MacAskill : Ships and the Sea Halifax : MacAskill Pictures Limited. 1 volume (unnumbered) : illustrations ; 26 cm + 1 folded sheet, 5 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.553 #8
Undated catalogue of Wallace MacAskill's work available at MacAskill Pictures Limited. Includes brochure and ad.
MacAskill, Wallace R., 1893-1956 — Catalogs
Marine photography — Nova Scotia — Catalogs
Photography of sailing ships — Catalogs
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Steady as She Goes : The Exploits of a Captain and his Seagoing Family / by Dolly G. Newcomb. Ontario : Paul Heron Publishing Limited, 1996. 175 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 P82 N48 1996
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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Life and times of Hamburg, a Nova Scotian barque / by Darell Burke. Brooklin, Me. : WoodenBoat Productions, 2004. pages 28-39 : illustrations; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.538 #26 - Vertical File
In: Maritime Life and Traditions, No. 23, Summer 2004.
Barks (Sailing ships) — Nova Scotia.
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The times of tall ships Halifax : Effective Publishing, 2000. 22 pages : illustrations; 35 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.372 #30 - Vertical File
Sailing ships — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Halifax (N.S.) — History
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Coastal shipping under sail, 1880-1920 / Charles S. Morgan. Concord, Mass. : Morgan, 1979. 22 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.334 #35 - Vertical File
Thirty-seventh annual Newcomen lecture presented at the United States Coast Guard Academy, New London, Connecticut, November 3, 1978. Fictitious imprint on t.p.: New York : Newcomen Society in North America.
Newcomen Society in North America.
Coastwise shipping — United States — History — Addresses, essays, lectures
Sailing ships — United States — History — Addresses, essays, lectures.
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Pictures of ships and the sea / W. R. MacAskill. Halifax : s.n, 195--. 40 pages : chiefly illustrations; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.136 #5 - Vertical File
Photography of sailing ships
Sailing — Pictorial works.
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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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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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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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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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MacAskill : seascapes and sailing ships / general editor, Dorothy Cooper. Halifax : Nimbus Publ., 1987. 128 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - TR670 M66 1987
Cooper, Dorothy, 1939-
MacAskill, Wallace R., 1893-1956.
Photography — Nova Scotia — Marines
Photography of sailing ships
Nova Scotia — Description and travel — Views.
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