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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Remember Africville Atlantic Region : National Film Board of Canada ; 1991. 1 VHS videocassette : 35 minutes.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2346.9 R46 A37 1991 - Open Shelf
Africville, a small black settlement, lay within the city limits of Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the 1960s, the families who lived there were uprooted and their homes demolished in the name of urban renewal and integration. Now, more than twenty years later, the site of the community of Africville is a stark, under-utilized park. Former residents, their descendants and some of the decision-makers, speak out and, with the help of archival photographs and films, tell the story of that painful relocation.
Relocation (Housing) — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Blacks — Nova Scotia — Halifax — Social conditions
Africville (Halifax, 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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Sand Point Guysborough County Nova Scotia : 233 years of History (1784-2017) Including the Carrigan Descendants / compiled by Fraser West. Halifax : The Printing House Limited, 2018. 363 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2349 S26 G89 2018 - Open Shelf
History of the Sand Point, Guysborough Country area from 1784-2017 and the genealogy of the Carrigan Family descendants. Includes back index for quick searching.
Genealogy — Guysborough County (N.S.)
History — Guysborough County (N.S.)
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Dartmouth Memorial Gardens : A-L / complied by Linda Gray-LeBlanc. Halifax : Linda Gray-LeBlanc, 2014. 250 pages : colour illustrations; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS88 H173 D37 2014a - Open Shelf
Photographs, complied by Linda Gray-LeBlanc, of gravesites at the Dartmouth Memorial Gardens by surname from A-L. Includes an index in the back of the book; index directs the reader to which page each burial site is on by name of the person.
Cemeteries — Halifax County (N.S.)
Cemeteries — Dartmouth (N.S.)
Dartmouth (N.S.) — Genealogy
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Nova Scotia. Department of Health. Uranium Task Force
The Occurrence and Significance of Uranium, Radium, and Radon in Water Supplies in Nova Scotia : A Report of the Investigation Carried Out by the Provincial Uranium Task Force Halifax : Nova Scotia Department of Health, 1986. Binder: 256 pages : maps, figures, tables; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - TD427 U7 1986
Compiled report after investigations carried out by the Provincial Uranium Task Force regarding Uranium, Radium, and Radon in well water across Nova Scotia. Maps, figures, and tables are used to show how and where water contamination happens, as well as recommendations for how to prevent and stop water contamination in the future.
Grantham, David A.
MacFarlane, D.S. (David S.)
Drinking water — Nova Scotia
Uranium
Radon
Radium
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Dartmouth Memorial Gardens : L-Z / compiled by Linda Gray-LeBlanc. Halifax : Linda Gray-LeBlanc, 2014. 243 pages (numbered 251-494) : Cemetery index : colour illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS88 H173 D37 2014b - Open Shelf
Photograph collection, complied by Linda Gray-LeBlanc, of gravesites at the Dartmouth Memorial Gardens by surname from L-Z. Includes an index in the back of the book; index directs the reader to which page each burial site is on by name of the person.
Cemeteries — Halifax County (N.S.)
Cemeteries — Dartmouth (N.S.)
Dartmouth (N.S.) — Genealogy
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Around the corner : homes and stories of the Barss Corner area, 1838-2018 / compiled by Marlean (Taylor) Rhodenizer. Revised second edition Barss Corner, NS : Marlean (Taylor) Rhodenizer, February 2019. 238 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2349 B37 R46 2019 - Open Shelf
Around the Corner: Homes and Stories of the Barss Corner Area 1838-2021 reflects extensive research into families in the communities of Barss Corner, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada. House information is included for the surrounding communities of Cornwall and Scarsdale, as well as selected homes in Farmington, NS. The information in this book was supported by Marlean’s daughter, Pat Rhodenizer, who researched land deeds going back to the original Crown Land Grants of the mid 1800s. Photos, home ownership from the 1800s to the present, and family stories have been compiled to create this 238-page history of the area.
Barss Corner (N.S.) — History
Barss Corner (N.S.) — Biography
Dwellings — Nova Scotia — Barss Corner
Barss Corner (N.S.) — Buildings, structures, etc.
