Campbell, J. R. (John Roy), 1841-1926
A History of the County of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia / by J.R. Campbell. Saint John, NB : J.&A. MacMillan, 1876. xvi, 200 pages, 9 pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F106 Y2 C15 - Open Shelf
Yarmouth (N.S. : County) — History
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Yarmouth, Nova Scotia : a Sequel to Campbell's History / by George S. Brown. Boston : Rand Avery Co., 1888. 524 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F106 Y2 B81 - Open Shelf
Includes considerable genealogical material. John R. Campbell's History of the County of Yarmouth was published at St. John, N.B., 1876.
Yarmouth (N.S. : County) — History
Nova Scotia — History
Yarmouth (N.S. : County) — Genealogy
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The History of Queens County, N.S. / by James F. More. Halifax : Nova Scotia Print. Co., 1873. iv, 250 pages ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F106 Q3 M8 - Open Shelf
Nova Scotia — Biography
Queens (N.S. : County) — History
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Pictonians at home and abroad : sketches of professional men and women of Pictou County : its history and institutions / by J.P. MacPhie. Boston, Mass. : Pinkham Press, 1914. viii, 232 pages : plates, portraits, map ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F106 P5 M2
Pictou (N.S. : County) — Biography
Pictou (N.S. : County) — History.
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Political Pictonians : the men in the Legislative Council, Senate, House of Commons, House of Assembly, 1767-1967 / by James M. Cameron. Ottawa : The Author, 1966. 267 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F106 P5 C14
Statesmen — Canada
Pictou (N.S. : County) — Politics and government.
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History of Inverness County by John L. MacDougall: a table of contents and index of proper names / compiled by Joyce and Bob Marks. Halifax, N. S. : The Authors, 1980. 186 l. ; 28 cm.
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Photocopy of Ms.
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Jost, Arthur Cranswick, 1875-1958
Guysborough Sketches and Other Essays / by A.C. Jost. Guysborough : 1950. 414 pages, [5] pages of plates ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F106 G9 J79
A group of interlinking articles, this collection of essays and genealogies of the original Loyalist settlers has been regarded as the most authoritative account of the history of this area. An invaluable source of information about local lore, Guysborough Sketches and Essays recalls many noteworthy events including the county's early turbulent past, the tragedy and drama of three shipwrecks in three years beginning in 1780, and the discovery of gold in Wine Harbour in 1860.
Guysborough (N.S. : County) — Genealogy
Guysborough (N.S. : County) — History
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Index to Historical and genealogical record of the first settlers of Colchester County, Nova Scotia, by Thomas Miller, 1873 / index prepared by Marjorie Seward Cleveland. Truro : Colchester Historical Museum, 1982 121 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F106 C6 M611
Prepared by Marjorie Seward Cleveland and completed in 1973 as a centennial memorial to Thomas Miller. Title from label on cover.
Colchester (N.S. : County) — Genealogy — Indexes
Colchester (N.S. : County) — Genealogy
Colchester (N.S. : County) — History — Indexes.
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Rankin, D.J. (Duncan Joseph), 1874-1954
A History of the County of Antigonish, Nova Scotia / by the Rev. D.J. Rankin. Toronto : MacMillan Company of Canada, 1929. xi, 390 pages ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F106 AN8 R1
"Genealogies": pages 78-375.
Antigonish (N.S. : County) — History
Antigonish (N.S. : County) — Genealogy
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History of Antigonish County / by J.W. MacDonald. Antigonish- : 1876-. 33 pages ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F106 AN8 M14
Bound with: Marble, A.E. Index to the above history [1970]. Typescript.
Antigonish (N.S. : County) — History.
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Index of persons identified in The history of the County of Annapolis by W.A. Calnek / compiled by Jean M. Holder and Marion D. Oldershaw. Halifax : 1995. 159, 52 pages ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F106 An7 H65 1995
With: Index of persons identified in the Supplement to the History of the County of Annapolis by A.W. Savary / compiled by Jean M. Holder [and] Marion D. Oldershaw. Halifax, N.S. : [s.n.], 1995.
Oldershaw, Marion D
Calnek, W. A. 1822-1892. (William Arthur), The history of the County of Annapolis
Savary, A. W. 1831-1920. (Alfred William), Supplement to the History of the County of Annapolis
Annapolis (N.S. : County) — History
Annapolis (N.S. : County) — Genealogy
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The Eighty-fifth in France and Flanders : being a history of the justly famous 85th Canadian Infantry Battalion (Nova Scotia Highlanders) in the various theatres of war : together with a nominal roll and synopsis of service of officers, non-commissioned o / by Joseph Hayes. Halifax : Royal Print & Litho, 1920. 362 pages, [22] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F105 H31
World War, 1914-1918 — Regimental histories — Canada.
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History of the Halifax Volunteer Battalion and volunteer companies, 1859-1887 / by Thomas J. Egan. Halifax : A. & W. Mackinlay, 1888. viii, 172 pages, [2] pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F105 EG1
Contains a roll of the officers and men on active service in the Riel rebellion of 1885, and rolls of several of the volunteer companies. The Battalion was known as the Halifax Volunteer Battalion of Rifles from 1860 to 1869 and as the 63rd Battalion of Rifles from 1869 to 1900.
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Journal of Abijah Willard, 1755 St. John, N.B. : 1930-. 75 pages, [5] pages of plates (3 folded) : 3 folded
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 W66 W39
Reprinted from collections of New Brunswick Historical Society, no. 13 Edited by Dr. J. Clarence Webster--pages [3]
Webster, John Clarence, 1863-1950.
