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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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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Troubled waters / by Ted Simpson. Aylesford : T. Simpson, 1984. 55 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.292 #2 - Vertical File
N.L. copy: Author's autograph copy.
Ships — Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc
Sea stories, Canadian — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — History — Miscellanea.
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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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West Nova Ships and their men : the Cann boats / by G.B. Cann. Sarnia, ON : C Branches, 2002. xiv, 365 pages : illustrations, maps, ports. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HE945 C224 2002
Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references: pages 340-343.
Boats and boating — Nova Scotia — History
Ships — Nova Scotia — History.
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After the Hector : the Scottish pioneers of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, 1773-1852 / Lucille H. Campey. Toronto : Natural Heritage Books, 2004. xviii, 376 p. : ill., maps, portraits ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2350 S3 C35 2004 - Open Shelf
Includes bibliographical references pages 339-348 and index.
Hector (Ship)
Scottish — Nova Scotia — History
Ships — Scotland — Passenger lists
Scottish Canadians — Nova Scotia — Genealogy
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Genealogy
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Surette's Island, West Pubnico & Georges Bank — My Memoirs / by J. Donald Doucette. Lower West Pubnico : J.D. Doucette, 2008. 272 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 Y3 Z49 2008 - Open Shelf
Fisheries — Nova Scotia — History
Ships — Nova Scotia — History
Nova Scotia — Biography
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Saga of the Rugged Islands / James T. Bebb. the Author, 1993. 236 pages ; illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 R83 B42 1993 - Open Shelf
Merchant ships — Nova Scotia — Lockeport — History
Lockeport (N.S.) — History
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Whidden vessels of Antigonish Nova Scotia (1864-1914) / Charles Edgar Whidden II. Kelowna, B.C. : Charles Whidden, 2005. 1 v. : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 W572 W572 2005 - Open Shelf
Ships — Nova Scotia — Antigonish
Antigonish (N.S.) — History.
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The Antigonish familes of David Graham, Charles Edgar, Howard Primrose Whidden / Charles Edgar Whidden II. Kelowna, B.C. : Charles Whidden, 2004. 1 v. : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 W572 W572 2004 - Open Shelf
Ships — Nova Scotia — Antigonish
Antigonish (N.S.) — History.
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Whidden connections / Charles Edgar Whidden II. Kelowna, B.C. : Charles Whidden, 2004. 1 v. : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS89 W572 2004 - Open Shelf
Ships — Nova Scotia — Antigonish
Antigonish (N.S.) — History.
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