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St. Thomas More Church : Dedicated in Faith / Margaret Fortier. Dartmouth : Published by St. Thomas More Parish Printed in Canada by Marquis Book Printing, 2012. 78 pages; colour illustrations; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - BX1424 C48 F67
Churches — Dartmouth (N.S.) — St. Thomas More Church
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First Aid to the Injured : the St. John Ambulance Association / by James Cantlie. London, UK : St. John Ambulance Association, 1915. 255 pages ; illustrations : 14 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RC87 F58 1915
First aid resource that includes a list of illustrations (diagrams for first aid reference) and index of terms for easy searching for a practice. Booklet is broken up into two sections: Main Pages numbered 1-215: illustrations, text, and index of terms relating to different medical conditions and first aid practices to follow. Back Pages numbered 1-40: St. John Ambulance Association general price list for equipment and resources from stretchers and textbooks for businesses/military to military, railway, and civilian first aid kits, with index list of prices and products.
First aid in illness and injury — Canada
First aid in illness and injury — Wounds and injuries
Commonwealth countries
World War, 1914-1918 — Canada
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Nova Scotia and the great influenza pandemic, 1918-1920 : a remembrance of the dead and an archive for the living / compiled and edited by Ruth Holmes Whitehead. Halifax, NS : Nimbus Publishing Limited, 2020. xvi, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RC150.55 C23 N86 2020
The definitive academic resource on the Great Influenza by celebrated historian behind Black Loyalists, in time for the pandemic's centenary. It could kill in as little as ten hours. Extremely high fever, bleeding from eyes, nose, and ears, terrible pain, especially in the head and the joints, delirium--and then its victims literally drowned in their own fluids. Fifty to 100 million people worldwide died in this global pandemic in the early twentieth century. The Great Influenza first entered Nova Scotia through ports. (Sydney, Cape Breton, received five hundred sick American troops in a single day.) For three years, the province coped with this vicious epidemic as it spread like wildfire. Local economies ceased functioning; fishing fleets, banks, and apple-canning factories reported all staff were suffering from the flu. The heart of this book, however, is its human element. Oral histories, family memoirs, newspaper articles, and provincial death records tell, county by county, stories of those who died. Accompanied by 20 photographs, Nova Scotia and the Great Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1920 chronicles both provincial and personal efforts to cope during this most perilous time. Includes bibliographical references.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 — Nova Scotia — Sources
Influenza — Patients — Nova Scotia — Biography — Sources
Nova Scotia — Biography — Sources
Nova Scotia — History — 20th century — Sources
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The History of Medicine in Nova Scotia from Confederation to Medicare : the Transition form Allopathic to Scientific Medicine / by Allan Everett Marble. Halifax, NS : Allan Everett Marble, 2022. 360 pages : illustrations : charts : 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - R463 N69 M361
Chronicle about the changes that have happened in health care within Nova Scotia through the years including the expansion of health care into rural communities, the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918, the Halifax Explosion of 1917, and deployed health professionals during war. Includes a bibliography and an index for easy searching at the back of the book.
Medicare — Nova Scotia
Medical Care — History — Nova Scotia
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Atlantic Canada's Greatest Storms / by Dan Soucoup; edited by Angela Mombourquette. Halifax, NS : Nimbus Publishing Limited, 2019. 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QC959 A85 S68 2019
Author Dan Soucoup takes readers from the eighteenth century to present day, detailing the blizzards, floods, tornadoes, and tsunamis that have brought havoc to the East Coast.
Storms — Atlantic Provinces — History
Storms — Nova Scotia — History
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Untitled / Marie-Therese McGuinness. 2nd edition Montreal, PQ : Quebecor World Inc., 2008. Unnumbered ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8575 S65 Z46 2008
Some background is provided on ancestors but it mostly is a biography for her and her immediate family.
Nova Scotia — Genealogy
Nova Scotia — History
McGuinness Family
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Poems and Lyrics by a Super-Centenarian : (I needed the quiet) / by St. Cécile-Marie, F. J. (Annie Adèle Samson) ; compiled by Garvie Samson. 4th edition Dartmouth, NS : Garvie Samson, 2018. 94 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8537 A46 A14 2018
Research, compilation and notes by Gervais (Garvie) Samson. St. Cécile-Marie, F.J. (Annie Adèle Samson) (1891-2004), Teacher and Poet. Celebrating 113 years and 9 months of service Includes bibliographical references.
