The historical geography of agriculture in Nova Scotia, 1851-1951 / Robert Alexander MacKinnon. British Columbia : the Author, 1991. xii, 306 pages, maps, graphs.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - S451.5 N6 M35 1991
Agriculture — Nova Scotia — History
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Dispensing Aid : Druggists and the Halifax Explosion / Mary E. MacCara. Tantallon : Glen Margaret Publishing, 2017. x, 116 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RS676 C32 H17 2017
Pharmacists gave first aid to the injured who came to drugs stores seeking care almost immediately following one of the worst disasters in Canadian history, the Halifax Explosion. ispensing Aid tells the stories of these druggists, the care they provided, the narrow escapes and the unexpected roles they played. The common medications of a hundred years ago are identified and their usage described, using actual cases from doctors' records. A unique perspective of an unforgettable time in Halifax's history. Mary MacCara is a pharmacist who recently retired from a 34-year career as a faculty member of the Dalhousie University College of Pharmacy. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917
Explosions — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Pharmacists — Nova Scotia — Halifax — Biography
Pharmacy — Nova Scotia — History — 20th century
Disaster medicine — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History — 20th century
Disaster relief — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History — 20th century
Disasters — Nova Scotia — Halifax — Medical aspects — History — 20th century
Drugs — Nova Scotia — History — 20th century
Medical supplies — Nova Scotia — History — 20th century
Medical care — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History — 20th century
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A History of the County of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia / by J.R. Campbell. Belleville, ON. : Mika Studio, 1972. xvi, 200 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F106 Y2 C26 1972 - Open Shelf
Yarmouth (N.S. : County) — History
Nova Scotia — History
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Dalhousie's Department of Psychiatry : a historical retrospective / Patrick Flynn, editor. Halifax : Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, 1999. [22], 455 pages : ports.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RC459.5 C2 D34 1999
Includes index. 50th anniversary, 1949-1999 - cover.
Dalhousie University. Dept. of Psychiatry
Psychiatry — Study and teaching (Higher) — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History
Psychiatry — History — Nova Scotia
Psychiatry — Education — Nova Scotia
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Thine own keeper : life at the Nova Scotia Sanatorium, 1904-1977 / Donald F. Ripley. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1992. 179 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RC312 R589 N935
Tuberculosis — Hospitals — Nova Scotia — Kentville — History
Tuberculosis — Patients — Nova Scotia — Kentville.
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The Provincial and City Hospital in Halifax : a Victorian refuge for the poor and destitute / by Stephanie McKinstry. Halifax : The Author, 1998. 72 pages ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RA983 H3 P766 1998
Poor — Hospital care — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History
Hospitals — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History
Halifax (N.S.) — Social policy — History.
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Protect, befriend, respect : Nova Scotia's mental health movement, 1908-2008 / Judith Fingard and John Rutherford. Black Point : Fernwood, 2008. x, 157 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RA790.7 C212 F497 2008
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Canadian Mental Health Association
Mental health policy — Nova Scotia — History
Mental health services — Nova Scotia — History.
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Quarantine, what is old is new : Halifax and the Lawlor's Island Quarantine Station, 1866-1938 / Ian Arthur Cameron, author ; Francis G. Mitchell, editor ; Mary Jo Anderson, editor. Halifax : New World Publishing, 2007. 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RA671 C182 2007
Includes bibliographical references, resource lists and index.
Quarantine — Nova Scotia — Lawlor's Island — History
Communicable diseases — Hospitals — Nova Scotia — Lawlor's Island — History
Public health — Nova Scotia — History
Lawlor's Island (N.S.) — History
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Comfort, care and cures : doctors and dentists of Shelburne County, 1765-1965 / compiled by Karen Grovestine Powell ; edited by Kim Robertson Walker. Shelburne : Shelburne County Archives and Genealogical Society, 2011. vi, 124 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - R464 A1 G884 2011
Dentists — Nova Scotia — Shelburne (County) — Biography
Physicians — Nova Scotia — Shelburne (County) — Biography
Shelburne (N.S. : County) — Genealogy
Shelburne (N.S. : County) — History
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Physicians, pestilence, and the poor : a history of medicine and social conditions in Nova Scotia, 1800-1867 / Allan E. Marble. Victoria, BC : Trafford, 2006. xx, 534 pages : illustrations, maps, ports. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - R463 N935 M312 2006
Medicine — Nova Scotia — History — 19th century
Medical care — Nova Scotia — History — 19th century
Social medicine — Nova Scotia — History — 19th century
Medical policy — Nova Scotia — History
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Surgeons, smallpox and the poor : a history of medicine and social conditions in Nova Scotia, 1749-1799 / Allan E. Marble. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993. xvi, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - R463 N68 M37 1993
Medical care — Nova Scotia — History — 18th century
Medicine — Nova Scotia — History — 18th century
Nova Scotia — Social conditions — To 1867
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Health, disease and medicine in a nineteenth century community: a case study in Cape Breton Island the Author, 1989. iii, 194 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - R461 C237 M431
Public health — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — History
Public health — Highlands (Scotland) — History
Scots — Highlands (Scotland) — Health and hygiene — History
Social medicine — Highlands (Scotland)
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The Development of a permanent public health care system in industrial Cape Breton Halifax : Saint Mary's University, 1991-. [160] pages : illustrations, ports. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - R461 C237 M156
Public health — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — History
Medical care — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — History
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Challenge & response : a history of wildlife and wildlife management in Nova Scotia / Donald Dodds. Halifax : Department of Natural Resources, 1993. vii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QL84.2 N68 D62 1993
Nova Scotia. Dept. of Natural Resources.
