Public Archives of Nova Scotia
Clarkson's Mission to America, 1791-1792 / edited with an introduction, notes and index by Charles Bruce Fergusson, Archivist of Nova Scotia. Halifax : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1971. 227 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm.
view this publicationNova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F90 N85 AR2P no. 11
Series: Public Archives of Nova Scotia Publication no. 11. Includes bibliographical references.
Clarkson, John, 1764-1828
Fergusson, Charles Bruce, 1911-1978
Clarkson, John, 1764-1828
Sierra Leone Company
Blacks — Nova Scotia
Blacks — New Brunswick
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The arms of Nova Scotia : New Scotland 1621 — 1921 / By John A. Stewart, F.S.A Scot. . Glasgow : The St. Andrew Society (Glasgow), 1921. 7-46 pages : illustrations, frontispiece ; 17 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - CR N85 St3
See also: V/F V.27 #3 (short version) and CR N85 St3 1955 (full publication 1955).
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The arms of Nova Scotia : New Scotland 1621 — 1921 / By John A. Stewart, F.S.A Scot. . Glasgow : The St. Andrew Society (Glasgow), 1955. 7-46 pages : illustrations, frontispiece ; 17 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - CR N85 St3 1955
Reprinted by the Queen's Printer, Nova Scotia, 1955. See also: V/F V.27 #3 (short version) and CR N85 St3 (full publication 1921).
The St. Andrew Society (Glasgow)
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1959 Year book : Saint John the Baptist Parish, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia / distributed by the Saint John the Baptist Parish. Nova Scotia : Saint John the Baptist Parish, 1959. 28 pages : illustrations (ads) ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.547 #25 - Vertical File
Yearbook for the Saint John the Baptist Parish that includes a staff roster, parish contributions to the church, in memoriam, and ads in the back.
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Royal Scottish Country Dance Society Nova Scotia Branch
Spark O' Water : Dances of Nova Scotia Halifax, NS : Royal Scottish Country Dance Society. Nova Scotia Branch, 2017. 33 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.547 #16 - Vertical File
35th anniversary of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society Nova Scotia Branch, this book outlines different traditional dances and includes diagrams on dancer's foot placement. Includes an audio disc with traditional music. CD Composer (fiddle) Keith Smith.
CD Composer (piano) Muriel Johnstone
Folk dancing, Scottish — Nova Scotia
Country-dances (Music) — Scotland
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Uniacke, Richard John, 1807-1887
Uniacke's Sketches of Cape Breton : and other papers relating to Cape Breton Island / edited with an introduction and notes by C. Bruce Fergusson, M.A, D. Phil. (Oxon.), Archivist of Nova Scotia. Halifax, NS : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1958. ix, 198 pages : portrait, maps (3 folded) : 24 cm.
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Nova Scotia Series I. This volume was prepared not only to make available in the first instance Rev. Richard John Uniacke's "Sketches of Cape Breton", which were written at Sydney, N.S., between 1862 and 1865, but also to present a number of additional descriptions of the Island from the pens of other writers at interviews between the founding of Sydney in 1785 and the year 1862.
Fergusson, Charles Bruce, 1911-1978
Public Archives of Nova Scotia
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Genealogy
Nova Scotia — Genealogy
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Description and travel
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Lives of the British admirals and naval history of Great Britain : from the time of Caesar to the Chinese war of 1841 / chiefly abridged from the work of John Campbell ; illustrated by numerous portraits and engravings from designs by Professor Gilfillan. Glasgow : Printed for R. Griffin by R. Malcolm, 1841. xiii, 560 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 18 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 34756 - Open Shelf Internet Archive
Admirals — Great Britain — Biography.
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Report of the Cabot proceedings at the Halifax meeting of the Royal Society of Canada, June 21-25, 1897 / by Edward G. Porter. Cambridge Mass. : J. Wilson, 1897. 9 frames.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 12093 - Open Shelf Internet Archive
Cabot, John, d. 1498?
Cabot, Sebastian, 1476?-1557.
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The Unique telephones the cheapest, simplest, most efficient and durable electric telephone extant either for long or short distances : sold outright, no exhorbitant royalties : manufactured only by John Starr, Son & Co. limited, manufacturers and deale / John Starr, Son & Co. Halifax : 1892. 9 frames : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 08543 - Open Shelf Internet Archive
Telephone — Apparatus and supplies
Catalogs, Commercial
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Granville Street Baptist Church Halifax, N.S.
Reply of the Granville St. Baptist Church, Halifax, to the letter addressed to them by the Hon. J.W. Johnston / Granville St. Baptist Church. Halifax : Barnes Steam Press, 1868.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 07144 - Open Shelf Internet Archive
Johnston, James William, 1792-1873.
Baptists — Clergy
Professional ethics.
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An historical geography of Cape Breton Island in the nineteenth century / by Stephen John Hornsby. Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1988. 411 frames : maps.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche H813 - Open Shelf
Scots — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island N.S. — History.
