Cassatt McNicoll : Impressionists Between Worlds / edited by Caroline Shields. 151 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ND237 C3 A4 2023
Shows artwork and discusses the lives of American impressionist Mary Cassatt and her Canadian contemporary Helen McNicoll. Renowned for their depictions of modern womanhood, their work had a profound impact on the development and proliferation of Impressionism in North America. Book contains an image from our holdings titled "In the Conservatory" by Frances Jones (another painter influenced by the impressionist movement) on page 24.
Cassatt, Mary, — 1844-1926 — Exhibitions
McNicoll, Helen, — 1879-1915 — Exhibitions
Impressionism (Art) — United States — Exhibitions
Impressionism (Art) — Canada — Exhibitions
Impressionism (Art) — France — Exhibitions
Women artists — Exhibitions
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The odyssey of Frances Fish : a first Canadian woman lawyer / Barry Cahill. Halifax : Chadwick Press, 2023. 117 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - K19 F531 C13 2023
The subject of this book is the New Brunswicker who was the first woman called to the bar of Nova Scotia. Frances Lilian Fish (1888-1975) was part of an evolution occuring in Canada between 1890 and 1940, a gradual transition from an all-male to a mixed legal profession to which New Brunwsick contributed significantly... Includes bibliographic references.
Fish, Frances Lilian
Lawyers — Nova Scotia
Women — Nova Scotia — History
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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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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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Public Archives of Nova Scotia
Journal or Diary of James Boutineau Francklin : Bulletin of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia No. 11 / introduction by D.C. Harvey, Archivist. Halifax : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1956. 82 pages ; 26 cm.
view this publicationNova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F90 N85 Ar2b no. 11
Series : Bulletin of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia. No. 11. Being a day by day account of the weather, arrival and departure of the Falmouth and other packets, vital statistics and other items of interest to the social circle in which he moved — kept in the Farmer's Almanack for the years 1825 - 32 inclusive.
Harvey, D.C. (Daniel Cobb), 1886-1966
Archives — Nova Scotia — Periodicals
Francklin, James Boutineau, 1763-1841
Falmouth (N.S.) — History
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The Louisbourg monument Sydney, N.S. : S.P. Challoner, 1895. 20 frames : illustrations, maps, plan, ports
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 08485 - Open Shelf Internet Archive
Canada — History — 1713-1763 New France
Louisbourg N.S. — History — Siege, 1745 — Anniversaries, etc.
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Historical gleanings / by Henry Youle Hind. Windsor : 1896. 33 frames.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 07001 - Open Shelf Internet Archive
Mi'kmaq
Canada — History — 1713-1763 New France
Canada — History — 1755-1763 New France
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Theory and practice in the Bourbon Empires of the Atlantic the roles of Louisbourg and Havana, 1713-1763 / John Robert McNeill. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1981. 338 frames ; 11 x 15 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche M169 T396 - Open Shelf
University Microfilms order no. 8129828.
Louisbourg N.S. — Commerce
Havana Cuba — Commerce
Spain — Colonies — Commerce
France — Colonies — Commerce
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The social construction of Maritime economic reality a textual analysis of late 19th century banking practices / by Mark W. Lutes. Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1988. 156 frames.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche L973 - Open Shelf
Banks and banking — Maritime Provinces — 19th century
Business — France — 19th century
Maritime Provinces — Economic conditions — 19th century
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Faience and related tin-glazed wares from the French frigate Machault 1760 / by Jean-François Blanchete. Ottawa : Environment Canada, Parks, 1977. illustrations ; 11 x 15 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche C212 275 - Open Shelf
Machault Ship
Machault Ship
Faience — France — History
Pottery, French — Canada
Underwater archaeology — Quebec Province
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Underwater archaeologist vade mecum to the companies, duties, tools and related supplies of 18th-century British and French naval vessels / by Lester A. Ross. Ottawa : Parks Canada, 1980. illustrations ; 11 x 15 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche C212 222 - Open Shelf
Warships — Great Britain — History
Warships — France — History
Underwater archaeology.
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The memorials of the English and French commissaries concerning the limits of Nova Scotia or Acadia London : 1755. 2 v. : fold. map ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3788 - Open Shelf
Volume 2 has title: The memorials of the English and French commissaries conerning St. Lucia.
