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A comparative study of socio-economic patterns in black Nova Scotian communities / by Joan A. Browne. Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1982. 123 frames : 1 map ; 11 X 15 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche B882 - Open Shelf
Blacks — Nova Scotia
Blacks — Nova Scotia — Sydney
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A description of the facilities and operations of Sydney Steel Corporation, Sydney, Nova Scotia 1985. 14 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.147 #5 - Vertical File
Steel-works — Nova Scotia — Sydney
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A guide to the Sydney Harbour ports Nova Scotia, Canada North Sydney : Sydney Harbour Ports Regional Development Board, 1982-. 12 pages : illustrations some col; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.532 #21 - Vertical File
Sydney Harbour Ports Regional Development Board (N.S.)
Harbors — Nova Scotia — Sydney.
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A historical guide to the mines of Sydney Mines / Keith Knight & the Sydney Mines Heritage Society. Rev. ed. Richmond Hill, ON. : The author, 2006. 72 pages : illustrations, ports., maps ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - TN806 C2122 S982 2006
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Mines and mineral resources — Sydney Mines (N.S.) — History
Sydney Mines (N.S.) — History.
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Alternative use assessment- fluidized bed incinerators Sydney, Nova Scotia : final report April 1998 / Natural Resources Canada, CANMET Energy Technology Centre in association with Jacques Whitford Environment Limited. Canada : 1998. 1 v. various pagings : illustrations; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.516 #24 - Vertical File
Submitted to : Sydney Environmental Resources Limited .
CANMET Energy Technology Centre
Jacques Whitford Environment Limited
Sydney Environment Resources Limited.
Pollutants — Nova Scotia — Sydney
Factory and trade waste — Environmental aspects — Nova Scotia — Sydney.
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Ambient air polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons study, Sydney, Nova Scotia / by L. Atwell. Halifax : Environment Canada, Environmental Protection Service, Atlantic Region, 1984. viii, 79 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - TD172 C3352 84-7
Summary in French.
Canada. Environmental Protection Service. Atlantic Region.
Air — Pollution — Nova Scotia — Sydney — Measurement
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons — Environmental aspects.
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Sydney Tar Ponds Clean-Up Inc. (N.S.)
Annual report / Sydney Tar Ponds Clean-Up Inc. Sydney : Sydney Tar Ponds Clean-Up Inc., 1992-. 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - TD433 S93
Water quality — Nova Scotia — SYDNEY
Water — Nova Scotia — SYDNEY — Purification
Water — Pollution — Nova Scotia — SYDNEY
Sydney (N.S.) — Industries — Environmental aspects
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Annual reports Sydney : The City, 19--. 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 S98 A1 - Open Shelf
Sydney (N.S.) — Appropriations and expenditures.
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Nova Scotia Department of Housing. Cape Breton Regional Office
Bailleard land development / N.S. Dept. of Housing. Cape Breton Regional Office. Sydney: the Dept., 1983-. 1 sheet 6 pages, map; 30 x 23 cm. folded to 10 x 23.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.334 #5 - Vertical File
Housing — Nova Scotia — Sydney
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Beauty spots : Sydney and Cape Breton Island Ottawa : Photogelatine Engraving 19--. 27 pages of plates : ill; 16 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.225 #17 - Vertical File
Tourist trade — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Description and travel
Sydney (N.S.) — Description
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Bodily Health, Contaminants, and the Environment : Recognizing the Dangers of Industrial Pollution in Deindustrializing Sydney, Nova Scotia / Kristoffer Archibald. Montréal, Québec: Concordia University, 2016. 218 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm. Online.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD1671 C32 A73 2016
Academic theses. Throughout the twentieth century, the city of Sydney, Nova Scotia was home to a steel industry that polluted the air and contaminated the waterway of Muggah Creek, known in local parlance as the Tar Ponds. This dissertation examines public discourse surrounding the subject of industrial pollution in the deindustrializing city of Sydney, focusing between 1950 and 2014. It explores how diverse community interests including those of steelworkers, local environmentalists, residents whose properties bordered the contaminated site, and members of the local business community interpreted and responded to the pollution. The dissertation asks why industrial pollution became the object of heightened environmental and health anxieties in the late twentieth century, arguing that the corporeal impact of the pollution, within the context of the deindustrializing city, inspired an activist citizenry. For much of the twentieth century, Sydney's industrial pollution was equated with the local steel industry and the affiliated economic stability that came with unionized work at the mill. This perspective was challenged in the 1980s when unemployed mill workers sought compensation for a host of cancers and respiratory diseases that they attributed to having worked in a polluted environment. At the same time, environmental studies revealed Muggah Creek's troubling pollution levels. Issues of deindustrialization, environmental contamination, and health concerns intersected and sparked contentious local environmental debates. These reached their apex in the late 1990s, when a group of residents from Sydney's Frederick Street campaigned to be relocated on the basis that contaminants in the surrounding landscape had made them ill. The dissertation examines how the various interest groups cited their environmental and bodily observations as evidence of the problems associated with exposure to industrial contaminants, expressed concern for the well-being of the local youth, argued for social justice, and noted the past's shadow on the city's future. "Bodily Health, Contaminants, and the Environment" concludes by examining the 2004-2014 remediation project that reconfigured the Tar Ponds into Open Hearth Park, isolated the contaminants through the use of stabilization and solidification, and sought, with mixed success, to recalibrate the public's image of the landscape.
