Windships of Advocate : vessels partly owned by Ward and Blenkhorn families / compiled by Keith D. Hage. Spruce Grove, AB. : The Author, 1995. 98 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM27 N6 H34 1995
Includes index.
Shipbuilding — Nova Scotia — Advocate
Advocate (N.S.)
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Ships and seamen of the western ocean : a South Shore odyssey / James T. Bebb. Lockeport : The Author, 1997. 220 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM27 N6 B43 1997
Shipbuilding — Nova Scotia — Lockeport
Fisheries — History — Nova Scotia — Lockeport
Lockeport (N.S.) — History.
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Age of sail in Annapolis County, 1760-1925 / Peggy Armstrong and Marguerite Wagner. Annapolis Royal : Midnight Press, 2000. ix, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM27 N6 A76 2000
Sailing ships — Nova Scotia — Annapolis (County) — History
Shipbuilding — Nova Scotia — Annapolis (County) — History.
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The age of sail : master shipbuilders of the Maritimes / Stanley T. Spicer. Halifax : Formac, 2001. 144 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 21 x 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM27 M37 S59 2001
Includes index.
Shipbuilding — History — 19th century. — Maritime Provinces
Sailing ships — History — 19th century. — Maritime Provinces
Shipbuilding industry — History — 19th century. — Maritime Provinces
Maritime Province
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Masters of sail : the era of square-rigged vessels in the Maritime Provinces / by Stanley T. Spicer. Halifax : Petheric Press, 1982, 1968. 278 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM27 M34 S75 1981
Includes index. Co-published by Nova Scotia Museum.
Shipbuilding — Maritime Provinces — History
Sailing — Maritime Provinces — History.
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Volumes not values : Canadian sailing ships and world trades : proceedings of the third conference of the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project, April 19-April 21 1979 / edited by David Alexander, Rosemary Ommer. St. John's : Maritime History Group, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1979. 373 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM27 A881 V943
Alexander, David, 1939-
Ommer, Rosemary.
Atlantic Canada Shipping Project.
Shipping — Canada — History — Congresses
Shipping — Atlantic Ocean — History — Congresses
Commerce — History — Congresses.
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The ships of Canada's marine services / Charles D. Maginley and Bernard Collin. St. Catharines, ON. : Vanwell Publishing, 2001. 288 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM26 M33 2001
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The elements of wood ship construction / by W. H. Curtis. Almonte, ON. : Algrove Publishing, 2009. vii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM145 C981 2009
Shipbuilding
Ships, Wooden — Design and construction.
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One hundred forty-one wooden ships, 1872-1922 : Amos Pentz, master shipbuilder of Shelburne, Nova Scotia / by Harold G. Simms. Massachusetts- : H.G. Simms, 2004. x, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 vm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM140 P419 S592 2004
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Sailing directory for the island of Newfoundland : comprising a general description of its bays, harbours, anchoring places, &c., &c. Compiled chiefly from various British and French Surveys / by James F. Imray. London : J. Imray, 1873. ix, 181 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK989 I47 1873
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Sailing directions for the coast of North America part 1 : from Cape Canso to New York London : James Imray & Son, 1872. xii, 184 ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK981 S25 1872
Includes index.
Pilot guides — Atlantic Coast (Canada)
Pilot guides — Atlantic Coast (United States).
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Women under sail : letters and journals concerning eight women travelling or working in sailing vessels between 1829 and 1949 / compiled by Basil Greenhill and Ann Giffard. Newton Abbot : David & Charles, 1970. 213 pages, 16 plates. : illus., facsims., ports. ; 23
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK541 G813 W872
Women and the sea
Seafaring life
Sailing ships.
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Come quick, danger : a history of marine radio in Canada / Stephan Dubreuil. Ottawa : Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Coast Guard, 1998. ix, 136 pages, [52] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK397 D82 1998
Issued also in French under title: CQD, toujours áa l'âecoute. Distributed by the Government of Canada Depository Services Program.
Radio — Canada — Installation on ships — History
Radio operators — Canada — History.
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Tidewrack : neglected facts and intriguing stories from the age of the wooden ships / by R.J. Cunningham. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1994. 210 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK26 C85 1994
Ships, Wooden — Atlantic Provinces — History
Navigation — Atlantic Provinces — History.
