Compilation of various strange stories from the paranormal to other worldly.

Ghosts — Nova Scotia
Haunted places — Nova Scotia
Apparitions — Nova Scotia
Unidentified flying objects — Sightings and encounters — Nova Scotia
Superstition — Nova Scotia

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This publication presents only a small part of the material held at the Archives in the Colchester Historeum. It is intended to honour and celebrate the generosity of our residents a hundred years age.

Maybee, Janet

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

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Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op
Fair trade foods — Grand Pré — Nova Scotia

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C.I.C. conference notes, data, figures, and organizers.

Pollution — Congresses
Pollution — Halifax (N.S.)

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19th edition of the Trafalgar Chronicle detailing the life of Lord Nelson and the HMS Victory. Printed in 2009 just after what would have been Nelson's 250th birthday.

Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805 — Chronology
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805
Trafalgar, Battle of, 1805
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 — Campaigns — Atlantic Ocean

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Yearbook for the Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf from the year 1969. Also contains a torn page, "Commissionaire 'Jim' Thompson" and "'Everyone's friend' Donald Fairfax".

Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf
Interprovincial Vocational School

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The history of the Dalhousie Tigers Football team from it's inception to it's cancellation by university staff in 1976 and then to it's eventual revival in 2009-2010.

Football — Nova Scotia
History — Dalhousie University (N.S.)
Sports — Nova Scotia
Sports — Dalhousie University (N.S.)

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Compiled letters to and from Kenneth Harrison to and from his wife Peg during World War II. Assumed publication date in the 2000s.

Harrison, Kenneth — Correspondence
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
Soldiers — Nova Scotia — Correspondence

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Photographs of the wharf at Scots Bay in the Bay of Fundy.

Marine photography — Scots Bay (N.S.)
Scots Bay (N.S.)—Pictorial works

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This is the story of an ambitious boy from Loyal Hill, in the village of Summerville on the Avon River in Hants County, who became a respected figure in the business community. Hon. MacCallum Grant served as Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia from 1916 to 1925, the last Nova Scotian to be appointed to two full terms as the King's representative. He created a new standard for the occupants of the viceregal office, reaching out to minorities and utilizing his charm and humour to engage everyone he met. Presiding By Desire - Nova Scotia's Popular Lieutenant Governor: Hon. MacCallum Grant by Scott J. Burke chronicles Grant's activities as lieutenant governor, highlighting significant events during his eight years at Government House. His terms in office encompassed the First World War and the Halifax Explosion. He played host to famous visitors including the Prince of Wales, and travelled to Washington to meet a president at the White House. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Freeman, Myra, 1949-

Grant, MacCallum, 1845-1928
Lieutenant governors — Nova Scotia — Biography
Businessmen — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — History — 1867-1918
Nova Scotia — History — 1918-1945

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Brief biographies of WWII soldiers from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Details including marital status, military status, and family lineages mostly from the Halifax Herald Limited. Second Volume.

World War, 1939-1945—Nova Scotia
World War, 1939-1945—Participation, Canadian
Halifax (N.S.)—Soldiers—Biography
Halifax (N.S.)—History, Military—20th century

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This work focuses on telling the story of an unknown child from the Titanic famously buried in Fairview Lawn Cemetery - later identified as Sidney Leslie Goodwin, Carol Goodwin's ancestor.

Goodwin family
Titanic (Steamship)
Shipwrecks—North Atlantic Ocean
Shipwreck victims—North Atlantic Ocean

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Report from 1983 public forum meetings across Nova Scotia to discuss Medicare in Canada and it's future with the Health Coalition of Nova Scotia. Newspaper clippings, brochures, and letters from events are included among the meeting minutes and notes. Table of contents includes an Appendices section for the different towns that held meetings as well as for the financial report across the areas and brief area reports.

Public health — Halifax (N.S.)
Medicaid — Halifax (N.S.)

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The history of schooling reflects the impact of economic, political, military and other social forces on the local community. The history of schooling in Guysborough County covers almost 300 years. In 1735, there was one school in the County; in 1959, there were almost one hundred; in 2018, there were three. This is the story of what happened in between. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Education — Nova Scotia — Guysborough (County) — History
Public schools — Nova Scotia — Guysborough (County) — History
Guysborough (N.S. : County) — History

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Around the Corner: Homes and Stories of the Barss Corner Area 1838-2021 reflects extensive research into families in the communities of Barss Corner, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada. House information is included for the surrounding communities of Cornwall and Scarsdale, as well as selected homes in Farmington, NS. The information in this book was supported by Marlean’s daughter, Pat Rhodenizer, who researched land deeds going back to the original Crown Land Grants of the mid 1800s. Photos, home ownership from the 1800s to the present, and family stories have been compiled to create this 238-page history of the area.

Rhodenizer, Robert

Barss Corner (N.S.) — History
Barss Corner (N.S.) — Biography
Dwellings — Nova Scotia — Barss Corner
Barss Corner (N.S.) — Buildings, structures, etc.

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The definitive academic resource on the Great Influenza by celebrated historian behind Black Loyalists, in time for the pandemic's centenary. It could kill in as little as ten hours. Extremely high fever, bleeding from eyes, nose, and ears, terrible pain, especially in the head and the joints, delirium--and then its victims literally drowned in their own fluids. Fifty to 100 million people worldwide died in this global pandemic in the early twentieth century. The Great Influenza first entered Nova Scotia through ports. (Sydney, Cape Breton, received five hundred sick American troops in a single day.) For three years, the province coped with this vicious epidemic as it spread like wildfire. Local economies ceased functioning; fishing fleets, banks, and apple-canning factories reported all staff were suffering from the flu. The heart of this book, however, is its human element. Oral histories, family memoirs, newspaper articles, and provincial death records tell, county by county, stories of those who died. Accompanied by 20 photographs, Nova Scotia and the Great Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1920 chronicles both provincial and personal efforts to cope during this most perilous time. Includes bibliographical references.

Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 — Nova Scotia — Sources
Influenza — Patients — Nova Scotia — Biography — Sources
Nova Scotia — Biography — Sources
Nova Scotia — History — 20th century — Sources

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Debt and bad management drove Abraham Gesner off his farm in Nova Scotia's bucolic Annapolis Valley in 1825. It turned out to be a stroke of luck. While doing medical courses in London hospitals, he encountered the industrial revolution. Attending sundry lectures and demonstrations, he got his first whiff of the rapidly developing new sciences of chemistry, geology and natural history. He was hooked! Back home, traveling about the country visiting patients, he honed his observational skills, finally producing pioneering geological surveys of all three Maritime provinces. Imitating procedures which he had first observed while abroad, he experimented with "cracking" coal to generate the tars, oils and gases which fueled the industrial revolution. In the process, he produced "kerosene" - an illuminating gas and an oil - which revolutionized artificial lighting and generated much industry. Because he explored with native guides and advocated on their behalf, he served for a time as Indian Commissioner. An engaging lecturer, he addressed audiences on many scientific subjects and developed the region's first natural history museum; he wrote articles and books describing the region and extolling its potential for development. His final publication was a textbook of hydrocarbon chemistry. Local lawsuits over mining rights and patent infringements caused him to move to New York. Still more lawsuits drove him back to his native land where he died, shortly after being appointed to a coveted lectureship in Dalhousie University. Includes bibliographic references and index.

Gesner, Abraham, — 1797-1864
Geologists — Maritime Provinces — Biography
Inventors — Maritime Provinces — Biography
Natural history — Maritime Provinces
Mining leases — Maritime Provinces
Mines and mineral resources — Maritime Provinces — History
Mineral industries — Maritime Provinces — History

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Author Dan Soucoup takes readers from the eighteenth century to present day, detailing the blizzards, floods, tornadoes, and tsunamis that have brought havoc to the East Coast.

Mombourquette, Angela

Storms — Atlantic Provinces — History
Storms — Nova Scotia — History

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Research, compilation and notes by Gervais (Garvie) Samson. St. Cécile-Marie, F.J. (Annie Adèle Samson) (1891-2004), Teacher and Poet. Celebrating 113 years and 9 months of service Includes bibliographical references.

Samson, Garvie

Canadian poetry — Women authors
Canadian poetry — 21st century
Canadian poetry — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Poetry

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Compiled work from Canadian authors (poets, writers, and playwrights) written and compiled by members of the Canadian Author's Association Atlantic Branch. Completes the trilogy of anthologies from the CAA-Atlantic Branch - Atlantic Voices in 1994 and Atlantic Echoes in 1998.

Canadian poetry — Nova Scotia
Canadian fiction — Nova Scotia
Canadian poetry — 20th century
Canadian fiction — 20th century
Nova Scotia — History

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Follows the life and career of Austin Willis, actor known for CBC's Space Command and Goldfinger as told to Ernest Dick. Foreword by Costas Halavrezos.

Halavrezos, Costas

Willis, Austin
Motion picture actors and actresses — Canada — Biography

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Rather than thinking of Maud Lewis as an artist who was untrained, unskilled, and worked in total isolation, we ought to reframe her as an artist who, through her observation of landscape and culture, created composite images of what inspired her." Upon seeing the title of this work, you could be forgiven for asking, "Another book about Maud Lewis? Is there anything left to say, or is this just one more voice laying claim to her story and legacy?" After all, Lewis's work has been marketed and co-opted as part of the larger folk identity in Nova Scotia for decades. But something has been missing from that discourse all these years. In Painted Worlds, Dalton explores what always seems to be lacking in the storytelling and mythmaking surrounding Maud Lewis: she situates Lewis's work within a wider context of art history. Discussions of technique, intent, and colour theory permeate these pages. Instead of reducing Lewis to her cute black cats and whimsical rural scenes, Dalton takes us on a deep dive of the artist's oeuvre, through the lens of critical art history inquiry. That is, Dalton does not simply regard the paintings as ethnographic objects of rural Nova Scotia, but as serious works of art to be carefully examined. The result is a rigorous analysis that grants Lewis's work--and thus, her legacy--a measure of the dignity and respect denied to her in real life. Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-172) and index.

Lewis, Maud, 1903-1970 — Criticism and interpretation

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Political Cartoons from the Chronicle-Herald and the Mail-Star by Robert Chambers from 1967.

Political cartoons — Canada
Caricatures and cartoons — Canada
Canada — Politics and government — Humor

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Political Cartoons from the Chronicle-Herald and the Mail-Star by Robert Chambers from 1966.

Political cartoons — Canada
Caricatures and cartoons — Canada
Canada — Politics and government — Humor

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Errors and omissions sheet included. Includes index.

Cemeteries — Nova Scotia — Annapolis Royal — History
Sepulchral monuments — Nova Scotia — Annapolis Royal — History
Stone carving — Nova Scotia — Annapolis Royal — History
Annapolis Royal (N.S.) — History
Fort Anne National Historic Site (Annapolis Royal, N.S.) — History

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