History of the Halifax Volunteer Battalion and volunteer companies, 1859-1887 / by Thomas J. Egan. Halifax : A. & W. Mackinlay, 1888. viii, 172 pages, [2] pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F105 EG1
Contains a roll of the officers and men on active service in the Riel rebellion of 1885, and rolls of several of the volunteer companies. The Battalion was known as the Halifax Volunteer Battalion of Rifles from 1860 to 1869 and as the 63rd Battalion of Rifles from 1869 to 1900.
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Recollections of the Crimean campaign and the expedition to Kinburn in 1855 : including also sporting and dramatic incidents in connection with garrison life in the Canadian lower provinces / by Frederick Harris D. Vieth. Montreal : Printed by John Lovell & Sons, 1907. xi, 309 pages : illustrations, portraits, map. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 V67
On cover: Closing scenes of the war with Russia, and incidents in garrison life in the capitals of the Canadian lower provinces ... in the fifties ...
Crimean War, 1853-1856
Crimean War, 1853-1856 — Personal narratives
Canada — Social life and customs.
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Narrative of American voyages and travels of Captain William Owen, R.N., and settlement of the Island of Campobello in the Bay of Fundy, 1766-1771 / edited by Victor Hugo Paltsits. New York : New York Public Library, 1931. 1 v. (various pagings) : illustrations, facsims., maps (1 f
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 OW2
Bound from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of February-October 1931.
Paltsits, Victor Hugo, 1867-1952.
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
United States — Description and travel — To 1783.
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Nova Scotia. Commissioner of Public Records
Selections from the public documents of the Province of Nova Scotia / edited by Thomas Beamish Akins, Commissioner of Public Records. Halifax : Charles Annand, 1869. ii, 755 pages, 1 folded plate, 2 folded facsimilies : 22 cm.
view this publicationNova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 N85 v.1
Series: Nova Scotia Archives I.
Published under a resolution of the House of Assembly passed March 15, 1865 ; edited by Thomas B Akins, D.C.L. Commissioner of Public Records ; the translations from the French by Benjamin Curren.
Contains: Papers relating to the Acadian French. 1714-1755. Papers relating to the forcible removal of the Acadian French from Nova Scotia, 1755-1768. Papers relating to the French encroachments in Nova Scotia, 1749-1754, and the war in North America, 1754-1761. Papers relating to the first settlement of Halifax. 1749-1756. Papers relating to the first establishment of a representative assembly in Nova Scotia. 1755-1761.
Website: Records of the Deportation and Le Grand Dérangement, 1714-1768
Akins, Thomas Beamish, 1809-1891
Curren, Benjamin
Nova Scotia. House of Assembly
Acadians
Acadians — Expulsion, 1755
Nova Scotia — History — 1713-1775
United States — History — French and Indian War, 1755-1763 — Sources
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The Acadians under English rule, 1713-1763 Milwaukee : 1955. xiii, 168 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 M34
Acadians
Nova Scotia — History — 1713-1763.
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The first reform administration in Nova Scotia, 1848-1857 / by Mary Elizabeth McKay. Halifax : Dalhousie University, 1946. 196 pages ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 M19
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1758-1867.
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The Maritime provinces of British North America and the American revolution Sackville, N.B. : Busy East Press, 1942-. 172 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 K46 M33
Maritime Provinces — History
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783.
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Calkin, John Burgess, 1829-1918
History and geography of Nova Scotia Halifax : A. & W. Mackinlay, 1877. 96 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 C12 H62
SA AK F100 C12
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A history and geography of Nova Scotia / by John B. Calkin. Halifax : A. & W. Mackinlay, 1877. 96 pages : map ; 18 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 C12 H62 1877
Nova Scotia — History
Nova Scotia — Description and travel.
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Register of the Foreign Protestants of Nova Scotia (ca. 1749-1770) / Winthrop Pickard Bell. Guelph, ON. : JC Young, 2003. 2 v. (xiv, 859 pages) ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 B41 R33 2003
Compiled and prepared for publication by Dr. J. Christopher Young, on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Lunenburg.