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Sir John Wentworth, 1737-1820 1938. 381 l. :map.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - Microfilm S874
Leaf 381 appears at the beginning of the reel.
Wentworth, John, – Sir, – 1737-1820
Nova Scotia — History — 1783-1815
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Story of the Springhill disaster : comprising a full and authentic account of the great coal mining explosion at Springhill Mines, Nova Scotia, February 21st, 1891, including a history of Springhill and its collieries / by R.A.H. Morrow. 2nd ed. St. John, N.B. : R.A.H. Morrow, 1891. 311 pages : ports., plans ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3872 - Open Shelf
Morrow, R. A. H. St. John, N.B.
Mine explosions
Coal mines and mining — Nova Scotia — Springhill.
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The descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle who came from old New England in 1635, and settled in New Haven in 1639 with numerous biographical notes and sketches / also, some account of the descendants of John Tuttle of Dover, N.H.; Richard Tuttle of Boston; John Tuttle of Ipsinch and Henry Tuttle of Hingham, Mass. Rutland, VT : Tuttle, 1883.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3573 - Open Shelf
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First suite for piano Toronto : BMI Canada, c1965. 7 pages : music; 31 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S V/F V.26 #27 - Oversize Vertical File
Signed by author. Piece entitled "Seventeen" is based on a folksong found in Helen Creighton's Maritime folk songs.
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Second suite for piano Toronto : BMI Canada c1965. 15 pages: music; 31 cm.
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Piano piece title "March" on page 14 is based on the Canadian Folksong, "Saladin Mutiny" from Helen Creighton's "Maritime Folksongs."
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Folk songs in Canada / arranged by Richard Johnston; edited by Gordon Hallett; cover and illustrations by Elizabeth Wilkes Hoey. Waterloo : Waterloo Music, c1957. 24 pages: music, 31 cm.
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Johnston, Richard, 1917-
Hallett, Gordon
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Songs from the Mira / all songs composed by Allister MacGillivray; scored for piano by John C. O'Donnell and Alan Feeney. Cape Breton: Sea-Cape Music Ltd., 2001. 141 pages of music : illustrations; 31 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.543 #9 - Vertical File
Words also printed as text following each song.; An anthology of original songs by Cape Breton composer Allister MacGillivray — from cover.; Includes index.
Popular music—Canada
Folk songs, English—Nova Scotia—Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island (N.S.)—Songs and music.
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St. James' Anglican Church, Fox Point, Nova Scotia : a photo album / prepared by John G. Coolen. 1st ed. Thunder Bay, Ont. : Ontario Genealogical Society, Thunder Bay Branch, 2008. 14 pages : copies illustrations; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.541 #24 - Vertical File
Includes bibliographical references.
St. James' Anglican Church (Fox Point, Lunenburg, N.S.)
Fox Point (Lunenburg, N.S.) — Genealogy.
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Reverend W.J. Wright, 1876-1972 : the man who fulfilled his dream 2007-. 1 v. : illustrations, ports.; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.541 #18 - Vertical File
Compiled by Marjorie Jean Wright Ritcey-McColl — from prelim. pgs.
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Supplement to David Graham Whidden's 10 August 1934 book : the history of the town of Antigonish / by John B. Stewart. Charles Edgar Whidden II, 2004. 27 pages : 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.540 #22 - Vertical File
Antigonish (N.S.) — History
Antigonish (N.S.) — Genealogy.
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Thoroughly inculcated . . . with my views : Alexander Forrester and T.H. Rand / John N. Grant. Truro : Little White Schoolhouse Museum, 2005. 43 pages : illustrations, ports.; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.540 #20 - Vertical File
Rand, T. H.,1835-1900
Forrester, Alexander,1805-1869.
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A narrative of the shipwreck of the Nottingham galley, in her voyage from England to Boston. With an account of the miraculous escape of the captain and his crew, on a rock called Boone-Island; the hardships they endured there, and their happy deliverance / By John Deane, then commander of the said galley; but for many years after His Majesty's consul for the ports of Flanders, residing at Ostend. The fifth edition. London : Printed in the year M.DCC.LXII. 1762. 4, 28 pages : 22 cm. 8vo.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.536 #5 - Vertical File
First published in 1711. The present edition was published at the instance of Miles Whitworth, son of one of those shipwrecked, with the hope that "it may prove of service to reclaim the unthinking part of seafaring-men, trading in and to New-England
Shipwrecks — Maine
Boon Island (Me.)
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Annandale Johnstones ancient & modern Halifax : the Author, 1935. 33, v pages : 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.529 #8 - Vertical File
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Rock in a stream : living with the political economy of underdevelopment in Cape Breton / Constance P. deRoche and John E. deRoche, editors. St. John's, Nfld. : Institute of Social & Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1987. ix, 142 pages : 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.509 #29 - Vertical File
DeRoche, Constance P
DeRoche, John E.
Memorial University of Newfoundland. Institute of Social and Economic Research.
Women — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Economic conditions
Women — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Social conditions
Acadians — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Economic conditions
Acadians
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