Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: Great Britain — Biography
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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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
Includes index.
Children — Canada — History
Children — Canada — Biography
Immigrants — Canada — Biography
Canada — Emigration and immigration — History
Great Britain — Emigration and immigration — History
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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
Journalists — Great Britain — Biography
Politicians — Great Britain — Biography
United States — Politics and government — 1789-1865
United States — Politics and government — 1789-1815
United States — De
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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
Includes bibliographical references.
Bent, Philip E., > 1891-1917
Great Britain > Army > Leicestershire Regiment. > Battalion, 9th > Biography
Great Britain > Army > Leicestershire Regiment. > Battalion, 9th > History
Great Britain > Army > History > World War, 1914-1918
Ypres, 3rd Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1917
Soldiers > Nova Scotia > Biography
World War, 1914-1918 > Great Britain
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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
American loyalists — England
Secret service — Great Britain
Painters — United States
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Biography.
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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
Bennett, R. B. (Richard Bedford), 1870-1947.
Politicians — Canada — Biography
Prime ministers — Canada — Biography
Politicians — Great Britain — Biography.
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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.
Women — Biography
Great Britain — Biography.
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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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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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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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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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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.
Great Britain — Royal Navy — Officers — Biography
New Brunswick — History
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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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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
Great Britain — Biography
Great Britain — History — Victoria, 1837-1901.
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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
Office of the Agent General of Nova Scotia.
Diplomats — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — Commerce — Great Britain
Great Britain — Commerce — Canada
Canada — Foreign economic relations — Great Britain
Great Britain — Foreign economic relation
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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
Includes index.
Soldiers — Canada — Biography
Canada — History — Seven Years' War, 1755-1763
Great Britain — Colonies — America.
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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
Musicians — Great Britain — Biography
Shipwrecks — North Atlantic Ocean — History — 20th century.
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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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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
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-316 and index.
War brides — Canada — Biography
War brides — British Columbia — Powell River Region — Biography
War brides — Great Britain — Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Women
Powell River Region (B.C.) — Social life and customs
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