Canadian poetry — Women authors
Canadian poetry — 21st century
Canadian poetry — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Poetry
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Canadian Authors Association Atlantic Branch
Atlantic Musings : A Tribute Anthology / compiled by the Canadian Authors Association Atlantic Branch. Halifax, NS : Atlantic, Canadian Authors, 2007. 112 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8329.5 A85 A84 2007
Compiled work from Canadian authors (poets, writers, and playwrights) written and compiled by members of the Canadian Author's Association Atlantic Branch. Completes the trilogy of anthologies from the CAA-Atlantic Branch - Atlantic Voices in 1994 and Atlantic Echoes in 1998.
Canadian poetry — Nova Scotia
Canadian fiction — Nova Scotia
Canadian poetry — 20th century
Canadian fiction — 20th century
Nova Scotia — History
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Cartoons by Chambers Published During the Past Year in the Chronicle-Herald and the Mail-Star 1967 / by Robert Chambers. Halifax : McCurdy Print Co., 1967. 68 pages : illustrations ; 18 x 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NC1449 C45 A45 1967
Political Cartoons from the Chronicle-Herald and the Mail-Star by Robert Chambers from 1967.
Political cartoons — Canada
Caricatures and cartoons — Canada
Canada — Politics and government — Humor
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Cartoons by Chambers Published During the Past Year in the Chronicle-Herald and the Mail-Star 1966 / by Robert Chambers. Halifax : McCurdy Print. Co., 1966. 74 pages : illustrated ; 18 x 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NC1449 C45 A45 1966
Political Cartoons from the Chronicle-Herald and the Mail-Star by Robert Chambers from 1966.
Political cartoons — Canada
Caricatures and cartoons — Canada
Canada — Politics and government — Humor
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Violence, order, and unrest : a history of British North America, 1749-1876 / edited by Elizabeth Mancke, Jerry Bannister, Denis McKim, and Scott W. See. Toronto, ON : University of Toronto Press, 2019. xiv, 519 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HN103 V56 2019
This edited collection offers a broad reinterpretation of the origins of Canada. Drawing on cutting-edge research in a number of fields, Violence, Order, and Unrest explores the development of British North America from the mid-eighteenth century through the aftermath of Confederation. The chapters cover an ambitious range of topics, from Indigenous culture to municipal politics, public executions to runaway slave advertisements. Cumulatively, this book examines the diversity of Indigenous and colonial experiences across northern North America and provides fresh perspectives on the crucial roles of violence and unrest in attempts to establish British authority in Indigenous territories. Drawing on specific case studies of law and state formation in English and French Canada, Violence, Order, and Unrest considers patterns of settler colonialism across the century before Confederation. The result is a collection that brings together innovative research in different fields to reconsider the ideology, governance, and political culture that underpinned British North America. In the aftermath of Canada 150, Violence, Order, and Unrest offers a timely contribution to current debates over the nature of Canadian culture and history. It demonstrates that we cannot understand Canada today without considering its origins as a colonial project.
Bannister, Jerry, 1968-
McKim, Denis
See, Scott W., 1950-
Violence — Canada — History — 18th century — Case studies
Violence — Canada — History — 19th century — Case studies
Canada — Colonization — History — 18th century — Case studies
Canada — Colonization — History — 19th century — Case studies
Canada — Social conditions — 18th century — Case studies
Canada — Social conditions —19th century — Case studies
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A little of everything : general stores of Nova Scotia – remembering the old days, old ways / by Mike Parker. East Lawrencetown : Pottersfield Press, 2022. 300 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HF5429.6 C32 N68 2022
The days of the general store may be long gone but thanks to Mike Parker are not forgotten. Illustrated with more than 400 images, A Little of Everything has something for everyone. For those who remember the sights, sounds and smells of an old-fashioned general store, this book will be a walk down memory lane. For those less fortunate who missed out on the waning days of the general store but are looking for a good read with a touch of history, A Little of Everything will open another window to the past in Mike's long-time quest to shine light on Nova Scotia's old days, old ways. Yesterday's general store was today's Costco, Home Depot and Superstore rolled into one – and then some. Includes selected bibliography.