Hazardous waste site remediation — Nova Scotia — Muggah Creek Watershed
Coke-ovens — Environmental aspects — Nova Scotia — Sydney
Factory and trade waste — Environmental aspects — Nova Scotia — Sydney
Muggah Creek Watershed (N.S.) — Environmental conditions
Sydney Tar Ponds (N.S.) — Environmental conditions
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Cape Breton tourist guide 1954 Sydney : Junior Chamber of Commerce, 1954. 1 v. (unpaged) : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F108 G54 #3
Sydney Junior Chamber of Commerce
Sydney (N.S.) — Guidebooks
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Guidebooks.
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Cape Breton tourist guide, 1955 Sydney : Junior Chamber of Commerce, 1955. 1 v. unpaged : illustrations; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.512 #23 - Vertical File
Sydney Junior Chamber of Commerce
Sydney (N.S.) — Guidebooks
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Guidebooks.
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Carman recollections: a brief history of Carman United Church, Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia / by Audrey Ferguson and Nettie Johnston. Hantsport: Lancelot, 1984. 56 pages : illustrations, ports.; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.302 #22 - Vertical File
Sydney Mines (N.S.) — Church history
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Christ Church : Parish review, 1901-1950 Sydney : printed by Lewis R. MacDonald, 1950. 24 pages : illustrations; ports.; 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.387 #17 - Vertical File
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City of Sydney's zoning by-law / Adopted by Council, Feb. 4, 1982. Sydney- : 1982-. 69 pages; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HT169.82 S982 Z87
Zoning by-law no. 162 One map in pocket.
City planning — Nova Scotia — Sydney
Zoning law — Nova Scotia — Sydney
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Class conflict and the establishment of the Sydney steel industry, 1899-1904 / Ronald F. Crawley. Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1981. 166 frames ; 11 X 15 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche C911 - Open Shelf
Steel industry and trade — Nova Scotia — Sydney
Trade-unions — Iron and steel workers — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
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Community, class and conflict : the 1909-1911 Springhill coal strike 1980.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm G656 - Open Shelf
Steel industry and trade — Nova Scotia — Sydney
Trade-unions — Iron and steel workers — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
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Compliments of Chappell Bros. & Co Sydney : Sydney Printing 1910. 96 pages : illustrations; 15 cm.
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Almanacs — Nova Scotia
Building materials — Nova Scotia — Sydney
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Descriptive note on the Sydney coal field, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to accompany a revised edition of the geological map of the coal field being sheets 133, 134, 135 N.S / by Hugh Fletcher. Ottawa : 1900. 14 frames.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 06616 - Open Shelf Internet Archive
Summarized from the Reports of the Geological Survey of Canada, with the addition of later observations. At head of title: Geological Survey of Canada, G.M. Dawson, C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S., Director.
Coal — Geology — Nova Scotia — Sydney
Coal mines and mining — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Sydney
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Educational goals for Sydney: a report to the Sydney Board of School Commissioners / by H. Joseph Murphy and Andrew S. Hughes. Halifax : Atlantic Institute of Education, 1980. 54 pages; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.294 #35 - Vertical File
Education — Nova Scotia — Sydney — Aims and objectives
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Ferndell, Sydney, Cape Breton / by Phyllis Worgan Schneider. Nova Scotia : 1979. x, 64 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 S982 S359 - Open Shelf
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Fivescore and more / by Elva E. Jackson. North Sydney : M.R. Jackson, 1987. 125 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204.9 J22 J22 - Open Shelf
Jackson, Frank E. (Frank Emerson), 1884-
North Sydney (N.S.) — History
North Sydney (N.S.) — Biography.
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From the pier, dear! : images of a multicultural community Sydney : Whitney Pier Historical Society, 1993. vi, 102 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 C237 W617 - Open Shelf
By Mary Keating and Elizabeth Beaton.
Whitney Pier Historical Society.
Whitney Pier (Sydney, N.S.) — History
Whitney Pier (Sydney, N.S.) — Biography.
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Glad you asked-- : the Sydney Tar Ponds clean-up question and answer booklet Dartmouth : Environment Canada, Atlantic Region, 1990. 21 pages : illustrations, map; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.347 #28 - Vertical File
Cover title. Co-published by Nova Scotia Dept. of the Environment.
Canada. Environment Canada. Atlantic Region
Nova Scotia. Dept. of the Environment.
Water — Pollution — Nova Scotia — Sydney
Coal tar
Muggah Creek (Sydney, N.S.)
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