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Heine, William C.

96 years in the Royal Navy : the astonishing story of Halifax born Admiral of the Fleet Sir Provo Wallis, who joined the Royal Navy at the age of four and served for 96 years / William C. Heine.  Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1987. 92 pages, viii pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V64 G786 W221

Naval biography — Great Britain
Admirals — Great Britain — Biography

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Corbett, Gail H.

Barnardo children in Canada / Gail H. Corbett.  Peterborough, ON. : Woodland Publishing, 1981. 133 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD6250 C252 C67

Cobbett, William

Cobbett's America : a selection from the writings of William Cobbett / edited with an introduction by J.E. Morpurgo.  London : Folio Society, 1985. xxxi, 246 pages, [11] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E302 C65 C65

Hillier, Kenneth

Come on the Tigers! : the story of Philip E. Bent VC, DSO / Kenneth Hillier, with a foreword by Lord Ashcroft KCMG PC.  Leicestershire : Ashby-de-la-Zouch Museum, 2017. 66 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UA652 L453 2017

Einstein, Lewis

Divided loyalties : Americans in England during the War of Independence Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1933. xvi, 469 pages : ports. ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E277 E35

Beaverbrook

Friends : sixty years of intimate personal relations with Richard Bedford Bennett : a personal memoir with an appendix of letters / Lord Beaverbrook.  London ; Toronto : Heinemann, 1959. x, 137 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC576 B45 B43 1959 - Open Shelf

Webber, Sylvia

Her story in four centuries / Sylvia Webber.  Bedfordshire, England : Authors OnLine, 2010. viii, 277 pages: illustrations, maps, portraits; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS438 W372 2010 - Open Shelf

The women lived between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries in Yorkshire, Danzig Gdansk in Poland today, Ireland, Malaya now Malaysia, and Australia— pages 1. Includes bibliographical references.

Webber, Sylvia — Family.

Women — Biography
Great Britain — Biography.

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Boxer, F. N

Hunter's hand book of the Victoria Bridge, illustrated with wood-cuts : a brief history of that wonderful work, from the time that the first practical idea for its construction was submitted to the public in 1846, up to its completion in 1859 : also, a sh / by F.N. Boxer.  Montreal : Hunter and Pickup, 1860. 114 pages

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F65 H912 - Akins

'Now we can form an estimate ...' Dedicated (by permission to the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. Includes advertising matter. Includes index.

Engineers — Great Britain — Biography
Victoria Bridge (Montréal, Quebec)

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Cunningham, George Godfrey

Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, from Alfred the Great to the latest times, on an original plan / Ed. by George Godfrey Cunningham. Illustrated by a series of finely executed portraits, selected from the most authentic sources, and engraved by eminent artists.  Glasgow : A. Fullarton & Co., 1834-1842. 8 v. ; 22 cm

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK DA4 C91 - Akins

Great Britain — Biography
Great Britain — History.

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Campbell, John

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.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 34756 - Open Shelf    Internet Archive

Admirals — Great Britain — Biography.

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Fryer, Mary Beacock

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

Thomas, Peter

Master and Madman : the surprising rise and disastrous fall of the Hon. Anthony Lockwood, RN / Peter Thomas and Nicholas Tracy.  Fredericton, NB : Goose Lane, 2012. xvi, 272 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations, facsim., maps ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2471.1 L817 T461 2012 - Open Shelf

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tracy, Nicholas

Great Britain — Royal Navy — Officers — Biography
New Brunswick — History

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Brenton, Jahleel

Memoir of Captain Edward Pelham Brenton, R.N., C.B. : with sketches of his professional life, and exertions in the cause of humanity, as connected with the Children's Friend Society, &c., observations upon his Naval history, and Life of the Earl of S / by his brother, Vice-Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton, Bart., K.C.B.  London : James Nisbet and Co., 1842. vii, 359 pages ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK DAB7 - Akins

Philanthropists — Great Britain — Biography.

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Ward, Thomas Humphry

Men of the reign : a biographical dictionary of eminent persons of British and colonial birth who have died during the reign of Queen Victoria / ed. by Thomas Humphry Ward.  London ; New York : G. Routledge, 1885. iv, 1028 pages ; 19 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - DA4 M52

Elliott, Shirley B.

Nova Scotia in London : a history of its Agents General, 1762-1988 / Shirley B. Elliott.  London : Office of the Agent General of Nova Scotia, 1988. xiv, 62 pages : ports. ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - JX1730 A95 E33 1988

Godfrey, William G.

Pursuit of profit and preferment in colonial North America : John Bradstreet's quest / William G. Godfrey.  Waterloo, ON. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1982. xiii, 296 pages ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5009.9 B74 G63 - Open Shelf

Hume, Yvonne, -1954

RMS Titanic: the first violin: the story of the great liner's bandsman John Law Hume / by Yvonne Hume; forward by Millvina Dean.  Catrine : Stenlake, 2011. 112 pages: illustrations (some col.); 31 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G530 T6 H922 2011

Hotten, John Camden

The original lists of persons of quality : emigrants, religious exiles, political rebels, serving men sold for a term of years, apprentices, children stolen, maidens pressed, and others, who went from Great Britain to the American plantations, 1600-1700 : / from mss. preserved in the State Paper Dept. of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England.  London : Chatto and Windus, 1874. 580 pages ; 26 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS H79 - Open Shelf

Includes index. Spine title: Original lists of persons of quality who went from Great Britain to the American plantations.

Great Britain. Public Record Office.

British — America — Lists
United States — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 — Sources
United States — Genealogy — Sources
Great Britain — Emigration and immigration
Barbados — Biography.

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Lambert, Barbara Ann, -1939

War brides & rosies: Powell River and Stillwater, B.C / Barbara Ann Lambert.  Bloomington, IN : Trafford On Demand Publishing, 2012. 332 pages: illustrations, portraits, map; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC3845 P882 L222 2012 - Open Shelf

               

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