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Ballard, Joseph M.A., 1971-

Historic House Names of Nova Scotia / Joseph M.A. Ballard.  Halifax : Nimbus Publishing Limited, 2018. 162 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GT471 B35 2018

Uniacke House, Acacia Grove, Winckworth, Saint's Rest, Spruce Tree Cottage. Ever wonder how Nova Scotia houses got their names? The better-known names are largely connected with prominent historical figures who resided in commodious homes with sprawling grounds, but the naming tradition was far more prevalent than that. In this book, the author explains that a "hurst" is a wooded eminence, a hillock, or a grove, and this suffix lends an air of nobility to a property-Springhurst in Maitland, Lindenhurst in Halifax, and the ubiquitous Elmhurst, which appears in various communities. Named houses have a certain essence and vitality about them. Named or not, places do possess character-and putting a name to something that exhibits character makes sense on some level. Historic House Names of Nova Scotia provides a fascinating look at the house-naming tradition in Nova Scotia. What sorts of names did Bluenosers create, and what did the names mean? Author and historian Joe Ballard has amassed a wealth of historical information and photos on the subject.

House names — Nova Scotia — History
Nova Scotia — History

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Goodyear, Hedley Charles Cornick

Dear Flo : letters from a pilot, correspondence home 1941-1944 / by Flight Lieutenant Hedley Charles Cornick Goodyear ; compiled and edited by John Grant.  Nova Scotia : Boularderie Island Press, 2021. 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2474.1 G66 2021 - Open Shelf

Hedley (Ted) Charles Cornick Goodyear chose to leave his university studies at Mount Allison University to enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force (R.C.A.F.), following the lead of his older brother Ray. 'Dear Flo, Letters From a Pilot' includes all of the letters that were received by his mother Florence (Flo) between 1941-1944. These letters offer a rare glimpse into the day-to-day life of the pilots who trained on and flew fighter/bombers during the Second World War. They also offer insight into the risks, triumphs and resilience of all those Ted Goodyear met, both before departing for England and while stationed overseas.

Grant, John
Harvie, Ann E.

World War, 1939-1945 — Correspondence
Flight navigators, Military — New Brunswick — Correspondence
Goodyear, Hedley Charles Cornick — Correspondence
Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force — Biography
Fighter pilots — Canada — Correspondence

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Whiston, Norris Margeson

Cobequid meguma and Acadian villages : villages now in Colchester, Eastern Hants, and adjacent areas of Pictou and Cumberland Counties / by Norris M. Whiston.  2018 Tatamagouche : Norris M. Whiston, 2018. 308 pages : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2350.5 W55 2018 - Open Shelf

Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 304-208).

Acadians — History
Mi'kmaq — History
Cobequid Bay Region (N.S.) — History

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Ballard, Melanie

Mary Kaulbach's Normal School Diary : 1892-1893 / edited by Melanie Ballard and John N. Grant.  Truro : Little White Schoolhouse Press, 2021. 133 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2349 T78 M37 2021 - Open Shelf

In 1892, Mary Kaulbach came to Truro to attend the Provincial Normal School. Her diary provides a glimpse into the life of a young woman in Victorian Truro and at Normal.

Students — Nova Scotia — Diaries
Teachers colleges — Nova Scotia
Truro (N.S.) — History — 19th century
Nova Scotia — Genealogy

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Whiston, Norris Margeson

Life in Nova Scotia and North Colchester in the 1950's and 1960 / by Norris Whiston.  2018 version Earltown : Norris M. Whiston, 2018. 98 pages : illustrations, facsims. ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2349 N873 Z48 2018 - Open Shelf

Includes index, pages 95-96.

Colchester (N.S. : County) — History
Colchester (N.S. : County) — Biography

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Campbell, Stephanie

Peer into the Past : History and Oral Traditions of Richmond County / by Stephanie Campbell; research assistant Ann Marie Yorke.  Descousse, NS : Richmond County Literacy Network, 2004. 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 R52 C35 2004 - Open Shelf

Compiled oral and other histories from Richmond County Nova Scotia.

Yorke, Ann Marie

Readers for new literates
Richmond (N.S. : County) — History

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McDonald, Tim, 1965-

Remembering Queens County, Nova Scotia : People, Places, Events / Tim McDonald.  Nova Scotia : Tim McDonald, 2019. 202 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 Q4 M35 2019 v.2 - Open Shelf

Volume 2. Includes index.

