Some Impressions of the Great Disaster which befell Halifax and Dartmouth December 6th, 1917 / by C.W. Vernon. Halifax, NS : C.W. Vernon, 1917. 8 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.549 #30 - Vertical File
First hand account of the start of the relief effort. Descriptions of the devastation to the people, the communities/infrastructure.
Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917
Nova Scotia — History
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In Memoriam / by D.B. Blair. Nova Scotia: D.B. Blair, 1882. 15 pages ; 17 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.549 #28 - Vertical File
Inner Title: A Mother in Israel - Sketch of the Late Mrs. D.B. Blair. Small memoriam for the death of Mrs. D.B. Blair (maiden name: Mary Sibella McLean) of Pictou, Nova Scotia in June of 1882. Contains small biographical sketch of Mrs. Blair and elegy in English and Scottish Gaelic. No author recorded - assumed production by surviving husband of Mrs. Blair
Scottish Gaelic language — Nova Scotia
History — Nova Scotia
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The Minterne Monuments : The Story of the Earliest Verifiable Winston S. Churchill Family Memorials - To Commemorate and Honour the Fiftieth Anniversary of his Death / by Elizabeth Churchill Snell. Cambridge, UK : Elizabeth Churchill Snell, 2015. 18 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.549 #27 - Vertical File
Documents some of the earliest Churchill family memorials, history, and explores the Churchill family line.
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
Prime Ministers — Great Britain
Great Britain — History
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Academy of Music : Halifax Nova Scotia / distributed by the Academy of Music. Halifax, N.S.: Academy of Music, 1910. 8 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.549 #24 - Vertical File
Pamphlet program for the Academy of Music in 1910 play 'The Old Homestead' October 6th, 1910.
Performing Arts — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — History
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Women Making History : 1948-2015 / by Judy Whalen. Halifax, NS : Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW), 2016. 32 pages : illustrations : 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.549 #17 - Vertical File
A brief history of the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) and the women who run the organization. Outlines the individual and group responsibilities and accomplishments for about 70 years from 1948-2015.
Canadian Federation of University Women — Nova Scotia — Dartmouth — History
Women — Canada — Societies and clubs — History
Women — Nova Scotia — Dartmouth — Societies and clubs — History
Women — Nova Scotia
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Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Nova Scotia
A brief historical sketch of Scotia Lodge No. 28 of Canning, N.S. 1861-1961 / by WM. C. Mosher. Halifax : Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Nova Scotia, 1961. 1 volume (unnumbered) ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.549 #16 - Vertical File
By WM. C. Mosher P.M. Historian. With thanks to Rev. T. W. Hodgson's History and Bro. E. L. Eaton for his notes on important eventsIncludes list of Masters of Scotia Lodge.
Freemasonry — Lodges — History
Scotia Lodge — History
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The Sambro Marine Collection : A Selection of Drawings by Thomas E. Appleton, P.ENG., M.E.I.C. / written and illustrated by Thomas E. Appleton. Halifax (N.S.) : Hotel Nova Scotian, 1975. 11 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 31 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.549 #15 - Vertical File
Small selection of sketches by Appleton of ships that have all played some role in the history of Halifax.
Halifax (N.S.) — Navigation — History
Halifax Harbour (N.S.)
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The History of the Halifax Police Dept. 8 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.549 #2 - Vertical File
Small booklet with no identified author, publisher or date. Possibly from the 1980-90s.
Police — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History
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The History of Bridgeville / Written by the students of Bridgeville School . 1 volume, unnumbered ; 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.547 #23 - Vertical File
Photocopy of a collection of student essays. Listed illustration not included.
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Dorothy May Collins : A Story of a life altered by the Halifax Explosion / by Dorothy Brown. Toronto, ON : Dorothy Brown, 2017. 92 pages: illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.547 #18 - Vertical File
The story of Dorothy May Collins' and her family's experience during and after the Halifax Explosion in 1917.
Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917
Explosions — Nova Scotia
History — Nova Scotia
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A Brief History of Militia Units Established at Various Periods at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia 1812-1947 / compiled by Lieutenant Colonel W.D. King. Yarmouth, NS : 14th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery, 1947. 32 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.547 #17 - Vertical File
Brief history on the Militia Units in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia from 1812-1947.