Wildlife conservation — Nova Scotia — History
Natural resources — Nova Scotia
Wildlife management — Nova Scotia — History
Wildlife conservation — Government policy — Nova Scotia — History
Wildlife conservati
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Halifax Field Naturalists newsletter Halifax : Halifax Field Naturalists, 1975-. ill. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QH106.5 H173
Natural history — Nova Scotia — Periodicals.
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Natural history of Nova Scotia / editors: Derek S. Davis, Sue Browne. Rev. ed. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1996. 2 v. : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QH106.2 N68 N27 1997
Originally published in 1984 as a joint project of the Department of Lands and Forests (now the Department of Natural Resources and the Nova Scotia Museum--T.pages verso. Produced by the Nova Scotia Museum in partnership with Communications Nova Scotia ... Co-published with Nimbus Publishing--T.pages verso. ... divided into three main parts, contained in two volumes--pages xi. Includes index.
Natural history — Nova Scotia
Geology — Nova Scotia
Forests and forestry — Nova Scotia
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The old place : a natural history of a country garden / Merritt Gibson ; with illustrations by Twila Robar-DeCoste. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1997. 217 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QH106.2 N68 G53 1997
Biotic communities — Nova Scotia — Canning
Birds — Nova Scotia — Canning — Identification
Mammals — Nova Scotia — Canning — Identification
Natural history — Nova Scotia — Canning
Plants — Nova
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A naturalist's notebook : Yarmouth County / C.R.K. Allen. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 1987. 120 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QH106.2 N68 A44
Natural history — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth (County) — Guide-books
Yarmouth (N.S. : County) — Description and travel — Guide-books.
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Dancing on the shore : a celebration of life at Annapolis Basin / Harold Horwood ; with a foreword by Farley Mowat. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1987. 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QH106.2 N62 H67
A Douglas Gibson book.
Natural history — Nova Scotia — Annapolis Basin
Philosophy of nature.
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Maritime Resource Management Service (Canada)
Natural history of Nova Scotia: Working drafting / prepared by Maritime Resource Management Service and Griffithe - Muecke Associates; prepared for Parks and Recreation Division, Division of Lands and Forests, and Nova Scotia Museum. Dept. of Education. Halifax- : Queen's Printer- 1983. 2 v. (xvi, 282; 20 pages) : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QH106.2 N6 M298
Natural history — Nova Scotia
Geology — Nova Scotia
Forests and forestry — Nova Scotia
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Winter nature notes for Nova Scotians / by Merritt A. Gibson ; illustration by Twila L. Robar. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1980. 206 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QH106 G514 1988
Map on pages [3] of cover. Includes index.
Natural history — Nova Scotia
Birds — Nova Scotia — Identification
Mammals — Nova Scotia — Identification
Trees in winter — Identification.
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Gold in Nova Scotia : a bibliography of the geology, and exploration and mining histories from 1832-1986 / Janet Gillespie-Wood. Halifax : Nova Scotia, Department of Mines and Energy, 1987. xvi, 483 pages : map ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QE190 A5 M87-2
Includes indexes.
Nova Scotia. Dept. of Mines and Energy.
Gold mines and mining — Nova Scotia — History — Bibliography
Gold — Nova Scotia — Bibliography.
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The Pictou coalfield, Nova Scotia Ottawa. Department of Mines and Resources, 1940. 160 pages, 10 plates, 2 maps in back pocket
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QE185 A2 #225
Geology — Nova Scotia — Pictou County
Coal mines and mining — Nova Scotia — Pictou (County) — History
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Away to Fundy Bay / Katherine McGlade Marko. New York : Walker, 1985. 145 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PZ7 M3397 AW
Nova Scotia — History — 1775-1783 — Juvenile fiction
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Juvenile fiction.
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The Book of Negroes / Lawrence Hill. Illustrated edition Toronto : HarperCollins Canada, 2009. 544 pages.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8565 I444 B66 2009
Slavery — Fiction
Slaves — United States — Fiction
African American loyalists — Fiction
Black loyalists — Nova Scotia — Fiction
African American loyalists — Sierra Leone — Fiction
Antislavery movements — Great Britain — Fiction
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Fiction
Historical fiction
Canadian fiction
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