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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.
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Six Micmac stories / retold by Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; illustrated by Harold McGee. Halifax : Published by the Nova Scotia Museum as part of the Education Resource Services Program of the Dept. of Education of the Province of Nova Scotia, 1989. 51 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
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Mi'kmaq — Legends — Juvenile literature.
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Plant fibre textiles from the Hopps site: BKCp-1 Halifax, Nova Scotia Museum, 1987. 77 pages, illus.
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The Black Loyalists : Southern Settlers of the First Free Black Communities in Nova Scotia / Ruth Holmes Whitehead. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 2013. xiv, 240 pages, 16 pagaes of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Micmac quillwork : Micmac Indian techniques of porcupine quill decoration, 1600-1950 / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; with an appendix on quilled-bark conservation, by Deborah Jewett. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1982. 230 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 29 cm.
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Indian craft
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Indian art — North America — History
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Stories from the Six Worlds : Micmac legends / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; illustrated by Kathy Kaulbach. Halifax : Nimbus, 1988. 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W551 1988
Mi'kmaq — Legends
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — Legends
Tales — Maritime Provinces.
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The old man told us : excerpts from Micmac history, 1500-1950 / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; foreword by Peter Christmas. Halifax : Nimbus, 1991. 385 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W55 1991
Includes index.
Mi'kmaq — History
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The Micmac : how their ancestors lived five hundred years ago / by Ruth Holmes Whitehead and Harold McGee ; illustrations by Kathy Kaulbach. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 1983. 60 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 x 21 cm.
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Mi'kmaq
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Tracking Doctor Lonecloud : showman to legend keeper / by Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; including the memoir of Jerry Lonecloud reconstructed and annotated by Ruth Holmes Whitehead from interview notes by Clara Dennis. Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions, 2002. 183 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W474 2002
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Dennis, Clara, 1881-1954
Lonecloud, Jerry, 1854-1930.
Mi'kmaq — Biography. — Nova Scotia
Entertainers — Biography. — Nova Scotia
Mi'kmaq — Folklore.
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The Micmac ethnology collection of the Nova Scotia Museum / by Ruth Whitehead. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1974. 58 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Elitekey : Micmac material culture from 1600 A.D. to the present / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; photos. by Ron Merrick. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1980. 84 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm.
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Mi'kmaq — Material culture
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The life of Boston King : Black loyalist, minister and master carpenter / Boston King ; edited by Ruth Holmes Whitehead and Carmelita A.M. Robertson. Halifax : Nimbus Pub. and the Nova Scotia Museum, 2003. 60 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 22 cm.
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Slaves — Biography. — United States
Black loyalists — Biography. — Nova Scotia
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The Book of Negroes: edited from the British version, with variations from the American copy and the Black Loyalist drectory / Ruth Holmes Whitehead. Halifax : R. Whitehead, 2008-. 1 v.: facsims.; 30 cm. +1 CD-ROM.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E277 W592 2008
African american loyalists — Directories
African americans — Genealogy.
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The Shelburne Black loyalists : a short biography of all Blacks emigrating to Shelburne County, Nova Scotia after the American revolution 1783 / an edited transcription by Ruth Holmes Whitehead. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 2000. 294 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Blacks — Nova Scotia — Shelburne (County)
Blacks — Nova Scotia Biography
Afro-American loyalists — Nova Scotia — Shelburne (County)
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Blacks
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Nova Scotia : the protohistoric period 1500-1630 / Ruth Holmes Whitehead. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1993. iii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Four Micmac sites, Oak Island: B1Cu-2,3, Northport: BlCx-1, Pictou: BkCp-1, Avonport: BgDb-6.
Mi'kmaq — Antiquities
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Micmac, Maliseet and Beothuk collections in Europe and the Pacific / by Ruth Holmes-Whitehead. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1989. 1 v. : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Mi'kmaq — Antiquities
Malecite Indians — Antiquities
Beothuk Indians — Antiquities
Museums — Europe — Catalogs.
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Inventory of Micmac, Maliseet and Beothuk material culture in international collections : Great Britain / Ruth Holmes Whitehead. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1988. 101 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Micmac, Maliseet, Beothuk collections in Great Britain.
Mi'kmaq — Antiquities
Malecite Indians — Antiquities
Beothuk Indians — Antiquities
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