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Haigh, Elizabeth V.

Abraham Gesner : the lure of the rocks and a burning ambition / Elizabeth V. Haigh.  Victoria, BC : Tellwell Talent, 2019. xi, 374 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QE22 G47 H35 2019

Debt and bad management drove Abraham Gesner off his farm in Nova Scotia's bucolic Annapolis Valley in 1825. It turned out to be a stroke of luck. While doing medical courses in London hospitals, he encountered the industrial revolution. Attending sundry lectures and demonstrations, he got his first whiff of the rapidly developing new sciences of chemistry, geology and natural history. He was hooked! Back home, traveling about the country visiting patients, he honed his observational skills, finally producing pioneering geological surveys of all three Maritime provinces. Imitating procedures which he had first observed while abroad, he experimented with "cracking" coal to generate the tars, oils and gases which fueled the industrial revolution. In the process, he produced "kerosene" - an illuminating gas and an oil - which revolutionized artificial lighting and generated much industry. Because he explored with native guides and advocated on their behalf, he served for a time as Indian Commissioner. An engaging lecturer, he addressed audiences on many scientific subjects and developed the region's first natural history museum; he wrote articles and books describing the region and extolling its potential for development. His final publication was a textbook of hydrocarbon chemistry. Local lawsuits over mining rights and patent infringements caused him to move to New York. Still more lawsuits drove him back to his native land where he died, shortly after being appointed to a coveted lectureship in Dalhousie University. Includes bibliographic references and index.

Gesner, Abraham, — 1797-1864
Geologists — Maritime Provinces — Biography
Inventors — Maritime Provinces — Biography
Natural history — Maritime Provinces
Mining leases — Maritime Provinces
Mines and mineral resources — Maritime Provinces — History
Mineral industries — Maritime Provinces — History

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Hardy, Campbell

Forest life in Acadia New York, D. Appleton &n Co., 1869. viii, [2 371 pages : front., plates ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3802 - Open Shelf

The Canadian field-naturalist Ottawa : Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, 1919- . --. illustrations 26 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.216 #21 - Vertical File

Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club.

Natural history — Canada — Periodicals.

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Canadian nature Toronto : Audubon Society of Canada, 1939-1957. --. 19 v. illustrations 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.30 #14 - Vertical File

Audubon Society of Canada.

Natural history — Canada — Periodicals.

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Canadian sportsman and naturalist Montreal . 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK QHC16s - Akins

Natural history — Canada — Periodicals.

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Natural History Society of New Brunswick

Bulletin of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick St. John, N. B., Natural History Society of New Brunswick. ill. 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F120 N21 - Akins

Annual reports of the society, beginning with the 11th, dated January 1882, have been included regularly in the Bulletin from its inception; of the earlier reports, only two appear to have been printed, those for 1863 and 1880.

Natural History Society of New Brunswick.

Natural history — Societies, etc
Natural history — New Brunswick.

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Dodds, Donald G.

Challenge & response : a history of wildlife and wildlife management in Nova Scotia / Donald Dodds.  Halifax : Department of Natural Resources, 1993. vii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QL84.2 N68 D62 1993

Horwood, Harold

The magic ground / Harold Horwood.  Halifax : Nimbus, 1996. viii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QH45.5 H67 1996

Natural history
Philosophy of nature.

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Halifax Field Naturalists newsletter Halifax : Halifax Field Naturalists, 1975-. ill. ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QH106.5 H173

Halifax Field Naturalists.

Natural history — Nova Scotia — Periodicals.

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Natural history of Nova Scotia / editors: Derek S. Davis, Sue Browne.  Rev. ed. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1996. 2 v. : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QH106.2 N68 N27 1997

Originally published in 1984 as a joint project of the Department of Lands and Forests (now the Department of Natural Resources and the Nova Scotia Museum--T.pages verso. Produced by the Nova Scotia Museum in partnership with Communications Nova Scotia ... Co-published with Nimbus Publishing--T.pages verso. ... divided into three main parts, contained in two volumes--pages xi. Includes index.

Davis, Derek S
Browne, Sue.

Nova Scotia Museum.

