Admiral Sir P. B. V. Broke ... a memoir / Comp. by Rev. J. G. Brighton chiefly from journals and letters in the possession of Rear-Admiral Sir George Broke-Middleton. London, S. Low, son, and Marston, 1866. zvi, 488 pages illus. 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - DA88.1 B7 B6
Broke, Philip Bowes Vere, Sir, 1776-1841.
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Papers from the collection of Sir William Fraser / edited by J.R.N. MacPhail. Edinburgh : Scottish History Society, 1924. xxvi, 304 pages : port. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - DA755 F84
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The celebrated essay on England and her colonial policy / by Count de Montalembert. Toronto : Lovell & Gibson, 1858. 80 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - DA6 M76 B76
Canadian pamphlets
Great Britain — Colonies — Administration
Great Britain — Colonies — India.
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Life and times of Queen Victoria : containing a full account of the most illustrious reign of any sovereign in the history of the world ... to which is added the life of King Edward VII, and sketches of the members of the Royal family / by Arthur Lawrence Merrill in collaboration with Henry Davenport Northrop, with eulogies of the Queen by Lord Salisbury. Memorial ed. Toronto : Parish, 1901-. 536 pages, [110] pages of plates : illustrations, ports. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - DA4 V66 M55
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Argyll, John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th duke of, 1845-1914
V.R.I. her life and empire London : Harmsworth bros., 1901. 396 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S DA4 .V66 .AR4 - Oversize
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Woodham-Smith, Mrs. Cecil Blanche (Fitzgerald), 1896
Florence Nightingale London : Constable. 615 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - DA4 .N56 .W85
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Hemingford, Sir Dennis Herbert, 1869-
Cambridge What Parliament is and does, : University Press, 1947
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - DA3 .H37
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Cumberland, Frederick Barlow, 1846
Toronto Story of the Union Jack, how it grew and what : William Briggs, 1897.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - DA3 .C91
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Lives of the Princesses of Wales / by Mary Beacock Fryer, Arthur Bousfield and Garry Toffoli. Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1983. 80 pages : illustrations (some col.), geneal. tables, ports. ;
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - DA28.3 F79 1983
Geneal. tables on lining papers.
Bousfield, Arthur, 1943-
Toffoli, Garry, 1953-
Queens — Great Britain — Biography
Great Britain — Princes and princesses — Biography.
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Great Britain. Historical Manuscripts Commission
Report on American manuscripts in the Royal Institution of Great Britain London : Printed for H. M. Stationery Office, by Mackie & Co., 1904-1909. 4 v. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - DA25 M2 A5
Includes index.
Stevens, Benjamin Franklin, 1833-1902.
Royal Institution of Great Britain.
Manuscripts — Great Britain — Catalogs
Manuscripts — Catalogs — Nova Scotia
United States — History — Revolution — Sources.
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Tomasson, Katherine & Buist, Francis
Battles of the '45 London : B.T. Batsford, 1962. 216 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - DA23 .T59 .B31
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Scotland by William Beattie ; illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for this work by T. Allom, W.H. Bartlett, and H. M'Culloch London : George Virtue, 1838. 2 v. : illustrations, map ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - DA20 B38
Spine title: Views of Scotland. Added t.p., engr., in each Volume; engr. title for v. 2 reads: Scotland / by William Beattie ; illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for this work by Thomas Allom &c. ; engraved under the the immediate direction of Robert Wallis. London : Published for the proprietors by Geo. Virtue ..., 1835.
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872
Bartlett, W. H. (William Henry), 1809-1854
MacCulloch, H. (Horatio), 1805-1867
Beattie, William, 1793-1875. Caledonia / illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for the work by W.H. Bartlett, T. Allom, and others ; with descriptive text by William Beattie.
Scotland — Description and travel.
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Bood of Barcaldine, three centuries in the west London : Alexander Maclehose & co., 1936. 162 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - DA20 .F85
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Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th earl of, 1847
Lord Randolph Churchill London : Arthur L. Humphreys, 1906. 187 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - DA14 .C471 .R72
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Bullen, Frank Thomas, 1857-1915
Recollections, the reminiscences of the busy life London : Seeley, Service,, 1915. 311 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - DA14 .B87
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Flying high / by Helen F. MacKay; illustrated by Redmond Curtis. Ilfracombe : Stockwell, 1971. 103 pages : illus. ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - DA11 M153
London (England) — Description and travel
Scotland — Description and travel
Ireland — Description and travel.