History — Yarmouth (N.S.)
Military history
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Independent Order of Odd Fellows Maritime Provinces of Canada and Newfoundland
Programme and Historical Book : Seventy-Fourth Annual Session of the Grand Lodge I.O.O.F. : Maritime Provinces of Canada and Newfoundland Halifax NS : Typographical Union Label, 1931. 24 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.547 #13 - Vertical File
Programme and Historical book for the Seventy-Fourth Annual Session of the Independent Order of Oddfellows at the Grand Lodge.
Independent Order of Odd Fellows — Rituals
Nova Scotia — History
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Souvenir Programme : Bridgewater Memorial Arena Bridgewater, NS, Bridgewater Memorial Arena, 1950. 4 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.547 #9 - Vertical File
Souvenir Programme for the Bridgewater Memorial Arena's official opening on Friday, December 1, 1950.
History — Bridgewater (N.S.)
Skating rinks — Bridgewater (N.S.)
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A History of Oldfield Consolidated School 1962-2017 : School Section #98 Enfield, Nova Scotia / by John N. Grant. Milford Station, NS : Quarter Castle Publishing, 2018. 36 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.547 #8 - Vertical File
Schools — History
Schools — Nova Scotia
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Chronicles of Another Era : Book Two / by Vernita M. Murphy. Little Fort, BC : A.H. Journeay, 1993. 60 Pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.547 #7 - Vertical File
Continuation of 'Chronicles of Another Era'
Annapolis (N.S. : County) — Anecdotes
Annapolis (N.S. : County) — History — 20th century
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Bluenose : on board a legend / by Devyn Kaizer ; photography by Peter Zwicker. Halifax, NS : Formac Publishing Company Limited, 2018. 72 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM395 B5 K33 2018
This book documents the beautiful Tall Ship Bluenose, now a sailing ambassador for the province of Nova Scotia, and tells the dramatic story of the battles and triumphs of original Bluenose. The original Bluenose, built in Lunenburg and launched in 1921, was designed to combine a career as a racing ship with the working role fishing the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. Its captain, Angus Walters, took Bluenose to five international sailing races, and was undefeated for seventeen years. By the 1930s, the vessel's achievements made it an icon for Nova Scotia and an important Canadian symbol. The newly-restored replica, the Bluenose II, represents the wooden shipbuilding achievements and the dory-based cod fishery traditions of Nova Scotia. This book offers an interpretive guide of the ship and its complex traditional equipment. It also tells the story of the original Bluenose, with many historic photographs of the ship and its crew aboard the most famous Tall Ship in Canada in this souvenir of a vessel whose history and allure continues to captivate to this day. Includes index.
Bluenose II (Schooner) — History
Bluenose (Schooner) — History
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Chasse-Marée No 292 : Des Bateaux Et Des Hommes / Pol Corvez. Chasse-Marée (Douarnenez Cedex, FR). 93 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.552 #2 - Vertical File
French magazine that has an article about the Halifax Explosion ; article titled "La Grande Explosion de Halifax" by Pol Corvez (pages 60-73). The remaining articles are nautical in theme and cover different geographic areas.
Halifax (N.S.)—History—Explosion, 1917
20th Century — History — Halifax (N.S.)
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Steady as She Goes : The Exploits of a Captain and his Seagoing Family / by Dolly G. Newcomb. Ontario : Paul Heron Publishing Limited, 1996. 175 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 P82 N48 1996
The story of Captain James Leander Publicover, owner and ship captain at J.L. Publicover Shipping Company, and chronicles how he and his family would work and travel the seas together.