Natural history — Nova Scotia
Geology — Nova Scotia
Forests and forestry — Nova Scotia

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Gibson, Merritt A.

The old place : a natural history of a country garden / Merritt Gibson ; with illustrations by Twila Robar-DeCoste.  Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1997. 217 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QH106.2 N68 G53 1997

Allen, C. R. K.

A naturalist's notebook : Yarmouth County / C.R.K. Allen.  Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 1987. 120 pages ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QH106.2 N68 A44

Horwood, Harold

Dancing on the shore : a celebration of life at Annapolis Basin / Harold Horwood ; with a foreword by Farley Mowat.  Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1987. 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QH106.2 N62 H67

A Douglas Gibson book.

Natural history — Nova Scotia — Annapolis Basin
Philosophy of nature.

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Maritime Resource Management Service (Canada)

Natural history of Nova Scotia: Working drafting / prepared by Maritime Resource Management Service and Griffithe - Muecke Associates; prepared for Parks and Recreation Division, Division of Lands and Forests, and Nova Scotia Museum. Dept. of Education.  Halifax- : Queen's Printer- 1983. 2 v. (xvi, 282; 20 pages) : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QH106.2 N6 M298

Thurston, Harry

Tidal life : a natural history of the Bay of Fundy / Harry Thurston ; with photographs by Stephen Homer.  [2nd ed.] Halifax : Nimbus, 1998, 1990. 167 pages : col. illustrations ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QH106.2 F85 T48 1998

Library's copy signed by author.

Natural history — Fundy, Bay of
Tidal flat ecology — Fundy, Bay of
Fundy, Bay of, Region — Social life and customs.

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Russell, Franklin

The Atlantic coast / Franklin Russell.  Toronto : N. Natural Science of Canada, ltd., 1970. 160 pages : illus. (part col.), col. maps. ; 25 x 27

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QH106 R963

Gosse, Philip Henry

The Canadian naturalist : a series of conversations on the natural history of Lower Canada / by P.H. Gosse.  London : J. van Voorst, 1840. xii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QH106 Q8 G878

Illustrated by forty-four engravings Errata slip tipped in. Includes indexes. Reference: TPL 2363.

Natural history — Canada
Manning Collection.

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Gibson, Merritt A.

Winter nature notes for Nova Scotians / by Merritt A. Gibson ; illustration by Twila L. Robar.  Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1980. 206 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QH106 G514 1988

Berrill, Michael

A Sierra Club naturalist's guide to the North Atlantic coast : Cape Cod to Newfoundland / by Michael and Deborah Berrill ; illustrations by Rob Tuckerman.  San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, 1981. ix, 464 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QH104.5 B533

Keough, Pat

Wild and beautiful Sable Island : sand, seals, wild horses and shipwrecks : Nova Scotia, Canada / Pat & Rosemarie Keough.  Fulford Harbour, B.C. : Nahanni Productions, 1993. 96 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 20 x 27 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 S23 K46 1993 - Open Shelf

Evans, Millie

Our Maritimes : exploring Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island / by Millie Evans and Eric Mullen ; illustrated by Rick Swain, Goldie Gibson, Cheryl Olsen.  1st ed. Tantallon : Four East Publications, 1979. 251 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5181.5 E92 - Open Shelf

Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba

Transaction - Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba Winnipeg, Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba. 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F155 M31

Hearne, Samuel

A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the northern ocean : undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of copper mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772 / by Samuel Hearne.  London : Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1795. xliv, 458 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 H35j

Hearne, Samuel

A journey from Prince of Wales's fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean, in the years 1769, 1770, 1771, and 1772 / by Samuel Hearne.  New edition with introduction, notes, and illus. by J.B. Tyrrell. Toronto : The Champlain Society, 1911. xv, 437 pages, [6] pages of plates : illustrations, 1 fold ma

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 H35j

Denys, Nicolas

The description and natural history of the coasts of North America (Acadia) / by Nicolas Denys ; translated and edited, with a memoir of the author, collateral documents, and a reprint of the original, by William F. Ganong.  Toronto : Champlain Society, 1908. xvi, 625 pages, [17] pages of plates (2 folded) : il

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 D43

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