ABC Acadie : An Acadian Alphabet / by Mary Alice Downie. Kingston, ON : Quarry Heritage Books, 2014. 48 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PZ7 D68 2014
An illustrated history of Acadie for children. Illustrated by Anne LeBlanc.
English language — Alphabet — Juvenile literature
Alphabet books — Juvenile literature
Frontier and pioneer life — Canada — Juvenile literature
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1604-2014 : Acadia of the Lands and Forests: 'Disputed Boundaries & Rediscovered Families' / edited by Jacques G. Albert. New Brunswick : Madawaska Historical Society, 2014. 56 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5200.5 A23 M33 - Open Shelf
“Acadia of the Lands and Forests: ‘Disputed Boundaries & Rediscovered Families,’” Revue de la Société historique du Madawaska, vol. 42, no. 1-2 (January-June 2014), 6. Running timeline of New Brunswick Acadians over time. Bottom of the pages include a timeline of events as the book is read, and illustrations of documents and artifacts have accompanying explanations. Complete title on cover page includes French translation of title that in full reads: L'Acadie des terres et forêts : "frontières contestées familles retrouvées" 1604-2014.
Acadia — History
Acadians — New Brunswick — Madawaska (County) — History
Madawaska (N.B. : County) — Boundaries — History
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Presiding by Desire : Nova Scotia's Popular Lieutenant Governor: Hon. MacCallum Grant / forward by Hon. Myra Freeman. Victoria, BC : Tellwell Talent, 2020. 472 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC3655 G73 B87 - Open Shelf
This is the story of an ambitious boy from Loyal Hill, in the village of Summerville on the Avon River in Hants County, who became a respected figure in the business community. Hon. MacCallum Grant served as Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia from 1916 to 1925, the last Nova Scotian to be appointed to two full terms as the King's representative. He created a new standard for the occupants of the viceregal office, reaching out to minorities and utilizing his charm and humour to engage everyone he met. Presiding By Desire - Nova Scotia's Popular Lieutenant Governor: Hon. MacCallum Grant by Scott J. Burke chronicles Grant's activities as lieutenant governor, highlighting significant events during his eight years at Government House. His terms in office encompassed the First World War and the Halifax Explosion. He played host to famous visitors including the Prince of Wales, and travelled to Washington to meet a president at the White House. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Grant, MacCallum, 1845-1928
Lieutenant governors — Nova Scotia — Biography
Businessmen — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nova Scotia — History — 1867-1918
Nova Scotia — History — 1918-1945
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Sand Point Guysborough County Nova Scotia : 233 years of History (1784-2017) Including the Carrigan Descendants / compiled by Fraser West. Halifax : The Printing House Limited, 2018. 363 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2349 S26 G89 2018 - Open Shelf
History of the Sand Point, Guysborough Country area from 1784-2017 and the genealogy of the Carrigan Family descendants. Includes back index for quick searching.
Genealogy — Guysborough County (N.S.)
History — Guysborough County (N.S.)
