A Brief History of Militia Units Established at Various Periods at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia 1812-1947 / compiled by Lieutenant Colonel W.D. King. Yarmouth, NS : 14th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery, 1947. 32 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.547 #17 - Vertical File
Brief history on the Militia Units in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia from 1812-1947.
History — Yarmouth (N.S.)
Military history
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An Outline of Phyllis' Story : Presented April 17, 2010 on the occasion of the Ninetieth Birthday Celebrations of Phyllis Frances Fevens / by Douglas Fevens. Halifax : Douglas Fevens, 2010. 22 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.547 #15 - Vertical File
The story of Phyllis Fevens as told on her 90th birthday. Book includes an obituary for Phyllis glued into the signature section of the booklet.
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Independent Order of Odd Fellows Maritime Provinces of Canada and Newfoundland
Programme and Historical Book : Seventy-Fourth Annual Session of the Grand Lodge I.O.O.F. : Maritime Provinces of Canada and Newfoundland Halifax NS : Typographical Union Label, 1931. 24 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.547 #13 - Vertical File
Programme and Historical book for the Seventy-Fourth Annual Session of the Independent Order of Oddfellows at the Grand Lodge.
Independent Order of Odd Fellows — Rituals
Nova Scotia — History
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Sound Waves : Newsletter of the Atlantic Flute Society / Atlantic Flute Society. Nova Scotia : Atlantic Flute Society, 1992-1999. 20 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm + 2 pamphlets.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML5 S68 F58
A tri-annual newsletter from the Atlantic Flute Society. Missing - Op. 1 No. 1 (Oct. 1992), Op. 6 No. 3 (August 1997), Op. 7 No. 2 (February 1997), Op. 7 No. 3 (August 1997). Includes 2 pamphlets a concert held by the society at the Canadian Martyr's Church on April 28, 1996.
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Nova Scotia Department of Education
Restructuring Nova Scotia's Educational System : Preparing All Students for a Lifetime of Learning - A Discussion Paper Halifax : Nova Scotia Department of Education, 1994. 69 pages ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LB1631 R78 1994
Includes bibliographical references.
Education — Nova Scotia
Educational change — Nova Scotia
School management and organization — Nova Scotia
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Vimy Ridge : Artists Document the First World War / essays by Colonel John Boileau (CD retired) and Mora Dianne O'Neill. Halifax, NS : Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 2017. 72 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ND249 V56
Artists depictions of the First World War - special focus on arts that soldiers created in the aftermath of Vimy Ridge in the Battle of France, 1917.
World War, 1914-1918 — Canada — Exhibitions
Vimy Ridge, Battle of, France, 1917 — Exhibitions
War in art
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Construction Specifications Canada
Construction Specifications Canada Directory of Members : 2004-2005 Toronto, ON : Construction Specifications Canada, 2004. 121 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - TH13 C3 2004
Membership directory of Construction Specifications Canada for 2004-2005. Directory sections include the following indexes: advertisers index, by name, by organization, and by chapter.
Building — Canada
Building — Nova Scotia
Building — Indexes
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Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf
Interprovincial School 1969 : The Glooscap Amherst, NS : Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf, 1969. 1 volume (unnumbered) : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HV2579 M34 S36 1969
Yearbook for the Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf from the year 1969. Also contains a torn page, "Commissionaire 'Jim' Thompson" and "'Everyone's friend' Donald Fairfax".
Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf
Interprovincial Vocational School
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Presiding by Desire : Nova Scotia's Popular Lieutenant Governor: Hon. MacCallum Grant / forward by Hon. Myra Freeman. Victoria, BC : Tellwell Talent, 2020. 472 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC3655 G73 B87 - Open Shelf
This is the story of an ambitious boy from Loyal Hill, in the village of Summerville on the Avon River in Hants County, who became a respected figure in the business community. Hon. MacCallum Grant served as Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia from 1916 to 1925, the last Nova Scotian to be appointed to two full terms as the King's representative. He created a new standard for the occupants of the viceregal office, reaching out to minorities and utilizing his charm and humour to engage everyone he met. Presiding By Desire - Nova Scotia's Popular Lieutenant Governor: Hon. MacCallum Grant by Scott J. Burke chronicles Grant's activities as lieutenant governor, highlighting significant events during his eight years at Government House. His terms in office encompassed the First World War and the Halifax Explosion. He played host to famous visitors including the Prince of Wales, and travelled to Washington to meet a president at the White House. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Grant, MacCallum, 1845-1928
Lieutenant governors — Nova Scotia — Biography
Businessmen — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — History — 1867-1918
Nova Scotia — History — 1918-1945
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Sand Point Guysborough County Nova Scotia : 233 years of History (1784-2017) Including the Carrigan Descendants / compiled by Fraser West. Halifax : The Printing House Limited, 2018. 363 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2349 S26 G89 2018 - Open Shelf
History of the Sand Point, Guysborough Country area from 1784-2017 and the genealogy of the Carrigan Family descendants. Includes back index for quick searching.
