Notable Pictonians / by Clyde F. MacDonald. Pictou, N.S. : Advocate Printing & Publishing, 2003. 200 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 P5 M244 2003 - Open Shelf
The history of 8 notable Piconian residents from around 1830 to the 1990s. Each chapter is named for the person who's biography is featured, with appropriate date ranges for the individual.
Nova Scotia — History
Pictou (N.S. : County) — History
Pictou (N.S. : County) — Biography
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The life and adventures of detective Peter Owen Carroll Canada : 1923. 80 pages : 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.241 #6 - Vertical File
Detectives — Nova Scotia — Pictou — Biography
Pictou (N.S.) — History.
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The Grohmann Journey to Freedom : a true story / by Berta Grohmann-Babinec. Pictou : Berta Grohmann-Babinec, 2013. 136 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - TS380.4 G764 2013
Berta Grohmann-Babinec was 25 years old when she arrived in Canada. She had immigrated here with her family and settled down in the small town of Pictou, Nova Scotia. She describes her childhood, what she and her family went through during the war, the nightmares after the war, and her journey to Canada. Grohmann Knives Limited is a small family business with a big reputation. It is an Old World story that began before the second World War, when a commercial buyer from Quebec traveled once a year to a factory in Sudetenland, then a German region of Czechoslovakia, to buy pocket knives. Every year the buyer would urge Rudolph Grohmann the production manager at a plant in Mikulasovice (Nixdorf), to come to Canada , promising him help to get started. Mr. Grohmann would always decline as he was happy in his own country, but after the war, the political situation grew desperate and in 1949 Rudolph Grohmann accepted the offer. Rudolph's daughter Berta married Michael Babinec Sr who was from Rudno nad Hrohom. Within a year, Grohmann and his family arrived in Nova Scotia at the invitation of the provincial government-funded Pictou Cutlery. Grohmann Knives Limited was formed in 1961 by the family and was run by one of Grohmann's daughters, Berta, & her husband Michael Babinec Sr.
Grohmann Knives Limited — History
Immigrants — Nova Scotia — Biography
Businesswomen — Nova Scotia — Biography
Business enterprises — Nova Scotia — History
Knives — Canada — Nova Scotia — History
Pictou (N.S.) — History
Pictou (N.S.) — Biography
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Coal in our blood / Judith Hoegg Ryan. Halifax : Formac, 1992. xiv, 146 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 21 x 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD9554 R988 1992
Coal mines and mining — Nova Scotia — Pictou (County) — History
Coal miners — Nova Scotia — Pictou (County) — Biography.
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Thomas Cantley remembered / Catherine Hayden Campbell. (2004 printing). Pictou : Catherine Hayden Campbell, 2002. v, 438 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HC112.5 C231 C187 2004
Includes bibliographical references.
Cantley, Thomas, — 1857-1945
Businessmen — Nova Scotia — Biography
Politicians — Nova Scotia — Biography
Pictou (N.S. : County) — Biography
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Memories : a project of Shiretown Nursing Home and McCulloch School, Pictou, N.S Pictou : Shiretown Nursing Home and McCulloch School, 1996. ill. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 P53 M46 - Open Shelf
Shiretown Nursing Home
Dr. Thomas McCulloch Junior High School.
Pictou (N.S. : County) — Biography
Pictou (N.S. : County) — History — Anecdotes
Nova Scotia — History — Anecdotes.
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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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More about Pictonians / by James M. Cameron. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1983. 87 pages ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 P611 C182a1 - Open Shelf
Pictou (N.S. : County) — Biography
Pictou (N.S. : County) — History.
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About Pictonians / by James M. Cameron. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1979. 162 pages ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 P611 C182a - Open Shelf
Pictou (N.S. : County) — Biography
Pictou (N.S. : County) — History.
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Still more about Pictonians / by James M. Cameron. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1985. 100 pages ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 P611 C182am - Open Shelf
Pictou (N.S. : County) — Biography
Pictou (N.S. : County) — History.
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The life and adventures of detective Peter Owen Carroll 2nd ed. Antigonish : Sundown Publishing, 1985. 105 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204.9 C319 M152 - Open Shelf
Detectives — Nova Scotia — Pictou — Biography
Pictou (N.S.) — History.
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Jotham Blanchard, the forgotten patriot of Pictou / by Roland H. Sherwood. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1982. 75 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204.9 B639 - Open Shelf
Spine title: The forgotten patriot.
Journalists — Nova Scotia — Pictou — Biography
Politicians — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1763-1867.
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Pictonians at home and abroad : sketches of professional men and women of Pictou County : its history and institutions / by J.P. MacPhie. Boston, Mass. : Pinkham Press, 1914. viii, 232 pages : plates, portraits, map ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F106 P5 M2
Pictou (N.S. : County) — Biography
Pictou (N.S. : County) — History.
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Simple annals : the story of the McQueens of Sutherland's River / by Relief Williams Mackay. Merigomish : R.W. Mackay, 1986. xii, 195 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 M173 M153 - Open Shelf
Includes index.
Sutherland's River (N.S.) — Biography
Sutherland's River (N.S.) — Genealogy
Pictou (N.S. : County) — Biography
Pictou (N.S. : County) — Genealogy.
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The pioneers and churches : the pioneers and families of Big Brook and West Branch E.R. and surrounding sections, including Lorne, Glengarry, Elgin, Centerdale, Hopewell, Marshdale, Foxbrook / by D.K. Ross. New Glasgow : Hector Pub. Co., 1957. 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS R73 - Open Shelf
Includes index.
Pictou (N.S. : County) — History
Pictou (N.S. : County) — Biography
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