Cape Breton captain : reminiscences from 50 years afloat & ashore / David A. McLeod ; edited by Ronald Caplan. Wreck Cove : Breton Books, 1992. vii, 145 pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations, ports. ; 23
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G530 M165 C236
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Biography
Merchant marine — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Biography.
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The wreck of the Hungarian / Arthur Thurston. Yarmouth : Arthur Thurston Publications, 1991.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G530 H936 T536
Shipwrecks — Nova Scotia — Cape Sable Island — History.
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Castaway on Cape Breton : Ensign Prenties' narrative, 1780 / edited with an historical setting and notes by G.G. Campbell ; to which is added Samuel Burrows' narrative of shipwreck on the Cheticamp coast, 1823 / with notes on Acadians who cared for the survivors by Charles D. Roach. Wreck Cove Nova Scotia : Breton Books, 1991. xix, 119 pages, [2] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G530 C346
Burrows, Samuel
Campbell, G. G. (George Graham), 1904-
Shipwrecks — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — History
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.
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Steam Ship Atlantic : Papers relating to the wreck of the SS Atlantic / Ordered by The House of Commons. Ottawa : House of Commons, 1873. 533 pages, 3 pages of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S G530 A881 S799 - Oversize
Contents. Part I. Copy of the Evidence taken and Report of Inquiry held at Halifax into the Loss of the Steam Ship "Atlantic." with Correspondence - Part II. Copy of the Evidence taken and Report of Inquiry at the Inspection afterwards held at Liverpool by Admiral Schomberg and Mr. Ravenshill, un the Provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, with Correspondence - Part III. Copy of subsequent Correspondence with the Owners of the "Atlantic," Messrs. Ismay, Imrie & Company Board of Trade, 29 July 1873. Also includes various newspaper clippings.
Shipwrecks — Nova Scotia
Shipwrecks — SS Atlantic
British Board of Trade — Wreck of the SS Atlantic
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Sagas of the land and sea / by Roland H. Sherwood ; ill. by James DeCoste and the author. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1980. 100 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G525 S554
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At the harbour mouth / Archibald MacMechan ; edited by John Bell. Porters Lake : Pottersfield Press, 1988. 140 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G525 M32 1988
Sea stories, Canadian — Nova Scotia
Shipwrecks — Nova Scotia
Seafaring life — Nova Scotia.
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Disasters at sea : an anthology of Nova Scotia shipwreck stories / co-authored by Susie Sweeney and Gail Anne McNeil ; with contributing writers, Greg Cochkanoff, Joan Vickery and Margaret Eisnor ; editor, Gail Anne McNeil ; foreword by Eric J. Ruff. Halifax- Nova Scotia : T. Cranston, 1986. 128 pages : illustrations, maps, ports. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G525 D611
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Climb Cape Breton : a guide to selected rock climbs in Cape Breton Sydney : Cape Breton Development Corporation, 70 pages : illus.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G513 C237
Rock climbing — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Description and travel
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Walking Nova Scotia : the doer's and dreamer's complete guide to Canada's walking province / by Bradford W. Ketchum, Jr.. Boston : Walking Magazine, 1993. 128 pages : col. illustrations, maps (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G504 N935 W177
Includes index. Published in cooperation with the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism and Culture and the Nova Scotia Adventure Tourism Association.
Nova Scotia Adventure Tourism Association
Nova Scotia. Dept. of Tourism and Culture.
Walking — Nova Scotia — Guidebooks
Nova Scotia — Description and travel
Nova Scotia — Guidebooks.
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If we are spared to each other : love and faith against the sea : the diary of Annie Rogers Butler and letters of Captain John Kendrick Butler / compiled and edited with additional material by Raymond A. Simpson. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1995. 270 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G463 B97 1995
Butler, John Kendrick, 1837-1876
Simpson, Raymond A.
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth — Correspondence
Ship captains' spouses — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth — Diaries
Ship captains' spouses — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth — Correspondence.
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If we are spared to each other : love and faith against the sea : the diary of Annie Rogers Butler and letters of Captain John Kendrick Butler / compiled and edited with additional material and notes by Raymond A. Simpson. Halifax : The Author, 1989. xii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G463 B97 1989
Butler, John Kendrick, 1837-1876
Simpson, Raymond A.
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth — Correspondence
Ship captains' spouses — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth — Diaries
Ship captains' spouses — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth — Correspondence
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Jusun Halifax, Ecology Action Centre. ill. 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G4 J96
Human ecology — Nova Scotia — Periodicals.
