Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: Nova Scotia — Social life and customs
A basket of apples : recollections of historic Nova Scotia / text by Harry Bruce ; photography by Chic Harris. Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1982. xii, 84 pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5211 B315 - Open Shelf
Nova Scotia — Social life and customs
Nova Scotia — History.
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A Nova Scotia album : glimpses of the way we were / Mary Biggar Peck ; foreword by Harry Bruce. 155 pages : Willowdale, Ont. : illustrations ; Hounslow Press,
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5211 P366 - Open Shelf
Nova Scotia — Social life and customs — Pictorial works
Nova Scotia — Economic conditions — 1867- — Pictorial works.
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A short study of the history and traditions of the Highland Scot in Nova Scotia: a thesis presented to the faculty of St. Francis Xavier University / by Kathleen Lamont MacKinnon. Antigonish- : The Author, 1964. 155 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5221 S3 M158 - Open Shelf
Scots — Nova Scotia — History
Scots — Nova Scotia — Social life and customs
Scotland — Emigration and immigration
Nova Scotia — Emigration and immigration
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A stone on their cairn = Clach air an c{88}rn: a Cape Breton saga / Kevin S. MacLeod. Tantallon : Glen Margaret Publishing, 2007. 396 pages; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8625 L456 S74 2007
Includes bibliographical references.
Scots — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Fiction
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Social life and customs — Fiction
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Fiction.
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A Victorian Nova Scotia Christmas / Molly Simmons. Halifax : Nimbus, 1994. 48 pages : col. illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GT4987.15 S46 1994
Christmas — Nova Scotia — Amherst
Amherst (N.S.) — Social life and customs.
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Canadian folklore and folk tales : collected as one of the functions of the Nova Scotia Summer School, Halifax, Nova Scotia, summer of 1971 / compiled by Hector H. Lee, Ruth Kearney Carlson. Halifax : 1972. 2 v. ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113 C212
Carlson, Ruth Kearney
Lee, Hector, 1908-
Folklore — Nova Scotia
Tales — Nova Scotia
Legends — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Social life and customs.
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Chéticamp : histoire et traditions acadiennes / Anselme Chiasson ; préf. de Luc Lacourcière. 3rd ed. Moncton, N.B. : Editions des Aboiteaux, 1972. 317 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 C526 C53 1972 - Open Shelf
Acadians — Nova Scotia — Chéticamp — Social life and customs
Chéticamp (N.S.) — History.
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Cheticamp : history and Acadian traditions / Anselme Chiasson ; translated by Jean Doris Le Blanc. Wreck Cove : Breton Books, 1998. xi, 275 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2349 C43 C4413 1998 - Open Shelf
Acadians — Nova Scotia — Chéticamp — Social life and customs
Chéticamp (N.S.) — History.
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Children of the Sheiling / by Celia C. Dimock. Sydney : Lynk, 194--. 98 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F108 D59 C43
Folklore — Nova Scotia
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Social life and customs.
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Colored Zion : the history of Zion United Baptist Church & the Black community of Truro, Nova Scotia / Donna Byard Sealey. Dartmouth : D.B. Sealey, 2000. 294 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - BX6490 T78 S43 2000
Black Canadians — Nova Scotia — Truro — Social life and customs
Black Canadians — Nova Scotia — Truro Genealogy.
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Dartmouth, Nova Scotia : living with change : a community social profile / Dorothy E. Moore. Dartmouth : Dalhousie University, 1984. ii, 149 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 D226 D226 - Open Shelf
June 1984.
Community life — Nova Scotia — Dartmouth
Community development — Nova Scotia
Dartmouth (N.S.) — Planning
Dartmouth (N.S.) — Social life and customs.
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Dayspring / by Helen Archer. Pacific Palisades, CA : NURSECO, 1981. 83 pages : 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.376 #11 - Vertical File
Nova Scotia — Social life and customs
Nova Scotia — Biography.
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Diary of Cecile Murat : a story of Saint Mary's Bay from 1795 to 1825 / by J. Alphonse Deveau. Salmon River : 1970. 32 pages : 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.530 #6 - Vertical File
Translation of: Journal de Cécile Murat. Cover title.
