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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Three thousand years of mental healing / by George Barton Cutten. New York : Scribner's, 1911. viii, 318 pages, [9] pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RZ400 C88 1911
Library's copy signed by author.
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The Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada : 50th anniversary 1897-1947 / John Murray Gibbon. Canada : The Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, 1947. [vii], 124 pages, [30] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RT6 G54 1947
Nursing — Canada — History
Nurses.
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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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Transfusion : a Canadian surgeon's story in war and in peace / by Norman Miles Guiou. Yarmouth : Stoneycroft Publishing, 1985. vii, 145 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RM62 G964 1985
Includes index.
Surgeons — Canada — Biography
Blood — Transfusion — History
World War, 1914-1918 — Medical care.
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History of the County of Annapolis / by W.A. Calnek. Belleville, ON. : Mika Studio, 1972. xxii, 660 pages, 19 pages of plates : illustrations, genealog
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F106 AN7 C1 1972 - Open Shelf
Original t.pages reads: History of the County of Annapolis, including old Port Royal and Acadia, with memoirs of its representatives in the provincial parliament, and biographical and genealogical sketches of its early English settlers and their families. By the late W.A. Calnek. Edited and completed by A.W. Savary. With portraits and illustrations. Toronto, William Briggs, 1897. Includes index.
Annapolis (N.S. : County) — History
Annapolis (N.S. : County) — Genealogy.
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History of the County of Annapolis supplement/ / by A.W. Savary. Belleville, ON. : Mika Publishing, 1973. xv, 142 pages, [10] l. of plates (7 fold.): fold. map
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F106 AN7 C1 sup. - Open Shelf
Original t.pages reads: Supplement to the History of the County of Annapolis [by W.A. Calnek], correcting and supplying omissions in the original volume, by A.W. Savary. Toronto, W. Briggs, 1913.
Annapolis (N.S. : County) — History
Annapolis (N.S. : County) — Genealogy
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Historical and genealogical record of the first settlers of Colchester County : down to the present time, compiled from the most authentic sources / by Thomas Miller. reprint edition Belleville, ON : Mika Publishing, 1972. 400 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F106 C6 M6 1972 - Open Shelf
Reprint of 1873 edition published by A. & W. Mackinlay, Halifax, N.S. Includes index.
Colchester (N.S. : County) — History
Colchester (N.S. : County) — Genealogy — Indexes
Colchester (N.S. : County) — Genealogy
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The History of Queens County, N.S. / by James F. More. Facsim. ed. Belleville, ON. : Mika Studio, 1972. iv, 250 pages ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F106 Q3 F106 1972 - Open Shelf
Queens (N.S. : County) — History
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A History of the County of Pictou, Nova Scotia / by George Patterson. Belleville, ON. : Mika Studio, 1972. 471 pages : 2 maps ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F106 P5 P2 1972 - Open Shelf
Pictou (N.S. : County) — History
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Passenger and immigration lists bibliography, 1538-1900 : being a guide to published lists of arrivals in the United States and Canada / edited by P. William Filby. 1st ed. Detroit : Gale Research Co., 1981. 195 pages ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Reference - Open Shelf
Includes index.
Filby, P. William, 1911-
Lancour, Harold, 1908- Bibliography of ship passenger lists, 1538-1825.
Ships — Bibliography
United States — Emigration and immigration — Bibliography
United States — Genealogy — Sources — Bibliography
United States — History — Sources — Bibliography
Canada — Emigratio
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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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History of Inverness County, Nova Scotia / by John L. MacDougall. Belleville, ON. : Mika Publishing, 1972. 690 pages : portraits ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F106 IN8 M1 1972 - Open Shelf
Inverness (N.S. : County) — History
Inverness (N.S. : County) — Biographies
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History
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Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton
The History of Kings County, Nova Scotia, Heart of the Acadian Land / by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton. Belleville, ON. : Mika Studio, 1972. xii, 898 pages ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F106 K5 E3 1972 - Open Shelf
Title continues: giving a sketch of the French and their expulsion and a history of the New England planters who came in their stead, with many genealogies, 1604-1910
Reprint. Originally published: Salem, Mass. : Salem Press, 1910.
Acadians
Kings (N.S. : County) — History
Kings (N.S. : County) — Genealogy
Kings (N.S. : County) — Social life and customs
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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 silent enemy : Canada and the deadly flu of 1918 / Eileen Pettigrew. Saskatoon : Western Producer Prairie Books, 1983. xiv, 156 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RC150.55 C3 S582
Includes index.
Influenza — Canada
Influenza — Canada — History
Grippe — Canada
Influenza — History — Canada.
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A darkened house : cholera in nineteenth-century Canada / Geoffrey Bilson. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1980. viii, 222 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RC132 C2 B599
Includes index.
Cholera — Canada — History — 19th century
Public health — Canada — History — 19th century.
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Labour in the laboratory : medical laboratory workers in the Maritimes, 1900-1950 / Peter L. Twohig. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. xvi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RB37.6 T974 2005
Includes index.
Medical technologists — Maritime Provinces — History — 20th century
Hospital laboratories — Maritime Provinces — History — 20th century.
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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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