New Brunswick Shipbuilding : a Golden age / Parks Canada. Halifax : Videotech Ltd., 2000. 1 videocassette : 16 minutes, b&w sequences.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM299.7 C2 N49 - Video
A collaboration between Parks Canada and the New Brunswick Museum.
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Sails of Fundy : the schooners and square-riggers of the Parrsboro shore / by Stanley T. Spicer. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1984. 135 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM27 P266 S75
Sailing ships — Nova Scotia — Parrsboro Region — History
Schooners — Nova Scotia — Parrsboro Region — History
Merchant ships — Nova Scotia — Parrsboro Region — History
Shipbuilding — Nova Scotia
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The ships, shipbuilders, and seamen of Pictou County / by James M. Cameron. New Glasgow : Pictou County Historical Society, 1990. 191, [14] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM27 N935 C182
Pictou County Historical Society.
Shipbuilding industry — Nova Scotia — Pictou (County) — History
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Pictou (County)
Ship registers — Nova Scotia — Pictou (County)
Shipping — Nova Scotia — Pictou (County) — H
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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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W. D. Lawrence : the man and the ship / by David E. Stephens. Windsor : Lancelot Press, 1975. 68 pages, [2] pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM140 L42
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The great coal schooners of New England, 1870-1909 Mystic, Conn. 1948. 135 pages illus., ports. 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VKP22
Coal-carrying vessels
Schooners
Coal trade — New England.
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Bluenose & Bluenose II / R. Keith McLaren ; editor, John Robert Colombo. Willowdale, ON. : Hounslow Press, 1981. [72 pages] : chiefly illustrations (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VKB62 M161
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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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Great Britain. Hydrographic Dept
Sailing directions for the south-east coast of Nova Scotia and Bay of Fundy / compiled from various Admiralty surveys by Staff Commander G. F. McDougall. 2d ed., with an appendix. 1875. 253 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK803 N93 1875
Navigation — Nova Scotia
Fundy, Bay of — Navigation
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The new American practical navigator : being an epitome of navigation ... and since his decease / continued by his son, J. Ingersoll Bowditch. 25th new stereotype ed. New York : E. & G.W. Blunt, 1855. xix, 319, 460 pages, 12 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK555 B78 1855
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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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Jack Tar in history : essays in the history of maritime life and labour / edited by Colin Howell and Richard J. Twomey. Fredericton, N.B. : Acadiensis Press, 1991. 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK18 J32 1991
Howell, Colin D., 1944-
Twomey, Richard J.
Seamen — History
Seafaring life — History.
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