First hand account of the start of the relief effort. Descriptions of the devastation to the people, the communities/infrastructure.

Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917
Nova Scotia — History

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Inner Title: A Mother in Israel - Sketch of the Late Mrs. D.B. Blair. Small memoriam for the death of Mrs. D.B. Blair (maiden name: Mary Sibella McLean) of Pictou, Nova Scotia in June of 1882. Contains small biographical sketch of Mrs. Blair and elegy in English and Scottish Gaelic. No author recorded - assumed production by surviving husband of Mrs. Blair

Scottish Gaelic language — Nova Scotia
History — Nova Scotia

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Documents some of the earliest Churchill family memorials, history, and explores the Churchill family line.

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
Prime Ministers — Great Britain
Great Britain — History

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Pamphlet program for the Academy of Music in 1910 play 'The Old Homestead' October 6th, 1910.

Performing Arts — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — History

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A brief history of the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) and the women who run the organization. Outlines the individual and group responsibilities and accomplishments for about 70 years from 1948-2015.

Canadian Federation of University Women — Nova Scotia — Dartmouth — History
Women — Canada — Societies and clubs — History
Women — Nova Scotia — Dartmouth — Societies and clubs — History
Women — Nova Scotia

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By WM. C. Mosher P.M. Historian. With thanks to Rev. T. W. Hodgson's History and Bro. E. L. Eaton for his notes on important eventsIncludes list of Masters of Scotia Lodge.

Freemasonry — Lodges — History
Scotia Lodge — History

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Small selection of sketches by Appleton of ships that have all played some role in the history of Halifax.

Halifax (N.S.) — Navigation — History
Halifax Harbour (N.S.)

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Small booklet with no identified author, publisher or date. Possibly from the 1980-90s.

Police — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History

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Photocopy of a collection of student essays. Listed illustration not included.

Bridgeville (N.S) — History

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The story of Dorothy May Collins' and her family's experience during and after the Halifax Explosion in 1917.

Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917
Explosions — Nova Scotia
History — Nova Scotia

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Brief history on the Militia Units in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia from 1812-1947.

History — Yarmouth (N.S.)
Military history

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Programme and Historical book for the Seventy-Fourth Annual Session of the Independent Order of Oddfellows at the Grand Lodge.

Independent Order of Odd Fellows — Rituals
Nova Scotia — History

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Souvenir Programme for the Bridgewater Memorial Arena's official opening on Friday, December 1, 1950.

History — Bridgewater (N.S.)
Skating rinks — Bridgewater (N.S.)

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Schools — History
Schools — Nova Scotia

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Continuation of 'Chronicles of Another Era'

Annapolis (N.S. : County) — Anecdotes
Annapolis (N.S. : County) — History — 20th century

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This book documents the beautiful Tall Ship Bluenose, now a sailing ambassador for the province of Nova Scotia, and tells the dramatic story of the battles and triumphs of original Bluenose. The original Bluenose, built in Lunenburg and launched in 1921, was designed to combine a career as a racing ship with the working role fishing the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. Its captain, Angus Walters, took Bluenose to five international sailing races, and was undefeated for seventeen years. By the 1930s, the vessel's achievements made it an icon for Nova Scotia and an important Canadian symbol. The newly-restored replica, the Bluenose II, represents the wooden shipbuilding achievements and the dory-based cod fishery traditions of Nova Scotia. This book offers an interpretive guide of the ship and its complex traditional equipment. It also tells the story of the original Bluenose, with many historic photographs of the ship and its crew aboard the most famous Tall Ship in Canada in this souvenir of a vessel whose history and allure continues to captivate to this day. Includes index.

Bluenose II (Schooner) — History
Bluenose (Schooner) — History

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French magazine that has an article about the Halifax Explosion ; article titled "La Grande Explosion de Halifax" by Pol Corvez (pages 60-73). The remaining articles are nautical in theme and cover different geographic areas.

Chasse-Marée

Halifax (N.S.)—History—Explosion, 1917
20th Century — History — Halifax (N.S.)

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The story of Captain James Leander Publicover, owner and ship captain at J.L. Publicover Shipping Company, and chronicles how he and his family would work and travel the seas together.

J.L. Publicover Shipping Co. — History
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Biography
Sailing ships — Nova Scotia — History
Seafaring life — Nova Scotia — History
Publicover, James Leander, 1877-1960

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Pages 1-22: brief introduction with basic information on rug hooking and key figured in rug hooking in Nova Scotia and the Garrett Catalogue of patterns for rug hooking. Pages 23-118: patterns from the Garrett's catalogue "early times to 1974". See also: TT850 R93 1995 (reprint)

Wright, Doreen

John E. Garrett Limited — History
Rugs, Hooked — Nova Scotia — History
Folk art — Nova Scotia

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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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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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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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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.

Mombourquette, Angela

Storms — Atlantic Provinces — History
Storms — Nova Scotia — History

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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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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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