Unlucky lady: the life & death of HMCS Athabaskan, 1940-44 / Len Burrow, Emile Beaudoin. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1987. 198 pages: illustrations (some col.); 23 x 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VA400 B972 1987
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian.
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The Bonnie, HMCS Bonaventure / by J. Allan Snowie ; foreword by J.C. Scruffy O'Brien. Erin, ON. : Boston Mills Press, 1987. 336 pages : illustrations (some col.), ports. ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V874.5 C3 S66 1987
Ports. on lining papers.
Aircraft carriers — Canada — History
Ship captains — Canada — Biography.
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Alongside the navy, 1910-1950 : an intimate account / Jean Donald Gow. Quyon, Quebec : Chelsey House Publications, 1999. viii, 166 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V743 C3 G68 1999
Navy spouses — Canada — Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Nova Scotia — Halifax.
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96 years in the Royal Navy : the astonishing story of Halifax born Admiral of the Fleet Sir Provo Wallis, who joined the Royal Navy at the age of four and served for 96 years / William C. Heine. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1987. 92 pages, viii pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V64 G786 W221
Naval biography — Great Britain
Admirals — Great Britain — Biography
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With many voices : memoirs of a sailor / Jeffry V. Brock. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1981-. 2 v. : port. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V64 C22 B864
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian
Korean War, 1950-1953 — Naval operations
Admirals — Canada — Biography
Canada — History, Naval.
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Midshipman Cann / Arthur Thurston. Yarmouth : A. Thurston Publications, 1989. 76 l. ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V64 C212 C224
Seamen — Nova Scotia — Biography
Coronel, Battle of, 1914
World War, 1914-1918 — Naval operations, British.
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Canada and sea power: Canadian naval thought and policy, 1860-1910 / by Thomas Richard Melville. Ann Arbor, Mich. : Univ Microfilms International, 1982. 368 pages: ill, maps; 11 x 15 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V55 C212 M531
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Maritime Museum of Canada (N.S.)
Occasional papers Halifax : The Museum, 1958-. 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V13
... historical sketches on maritime subjects of importance to the nation.
Naval art and science — History
Canada — History, Naval
Canada — History — Periodicals
Canada — History — Sources
Halifax (N.S.) — History — Periodicals.
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The Crowsnest Ottawa : King's Printer, 1948-1965. 17 v. : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V1 C953
The Royal Canadian Navy's magazine.
Sailors — Canada — Periodicals
Canada. Royal Canadian Navy — Periodicals.
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Canadian airmen and the first world war / S.F. Wise. Toronto : University of Toronto Press in co-operation with the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Govt. Pub. Centre, Supply and Services Canada, 1980. xx, 771 pages, [6] folded pages of plates : illustrations, ma
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UG635 C212 W813 v.1
World War, 1914-1918 — Aerial operations, Canadian.
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RCAF : squadron histories and aircraft, 1924-1968 / Samuel Kostenuk, John Griffin. Toronto : Sarasota : Hakkert ; Stevens, 1977. xix, 255 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UG635 C212 K86
Includes indexes.
Griffin, J. A. (John A.), 1922-, jt. auth.
Airplanes, Military — Canada — History
Aeronautics, Military — Canada — History
Airplanes, Military — History.
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The Barrington Passage wireless station / Michael Christie. Yarmouth : Michael Christie, 2002. 152 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UG605 C3 C49 2002
Radio operators — Nova Scotia — Barrington Passage
Telegraph, Wireless — Nova Scotia — Barrington Passage
Barrington Passage (N.S.) — History.
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Perseverance : the Canadian Sea King Story / John L. Orr. Shearwater : Sea King 50th Anniversary Committee, 2013. 331 pages ; 23 cm and 1 DVD.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UG1235 C3 O77 2013
The Canadian Sea King helicopter has served Canada and Canadians with distinction since its arrival in Shearwater, Nova Scotia on 1 August 1963. Includes bibliographical references. Includes DVD containing a Microsoft Word document containing 16 pages of photographs (some in colour), two photographs per page.
Sea King 50th Anniversary Committee
Canada — Canadian Armed Forces — History — 20th century
Sea King (Helicopter)
Military helicopters — Canada — History — 20th century
Flight crews — Canada — History — 20th century
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British smooth-bore artillery : a technological study to support identification, acquisition, restoration, reproduction, and interpretation of artillery at national historic parks in Canada / David McConnell. Ottawa : National Historic Parks and Sites, Environment Canada, Parks, 1988. 595 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UF57 M35 1988
Issued also in French under title: L'artillerie lisse britannique.
Canadian Parks Service. National Historic Parks and Sites.
Artillery — Great Britain — History
Artillery — Canada — History
Historic sites — Interpretive programs — Canada.
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Canadian defence quarterly Ottawa . ill. 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UC16 D36
Canada. Dept. of National Defence.
Military art and science — Periodicals.
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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
Includes bibliographical references.
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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The Annapolis Regiments of Nova Scotia : the officers, NCOs and men of the 69th and 72nd battalions of infantry volunteer militia, 1867-1914 / Wayne W. Walker. Ottawa, ON. : Wayne Walker, 2006. 334 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UA602 W516 W186 2006
Includes index.
Annapolis Valley (N.S.) — History.
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Times to remember : some recollections of four and a half years service with the West Nova Scotia Regiment during 1940-1944 R.G.T. , 1996. 109 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UA602 W516 1996
Author only identified as R.G.T. at end of Introduction. Title from cover.
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Italy.
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Lobster lighthouse and long-range radar : a history of Canadian Forces Station Barrington to 1987 Stone Horse : Canadian Forces Station Barrington, 1987. x, 126 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UA602 B276
Canada. Canadian Forces Station (Barrington, N.S.)
Barrington (N.S.) — History
Baccaro Point — History
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A monument speaks--and tells the story of its dead / by Arthur Thurston. Yarmouth : A. Thurston Publications, 1989. xix, 397 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UA601 N935 T536
World War, 1914-1918 — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth (County) — Biography
Yarmouth (County : N.S.) — Biography.
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The fading veterans / Arthur Thurston. Yarmouth : A. Thurston Publication, 1991. 74 pages : facsims
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UA601 N935 T536
Veterans, Disabled — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth (County) — Biography
World War, 1914-1918 — Veterans — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth (County) — Biography
Yarmouth (N.S. : County) — Biography.
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Canada. Dept. of National Defence. Geographical Section
The Canadian army, 1939-1945 : an official historical summary / by C.P. Stacey ; illustrated with paintings by Canadian Army war artists ; maps drawn by C.C.J. Bond. Ottawa : E. Cloutier, 1948. xv, 354 pages, [25] pages of plates (some folded) :
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UA600 S77
Published by authority of the Minister of National Defence Issued also in French under title: L'armée canadienne, 1939-1945. Maps on lining papers. Includes index.
Stacey, C. P. (Charles Perry), 1906-1989.
World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns
World War, 1939-1945 — Canada.
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In retreat : the Canadian forces in the Trudeau years / Gerald Porter. Ottawa : Deneau & Greenberg, 1978. ix, 232 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UA600 P844
Canada — Military policy
Canada — Armed forces.
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No life like it : military wives in Canada / Deborah Harrison and Lucie Laliberte. Toronto : J. Lorimer, 1994. vi, 266 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - U773 H318 1994
Military spouses — Canada
Canada — Armed Forces — Military life.
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The captain calls : 300 years of Nova Scotia military history / by Brent Fox. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1993. 204 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - U54 C2 F69 1993
Cover subtitle: Heroes, scapegoats & men of duty from the colonial wars to the present day.
Soldiers — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — History, Military.
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