Acadians — Nova Scotia — Social life and customs
Acadians — Biography
Saint Mary's Bay (N.S.) — History
Digby (N.S. : County) — History
Church Point (Digby, 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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Evangelical balance sheet: character, family, and business in mid-Victorian Nova Scotia / B. Anne Wood. Waterloo, ON. : Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2006. xxix, 197 pages: illustrations, maps, portraits; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2322.1 R917 W873 2006 - Open Shelf
Includes index and bibliographical references.
Evangelicalism — Nova Scotia
Merchants — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — Social life and customs — 19th century
Pictou (N.S.) — Biography.
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Gems from my past / by Gertrude Rice Whitman ; edited by Susan Rice ; drawings by Leslie Wright. Annapolis Royal : G & G Pub. Co., 1983. 98 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 A613 W614 - Open Shelf
Nova Scotia — Social life and customs
Annapolis (N.S. : County) — Social life and customs
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Group identity in social gatherings traditions and community on the Iona Peninsula, Cape Breton / by Martha Jane MacDonald. Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1987. 230 frames : maps ; 11 x 15 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche M1357 - Open Shelf
Folklore — Nova Scotia — Iona
Iona N.S. — Social life and customs
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History and Acadian traditions of Chéticamp / Anselme Chiasson ; translated from the third edition (Moncton : Éditions des Aboiteaux, 1972) by Jean Doris Le Blanc. St. John's, Nfld. : Breakwater Books, 1986. 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 C526 C532 - Open Shelf
Chéticamp, history and Acadian traditions.
Acadians — Nova Scotia — Chéticamp — Social life and customs
Chéticamp (N.S.) — History.
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Hugh Sutherland diaries 1878-1879 : day book of Hugh Sutherland (1956 i.e. 1856-1939) 32 pages ; 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2323.1 S966 - Open Shelf
Nova Scotia — History — 1867-1896
Nova Scotia — Social life and customs — 19th century.
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Louisa's diary : the journal of a farmer's daughter, Dartmouth, 1815 / edited by Dale McClare ; illustrations by Nora Gross ; introduction by Dale McClare and the Publications Committee of the Cole Harbour Rural Heritage Society. Halifax Nova Scotia : Nova Scotia Museum, 1989. 54 pages : illustrations, map; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.342 #27 - Vertical File
Written by Louisa Collins. "A collaborative project of the Nova Scotia Museum and the Cole Harbour Rural Heritage Society"--P. [2.
Cole Harbour Rural Heritage Society
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Farm life — Nova Scotia — Dartmouth — History — 19th century
Dartmouth (N.S.) — Social life and customs
Dartmouth (N.S.) — Biography.
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Loyalist dress in Nova Scotia, 1775-1800 / by Mary Archibald, Elizabeth deMolitor and Cathy Holmes ; drawings by Finn Bower. Halifax : Shelbourne County Museum ; with the assistance of the Nova Scotia Museum, 1982. 67 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.219 #18 - Vertical File
deMolitor, Elizabeth
Holmes, Cathy.
Costume — Nova Scotia — History — 18th century
United Empire loyalists. — Costume
Nova Scotia — Social life and customs — 1763-1867.
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Lunenburg County folklore and oral history : project 77 / Laurie Lacey, editor. Ottawa : National Museums of Canada, 1979. 142 pages, 20 pages of plates ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR10 C212
Folk-lore — Nova Scotia — Lunenburg County
Lunenburg (N.S. : County) — Social life and customs — Addresses, essays, lectures.
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Micmacs : past and present Halifax : Nova Scotia Dept. of Advanced Education and Job Training, 1991. 16 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.167 #2 - Vertical File
Nova Scotia. Dept. of Advanced Education and Job Training.
Mi'kmaq — Social life and customs
Mi'kmaq — History
Mi'kmaqs — Nova Scotia — Texts
Mi'kmaqs — Nova Scotia — History
Literacy — Nova Scotia — Texts
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Mi'kmaw resource guide 2nd ed. Truro : Eastern Woodland Publishing, 1997. 28 pages : copies illustrations, maps.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.222 #50 - Vertical File
Mi'kmaq — Nova Scotia
Mi'kmaq art — Nova Scotia
Mi'kmaq business enterprises — Nova Scotia
Mi'kmaq — Maritime Provinces — History
Native peoples — Maritime Provinces — Social life and customs
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More tales from Barrett's Landing : a childhood in Nova Scotia / drawings by Fred Oakley. Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart, 1967. 127 pages : illus. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5219 W69 M81 - Open Shelf
Nova Scotia — Social life and customs.
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