From Cabin Boy to Master Mariner : Times and Travels of Nova Scotia's Baird, Stoddard, and Bigney Families since 1752 / by Jane Baird Barry. Nova Scotia: Jane Baird Barry, 2014. 76 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 B35 S76 B54 - Open Shelf
The stories of the Baird, Stoddard, and Bigney families as mariners in Nova Scotia and beyond. Includes family tree.
Nova Scotia — Genealogy
Nova Scotia — History
Sailors — Nova Scotia
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Diary of Cephas Pearl / transcription and edition by Francine Fortin-Levy. Big Tancook Island :Francine Fortin-Levy,2008. 7 pages :fascim.;30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.541 #10 - Vertical File
Partial reproduction of diary. Full diary: PANS MG7, Vol. 14A.
Sailors — Canada — Diaries
Big Tancook Island (N.S.) — History — Personal narratives.
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A sermon on the dangers and duties of the seafaring life : preached before the Protestant dissenting congregation at Halifax and published at the desire of the Marine Society in that place / by Andrew Brown. Halifax : Printed by J. Howe, 1793. 23 pages ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK B12 M68r - Akins
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Naval rates : their meaning for employers : a manual to aid in the occupational rehabilitation of ex-naval personnel Ottawa : Government, 19--. 259 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VN22
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Climbing the halyards : the 1948 voyage of the schooner Bowdoin / Jeffrey C. Ives. Ithaca NY : Ives : 2004. xx, 210 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM395 B785 I95 2004
Inuit Pictorial works
Sailors — United States — 20th century — Biography
Sailors — United States Pictorial works
Arctic regions Pictorial works
Canada, Northern Pictorial works.
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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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Messdeck news : collected verse of Messdeck Annie, Halifax, 1939-1945 / compiled by Jessie Coade ; illustrated by L.B. Jenson. Charlottetown, P.E.I. : Ragweed Press, 1985. 72 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8283 S3 M47 1985
Glossary tipped in.
War poetry, Canadian (English)
Sailors' writings, Canadian (English)
Canadian poetry (English) — 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 — Poetry.
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Songs of American sailormen / by Joanna C. Colcord; with an introduction by Lincoln Colcord. Enl. & rev. Ed. New York : W.W. Norton, 1938. 212 pages, [13] pages of plate: illustrations, ports; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - M1628.2 S698 C687
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Skipper Gabe--: the life story of Captain Gabriel David Pentz, 1886-1980, adventurous mariner of LaHave, Nova Scotia, in his own words / G.D. Pentz; transcribed by Greta Pentz Himmelman. Yarmouth : Stoneycroft Publishing, 1999. xii, 141 pages: illustrations, facsims., geneal. tables, map, ports.; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G540 P419 1999
Includes index.
Pentz, Gabriel David, — 1886-1980.
Seafaring life
Sailors — Canada — Biography
"Canada, Northern — Description and travel
LaHave (N.S.) — Biography."
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Alone at sea : the adventures of Joshua Slocum / Ann Spencer. Toronto : Doubleday Canada, 1998. xiv, 321 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G440 S63 S63 1998
Includes index.
Sailors — Canada — Biography
Voyages around the world
Sailing, Single-handed.
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Barrington seafarers and shipbuilders / Michael Christie. Sheet Harbour : M. Christie, 2004. 168 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 B37 C555 2004 - Open Shelf
Sailors — Nova Scotia — Barrington — History
Shipbuilding industry — Nova Scotia — Barrington — History
Shipyards — Nova Scotia — Barrington — History
Barrington (N.S.) — History
Barrington (N.S.)
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The Roar of the Sea / Captain William A. Crowell and Frank Crowell Leaman. Portugal Cove-St. Philip's, Newfoundland and Labrador : Boulder Publications, 2015. 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F92 C88 2015
An adventurer who traveled the world on an epic solo voyage in a 23-foot sailboat in the 1930s. With only his dog, Togo, as a companion, Captain William Crowell overcame the challenges of an unforgiving ocean. Decades later, his grandson Frank Leaman helped him tell the story of his travels, his family's history, and also Nova Scotia's seafaring heritage. Together with Allison Lawlor, Frank has created a story that weaves Captain Crowell's life into his family's Loyalist roots and personal reflections. One grandson's loving tribute to his grandfather - a daring mariner who saw the end of a golden era of wooden ships and iron men. The Roar of the Sea, as told by Capt. William Arthur Crowell, was transcribed by his grandson, Frank Leaman, in the early 1950s. The original text has been edited by Allison Lawlor. Leaman's memories and reflections, as well as the family's Loyalist history, were recorded by Lawlor in 2014 and added to the original edited manuscript. Previous edition published in 1955.
Leaman, Frank, 1942-
Lawlor, Allison, 1971-
Crowell, William A. — Voyages and travels
Ocean travel — Biography
Seafaring life — Nova Scotia — Biography
Voyages and travels
Sailors — Nova Scotia — Biography
Memoirs.
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A call to the colours: tracing your Canadian military ancestors / Kenneth G. Cox. Toronto : Dundurn Press, 2011. 337 pages: illustrations, portraits; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS83 C69 2011 - Open Shelf
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Soldiers — Canada — Genealogy — Handbooks, manuals, etc
Sailors — Canada — Genealogy — Handbooks, manuals, etc
Archival resources — Canada
Canada — Genealogy — Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Valiant hearts : Atlantic Canada and the Victoria Cross / John Boileau ; foreword by Lewis W. MacKenzie. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 2005. xii, 276 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - CR4885 B679 2005
Includes index.
Victoria Cross
Soldiers — Atlantic Provinces Biography
Sailors — Atlantic Provinces Biography
Heroes — Atlantic Provinces Biography
Canada — Armed Forces Biography
Atlantic Provinces Biography.
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