Immigrants — History — 18th century. — Nova Scotia
Germans — History — 18th century. — Nova Scotia
Swiss — History — 18th century. — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Emigration and immigration — History &
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The foreign Protestants and the settlement of Nova Scotia : the history of a piece of arrested British colonial policy in the eighteenth century / Winthrop Pickard Bell. Fredericton, N.B. : Acadiensis Press, 1990. xviii, 673 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 B41 1990
Co-published by Centre for Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University.
Mount Allison University. Centre for Canadian Studies.
Germans — Nova Scotia — History — 18th century
Swiss — Nova Scotia — History — 18th century
Immigrants — Nova Scotia — History — 18th century
Nova Scotia — Emigration and immigration — History &
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The foreign Protestants and the settlement of Nova Scotia : the history of a piece of arrested British colonial policy in the eighteenth century / Winthrop Pickard Bell. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1961. xiv, 673 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 B41
Frontier and pioneer life — Nova Scotia
Germans — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Emigration and immigration
Lunenburg (N.S. : County) — History
Nova Scotia — History — To 1784.
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The first English conquest of Canada : with some account of the earliest settlements in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland / by Henry Kirke, M.A., B.C.L. . London : Bemrose & sons, 1871. xi, 227 pages : illustrations, fold. map ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F95 K63
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
America — Discovery and exploration
Newfoundland — History
Nova Scotia — History.
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Clarke, George Frederick, 1883-
Too small a world, the story of Acadia Fredericton : Brunswick press, 1958. 423 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F95 C55
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Gabriel Lajeunessewrittento portray some of the effects of the Acadian tragedy of 1755 London : George Routledge. 52 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F95 B17
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Story of Nova Scotia / by Phyllis Blakeley. Toronto : J.M. Dent, 1950. 305 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F94 B58 St6
History of the province of Nova Scotia - from the Story of Canada Series released in the 1950s. Copy 1: F94 B58 St6 Copy 2: F94 B58 St6 C2 - includes partial dust jacket - wrapped due to fragility, handle with care
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Nova Scotia, a brief history Toronto : J.M. Dent & sons, 1955. 214 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F94 B58 N85
Copy 2 not on shelf June 1991
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Genealogical study Sackville : the tribune press ltd., 1962. 292 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F94 B41 G28
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Doane, Frank Augustus, 1862-1950
James Hervey Doane, Junior, 1833-1871. Barrington, Nova Scotia Truro, 1942. 85 l.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F93.2 D65 D65
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Rand and the Micmacs / by Jeremiah S. Clark. Charlottetown, P.E.I. : The Examiner Office, 1899. xiii, 81 pages : front. (port.) ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F93 R15 C54
Mi'kmaq
First Nations of North America — Missions.
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Daniel McNeill Parker, M.D., his ancestry and a memoir of his life Toronto : William Briggs, 1910. 604 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F93 P22 P2
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Beyond the West MacKelvie family Truro : Truro printing and publishing co., ltd., ca. 1963. 145 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F93 P22 B46
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New Brunswick blue book and encyclopedia / biographical sketches by James Conwell. Nova Scotia blue book and encyclopedia / historical review by Benjamin Russell ; biographical sketches by James Conwell. Toronto : Historical Publishers Association, 1932. 44, 127, 67 pages ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F93 N85
Attributed to Benjamin Russell. First part (44 pages deals with New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Second part (127 pages concerns Nova Scotia, and has own t.pages Third part (67 pages consists of biographical sketches. Binding variant. In some copies, the section on Nova Scotia precedes that on New Brunswick. Bindings display either the arms of N.S. or N.B., and appropriate spine and cover titles, depending on which section is bound first. In addition, the binding of some copies is decorated in gilt; these items are part of a limited edition of 100 numbered copies.
Maritime Provinces — Biography
Maritime Provinces — History
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Calnek, William Arthur, 1822-1892
Brief memoir of the late honorable James William Johnston, first judge in equity of Nova Scotia Saint John : Geo. A. Knodell, 1884. 49 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F93 J64 C13
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A brief memoir of the late Honorable James William Johnston, first Judge in Equity of Nova Scotia / by W. Arthur Calnek. St. John, N.B. : Geo. A. Knodell, 1884. 49 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F93 J64 C13
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