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The way of a ship : being some account of the ultimate development of the ocean-going square-rigged sailing vessel, and the manner of her handling, her voyage-making, her personnel, her economics, her performance, and her end / by Alan Villiers ; illustrated with the author's photographs, and diagrams and drawings by Harold A. Underhill. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. xiv, 428 pages : illus., charts, ports.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK18 V5 1953
Sailing ships
Shipping — History.
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Between France and New France : life aboard the tall sailing ships / Gilles Proulx. Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1984. 173 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK18 P7613 1984
Published by Dundurn Press Limited in co-operation with Parks Canada and the Canadian Government Publishing Centre, Supply and Services Canada.
Sailing — North Atlantic Ocean — History — 18th century
Ocean travel — History — 18th century
Sailing ships — Canada — History — 18th century
Sailing ships — France — History — 18th century
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Island keepers / Allison Mitcham. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1989. 183 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1430 D639 M679
Lighthouse keepers — Nova Scotia — Sable Island — Biography
Lighthouse keepers — Nova Scotia — Scatarie Island — Biography
Sable Island (N.S.) — Biography
Scatarie Island (N.S.) — Biography.
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Schooner master : a portrait of David Stevens / Peter Carnahan. Halifax : Nimbus, 1989. ix, 180 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, ports. ; 23
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140.5 S82 C37 1989
Shipbuilding — Nova Scotia — Biography.
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A Mariner's Memories : a Chronicle of the Life and Times of Earle S. Wagner, Master Mariner, 1929-1999 / Earle S. Wagner. Nova Scotia : Earle S. Wagner, 2017. 272 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 W346 1999
At age 17, Earle Wagner joined Canada's marchant navy and served in it for four years during World War II. For nearly a quarter of a century he managed a fleet of vessels owned and operated by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. He was involved for a total of 48 years in the marine industry.
Merchant marine — Canada — Biography
Pilots and pilotage — Manitoba — Churchill — Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Atlantic Ocean — Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Transportation — Biography
West La Have (N.S.) — Biography
Autobiographies
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The captain & the queen / director, Chuck Stewart ; produced by Great North Atlantic Media Inc. for Great North Productions Inc. ; producer, F. Whitman Trecartin ; executive producers, Bill Skerrett, Patricia Phillips. Edmonton, AB. : Great North, 1998. 1 videocassette : 60 minutes.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 W3 C37 1998 - Video
Title on container: The captain and the queen : Angus Walters & the schooner Bluenose.
Phillips, Patricia
Skerrett, Bill
Stewart, Chuck
Trecartin, F. Whitman.
Great North Productions
Great North Atlantic Media Inc.
Ship captains — Nova Scotia Biography.
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The Spicer of life : a Maritime marriage during the Age of Sail : Captain Dewis and Emma Spicer of Spencer's Island, Nova Scotia / David Stanley. Halifax : Dalhousie University, 2007. ix, 99 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 S754 2007
Addendum on last page. Includes bibliographical references.
Spicer family.; — Spicer, Dewis.; — Spicer, Emma Parsons.
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Biography
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Diaries.
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Bluenose master : the memoirs of Captain Ernest K. Hartling / as told to Jo Kranz. Willowdale, ON. : Hounslow Press, 1989. 177 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 H331
Merchant seamen — Nova Scotia — Biography
Seafaring life.
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If his sea chest could talk : a tribute to Captain Robert N. Crowell, 1840-1902 / by Fred D. Whitehouse. Yarmouth : The author, 1996. 193 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 C76 W45 1996
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Biography
Seafaring life — Nova Scotia
Voyages and travels.
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The two Atlantics / by Keith A. Hatchard. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1981. 144 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1276 A879 H361
Subtitle on cover: The shipwreck of the SS Atlantic at Prospect, N.S., April 1st, 1873.
Shipwrecks — Nova Scotia — Prospect (Halifax)
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Secrets of the dead New York : Engel Brothers Media, 2002. 1 videocassette (53 min., 30 sec.) : sd, col. ; 1.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK1255 T6 T617 2002 - Video
Viewing copy. Includes promotional postcard.
Bucher, Amy, drt
Lipworth, Jared, pro.
Shipwrecks — North Atlantic Ocean
Shipwreck victims — Nova Scotia — Halifax.
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