Enriched by Catastrophe : social work and social conflict after the Halifax Explosion / Michelle Hébert Boyd. Black Point : Fernwood Publishing, 2007. viii, 134 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HV40.8 C3 H43 2006
Focusing on the days and months following the Halifax explosion of 1917, this study takes a look at the role of social workers in the wake of the disaster, as well as the class relations of the time. Exhaustively researched, this history clearly identifies the direct correlation between many of today's inherited social-work practices and attitudes with the social climate of that early relief effort. Marking the transition from charity work--where traditionally well-off volunteers passed judgment on their poorer neighbors — to professional social care, this analysis reflects on the lessons learned when newly arrived workers had to navigate the prevailing class structures while attempting to rebuild the lives of the Haligonians. Includes bibliographical references pages 125-130 and index.
Social service — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History — 20th century
Social workers — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History — 20th century
Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917
Social classes — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History — 20th century
Halifax (N.S.) — Social conditions — 20th century
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Reading hands : the Halifax School for the Blind / Shirley J. Trites. Halifax : Vision Press, 2003. 224 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HV1810 H132 T839 2003
Blind — Education — Nova Scotia — History.
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The story of the Maritime School of Social Work, 1941-1969 / Lawrence T. Hancock. Halifax : The Maritime School of Social Work, 1992. x, 278 pages : illustrations, port.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HV11 H36 1992
Maritime School of Social Work.
Social work education — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History.
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Development of Social Welfare in Nova Scotia / written by Stan Fitzner as a Centennial Project for the Department of Public Welfare. Halifax : Department of Public Welfare, 1967. 67 pages.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HV109 N93 F55
Bibliography pages 68-69.
Nova Scotia. Department of Public Welfare
Public welfare — History — Nova Scotia
Social service — History — Nova Scotia
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Poverty, poor houses and private philanthropy Halifax : Senior Scribes of Nova Scotia, 1996. 199 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HV109 N64 P68 1996
A New Horizons Project, Health Promotion and Programs Branch, Health Canada. A project of the Senior Scribes of Nova Scotia--pages [2].
New Horizons (Canada)
Senior Scribes of Nova Scotia.
Charities — Nova Scotia — History
Public welfare — Nova Scotia — History
Asylums — Nova Scotia — History
Almshouses — Nova Scotia — History.
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Common ground : 25 years of Voluntary Planning in Nova Scotia / Anthony Lamport. Halifax : Voluntary Planning Board, 1988. xi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HT395 C32 N6 1988
Nova Scotia. Voluntary Planning Board.
Regional planning — Nova Scotia — History
Planning — Nova Scotia — History.
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Mothers of the municipality : women, work and social policy in post-1945 Halifax / edited by Judith Fingard and Janet Guildford. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2005. viii, 318 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations, ports. ; 2
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HQ1460 H173 M918 2005
Fingard, Judith, 1943-
Guildford, Janet, 1946-
Women in community organization — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History — 20th century
Women volunteers in social science — Nova Scotia — Haifax — History — 20th century
Halifax (N.S.) — Social policy.
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Female reformers in Victorian Nova Scotia: architects of new womanhood / Michael J. Smith. Halifax : 1986. [v], 186 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HQ1459 N935 S655
Feminism — Nova Scotia — 19th century
Women — History — 19th century
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Se marier en Acadie française : XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles / Jacques Vanderlinden. Moncton : Éditions d'Acadie : Université de Moncton, Chaire d'études acadiennes, 1998. 264 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HQ1017 V36 1998
Includes index
Université de Moncton. Chaire d'études acadiennes
Acadians — Nova Scotia — Social life and customs
Marriage — Nova Scotia — History
Antenuptial contracts — Nova Scotia
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The trade of trades : fire insurance in Nova Scotia, 1805-1885 / by B.E.S. Rudachyk. Kingston, ON. : Queen's University, 1992. 2 v., xiv, 798 pages : ills., graphs, charts ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HG9781 N935 R913 1992
Insurance, Fire — Nova Scotia — History — 19th century
Insurance, Fire — Halifax (N.S.) — History — 19th century.
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Halifax Farmers Market : chasing the dawn / City Market of Halifax Cooperative Limited ; edited by Fred Kilcup. Halifax : City Market of Halifax Cooperative Limited, 1998. 142 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HF5471 C22 H34 1998
City Market of Halifax Cooperative Limited.
Farmers' markets — History — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Markets — History — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Halifax (N.S.) — History.
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West Nova Ships and their men : the Cann boats / by G.B. Cann. Sarnia, ON : C Branches, 2002. xiv, 365 pages : illustrations, maps, ports. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HE945 C224 2002
Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references: pages 340-343.
Boats and boating — Nova Scotia — History
Ships — Nova Scotia — History.
