Presiding by Desire : Nova Scotia's Popular Lieutenant Governor: Hon. MacCallum Grant / forward by Hon. Myra Freeman. Victoria, BC : Tellwell Talent, 2020. 472 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC3655 G73 B87 - Open Shelf
This is the story of an ambitious boy from Loyal Hill, in the village of Summerville on the Avon River in Hants County, who became a respected figure in the business community. Hon. MacCallum Grant served as Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia from 1916 to 1925, the last Nova Scotian to be appointed to two full terms as the King's representative. He created a new standard for the occupants of the viceregal office, reaching out to minorities and utilizing his charm and humour to engage everyone he met. Presiding By Desire - Nova Scotia's Popular Lieutenant Governor: Hon. MacCallum Grant by Scott J. Burke chronicles Grant's activities as lieutenant governor, highlighting significant events during his eight years at Government House. His terms in office encompassed the First World War and the Halifax Explosion. He played host to famous visitors including the Prince of Wales, and travelled to Washington to meet a president at the White House. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Grant, MacCallum, 1845-1928
Lieutenant governors — Nova Scotia — Biography
Businessmen — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — History — 1867-1918
Nova Scotia — History — 1918-1945
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It Happened in Halifax & Halifax County : Joy—Sorrow—Heartbreak—Tragedy / researched by Linda Gray-LeBlanc. Halifax : Linda Gray-LeBlanc, 2022. 148 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2346.4 H35 T73 2022 v.2 - Open Shelf
Volume 2: documentation of more tragedies within the Halifax Regional municipality including disaster scenarios like fires, untimely deaths, and genealogical related materials. Index in the front of the book for easy searching.
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It Happened in Halifax & Halifax County : Joy—Sorrow—Heartbreak—Tragedy / researched by Linda Gray-LeBlanc. Halifax : Linda Gray-LeBlanc, 2022. 173 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.
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Volume 1: documentation of different tragedies within the Halifax Regional municipality including disaster scenarios like fires, untimely deaths, and genealogical related materials. Index in the front of the book for easy searching.
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Halifax WWII Heroes Remembered : Lest we Forget Those Brave Men and Women / by Linda Gray-LeBlanc. Halifax : Etc. Press Limited, 2015. 170 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2346.4 G778 W855 2015 - Open Shelf
Brief biographies of WWII soldiers from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Details including marital status, military status, and family lineages mostly from the Halifax Herald Limited. Second Volume.
World War, 1939-1945—Nova Scotia
World War, 1939-1945—Participation, Canadian
Halifax (N.S.)—Soldiers—Biography
Halifax (N.S.)—History, Military—20th century
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Titanic's Unknown Child / by Carol Goodwin. Whitewater, WI : Newcastle Lane Publishers, 2016. 162 pages : illustrations, portraits, charts ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 G66 2016
This work focuses on telling the story of an unknown child from the Titanic famously buried in Fairview Lawn Cemetery - later identified as Sidney Leslie Goodwin, Carol Goodwin's ancestor.
Goodwin family
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Sand Point Guysborough County Nova Scotia : 233 years of History (1784-2017) Including the Carrigan Descendants / compiled by Fraser West. Halifax : The Printing House Limited, 2018. 363 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2349 S26 G89 2018 - Open Shelf
History of the Sand Point, Guysborough Country area from 1784-2017 and the genealogy of the Carrigan Family descendants. Includes back index for quick searching.
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History — Guysborough County (N.S.)
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Dartmouth Memorial Gardens : A-L / complied by Linda Gray-LeBlanc. Halifax : Linda Gray-LeBlanc, 2014. 250 pages : colour illustrations; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS88 H173 D37 2014a - Open Shelf
Photographs, complied by Linda Gray-LeBlanc, of gravesites at the Dartmouth Memorial Gardens by surname from A-L. Includes an index in the back of the book; index directs the reader to which page each burial site is on by name of the person.
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Cemeteries — Dartmouth (N.S.)
