A passion for survival : the true story of Marie Anne and Louis Payzant in eighteenth-century Nova Scotia / Linda G. Layton. Halifax : Nimbus, 2003. xvi, 140 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC384.1 P39 L39 2003 - Open Shelf
Huguenots — Biography — Canada
Nova Scotia — History — Biography — 1713-1775
Canada — History — Prisoners and prisons — Seven Years' War, 1755-1763
Canada — History — Biography — 1713-1763 (New
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Long Road to Justice : the Viola Desmond Story / directed by Brian Murray. Halifax : Province of Nova Scotia, 2011. 1 videodisc : digital.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC106 B6 L66 - Open Shelf
Published by the Nova Scotia Departments of Education and Communities, Culture and Heritage with Director, Brian Murray and Cinematographer, Dan Mombourquette.
Province of Nova Scotia
Department of Education
Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage
Desmond, Viola
Racism — Nova Scotia — History
Black Canadians — Biography
Civil rights — Canada — History
Biographical documentary films
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The homes of Woodville / by Hazel Foote. Woodville : Hazel Foote and Margaret Ann Jorgensen, 1997. viii, 137 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 W899 F688 - Open Shelf
Dwellings — Nova Scotia — Woodville (Kings) — History
Woodville (Kings, N.S.) — History
Woodville (Kings, N.S.) — Biography.
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The history of Wittenburg, Colchester County, Nova Scotia / by Mildred Pulsifer Burrows. Rev. 1978. Truro : Colchester Historical Museum, 1978. 80 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 W829 B972 - Open Shelf
Frontier and pioneer life — Nova Scotia — Wittenburg
Wittenburg, N.S. — History
Wittenburg, N.S. — Biography.
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Tusket Wedge : a history of the Acadian village of Wedgeport : its people and their homes / Stephen G. Surette. [New ed.] Arlington, Mass. : S.G. Surette, 1995. 141 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 T961 - Open Shelf
Pref. in English and French. Includes index.
Dwellings — Nova Scotia — Wedgeport — History
Wedgeport (N.S.) — History
Wedgeport (N.S.) — Biography.
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The electric city : the Stehelins of New France : the fabulous true story of a legendary family who carved out of the forest wilderness a beautiful life and a prosperous business, the saga of their struggles, loves, war and dispersal / by Paul H. Stehelin. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1983. 276 pages, 32 pages of plates : ill, maps, portraits ; 21 c
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 N532 S818 - Open Shelf
Pioneers — Nova Scotia — New France (Digby : County) — Biography
New France (Digby, N.S. : County) — History
New France (Digby, N.S. : County) — Biography.
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Journal and letters of Colonel Charles Lawrence : being a day by day account of the founding of Lunenburg, by the Officer in command of the project, transcribed from the Brown manuscript in the British Museum / introd. by D.C. Harvey. Lunenburg : Lunenburg Heritage Society, 1972. viii, 45 pages ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 L96 L41 - Open Shelf
Transcribed from a photostatic copy of the Brown manuscripts in the British Museum--cf. Introduction.
Harvey, D. C. (Daniel Cobb), 1886-1966.
British Museum. Brown. Manuscript.
Governors — Nova Scotia — Biography
Lunenburg (N.S.) — History — Sources.
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Acadienne de Clare / par Edith (Comeau) Tufts. Saulnierville : E. (Comeau) Tufts, 1977. 93 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 C591 T914 - Open Shelf
Women — Nova Scotia Biography
Acadians — Nova Scotia — Biography
Acadians — Nova Scotia — History
Clare (N.S.) — History.
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Chéticamp : mémoires / Anselme Boudreau ; réécrit et annoté par Père Anselme Chiasson. Moncton, N.-B. : Éditions des Aboiteaux, 1996. 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 C526 B756 - Open Shelf
Includes index.
Acadians — Nova Scotia — Chéticamp — Biography
Chéticamp (N.S.) — Anecdotes
Chéticamp (N.S.) — History.
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No place like home : the life and times of Cape Breton heritage houses / Mary K. Macleod, James O. St. Clair. Sydney : University College of Cape Breton Press, 1992. iv, 101 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 C237 M163 - Open Shelf
Historic buildings — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Biography
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Buildings, structures, etc.
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Black Nova Scotians / John N. Grant ; drawings by Azor Vienneau. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1980, 1984. 47 pages : illustrations. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5221 N3 G762 1984 - Open Shelf
Biographical material courtesy Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission.
Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission
Nova Scotia Museum.
Blacks — Nova Scotia — History
Blacks — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — History.
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Black Nova Scotians / John N. Grant ; drawings by Azor Vienneau. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1980. 47 pages : illustrations. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5221 N3 G762 - Open Shelf
Biographical material courtesy Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission.
Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission
Nova Scotia Museum.
Blacks — Nova Scotia — History
Blacks — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — History.
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Loyalists in Nova Scotia / written by members of the Nova Scotia Branch of the Canadian Authors' Association ; edited by Donald Wetmore and Lester B. Sellick. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1983. 159 pages ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5221 L69 W541 - Open Shelf
Cover subtitle: Biographies of Loyalist settlers.
Sellick, Lester B., 1913-
Wetmore, Donald.
Canadian Authors Association. Nova Scotia Branch.
United Empire loyalists — Biography
Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — History — 1763-1867 — Biography
Nova Scotia — History — To 1784 — Biography
Nova Scotia — History — 1784-1867 — Biogra
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Glimpses into Nova Scotia history / by Bruce Fergusson and William Pope. Windsor : Lancelot, 1974. 96 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5205 F35 - Open Shelf
Nova Scotia — History
Nova Scotia — Biography.
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The Loyalist governor : biography of Sir John Wentworth / Brian C. Cuthbertson. Halifax : Petheric Press, 1983. 174 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204.9 W478 C988 - Open Shelf
Includes index.
Lieutenant-governors — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — History — 1784-1867
Nova Scotia — Lieutenant-governors — Biography.
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Alice of Grand Pre : Alice T. Shaw and her Grand Pre Seminary : female education in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick / James Doyle Davison. Wolfville : J.D. Davison, 1981. ix, 197 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204.9 S534 D265 - Open Shelf
NL copy: Author's autograph copy. NL copy: Manuscript correction in text pages 87.
High School principals — Nova Scotia — Wolfville — Biography
Women — Education — Nova Scotia — Wolfville — History.
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Joseph Howe / H.R. Percy. Don Mills, ON. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1976. 61, [1] pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204.9 H856 - Open Shelf
Politicians — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1784-1867
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1763-1867
Nova Scotia — History.
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Joseph Howe : to which is added Howe's essays on the organization of the Empire / by G. M. Grant. 2nd ed. Halifax, N. S. : A. & W. MacKinlay, 1906. 110 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204.9 H83 G76 J77 1906 - Open Shelf
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. Organizations of the Empire
Howe, Joseph, 1804-1873. Organization of the Empire.
Politicians — Nova Scotia — Biography
Canada — History.
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The 1815 diary of a Nova Scotia farm girl, Louisa Collins of Colin Grove, Dartmouth / edited and annotated by Dale McClare. Dartmouth : Brook House Press, 1997. viii, 111 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204.9 C712 1997 - Open Shelf
With illustrations, genealogy in context and a look at country life in the Regency Period.
Farm life — Nova Scotia — Dartmouth — History — 19th century
Dartmouth (N.S.) — Biography
Dartmouth (N.S.) — Social life and customs.
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The life and adventures of detective Peter Owen Carroll 2nd ed. Antigonish : Sundown Publishing, 1985. 105 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204.9 C319 M152 - Open Shelf
Detectives — Nova Scotia — Pictou — Biography
Pictou (N.S.) — History.
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Eliza of Pleasant Valley : her family, church, and community in nineteenth century Cornwallis Township, Kings County, Nova Scotia / by James Doyle Davison. 1st ed. Wolfville : J.D. Davison, 1983. xii, 188 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5179.9 C46 D252 - Open Shelf
Includes index.
Cornwallis (N.S.) — Biography
Nova Scotia — History — 1784-1867
Nova Scotia — Social life and customs.
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Louisbourg portraits : life in an eighteenth-century garrison town / Christopher Moore. Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1982. ix, 302 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5065.9 M821 - Open Shelf
Map on lining papers.
Pioneers — Nova Scotia — Louisbourg — Biography
Louisbourg (N.S.) — Biography
Canada — History — 1713-1763 (New France) — Biography.
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Life in Acadia : Marie-Madeleine Maisonnat / Barry Moody. Toronto : Grolier, 1990. 48 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5060.9 M817 - Open Shelf
Acadians — Biography — Juvenile literature
Acadia — History — Juvenile literature
Nova Scotia — History — 1713-1775 — Juvenile literature.
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Life with the Irish : Salmon River district / Ann Wallace. Monastery : A. Wallace, 1991. 162 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5030 I6 W189 - Open Shelf
Irish Canadians — Nova Scotia — Salmon River Lake Region — History
Irish Canadians — Nova Scotia — Salmon River Lake Region — Biography
Salmon River Lake Region (N.S.) — History
Salmon River Lake Region (N.S.)
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History of Barrington Township / by Edwin Crowell. Belleville, ON. : Mika Publishing, 1974. 603 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F107 B2 C8 1974
Canada — Genealogy
Barrington Township (N.S.) — History
Nova Scotia — Biography.
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