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Nova Scotian postal history / by L.B. Macpherson. Halifax : Petheric Press, 1982-. ill. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HE6656 N935 M172
Volume 1 has spine title: Nova Scotian post offices.
Postal service — Nova Scotia — History.
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The Nova Scotia post : its offices, masters and marks, 1700-1867 / by J.J. MacDonald ; production editor, Don Wainwright. Toronto : Unitrade Press, 1985. iv, 295 pages : illustrations, maps
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HE6656 N8 M23 1984
Postal service — Nova Scotia — History
Postmarks — Nova Scotia
Postal service — Nova Scotia — Postmasters
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Nova Scotia's Spencer's Island Company, 1880-1895 : a case study in post-Confederation entrepreneurial success / by David R. Stanley. Halifax : Dalhousie University, 2008. xiv, 240 pages : illustrations (some col.) , maps ; 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HE635 Z9 S745 2008
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 224-240.
Shipbuilding industry — Nova Scotia — History — 1867-1918
Nova Scotia — Economic conditions — 1867-1918.
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Nova Scotia's historic rivers: the waterways that shaped the province / Joan Dawson. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 2012. x, 188 pages; illustrations; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HE635 Z7 N935 2012
Includes bibliographical references.
Inland navigation — Nova Scotia — History
Inland water transportation — Nova Scotia — History
Rivers — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — History.
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Like a weaver's shuttle : a history of the Halifax-Dartmouth ferries / Joan M. and Lewis J. Payzant. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 1979. 214 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 x 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HE5785 P347
Ferries — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History
Dartmouth, N.S. — Ferries — History.
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We love to ride the ferry: 250 years of Halifax-Dartmouth ferry crossings / Joan Payzant. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 2002. viii, 132 pages: illustrations, maps, ports.; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HE5785 H173 P347 2002
Ferries — Nova Scotia — Halifax Metropolitan Area — History.
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Farquhar's luck / James A. Farquhar. 1st ed. Halifax : Petheric Press, 1980. 188 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HE569 F238
Shipping — Nova Scotia — History — 19th century
Seafaring life — Nova Scotia — History — 19th century
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Biography
Businessmen — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia –
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The origin and development of Colchester roads to 1900 / by Bradford G. Yuill. Truro : Colchester Historical Museum, 1981. 19, [7] pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HE357.4 C687 Y94
Roads — Nova Scotia — Colchester (County) — History.
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Tracks across the landscape : the S&L commemorative history / Brian Campbell ; with A.J.B. Johnston. Sydney : University College of Cape Breton Press, 1995. 110 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HE2810 S93 C36 1995
Railroads — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — History.
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A line through the hills: how the Intercolonial Railway crossed Nova Scotia's Cobequid Mountains / by Jay Underwood. Lantz : Pennydreadful Publishing, 2010. 137 pages: illustrations (some col.), maps, ports.; 21 x 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HE2810 I6 U56 2011
Includes bibliographical references.
Railroads — Nova Scotia — Cobequid Mountains — Design and construction — History.
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The Dominion Atlantic Railway : 1894-1994 / Gary W. Ness. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 2014. xi, 179 pages : illustrations ; 20 x 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HE2810 D7 N48 2014
Series: Images of our Past. For a hundred years (1894-1994), the Dominion Atlantic Railway served the people of western Nova Scotia — from Yarmouth to Halifax — faithfully. Gary Ness traces the history of the line through gorgeous photographs and fascinating stories from the people who worked along the route and the passengers who used the trains to travel through the heart of the Annapolis Valley. Includes over 150 black and white photos. Gary Ness's fascination with trains started in childhood, but it was in 1976 when he found an intriguing 1940s era photograph that he became a train photographer and author. Based on his collection of old photos and stories, he has written books about the Dominion Atlantic Railway and about the Canadian, CPR's famous passenger train. His photographs are found in many personal collections, and his photo essays have been published in several national railway periodicals. In 1988 he published the two-volume book 'Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway. Includes bibliographical references.
Dominion Atlantic Railway — History
Dominion Atlantic Railway — History — Pictorial works
Canadian Pacific Railway Company — History
Railroads — Nova Scotia — Annapolis River Valley — History
Railroads — Nova Scotia — Annapolis River Valley — History — Pictorial works
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Cape Breton railways: an illustrated history / Herb MacDonald. Sydney : Cape Breton University Press, 2012. 264 pages: illustrations; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HE2809 N935 M135 2012
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Railroads — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — History — Pictorial works
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History — Pictorial works.
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Kings of the iron road / Jay Underwood. Lantz : Pennydreadful Publishing, 2010-. v.: illustrations, ports.; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HE2808.1 U56 2010
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Railroads — Nova Scotia — History
Railroads — Nova Scotia — Employees — Biography
Locomotive engineers — Nova Scotia — Biography.
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