Coal in our blood / Judith Hoegg Ryan. Halifax : Formac, 1992. xiv, 146 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD9554 R988 1992
Coal mines and mining — Nova Scotia — Pictou (County) — History
Coal miners — Nova Scotia — Pictou (County) — Biography.
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Fish out of water : the Newfoundland saltfish trade 1814-1914 / Shannon Ryan. St. John's, Nfld. : Breakwater Books, 1986. xxvii, 320 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD9464 C33 N48 1985
Includes index.
Fish trade — Newfoundland — History
Fish, Salted — Economic aspects — Newfoundland
Cod-fisheries — Economic aspects — Newfoundland
Newfoundland — Commerce — History.
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What's brewing : Oland 1867-1971 : a history / by G. Brenton Haliburton. 1st ed. Tantallon : Four East Publications, 1994. 96 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD9397 H35 1994
Oland family — History
Breweries — Nova Scotia — History.
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Toward a new Maritimes : a selection from ten years of New Maritimes / edited by Ian McKay and Scott Milsom. Charlottetown, P.E.I. : Ragweed Press, 1992. 382 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD8402 M332 1992
McKay, Ian, 1953-
Milsom, Scott, 1952-
Working class — Maritime Provinces — History
Working class — Maritime Provinces
Maritime Provinces — History
Maritime Provinces — Economic conditions
Maritime Provinces — Social conditions.
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Toward a new Maritimes : a selection from ten years of New Maritimes / edited by Ian McKay and Scott Milsom. Charlottetown, P.E.I. : Ragweed Press, 1992. 382 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD8402 M332 1992
McKay, Ian, 1953-
Milsom, Scott, 1952-
Working class — Maritime Provinces — History
Working class — Maritime Provinces
Maritime Provinces — History
Maritime Provinces — Economic conditions
Maritime Provinces — Social conditions.
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Work, ethnicity, and oral history / edited by Dorothy E. Moore and James H. Morrison. Halifax : International Education Centre, St. Mary's University, 1988. xii, 242 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD8108.5 A2 W67
Proceedings of a conference at the Alexander Graham Bell Museum, Baddeck, Nova Scotia, October 15-18, 1986, organized by the Society for the Study of Ethnicity in Nova Scotia, the Atlantic Oral History Association, and the Canadian Oral History Association.
Moore, Dorothy E
Morrison, James.
Saint Mary's University (Halifax, N.S.). International Education Centre.
Minorities — Employment — Nova Scotia — History — Congresses
Minorities — Employment — Canada — History — Congresses
Minorities — Nova Scotia — History — Congresses
Minorities — Canada
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For a working-class culture in Canada : a selection of Colin McKay's writings on sociology and political economy, 1897-1939 / edited and annotated by Ian McKay ; researched and introduced by Lewis Jackson and Ian McKay. St. John's, Nfld. : Canadian Committee on Labour History, 1996. lii, 615 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD8106 M35 1996
McKay, Ian, 1953-
Jackson, Lewis, 1951-
Committee on Canadian Labour History.
Industrial relations — Canada — History
Working class — Canada — History
Canada — Social conditions.
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Times of trouble : labour unrest and industrial conflict in Canada, 1900-66 Ottawa : Task Force on Labour Relations, 1968, 1971. xii, 542 pages ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD8106 J32
Résumé in French.
Canada. Task Force on Labour Relations.
Strikes and lockouts — Canada — History.
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On the job : confronting the labour process in Canada / edited by Craig Heron and Robert Storey. Kingston, ON. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986. xiv, 360 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD8104 O52 1986
Work — History
Industrial sociology — Canada — History
Industrial relations — Canada — History.
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Labour : Le Travailleur Halifax- : Committee on Canadian Labour History, 1976-. 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD8104 C734
Journal of Canadian labour studies. Issues for spring 1984- have title in French: Le travail. Published: St. John's, Nfld., 1985- .
Committee on Canadian Labour History.
Working class — Canada — History — Periodicals.
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Jack in port : sailortowns of eastern Canada / Judith Fingard. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1982. 292 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD8039 S42 F497
Merchant mariners — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History — 19th century
Merchant mariners — New Brunswick — Saint John — History — 19th century
Merchant mariners — Quebec (Province) — Québec — History
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Seafaring labour : the merchant marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914 / Eric W. Sager. Kingston, ON. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989. xviii, 321 pages, [7] pages de pl. : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD8039 S42 C45 1989
Merchant mariners — Maritime Provinces — History — 19th century
Merchant mariners — Newfoundland — History — 19th century
Merchant marine — Maritime Provinces — History — 19th century
Merchant marine —
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Ships and seafarers of Atlantic Canada / The Atlantic Canada Shipping Project. St. John's, Newfoundland : Maritime History Archive, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1998. 1 computer optical disc : illustrations ; 4 3/4 in.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD8039 S4 S55 1998
These databases were created for the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project, a large scale research project undertaken by the Maritime History Group at Memorial University of Newfoundland, to study the rise and decline of the shipping industry of Atlantic Canada. This project, which ran from 1976 to 1983, was funded the the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Memorial university.
