The story of Captain James Leander Publicover, owner and ship captain at J.L. Publicover Shipping Company, and chronicles how he and his family would work and travel the seas together.

J.L. Publicover Shipping Co. — History
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Biography
Sailing ships — Nova Scotia — History
Seafaring life — Nova Scotia — History
Publicover, James Leander, 1877-1960

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There is something seemingly magical about fermentation - microscopic organisms acting on fruits, vegetables and grains and completely transforming their properties. Fermentation produces wonderful flavours, connects us to local producers, is good for our health and is a direct link with local cultures - both the culture steeped in history and tradition, and the microscopic live cultures embedded in our fermented foods. Philip Moscovitch travelled Nova Scotia to discover today's practitioners of the art of food fermentation. He found traditional sauerkraut makers still at work on Tancook Island and cider makers working with old techniques and 100-year-old apple varieties. But he also found dozens of newly-established breweries and wineries, sausage makers bringing French traditions to the province, and cheese makers creating innovative and unique local cheeses. He offers sample recipes featuring local ingredients to allow for experimenting in the kitchen with products that are not all that complicated to make, and which lend themselves to endless variations. This book introduces the new wave of fermenters in Nova Scotia who are creating delicious products using local ingredients, and encourages readers to try fermentation for themselves. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Moscovitch, Philip — Travel — Nova Scotia
Cooking (Fermented foods) — Nova Scotia
Fermented foods — Nova Scotia
Fermented beverages — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Description and travel

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Pages 1-22: brief introduction with basic information on rug hooking and key figured in rug hooking in Nova Scotia and the Garrett Catalogue of patterns for rug hooking. Pages 23-118: patterns from the Garrett's catalogue "early times to 1974". See also: TT850 R93 1995 (reprint)

Wright, Doreen

John E. Garrett Limited — History
Rugs, Hooked — Nova Scotia — History
Folk art — Nova Scotia

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Chiefly photographs. Includes index.

Portrait photography — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Photojournalism — Nova Scotia — Halifax

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This book highlights important black people in Canadian history.

Black people — Nova Scotia — Biography

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An interesting account of the life of Jacob Horn, one of the first citizens of Halifax, his business and military adventures and his final settlement at McNab's Island and Eastern Passage

Horn, Jacob, 1720-1821
Horn family
Nova Scotia — Genealogy

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First aid resource that includes a list of illustrations (diagrams for first aid reference) and index of terms for easy searching for a practice. Booklet is broken up into two sections: Main Pages numbered 1-215: illustrations, text, and index of terms relating to different medical conditions and first aid practices to follow. Back Pages numbered 1-40: St. John Ambulance Association general price list for equipment and resources from stretchers and textbooks for businesses/military to military, railway, and civilian first aid kits, with index list of prices and products.

First aid in illness and injury — Canada
First aid in illness and injury — Wounds and injuries
Commonwealth countries
World War, 1914-1918 — Canada

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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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Chronicle about the changes that have happened in health care within Nova Scotia through the years including the expansion of health care into rural communities, the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918, the Halifax Explosion of 1917, and deployed health professionals during war. Includes a bibliography and an index for easy searching at the back of the book.

Medicare — Nova Scotia
Medical Care — History — Nova Scotia

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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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Some background is provided on ancestors but it mostly is a biography for her and her immediate family.

Nova Scotia — Genealogy
Nova Scotia — History
McGuinness Family

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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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The story of Don Messer and his fiddle that made him a nation figure in Canadian music history.

Leahy, Frank, 1961-

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Messer, Don, 1909-1973
Leahy, Frank, 1961-
Don Messer's jubilee (Television program)
Fiddlers — Canada — Biography

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Between 1857 and 1970, thousands of children came to live at the Halifax Protestant Orphan's Home. Some were children whose parents simply didn't have the means to care for them any longer; others were orphans who had nowhere else to go. Many faced abuse, poverty, and neglect before, during, and after their time in the facility. All were vulnerable young wards, left in the trusted care of an institution that, in countless cases, would ultimately betray them. In Wounded Hearts: Memories of the Halifax Protestant Orphans' Home veteran journalist Lois Legge digs deep into the lived experiences of the children who passed through those doors, painting an indelible picture of innocence lost. This in-depth narrative introduces readers to the strength and sorrow of the home's survivors, in advance of the fiftieth anniversary of Veith House (2020), an inclusive community centre and the former site of the orphanage. Includes bibliographical references.