Dartmouth (N.S.) — Genealogy
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Dartmouth Memorial Gardens : L-Z / compiled by Linda Gray-LeBlanc. Halifax : Linda Gray-LeBlanc, 2014. 243 pages (numbered 251-494) : Cemetery index : colour illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS88 H173 D37 2014b - Open Shelf
Photograph collection, complied by Linda Gray-LeBlanc, of gravesites at the Dartmouth Memorial Gardens by surname from L-Z. Includes an index in the back of the book; index directs the reader to which page each burial site is on by name of the person.
Cemeteries — Halifax County (N.S.)
Cemeteries — Dartmouth (N.S.)
Dartmouth (N.S.) — Genealogy
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Health Coalition of Nova Scotia
Report : Public Forum on Medicare / sponsored by the Health Coalition of Nova Scotia. Health Coalition of Nova Scotia, 1983. 263 pages : newspaper clippings, brochures, letters ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - R463 H43 M43 1983
Report from 1983 public forum meetings across Nova Scotia to discuss Medicare in Canada and it's future with the Health Coalition of Nova Scotia. Newspaper clippings, brochures, and letters from events are included among the meeting minutes and notes. Table of contents includes an Appendices section for the different towns that held meetings as well as for the financial report across the areas and brief area reports.
Public health — Halifax (N.S.)
Medicaid — Halifax (N.S.)
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Schooling in Guysborough County 1735-2016 / by John N. Grant. First edition Guysborough, NS : Guysborough Historical Society, 2019. v. 352 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 G98 G73 2019 - Open Shelf
The history of schooling reflects the impact of economic, political, military and other social forces on the local community. The history of schooling in Guysborough County covers almost 300 years. In 1735, there was one school in the County; in 1959, there were almost one hundred; in 2018, there were three. This is the story of what happened in between. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Education — Nova Scotia — Guysborough (County) — History
Public schools — Nova Scotia — Guysborough (County) — History
Guysborough (N.S. : County) — History
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Around the corner : homes and stories of the Barss Corner area, 1838-2018 / compiled by Marlean (Taylor) Rhodenizer. Revised second edition Barss Corner, NS : Marlean (Taylor) Rhodenizer, February 2019. 238 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2349 B37 R46 2019 - Open Shelf
Around the Corner: Homes and Stories of the Barss Corner Area 1838-2021 reflects extensive research into families in the communities of Barss Corner, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada. House information is included for the surrounding communities of Cornwall and Scarsdale, as well as selected homes in Farmington, NS. The information in this book was supported by Marlean’s daughter, Pat Rhodenizer, who researched land deeds going back to the original Crown Land Grants of the mid 1800s. Photos, home ownership from the 1800s to the present, and family stories have been compiled to create this 238-page history of the area.
Barss Corner (N.S.) — History
Barss Corner (N.S.) — Biography
Dwellings — Nova Scotia — Barss Corner
Barss Corner (N.S.) — Buildings, structures, etc.
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The Name of Horne : Jacob Horn and his Descendents / John Hawkins. Enfield, NS : John Hawkins, 2016. 64 pages including table of contents : illustrations; 21 cm.
view this publicationNova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.552 #4 - Vertical File
An interesting account of the life of Jacob Horn, one of the first citizens of Halifax, his business and military adventures and his final settlement at McNab's Island and Eastern Passage
Horn, Jacob, 1720-1821
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St. Thomas More Church : Dedicated in Faith / Margaret Fortier. Dartmouth : Published by St. Thomas More Parish Printed in Canada by Marquis Book Printing, 2012. 78 pages; colour illustrations; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - BX1424 C48 F67
Churches — Dartmouth (N.S.) — St. Thomas More Church
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First Aid to the Injured : the St. John Ambulance Association / by James Cantlie. London, UK : St. John Ambulance Association, 1915. 255 pages ; illustrations : 14 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RC87 F58 1915
First aid resource that includes a list of illustrations (diagrams for first aid reference) and index of terms for easy searching for a practice. Booklet is broken up into two sections: Main Pages numbered 1-215: illustrations, text, and index of terms relating to different medical conditions and first aid practices to follow. Back Pages numbered 1-40: St. John Ambulance Association general price list for equipment and resources from stretchers and textbooks for businesses/military to military, railway, and civilian first aid kits, with index list of prices and products.
