Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: Nova Scotia — History — Biography — 1713-1775
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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A sense of themselves : Elizabeth Murray's leadership in school and community / Carol E. Harris. Halifax : Fernwood Publishing, 1998. 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LA2325 M87 H37 1998
Adult education — Nova Scotia — History
Educators — Nova Scotia — Biography.
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A story of the Baptists of Chester / by M. Allen Gibson ; with a foreword by Daniel J. Green. Chester : History Committee, Chester United Baptist Church, 2001. iv, 38 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.257a #6 - Vertical File
Baptists — Nova Scotia — Chester — History
Baptists — Biography. — Nova Scotia — Chester
Chester (N.S.) — Biography.
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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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Africa's children: a history of blacks in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia / Sharon Robart-Johnson. Toronto : Natural Heritage Books, 2009. 236 pages: illustrations, portraits; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2350 B6 R629 2009 - Open Shelf
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Black Canadians — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth — History
Yarmouth (N.S.) — History
Yarmouth (N.S.) — Biography
Yarmouth (N.S.) — Genealogy.
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Africville : a spirit that lives on Halifax : Art Gallery, Mount Saint Vincent University, 1989. 24 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HV4050 H17 A258
Co-published by Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, Africville Genealogy Society, and National Film Board, Atlantic Centre. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery, Mount Saint Vincent University, Oct. 1989, and touring Canada from July 1990-Dec. 1992, thereafter to be on permanent display at the Black Cultural Centre, Westphal, Dartmouth. Issued also in French.
Africville Genealogy Society
Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia
Mount Saint Vincent University. Art Gallery
National Film Board of Canada. Atlantic Centre.
Blacks — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History — Exhibitions
Africville (Halifax, N.S.) — History — Exhibitions
Africville (Halifax, N.S.) — Biography — Exhibitions.
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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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Ambroise-Hilaire Comeau, 1859-1911 Moncton, N.-B. : Éditions d'Acadie, 1992. 21 pages : illustrations, ports.; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.400 #18 - Vertical File
Text in French and English. By Alphonse J. Deveau. Co-published by: Société du Monument Lefebvre.
Acadians — Nova Scotia — Biography
Merchants — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — History — 1867-1918.
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Ancient peoples and modern ghosts / by George Young ; with illustrations by Ian D. Young. Queensland : G. Young, 1980. 82 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.35 #7 - Vertical File
NL copy: Author's autography copy.
Ghosts — Nova Scotia
Oak Island treasure site (N.S.) — History
North America — Antiquities
Nova Scotia — Biography — Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc.
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Angus L. MacDonald : a Provincial Liberal / T. Stephen Henderson. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2006. viii, 300 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2325.1 M32 H45 2006 - Open Shelf
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MacDonald, Angus L. — (Angus Lewis), — 1890-1954
Canada. — Royal Canadian Navy — History
Prime Ministers — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — Politics and Government
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Apples in the barrel / by Keith A. Hatchard. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1980. 85 pages : geneal. tables ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - SB363 H361
Apple growers — Nova Scotia — Biography
Apple industry — Nova Scotia — History
Nova Scotia — Biography.
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Architects of Nova Scotia : a biographical dictionary, 1605-1950 / by Maud Rosinski. Halifax : Department of Municipal Affairs, Heritage Section, 1994. 296 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - NA60 C3 R68 1994
Nova Scotia. Heritage Section.
Architects — Nova Scotia — Biography — Dictionaries
Architecture — Nova Scotia — History.
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Bear of the sea : giant Jim Pattillo and the roaring years of the Gloucester-Nova Scotia fishery / Joseph E. Garland. Halifax : Nimbus, 2001. xiv, 352 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - SH20 P38 G37 2001
First edition published 1966 under title: That great Pattillo.
Ship captains — Massachusetts — Gloucester Biography
Fisheries — North Atlantic Ocean — History — 19th century
Fishers — Nova Scotia Biography.
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Beyond heroes : a sport history of Nova Scotia / A.J. Sandy Young. Hantsport : Lancelot Books, 1988. 2 v. : illustrations, ports. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GV225 N935 Y68
Sports — Nova Scotia — History
Athletes — Nova Scotia — Biography.
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Biography of Sir Charles Tupper, Minister of Railway, K.C.M.G, C.B., M.P., High Commissioner of Canada to England / by Charles Thibault. Montreal, Quebec : L'Etendard, 1883. 148, ii pages : 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.196 #23 - Vertical File
Statesmen — Canada — Biography
Canada — History — 1867-1914
Canada — Politics and government — 1867-1914
Nova Scotia — Politics and government.
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Black loyalists of Nova Scotia : tracing the history of Tracadie loyalists 1776-1787 / by Carmelita Robertson. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 2000. 146 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AM1 N935 C975 #91
Nova Scotia. Dept. of Tourism and Culture
Nova Scotia Museum.
Blacks — Nova Scotia — Tracadie
Blacks — Nova Scotia Biography
Afro-American loyalists — Nova Scotia — Tracadie
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Blacks
Tracadie (N.S.) — 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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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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Builders of Nova Scotia : a historical review, with an appendix containing copies of rare documents relating to the early days of the province / by John G. Bourinot. Toronto : Copp-Clark, 1900. x, 197, vi pages : illustrations, facsim., plan, plates, ports
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F93 B66
From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 1899.
Nova Scotia — History
Nova Scotia — Biography.
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Captain John Harris of Clements 1775-1825 / by Leone B. Cousins. Falcon Press 1992-. 78 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.369 #9 - Vertical File
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Biography
Clementsport (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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Coal in our blood / Judith Hoegg Ryan. Halifax : Formac, 1992. xiv, 146 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD9554 R988 1992
Coal mines and mining — Nova Scotia — Pictou (County) — History
Coal miners — Nova Scotia — Pictou (County) — Biography.
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Come on the Tigers! : the story of Philip E. Bent VC, DSO / Kenneth Hillier, with a foreword by Lord Ashcroft KCMG PC. Leicestershire : Ashby-de-la-Zouch Museum, 2017. 66 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UA652 L453 2017
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Bent, Philip E., > 1891-1917
Great Britain > Army > Leicestershire Regiment. > Battalion, 9th > Biography
Great Britain > Army > Leicestershire Regiment. > Battalion, 9th > History
Great Britain > Army > History > World War, 1914-1918
Ypres, 3rd Battle of, Ieper, Belgium, 1917
Soldiers > Nova Scotia > Biography
World War, 1914-1918 > Great Britain
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Comfort, care and cures : doctors and dentists of Shelburne County, 1765-1965 / compiled by Karen Grovestine Powell ; edited by Kim Robertson Walker. Shelburne : Shelburne County Archives and Genealogical Society, 2011. vi, 124 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - R464 A1 G884 2011
Dentists > Nova Scotia > Shelburne (County) > Biography
Physicians > Nova Scotia > Shelburne (County) > Biography
Shelburne (N.S. : County) > Genealogy
Shelburne (N.S. : County) > History
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Dance to the piper : the Highland bagpipe in Nova Scotia / Barry W. Shears. Sydney : Cape Breton University Press, 2008. 239 pages : illustrations, map, ports. ; 23 cm +1 compact disc (digital ; 12 cm)
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML980 S539 2008
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bagpipe — Social aspects — Nova Scotia
Bagpipe — Nova Scotia — History
Bagpipers — Nova Scotia — Biography.
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