Genealogy — Guysborough County (N.S.)
History — Guysborough County (N.S.)
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Nova Scotia. Department of Health. Uranium Task Force
The Occurrence and Significance of Uranium, Radium, and Radon in Water Supplies in Nova Scotia : A Report of the Investigation Carried Out by the Provincial Uranium Task Force Halifax : Nova Scotia Department of Health, 1986. Binder: 256 pages : maps, figures, tables; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - TD427 U7 1986
Compiled report after investigations carried out by the Provincial Uranium Task Force regarding Uranium, Radium, and Radon in well water across Nova Scotia. Maps, figures, and tables are used to show how and where water contamination happens, as well as recommendations for how to prevent and stop water contamination in the future.
Grantham, David A.
MacFarlane, D.S. (David S.)
Drinking water — Nova Scotia
Uranium
Radon
Radium
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Health Coalition of Nova Scotia
Report : Public Forum on Medicare / sponsored by the Health Coalition of Nova Scotia. Health Coalition of Nova Scotia, 1983. 263 pages : newspaper clippings, brochures, letters ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - R463 H43 M43 1983
Report from 1983 public forum meetings across Nova Scotia to discuss Medicare in Canada and it's future with the Health Coalition of Nova Scotia. Newspaper clippings, brochures, and letters from events are included among the meeting minutes and notes. Table of contents includes an Appendices section for the different towns that held meetings as well as for the financial report across the areas and brief area reports.
Public health — Halifax (N.S.)
Medicaid — Halifax (N.S.)
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Poems and Lyrics by a Super-Centenarian : (I needed the quiet) / by St. Cécile-Marie, F. J. (Annie Adèle Samson) ; compiled by Garvie Samson. 4th edition Dartmouth, NS : Garvie Samson, 2018. 94 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8537 A46 A14 2018
Research, compilation and notes by Gervais (Garvie) Samson. St. Cécile-Marie, F.J. (Annie Adèle Samson) (1891-2004), Teacher and Poet. Celebrating 113 years and 9 months of service Includes bibliographical references.
Canadian poetry — Women authors
Canadian poetry — 21st century
Canadian poetry — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Poetry
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Don Messer's Violin : Canada's fiddle / foreword by Frank Leahy. Toronto : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2005. x, 118 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML418 M37 R63 2005
The story of Don Messer and his fiddle that made him a nation figure in Canadian music history.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Messer, Don, 1909-1973
Leahy, Frank, 1961-
Don Messer's jubilee (Television program)
Fiddlers — Canada — Biography
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Come Hell or High Water : A History of the Victoria Co-operative Fisheries Ross Ferry, NS : Boularderie Island Press, 2016. 213 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, charts ; 17 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD9464 C34 V53 2016
The Victoria Co-operative Fisheries has a way of defying the odds. It was born in 1956 as the fishing industry transitioned from salt fish and canned lobster to fresh product destined for the Boston market. It had to compete with Nickerson's, Leonard Brothers and F.W. Leslie's, the Goliaths of the North of Smokey fishing industry, as well as suitcase buyers during the lobster season. In the early years the small co-operative did not meet the expectations of many of its fishermen but stayed the course. After sixty years, leadership initiatives, member solidarity and an enlightened response to industry crises, the Victoria Co-operative Fisheries can claim its place as a major force in northern Cape Breton's fishery.
Victoria Co-operative Fisheries — History
Fisheries — Nova Scotia — Neils Harbour — History
Fish trade — Nova Scotia — Neils Harbour — History
Fishery co-management — Nova Scotia — Neils Harbour
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Bodily Health, Contaminants, and the Environment : Recognizing the Impacts of Industrial Pollution in Deindustrializing Sydney, Nova Scotia / Kristoffer Archibald. Montréal, Québec : Concordia University, 2016. 226 pages ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD1671 C32 A73 2016
Throughout the twentieth century, the city of Sydney, Nova Scotia was home to a steel industry that polluted the air and contaminated the waterway of Muggah Creek, known in local parlance as the Tar Ponds. This dissertation examines public discourse surrounding the subject of industrial pollution in the deindustrializing city of Sydney, focusing between 1950 and 2014. It explores how diverse community interests--including those of steelworkers, local environmentalists, residents whose properties bordered the contaminated site, and members of the local business community--interpreted and responded to the pollution.
