Birchtown and the Black Loyalist experience : from 1775 to the present / by Stephen Davidson ; photography by Peter Zwicker. Halifax : Formac Publishing Company Limited, 2019. 88 pages : illustrations (some color), 1 color map, color portraits, 1 color coat of arms ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2349 B56 D38 2019 - Open Shelf
The experiences of Black Loyalist refugees escaping the American Revolution, based on artefacts and displays at the Birchtown Black Loyalist Centre in Nova Scotia. This book chronicles experiences of African Americans who were part of the influx of Loyalist refugees from the American Revolution. The Black Loyalists were both freed and enslaved Black Americans who had joined the British side. For their loyalty, they were evacuated by the British Navy to Nova Scotia, where they were to receive freedom, land, and provisions. The Black Loyalists landed at a settlement named Birchtown, adjoining the white Loyalist town of Shelburne. On arrival they found virtually no shelter. Many died and others only survived by digging small holes in the ground and fixing logs over top for makeshift huts. Food was extremely scarce. White Loyalists quickly received their land and provisions. It was years before the Black Loyalists received their land grants, and not everyone got a plot. The lands provided proved to be rocky and hard to cultivate. Ultimately many Black Loyalists chose to leave Nova Scotia to go to Sierra Leone, West Africa, founding a new settlement there. Others remained, and their descendants are found in communities across Nova Scotia and beyond. Through images, artifacts, and text, this book tells the story of Birchtown and its residents as well as the larger story of Black Loyalist history, reflecting the research and exhibits in the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre in Birchtown. Includes bibliographical references (page 86) and index.
Black people — Nova Scotia — Birchtown — History
Black people — Nova Scotia — Birchtown — Antiquities
African Americans — Nova Scotia — Birchtown — History
African Americans — Nova Scotia — Birchtown — Antiquities
African American loyalists — Nova Scotia — Birchtown — History
Birchtown (N.S.) — History
Birchtown (N.S.) — Antiquities
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Cumberland County Genealogical Society
Five score and more : reflections of a centenarian Amherst, NS : Cumberland County Genealogical Society, 2017. 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 C84 Z48 2017 - Open Shelf
Biographical sketches of over 250 centenarians who have lived in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. Includes bibliographical references.
Centenarians — Nova Scotia — Cumberland (County)
Obituaries — Nova Scotia — Cumberland (County)
Cumberland (N.S. : County) — Genealogy
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The Museum Called Canada : 25 Rooms of Wonder / Charlotte Gray. Created and Produced by Otherwise Editions for Random House Canada, Toronto, Ontario, 2004. 705 pages : colour and black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC21 G73 2004 - Open Shelf
Welcome to a museum so full of wonder that it could only be called Canada. Explore its twenty-five rooms, collectively bringing together a breathtaking range of cultural artifacts, artworks, and historic objects - many of them never seen in a museum before. You'll find high art next to pop culture, scientific inventions displayed beside prehistoric creatures - myriad pieces of our past that tell the story of Canada. Book concept and curation: Sara Angel; design: Dinnick & Howells; cover and interior photography: Nancy Tong.
Material culture — Canada — Pictorial works
Canada — History — Pictorial works
Canada — Antiquities — Pictorial works
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Valley & South Shore : Criss Cross Directories / Might's Directories. Polk Canada Ltd., 1997- 3 volumes ; 34 cm.
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Archives have 2 copies of 1997 and 1 copy 1998.
Annapolis Valley (N.S.) — Directories
South Shore (N.S.) — Directories
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Truro-Amherst, Antigonish and region : Criss Cross Directories / Might's Directories. Polk Canada Ltd., 1997- 3 volumes ; 34 cm.
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Truro (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.
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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
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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Land grants and immigrants of Northern Colchester, NE Cumberland, NW Pictou / Compiled and organized by Norris Margeson Whiston. Tatamagouche, NS : Norris Margeson Whiston, 2018. 1 volume (unnumbered) .
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With added notes by Glen Matheson and Terry Punch.
Land grants — Colchester (N.S. : County)
Land grants — Cumberland County (N.S.)
Land grants — Pictou County (N.S.)
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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
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Nova Scotia — History
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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.
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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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Public Archives of Nova Scotia
The Life of Jonathan Scott : Bulletin of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia No. 15 / edited with an introduction and notes by Charles Bruce Fergusson, Provincial Archivist. Halifax : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1960. 63 pages ; 26 cm.
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Series : Bulletin of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia. No. 15.
Fergusson, Charles Bruce, 1911-1978
Archives — Nova Scotia — Periodicals
Scott, Jonathan, 1744-1819
Yarmouth (N.S.) — History
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Public Archives of Nova Scotia
Mechanics' Institutes in Nova Scotia : Bulletin of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia No. 14 / prepared by C. Bruce Fergusson, Provincial Archivist. Halifax : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1960. 47 pages ; 26 cm.
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Series : Bulletin of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia. No. 14.
Fergusson, Charles Bruce, 1911-1978
Archives — Nova Scotia — Periodicals
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Mechanics' Institutes — History
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Public Archives of Nova Scotia
Letters and Papers of Hon. Enos Collins : Bulletin of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia No. 13 / edited with an introduction by C. Bruce Fergusson, Provincial Archivist. Halifax : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1959. 64 pages ; 26 cm.
