Corvette Navy Toronto : Macmillan of Canada.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D811 L218
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The girls of the King's Navy Victoria. B.C. : Sono Nis Press, 1983.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D811 G74
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This was my war : a collection of memories of the 1939-1945 conflict / K. Antoft ; collected and edited by Ian Maxwell. 3rd ed. Tancook Island : Little Daisy Press, 1993. 231 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D811 A2 T45 1993
Antoft, Kell, 1923-
Maxwell, Ian, 1915-
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives.
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J'ai vécu la guerre : temoignages de soldats acadiens, 1939-1945 / Ronald Cormier. Moncton, N.B. : Éditions d'Acadie, 1988. 248, [6] pages : illustrations , maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D811 A2 C67 1988
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Acadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Western.
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And it was my war too : a companion to This was my war (1992) / collected and edited by Ian Maxwell. Tancook Island : Little Daisy Press, 1994. 313 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D811 A2 A62 1994
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives.
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Running the gauntlet : an oral history of Canadian merchant seamen in World War II / by Mike Parker. Halifax : Nimbus, 1994. xi, 344 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D810 T8 P37 1994
Merchant marine — Canada — History — 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Atlantic Ocean
Merchant mariners — Canada — Biography.
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The merchant navy fights ; tramps against U-boats London : J. Murray, 1940. 121 pages : front. ; 19 1/2 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D810 T8 D618 M554
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian
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Open your hearts: Montreal : Vehicule Press.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D810 C4 M37
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The Ajax affair: citizens and sailors in wartime Halifax, 1939-1945 / by James F. E. White. Halifax : the Author, 1984. vii, 120 pages: illustrations; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D810 C36 C212 W585
Halifax (N.S.) — History — 20th century
Halifax (N.S.) — History — 1939-1945
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U-boats against Canada : German submarines in Canadian waters / Michael L. Hadley. Kingston, ON. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985. xxii, 360 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D781 H32 1985
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations — Submarine
World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Atlantic Ocean
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian
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North Atlantic run: the Royal Canadian Navy Toronto : University of Toronto Pr., 1985.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D779 M659
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H.M.C.S.: one photographer's impression Thomas Allen.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D779 C3 M659
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On the triangle run / James B. Lamb. Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1986. xv, 237 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D779 C3 L35
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Atlantic Ocean.
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Canada's war at sea Montreal : A.M. Beatty, 1944. 2 v. in 1. : illustrations (part col.), ports., maps ; 30 c
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D779 C2 C3 1944
Leacock, Stephen Butler, 1869-1944
Roberts, Leslie, 1896-
Morton, J. Alexander
Ward, Wallace.
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations
World War, 1939-1945 — Canada
Canada — History, Naval.
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Canada's Atlantic War Toronto : Samuel-Stevens, 1979.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D770 S975
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An East coast port-- Halifax at war, 1939-1945 / compiled and edited by Graham Metson ; with the assistance of Cheryl Lean. Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1981. 157 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D768.15 H173
World War, 1939-1945 — Nova Scotia — Halifax
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Social aspects — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Halifax (N.S.) — History.
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Alex Colville : diary of a war artist / compiled by Graham Metson and Cheryl Lean. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 1981. 159 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D743.2 C727
Lean, Cheryl
Metson, Graham, 1934-
Painters — Canada — Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Art and the war.
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War: first year London : Oxford University Press, 1940.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D743 M18 W19
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Short studies on great subjects N.Y. : Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1873.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D7 F942
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The epic of Vimy / compiled and edited by W.W. Murray. 2nd ed. Ottawa : The Legionary, 1937. 223 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D680 F8 M984
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Percy Willmot : Cape Bretoner at war / Brian Douglas Tennyson. Sydney : Cape Breton University Press, 2007. 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D640 W744 2007
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Willmot, Percy, — 1884-1919 — Correspondence.
Soldiers — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Correspondence
World War, 1914-1918 — Personal narratives, Canadian.
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The letters of a young Canadian soldier during World War I : P. Winthrop McClare of Mount Uniacke, N.S / edited by Dale McClare. Dartmouth : Brook House Press, 2000. xiii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D640 M213 2000
Soldiers — Canada Correspondence
World War, 1914-1918 Personal narratives, Canadian.
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My darling girl : wartime letters of James Lloyd Evans, 1914-1918 / edited by Susan Evans Shaw. Hamilton, ON. : S. Evans Shaw, 1999. 120 pages : port. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D640 E82 1999
Includes indexes.
World War, 1914-1918 — Personal narratives, Canadian
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Bishop, Harold Fletcher, 1896-1919
As ever, the wartime letters written by Cpl. Harold Fletcher Bishop : A Student from Acadia University / compiled by John Bishop Grant. Sydney : John Bishop Grant, 2016. 158 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D640 B547 2016
Harold Bishop, of Auburn, Nova Scotia was a member of the Class of 1917 at Acadia University. Upon completing his sophomore year in 1915 he, along with the majority of men in his graduating class, joined the 4th University Company of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. This is a compilation of his letters sent from training bases and the front lines of France to the home front. In them, he thanks those who wrote to him and sent parcels, as well as he advises his brothers how they should enlist. A personal story of military service, including mention of the loss of friends in combat. Bishop demonstrateds his attachment to family, the importance of his faith, and the connections to those he knew on the campus of Acadia and in his home community. Includes index.
Bishop, Harold Fletcher, — 1896-1919 — Correspondence
Canada. — Canadian Army. — Battalion (Eastern Ontario Regiment), 2nd — Biography
Acadia University — Students — Biography
World War, 1914-1918 — Personal narratives, Canadian
Soldiers — Nova Scotia — Biography
Soldiers — Canada — Biography
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My grandfather's war: Canadians remember the First World War Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1981.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D640 A2 M38
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