General stores — Nova Scotia — History
General stores — Nova Scotia — History — Pictorial works
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Steam titans : Cunard, Collins, and the epic battle for commerce on the North Atlantic / by William M Fowler Jr. . New York : Bloomsbury, 2017. 358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HE945 A2 F69 2017
Steam Titan' tells the story of a transatlantic fight born of and powered by steam, a fight to wrest control of the globe's most lucrative trade route. It's the story of two men: Samuel Cunard and Edward Knight Collins, and two nations: Great Britain and the United States. Wielding the tools of technology, finance, and politics--and at the same time coping with the inevitable, sometimes crushing, perils of the sea--these opposing forces fought to capture control of a commercial lifeline that spanned the North Atlantic. Tracing the paths of ships, goods, people, information and money, historian William M. Fowler Jr. brings to life the spectacle of this generation-long struggle for supremacy, during which New York rose to take her place among the greatest ports and cities of the world, and recounts the tale of competition that was the opening act in the drama of economic globalization that is still unfolding today. Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-350) and index.
Collins, Edward Knight, 1802-1878
Cunard, Samuel, Sir, 1787-1865
Collins Line
Cunard Steamship Company, ltd
Merchant marine — North Atlantic Ocean — Biography
Steamboat lines — North Atlantic Ocean — History — 19th century
Shipping — North Atlantic Ocean — History — 19th century
Steamboats — North Atlantic Ocean — History — 19th century
United States — Commerce — 19th century
Great Britain — Commerce — 19th century
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End of the line : the Dominion Atlantic Railway : a trip back in time / Mike Parker. Lawrencetown Beach, NS: Pottersfield Press, 2019. 223 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HE2810 D7 P37 2019
End of the Line follows a similar track as three of Mike Parker's best-selling books about ghost towns and deserted island settlements - Gold Rush Ghost Towns, Buried in the Woods, and Ghost Islands of Nova Scotia. Presented in Mike's popular storytelling style, and drawing upon more than 430 images, many of them in colour, End of the Line opens another window to the past, taking the reader for a nostalgic trip back in time on the abandoned Dominion Atlantic Railway along the once-famous Land of Evangeline route from Yarmouth to Halifax through the heart of the Annapolis Valley. There have been many railways but none more storied than the D.A.R. (1894-1994), considered to be 'one of the more important pages out of Nova Scotia history.' Mike Parker is a best-selling author who has been writing about his native province for many years and has earned numerous accolades, including that of Nova Scotia's Storyteller. Mike is affiliated with the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies at Saint Mary's University as a research associate. He is a graduate of Acadia University and a long-time resident of Dartmouth. Includes bibliographical references (page 222-223).
Dominion Atlantic Railway — History
Dominion Atlantic Railway — History — Pictorial works
Railroads — Nova Scotia — Annapolis Valley (Annapolis County and Kings County) — History
Railroads — Nova Scotia — Annapolis Valley (Annapolis County and Kings County) — History — Pictorial works
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Come Hell or High Water : A History of the Victoria Co-operative Fisheries Ross Ferry, NS : Boularderie Island Press, 2016. 213 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, charts ; 17 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD9464 C34 V53 2016
The Victoria Co-operative Fisheries has a way of defying the odds. It was born in 1956 as the fishing industry transitioned from salt fish and canned lobster to fresh product destined for the Boston market. It had to compete with Nickerson's, Leonard Brothers and F.W. Leslie's, the Goliaths of the North of Smokey fishing industry, as well as suitcase buyers during the lobster season. In the early years the small co-operative did not meet the expectations of many of its fishermen but stayed the course. After sixty years, leadership initiatives, member solidarity and an enlightened response to industry crises, the Victoria Co-operative Fisheries can claim its place as a major force in northern Cape Breton's fishery.
Victoria Co-operative Fisheries — History
Fisheries — Nova Scotia — Neils Harbour — History
Fish trade — Nova Scotia — Neils Harbour — History
Fishery co-management — Nova Scotia — Neils Harbour
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Rising to the Challenge : The Craftsmanship of Perry Henniger / compiled by James Henniger ; photographs by John Jennings. Peterborough, ON : James Henniger, 2018. 147 pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD8039 W62 C3 2018
Henniger, Perry — 1906-1990
Woodworkers — Ontario — Biography
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Royal Scottish Country Dance Society Nova Scotia Branch
A collection of Scottish country dances / by Royal Scottish Country Dance Society Nova Scotia Branch ; diagrams by Keith Rose. Halifax, NS : Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Nova Scotia Branch, 2017. 68 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GV1646 S35 C665 2017
Written by or in honour of Nova Scotian dancers. Collected on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the RSCDS Nova Scotia branch in 2017. Includes index.
Folk dancing, Scottish — Nova Scotia
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