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Series : Bulletin of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia. No. 13.
Fergusson, Charles Bruce, 1911-1978
Archives — Nova Scotia — Periodicals
Collins, Enos, 1774-1871
Nova Scotia — History
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Glimpses of Nova Scotia 1807-24 : Bulletin of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia No. 12 / introduction by C.B. Fergusson, Provincial Archivist. Halifax : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1957. 94 pages ; 26 cm.
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Series : Bulletin of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia. No. 12. As seen through the eyes of two Halifax merchants, a Wilmot clergyman and the Clerk of the Assembly of Nova Scotia. "John Liddell, a Halifax merchant ... being the diarist for 1807, 1810-11 and 1813." "Rev. John Wismall ... wrote the diaries for the years 1808 and 1809." "James Boutineau Francklin ... kept the diairies for 1815, 1823 and 1824." "James Foreman ... kept the journal for 1816."
Fergusson, Charles Bruce, 1911-1978
Archives — Nova Scotia — Periodicals
Nova Scotia — History
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Public Archives of Nova Scotia
A Catalogue of Maps, Plans and Charts in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia : Bulletin of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia No. 3 / compiled by Marion Gilroy, under direction of D.C. Harvey, Archivist. Halifax : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1938. 95 pages ; 26 cm.
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Series : Bulletin of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia. Volume I, No. 3.
Gilroy, Marion
Harvey, D.C. (Daniel Cobb), 1886-1966
Archives — Nova Scotia — Periodicals
Archives — Nova Scotia — Catalogue
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A Study of Early Provincial Taxation : Bulletin of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia No. 2 / prepared by Margaret Ells, under direction of D.C. Harvey, Archivist. Halifax : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1937. 33 pages ; 26 cm.
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Series : Bulletin of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia. Being a tabular statement of fiscal legislation in Nova Scotia between 1751 and 1815, with an introduction and an appendix. Volume I, No. 2.
Ells, Margaret
Harvey, D.C. (Daniel Cobb), 1886-1966
Archives — Nova Scotia — Periodicals
Fiscal Policy — Nova Scotia
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The history of the great Indian war of 1675 and 1676, commonly called Philip's War : also, the old French and Indian wars, from 1689 to 1704 / by Thomas Church ; with numerous notes and an appendix by Samuel G. Drake. Rev. ed. New York : H. Dayton, 1859. 360 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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'The unexampled achievements of our fathers should not be forgotten.--Washington.' Tables. Includes index.
Drake, Samuel G. Samuel Gardner, 1798-1875.
King Philip's War, 1675-1676
United States — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
United States — History — French and Indian War, 1755-1763.
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United Church of England and Ireland. Diocese of Quebec. Church Society
The sixteenth report of the Incorporated Church Society of the Diocese of Quebec, for twelve months, ending 31st Dec., 1857 Quebec : 1858. 47 frames.
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Established 7th July, 1842. Tables.
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Vancouver's Island, the Hudson's Bay Company, and the government / by James Edward Fitzgerald. London : Simmonds, 1848. 21 cm.
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Reprinted from the 'Colonial magazine' for September, 1848 References: Lowther, B.J. Bib. of British Columbia, no. 5; TPL 2901.
Vancouver Island B.C. — History.
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Lives of the British admirals and naval history of Great Britain : from the time of Caesar to the Chinese war of 1841 / chiefly abridged from the work of John Campbell ; illustrated by numerous portraits and engravings from designs by Professor Gilfillan. Glasgow : Printed for R. Griffin by R. Malcolm, 1841. xiii, 560 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 18 cm.
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Admirals — Great Britain — Biography.
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Fourth annual lecture and sermon delivered June, 1882 Saint John, N.B. : J. & A. McMillan, 1883. 40 frames.
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At head of title: Theological Union of Mount Allison Wesleyan College.
Sprague, Howard. Saint Paul's doctrine of the atonement
Morton, A. D. The incarnation and its lessons.
Mount Allison Wesleyan College. Theological Union.
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A new edition of Vox oculis subjecta, part I a dissertation on the most curious and important art of imparting speech and the knowledge of language to the naturally deaf and consequently dumb / by Francis Green. Boston : Boston Parents' Education Association for Deaf Children, 1897. 19 frames.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 29791 - Open Shelf Internet Archive
Pref. signed: E.W.E. Tompson. First published: London, 1783.
Tompson, E. W. E. Edward W. E.
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Les Anciens Canadiens / par Philippe Aubert de Gaspe. New ed. Quebec : 1983, 1877. 3 frames.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 29785 - Open Shelf Internet Archive
Canadian literature French — 18th century
Quebec — Fiction
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Sons of Temperance of North America. Grand Division of Nova Scotia. Mayflower Division, no. 9
Record of jubilee soiree : being newspaper notices and historical sketch : February 9, 1898 / Mayflower Division, No. 9, S. of T. Halifax : Macnab, 1898. 27 pages ; 19 cm.
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Mayflower Division jubilee soiree, 1848-1898. With fraternal greetings from the Division to its members--Cover.
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