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Nova Scotia and the great influenza pandemic, 1918-1920 : a remembrance of the dead and an archive for the living / compiled and edited by Ruth Holmes Whitehead. Halifax, NS : Nimbus Publishing Limited, 2020. xvi, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RC150.55 C23 N86 2020
The definitive academic resource on the Great Influenza by celebrated historian behind Black Loyalists, in time for the pandemic's centenary. It could kill in as little as ten hours. Extremely high fever, bleeding from eyes, nose, and ears, terrible pain, especially in the head and the joints, delirium--and then its victims literally drowned in their own fluids. Fifty to 100 million people worldwide died in this global pandemic in the early twentieth century. The Great Influenza first entered Nova Scotia through ports. (Sydney, Cape Breton, received five hundred sick American troops in a single day.) For three years, the province coped with this vicious epidemic as it spread like wildfire. Local economies ceased functioning; fishing fleets, banks, and apple-canning factories reported all staff were suffering from the flu. The heart of this book, however, is its human element. Oral histories, family memoirs, newspaper articles, and provincial death records tell, county by county, stories of those who died. Accompanied by 20 photographs, Nova Scotia and the Great Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1920 chronicles both provincial and personal efforts to cope during this most perilous time. Includes bibliographical references.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 — Nova Scotia — Sources
Influenza — Patients — Nova Scotia — Biography — Sources
Nova Scotia — Biography — Sources
Nova Scotia — History — 20th century — Sources
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Violence, order, and unrest : a history of British North America, 1749-1876 / edited by Elizabeth Mancke, Jerry Bannister, Denis McKim, and Scott W. See. Toronto, ON : University of Toronto Press, 2019. xiv, 519 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HN103 V56 2019
This edited collection offers a broad reinterpretation of the origins of Canada. Drawing on cutting-edge research in a number of fields, Violence, Order, and Unrest explores the development of British North America from the mid-eighteenth century through the aftermath of Confederation. The chapters cover an ambitious range of topics, from Indigenous culture to municipal politics, public executions to runaway slave advertisements. Cumulatively, this book examines the diversity of Indigenous and colonial experiences across northern North America and provides fresh perspectives on the crucial roles of violence and unrest in attempts to establish British authority in Indigenous territories. Drawing on specific case studies of law and state formation in English and French Canada, Violence, Order, and Unrest considers patterns of settler colonialism across the century before Confederation. The result is a collection that brings together innovative research in different fields to reconsider the ideology, governance, and political culture that underpinned British North America. In the aftermath of Canada 150, Violence, Order, and Unrest offers a timely contribution to current debates over the nature of Canadian culture and history. It demonstrates that we cannot understand Canada today without considering its origins as a colonial project.
Bannister, Jerry, 1968-
McKim, Denis
See, Scott W., 1950-
Violence — Canada — History — 18th century — Case studies
Violence — Canada — History — 19th century — Case studies
Canada — Colonization — History — 18th century — Case studies
Canada — Colonization — History — 19th century — Case studies
Canada — Social conditions — 18th century — Case studies
Canada — Social conditions —19th century — Case studies
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Steam titans : Cunard, Collins, and the epic battle for commerce on the North Atlantic / by William M Fowler Jr. . New York : Bloomsbury, 2017. 358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HE945 A2 F69 2017
Steam Titan' tells the story of a transatlantic fight born of and powered by steam, a fight to wrest control of the globe's most lucrative trade route. It's the story of two men: Samuel Cunard and Edward Knight Collins, and two nations: Great Britain and the United States. Wielding the tools of technology, finance, and politics--and at the same time coping with the inevitable, sometimes crushing, perils of the sea--these opposing forces fought to capture control of a commercial lifeline that spanned the North Atlantic. Tracing the paths of ships, goods, people, information and money, historian William M. Fowler Jr. brings to life the spectacle of this generation-long struggle for supremacy, during which New York rose to take her place among the greatest ports and cities of the world, and recounts the tale of competition that was the opening act in the drama of economic globalization that is still unfolding today. Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-350) and index.
Collins, Edward Knight, 1802-1878
Cunard, Samuel, Sir, 1787-1865
Collins Line
Cunard Steamship Company, ltd
Merchant marine — North Atlantic Ocean — Biography
Steamboat lines — North Atlantic Ocean — History — 19th century
Shipping — North Atlantic Ocean — History — 19th century
Steamboats — North Atlantic Ocean — History — 19th century
United States — Commerce — 19th century
Great Britain — Commerce — 19th century
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Come Hell or High Water : A History of the Victoria Co-operative Fisheries Ross Ferry, NS : Boularderie Island Press, 2016. 213 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, charts ; 17 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD9464 C34 V53 2016
The Victoria Co-operative Fisheries has a way of defying the odds. It was born in 1956 as the fishing industry transitioned from salt fish and canned lobster to fresh product destined for the Boston market. It had to compete with Nickerson's, Leonard Brothers and F.W. Leslie's, the Goliaths of the North of Smokey fishing industry, as well as suitcase buyers during the lobster season. In the early years the small co-operative did not meet the expectations of many of its fishermen but stayed the course. After sixty years, leadership initiatives, member solidarity and an enlightened response to industry crises, the Victoria Co-operative Fisheries can claim its place as a major force in northern Cape Breton's fishery.
