journals of Captain Henry Wolsey Bayfield, 1829-1853 / edited with an introduction by Ruth McKenzie. Toronto : Champlain Society, 1984-1986. 2 v. : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 B357
Limited edition of 1350 copies (1300 numbered.
Surveyors, Marine — Canada — Biography
Saint Lawrence River — Description and travel
Saint Lawrence, Gulf of — Description and travel.
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The thousandth man : a biography of James McGregor Stewart / Barry Cahill. Toronto : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, 2000. xxi, 266 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - KE416 S838 C33 2000
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Lawyers — Biography
Directors of corporations — Canada
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The works of Samuel de Champlain Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1971. 6 v. : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm + portfolio.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 B592
Text in English and French. Reprinted, translated and annotated by six Canadian scholars under the general editorship of H.pages Biggar--v. 1, pages [v].
Biggar, H. P. (Henry Percival), 1872-1938.
Explorers — France — Biography
Explorers — Canada — Biography
First Nations of North America — Canada — History
America — Discovery and exploration — French
Canada — History — To 1663 (New France)
Canad
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton / H.R. Percy. Don Mills, ON. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1980. 63 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8415 A398 P431
Authors, Canadian (English) — 19th century — Biography
Judges — Canada — Biography.
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Thomas Louis Connolly (1815-1876) : the man and his place in secular and ecclesiastical history / by K. Fay Trombley. Leuven Belgium : K.F. Trombley, 1983. xliii, 553 pages, [9] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - BX4705 C752 T849
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Transcontinental pedestrians: Canada's first cross-country walk (1906) / George Edward Hart ; introduction by Jonathan Vance. Markham, ON. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2006. 280 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC74 H325 2006 - Open Shelf
Canada — Description and travel
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Biography
Walking — Canada.
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Transfusion : a Canadian surgeon's story in war and in peace / by Norman Miles Guiou. Yarmouth : Stoneycroft Publishing, 1985. vii, 145 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RM62 G964 1985
Includes index.
Surgeons — Canada — Biography
Blood — Transfusion — History
World War, 1914-1918 — Medical care.
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Trials and Triumphs : the Story of African-Canadians / Lawrence Hill. Toronto : Umbrella Press, 1993. 62 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC106 B6 H54 1993 - Open Shelf
Series: Peoples of Canada. Covers slavery in Canada, African-Canadian settlers and immigrants, Black Canadian churches and schools, Caribbean Canadians, and important people and events in Black Canadian history. Includes index.
Blacks — Canada — Juvenile literature
Blacks — Canada — Biography
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Types of Canadian women, and of women who are or have been connected with Canada / edited by James Henry Morgan. Vol. I. Toronto : W. Briggs, 1903. x, 382 pages : portraits ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5009 T991 - Open Shelf
No more publishedition Includes indexes.
Morgan, Henry J. (Henry James), 1842-1913.
Women — Canada — Biography
Canada — Biography.
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Valiant hearts : Atlantic Canada and the Victoria Cross / John Boileau ; foreword by Lewis W. MacKenzie. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 2005. xii, 276 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - CR4885 B679 2005
Includes index.
Victoria Cross
Soldiers — Atlantic Provinces Biography
Sailors — Atlantic Provinces Biography
Heroes — Atlantic Provinces Biography
Canada — Armed Forces Biography
Atlantic Provinces Biography.
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Voice of the pioneer / Bill McNeil. Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1978. xiv, 257 pages : illustrations, portraits
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5009 M169 - Open Shelf
Pioneers of all sorts - prospectors, scientists, homesteaders, teachers, bush pilots, and many others - tell their fascinating stories here, as they have told them on Canada's best-loved radio program.
Pioneers — Canada — Interviews
Canada — Biography.
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Voices from the shadows : women with disabilities speak out / Gwyneth Ferguson Matthews. Toronto, ON. : Women's Press, 1983. 192 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RC406 P3 M37 1983
Paraplegics — Canada — Biography
Quadriplegics — Canada — Biography
Physically handicapped women — Canada — Biography
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War brides & rosies: Powell River and Stillwater, B.C / Barbara Ann Lambert. Bloomington, IN : Trafford On Demand Publishing, 2012. 332 pages: illustrations, portraits, map; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC3845 P882 L222 2012 - Open Shelf
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-316 and index.
War brides — Canada — Biography
War brides — British Columbia — Powell River Region — Biography
War brides — Great Britain — Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Women
Powell River Region (B.C.) — Social life and customs
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War horse of Cumberland : the life and times of Sir Charles Tupper / by Vincent Durant. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1985. 117 pages : illustrations, port. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204.9 T928 D951 - Open Shelf
Prime ministers — Canada — Biography
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What's past is prologue : the memoirs of the Right Honourable Vincent Massey, C.H Toronto : MacMillan of Canada, 1963. 540 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC611 M37 A3 1963 - Open Shelf
Statesmen — Canada — Biography
Canada — Politics and government — 1945-
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