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This was my war : a collection of memories of the 1939-1945 conflict / K. Antoft ; collected and edited by Ian Maxwell. 3rd ed. Tancook Island : Little Daisy Press, 1993. 231 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D811 A2 T45 1993
Antoft, Kell, 1923-
Maxwell, Ian, 1915-
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives.
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The Ajax affair: citizens and sailors in wartime Halifax, 1939-1945 / by James F. E. White. Halifax : the Author, 1984. vii, 120 pages: illustrations; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D810 C36 C212 W585
Halifax (N.S.) — History — 20th century
Halifax (N.S.) — History — 1939-1945
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An East coast port-- Halifax at war, 1939-1945 / compiled and edited by Graham Metson ; with the assistance of Cheryl Lean. Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1981. 157 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D768.15 H173
World War, 1939-1945 — Nova Scotia — Halifax
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Social aspects — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Halifax (N.S.) — History.
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Bishop, Harold Fletcher, 1896-1919
As ever, the wartime letters written by Cpl. Harold Fletcher Bishop : A Student from Acadia University / compiled by John Bishop Grant. Sydney : John Bishop Grant, 2016. 158 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D640 B547 2016
Harold Bishop, of Auburn, Nova Scotia was a member of the Class of 1917 at Acadia University. Upon completing his sophomore year in 1915 he, along with the majority of men in his graduating class, joined the 4th University Company of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. This is a compilation of his letters sent from training bases and the front lines of France to the home front. In them, he thanks those who wrote to him and sent parcels, as well as he advises his brothers how they should enlist. A personal story of military service, including mention of the loss of friends in combat. Bishop demonstrateds his attachment to family, the importance of his faith, and the connections to those he knew on the campus of Acadia and in his home community. Includes index.
Bishop, Harold Fletcher, — 1896-1919 — Correspondence
Canada. — Canadian Army. — Battalion (Eastern Ontario Regiment), 2nd — Biography
Acadia University — Students — Biography
World War, 1914-1918 — Personal narratives, Canadian
Soldiers — Nova Scotia — Biography
Soldiers — Canada — Biography
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First World War honour roll of Guysborough County, Nova Scotia / Bruce F. MacDonald. Antigonish : Bantry Publishing, 2015. Volumes : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm. Issued also in electronic format.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D609 C2 M25 2015
The book contains profiles of 71 First World War soldiers from Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, all of whom died while in uniform, the majority in military combat. The stories in volume I are arranged chronologically by date of death and covering the years 1915 to 1917 inclusive while volume II focuses in on 1918-1937. The profiles provide a glimpse into the events of the war through the soldiers' stories, and details what life was like for returning soldiers. While the majority served with Nova Scotian battalions, some served with units from New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario and Western Canada, also providing a glimpse into the roles of various military battalions and some non-combat units in the war's events. Includes index.
Canada. — Canadian Armed Forces — Registers of dead
World War, 1914-1918 — Registers of dead — Nova Scotia — Guysborough (County)
Soldiers — Nova Scotia — Guysborough (County) — Biography
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Canada in Flanders / by Sir Max Aitken ; with a preface by A. Bonar Law and an introduction by Sir Robert Borden. London ; Toronto : Hodder and Stoughton, 1916-1918. 3 v. : maps (1 folded) ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D547 C2 B4
The official story of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Volume 2 has title: Canada in Flanders / by Lord Beaverbrook. Volume 3 has title: Canada in Flanders / by Charles G.D. Roberts, with a preface by Lord Beaverbrook. Folded map tipped in.
Roberts, Charles G. D., 1860-1943.
World War, 1914-1918 — Campaigns — Belgium
World War, 1914-1918 — Canada.
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The war and the future / by the Right Hon. Sir Robert Borden ; being a narrative compiled from speeches delivered at various periods of the war in Canada, the United States, and Great Britain, with an introductory letter to the compiler, Percy Hurd. London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1917. xxiv, 164 pages : illustrations, port. ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D520 C2 B73 1917
Imperial federation
World War, 1914-1918 — Canada
World War, 1914-1918
Commonwealth of Nations.
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Memorial of the great war 1914-1918, a record of service Montreal : Ronalds press.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D507 .B22 .M51
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Voices : a guide to oral history / Derek Reimer, editor ; David Mattison and Allen W. Specht, assistant editors. Victoria, B.C. : Sound and Moving Image Division, 1984. vi, 74 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D1614 V889
Mattison, David, 1950-
Reimer, Derek, 1947-
Specht, Allen W. (Allen William)
Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Sound and Moving Image Division.
Oral history — Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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