Victoria Co-operative Fisheries — History
Fisheries — Nova Scotia — Neils Harbour — History
Fish trade — Nova Scotia — Neils Harbour — History
Fishery co-management — Nova Scotia — Neils Harbour
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Cobequid meguma and Acadian villages : villages now in Colchester, Eastern Hants, and adjacent areas of Pictou and Cumberland Counties / by Norris M. Whiston. 2018 Tatamagouche : Norris M. Whiston, 2018. 308 pages : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2350.5 W55 2018 - Open Shelf
Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 304-208).
Acadians — History
Mi'kmaq — History
Cobequid Bay Region (N.S.) — History
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Life in Nova Scotia and North Colchester in the 1950's and 1960 / by Norris Whiston. 2018 version Earltown : Norris M. Whiston, 2018. 98 pages : illustrations, facsims. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2349 N873 Z48 2018 - Open Shelf
Includes index, pages 95-96.
Colchester (N.S. : County) — History
Colchester (N.S. : County) — Biography
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Historical Record of the Posterity of William Black : Who settled in this country in 1775 and was brought up to the year 1885 : Revised Edition / compiled by L.W. Black. Sackville, NB : Printed by the Tribune Press, 1959. 167 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F93 B56 1959
Updated and revised edition of Cyrus Black's work which can be found under F93 B56. Updates include records from 1885-1959 that are compiled by L.W. Black of Middle Sackville, New Brunswick.
Black family
Nova Scotia — Genealogy
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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.
view this publicationNova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F90 N85 Ar2n
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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The Union of the British Provinces / by Edward Whelan, M.P.P.. Gardenvale, Quebec : Garden City Press, 1927. 248 pages : portraits ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F75 W56
Written immediately after the conferences held in Charlottetown and Québec in 1864, on confederation, and the accompanying banquets held in Halifax, St-John, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto. F75 W56 c.1 - Copy 1 F75 W56 c.2 - Copy 2 (handwritten note inside to D.C. Harvey from Eileen Odevoive)
Charlottetown Conference (1864)
Québec Conference (1864 : Québec, Québec)
Canada — History — 1841-1867
Canada — History — Confederation, 1867
Canada — Politics and government — 1841-1867
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Grant, George M. (George Monro), 1835-1902
Joseph Howe / by Rev. G.M. Grant. 2nd edition Halifax, NS : A. & W. Mackinlay, 1906. 110 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5204.9 H6 1906
By Rev. G.M. Grant to which is added Howe's essay on the organization of the empire. Reprinted from the columns of the Canadian monthly and national review, where it appeared in the May, June, July, and August numbers of the year 1875.
Howe, Joseph, 1804-1873
Politicians — Nova Scotia — Biography
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A Life of Faith : An autobiography / written by Muriel Faustina Gallant, M.M. ; compiled and edited by Elise Mary Ellison Macdonald. 111 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - CT25 G35
Muriel Faustina Gallant — Biography
Nuns — Biography
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The Totten Family : United Empire Loyalists / researched and compiled by James Everett Totten's cousin Jane (Currie) Wile. Belmont, NS : Wile, 1999. 92 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 T688 W676 1999 - Open Shelf
Totten Family tree to the year 1999. Includes index for easy searching and finding names. Dedicated to James Everett Totten, Wile's cousin.
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Robert and Thomas Mills : Two old geezers ; from 1620's Maine, to Massachusetts, to Connecticut to Nova Scotia, Volume 1 / by John Selwyn Mills. John Selwyn Mills, 2010. 297 pages ; 23 cm
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 M55 M55 2010 - Open Shelf
Includes errata and corrections insert, a paper by John Selwyn Mills on "Why I believe that Thomas Mills, of 1600's Maine, is the father of John Mills, the Shipwright of Stamford, CT" insert and index.
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The Migrants : Our European Heritage / by Norris Margeson Whiston. 2018 Tatamagouche : Norris Margeson Whiston, 2018. 98 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS89 M54 W45 2018 - Open Shelf
Includes index.