Halifax Protestant Orphans' Home — History
Orphanages — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History

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This edited collection offers a broad reinterpretation of the origins of Canada. Drawing on cutting-edge research in a number of fields, Violence, Order, and Unrest explores the development of British North America from the mid-eighteenth century through the aftermath of Confederation. The chapters cover an ambitious range of topics, from Indigenous culture to municipal politics, public executions to runaway slave advertisements. Cumulatively, this book examines the diversity of Indigenous and colonial experiences across northern North America and provides fresh perspectives on the crucial roles of violence and unrest in attempts to establish British authority in Indigenous territories. Drawing on specific case studies of law and state formation in English and French Canada, Violence, Order, and Unrest considers patterns of settler colonialism across the century before Confederation. The result is a collection that brings together innovative research in different fields to reconsider the ideology, governance, and political culture that underpinned British North America. In the aftermath of Canada 150, Violence, Order, and Unrest offers a timely contribution to current debates over the nature of Canadian culture and history. It demonstrates that we cannot understand Canada today without considering its origins as a colonial project.

Bannister, Jerry, 1968-
McKim, Denis
See, Scott W., 1950-

Violence — Canada — History — 18th century — Case studies
Violence — Canada — History — 19th century — Case studies
Canada — Colonization — History — 18th century — Case studies
Canada — Colonization — History — 19th century — Case studies
Canada — Social conditions — 18th century — Case studies
Canada — Social conditions —19th century — Case studies

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The days of the general store may be long gone but thanks to Mike Parker are not forgotten. Illustrated with more than 400 images, A Little of Everything has something for everyone. For those who remember the sights, sounds and smells of an old-fashioned general store, this book will be a walk down memory lane. For those less fortunate who missed out on the waning days of the general store but are looking for a good read with a touch of history, A Little of Everything will open another window to the past in Mike's long-time quest to shine light on Nova Scotia's old days, old ways. Yesterday's general store was today's Costco, Home Depot and Superstore rolled into one – and then some. Includes selected bibliography.

General stores — Nova Scotia — History
General stores — Nova Scotia — History — Pictorial works

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Steam Titan' tells the story of a transatlantic fight born of and powered by steam, a fight to wrest control of the globe's most lucrative trade route. It's the story of two men: Samuel Cunard and Edward Knight Collins, and two nations: Great Britain and the United States. Wielding the tools of technology, finance, and politics--and at the same time coping with the inevitable, sometimes crushing, perils of the sea--these opposing forces fought to capture control of a commercial lifeline that spanned the North Atlantic. Tracing the paths of ships, goods, people, information and money, historian William M. Fowler Jr. brings to life the spectacle of this generation-long struggle for supremacy, during which New York rose to take her place among the greatest ports and cities of the world, and recounts the tale of competition that was the opening act in the drama of economic globalization that is still unfolding today. Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-350) and index.

Collins, Edward Knight, 1802-1878
Cunard, Samuel, Sir, 1787-1865
Collins Line
Cunard Steamship Company, ltd
Merchant marine — North Atlantic Ocean — Biography
Steamboat lines — North Atlantic Ocean — History — 19th century
Shipping — North Atlantic Ocean — History — 19th century
Steamboats — North Atlantic Ocean — History — 19th century
United States — Commerce — 19th century
Great Britain — Commerce — 19th century

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End of the Line follows a similar track as three of Mike Parker's best-selling books about ghost towns and deserted island settlements - Gold Rush Ghost Towns, Buried in the Woods, and Ghost Islands of Nova Scotia. Presented in Mike's popular storytelling style, and drawing upon more than 430 images, many of them in colour, End of the Line opens another window to the past, taking the reader for a nostalgic trip back in time on the abandoned Dominion Atlantic Railway along the once-famous Land of Evangeline route from Yarmouth to Halifax through the heart of the Annapolis Valley. There have been many railways but none more storied than the D.A.R. (1894-1994), considered to be 'one of the more important pages out of Nova Scotia history.' Mike Parker is a best-selling author who has been writing about his native province for many years and has earned numerous accolades, including that of Nova Scotia's Storyteller. Mike is affiliated with the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies at Saint Mary's University as a research associate. He is a graduate of Acadia University and a long-time resident of Dartmouth. Includes bibliographical references (page 222-223).

Dominion Atlantic Railway — History
Dominion Atlantic Railway — History — Pictorial works
Railroads — Nova Scotia — Annapolis Valley (Annapolis County and Kings County) — History
Railroads — Nova Scotia — Annapolis Valley (Annapolis County and Kings County) — History — Pictorial works

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