The merchant navy fights ; tramps against U-boats London : J. Murray, 1940. 121 pages : front. ; 19 1/2 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D810 T8 D618 M554
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian
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Open your hearts: Montreal : Vehicule Press.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D810 C4 M37
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The Ajax affair: citizens and sailors in wartime Halifax, 1939-1945 / by James F. E. White. Halifax : the Author, 1984. vii, 120 pages: illustrations; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D810 C36 C212 W585
Halifax (N.S.) — History — 20th century
Halifax (N.S.) — History — 1939-1945
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Through footless halls of air : the stories of a few of the many who failed to return / Floyd Williston ; foreword by J.E. (Johnnie) Johnson. Burnstown, ON. : General Store Publishing, 1996. xxvii, 310 pages : illustrations, maps
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D792 C2 W54 1996
World War, 1939-1945 — Aerial operations, Canadian
Airmen — Atlantic Provinces — Biography.
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Collision at sea / Gregory P. Pritchard. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1993. 178 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D779 P75 1993
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H.M.C.S.: one photographer's impression Thomas Allen.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D779 C3 M659
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In all respects ready : the Merchant Navy and the Battle of the Atlantic, 1940-1945 / Frederick B. Watt. Scarborough, ON. : Prentice-Hall Canada, 1985. xviii, 222 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map, po
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D779 C2 W37 1985
World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Atlantic Ocean
World War, 1939-1945 — Transportation
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
Merchant marine — Canada — History — 20th century.
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White plumes astern : the short, daring life of Canada's MTB Flotilla / C. Anthony Law. Halifax : Nimbus, 1989. 170 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D779 C2 L38
Includes index.
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian
Torpedo-boats — Canada.
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Canada's war at sea Montreal : A.M. Beatty, 1944. 2 v. in 1. : illustrations (part col.), ports., maps ; 30 c
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D779 C2 C3 1944
Leacock, Stephen Butler, 1869-1944
Roberts, Leslie, 1896-
Morton, J. Alexander
Ward, Wallace.
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations
World War, 1939-1945 — Canada
Canada — History, Naval.
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Canada's Atlantic War Toronto : Samuel-Stevens, 1979.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D770 S975
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An East coast port-- Halifax at war, 1939-1945 / compiled and edited by Graham Metson ; with the assistance of Cheryl Lean. Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1981. 157 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D768.15 H173
World War, 1939-1945 — Nova Scotia — Halifax
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Social aspects — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Halifax (N.S.) — History.
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Alex Colville : diary of a war artist / compiled by Graham Metson and Cheryl Lean. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 1981. 159 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D743.2 C727
Lean, Cheryl
Metson, Graham, 1934-
Painters — Canada — Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Art and the war.
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Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, 1874-1965
Second World War London : The Reprint Society.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D743 C56 .2
Library stacks v.5 & 6
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Short studies on great subjects N.Y. : Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1873.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D7 F942
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The epic of Vimy / compiled and edited by W.W. Murray. 2nd ed. Ottawa : The Legionary, 1937. 223 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D680 F8 M984
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A cenotaph rises : the missing heroes / Arthur Thurston. Yarmouth : A. Thurston Publications, 1991. 48 pages.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D680 C212 T544
War memorials — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth — History
World War, 1914-1918 — Monuments — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth — History
World War, 1914-1918 — Registers of dead — Nova Scotia — Yarmouth (County)
Soldiers
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Percy Willmot : Cape Bretoner at war / Brian Douglas Tennyson. Sydney : Cape Breton University Press, 2007. 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D640 W744 2007
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Willmot, Percy, — 1884-1919 — Correspondence.
Soldiers — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Correspondence
World War, 1914-1918 — Personal narratives, Canadian.
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Great war as I saw it Toronto : F.D. Goodchild.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D640 S424
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The letters of a young Canadian soldier during World War I : P. Winthrop McClare of Mount Uniacke, N.S / edited by Dale McClare. Dartmouth : Brook House Press, 2000. xiii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D640 M213 2000
Soldiers — Canada Correspondence
World War, 1914-1918 Personal narratives, Canadian.
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My darling girl : wartime letters of James Lloyd Evans, 1914-1918 / edited by Susan Evans Shaw. Hamilton, ON. : S. Evans Shaw, 1999. 120 pages : port. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D640 E82 1999
Includes indexes.
World War, 1914-1918 — Personal narratives, Canadian
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Bishop, Harold Fletcher, 1896-1919
As ever, the wartime letters written by Cpl. Harold Fletcher Bishop : A Student from Acadia University / compiled by John Bishop Grant. Sydney : John Bishop Grant, 2016. 158 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D640 B547 2016
Harold Bishop, of Auburn, Nova Scotia was a member of the Class of 1917 at Acadia University. Upon completing his sophomore year in 1915 he, along with the majority of men in his graduating class, joined the 4th University Company of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. This is a compilation of his letters sent from training bases and the front lines of France to the home front. In them, he thanks those who wrote to him and sent parcels, as well as he advises his brothers how they should enlist. A personal story of military service, including mention of the loss of friends in combat. Bishop demonstrateds his attachment to family, the importance of his faith, and the connections to those he knew on the campus of Acadia and in his home community. Includes index.
Bishop, Harold Fletcher, — 1896-1919 — Correspondence
Canada. — Canadian Army. — Battalion (Eastern Ontario Regiment), 2nd — Biography
Acadia University — Students — Biography
World War, 1914-1918 — Personal narratives, Canadian
Soldiers — Nova Scotia — Biography
Soldiers — Canada — Biography
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Bullets & billets London : Grant Richards, 1916.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D640 B163
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My grandfather's war: Canadians remember the First World War Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1981.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D640 A2 M38
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The war diary of Clare Gass 1915-1918 / edited and introduced by Susan Mann. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. xlvii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D630 G38 A3 2000
World War, 1914-1918 — Medical care — France
World War, 1914-1918 — Medical care — Canada.
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The secret war 1914-1918 / Stuart Ramsay Tompkins. Victoria B.C. : Morriss Publishing, 1981. 71 pages : port. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D610 T662
World War, 1914-1918 — Diplomatic history.
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