The age of sail : master shipbuilders of the Maritimes / Stanley T. Spicer. Halifax : Formac, 2001. 144 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 21 x 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM27 M37 S59 2001
Includes index.
Shipbuilding — History — 19th century. — Maritime Provinces
Sailing ships — History — 19th century. — Maritime Provinces
Shipbuilding industry — History — 19th century. — Maritime Provinces
Maritime Province
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Masters of sail : the era of square-rigged vessels in the Maritime Provinces / by Stanley T. Spicer. Halifax : Petheric Press, 1982, 1968. 278 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM27 M34 S75 1981
Includes index. Co-published by Nova Scotia Museum.
Shipbuilding — Maritime Provinces — History
Sailing — Maritime Provinces — History.
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Volumes not values : Canadian sailing ships and world trades : proceedings of the third conference of the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project, April 19-April 21 1979 / edited by David Alexander, Rosemary Ommer. St. John's : Maritime History Group, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1979. 373 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM27 A881 V943
Alexander, David, 1939-
Ommer, Rosemary.
Atlantic Canada Shipping Project.
Shipping — Canada — History — Congresses
Shipping — Atlantic Ocean — History — Congresses
Commerce — History — Congresses.
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The ships of Canada's marine services / Charles D. Maginley and Bernard Collin. St. Catharines, ON. : Vanwell Publishing, 2001. 288 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM26 M33 2001
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Come quick, danger : a history of marine radio in Canada / Stephan Dubreuil. Ottawa : Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Coast Guard, 1998. ix, 136 pages, [52] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK397 D82 1998
Issued also in French under title: CQD, toujours áa l'âecoute. Distributed by the Government of Canada Depository Services Program.
Radio — Canada — Installation on ships — History
Radio operators — Canada — History.
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Tidewrack : neglected facts and intriguing stories from the age of the wooden ships / by R.J. Cunningham. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1994. 210 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK26 C85 1994
Ships, Wooden — Atlantic Provinces — History
Navigation — Atlantic Provinces — History.
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The way of a ship : being some account of the ultimate development of the ocean-going square-rigged sailing vessel, and the manner of her handling, her voyage-making, her personnel, her economics, her performance, and her end / by Alan Villiers ; illustrated with the author's photographs, and diagrams and drawings by Harold A. Underhill. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. xiv, 428 pages : illus., charts, ports.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK18 V5 1953
Sailing ships
Shipping — History.
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Between France and New France : life aboard the tall sailing ships / Gilles Proulx. Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1984. 173 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK18 P7613 1984
Published by Dundurn Press Limited in co-operation with Parks Canada and the Canadian Government Publishing Centre, Supply and Services Canada.
Sailing — North Atlantic Ocean — History — 18th century
Ocean travel — History — 18th century
Sailing ships — Canada — History — 18th century
Sailing ships — France — History — 18th century
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Jack Tar in history : essays in the history of maritime life and labour / edited by Colin Howell and Richard J. Twomey. Fredericton, N.B. : Acadiensis Press, 1991. 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK18 J32 1991
Howell, Colin D., 1944-
Twomey, Richard J.
Seamen — History
Seafaring life — History.
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Sable Island : journals 1801-1804 / James Rainstorpe Morris ; transcribed by Rosalee Stilwell. Halifax : Sable Island Preservation Trust, 2001. x, 166 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1430 M876 M876 2001
Morris, James Rainstorpe, — 1750-1809 — Diaries.
Lifesaving stations — Nova Scotia — Sable Island — History — 19th century
Sable Island (N.S.) — History — 19th century.
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Titanic : the Great Lakes connection / Cris Kohl. 1st ed. West Chicago, Ill. : Seawolf Communications, 2000. 319 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 K64 2000
Shipwrecks — North Atlantic Ocean — History.
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Titanic victims in Halifax graveyards / Blair Beed. Halifax : DTours Visitors and Convention Service, 2001. xiv, 161 pages : illustrations ; 19 x 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 B44 2001
Cemeteries — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Shipwrecks — North Atlantic Ocean
Halifax (N.S.) — History.
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To Find but a Grave : the Wreck of the Miracle / Byron Clark. Grosse Ile, Magdalen Islands, Québec : Byron Clark, 2015. 85 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 M57 C53 2015
Includes bibliographical references: pages 83-85.