Nova Scotia — History
Queens (N.S. : County) — Pictorial works
Queens (N.S. : County) — History

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McDonald, Tim, 1965-

Remembering Queens County, Nova Scotia : People, Places, Events / by Tim McDonald.  Halifax : Tim McDonald, 2017. vi, 202 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 Q4 M35 2017 - Open Shelf

Tim McDonald's name is a familiar one in the area because of his many articles in the Liverpool newspaper, The Queens County Advance, that deal with the local history. As well, his recent books have been very popular. He was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, in 1965. Through much influence and guidance from his grandmother, Doris (Berriman) Taillon, he became very interested in his own family history when he was only 19 years old. Over the years since then, he has delved into not only other families' genealogies but also involved himself in researching people, places and events of Queens County. This book is a collection of his articles that have appeared in The Advance since 2015. As an added bonus, there are some new topics that have been included in this publication. 'Remembering Queens County, Nova Scotia' shares some of the rich history of South Queens and will help preserve some of the stories that needed to be told. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nova Scotia — History
Queens (N.S. : County) — Pictorial works
Queens (N.S. : County) — History

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McDonald, Tim, 1965-

Queens County, Nova Scotia : photos from the past & present / by Tim McDonald.  Halifax : Tim McDonald, 2015. vi, 202 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 Q4 M35 2015 - Open Shelf

McDonald, Tim, 1965-

Queens County, Nova Scotia : photos from the past & present / by Tim McDonald.  Halifax : Tim McDonald, 2014. vi, 202 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 Q4 M35 2014 - Open Shelf

Cover art, photo inserts and book design by Chris Fudge and Plateau Entertainment. Includes bibliographical references: page 202.

Queens (N.S. : County) — Pictorial works
Queens (N.S. : County) — History — Pictorial works

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MacDonald, Clyde F.

Notable Pictonians / by Clyde F. MacDonald.  Pictou, N.S. : Advocate Printing & Publishing, 2003. 200 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 P5 M244 2003 - Open Shelf

The history of 8 notable Piconian residents from around 1830 to the 1990s. Each chapter is named for the person who's biography is featured, with appropriate date ranges for the individual.

Nova Scotia — History
Pictou (N.S. : County) — History
Pictou (N.S. : County) — Biography

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Labor, Nelson

Kings County Schools : A Brief History of the Schools and School Sections of Kings County, Nova Scotia / compiled by Nelson Labor and Linda Hart.  Kingston, NS : Published by T & S Office Essentials & Printing, 2011. 124 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 K56 K56 2011 - Open Shelf

History of the schools of Kings County, Nova Scotia. Includes bibliographic reference and table of contents for easy searching.

Schools — Kings County (N.S.)
Kings County (N.S.) — History

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Cumberland County Genealogical Society

Five score and more : reflections of a centenarian Amherst, NS : Cumberland County Genealogical Society, 2017. 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 C84 Z48 2017 - Open Shelf

Biographical sketches of over 250 centenarians who have lived in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. Includes bibliographical references.

Centenarians — Nova Scotia — Cumberland (County)
Obituaries — Nova Scotia — Cumberland (County)
Cumberland (N.S. : County) — Genealogy

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Black, L.W.

Historical Record of the Posterity of William Black : Who settled in this country in 1775 and was brought up to the year 1885 : Revised Edition / compiled by L.W. Black.  Sackville, NB : Printed by the Tribune Press, 1959. 167 pages ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F93 B56 1959

Updated and revised edition of Cyrus Black's work which can be found under F93 B56. Updates include records from 1885-1959 that are compiled by L.W. Black of Middle Sackville, New Brunswick.

Black family
Nova Scotia — Genealogy

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Polk Canada Ltd.

Valley & South Shore : Criss Cross Directories / Might's Directories.  Polk Canada Ltd., 1997- 3 volumes ; 34 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F91 N85 P76

Archives have 2 copies of 1997 and 1 copy 1998.

Annapolis Valley (N.S.) — Directories
South Shore (N.S.) — Directories

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Polk Canada Ltd.

Truro-Amherst, Antigonish and region : Criss Cross Directories / Might's Directories.  Polk Canada Ltd., 1997- 3 volumes ; 34 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F91 N85 P758

Archives have 1 copy of 1997 and 2 copies of 1998.

Truro (N.S.) — Directories
Amherst (N.S.) — Directories
Antigonish — Directories

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McAlpine, Charles D.

The Maritime guide for 1875 : containing routes for summer travel through the coast and inland towns of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape Breton, and Prince Edward Island Halifax : Charles McAlpine, 1875. 120 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F91 M12 1875

Maritime provinces — Description and travel

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Uniacke, Richard John, 1807-1887

Uniacke's Sketches of Cape Breton : and other papers relating to Cape Breton Island / edited with an introduction and notes by C. Bruce Fergusson, M.A, D. Phil. (Oxon.), Archivist of Nova Scotia.  Halifax, NS : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1958. ix, 198 pages : portrait, maps (3 folded) : 24 cm.