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763
Fort Beauséjour (N.B.) — Capture, 1755.
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Fiedmont, Louis Thomas Jacau, sieur de
The Siege of Beausejour in 1755 : A Journal of the Attack on Beausejour / written by Jacau de Fiedmont ; translated by Alice Webster ; edited by John Clarence Webster. Saint John, NB : New Brunswick Museum, 1936. 42 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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Webster, John Clarence, 1863-1950
Nova Scotia — History — To 1784
Fort Beausejour (N.B.) — Capture, 1755
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Webster, John Clarence, 1863-1950
Journals of Beausejour : Diary of John Thomas, Journal of Louis de Courville / edited by John Clarence Webster. Halifax : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1937. 54 pages : 2 pages of plates ; illustrations, map ; 26 cm.
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Special Publication, Public Archives of Nova Scotia. Journal of Louis de Courville from his Mémoires sur le Canada, Quebec, 1838, (pages 42-51, translated by Pierre A. Landry).
Courville, Louis-Léonard Aumasson, sieur de, b. 1722 or 1723
Thomas, John, 1724-1776
Webster, John Clarence, 1863-1950
Public Archives of Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — History — 1713-1775
Fort Cumberland (N.S.)
United States — History — French and Indian War, 1755-1763 — Personal narratives
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Under the Red Jack : privateers of the maritime provinces of Canada in the war of 1812 / by C. H. J. Snider. London : M. Hopkinson, 1928. xii, 268 pages : illustrations 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 Sn3
Privateering — Maritime Provinces
Canada — History — War of 1812 — Naval operations
United States — History — War of 1812 — Naval operations.
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Nova Scotia. Commissioner of Public Records
Selections from the public documents of the Province of Nova Scotia / edited by Thomas Beamish Akins, Commissioner of Public Records. Halifax : Charles Annand, 1869. ii, 755 pages, 1 folded plate, 2 folded facsimilies : 22 cm.
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Series: Nova Scotia Archives I.
Published under a resolution of the House of Assembly passed March 15, 1865 ; edited by Thomas B Akins, D.C.L. Commissioner of Public Records ; the translations from the French by Benjamin Curren.
Contains: Papers relating to the Acadian French. 1714-1755. Papers relating to the forcible removal of the Acadian French from Nova Scotia, 1755-1768. Papers relating to the French encroachments in Nova Scotia, 1749-1754, and the war in North America, 1754-1761. Papers relating to the first settlement of Halifax. 1749-1756. Papers relating to the first establishment of a representative assembly in Nova Scotia. 1755-1761.
Website: Records of the Deportation and Le Grand Dérangement, 1714-1768
Akins, Thomas Beamish, 1809-1891
Curren, Benjamin
Nova Scotia. House of Assembly
Acadians
Acadians — Expulsion, 1755
Nova Scotia — History — 1713-1775
United States — History — French and Indian War, 1755-1763 — Sources
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Letters on the recent railway riots, their causes and results : and the political position of the Young Ireland brigade / by Joseph Howe. Halifax : 1856-. 19 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 H831
Catholics — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1784-1867
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1763-1867 — Sources.
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A Fair representation of His Majesty's right to Nova-Scotia or Acadie : briefly stated from the memorials of the English commissaries : with an answer to the objections contained in the French memorials, and in a treatise entitled Discussion sommaire sur London : Printed by E. Owen, 1756. 64 pages ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 G28
Commissioners for Adjusting the Boundaries for the British and French Possessions in America. The memorials of the English and French commissaries concerning the limits of Nova Scotia or Acadia
Commissaires sur les possessions et les droits de la Grande-Bretagne et de la France en Amérique. Mémoires des Commissaires du Roi et de ceux de Sa Majesté britannique, sur les possessions & les droits respectifs des deux couronnes en Amérique : avec les actes publics & pièces justificatives.
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The militia of Nova Scotia, 1749-1867 / by Joseph Plimsoll Edwards. Londonderry : 1911-. 46 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 ED9
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A history and geography of Nova Scotia / by John B. Calkin. Halifax : A. & W. MacKinlay, 1911. 112 pages, [2] pages of plates : map ; 17 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 C12 H62 1911
Nova Scotia — History
Nova Scotia — Description and travel — 1901-1950.
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Calkin, John Burgess, 1829-1918
History and geography of Nova Scotia Halifax : A. & W. Mackinlay, 1877. 96 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 C12 H62
SA AK F100 C12
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A history and geography of Nova Scotia / by John B. Calkin. Halifax : A. & W. Mackinlay, 1877. 96 pages : map ; 18 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 C12 H62 1877
Nova Scotia — History
Nova Scotia — Description and travel.
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The geography and history of Nova Scotia : with a general outline of geography, and a sketch of the British possessions in North America / by J.B. Calkin. New and rev. ed. Halifax : A. & W. Mackinlay, 1864. 110 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : colour map ; 16
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 C12 G29 1864
In portfolio, with map pasted inside back cover; map title: Mackinlay's map of the province of Nova Scotia, including the Island of Cape Breton / compiled from actual & recent surveys, 1865 ; published by A. & W. Mackinlay. On portfolio: Mackinlay's map and history of Nova Scotia. - New edition - 1865. Map missing.
Nova Scotia — Description and travel
Nova Scotia — History.
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