Holland's Description of Cape Breton Island and Other Documents / compiled with an introduction by D.C. Harvey, Archivist. Halifax : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1933.
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Series: Public Archives of Nova Scotia No. 2. Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia.
Harvey, D.C. (Daniel Cobb), 1886-1966
Public Archives of Nova Scotia
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Description and travel
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Census, 1811
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Census, 1818
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3 Buildings of Historical Interest, Margaree Forks, NS plus Partial List of Stores with or without Gas Pumps and Service Stations "The Margarees", NS / compiled by M. Gerard Doyle. Waverly, NS : M. Gerard Doyle, 2020. 62 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
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Historical buildings and stores located in the Margarees of Cape Breton. Lots of places are named for and connected to the people who live or lived in the Margaree area.
Historic buildings — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Margaree Forks (N.S.) — History
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Descendants of my Mother's Great-Great Grandparents and 4 Families : Bates, Lynk, Anderson, Baldwin, Boone, Butler, Farrell, MacIntyre and Buckley, Kennedy, Murphy, Price / compiled by M. Gerard Doyle. Nova Scotia : M. Gerard Doyle, 2023. 359 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Genealogy of the author's family from his mother's great-great grandparents and all of the family lines that have come from that. Indexed in the back to ease finding people.
Scots — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Scottish Canadians — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Genealogy
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History
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Nova Scotia Environmental Control Council
Environmental Control Council Public Hearing : Sydney, Nova Scotia / by the Nova Scotia Environmental Control Council. Halifax : The Council, 1980. 240 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - TD174 S93 1980
Environmental pollution, the coal plant, and the environmental implications that surround Kilkenny Lake should pollution be left unchecked.
Environmental aspects — Nova Scotia
Public meetings — Nova Scotia
Environmental aspects — Cape Breton Island (N.S.)
Public meetings — Cape Breton Island (N.S.)
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Ministry of State and Urban Affairs
Terms of Reference for Port Hastings - Port Hawkesbury - Point Tupper Municipal Development Plan / by the Ministry of State and Urban Affairs. Cape Breton : Ministry of State and Urban Affairs, 1974. 37 pages : illustrations ;
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NA9129 P67 1974
Draft from November 6th 1974. Includes Appendix A and Appendix B at the back of the book, and an insert diagram. Discusses the possibility of developing the region even more for the benefit of those on Cape Breton Island.
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History
Industrialization — Cape Breton Island (N.S.)
Community Development — Cape Breton Island (N.S.)
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Fight on! : Cape Breton coal miners, 1900-1925 / Joanne Schwartz. Halifax, NS : Nimbus Publishing Ltd., 2020. 74 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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In early twentieth-century Cape Breton, coal mines stretched far out under the ocean. The workers, mostly men, but also children and ponies, spent all day in the dark, damp mines. Each day the workers descended into the mines, they risked never seeing sunlight or their families again. They were miserable and fearful, working in dangerous conditions where fatal accidents were common. So the brave miners took matters into their own hands, and stood up to the companies treating them this way. They went on strike again and again, suffering from starvation, disease, freezing winters, and violence at the hands of the mine owners and police. Fight On! tells the stories of these miners and their families, Cape Breton heroes who fought against corporate greed, putting their livelihoods on the line for better conditions and healthier families and communities. The newest installment in the award-winning Compass series, Fight On! is at once an engaging history and a passionate call to action against injustice. Includes dozens of modern and archival colour photos and illustrations, a glossary of terms, index, and informative sidebars.
Strikes and lockouts — Coal mining — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — History — 20th century — Juvenile literature
Coal miners — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — History — 20th century — Juvenile literature
Coal mines and mining — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — History — 20th century — Juvenile literature
Coal miners — Labor unions — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — History — 20th century — Juvenile literature
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Uniacke, Richard John, 1807-1887
Uniacke's Sketches of Cape Breton : and other papers relating to Cape Breton Island / edited with an introduction and notes by C. Bruce Fergusson, M.A, D. Phil. (Oxon.), Archivist of Nova Scotia. Halifax, NS : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1958. ix, 198 pages : portrait, maps (3 folded) : 24 cm.
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Nova Scotia Series I. This volume was prepared not only to make available in the first instance Rev. Richard John Uniacke's "Sketches of Cape Breton", which were written at Sydney, N.S., between 1862 and 1865, but also to present a number of additional descriptions of the Island from the pens of other writers at interviews between the founding of Sydney in 1785 and the year 1862.
