Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: Cape Breton (N.S.) — History
Centennial booklet, Municipality of the County of Cape Breton / Booklet Committee, Donald Arseneau. Sydney- Nova Scotia : 1979. 47 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 C237 C397 - Open Shelf
County of Cape Breton 1979 centennial.
Booklet Committee (Sydney, N.S.)
Cape Breton (N.S.) — History
Cape Breton (N.S.) — Politics and government.
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Encounters with tall sails and tall tales : Mi'kmaq society, 1500-1760 / William C. Wicken. Montreal : McGill University, 1994. vi, 487 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W636
Written for the Dept. of History.
Mi'kmaq — Nova Scotia
Mi'kmaq — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Nova Scotia — History — To 1763.
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Enlarging St. Peter's Canal, 1875-1881 / A. J. Stone. 2013. 1 v. : illustrations; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.546 #8 - Vertical File
Includes bibliographical references.
Canals—History
St. Peter's Canal (N.S.)—History
Cape Breton Island (N.S.)—History.
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Essays in Cape Breton history / edited by B.D. Tennyson. Windsor : Lancelot Press, 1973. 67 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 C23 T31 - Open Shelf
Includes bibliographical references.
Cape Breton Island — History — Addresses, essays, lectures.
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Guide book to Cape Breton royal province of Nova Scotia or New Scotland, Dominion of Canada : with an original map, and a plan of Louisburg Halifax : G.E. Morton, 1883. 32 frames : plan.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 06932 - Open Shelf Internet Archive
Louisbourg N.S
Cape Breton Island N.S. — History
Cape Breton Island N.S. — Description and travel.
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Health, disease and medicine in a nineteenth century community: a case study in Cape Breton Island the Author, 1989. iii, 194 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - R461 C237 M431
Public health — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — History
Public health — Highlands (Scotland) — History
Scots — Highlands (Scotland) — Health and hygiene — History
Social medicine — Highlands (Scotland)
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Highland settler : a portrait of the Scottish Gael in Cape Breton and eastern Nova Scotia / Charles W. Dunn. Wreck Cove : Breton Books, 1991. xi, 182 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F85 Sc3 D92
Scots — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — History
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Popular culture — History.
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Historical and descriptive account of the Island of Cape Breton : and of its memorials of the French regime : with bibliographical, historical, and critical notes / by J.G. Bourinot. Montreal : W.F. Brown, 1892. 183 pages : illustrations, fold. maps. ; 31 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F108 B66
Bibliographical footnotes.
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Description and travel.
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History of Inverness County, Nova Scotia Nova Scotia : 1922. 690 pages : port. ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F106 IN8 M1
Inverness (N.S. : County) — History
Inverness (N.S. : County) — Biographies
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History.
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History of Inverness County, Nova Scotia Belleville, ON. : Mika Publishing, 1972. 690 pages : port. ; 26 cm.
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Inverness (N.S. : County) — History
Inverness (N.S. : County) — Biographies
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History.
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History of Port Hood and Port Hood Island : with the genealogy of the Smith family, 1610-1967 / by Perley W. Smith. Port Hood : 1967. ix, 275 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 S65 - Open Shelf
The Smiths of Cape Breton. Includes index.
Port Hood (N.S.) — History
Port Hood Island (N.S.) — History
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Genealogy
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How much do you know about Cape Breton? / Cape Breton Development Corporation. Sydney : Cape Breton Development Corporation, 1988. iv, 12 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.347 #26 - Vertical File
Volume 1--cover.
Cape Breton Development Corporation (Canada)
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Anecdotes
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Impressions of Cape Breton / edited and compiled by Brian Tennyson. Sydney : University College of Cape Breton Press, 1986. xxiii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5206 I34 - Open Shelf
Includes index.
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Description and travel
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History — Sources.
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J.B. McLachlan : a biography / David Frank. Toronto : J. Lorimer, 1999. 592 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD6525 M32 F72 1999
Includes index and bibliographical references.
McLachlan, J. B. — (James Bryson), — 1869-1937.
Trade-unions — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — History — 20th century
Strikes and lockouts — Coal mining — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — History — 20th century
Labor leaders — Nova Scotia
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Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres and the founding of Cape Breton Colony Ottawa : Éditions de l'Université d'Ottawa, 19--. p. [212]-227 ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5179.9 D44 M84 - Open Shelf
Offprint.
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History
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Letters to Lord XXX on caveat against emigration to America with the state of the island of Cape Breton from the year 1784 to the present year London: Printed by T. Bensley, 1804.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3979 - Open Shelf
On same reel as A caveat against emigration to America
Cape Breton Island N.S. — History — 1785-1850
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Louisbourg, the dream city of America / by Albert Almon. Glace Bay : 1934. 85 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F108 L93 AL6L
Part I.
Louisbourg (N.S.)
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History.
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Mary Grace Barron and the Irish of Ingonish, Cape Breton 1822-1999 / Kenneth Donovan.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.251 #36 - Vertical File
In The Nashwaak review no.6-7 fall 1999, p.177-237.
Irish — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Ingonish (N.S.) — History
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Military aid to the civil power the Cape Breton coal strike of 1909-1910 / by Ian Alexander Andrews. Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1987. 107 frames : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche A566 - Open Shelf
Strikes and lockouts — Coal mining — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton — History
Cape Breton coal strike, 1909-1910
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Modernization and the small fishing community : a case study in Cape Breton County / Gerard I. White. 1976-1977. iv, 101 pages.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche W585 - Open Shelf
Community development — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Fishing villages — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Main-A-Dieu N.S. — History
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More about Nova Scotia : my own, my native land / by Clara Dennis ; illustrated with photographs taken by the author. Toronto : Ryerson Press, 1937. xii, 412 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps. ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F92 D42m
Nova Scotia — Description and travel
Nova Scotia — History
Cape Breton — Description and travel.
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More essays in Cape Breton history / edited by R. J. Morgan. Windsor : Lancelot Press, 1977. 75 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 C237 M849 - Open Shelf
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History.
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Nineteenth-century Cape Breton : a historical geography / Stephen J. Hornsby. Montreal : McGill-Queen's Universtiy Press, 1992. xxvi, 274 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 C237 H813 - Open Shelf
Fisheries — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — 19th century
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History — 19th century
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Economic conditions — 19th century
Scotland — Emigration and immigrati
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No place like home : the life and times of Cape Breton heritage houses / Mary K. Macleod, James O. St. Clair. Sydney : University College of Cape Breton Press, 1992. iv, 101 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 C237 M163 - Open Shelf
Historic buildings — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Biography
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Buildings, structures, etc.
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Orphan outpost : Cape Breton colony, 1784-1820 / by Robert J. Morgan. Ottawa : University of Ottawa, 1972. xiv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 C23 M84 - Open Shelf
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History — 1783-1815
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