J.L. Publicover Shipping Co. — History
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Biography
Sailing ships — Nova Scotia — History
Seafaring life — Nova Scotia — History
Publicover, James Leander, 1877-1960
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Garretts and the Bluenose Rugs of Nova Scotia / by Nanette Ryan and Doreen Wright. Halifax, Nova Scotia 118 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - TT850 R93 1990
Pages 1-22: brief introduction with basic information on rug hooking and key figured in rug hooking in Nova Scotia and the Garrett Catalogue of patterns for rug hooking. Pages 23-118: patterns from the Garrett's catalogue "early times to 1974". See also: TT850 R93 1995 (reprint)
John E. Garrett Limited — History
Rugs, Hooked — Nova Scotia — History
Folk art — Nova Scotia
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71st Fraser Highland Regiment in the American War of Independence / by Ed Brumby. 2nd edition Syston, Leicestershire, England : Anchorprint Group Limited, 2017. 323 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E267 B78 2017
Author's note on page 126 : The beginning of Chapter 8: Settler's Abroad, focused on the settlers of the highland regiments through Nova Scotia/Cape Breton Island, New Brunswick, and other provinces.
Great Britain. — Army. — Regiment of Foot, 71st (Highland Light Infantry)
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — British forces
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Regimental histories
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Participation, Scottish
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Explosion in Halifax Harbour, December 6,1917 : Colchester to the rescue / researched by Janet Maybee. Truro, NS : Colchester Historical Society, 2017. 17 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2346.4 C65 - Open Shelf
This publication presents only a small part of the material held at the Archives in the Colchester Historeum. It is intended to honour and celebrate the generosity of our residents a hundred years age.
Halifax (N.S.) — History — Explosion, 1917
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1604-2014 : Acadia of the Lands and Forests: 'Disputed Boundaries & Rediscovered Families' / edited by Jacques G. Albert. New Brunswick : Madawaska Historical Society, 2014. 56 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5200.5 A23 M33 - Open Shelf
“Acadia of the Lands and Forests: ‘Disputed Boundaries & Rediscovered Families,’” Revue de la Société historique du Madawaska, vol. 42, no. 1-2 (January-June 2014), 6. Running timeline of New Brunswick Acadians over time. Bottom of the pages include a timeline of events as the book is read, and illustrations of documents and artifacts have accompanying explanations. Complete title on cover page includes French translation of title that in full reads: L'Acadie des terres et forêts : "frontières contestées familles retrouvées" 1604-2014.
Acadia — History
Acadians — New Brunswick — Madawaska (County) — History
Madawaska (N.B. : County) — Boundaries — History
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From Cabin Boy to Master Mariner : Times and Travels of Nova Scotia's Baird, Stoddard, and Bigney Families since 1752 / by Jane Baird Barry. Nova Scotia: Jane Baird Barry, 2014. 76 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 B35 S76 B54 - Open Shelf
The stories of the Baird, Stoddard, and Bigney families as mariners in Nova Scotia and beyond. Includes family tree.
Nova Scotia — Genealogy
Nova Scotia — History
Sailors — Nova Scotia
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Undefeated Since 1976 : The Year of the Tiger / by Rick Rivers. Halifax, NS : Rick Rivers, 2013. 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GV585 D35 R58 2013
The history of the Dalhousie Tigers Football team from it's inception to it's cancellation by university staff in 1976 and then to it's eventual revival in 2009-2010.
Football — Nova Scotia
History — Dalhousie University (N.S.)
Sports — Nova Scotia
Sports — Dalhousie University (N.S.)
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Presiding by Desire : Nova Scotia's Popular Lieutenant Governor: Hon. MacCallum Grant / forward by Hon. Myra Freeman. Victoria, BC : Tellwell Talent, 2020. 472 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC3655 G73 B87 - Open Shelf
This is the story of an ambitious boy from Loyal Hill, in the village of Summerville on the Avon River in Hants County, who became a respected figure in the business community. Hon. MacCallum Grant served as Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia from 1916 to 1925, the last Nova Scotian to be appointed to two full terms as the King's representative. He created a new standard for the occupants of the viceregal office, reaching out to minorities and utilizing his charm and humour to engage everyone he met. Presiding By Desire - Nova Scotia's Popular Lieutenant Governor: Hon. MacCallum Grant by Scott J. Burke chronicles Grant's activities as lieutenant governor, highlighting significant events during his eight years at Government House. His terms in office encompassed the First World War and the Halifax Explosion. He played host to famous visitors including the Prince of Wales, and travelled to Washington to meet a president at the White House. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Grant, MacCallum, 1845-1928
Lieutenant governors — Nova Scotia — Biography
Businessmen — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — History — 1867-1918
Nova Scotia — History — 1918-1945
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