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Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F90 N85 Ar2n

Nova Scotia Series I. This volume was prepared not only to make available in the first instance Rev. Richard John Uniacke's "Sketches of Cape Breton", which were written at Sydney, N.S., between 1862 and 1865, but also to present a number of additional descriptions of the Island from the pens of other writers at interviews between the founding of Sydney in 1785 and the year 1862.

Fergusson, Charles Bruce, 1911-1978

Public Archives of Nova Scotia

Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Genealogy
Nova Scotia — Genealogy
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Description and travel

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Whelan, Edward

The Union of the British Provinces / by Edward Whelan, M.P.P..  Gardenvale, Quebec : Garden City Press, 1927. 248 pages : portraits ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F75 W56

Written immediately after the conferences held in Charlottetown and Québec in 1864, on confederation, and the accompanying banquets held in Halifax, St-John, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. F75 W56 c.1 - Copy 1 F75 W56 c.2 - Copy 2 (handwritten note inside to D.C. Harvey from Eileen Odevoive)

Charlottetown Conference (1864)
Québec Conference (1864 : Québec, Québec)
Canada — History — 1841-1867
Canada — History — Confederation, 1867
Canada — Politics and government — 1841-1867

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Grant, George M. (George Monro), 1835-1902

Joseph Howe / by Rev. G.M. Grant.  2nd edition Halifax, NS : A. & W. Mackinlay, 1906. 110 pages ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5204.9 H6 1906

By Rev. G.M. Grant to which is added Howe's essay on the organization of the empire. Reprinted from the columns of the Canadian monthly and national review, where it appeared in the May, June, July, and August numbers of the year 1875.

Howe, Joseph, 1804-1873

Howe, Joseph, 1804-1873
Politicians — Nova Scotia — Biography

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DesBrisay, Mather Byles, 1828-1896

History of the County of Lunenburg / by Mather Byles DesBrisay.  2nd edition Toronto : W. Briggs, 1895. 585 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F106 L97 D45 1895

Second Edition of the History of the County of Lunenburg updated to include more information including a map and a photograph of Lunenburg in the opening of the book, and an index in the back for easy searching the document.

Lunenburg (N.S. : County) — History
Lunenburg (N.S. : County) — Genealogy

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Brannon, Rebecca

The Consequences of Loyalism : Essays in Honor of Robert M. Calhoon / edited by Rebecca Brannon and Joseph S. Moore.  Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, 2019. xii, 333 pages ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E277 C65 2019

Since the 1970s scholars have regarded Robert M. Calhoon as an invigorating and definitive force when it comes to the study of American Loyalism. His decades-long work redefined the Loyalists' role in the American Revolution from being portrayed as static characters opposing change to being seen eventually as reactionary actors adapting to a society in upheaval. Loyalists were central to the Revolution, and Calhoon and these authors argue that they were not so different in ideology from their Patriot neighbors — except occasionally when they were. In The Consequences of Loyalism, Rebecca Brannon and Joseph S. Moore seek to provide an understanding of Calhoon's foundational influence and the development continuing in the wake of his prolific career. Includes bibliographic references and index.

Moore, Joseph S.

Calhoon, Robert M. — (Robert McCluer)
American loyalists
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783

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Stanley, Sir Henry Morton, 1841-

Through the dark continent : or, The sources of the Nile, around the great lakes of equatorial Africa, and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean / by Henry M. Stanley.  Toronto, ON : J.B. Magurn, 1878. 2 volumes in 1. : portraits, illustrations, plates, maps ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - DT351 S83 1878

Perhaps best known as the intrepid adventurer who located the missing explorer David Livingstone in equatorial Africa in 1871, Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) played a major role in assembling the fragmented discoveries and uncertain geographical knowledge of central Africa into a coherent picture. He was the first European to explore the Congo River; assisted at the founding of the Congo Free State, and helped pave the way for the opening up of modern Africa. In this classic account of one of his most important expeditions, the venerable Victorian recounts the incredibly difficult and perilous journey during which he explored the great lakes of Central Africa, confirming their size and position, searched for the sources of the Nile, and traced the unknown Congo River from the depths of the continent to the sea.

Stanley, Henry M. — (Henry Morton), — 1841-1904
Africa, Central — Description and travel

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Gallant, Muriel Faustina

A Life of Faith : An autobiography / written by Muriel Faustina Gallant, M.M. ; compiled and edited by Elise Mary Ellison Macdonald.  111 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 29 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - CT25 G35

Wile, Jane

The Totten Family : United Empire Loyalists / researched and compiled by James Everett Totten's cousin Jane (Currie) Wile.  Belmont, NS : Wile, 1999. 92 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 T688 W676 1999 - Open Shelf

Totten Family tree to the year 1999. Includes index for easy searching and finding names. Dedicated to James Everett Totten, Wile's cousin.

Totten Family — Genealogy

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