The foreign Protestants and the settlement of Nova Scotia : the history of a piece of arrested British colonial policy in the eighteenth century / Winthrop Pickard Bell. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1961. xiv, 673 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 B41
Frontier and pioneer life — Nova Scotia
Germans — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Emigration and immigration
Lunenburg (N.S. : County) — History
Nova Scotia — History — To 1784.
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History of Nova Scotia / by David Allison. Halifax : A.W. Bowen, 1916. 3 v. : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 AL5
Volume 3 has title: History of Nova Scotia : biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of the old families. Vols. 1-2 paged continuously, v. 3 has separate paging. Includes index.
Nova Scotia — History
Nova Scotia — Biography.
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Acadia at the end of the seventeenth century. Letters, journals and memoirs of Joseph Robineau de Villebon, Commandant in Acadia, 1690-1700, and other contemporary documents Saint John, The New Brunswick Museum, 1979. 232p., maps
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F95 W39A 1979
Villebon, Joseph Robineau, Sieur de, 1655-1700.
Acadia — History — Sources
Nova Scotia — History — Sources
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The first English conquest of Canada : with some account of the earliest settlements in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland / by Henry Kirke, M.A., B.C.L. . London : Bemrose & sons, 1871. xi, 227 pages : illustrations, fold. map ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F95 K63
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
America — Discovery and exploration
Newfoundland — History
Nova Scotia — History.
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The story of Acadia / by James Hannay. Kentville : Dominion Atlantic Railway, 1890-. 128 pages : illustrations, port. ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F95 H19 ST6
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The history of Acadia : from its first discovery to its surrender to England by the Treaty of Paris / by James Hannay. St. John, N.B. : Printed by J. & A. McMillan, 1879. vii, 440 pages ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F95 H19
Acadia
Nova Scotia — History — To 1784.
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D'Entremont, Henri Leander, 1862-
Forts of Cape Sable of the seventeenth century / by Henri Leander D'Entremont. Yarmouth : R.H. Davis & co., ltd., 1938. 106 pages ; 18 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F95 D43 F77
First Copy: F95 D43 F77 Second Copy: F95 D43 F77 C.2
Cape Sable Island (N.S.)—History
Nova Scotia— History
Cape Sable Island (N.S.)
Islands—Nova Scotia
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The Baronnie de Pombcoup and the Acadians : a History of the Ancient Department of Cape Sable, now know as Yarmouth and Shelburne counties, Nova Scotia / by Henri Leander D'Entremont. Tourist ed. Yarmouth : Herald-Telegram Press, 1931. 192 pages ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F95 D43
Containing a complete tourist guide to the south shore of Nova Scotia from Yarmouth to Halifax. Includes index. First Copy: F95 D43 Second Copy: F95 D43 C.2
Acadians
Nova Scotia — History
Acadia
America — Discovery and exploration
Nova Scotia — Description and travel — Guide-books.
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En marge de la tragédie d'un peuple de m. Émile Lauvrière : ou, Erreurs sur l'histoire de l'Acadie / réfutées par l'abbé Azarie Couillard Després. Bruges, Belgique : Desclée, de Brouwer, 1925. x, 117 pages ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F95 C83
Acadians
Acadia
Nova Scotia — History.
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Story of Nova Scotia / by Phyllis Blakeley. Toronto : J.M. Dent, 1950. 305 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F94 B58 St6
History of the province of Nova Scotia - from the Story of Canada Series released in the 1950s. Copy 1: F94 B58 St6 Copy 2: F94 B58 St6 C2 - includes partial dust jacket - wrapped due to fragility, handle with care
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New Brunswick blue book and encyclopedia / biographical sketches by James Conwell. Nova Scotia blue book and encyclopedia / historical review by Benjamin Russell ; biographical sketches by James Conwell. Toronto : Historical Publishers Association, 1932. 44, 127, 67 pages ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F93 N85
Attributed to Benjamin Russell. First part (44 pages deals with New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Second part (127 pages concerns Nova Scotia, and has own t.pages Third part (67 pages consists of biographical sketches. Binding variant. In some copies, the section on Nova Scotia precedes that on New Brunswick. Bindings display either the arms of N.S. or N.B., and appropriate spine and cover titles, depending on which section is bound first. In addition, the binding of some copies is decorated in gilt; these items are part of a limited edition of 100 numbered copies.
Maritime Provinces — Biography
Maritime Provinces — History
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Memoir of the Rev. James MacGregor, D.D., missionary of the General Associate Synod of Scotland, to Pictou, Nova Scotia : with notices of the colonization of the lower provinces of British America, and of the social and religious condition of the early se / by George Patterson. Halifax : A. & W. Mckinlay, 1859. 533 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F93 M17
Religion — Church history — Biography.