Atlantic Canada Shipping Project
Memorial University of Newfoundland. Maritime History Group
Memorial University of Newfoundland. Maritime History Archive
Memorial University of Newfoundland. Maritime Studies Research Unit.
Shipping — Canada — History
Merchant marine — Canada — History
Merchant mariners — Atlantic Provinces
Shipping — Atlantic Provinces — History
Canada — Commerce — History.
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Port Blakely : the community Captain Renton built / by Andrew Price, Jr.. 1st ed. Seattle, Wash. : Port Blakely Books, 1990. 196 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD8039 S3 R422
Pioneers — Washington (State) — Port Blakely — Biography
Port Blakely (Wash.) — History
Port Blakely (Wash.) — Biography.
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Working in steel : the early years in Canada, 1883-1935 / Craig Heron. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1988. 223 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD8039 I52 C35 1988
Iron and steel workers — Canada — History
Steel industry and trade — Canada — History.
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George MacEachern, an autobiography : the story of a Cape Breton labour radical / edited and introduced by David Frank and Donald MacGillivray. Sydney : University College of Cape Breton Press, 1987. xvii, 146 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD8039 I5 M34
Frank, David Alexander
Macgillivray, Don, 1942-
Trade-unions — Iron and steel workers — Nova Scotia — Organizing — History
Trade-unions — Nova Scotia — Organizing — History
Trade-unions — Nova Scotia — Officials and employees — Biography.
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The struggle to organize : resistance in Canada's fishery / by Wallace Clement. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1986. 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD8039 F652 C3 1986
Trade-unions — Fishers — Canada — History
Fisheries, Cooperative — Canada — History.
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The work force of the Richelieu River canals, 1843-1950 / P.-André Sévigny. Ottawa : National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, 1983. 134 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD8039 C258 S597
Issued also in French under title: La main-d'oeuvre des canaux du Richelieu, 1843-1950.
Parks Canada. National Historic Parks and Sites Branch.
Canals — Quebec (Province)
Canal construction workers — Quebec (Province) — History
Richelieu River Canals (Québec)
Québec (Province) — Social conditions.
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Workers and the state in twentieth century Nova Scotia / edited by Michael Earle ; with an sic introduction by Michael Earle and Ian McKay, and an afterword by Craig Heron. Fredericton, N.B. : Published for the Gorsebrook Research Institute of sic Atlantic Canada by Acadiensis Press, 1989. 265 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD6960.5 N935 W927
Earle, Michael J. (Michael John)
Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies.
Industrial relations — Nova Scotia — History — 20th century
Trade-unions — Nova Scotia — History — 20th century
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Everything that floats : Pat Sullivan, Hal Banks, and the seamen's unions of Canada / William Kaplan. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1987. xii, 241 pages, [18] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD6528 S42 S45 1987
Merchant mariners — Canada — History.
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J.B. McLachlan : a biography / David Frank. Toronto : J. Lorimer, 1999. 592 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD6525 M32 F72 1999
Includes index and bibliographical references.
McLachlan, J. B. — (James Bryson), — 1869-1937.
Trade-unions — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — History — 20th century
Strikes and lockouts — Coal mining — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — History — 20th century
Labor leaders — Nova Scotia
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Trade unions in Canada 1812-1902 / Eugene Forsey. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1982. xiv, 600 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD6524 F732
Includes index.
Trade-unions — Canada — History — 19th century
Industrial relations — Canada — History — 19th century.
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Barnardo children in Canada / Gail H. Corbett. Peterborough, ON. : Woodland Publishing, 1981. 133 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD6250 C252 C67
Includes index.
Children — Canada — History
Children — Canada — Biography
Immigrants — Canada — Biography
Canada — Emigration and immigration — History
Great Britain — Emigration and immigration — History
Great
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Labouring children : British immigrant apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924 / Joy Parr. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1994. xxii, 181 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 c
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD6250 C212 P258 1994
Alien labor, British — Canada — History
Child labor — Canada — History
Indentured servants — Canada — History.
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Labouring children : British immigrant apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924 / Joy Parr. London : Montreal : Croom Helm ; McGill-Queen's University Press, 1980. 181 pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD6250 C212 P258
Includes index.
Indentured servants — Canada — History
Children — Employment — Canada — History
Alien labor, British — Canada — History.
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