First aid in illness and injury — Canada
First aid in illness and injury — Wounds and injuries
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Nova Scotia and the great influenza pandemic, 1918-1920 : a remembrance of the dead and an archive for the living / compiled and edited by Ruth Holmes Whitehead. Halifax, NS : Nimbus Publishing Limited, 2020. xvi, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RC150.55 C23 N86 2020
The definitive academic resource on the Great Influenza by celebrated historian behind Black Loyalists, in time for the pandemic's centenary. It could kill in as little as ten hours. Extremely high fever, bleeding from eyes, nose, and ears, terrible pain, especially in the head and the joints, delirium--and then its victims literally drowned in their own fluids. Fifty to 100 million people worldwide died in this global pandemic in the early twentieth century. The Great Influenza first entered Nova Scotia through ports. (Sydney, Cape Breton, received five hundred sick American troops in a single day.) For three years, the province coped with this vicious epidemic as it spread like wildfire. Local economies ceased functioning; fishing fleets, banks, and apple-canning factories reported all staff were suffering from the flu. The heart of this book, however, is its human element. Oral histories, family memoirs, newspaper articles, and provincial death records tell, county by county, stories of those who died. Accompanied by 20 photographs, Nova Scotia and the Great Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1920 chronicles both provincial and personal efforts to cope during this most perilous time. Includes bibliographical references.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 — Nova Scotia — Sources
Influenza — Patients — Nova Scotia — Biography — Sources
Nova Scotia — Biography — Sources
Nova Scotia — History — 20th century — Sources
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The History of Medicine in Nova Scotia from Confederation to Medicare : the Transition form Allopathic to Scientific Medicine / by Allan Everett Marble. Halifax, NS : Allan Everett Marble, 2022. 360 pages : illustrations : charts : 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - R463 N69 M361
Chronicle about the changes that have happened in health care within Nova Scotia through the years including the expansion of health care into rural communities, the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918, the Halifax Explosion of 1917, and deployed health professionals during war. Includes a bibliography and an index for easy searching at the back of the book.
Medicare — Nova Scotia
Medical Care — History — Nova Scotia
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Abraham Gesner : the lure of the rocks and a burning ambition / Elizabeth V. Haigh. Victoria, BC : Tellwell Talent, 2019. xi, 374 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QE22 G47 H35 2019
Debt and bad management drove Abraham Gesner off his farm in Nova Scotia's bucolic Annapolis Valley in 1825. It turned out to be a stroke of luck. While doing medical courses in London hospitals, he encountered the industrial revolution. Attending sundry lectures and demonstrations, he got his first whiff of the rapidly developing new sciences of chemistry, geology and natural history. He was hooked! Back home, traveling about the country visiting patients, he honed his observational skills, finally producing pioneering geological surveys of all three Maritime provinces. Imitating procedures which he had first observed while abroad, he experimented with "cracking" coal to generate the tars, oils and gases which fueled the industrial revolution. In the process, he produced "kerosene" - an illuminating gas and an oil - which revolutionized artificial lighting and generated much industry. Because he explored with native guides and advocated on their behalf, he served for a time as Indian Commissioner. An engaging lecturer, he addressed audiences on many scientific subjects and developed the region's first natural history museum; he wrote articles and books describing the region and extolling its potential for development. His final publication was a textbook of hydrocarbon chemistry. Local lawsuits over mining rights and patent infringements caused him to move to New York. Still more lawsuits drove him back to his native land where he died, shortly after being appointed to a coveted lectureship in Dalhousie University. Includes bibliographic references and index.