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Webster, John Clarence, 1863-1950
The Life of Thomas Pichon, "The Spy of Beausejour" An Account of His Career in Europe and America / by John Clarence Webster ; with many original documents translated by Alice Webster. Sackville, NB : The Tribune Press, 1937. xiii, 161 pages, 8 leaves of plates : facsimiles., folded plans, illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm.
view this publicationNova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F93 F58 W39
Special publication of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Public Archives of Nova Scotia
Pichon, Thomas, 1700-1781
Nova Scotia — History — To 1784
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Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, Gouverneur, Lieutenant-Général en Acadie, et son temps, 1593-1666 Arthabaska, Impr. d'Arthabaska, 1930. 497 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F93 C83
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Builders of Nova Scotia : a historical review, with an appendix containing copies of rare documents relating to the early days of the province / by John G. Bourinot. Toronto : Copp-Clark, 1900. x, 197, vi pages : illustrations, facsim., plan, plates, ports
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F93 B66
From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 1899.
Nova Scotia — History
Nova Scotia — Biography.
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His Majesty's Yankees / by Thomas H. Raddall. Garden city, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran and company, inc., 1942. 409 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F92 R11 H62
First Copy: F92 R11 H62 Second Copy: F92 R11 H62 C2 - includes dust jacket - wrapped to protect the remains of the jacket, handle with care.
Nova Scotia—Fiction
Nova Scotia—History—1775-1783
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Halifax, warden of the North / Thomas H. Raddall. Updated ed. with three new chapters / by Stephen Kimber Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 2010. xvi, 374 pages ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F92 R11 H13 2010
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Halifax, warden of the North / by Thomas H. Raddall. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1965. xvi, 340 pages, [6] pages of plates: illustrations ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F92 R11 H13 1965
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Halifax, warden of the North / by Thomas H. Raddall ; illustrations by Donald C. Mackay. 1st ed. Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 1948. xviii, 348 pages, [14] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F92 R11 H13
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Courage to command : a story of the capture of Louisbourg / by Zillah K. Macdonald ; illustrated by Harve Stein. 1st ed. Philadelphia ; Toronto : J.C. Winston Co., 1953. ix, 177 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F92 M14 C83
Maps on lining papers.
Louisbourg (N.S.) — History — Siege, 1745 — Juvenile fiction.
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More about Nova Scotia : my own, my native land / by Clara Dennis ; illustrated with photographs taken by the author. Toronto : Ryerson Press, 1937. xii, 412 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps. ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F92 D42m
Nova Scotia — Description and travel
Nova Scotia — History
Cape Breton — Description and travel.
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Down in Nova Scotia : My Own, My Native Land / by Clara Dennis. Toronto : Ryerson Press, 1934. xii, 410p. : illustrations, portraits, maps. ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F92 D42
Copy 1: F92 D42 Copy 2: F92 D42 C.2
illustrated with photographs taken by the author
Nova Scotia — Description and travel
Nova Scotia — History.
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Stories of Acadia / by W.B. Bezanson. Dartmouth : 1924-1933. 4 v. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F92 B46 ST7
Publisher varies: pts. 2-3: Kentville, N.S. : Kentville Publishing Co.; part 4: [Halifax? N.S. : s.n.] (Halifax, N.S. : Nova Print.. Small strip of birch bark inserted horizontally into front cover of each Volume
Acadians
Nova Scotia — History.
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Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society Halifax : The Society, 1998-. 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F90 N85
Continues: Collections of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society.
Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society
Nova Scotia — History — Periodicals
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Nova Scotia Historical Society
Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society Halifax, Nova Scotia Historical Society. 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F90 N85
Cumulated list of papers read before the Society since 1878 in Volume 5. Contents of the collection in Volume 13-25. Hardcover copy of Volume 8: 1892-94 belonged to D.C. Harvey, later by Phyllis Blakeley ; one of them has also annotated sections in this copy.
Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, Vol. II (1881); pp. 129-160 : Papers relating to the Acadian French ~ Andrew Brown Collection.
Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, Vol. IV (1885); pp. 113-246 : Journal of Colonel John Winslow at Beausejour, Summer 1755.
Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, Vol. III (1883); pp. 71-196 : Journal of Colonel John Winslow at Grand Pre, Autumn 1755.
Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, Vol. X (1899): The Slave in Canada by T. Watson Smith, D.D.
Nova Scotia — History — Societies, etc.
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