This compelling history is drawn from the papers of the Crouse-Eikle family, discovered in their ancestral home in Crousetown in Lunenburg County on Nova Scotia's South Shore. Millwright John Will Crouse (1844-1914) kept a meticulous diary spanning five decades. Reflective by nature, he recorded the challenges of work, pondered the intricacies of communal life, and wrote movingly of his personal and spiritual struggles. His daughter Elvira Crouse Eikle reported on village events for local newspapers, and her son, Harold Eikle (1912-1977), a gifted teacher and musician, wrote letters and family history. Harold's correspondence celebrated the social liberations of the 1930s and beyond, but also showed their limits in the suffering he experienced as a gay man in a heterosexual world. Using the family papers, other unpublished documents and oral history, Robert M. Mennel connects the experiences of the Crouse-Eikle family and their community to larger themes of social and cultural change in North America. A story of vivid personalities and episodes, by turns sad, conflicted, joyful, bitter, funny and reflective, Testimonies and Secrets will be read with pleasure by scholars and general readers alike. Includes bibliographical references pages 269-300 and index.

Crouse family — Diaries
Eikle family — Diaries
Gay men — Biography
Crousetown (N.S.) — History
Nova Scotia — History — Diaries.

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Acadians — Nova Scotia — Chéticamp — Social life and customs
Chéticamp (N.S.) — History.

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Powder magazines — Nova Scotia — Bedford
Halifax (N.S.) — History — 1945-
Halifax (N.S.) — Explosion, 1945.

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Includes bibliographical references.

Blacks — Nova Scotia — Birchtown — History
Birchtown (N.S.) — History — Juvenile literature.

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Library's copy signed by author.

Blacks — Nova Scotia — Bear River
Bear River — History.

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Includes index.

Robson, Scott

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Halifax (N.S.) — History

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Watts, Heather, 1936-

Cemeteries — Nova Scotia — Deadman's Island (Halifax) — History
Soldiers' bodies, Disposition of — Nova Scotia — Deadman's Island (Halifax)
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Halifax (N.S.) — Biography.

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Edwards, Don.

Germans — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History
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Halifax (N.S.) — History.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Melville Island Prison (N.S.)

Prisoners of war — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History
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Deadman's Island (Halifax, N.S.) — History.

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Walking — Nova Scotia — Halifax — Guidebooks
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Duffus, Graeme F.

Historic buildings — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Halifax (N.S.) — History.

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Includes index.

World War, 1939-1945 — Nova Scotia — Halifax — Pictorial works
World War, 1939-1945 — Nova Scotia — Halifax
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Halifax (N.S.) — Pictorial works.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

World War, 1939-1945 — Nova Scotia — Halifax
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'The rumble got louder, the walls quaked as if in fear, and the classroom's windows started to pulse and shake before they completely shattered, showering everyone inside with glass.' On December 6, 1917, the face of Halifax changed forever when the Imo, a Belgian Relief ship, collided with the French ship, the Mont Blanc. Shortly after 9:00 a.m., the Mont Blanc, which was carrying a large cargo of explosives, blew up. It destroyed much of the city's north end and neighbouring communities like Tuft's Cove and Dartmouth. The effect was catastrophic. Almost immediately, aid was rushed to Halifax as survivors and workers dug through rubble and ruins for friends and family. Over 2,000 people died and 9,000 were injured, while countless others were rendered homeless. As news broke about the explosion, newspapers from Toronto to Hawaii and France to Australia scrambled to provide readers with updated information. These and other stories gave face to a disaster which, at the time, was a mix of ever-changing statistics, details, and questions about blame. Often the reports were exaggerated and erroneous. In Halifax, newspapers carried lists of the injured, dead, and missing alongside a collection of notices and ads. This strange juxtaposition showed just how quickly the explosion had happened as holiday-themed advertisements mixed with notices about relief and stories of survival and death. Together, they present the overarching image of Halifax at the time - survival and confusion - while separately they show just how much impact one event had. Katie Ingram is a Halifax-based freelance journalist and writer.

Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917
Disasters — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Nova Scotia — Halifax — Press coverage
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-140 and index. Recounts the story from World War I in which two towns were leveled and almost two thousand people killed following the collison of two warships in Halifax Harbour and a blizzard that dumped over a foot of snow in the area.

Halifax Explosion, Halifax, N.S., 1917 — Juvenile literature
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Millennium celebrations — Nova Scotia — Halifax Regional Municipality
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World War, 1914-1918 — Nova Scotia — Halifax
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World War, 1914-1918 — Nova Scotia — Halifax
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Based on papers presented at a conference held at Saint Mary's University in December 1992.

Ruffman, Alan
Howell, Colin D., 1944-

Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies.

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Halifax (N.S.) — History — Congresses. — Explosion, 1917

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Shipwrecks — North Atlantic Ocean
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