Gesner, Abraham, — 1797-1864
Geologists — Maritime Provinces — Biography
Inventors — Maritime Provinces — Biography
Natural history — Maritime Provinces
Mining leases — Maritime Provinces
Mines and mineral resources — Maritime Provinces — History
Mineral industries — Maritime Provinces — History
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Atlantic Canada's Greatest Storms / by Dan Soucoup; edited by Angela Mombourquette. Halifax, NS : Nimbus Publishing Limited, 2019. 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QC959 A85 S68 2019
Author Dan Soucoup takes readers from the eighteenth century to present day, detailing the blizzards, floods, tornadoes, and tsunamis that have brought havoc to the East Coast.
Storms — Atlantic Provinces — History
Storms — Nova Scotia — History
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Untitled / Marie-Therese McGuinness. 2nd edition Montreal, PQ : Quebecor World Inc., 2008. Unnumbered ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8575 S65 Z46 2008
Some background is provided on ancestors but it mostly is a biography for her and her immediate family.
Nova Scotia — Genealogy
Nova Scotia — History
McGuinness Family
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Poems and Lyrics by a Super-Centenarian : (I needed the quiet) / by St. Cécile-Marie, F. J. (Annie Adèle Samson) ; compiled by Garvie Samson. 4th edition Dartmouth, NS : Garvie Samson, 2018. 94 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8537 A46 A14 2018
Research, compilation and notes by Gervais (Garvie) Samson. St. Cécile-Marie, F.J. (Annie Adèle Samson) (1891-2004), Teacher and Poet. Celebrating 113 years and 9 months of service Includes bibliographical references.
Canadian poetry — Women authors
Canadian poetry — 21st century
Canadian poetry — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Poetry
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Canadian Authors Association Atlantic Branch
Atlantic Musings : A Tribute Anthology / compiled by the Canadian Authors Association Atlantic Branch. Halifax, NS : Atlantic, Canadian Authors, 2007. 112 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8329.5 A85 A84 2007
Compiled work from Canadian authors (poets, writers, and playwrights) written and compiled by members of the Canadian Author's Association Atlantic Branch. Completes the trilogy of anthologies from the CAA-Atlantic Branch - Atlantic Voices in 1994 and Atlantic Echoes in 1998.
Canadian poetry — Nova Scotia
Canadian fiction — Nova Scotia
Canadian poetry — 20th century
Canadian fiction — 20th century
Nova Scotia — History
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Silver Hair and Golden Voice Austin Willis : from Halifax to Hollywood Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 2020. 163 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PN1998.2 D535 2020
Follows the life and career of Austin Willis, actor known for CBC's Space Command and Goldfinger as told to Ernest Dick. Foreword by Costas Halavrezos.
Willis, Austin
Motion picture actors and actresses — Canada — Biography
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Cartoons by Chambers Published During the Past Year in the Chronicle-Herald and the Mail-Star 1967 / by Robert Chambers. Halifax : McCurdy Print Co., 1967. 68 pages : illustrations ; 18 x 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NC1449 C45 A45 1967
Political Cartoons from the Chronicle-Herald and the Mail-Star by Robert Chambers from 1967.
Political cartoons — Canada
Caricatures and cartoons — Canada
Canada — Politics and government — Humor
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Cartoons by Chambers Published During the Past Year in the Chronicle-Herald and the Mail-Star 1966 / by Robert Chambers. Halifax : McCurdy Print. Co., 1966. 74 pages : illustrated ; 18 x 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NC1449 C45 A45 1966
Political Cartoons from the Chronicle-Herald and the Mail-Star by Robert Chambers from 1966.
Political cartoons — Canada
Caricatures and cartoons — Canada
Canada — Politics and government — Humor
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Garrison Graveyard : grave markers & inscriptions / Denise J. Rice. Bridgetown, NS : Integrity Printing, 2018. 1 v. (unpaged) : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NB1880 C2 R53 2018
Errors and omissions sheet included. Includes index.
Cemeteries — Nova Scotia — Annapolis Royal — History
Sepulchral monuments — Nova Scotia — Annapolis Royal — History
Stone carving — Nova Scotia — Annapolis Royal — History
Annapolis Royal (N.S.) — History
Fort Anne National Historic Site (Annapolis Royal, N.S.) — History
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