Fergusson, Charles Bruce, 1911-1978
Public Archives of Nova Scotia
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History
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Nova Scotia — Genealogy
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Description and travel
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Inverness railway, Cape Breton report to H.N. Paint, Esq., Ex-M.P., controlling the Broad Cove coal mines of the exploratory and preliminary surveys from Orangedale Station, C. B. R'y, to Broad Cove and Cheticamp / by P. K. Hyndman. Ottawa : 1890. 13 frames.
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Railways in Inverness, Cape Breton. Together with a description on the country, and of the Inverness and Richmond Railway Co's line; a comparison of the routes, and remarks on the best system of railway lines calculated to open up, in the shortest time, the agricultural and mineral resources of northern Cape Breton
Railroads — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Railroads — Surveying
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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.
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Louisbourg N.S
Cape Breton Island N.S. — History
Cape Breton Island N.S. — Description and travel.
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The carboniferous of Cape Breton with introductory remarks / by E. Gilpin. 1888. 12 frames.
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Part III. Caption title.
Coal — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Coal mines and mining — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island.
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Descriptive note on the Sydney coal field, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to accompany a revised edition of the geological map of the coal field being sheets 133, 134, 135 N.S / by Hugh Fletcher. Ottawa : 1900. 14 frames.
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Summarized from the Reports of the Geological Survey of Canada, with the addition of later observations. At head of title: Geological Survey of Canada, G.M. Dawson, C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S., Director.
Coal — Geology — Nova Scotia — Sydney
Coal mines and mining — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Sydney
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Prospectus of the Dominion Marble Company, Limited, with a description of the marble deposits at Marble Mountain, West Bay, Cape Breton New Glasgow : 1888. 11 frames.
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Signed: D. MacLachlan, Henry Sanders, Geo. Hattie.
Marble — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Quarries and quarrying
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Cape Breton intererts sic sacrificed its Catholic clergy affronted and its French population ignored by adption sic of the central route / Murdoch Chisholm. Halifax : 1887. 13 frames.
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Signed: Murdoch Chisholm.
Railroads — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
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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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A mental health needs assessment of the industrial area of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia Ottawa : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1991.
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University Microfilms order no. UMI00282465.
Mental Health — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island N.S.
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An historical geography of Cape Breton Island in the nineteenth century / by Stephen John Hornsby. Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1988. 411 frames : maps.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche H813 - Open Shelf
Scots — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island N.S. — History.
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The Cape Breton coal miners, 1917-1926 / by David Alexander Frank. Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1980. 459 frames : map ; 11 X 15 cm.
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Coal miners — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Coal mines and mining — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island.
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Class conflict and the establishment of the Sydney steel industry, 1899-1904 / Ronald F. Crawley. Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1981. 166 frames ; 11 X 15 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche C911 - Open Shelf
Steel industry and trade — Nova Scotia — Sydney
Trade-unions — Iron and steel workers — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
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South side Cape Breton miners a sociological summary of pre 1879 to 1951 transformations / by Kirby Abbott. Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1987. 386 frames ; 11 x 15 cm.
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Coal miners — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
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Industrial unrest in Cape Breton, 1919-1925 Fredericton, N.B. 1971, 1972. 240 pages.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - Microfilm M145 I42
Microfilm. Ottawa, Central Microfilm Unit, Public Archives of Canada, 1972. 1 reel. 35 mm. Canadian theses on microfilm, 12459
Labor and laboring classes — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Trade-unions — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Labor disputes — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island.
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The religious and ecclesiastical life of the Northwest Highlands, 1750-1843 : the background of the Presbyterian emigrants to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia / by Gordon E. MacDermid. 1967. viii, 350 pages.
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E.pages Microform order no. 96998.
Emigration and immigration — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
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Community, class and conflict : the 1909-1911 Springhill coal strike 1980.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - Microfilm G656
Steel industry and trade — Nova Scotia — Sydney
Trade-unions — Iron and steel workers — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
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The well watered garden a study of Presbyterianism in Cape Breton in the early nineteenth century / by Laurie C.C. Stanley. Halifax : The Author, 1980.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 948 - Open Shelf
Presbyterian Church — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton — History
Cape Breton Island N.S. — Church 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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A caveat against emigration to America with the state of the island of Cape Breton from the year 1784 to the present year and suggestions for the benefit of the British settlements in North America London: E. Lloyd, 1803.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3979 - Open Shelf
On same reel as Letters to Lord XXX on a caveat against emigration to America
North America — Description and travel — 1784-1803
Cape Breton Island N.S. — History — 1785-1850
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