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Abegweit Branch of the United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada
An Island Refuge : Loyalists and Disbanded Troops on the Island of Saint John / edited by Orlo Jones and Doris Haslam. Charlottetown, PEI : Abegweit Branch of the United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada, 1983. 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS88 P74 I84 1983 - Open Shelf
The history of Loyalists in Prince Edward Island and their development and settlement of the island.
Jones, Orlo, 1929-
Haslam, Doris Muncey, 1905-
United Empire loyalists — Genealogy
United Empire loyalists — Biography
Prince Edward Island — Genealogy
Prince Edward Island — Biography
Prince Edward Island — History
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Land grants and immigrants of Northern Colchester, NE Cumberland, NW Pictou / Compiled and organized by Norris Margeson Whiston. Tatamagouche, NS : Norris Margeson Whiston, 2018. 1 volume (unnumbered) .
view this publicationNova Scotia Archives Library - CS88 N69 C6 W57 2018 - Open Shelf
With added notes by Glen Matheson and Terry Punch.
Land grants — Colchester (N.S. : County)
Land grants — Cumberland County (N.S.)
Land grants — Pictou County (N.S.)
Immigrants — Colchester (N.S. : County)
Immigrants — Cumberland County (N.S.)
Immigrants — Pictou County (N.S.)
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Finding Emma : my search for the family my grandfather never knew / Amy Whorf McGuiggan. Amherst, Massachusetts : Small Batch Books, 2019. xiv, 231 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS71 O81 2019 - Open Shelf
In this heartwarming voyage of discovery, Amy Whorf McGuiggan brings us to 18th-century Acadia (present-day Canada) to meet her ancestors, and then connects them back to New England. Every genealogist has a story to tell, and the author takes us along for her in-depth research with a narrative that brings her ancestors' story alive" - David Allen Lambert, chief genealogist, New England Historic Genealogical Society. Includes bibliographical references.
Osborne family
Downing family
Acadians — Genealogy
Acadia — Genealogy
Salem (Mass.) — Genealogy
Danvers (Mass.) — Genealogy
Peabody (Mass.) — Genealogy
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Public Archives of Nova Scotia
Report of the Board of Trustees of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia Halifax : King's Printer, 1932-1996. 62 volumes : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm.
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Title varies slightly.
Minister of Public Works and Mines
Public Archives of Nova Scotia — Periodicals
Archives — Nova Scotia — Periodicals
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Whitfield, Harvey Amani, 1974-
Black Slavery in the Maritimes : A History in Documents / edited by Harvey Amani Whitfield. Peterborough, Ontario : Broadview Press, 2018. ix, 152 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HT1052 M37 B53 2018
Broadview Sources Series. Many thousands of black people were enslaved in the Maritimes, Quebec, and Upper Canada between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is not surprising that slavery played a part in Canadian history, but it is startling that it has not received widespread attention from the general Canadian public or from historians. This sourcebook collects a variety of documents, including runaway-slave advertisements, letters, court cases, and official government documents, offering readers an opportunity to explore black slavery in the Maritimes and revise their understanding of Canadian history. Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-152).
Black people — Maritime Provinces — History — Sources
Racism — Maritime Provinces — History
Slaveholders — Maritime Provinces — History — Sources
Slavery — Maritime Provinces — History — Sources
Enslaved persons — Maritime Provinces — History — Sources
Black Canadians — Maritime Provinces — History — Sources
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Wesleyan Methodist Church of Eastern British America. Auxiliary Missionary Society
Annual report of the Auxiliary Missionary Society of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Eastern British America, in connexion with the British Conference / Wesleyan Methodist Church of Eastern British America. Auxiliary Missionary Society. Halifax : C. Churchill, 1856-1874.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM - Open Shelf Internet Archive
CIHM A02066
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Notes on certain species of Nova-Scotian fishes / by J. Matthew Jones. Toronto : 1865. 8 pages 11 x 16 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 50778 - Open Shelf Internet Archive
From the Canadian naturalist, for April, 1865.
Fishes — Nova Scotia — Identification.
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