Miracle (Ship)
Shipwrecks — Québec (Province) — Îles-de-la-Madeleine
Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine (Québec) — History — 19th century
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Falling star : misadventures of White Star Line ships / John P. Eaton & Charles A. Haas. Wellingborough : Stephens, 1989. 256 pages : illustrations, maps, ports., facsims. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1250 E14
Steamboat lines — History
Shipwrecks
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The armed yachts of Canada / Fraser McKee. Erin, ON. : Boston Mills Press, 1983. 172 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VA400 M44 1983
Includes index.
Yachts and yachting — Canada — History — 20th century.
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The ships of Canada's naval forces 1910-1981 : a complete pictorial history of Canadian warships / Ken Macpherson, John Burgess ; forward by H.F. Pullen. Toronto : Collins, 1981. 240 pages : illustrations ; 36 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S VA400 M172 - Oversize
Includes index.
Warships — Canada — History — 20th century.
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The Bonnie, HMCS Bonaventure / by J. Allan Snowie ; foreword by J.C. Scruffy O'Brien. Erin, ON. : Boston Mills Press, 1987. 336 pages : illustrations (some col.), ports. ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V874.5 C3 S66 1987
Ports. on lining papers.
Aircraft carriers — Canada — History
Ship captains — Canada — Biography.
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With many voices : memoirs of a sailor / Jeffry V. Brock. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1981-. 2 v. : port. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V64 C22 B864
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian
Korean War, 1950-1953 — Naval operations
Admirals — Canada — Biography
Canada — History, Naval.
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Knots, volts and decibels : an informal history of the Naval Research Establishment, 1940-1967 Dartmouth : Defence Research Establishment Atlantic, 1993. 113 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V395 C3 L63 1993
Defence Research Establishment Atlantic.
Naval research — History — Canada.
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Maritime Museum of Canada (N.S.)
Occasional papers Halifax : The Museum, 1958-. 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V13
... historical sketches on maritime subjects of importance to the nation.
Naval art and science — History
Canada — History, Naval
Canada — History — Periodicals
Canada — History — Sources
Halifax (N.S.) — History — Periodicals.
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RCAF : squadron histories and aircraft, 1924-1968 / Samuel Kostenuk, John Griffin. Toronto : Sarasota : Hakkert ; Stevens, 1977. xix, 255 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UG635 C212 K86
Includes indexes.
Griffin, J. A. (John A.), 1922-, jt. auth.
Airplanes, Military — Canada — History
Aeronautics, Military — Canada — History
Airplanes, Military — History.
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The Barrington Passage wireless station / Michael Christie. Yarmouth : Michael Christie, 2002. 152 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UG605 C3 C49 2002
Radio operators — Nova Scotia — Barrington Passage
Telegraph, Wireless — Nova Scotia — Barrington Passage
Barrington Passage (N.S.) — History.
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Substance and practice : building technology and the Royal Engineers in Canada / Elizabeth Vincent. Ottawa : National Historic Sites, Parks Service, Environment Canada, 1993. 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UG413 V768 1993
Issued also in French in title: Le Génie royal au Canada, matériaux et techniques de construction.
Canadian Parks Service. National Historic Sites.
Building materials — Canada — History — 19th century
Canada — History, Military — 19th century.
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Perseverance : the Canadian Sea King Story / John L. Orr. Shearwater : Sea King 50th Anniversary Committee, 2013. 331 pages ; 23 cm and 1 DVD.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UG1235 C3 O77 2013
The Canadian Sea King helicopter has served Canada and Canadians with distinction since its arrival in Shearwater, Nova Scotia on 1 August 1963. Includes bibliographical references. Includes DVD containing a Microsoft Word document containing 16 pages of photographs (some in colour), two photographs per page.
Sea King 50th Anniversary Committee
Canada — Canadian Armed Forces — History — 20th century
Sea King (Helicopter)
Military helicopters — Canada — History — 20th century
Flight crews — Canada — History — 20th century
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British smooth-bore artillery : a technological study to support identification, acquisition, restoration, reproduction, and interpretation of artillery at national historic parks in Canada / David McConnell. Ottawa : National Historic Parks and Sites, Environment Canada, Parks, 1988. 595 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UF57 M35 1988
Issued also in French under title: L'artillerie lisse britannique.
Canadian Parks Service. National Historic Parks and Sites.
Artillery — Great Britain — History
Artillery — Canada — History
Historic sites — Interpretive programs — Canada.
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