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Canada. Dept. of National Defence
Magdalen Islands Quebec - Nova Scotia / Dept. of National Defence. 1st ed. Ottawa : Army Survey Establishment, 1958. 1 map : col. ; 45 cm x 61 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S G3450 C36 s250 - Map
Province of Nova Scotia and part of New Brunswick / comp. and drawn by Scott Barlow; assisted by N.J. Giroux from Surveys made by the Admiralty, Intercolonial Railway and Geological Surveys; geologically surveyed by Scott Barlow, W. McOuat and R.W. Ellis. Ottawa- : Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada, 1886. 1 map : col ; 31 x 46 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S G3431 C51 B37 1886 no.4 NW - Map
Relief shown by hachures. To illustrate reports by Messr's Scott Barlow, W. McOuat and R. W. Ellis, 1872-1884. Includes brief legend and notes.
Ells, R. W
Giroux, N. J
McOuat, W.
Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada.
Geology Maps — Nova Scotia
Geology Maps — New Brunswick
New Brunswick — Maps
Nova Scotia — Maps.
A chart of the harbour of Halifax, in Nova Scotia with Jebucto Bay and Cape Sambro, also the islands, ledges of rocks, shoals & soundings / Survey'd, by order of His Excellency Brigadier General Lawrence, Governour of the Province of Nova Scotia; by Charles Morris, chief surveyor, 1759. London : Engraved by Thomas Jefferys, 1768-. 1 map ; 40 x 61 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S G3424 H3 M67 1759 - Map
Oriented with north to the right. Depths shown by soundings. Published by command of the Right Honourable the Lords of Trade & Plantations, for the benefit of the trade and navigation of Great Britain and its colonies. Includes inscription to George Dunk, Earl of Halifax and navigational text.
Harbors — Nova Scotia — Halifax Maps Early works to 1800
Nautical charts — Nova Scotia — Halifax Early works to 1800
Plan de la baye de Chibouctou nommée par les Anglois Halifax, 1763 Paris : 1764. 1 map ; 22 x 35 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S G3424 H2 B45 1763 - Map
Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Tome I, no. 28. From the author's Le petit atlas maritime. 1764. Inset with index: Plan de la ville d'Halifax [ca. 1:10,000]
Harbors — Nova Scotia — Halifax — Maps — Early works to 1800
Halifax (N.S.) — Maps — Early works to 1800
Canada. Mapping and Charting Establishment
Camp Debert / produced by the Mapping and Charting Establishment, Department of National Defence = publiée par le Service de cartographie, Ministère de la défense nationale. Ed. 2. Ottawa : Army Survey Establisment, 1971. 1 map : col. ; 56 x 53 cm, on sheet 76 x 76 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S G3424 D4 C36 1971 - Map
Information depicted current as of 1970. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Contour interval 10 ft. UTM grid. Includes legend. NMC 34296
Nova Scotia Debert region — Military bases: Camp Debert Topographic maps 1:25000.
Land capability for recreation :Possibilités des terres pour la récréation : Canso 11 F,G & CCanso 11 F,G & C / Canada Land Inventory = Inventaire des terres du Canada. Ottawa : Surveys and Mapping Branch, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, 1971. 1 map : col. ; 45 x 63 cm. folded to 22 x 13 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G3423 G8 L36 1971
Text in English and French. Published under the authority of ARDA - Agricultural and Rural Development Act.
Canada Land Inventory
Inventaire des terres du Canada.
Recreation areas — Maps — Nova Scotia
Land Classification — Maps — Nova Scotia
Richmond (N.S. : County) — Map
Guysborough (N.S. : County) — Maps.
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Nova Scotia. Dept. of Lands and Forests
Yankee Lake Guysborough County Department of Lands and Forests, 1965. 1 map ; 88 x 62 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S G3422 Y26 N68 1965 - Map
Nova Scotia. Dept. of Lands and Forests
Wolfville Kings and Hants Counties Department of Lands and Forests, 1965. 1 map ; 88 x 62 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S G3422 W65 N68 1965 - Map
Nova Scotia. Dept. of Lands and Forests
Wine Harbour Guysborough County Department of Lands and Forests, 1965. 1 map ; 88 x 62 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S G3422 W56 N68 1965 - Map
Nova Scotia. Dept. of Lands and Forests
Windsor Forks Hants County Department of Lands and Forests, 1965. 1 map ; 88 x 62 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S G3422 W55 N68 1965 - Map
Nova Scotia. Dept. of Lands and Forests
Wilkin Siding Shelburne and Queens Counties Department of Lands and Forests, 1965. 1 map ; 88 x 62 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S G3422 W54 N68 1965 - Map
Nova Scotia. Dept. of Lands and Forests
Whiteburn Mines Queens County Department of Lands and Forests, 1965. 1 map ; 88 x 62 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S G3422 W52 N68 1965 - Map
Nova Scotia. Dept. of Lands and Forests
White Point Beach Queens County Department of Lands and Forests, 1965. 1 map ; 88 x 62 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S G3422 W51 N68 1965 - Map
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