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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First World War honour roll of Guysborough County, Nova Scotia / Bruce F. MacDonald. Antigonish : Bantry Publishing, 2015. Volumes : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm. Issued also in electronic format.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D609 C2 M25 2015
The book contains profiles of 71 First World War soldiers from Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, all of whom died while in uniform, the majority in military combat. The stories in volume I are arranged chronologically by date of death and covering the years 1915 to 1917 inclusive while volume II focuses in on 1918-1937. The profiles provide a glimpse into the events of the war through the soldiers' stories, and details what life was like for returning soldiers. While the majority served with Nova Scotian battalions, some served with units from New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario and Western Canada, also providing a glimpse into the roles of various military battalions and some non-combat units in the war's events. Includes index.
Canada. — Canadian Armed Forces — Registers of dead
World War, 1914-1918 — Registers of dead — Nova Scotia — Guysborough (County)
Soldiers — Nova Scotia — Guysborough (County) — Biography
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Canada in Flanders / by Sir Max Aitken ; with a preface by A. Bonar Law and an introduction by Sir Robert Borden. London ; Toronto : Hodder and Stoughton, 1916-1918. 3 v. : maps (1 folded) ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D547 C2 B4
The official story of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Volume 2 has title: Canada in Flanders / by Lord Beaverbrook. Volume 3 has title: Canada in Flanders / by Charles G.D. Roberts, with a preface by Lord Beaverbrook. Folded map tipped in.
Roberts, Charles G. D., 1860-1943.
World War, 1914-1918 — Campaigns — Belgium
World War, 1914-1918 — Canada.
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The war and the future / by the Right Hon. Sir Robert Borden ; being a narrative compiled from speeches delivered at various periods of the war in Canada, the United States, and Great Britain, with an introductory letter to the compiler, Percy Hurd. London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1917. xxiv, 164 pages : illustrations, port. ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D520 C2 B73 1917
Imperial federation
World War, 1914-1918 — Canada
World War, 1914-1918
Commonwealth of Nations.
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Memorial of the great war 1914-1918, a record of service Montreal : Ronalds press.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D507 .B22 .M51
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Voices : a guide to oral history / Derek Reimer, editor ; David Mattison and Allen W. Specht, assistant editors. Victoria, B.C. : Sound and Moving Image Division, 1984. vi, 74 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D1614 V889
Mattison, David, 1950-
Reimer, Derek, 1947-
Specht, Allen W. (Allen William)
Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Sound and Moving Image Division.
Oral history — Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Seeing ourselves : films for Canadian studies / prepared by James E. Page. Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 1979. 210 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D16.4 C212 P132
A project of the National Film Board's Education Support Program. Includes index.
National Film Board of Canada.
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Histoire orale : communications du 2e Colloque d'histoire orale en Atlantique, Memramcook, Nouveau-Brunswick, du 17 au 19 octobre 1980 / rédacteur, Ronald Labelle = Oral history : papers from the 2nd Atlantic Oral History Conference, Memramcook, New Brunswick, 17-19 October 1980 / editor, Ronald Labelle. Moncton, N.-B. : Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1981. iii, 72 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D16.14 A879
Text in French and English.
Université de Moncton. Centre d'études acadiennes.
Oral history — Congresses
Oral tradition — Maritime Provinces — Congresses.
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Researching, writing, and publishing local history / by Thomas E. Felt. Nashville, Tenn. : AASLH, 1981. xiv, 166 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D13 F387 1981
Local history
Historical research
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Chamber's papers for the people
Historical and literary celebrities being biographcial sketches selected from Chambers's papers for the people London : William and Robert Chambers, 1873.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - CT.C35
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Armorial général et nobiliaire français / Hubert Lamant. Eaubonne : Lamant, 1975. 173 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS589 L214 - Open Shelf
Continues: Armorial français, ou, Répertoire alphabétique / H. Willems ... [et al.], beginning with the family name Curet. Tome 1 fascicule 2.
Willems, H. (Hubert). Armorial français.
Nobility — France — Genealogy
Heraldry — France
France — Genealogy.
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A Zepetneki Tötösy család adattára = Records of the Tötösy de Zepetnek family / Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Szeged, Hungary : Jozsef Attila Tudományegyetem, Történeti Segédtudományok Tanszék = Jozsef Attila University, Department of Historical Sciences, 1993. 280 pages : illustrations, coats of arms, facsims., portraits ; 2
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS569 T68 1993 - Open Shelf
Co-published by University of Alberta, Research Institute for Comparative Literature. Includes index. In Hungarian; prefatory matter and some other text in English.
University of Alberta. Research Institute for Comparative Literature
József Attila Tudományegyetem. Történeti Segédtudományok Tanszék.
Hungary — Genealogy
Canada — Genealogy.