Sydney (N.S.) — Environmental Conditions
Sydney (N.S.) — Environmental Activism
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Goodyear, Hedley Charles Cornick
Dear Flo : letters from a pilot, correspondence home 1941-1944 / by Flight Lieutenant Hedley Charles Cornick Goodyear ; compiled and edited by John Grant. Nova Scotia : Boularderie Island Press, 2021. 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2474.1 G66 2021 - Open Shelf
Hedley (Ted) Charles Cornick Goodyear chose to leave his university studies at Mount Allison University to enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force (R.C.A.F.), following the lead of his older brother Ray. 'Dear Flo, Letters From a Pilot' includes all of the letters that were received by his mother Florence (Flo) between 1941-1944. These letters offer a rare glimpse into the day-to-day life of the pilots who trained on and flew fighter/bombers during the Second World War. They also offer insight into the risks, triumphs and resilience of all those Ted Goodyear met, both before departing for England and while stationed overseas.
World War, 1939-1945 — Correspondence
Flight navigators, Military — New Brunswick — Correspondence
Goodyear, Hedley Charles Cornick — Correspondence
Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force — Biography
Fighter pilots — Canada — Correspondence
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Notable Pictonians / by Clyde F. MacDonald. Pictou, N.S. : Advocate Printing & Publishing, 2003. 200 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 P5 M244 2003 - Open Shelf
The history of 8 notable Piconian residents from around 1830 to the 1990s. Each chapter is named for the person who's biography is featured, with appropriate date ranges for the individual.
Nova Scotia — History
Pictou (N.S. : County) — History
Pictou (N.S. : County) — Biography
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Nova Scotia South shore : Polk City Directories / Polk City Directories. Polk Canada Ltd., 1999- 2 volumes ; 34 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F91 N85 P762
Previously called Might's Directories. Archives have 1999 and 2000. 2000 edition published by Equifax.
South Shore (N.S.) — Directories
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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.
view this publicationNova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F90 N85 Ar2n
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
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Genealogy
Nova Scotia — Genealogy
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Description and travel
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A Life of Faith : An autobiography / written by Muriel Faustina Gallant, M.M. ; compiled and edited by Elise Mary Ellison Macdonald. 111 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - CT25 G35
Muriel Faustina Gallant — Biography
Nuns — Biography
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Abegweit Branch of the United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada
An Island Refuge : Loyalists and Disbanded Troops on the Island of Saint John / edited by Orlo Jones and Doris Haslam. Charlottetown, PEI : Abegweit Branch of the United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada, 1983. 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS88 P74 I84 1983 - Open Shelf
The history of Loyalists in Prince Edward Island and their development and settlement of the island.
Jones, Orlo, 1929-
Haslam, Doris Muncey, 1905-
United Empire loyalists — Genealogy
United Empire loyalists — Biography
Prince Edward Island — Genealogy
Prince Edward Island — Biography
Prince Edward Island — History
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Public Archives of Nova Scotia
Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia / with an introduction by Charles Bruce Fergusson, Archivist of Nova Scotia. Halifax : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1967. vi, 751 pages, 18 folded leaves of plates : county maps ; 24 cm.
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Nova Scotia Series III.
Website: Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia
Fergusson, Charles Bruce, 1911-1978
Names, Geographical — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Gazetteers
Nova Scotia — History
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Public Archives of Nova Scotia
Report of the Board of Trustees of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia Halifax : King's Printer, 1932-1996. 62 volumes : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm.
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Title varies slightly.
Minister of Public Works and Mines
Public Archives of Nova Scotia — Periodicals
Archives — Nova Scotia — Periodicals
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Public Archives of Nova Scotia
Local Government in Nova Scotia : Bulletin of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia No. 17 / prepared by C. Bruce Fergusson, Provincial Archivist. Halifax : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1961. 18 pages ; 26 cm.
view this publicationNova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F90 N85 Ar2b no. 17
Series : Bulletin of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia. No. 17.
Fergusson, Charles Bruce, 1911-1978
Archives — Nova Scotia — Periodicals
Local Government — Nova Scotia
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