Nova Scotia — Boundaries
St. Luica
Acadia
Great Britain — Foreign relations — France
France — Foreign relations — Great Britain
Canada — History — To 1763 New France
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Les Français au Canada et en Acadie / Remy de Gourmont. Paris : Firmin-Didot, 1888. 224 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3783 - Open Shelf
Canada — History — To 1763 New France
Nova Scotia — History — To 1784.
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A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements in North America / by William Douglass. Boston : Printed and sold by Rogers and Fowle, 1749-1753 i.e. 1758. 2 v. ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3762 - Open Shelf
Volume 2 has imprint: Boston, New England : printed and sold by D. Fowle, 1753. Appended to vol. 2 are pages 417-440, with caption: In to render his work more compleat, the following is collected from Mr. Salmon's Geographical and historical grammar, printed in London, 1757 i.e. the 6th edition 1758 being included.
United States — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Atlantic States — Description and travel
Canada — History — To 1763 New France
America — Discovery and exploration.
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Life in New France / Rosemary Neering, Stan Garrod ; illustrator, J. Merle Smith. Toronto : Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1976. 64 pages : illustrations some copies, maps some copies, ports.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.530 #10 - Vertical File
New France — Juvenile literature
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France) — Juvenile literature.
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The discovery of Canada / by Lawrence J. Burpee. Sackville, N. B. : The Argosy, 1927. 87-152 pages 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.519 #25 - Vertical File
The Argosy, vol. 5, no. 3 Nov., 1927. Explorations from the time of Leif Ericson to 1854.
Canada — History
New France — Discovery and exploration
America — Discovery and exploration
Canada — Exploring expeditions.
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Historical gleanings, no. I-III / Henry Youle Hind. Windsor : 1896-. 64 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.361 #5 - Vertical File
Library has nos. II-III. Nos. I-III on CIHM #07001.
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
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The Vimy pilgrimage, July 1936 : from the diary of Florence Murdock, Amherst, Nova Scotia / by David Pierce Beatty. Port Elgin, N.B. : D.P. Beatty, 1987. 46 pages : illustrations, ports.; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.356 #7 - Vertical File
Vimy Memorial (France)
World War, 1914-1918 — Monuments — France — Vimy
World War, 1914-1918 — Canada — Anniversaries, etc.
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Five tunes from Nova Scotia and France / arranged for descant recorder with very easy piano accompaniments by Yvonne Enoch. Schoot ed. London : Schott & Co., 1970. 4, 8 pages; music; 15 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.331 #13 - Vertical File
Folk songs, English — Nova Scotia
Folk songs, French — France
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L'abbé Le Loutre et les Acadiens / J. Alphonse Deveau. Agincourt, Canada : Société canadienne du livre, 1983. 75 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.291 #1 - Vertical File
Missionaries — Maritime Provinces — Biography
Missionaries — France — Biography
Acadia — History.
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Canada in the seventeenth century / from the French of Pierre Boucher by Edward Louis Montizambert. Montreal : Printed by G.E. Desbarats, 1883, 1881. 84 pages, 1 leaf of plates : port.; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.257a #5 - Vertical File
True and genuine description of New France, commonly called Canada, and of the manners and customs and productions of that country. Translation of: Histoire véritable et naturelle des moeurs et productions du pays de la Nouvelle-
Montizambert, Edward Lewis, 1811-1882.
Canada — Description and travel — To 1763
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
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The role of Fort Chambly in the development of New France, 1665-1760 / Cyrille Gélinas. Ottawa : National Historic Parks and Site Branch, Parks Canada, 1983. 76 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.249 #15 - Vertical File
Translation of: Le rôle du fort de Chambly dans le développement de la Nouvelle France de 1665 à 1760. Spine title: Fort Chambly, 1665-1760.
Parks Canada. National Historic Parks and Sites Branch.
Fortification — Quebec (Province) — Chambly
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Fort Chambly (Chambly, Quebec)
National Historic Park Fort Chambly (Quebec)
Canada — History, Military — To 1900.
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Punishment, imprisonment and reform in Canada, from New France to the present / Andre Cellard ; translated by Eileen Reardon. Ottawa : CHA, 2000. 27 pages : 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.223 #35 - Vertical File
Prisons — Canada
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
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When France came to Canada : a page from Jacques Cartier's journal Montreal : Rolland paper co., 19--. 1 fold. sheet. : copies illus.; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.217 #9 - Vertical File
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
New France — Discovery and exploration
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Who killed Surcouf? / by George Young. 1st ed. Queensland : G. Young, 1986. 103 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.77 #15 - Vertical File
World War, 1939-1945 — Territorial questions
Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France) — History.
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