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Irish and Scotch-Irish ancestral research : a guide to the genealogical records, methods, and sources in Ireland / by Margaret Dickson Falley. Baltimore, Md. : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1981. 2 v. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS483 F195 - Open Shelf
Reprint. Originally published: Strasburg, Va. : M.D. Falley, 1962.
Ireland — Genealogy — Archival resources — Ireland
Ireland — Genealogy — Bibliography.
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Scottish family history : a guide to works of reference on the history and genealogy of Scottish families / by Margaret Stuart ; to which is prefixed an essay on how to write the history of a family by James Balfour Paul. Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1978. vii, 386 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS463 S932 - Open Shelf
Reprint of the 1930 edition published by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh.
Paul, James Balfour, Sir, 1846-1931.
Genealogy
Scotland — Genealogy — Bibliography.
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Memorials of the family of Skene of Skene, from the family papers Aberdeen : Printed for the New Spalding Club, 1887. xv, 269, 38 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS439 S627 S627 - Open Shelf
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Descent of the family of Skene Aberdeen, 1888. 1 folded sheet : geneal. table ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS439 S627 - Open Shelf
Bound. Cover title: Skene of Skene
Skene, William Forbes, 1809-1892.
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Her story in four centuries / Sylvia Webber. Bedfordshire, England : Authors OnLine, 2010. viii, 277 pages: illustrations, maps, portraits; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS438 W372 2010 - Open Shelf
The women lived between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries in Yorkshire, Danzig Gdansk in Poland today, Ireland, Malaya now Malaysia, and Australia— pages 1. Includes bibliographical references.
Women — Biography
Great Britain — Biography.
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Wintringham (Parish : England)
The parish register of Wintringham, 1558 to 1812 / transcribed and edited by Alfred J. Cholmley. Wakefield : Priv. print. for the Yorkshire Parish Register Society, 1922. 192, 23 pages : front., pl., facsim. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS435 Y4 W73 - Open Shelf
Cholmley, Alfred J., 1845- ed.
Registers of births, etc. — England — Wintringham
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Wills and their whereabouts : / being a thorough revision and extension of the previous work of the same name by B.G. Bouwens. [3d rev. and enl. ed.] Canterbury : Published for the Society of Genealogists by Phillimore, 1963. xix, 137 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS435 B66 - Open Shelf
Bouwens, B.G. Wills and their whereabouts.
Society of Genealogists (Great Britain)
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Naval records for genealogists / N.A.M. Rodger. London : Public Record Office, 1984. 172 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS411 R691 - Open Shelf
Includes index.
Great Britain. Public Record Office.
Genealogists — Great Britain
Great Britain — Genealogy — Bibliography — Catalogs.
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Tracing your ancestors in the Public Record Office / by Jane Cox and Timothy Padfield. 2nd ed. London : H.M.S.O., 1983. viii, 100 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS411 C877 - Open Shelf
Great Britain. Public Record Office.
British — Foreign countries — Bibliography — Catalogs
Great Britain — Genealogy — Bibliography — Catalogs.
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The genealogist's guide : an index to printed British pedigrees and family histories, 1950-1975 .. / compiled by Geoffrey B. Barrow ; with a foreword by Anthony J. Camp. London : Chicago : Research Publishing Co. ; American Library Association, 1977. xv, 205 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS411 B278 - Open Shelf
On t.p.: Being a supplement to G. W. Marshall's Genealogist's guide and J. B. Whitmore's Genealogical guide.
Marshall, George William, 1839-1905. Genealogist's guide
Whitmore, John Beach. Genealogical guide
Marshall, George W. (George William), 1839-1905. Genealogist's guide
Marshall, George, 1839-1905. Genealogist's guide
Whitmore, John Beach. Genealogical guide
Marshall, George W. (George William), 1839-1905. Genealogist's guide to printed pedigrees.
Great Britain — Genealogy — Bibliography.
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The Zwicker family : descendants of Johann Peter Zwicker / compiled and prepared for publication by David P. Zwicker and Lana G. Veinotte. St. Margaret's Bay and Bridgewater : David Zwicker and Lana Veinotte ; 2004. 667 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 Z98 2004 - Open Shelf
On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Mahone Bay, N.S.
Zwicker, David P
Veinotte, Lana G.
Nova Scotia — Genealogy
Mahone Bay (N.S.) — Genealogy
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Ahnentafel chart for Rev. Robert George Willis / Chris and Dorothy Thompson. Crowborough, East Sussex : The authors, 2011. 33 pages; 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 W735 T469 2011 - Open Shelf
Includes index.
Willis family.; — Willis, Robert George, — Rev. — 1828-1900.
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Wickware / Researched and edited by Martin C. Foley (Wickware). Zephyrlills, FL : the author, 1990-. [50 pages] ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 W636 F663 - Open Shelf
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